Jeff Horsburgh

Publications | Abstracts

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Publications | Book Chapters

• Goodall, J.L, Merwade, V., Zaslavsky, I., Tarboton, D.G, Horsburgh, J.S, Ames, D.P, Couch, A., Singh, V., (2017). Chapter 7. Hydrologic Information Systems: Handbook of Applied Hydrology. McGraw-Hill
• Idaszak, R., Tarboton, D.G, Yi, H., Christopherson, L., Stealey, M.J, Miles, B., Dash, P., Couch, A., Spealman, C., Horsburgh, J.S, Ames, D.P, (2016). Chapter 10: HydroShare - A Case Study of the Application of Modern Software Engineering to a Large Distributed Federally-Funded Scientific Software Development Project: Software Engineering for Science. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press
• Meals, D.W, Mesner, N., Jackson-Smith, D., Stevens, D.K, Horsburgh, J.S, Sorensen, D.L, Luloff, A.E, Osmond, D.L, (2012). Chapter 21. Little Bear River Watershed, Utah: National Institute of Food and Agriculture–Conservation Effects Assessment Project: How to Build Better Agricultural Conservation Programs to Protect Water Quality: The National Institute of Food and Agriculture–Conservation Effects Assessment Project Experience. Soil and Water Conservation Society
• Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, Maidment, D.R, (2005). A Community Data Model for Hydrologic Observations, Chapter 6: Hydrologic Information System Status Report, Version 1. *
• Neilson, B.T, Stevens, D.K, Horsburgh, J.S, (2005). TMDL development approaches: Total Maximum Daily Load: Approaches and Challenges. PenWell Corporation

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Horsburgh, J.S, Lippold, K., Slaugh, D.L, (2025). Adapting OGC’s SensorThings API and Data Model to Support Data Management and Sharing for Environmental Sensors. Environmental Modelling & Software, 183, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106241
• Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, (2025). Hydrologic Information Systems: An Introductory Overview. Environmental Modelling & Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106308
• Tarboton, D.G, Ames, D.P, Horsburgh, J.S, Goodall, J.L, Couch, A., Hooper, R., Bales, J., Wang, S., Castronova, A., Seul, M., Idaszak, R., Li, Z., Dash, P., Black, S., Ramirez, M., Yi, H., Calloway, C., Cogswell, C., (2024). HydroShare Retrospective: A Review of Science and Technology Advances of a Comprehensive Data and Model Publication Environment for the Water Science Domain. Environmental Modelling & Software, 172, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105902
• Maghami, I., Morsy, M.M, Sadler, J.M, Horsburgh, J.S, Dash, P.K, Choi, Y., Chen, K., Seul, M., Black, S., Tarboton, D.G, Goodall, J.L, (2024). An Extensible Schema for Capturing Environmental Model Metadata: Implementation in the HydroShare Online Data Repository. Environmental Modelling & Software, 172, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105895
• Hodson, T.O, DeCicco, L.A, Hariharan, J.A, Stanish, L.F, Black, S., Horsburgh, J.S, (2023). Reproducibility Starts at the Source: R, Python, and Julia Packages for Retrieving USGS Hydrologic Data. Water, 15:4236, doi: 10.3390/w15244236
• Attallah, N.A, Horsburgh, J.S, Bastidas Pacheco, C.J, (2023). An Open-source, Semi-supervised Water End Use Disaggregation and Classification Tool. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149:7, doi: 10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5444
• Bastidas Pacheco, C.J, Horsburgh, J.S, Attallah, N.A, (2023). Variability in Consumption and End Uses of Water for Residential Users in Logan and Providence, Utah, USA. ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001633
• Bastidas Pacheco, C.J, Horsburgh, J.S, Beckwith Jr., A.S, (2022). Impact of data temporal resolution on quantifying residential end uses of water. Water, 14:16, doi: 10.3390/w14162457
• Spackman Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, Bastidas Pacheco, C.J, Flint, C., Lane, B., (2022). Advancing Hydroinformatics and Water Data Science Instruction: Community Perspectives and Online Learning Resources. Frontiers in Water, 4, doi: 10.3389/frwa.2022.901393
• Horsburgh, J.S, (2022). Toward automating post processing of aquatic sensor data. Environmental Modelling & Software, 151, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105364
• Bastidas Pacheco, C.J, Brewer, J.C, Horsburgh, J.S, Caraballo, J., (2021). An open source cyberinfrastructure for collecting, processing, storing and accessing high temporal resolution residential water use data. Environmental Modelling & Software, 144, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105137
• Attallah, N.A, Horsburgh, J.S, Beckwith, A.S, Tracy, R.J, (2021). Residential Water Meters as Edge Computing Nodes: Disaggregating End Uses and Creating Actionable Information at the Edge. Sensors, 21:16, doi: 10.3390/s21165310
• Neilson, B.T, Tennant, H., Strong, P.A, Horsburgh, J.S, (2021). Detailed streamflow data for understanding hydrologic responses in the Logan River Observatory. Hydrologic Processes, 35:8, e14268. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14268
• Attallah, N., Rosenberg, D.E, Horsburgh, J.S, (2021). Water End Use Disaggregation for Six Non-Residential Facilities in the City of Logan, UT, USA. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147:7, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001367
• Choi, Y., Goodall, J.L, Sadler, J.M, Castronova, A.M, Bennett, A., Li, Z., Nijssen, B., Wang, S., Clark, M.P, Ames, D.P, Horsburgh, J.S, Yi, H., Bandaragoda, C., Seul, M., Hooper, R., Tarboton, D.G, (2021). Toward Open and Reproducible Environmental Modeling by Integrating Online Data Repositories, Computational Environments, and Model Application Programming Interfaces. Environmental Modelling & Software, 135, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104888
• Fu, B., Horsburgh, J.S, Jakeman, A., Gualtieri, C., Arnold, T., Marshall, L., Green, T.R, Quinn, N.W, Volk, M., Hunt, R.J, Vezzaro, L., Croke, B., Jakeman, J., Snow, V., Rashleigh, B., (2020). Modeling water quality in watersheds: From here to the next generation. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2020WR027721
• Gan, T., Tarboton, D.G, Dash, P., Gichamo, T., Horsburgh, J.S, (2020). Integrating hydrologic modeling web services with online data sharing to prepare, store, and execute hydrologic models. Environmental Modelling & Software, 130, 104731. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104731
• Gan, T., Tarboton, D.G, Horsburgh, J.S, Dash, P., Idaszak, R., Yi, H., (2020). Collaborative sharing of multidimensional space-time data in a next generation hydrologic information system. Environmental Modelling & Software, 129, 104706. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104706
• Bastidas Pacheco, C.J, Horsburgh, J.S, Tracy, R.J, (2020). A low-cost, open source monitoring system for collecting high temporal resolution water use data on magnetically driven residential water meters. Sensors, 20:13, doi: 10.3390/s20133655
• Rosenberg, D.E, Filion, Y., Teasley, R.L, Sandoval-Solis, S., Hecht, J.S, van Zyl, J.E, McMahon, G.F, Horsburgh, J.S, Kasprzyk, J.R, Tarboton, D.G, (2020). The Next Frontier: Making Research More Reproducible. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146:6, 01820002. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001215
• Horsburgh, J.S, Hooper, R.P, Bales, J., Hedstrom, M., Imker, H., Lehnert, K., Shanley, L., Stall, S., (2020). Assessing the state of research data publication in hydrology: A perspective from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Incorporated. WIREs Water, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1422
• Tarboton, D.G, Richards, C., McKee, M., Torres-Rua, A., Neilson, B.T, Tullis, B.P, Rosenberg, D.E, Stevens, D.K, Horsburgh, J.S, McLean, J.E, Johnson, M.C, Dupont, R.R, (2019). The Utah Water Research Laboratory: Empowering Water and Environmental Research in Utah and Around the World. Water Resources Impact, American Water Resources Association, 21:5, 13-15. *
• Horsburgh, J.S, Caraballo, J., Ramirez, M., Aufdenkampe, A.K, Arscott, D., Damiano, S., (2019). Low-cost, open-source, and low-power: But what to do with the data?. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00067
• Buahin, C.A, Horsburgh, J.S, Neilson, B.T, (2019). Parallel multi-objective calibration of a component-based river temperature model. Environmental Modelling & Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.02.012
• Buahin, C.A, Horsburgh, J.S, (2018). Advancing the Open Modeling Interface (OpenMI) for integrated water resources modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.07.015
• Gibert, K., Horsburgh, J.S, Athanasiadis, I.N, Holmes, G., (2018). Environmental Data Science. Environmental Modelling & Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.04.005
• Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, Eiriksson, D., (2018). Assessing Subjectivity in Environmental Sensor Data Post Processing via a Controlled Experiment. Ecological Informatics, doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.05.001
• Gibert, K., Horsburgh, J.S, Athanasiadis, I., Holmes, G., (2018). Preface to the Thematic Issue on Environmental Data Science: Applications to Air quality and Water Cycle. Environmental Modelling & Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.03.020
• Mihalevich, B., Horsburgh, J.S, Melcher, A., (2017). High frequency measurements reveal spatial and temporal patterns of dissolved organic matter in an urban water conveyance. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189:593, doi: 10.1007/s10661-017-6310-y
• Horsburgh, J.S, Leonardo, M., Abdallah, A., Rosenberg, D.E, (2017). Measuring Water Use, Conservation, and Differences by Gender Using an Inexpensive, High Frequency Metering System. Environmental Modelling & Software96, 83-94. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.035
• Flint, C., Spackman Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, (2017). Data Management Dimensions of Social Water Science: The iUTAH Experience. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12568
• Spackman Jones, A., Aanderud, Z.T, Horsburgh, J.S, Eiriksson, D., Dastrup, D., Cox, C., Jones, S.B, Bowling, D.R, Carlisle, J., Carling, G.T, Baker, M.A, (2017). Designing and Implementing a Network for Sensing Water Quality and Hydrology Across Mountain to Urban Transitions. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12557
• Melcher, A.A, Horsburgh, J.S, (2017). An Urban Observatory for Quantifying Phosphorus and Suspended Solids Loads in Combined Natural and Stormwater Conveyances. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, doi: 10.1007/s10661-017-5974-7
• Morsy, M.M, Goodall, J.L, Castronova, A., Dash, P., Merwade, V., Sadler, J.M, Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, (2017). Design of a Metadata Framework for Environmental Models with an Example Hydrologic Application in HydroShare. Environmental Modelling & Software, 93, 13-28. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.02.028
• Hsu, L., Mayorga, E., Horsburgh, J.S, Carter, M.R, Lehnert, K.A, Brantley, S.L, (2017). Enhancing Interoperability and Capabilities of Earth Science Data using the Observations Data Model 2 (ODM2). Data Science Journal, 16:4, 1-16.
• Buahin, C.A, Sangwan, N., Fagan, C., Rae, C., Maidment, D.R, Nelson, J.E, Horsburgh, J.S, Merwade, V., (2017). Probabilistic Flood Inundation Forecasting Using Rating Curve Libraries. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 53:2, 300-315. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12500
• Horsburgh, J.S, Morsy, M.M, Castronova, A., Goodall, J.L, Gan, T., Yi, H., Stealey, M.J, Tarboton, D.G, (2016). HydroShare: Sharing Diverse Hydrologic Data Types and Models as Social Objects within a Hydrologic Information System. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 52:4, doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12363
• Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, Jackson-Smith, D., Ramirez, M., Caraballo, J., (2016). A Web-based, Interactive Visualization Tool for Social Environmental Survey Data. Environmental Modelling & Software, 84, 412-426.
• Horsburgh, J.S, Aufdenkampe, A.K, Mayorga, E., Lehnert, K.A, Hsu, L., Song, L., Spackman Jones, A., Damiano, S.G, Tarboton, D.G, Valentine, D., Zaslavsky, I., Whitenack, T., (2016). Observations Data Model 2: A Community Information Model for Spatially Discrete Earth Observations. Environmental Modelling & Software, 79, 55-74. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.01.010
• Buahin, C., Horsburgh, J.S, (2015). Evaluating the simulation times and mass balance errors of component-based models: An application of OpenMI 2.0 to an urban stormwater system. Environmental Modeling & Software, 92-109. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.003
• Spackman Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, Reeder, S.L, Ramirez, M., Caraballo, J., (2015). A Data Management and Publication Workflow for a Large-­Scale, Heterogeneous Sensor Network. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, doi: 10.1007/s10661-015-4594-3
• Horsburgh, J.S, Reeder, S.L, Spackman-Jones, A., Meline, J., (2015). Open Source Software for Visualization and Quality Control of Continuous Hydrologic and Water Quality Sensor Data. Environmental Modelling & Software, 70, 32-44. doi: doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.002
• Hale, R.L, Armstrong, A., Baker, M.A, Bedingfield, S., Betts, D., Buahin, C., Buchert, M., Crowl, T.A, Dupont, R.R, Ehleringer, J., Endter-Wada, J.L, Flint, C., Grant, J., Hinners, S., Horsburgh, J.S, Jackson-Smith, D., Jones, A.S, Licon, C., Null, S., Odame, A., Pataki, D.E, Rosenberg, D.E, Runburg, M., Stoker, P., Strong, C., (2015). iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to Study Socio-Hydro-Ecological Systems. Earth's Future/AGU , doi: 10.1002/2014EF000295
• Horsburgh, J.S, Reeder, S., (2014). Data Visualization and Analysis within a Hydrologic Information System: Integrating with the R Statistical Computing Environment. Envrionmental Modelling & Software, 52, 51-61. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.016
• Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, Hooper, R.P, Zaslavsky, I., (2014). Managing a Community Vocabulary for Hydrologic Observations. Environmental Modelling & Software, 52, 62-73. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.012
• Ames, D.P, Horsburgh, J.S, Cao, Y., Kadlec, J., Whiteaker, T., Valentine, D., (2012). HydroDesktop: Web services-based software for hydrologic data discovery, download, visualization, and analysis. Environmental Modelling & Software, 37, 146-156. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.03.013
• Spackman Jones, A., Horsburgh, J.S, Mesner, N., Ryel, R.J, Stevens, D.K, Influence of sampling frequency on estimation of annual total phosphorus and total suspended solids loads. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012.00684.x
• Spackman Jones, A., Stevens, D.K, Horsburgh, J.S, Mesner, N., (2011). Surrogate measures for providing high frequency estimates of total suspended solids and total phosphorus concentrations. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 47:2, 239-253. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00505.x
• Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, Maidment, D.R, Zaslavsky, I., (2011). Components of an integrated environmental observatory information system. Computers & Geosciences, 37:2, 207-218. doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.07.003
• Horsburgh, J.S, Spackman Jones, A., Stevens, D.K, Tarboton, D.G, Mesner, N., (2010). A Sensor Network for High Frequency Estimation of Water Quality Constituent Fluxes Using Surrogates. Environmental Modelling & Software, 25, 1031-1044. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.012
• Jackson-Smith, D., Halling, M., de la Hoz, E., McEvoy, J.P, Horsburgh, J.S, (2010). Measuring conservation program BMP implementation and maintenance at the watershed scale. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 65:6, 413-423. doi: 10.2489/jswc65.6.413
• Horsburgh, J.S, Spackman, A., Stevens, D.K, Tarboton, D.G, Mesner, N., (2010). A Sensor Network for High Frequency Estimation of Water Quality Constituent Fluxes Using Surrogates. Environmental Modelling and Software, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.012
• Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, Piasecki, M., Maidment, D.R, Zaslavsky, I., Valentine, D., Whitenack, T., (2009). An integrated system for publishing environmental observations data: Environmental Modelling & Software. Environmental Modelling & Software, 24:8, 879-888. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.01.002
• Goodall, J.L, Horsburgh, J.S, Whiteaker, T.L, Maidment, D.R, Zaslavsky, I., (2008). A first approach to web services for the National Water Information System. Environmental Modelling & Software, 23:4, 404-411. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.01.005
• Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, Maidment, D.R, Zaslavsky, I., (2008). A Relational Model for Environmental and Water Resources Data. Water Resources Research, 44, W05406. doi: 10.1029/2007WR006392
• Maidment, D.R, Zaslavsky, I., Horsburgh, J.S, (2006). Hydrologic data access using web services. Southwest Hydrology, 5:3, 404-411.

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Publications | MultiMedia

Software

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Publications | Technical Reports

Research Reports

• Horsburgh, J.S, Slaugh, D., Lippold, K., (2024). Utah Division of Water Rights: Technology Modernization Roadmap. Utah Water Research Laboratory, HydroShare *
• Horsburgh, J.S, Slaugh, D., Lippold, K., (2024). Utah Division of Water Rights: Hydroinformatics and Technology Gap Analysis Report. Utah Water Research Laboratory, HydroShare *
• Pellerin, B.A, Bergamaschi, B.A, Horsburgh, J.S, (2012). In Situ Optical Water-Quality Sensor Networks - Workshop Summary Report. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1044

Other Reports

• Tarboton, D.G, Maidment, D.R, Zaslavsky, I., Ames, D.P, Goodall, J., Horsburgh, J.S, (2010). CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System 2010 Status Report. Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc
• Tarboton, D.G, Horsburgh, J.S, (2008). Chapter 3: Observations Data Model: CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System: Overview of Version 1.1. Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
• Tarboton, D.G, Horsburgh, J.S, Maidment, D.R, (2008). CUAHSI Community Observations Data Model (ODM) Version 1.1 Design Specifications.
• Horsburgh, J.S, Tarboton, D.G, Maidment, D.R, (2005). A Community Data Model for Hydrologic Observations, Chapter 6: Hydrologic Information System Status Report, Version 1. Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. *
• Neilson, B.T, Horsburgh, J.S, Stevens, D.K, Matassa, M.R, Brogdon, J.N, Spackman, A., (2004). Comparison of Complex Watershed Models’ Predictive Capabilities: EPRI’s Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework (WARMF) vs. USEPA’s Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS/WinHSPF). Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University

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Publications | Other

Other

• Arctur, D., Bermudez, L., Ames, D., Booth, N., Choi, Y., Goodall, J., Hooper, R., Horsburgh, J.S, Jirka, S., Maidment, D., Percivall, G., Salas, F., Schreuders, K., Seppi, J., Tarboton, D.G, Valentine, D., Veluppillai, T., Vretanos, P.A, Whiteaker, T., Zaslavsky, I., (2011). OGC Engineering Report: CUAHSI Profile of OGC Web Services Standards for Water Observations Data, OGC 11-013r5, Version 0.31. Open Geospatial Consortium
• Horsburgh, J.S, (2008). Hydrologic Information Systems: Advancing Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories. Utah State University
• Horsburgh, J.S, (2001). Statistical Analysis of Regional Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data to Predict Water Quality in Streams. Utah State University

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.