Publications

Kavianihamedani, H., Quinn, J.D., & Smith, J.D. (Accepted). New Diagnostic Assessment of MCMC Algorithm Effectiveness, Efficiency, Reliability, and Controllability. IEEE Access.

Quinn, J.D., Reed, P.M., Giuliani, M., & Castelletti, A. (2024). Average domination: A new multi-objective value metric applied to assess the benefits of forecasts in reservoir operations under different flood design levels. Advances in Water Resources, 104638.

Chen, A.B., Goodall, J.L., & Quinn, J.D. (2023). Exploring the relationship between flood insurance claims, crowdsourced rainfall, and tide levels for coastal urban communities: Case study for the mid-Atlantic United States. Journal of Hydrology, 625, 130123.

Herbst, R.S., Culver, T.B., Band, L.E., Wilson, B, & Quinn, J.D. (2023). Integrating Social Equity into Multiobjective Optimization of Urban Stormwater Low-Impact Development. Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, 149(8), 04023038.

Shi, R. Hobbs, B.F., Quinn, J.D., Lempert, R., & Knopman, D. (2023). City-Heat Equity Adaptation Tool (City-HEAT): Multi-objective optimization of environmental modifications and human exposure reductions for urban heat adaptation under uncertainty. Environmental Modelling & Software, 105607.

Jordan, S.M., Quinn, J.D., Zaniolo, M., Giuliani, M., & Castelletti, A. (2022). Advancing reservoir operations modelling in SWAT to reduce socio-ecological tradeoffs. Environmental Modelling & Software, 105527.

Srikrishnan, V., Lafferty, D.C., Wong, T.E., Lamontagne, J.R., Quinn, J.D., Sharma, S., Molla, N.J., Herman, J.D., Sriver, R.L., Morris, J.F., & Lee, B.S. (2022). Uncertainty Analysis in Multi-Sector Systems: Considerations for Risk Analysis, Projection, and Planning for Complex Systems. Earth’s Future, 10, e2021EF002644.

Smith, J.D., Lin, L., Quinn, J.D., & Band, L.E. (2022). Guidance on evaluating parametric model uncertainty at decision-relevant scales. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26, 2519-2539.

Fletcher, S., Hadjimichael, A., Quinn, J.D., Osman, K., Giuliani, M., Gold, D., Jain Figueroa, A., Gordon, B. (2022). Equity in Water Resources Planning: A Path Forward for Decision Support Modelers. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(7), 02522005.

Editor’s Choice Award

McCullough, E.B., Quinn, J. D., & Simons, A.M. (2022). Profitability of climate-smart soil fertility investment varies widely across sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Food, 3, 275-285.

Jenkins, W., Rosa, L., Schmidt, J., Band, L., Beltran-Pena, A., Clarens, A., Doney, S., Emanuel, R., Glassie, A., Quinn, J.D., Cristina Rulli, M., Shobe, W., Szeptycki, L. & D’Odorico, P. (Accepted). Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights. Bioscience.

Marangoni, G., Lamontagne, J. R., Quinn, J. D., Reed, P. M., & Keller, K. (2021). Adaptive mitigation strategies hedge against extreme climate futures. Climatic Change, 166(3), 1-17.

Doering, K., Quinn, J.D., Reed, P. M., & Steinschneider, S. (2021). Diagnosing the Time-Varying Value of Forecasts in Multiobjective Reservoir Control. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147(7), 04021031.

Editor’s Choice Award

Hadjimichael, A., Quinn, J.D., & Reed, P. (2020). Advancing diagnostic model evaluation to better understand water shortage mechanisms in institutionally complex river basins. Water Resources Research, 56(10), e2020WR028079.

Quinn, J. D., Hadjimichael, A., Reed, P. M., & Steinschneider, S. (2020). Can exploratory modeling of water scarcity vulnerabilities and robustness be scenario neutral?. Earth’s Future, 8(11), e2020EF001650.

Highlighted in EOS: Science News by AGU

Hadjimichael, A., Quinn, J.D., Wilson, E., Reed, P., Basdekas, L., Yates, D., & Garrison, M. (2020). Defining robustness, vulnerabilities, and consequential scenarios for diverse stakeholder interests in institutionally complex river basins. Earth’s Future, 8(7), e2020EF001503.

Hadjimichael, A., Reed, P. M., & Quinn, J. D. (2020). Navigating deeply uncertain tradeoffs in harvested predator-prey systems. Complexity, 2020.

Herman, J. D., Quinn, J. D., Steinschneider, S., Giuliani, M., & Fletcher, S. (2020). Climate adaptation as a control problem: Review and perspectives on dynamic water resources planning under uncertainty. Water Resources Research, 56(2), e24389.

Quinn, J. D., Reed, P. M., Giuliani, M., & Castelletti, A. (2019). What is controlling our control rules? Opening the black box of multireservoir operating policies using time‐varying sensitivity analysis. Water Resources Research, 55(7), 5962-5984.

Quinn, J. D., Reed, P. M., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A., Oyler, J. W., & Nicholas, R. E. (2018). Exploring how changing monsoonal dynamics and human pressures challenge multireservoir management for flood protection, hydropower production, and agricultural water supply. Water Resources Research, 54(7), 4638-4662.

Giuliani, M., Quinn, J. D., Herman, J. D., Castelletti, A., & Reed, P. M. (2017). Scalable multiobjective control for large-scale water resources systems under uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 26(4), 1492-1499.

Singh, R., Quinn, J. D., Reed, P. M., & Keller, K. (2018). Skill (or lack thereof) of data-model fusion techniques to provide an early warning signal for an approaching tipping point. PloS one, 13(2), e0191768.

Zatarain Salazar, J., Reed, P. M., Quinn, J. D., Giuliani, M., & Castelletti, A. (2017). Balancing exploration, uncertainty and computational demands in many objective reservoir optimization. Advances in water resources, 109, 196-210.

Quinn, J. D., Reed, P. M., Giuliani, M., & Castelletti, A. (2017). Rival framings: A framework for discovering how problem formulation uncertainties shape risk management trade‐offs in water resources systems. Water Resources Research, 53(8), 7208-7233.

Quinn, J. D., Reed, P. M., & Keller, K. (2017). Direct policy search for robust multi-objective management of deeply uncertain socio-ecological tipping points. Environmental Modelling & Software, 92, 125-141.