Kenneth (Ken) H. Williams

Affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ORCID: 0000-0002-5939-0686

Works: 126 total (86 publications, 40 datasets, 0 documents)

Projects (2)

Program

East River Watershed Function SFA

DOE-funded watershed science. Quantifying how mountains retain and release water.

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Research Plan

Watershed Function SFA

Berkeley Lab's DOE-funded Watershed Function Science Focus Area (SFA) seems to quantify how mountains retain and release...

completedEarth Systems Science

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Article

Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope

2026Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2025WR041597

Article

Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

2026PNASDOI: 10.1073/pnas.2528407123

Article

Multi-omics reveals nitrogen dynamics associated with soil microbial blooms during snowmelt

2026Nature MicrobiologyDOI: 10.1038/s41564-025-02213-2

Dataset

Mountain Basin Controls on the Snow-to-Streamflow Signal: An AIC-Weighted Multiple Linear Regression Framework

2026DOI: 10.15485/2998373

Dataset

Meteorological and Soil Data from Ecohydrology Sensor Towers at Pump House and Snodgrass Mountain in East River Watershed, Colorado, 2019-2025

2026DOI: 10.15485/3007697Cited 1 times

Dataset

Data for "Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability"

2026DOI: 10.15485/2998779Cited 1 times

Dataset

Depth-resolved sagebrush root metabolomics, rhizosphere microbial communities, and geochemistry at the East River Watershed

2026DOI: 10.15485/3021477

Article

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

2025Hydrological ProcessesDOI: 10.1002/hyp.70085Cited 4 times

Article

The role of bedrock circulation depth and porosity in mountain streamflow response to prolonged drought

2025Geophysical Research LettersDOI: 10.1029/2024GL112927Cited 8 times

Article

Matrix diffusion controls mountain hillslope groundwater ages and inferred storage dynamics

2025GroundwaterDOI: 10.1111/gwat.13475Cited 1 times

Article

Linking surface processes, solute generation, and CO2 budgets across lithological and land cover gradients in Rocky Mountain watersheds

2025Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2023WR036850Cited 4 times

Article

The role of snowmelt and subsurface heterogeneity in headwater hydrology of a mountainous catchment in Colorado: A model-data integration approach

2025Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2025WR040651Cited 1 times

Article

Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

2025BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.5194/bg-22-6097-2025Cited 1 times

Article

Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability

2025Hydrology and Earth System ScienceDOI: 10.5194/hess-29-701-2025Cited 1 times

Dataset

Geochemistry and Strontium Isotopes for Coal Creek Watershed, Colorado, 2021-2022

2025DOI: 10.15485/2473235Cited 1 times

Dataset

Model Scripts for "Old-Aged Groundwater Contributes to Mountain Hillslope Hydrologic Dynamics"

2025DOI: 10.15485/2524589

Dataset

East River Pore Water FTICR-MS Data associated with "Geomorphic and Hydrogeochemical Controls on Fine-Scale Hyporheic Microbiome Assembly and Function"

2025DOI: 10.15485/1957786

Dataset

Constraining Bedrock Groundwater Residence Times in a Mountain System with Environmental Tracer Observations and Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification: Modeling and Data Package

2025DOI: 10.15485/1960042

Dataset

Surface Water Disinfection Byproducts and Organic Matter Characterization Data Associated with: “Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream”

2025DOI: 10.15485/1969118

Dataset

Raw Data published in PeerJ, 2021 for Crested Butte decomposition field study 2017-2019

2025DOI: 10.15485/1813869

Dataset

2D reactive transport model of shale chemical weathering and biogeochemical fluxes along a mountainous hillslope, East River Watershed, Colorado: Input files and simulation results

2025DOI: 10.15485/3005940Cited 3 times

Dataset

Metagenome-assembled genomes from topsoils collected during NEON campaign in East River, CO (06/14/2018-06/28/2018)

2025DOI: 10.15485/2587101

Dataset

Metagenome-assembled genomes measured at 3 depths during snowmelt period in East River, CO (March, May, and June, September 2017)

2025DOI: 10.15485/2569158Cited 1 times

Dataset

Groundwater elevation data for monitoring wells within the East and Taylor River basins, Colorado (USA)

2025DOI: 10.15485/2575230Cited 1 times

Dataset

Montane Conifer, Aspen, Meadow, and Sagebrush Metagenome Resolved Genomes and Traits in East River Watershed, Colorado, USA

2025DOI: 10.15485/2572883

Article

Old-Aged groundwater contributes to mountain hillslope hydrologic dynamics

2024Journal of HydrologyDOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131193Cited 6 times

Article

Variations in bedrock and vegetation cover modulate subsurface water flow dynamics of a mountainous hillslope

2024Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2023WR036137Cited 16 times

Article

Hydrology outweighs temperature in driving production and export of dissolved carbon in a snowy mountain catchment

2024Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2023WR036077Cited 12 times

Article

Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

2024Nature WaterDOI: 10.1038/s44221-024-00239-0Cited 59 times

Article

Shifting groundwater fluxes in bedrock fractures: Evidence from stream water radon and water isotopes

2024Journal of HydrologyDOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131202Cited 15 times

Article

Stream water sourcing from high-elevation snowpack inferred from stable isotopes of water: a novel application of d-excess values

2024Hydrology and Earth System SciencesDOI: 10.5194/hess-28-1711-2024Cited 17 times

Article

Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

2024Nature WaterDOI: 10.1038/s44221-024-00293-8Cited 5 times

Article

A tale of two catchments: causality analysis and isotope systematics reveal mountainous watershed traits that regulate the retention and release of nitrogen

2024JGR BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.1029/2023JG007532Cited 4 times

Dataset

Groundwater and Surface Water Flow (GSFLOW) model files to explore bedrock circulation depth and porosity in Copper Creek, Colorado

2024DOI: 10.15485/2453885Cited 1 times

Dataset

Geophysical and Environmental Monitoring Data, and Subsurface Flow Modelling Results for Chicken Bone Meadow, Mt. Snodgrass, Crested Butte, CO

2024DOI: 10.15485/2283406Cited 2 times

Dataset

Hydrological control of chemical weathering and rock-carbon fluxes: East River, Colorado

2024DOI: 10.15485/2322567Cited 1 times

Dataset

NEON AOP Survey of Upper East River CO Watersheds: Waveform LiDAR Binary Data

2024DOI: 10.15485/2403350

Article

Constraining Bedrock Groundwater Residence Times in a Mountain System With Environmental Tracer Observations and Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification

2023Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2022WR033282Cited 25 times

Article

Dwindling Groundwater Reserves Will Threaten Mountain Streamflow in a Warmer World

2023Research SquareDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3405349/v1]

Article

Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed

2023Frontiers in Earth ScienceDOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.976227Cited 10 times

Article

Leveraging groundwater dynamics to improve predictions of summer low-flow discharges

2023Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2023WR035126Cited 15 times

Article

River thorium concentrations can record bedrock fracture processes including some triggered by distant seismic events

2023Nature CommunicationsDOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37784-3Cited 7 times

Article

Mineralogical, magnetic and geochemical data constrain the pathways and extent of weathering of mineralized sedimentary rocks

2023Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaDOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.11.005Cited 8 times

Article

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyDOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0049.1Cited 32 times

Article

Supporting advancement in weather and water prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin: The SPLASH campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyDOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0147.1Cited 18 times

Dataset

Meteorological data from the Billy Bar site at the East River, Colorado.

2023DOI: 10.21952/WTR/1545781Cited 1 times

Dataset

Stream discharge data collected within the East River, Colorado for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Function Science Focus Area (water years 2019 to 2020).

2023DOI: 10.15485/1779721Cited 1 times

Dataset

Radon Isotopes and Stable Water Isotopes from Coal Creek Watershed, Colorado (2021)

2023DOI: 10.15485/2283437

Dataset

Water Level Data from Wells PLM1 and PLM6 for the East River Watershed, Colorado

2023DOI: 10.15485/1818367

Dataset

Groundwater and Surface Water Flow (GSFLOW) model files for the East River, Colorado

2023DOI: 10.15485/1998576

Article

Surface parameters and bedrock properties covary across a mountainous watershed: Insights from machine learning and geophysics

2022Science AdvancesDOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj2479Cited 29 times

Article

Production of hydrogen peroxide in an intra-meander hyporheic zone at East River, Colorado

2022Scientific ReportsDOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04171-1Cited 9 times

Article

Imputation of contiguous gaps and extremes of subhourly groundwater time series using random forests

2022Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and ComputingDOI: 10.1615/jmachlearnmodelcomput.2021038774Cited 31 times

Article

Modeling snow dynamics and stable water isotopes across mountain landscapes

2022Geophysical Research LettersDOI: 10.1029/2022GL098780Cited 27 times

Article

Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

2022Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2022wr032902Cited 11 times

Article

Borgs are giant genetic elements with potential to expand metabolic capacity

2022NatureDOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05256-1Cited 69 times

Article

Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream

2022Water research XDOI: 10.1016/j.wroa.2022.100144Cited 24 times

Article

Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado

2022Hydrological ProcessesDOI: 10.1002/hyp.14653Cited 32 times

Article

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

2022Hydrology and Earth System SciencesDOI: 10.5194/hess-26-429-2022Cited 48 times

Article

Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

2022Geophysical Research Letters,DOI: 10.1029/2022gl099324Cited 48 times

Article

From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security

2022Environmental Research LettersDOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac59a9Cited 29 times

Article

Sulfur Biogeochemical Cycling and Redox Dynamics in a Shale-Dominated Mountainous Watershed

2022Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.1029/2021jg006769Cited 19 times

Dataset

Machine Learning Assisted Gap-Filled Discharge Data for the East River Community Watershed, Colorado, for Water Years 2014-2021

2022DOI: 10.15485/1868939Cited 1 times

Article

Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition

2021PeerJDOI: 10.7717/peerj.11926Cited 3 times

Article

Probabilistic Evaluation of Geoscientific Hypotheses With Geophysical Data. Application to Electrical Resistivity Imaging of a Fractured Bedrock Zone

2021Journal of Geophysical ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2021jb021767Cited 10 times

Article

Direct Observation of the Depth of Active Groundwater Circulation in an Alpine Watershed

2021Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2020wr028548Cited 20 times

Article

Hidden Processes During Seasonal Isolation of a High-Altitude Watershed

2021Frontiers in Earth ScienceDOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.666819Cited 4 times

Article

Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Dissolved Rhenium in Alpine Catchments Reveal Its Use as a Tracer of Oxidative Weathering

2021Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2021WR029844Cited 3 times

Article

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

2021PloS oneDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247907Cited 23 times

Article

Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions

2021Nature GeoscienceDOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00717-0Cited 48 times

Article

The Colorado East River Community Observatory Data Collection

2021Hydrologic ProcessesDOI: 10.1002/hyp.14243Cited 17 times

Article

Modeling the Impact of Riparian Hollows on River Corridor Nitrogen Exports

2021Frontiers in WaterDOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.590314Cited 30 times

Article

Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale

2021MicrobiomeDOI: 10.1101/2020.05.14.086363Cited 10 times

Dataset

Waterlevel, geochemical, and borehole data from Rifle, Colorado from 2006-2016

2021DOI: 10.15485/1797433

Dataset

East River Watershed Stable Water Isotope Data in Precipitation, Snowpack and Snowmelt 2016-2020

2021DOI: 10.15485/1824223Cited 1 times

Dataset

Surface soil temperature and water content from warming experiment located at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Colorado, 2015 to 2019

2021DOI: 10.15485/1842908

Dataset

Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation

2021DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887003

Article

Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed

2020Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-00039-wDOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-00039-wCited 36 times

Article

Resolution matters when modeling climate change in headwaters of the Colorado River

2020Environmental Research LettersDOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba77fCited 34 times

Article

Efficiency of the Summer Monsoon in Generating Streamflow Within a Snow-Dominated Headwater Basin of the Colorado River

2020Geophysical Research Letters. DOI 10.1029/2020GL090856DOI: 10.1029/2020GL090856Cited 46 times

Article

Accelerated snowmelt protocol to simulate climate change induced impacts on snowpack dependent ecosystems

2020Bio-protocolDOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3557Cited 6 times

Article

A comparison of lodgepole and spruce needle chemistry impacts on terrestrial biogeochemical processes during isolated decomposition

2020PeerJDOI: 10.7717/peerj.9538Cited 11 times

Article

Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

2020Water Resource Research doi 10.1029/2020WR028161DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028161Cited 37 times

Article

Phosphorus Speciation in Atmospherically Deposited Particulate Matter and Implications for Terrestrial Ecosystem Productivity

2020Environmental Science & Technology

Article

Differential C-Q Analysis: A New Approach to Inferring Lateral Transport and Hydrologic Transients Within Multiple Reaches of a Mountainous Headwater Catchment

2020Frontiers in WaterDOI: 10.3389/frwa.2020.00024Cited 39 times

Article

Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science

2020Methods in EcologyDOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13463Cited 64 times

Article

Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water-Use Strategies

2020JGR BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.1029/2018jg004845Cited 62 times

Article

The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter

2020Frontiers in Microbiology. doi 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00871DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00871Cited 64 times

Article

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

2020Environmental Research LettersDOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8fd0Cited 35 times

Article

The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado

2020AuthoreaDOI: 10.22541/au.160157556.64095872Cited 7 times

Dataset

Gap-filled water quality, Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index, total nitrogen (nitrate and ammonia) deposition, and land cover data trends for the Continental United States

2020DOI: 10.15485/1647366

Dataset

LiDAR collection in August 2015 over the East River Watershed, Colorado, USA

2020DOI: 10.21952/WTR/1412542Cited 6 times

Dataset

The Importance of Interflow to Groundwater Recharge in a Snowmelt-Dominated, Alpine Watershed, Geophysical Research Letters: Modeling and Data Package

2020DOI: 10.21952/WTR/1508390

Dataset

Hydrologic Model Files (PRMS) for Historical Conditions in the East River Watershed, Colorado between 1987-2019

2020DOI: 10.15485/1691511

Dataset

Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes

2020DOI: 10.15485/1596123

Dataset

Differential concentration discharge for the upper and lower reaches of the East River Watershed, Colorado

2020DOI: 10.15485/1657887

Dataset

Natural abundance nitrate isotopes from Rifle and the East River Watershed, Colorado

2020DOI: 10.15485/1660462

Article

Predicting sedimentary bedrock subsurface weathering fronts and weathering rates

2019Scientific ReportsDOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53205-2Cited 53 times

Article

Depth- and time-resolved distributions of snowmelt-driven hillslope subsurface flow and transport and their contributions to surface waters.

2019Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2019wr025093Cited 41 times

Article

Return flows from beaver ponds enhance floodplain-to-river metals exchange in alluvial mountain catchments

2019Science of the Total EnvironmentDOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.371Cited 34 times

Article

The importance of interflow to groundwater recharge in a snowmelt-dominated headwater basin

2019Geophysical ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2019gl082447Cited 144 times

Article

From Grain to Floodplain: Evaluating heterogeneity of floodplain hydrostatigraphy using sedimentology, geophysics, and remote sensing.

2019Earth Surface Processes and LandformsDOI: 10.1002/esp.4613Cited 16 times

Article

Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate

2019Journal of HydrologyDOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.029Cited 38 times

Article

Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns

2019Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2018wr024257Cited 156 times

Article

Hyporheic Zone Microbiome Assembly Is Linked to Dynamic Water Mixing Patterns in Snowmelt-Dominated Headwater Catchments

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.1029/2019JG005189Cited 28 times

Article

Heterogeneity in Hyporheic Flow, Pore Water Chemistry, and Microbial Community Composition in an Alpine Streambed

2019JGR: BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.1029/2019jg005226Cited 49 times

Thesis

Seasonal manganese transport in the hyporheic zone of a snowmelt-dominated river (East River, Colorado)

2019Hydrogeology JournalDOI: 10.1007/s10040-020-02146-6Cited 21 times

Article

Microbial communities across a hillslope-riparian transect shaped by proximity to the stream, groundwater table, and weathered bedrock

2019Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.5254Cited 31 times

Article

Investigating Microtopographic and Soil Controls on a Mountainous Meadow Plant Community Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Surface Geophysical Data

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesDOI: 10.1029/2018jg004394Cited 35 times

Article

Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado

2019IEEE AccessDOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2957793Cited 36 times

Dataset

Discharge data collected within the East River for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Watershed Function Science Focus Area (water years 2015-2018)

2019DOI: 10.21952/WTR/1495380Cited 6 times

Dataset

Using strontium isotopes to evaluate the spatial variation of groundwater recharge, Science of The Total Environment: Dataset

2019DOI: 10.21952/wtr/1495381

Dataset

Influence of hydrological, biogeochemical and temperature transients on subsurface carbon fluxes in a flood plain environment, Biogeochemistry: Dataset

2019DOI: 10.21952/wtr/1506937Cited 1 times

Dataset

Identifying geochemical hot moments and their controls on a contaminated river floodplain system using wavelet and entropy approaches, Environmental modelling & software: Dataset

2019DOI: 10.21952/wtr/1506938

Article

The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics

2018Vadose Zone JournalDOI: 10.2136/vzj2018.03.0061Cited 230 times

Publication

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

2018Mountain Views

Article

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Mountain Views

Article

Efficient hydrogeological characterization of remote stream corridors using drones

2018Hydrological Processes. doi 10.1002/hyp.13332DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13332Cited 26 times

Article

Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

2018Hydrological ProcessesDOI: 10.1002/hyp.13151Cited 115 times

Article

Geochemical exports to river from the intra-meander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions: East River Mountainous Watershed, Colorado

2018Water Resources ResearchDOI: 10.1029/2018wr023377Cited 87 times

Publication

Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Research Explorer (The University of Manchester)

Student Paper

Impacts of Historical Hydroperiod on Bird Predation of Emergent Aquatic Insects

2017

Article

Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado

2017Water Resources Research

Article

Contrasting the hydrologic response due to land cover and climate change in a mountain headwaters system

2016EcohydrologyDOI: 10.1002/eco.1779Cited 40 times

Article

Seasonal changes in pancreatic B cell function in the euthermic yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)

1985American Journal of Physiology

Article

The coevolution of Euphydryas chalcedona butterflies and their larval host plants. II. Maternal and host plant effects on larval growth, development, and food-use efficiency

1983Oecologia