Sheila Murphy
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS-Boulder - U.S. Geological Survey - Boulder, CO
Murphy's USGS-Boulder page
M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1995
The influence of climate change and disturbance on the hydrology and water chemistry of watersheds.
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2020
Atmospheric dust deposition varies by season and elevation in the Colorado Front Range, USA. Heindel, RC, Putman, AL, Murphy, SF, Repert, DA, and Hinckley, ES (2020): JGR-Earth Surface 125, e2019JF005436
2020
Chemistry of water, stream sediment, wildfire ash, soil, dust, and mine waste for Fourmile Creek Watershed, Colorado, 2010-2019. Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., D.A., Holloway, J.M., Writer, J.W., Martin, D.A., and Stricker, C.A. (2020): U.S. Geological Survey Data Releas
2020
Wildfire-driven changes in hydrology mobilize arsenic and metals from legacy mine waste. Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Holloway, J.M., and Writer, J.W., (2020): Science of the Total Environment v. 743, 140635
2019
Inorganic nitrogen wet deposition gradients in the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area and Colorado Front Range – Preliminary implications for Rocky Mountain National Park and interpolated deposition maps. Wetherbee, G., Benedict, K., Murphy, S., Elliott, E. (2019): Science of the Total Environment 691 (2019) 1027–1042
2018
Anthropocene Landscape Change and the Legacy of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mining in the Fourmile Catchment, Colorado Front Range. Dethier, D. P., Ouimet, W. B., Murphy, S. F., Kotikian, M., Wicherski, W., & Samuels, R. M. (2018): Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-21
2018
Fire, flood, and drought—Extreme climate events alter flow paths and stream chemistry. Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Writer, J.H., and Ebel, B.A. (2018): Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123 Cross-CZO
2017
A method for quantifying cloud immersion in a tropical mountain forest using time-lapse photography. Bassiouni, M., Scholl, M.A., Torres-Sanchez, A.J., Murphy, S.F., (2017): Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2017
Critical zone properties control the fate of nitrogen during experimental rainfall in montane forests of the Colorado Front Range. Hinckley, E. S., Ebel, B. A., Barnes, R. T., Murphy, S. F., Anderson, S. P. (2017): Biogeochemistry (2017) 132: 213. doi:10.1007/s10533-017-0299-8
2017 (In Review)
Extreme storms drive riverine particulate organic matter export from tropical mountians of estern Puerto Rico. Kathryn E. Clark, Robert F. Stallard, Martha A. Scholl, Alain F. Plante, Sheila F. Murphy, Grizelle Gonzalez, and William H. McDowell (2017): ...
2017
Reassessing rainfall in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: Local and global ecohydrological implications. Murphy SF, Stallard RF, Scholl MA, González G, Torres-Sánchez AJ (2017): PLOS ONE
2015
Corrigendum: The role of precipitation type, intensity, and spatial distribution in source water quality after wildfire. Murphy SF, Writer JH, McCleskey RB, and Martin DA (2015): (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 084007). Environmental Research Letters 11, 179504
2015
The role of precipitation type, intensity, and spatial distribution in source water quality after wildfire. Murphy, S. F., Writer, J. H., McCleskey, R. B., and Martin, D. A. (2015): Environ. Res. Lett. 10 084007
2012
Water chemistry of surface waters affected by the Fourmile Canyon wildfire, Colorado, 2010–2011. McCleskey, R.B., Writer, J.H., and Murphy, S.F., (2012): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1104, 11 p
2012
Effects of flow regimes on stream turbidity and suspended solids after wildfire, Colorado Front Range, USA In: Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges. Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B. & Writer J.W., (2012): IAHS Publ. 354. IAHS Press. Wallingford, UK
2012
Wildfire Effects on Source-Water Quality—Lessons from Fourmile Canyon Fire, Colorado, and Implications for Drinking-Water Treatment. Writer, J.H. and Murphy, S.F. (2012): U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012–3095, 4 p.
2012
Effects of wildfire on source-water quality and aquatic ecosystems, Colorado Front Range In: Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges. Writer, J.H., McCleskey, R.B. & Murphy, S.F. (2012): IAHS Publ. 354. IAHS Press. Wallingford, UK
2011
Evaluating the effects of wildfire on stream processes in a Colorado front range watershed, USA. Murphy, S.F., and Writer, J.H. (2011): Applied Geochemistry 26 (S1): S363-S364.
2006
State of the Watershed: Water Quality of Boulder Creek, Colorado. Murphy, S. F. (2006): U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1284
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2020
Atmospheric dust deposition varies by season and elevation in the Colorado Front Range, USA. Heindel, RC, Putman, AL, Murphy, SF, Repert, DA, and Hinckley, ES (2020): JGR-Earth Surface 125, e2019JF005436
2015
Factors Affecting Source-Water Quality after Disturbance of Forests by Wildfire. Murphy, S., Martin, D., McCleskey, R., and Writer, J. (2015): H34B-04 Disturbance Hydrology: Assessing the Impacts of Abrupt Landscape Changes on Watershed Hydrology III, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2012
Effects of flow regime on stream turbidity and suspended solids after wildfire, Colorado Front Range . Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., and Writer J.W. (2012): In Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges, Proceedings of a conference held in Banff, Canada, 11-14 June 2012, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publ. 354.
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News
Eos: Dust in the Wind: Human Impacts to the Colorado Front Range
04 Aug 2020 - Ruth Heindel (former BcCZO post-doc)’s paper was featured by the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.
Sheila Murphy USGS press release “Storms after Wildfire Lead to Impaired Water Quality”
01 Oct 2015 - Fourmile Canyon fire September 2010, burned about 6,000 acres in Boulder County, CO. Storms after wildfire led to downstream water-quality impairment.
The Colorado Storm and Flood of 2013
25 Oct 2013 - Persistent, heavy rains in the Colorado Front Range broke several rainfall records and led to catastrophic flooding and geomorphic activity.
Boulder Creek CZO responds to record-breaking Colorado rainfall and flooding
13 Sep 2013 - Investigators and staff rush into action to collect samples and observe impacts
CZO scientist Sheila Murphy quoted in NY Times on wildfire impact on water quality.
12 Sep 2013 - With an enormous wildfire in the Sierra Nevada posing a potential threat to San Francisco’s water supply, city officials were busy planning...
WILDFIRE! Fourmile Canyon fire may have long-term effects on water quality
10 Feb 2011 - Boulder Creek CZO and USGS are collaborating to evaluate the effects of the September 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire.
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