Publications

Significant Publications

Environmental Economics and Finance

  1. Brand, M. W., Huang, Y., Yang, Z., & Wang, T. (2025). Tidal stream energy resource characterization for powering the blue economy application for southeastern Alaska. Renewable Energy, 122617.
  2. Brand, M. W., Seipp, K. Q., Saksa, P., Ulibarri, N., Bomblies, A., Mandle, L., ... & Gibbons, J. P. (2021). Environmental Impact Bonds: a common framework and looking ahead. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 1(2), 023001.
  3. Brand, M. W., Gudiño‐Elizondo, N., Allaire, M., Wright, S., Matson, W., Saksa, P., & Sanders, B. F. (2020). Stochastic hydro‐financial watershed modeling for environmental impact bonds. Water Resources Research, 56(8), e2020WR027328.
  4. Brand, M. W., Dewoolkar, M. M., & Rizzo, D. M. (2017). Use of sacrificial embankments to minimize bridge damage from scour during extreme flow events. Natural Hazards, 87, 1469-1487.

Sediment Transport Modeling and Management

  1. Goodrich, K. A., Ulibarri, N., Matthew, R., Stein, E. D., Brand, M., & Sanders, B. F. (2023). Toward improved sediment management and coastal resilience through efficient permitting in California. Environmental Management, 72(3), 558-567.
  2. Gudino-Elizondo, N., Brand, M. W., Biggs, T. W., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Gómez-Gutiérrez, Á., Langendoen, E., ... & Sanders, B. F. (2022). Rapid assessment of abrupt urban mega-gully and landslide events with structure-from-motion photogrammetric techniques validates link to water resources infrastructure failures in an urban periphery. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(2), 523-538.
  3. Brand, M. W., Buffington, K., Rogers, J. B., Thorne, K., Stein, E. D., & Sanders, B. F. (2022). Multi‐decadal simulation of marsh topography under sea level rise and episodic sediment loads. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(9), e2021JF006526.
  4. Brand, M. W., Guo, L., Stein, E. D., & Sanders, B. F. (2021). Multi-decadal simulation of estuarine sedimentation under sea level rise with a response-surface surrogate model. Advances in Water Resources, 150, 103876.

Coastal Hydrodynamic and Tidal Modeling

  1. Brand, M. W., Diefenderfer, H. L., Cornu, C. E., McKeon, M. A., Janousek, C. N., Borde, A. B., ... & Bridgham, S. D. (2025). Can Restoring Tidal Wetlands Reduce Estuarine Nuisance Flooding of Coasts Under Future Sea‐Level Rise?. Earth's Future, 13(3), e2023EF004149.
  2. Brand, M., Diefenderfer, H., O’Connor, J. E., Borde, A. B., Jay, D., Al‐Bahadily, A., ... & Talke, S. (2023). Impacts of a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake on water levels and wetlands of the lower Columbia River and estuary. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(14), e2023GL103017.
  3. Guo, L., Brand, M., Sanders, B. F., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., & Stein, E. D. (2018). Tidal asymmetry and residual sediment transport in a short tidal basin under sea level rise. Advances in water resources, 121, 1-8.

 

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