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Rebecca Logsdon Muenich Data-verified
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High Impact
Associate Professor
faculty
24 h-index
104 pubs
1,697 cited
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Biography and Research Information
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Rebecca Logsdon Muenich's research investigates the intersection of agricultural practices, environmental quality, and human health. Her work often focuses on the impacts of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), examining their spatial organization and relationship to water quality, as well as their contribution to environmental degradation. Muenich also studies land use changes surrounding agricultural areas and explores methods for identifying agricultural practices, such as liquid manure application, using remote sensing technologies.
Her research extends to public health considerations, including the distribution of environmental justice metrics related to CAFO exposures and the vulnerabilities of the food-energy-water nexus to pandemics, as highlighted during COVID-19. Muenich has published on the biological loads, seasonal patterns, and potential pathogens in the aerobiome of agricultural landscapes, and has investigated urban warming effects in relation to social inequality. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 23, with 103 total publications and 1,668 total citations.
Metrics
- h-index: 24
- Publications: 104
- Citations: 1,697
Selected Publications
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Fractionation and environmental assessment of legacy phosphorus from acidic, organic, and calcareous soils (2026)
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Water quality signatures for prioritizing abandoned mine land ground-truthing in the Southwestern United States (2026)
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Creation of a Landslide Susceptibility Map Using Short‐Term Data From the July 2018 Heavy Rainfall in Southern Hiroshima Prefecture (2026)
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Trends in Maumee River Nitrogen Loads and Their Complex Relationship to Harmful Algal Blooms in Western Lake Erie (2026)
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Free‐access geospatial data and machine learning deliver high‐resolution soil salinity maps in the Sonoran Basin and Range (2026)
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A Soy Protein Substitute for Animal Meat Proteins Can Provide Global Phosphorus Reduction and Recirculation Opportunities (2025)
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Closing the phosphorus loop: A spatial analysis of potential for wastewater-derived fertilizers to meet US agricultural demand (2025)
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A soy protein substitute for animal meat proteins can provide global phosphorus reduction and recirculation opportunities (2025)
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Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference (2025)
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Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference (2025)
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Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference (2025)
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Rising Environmental Inequalities and Their Relationship to Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the US Southwest (2025)
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Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference (2025)
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Women in hydrology: Pioneering interdisciplinary advances and mentorship in science (2025)
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Unlocking the phosphorus circularity potential of corn belt watersheds with biorefinery phosphorus recovery incentives (2025)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Danica Schaffer‐Smith
United States Fish and Wildlife Service (US)
11 shared publications
- Distribution of environmental justice metrics for exposure to CAFOs in North Carolina, USA
- Spatiotemporal land use change and environmental degradation surrounding CAFOs in Michigan and North Carolina
- Formulating Operational Mitigation Options and Examining Intra-Urban Social Inequality Using Evidence-Based Urban Warming Effects
- Using remote sensing to identify liquid manure applications in eastern North Carolina
- Landscape Pollution Source Dynamics Highlight Priority Locations for Basin‐Scale Interventions to Protect Water Quality Under Hydroclimatic Variability
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
Soe W. Myint
Texas State University (US)
8 shared publications
- Spatiotemporal land use change and environmental degradation surrounding CAFOs in Michigan and North Carolina
- Formulating Operational Mitigation Options and Examining Intra-Urban Social Inequality Using Evidence-Based Urban Warming Effects
- Landscape Pollution Source Dynamics Highlight Priority Locations for Basin‐Scale Interventions to Protect Water Quality Under Hydroclimatic Variability
- Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under extreme events
- Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under extreme events
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Daoqin Tong
Arizona State University (US)
7 shared publications
- Formulating Operational Mitigation Options and Examining Intra-Urban Social Inequality Using Evidence-Based Urban Warming Effects
- Landscape Pollution Source Dynamics Highlight Priority Locations for Basin‐Scale Interventions to Protect Water Quality Under Hydroclimatic Variability
- Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under extreme events
- Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under extreme events
- Supporting data: "Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under hydroclimatic variability"
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Arghajeet Saha
United States Geological Survey
7 shared publications
In database
- Creating an alternative future for Earth's phosphorus cycle in the Anthropocene via eco-prospecting, eco-mining, and eco-refining
- Machine learning-based identification of animal feeding operations in the United States on a parcel-scale
- Gaps in U.S. livestock data are a barrier to effective environmental and disease management
- Unlocking the phosphorus circularity potential of corn belt watersheds with biorefinery phosphorus recovery incentives
- Unlocking the Phosphorus Circularity Potential of Corn Belt Watersheds with Biorefinery Phosphorus Recovery Incentives
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Treavor H. Boyer
Arizona State University (US)
6 shared publications
- Determinants of antimicrobial resistance in biosolids: A systematic review, database, and meta-analysis
- Creating an alternative future for Earth's phosphorus cycle in the Anthropocene via eco-prospecting, eco-mining, and eco-refining
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
D. Libera
5 shared publications
- Landscape Pollution Source Dynamics Highlight Priority Locations for Basin‐Scale Interventions to Protect Water Quality Under Hydroclimatic Variability
- Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under extreme events
- Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under extreme events
- Supporting data: "Landscape pollution source dynamics highlight priority locations for basin-scale interventions to protect water quality under hydroclimatic variability"
- Cape Fear River Basin Water Quantity and Quality Model
Kenneth Ruffatto
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
5 shared publications
- Modeling National Embedded Phosphorus Flows of Corn Ethanol Distillers’ Grains to Elucidate Nutrient Reduction Opportunities
- Unlocking the phosphorus circularity potential of corn belt watersheds with biorefinery phosphorus recovery incentives
- Unlocking the Phosphorus Circularity Potential of Corn Belt Watersheds with Biorefinery Phosphorus Recovery Incentives
- A soy protein substitute for animal meat proteins can provide global phosphorus reduction and recirculation opportunities
- A Soy Protein Substitute for Animal Meat Proteins Can Provide Global Phosphorus Reduction and Recirculation Opportunities
Roland D. Cusick
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
5 shared publications
- Modeling National Embedded Phosphorus Flows of Corn Ethanol Distillers’ Grains to Elucidate Nutrient Reduction Opportunities
- Unlocking the phosphorus circularity potential of corn belt watersheds with biorefinery phosphorus recovery incentives
- Unlocking the Phosphorus Circularity Potential of Corn Belt Watersheds with Biorefinery Phosphorus Recovery Incentives
- A soy protein substitute for animal meat proteins can provide global phosphorus reduction and recirculation opportunities
- A Soy Protein Substitute for Animal Meat Proteins Can Provide Global Phosphorus Reduction and Recirculation Opportunities
Clinton F. Williams
U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center (US)
5 shared publications
- Determinants of antimicrobial resistance in biosolids: A systematic review, database, and meta-analysis
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
Kerry A. Hamilton
Arizona State University (US)
5 shared publications
- Determinants of antimicrobial resistance in biosolids: A systematic review, database, and meta-analysis
- Gaps in U.S. livestock data are a barrier to effective environmental and disease management
- Escherichia coli drivers in surface waters of arid and semiarid regions: a case study in Arizona
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Synthesized data for E. coli drivers in Arizona
Andrew J. Margenot
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
4 shared publications
- Unlocking the phosphorus circularity potential of corn belt watersheds with biorefinery phosphorus recovery incentives
- Unlocking the Phosphorus Circularity Potential of Corn Belt Watersheds with Biorefinery Phosphorus Recovery Incentives
- A soy protein substitute for animal meat proteins can provide global phosphorus reduction and recirculation opportunities
- A Soy Protein Substitute for Animal Meat Proteins Can Provide Global Phosphorus Reduction and Recirculation Opportunities
Júlia Gomes Farias
U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center (US)
4 shared publications
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
Jonas Baltrušaitis
Lehigh University (US)
4 shared publications
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
Lisa M. Durso
4 shared publications
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
Vita Tilvikienė
Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (LT)
4 shared publications
- Toward enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
- Towards enhanced nutrient circularity: Lessons from a multidisciplinary conference
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