Adam Atchley

Education

• Ph.D., Hydrological Science and Engineering
• Colorado School of Mines
• 2013

• M.S., Hydrological Science and Engineering
• Colorado School of Mines
• 2009

• B.S., College of Forestry
• Oregon State University
• 2003

Professional Societies

• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America
• National Groundwater Association

Publications

• Atchley, A.L., Linn, R., Jonko, A., Hoffman, C., Hyman, J.D., Pimont, F., Sieg, C. and Middleton, R.S., 2021. Effects of fuel spatial distribution on wildland fire behaviour. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 30(3), pp. 179-189. doi
• Harp, D.R., Zlotnik, V., Abolt, C.J., Newman, B.D., Atchley, A.L., Jafarov, E. and Wilson, C.J., 2021. New insights into the drainage of inundated ice-wedge polygons using fundamental hydrologic principles. The Cryosphere Discussions, pp.1-29.
• Kleynhans EJ, Atchley A, Michaletz ST. 2021. Modelling fire effects on plants: from organs to ecosystems. In E Johnson, K Miyanishi (eds). Plant Disturbance Ecology: The Process and the Response (2nd ed) pp. 383-421 Academic Press.
• Jafarov, E.E., Loudermilk, L.E., Hiers, K.J., Williams, B., Linn, R., Jones, C., Hill, S.C. and Atchley, A.L., 2021. Linking habitat suitability with a longleaf pine-hardwood model: Building a species-predictive fire-land management framework. Ecological Modelling, 440, p.109387.
• Abolt, C.J., Young, M.H., Atchley, A.L., Harp, D.R. and Coon, E.T., 2020. Feedbacks between surface deformation and permafrost degradation in ice wedge polygons, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(3), p.e2019JF005349.
• Bennett, K.E., Miller, G., Talsma, C., Jonko, A., Bruggeman, A., Atchley, A., Lavadie-Bulnes, A., Kwicklis, E. and Middleton, R., 2020. Future water resource shifts in the high desert Southwest of Northern New Mexico, USA. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 28, p.100678.
• Condon, L.E., Atchley, A.L. and Maxwell, R.M., 2020. Evapotranspiration depletes groundwater under warming over the contiguous United States. Nature Communications, 11(1), pp.1-8.
• Jafarov, E.E., Harp, D.R., Coon, E.T., Dafflon, B., Tran, A.P., Atchley, A.L., Lin, Y. and Wilson, C.J., 2020. Estimation of subsurface porosities and thermal conductivities of polygonal tundra by coupled inversion of electrical resistivity, temperature, and moisture content data. The Cryosphere, 14(1), pp.77-91. doi:10.5194/tc-14-77-2020
• Atchley, A.L., Birdsell, K.H., Crowell, K., Middleton, R.S. and Stauffer, P.H., 2019. Simulating 10,000 Years of Erosion to Assess Nuclear Waste Repository Performance. Geosciences, 9(3), p.120. doi
• Abolt, C.J., Young, M.H., Atchley, A.L. and Wilson, C.J., 2019. Brief communication: Rapid machine-learning-based extraction and measurement of ice wedge polygons in high-resolution digital elevation models. The Cryosphere, 13(1), pp.237-245.
• Atchley, A.L., Kinoshita, A.M., Trader, L. Lopez, S., Middleton, R., 2018. “Simulating surface and subsurface water balance changes due to burn severity at the hillslope scale.” Vadose Zone Journal, 17(1). doi:10.2136/vzj2018.05.0099
• Abolt, C.J., Young, M.H., Atchley, A.L. and Harp, D.R., 2018. "Microtopographic control on the ground thermal regime in ice wedge polygons." The Cryosphere, 12(6), pp.1957-1968. doi: 10.5194/tc-12-1957-2018.
• Bennett, K.E., Urrego, Blanco, J.R., Jonko, A., Bohn, T.J., Atchley, A.L., Urban, N.M., Middleton, R. (2018) “Global sensitivity of large-scale simulated water balance indicators under future climate change in the Colorado Basin”
 Water Resources Research 54(1): 132-149.doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020471.
• Painter, S.L., Coon, E.T., Atchley A.L., Berndt, M., Garimella, R., Moulton, D., Svyatskiy, D., Wilson, C.J. (2016) “Integrated surface/subsurface permafrost thermal hydrology: Model formulation and proof-of-concept simulations.” Water Resources Research, 52(8), 6062-6077 doi: 10.1002/2015WR018427.
• Atchley, A.L., Coon E.T., Painter, S.L., Harp, D.R., Wilson C.J. (2016) “Influences and interactions of inundation, peat, and snow on active layer thickness.” Geophysical Research Letters: 43, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068550.
• Harp, D. R., Atchley, A. L., Painter, S. L., Coon, E. T., Wilson, C. J., Romanovsky, V. E., and Rowland, J. C. (2016) “Effect of soil property uncertainties on permafrost thaw projections: a calibration-constrained analysis.” The Cryosphere, 10, 341-358, doi: 10.5194/tc-10-341-2016.
• Atchley, A.L., Painter, S.L., Harp, D.R., Coon E.T., Wilson C.J., Liljedahl A.K., and Romanovsky V.E. (2015) “Using field observations to inform thermal hydrology models of permafrost dynamics with ATS (v0.83).” Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 2701-2722, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-2701-2015.
• Atchley, A.L., Navarre-Sitchler, A., and Maxwell, R.M. (2014) “The Effects of Physical and Geochemical Heterogeneity on Hydro-geochemical Transport and Effective Reaction Rates.” Contaminant Hydrology: 165, 53-64 doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.07.008.
• Atchley, A.L., Maxwell, R.M., and Navarre-Sitchler, A. (2013) “Human health risk assessment of CO2 leakage into overlying aquifers using a stochastic, geochemical reactive transport approach.” Environmental Science & Technology: 47(11), 5954-5962, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es400316c.
• Atchley, A.L., Maxwell, R.M., and Navarre-Sitchler, A. (2013) “Using streamlines to simulate stochastic reactive transport in heterogeneous aquifers: Kinetic metal release and transport in CO2 impacted drinking water aquifers.” Advances in Water Resource: 52, 93-106. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.09.005.