Publications
Journal articles
Kleinman, P., Spiegal, S., Silviera, M., Baker, J. M., Dell, C. J.,
Bittman, S., Cibin, R. , Vadas, P.,
Buser, M., & Tsegaye, T. (2022). Envisioning the Manureshed: Towards comprehensive
integration of modern crop and animal production. Journal of Environmental Quality (2022).
Yavari, R., Zaliwciw, D., Cibin, R. , & McPhillips, L. (2022).
Minimizing environmental impacts
of solar farms: a review of current science on landscape hydrology and guidance on stormwater
management. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability.
Saha, G., Cibin, R., Elliott, H. A., & Gall, H. E. (2022).
Towards a robust land suitability
framework for manure management: modeling
impacts and evaluating biophysical characteristics. Journal of American Water Resources Association.
Mahalingam, J., Cibin, R., & Sudheer, K. (2022).
Reliability of hydrology and water quality
simulations using global scale datasets. Journal of American Water Resources Association.
Pandara Valappil, F., Karki, R., Cibin, R., & Sudheer, K. (2022).
Re-conceptualizing HRU
threshold definition in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool. Journal of American Water
Resources Association.
Iavorivska, L., Veith, T., Cibin, R. , Preisendanz, H. E., & Steinman, A. (2021).
Mitigating lake eutrophication through stakeholder-driven hydrologic modeling of agricultural conservation
practices: A case study of Lake Macatawa, Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 47(6).
Gunn, K.M., Buda, A. R, Gall, H. E., Cibin, R., Kennedy, C. D., & Veith, T (2021).
Integrating daily CO2 concentrations in Topo-SWAT to examine climate change impacts in a karst watershed. Transactions of ASABE, 64(4).
Jiang, F., Drohan, P. J., Cibin, R., Gall, H. E., White, C., & Veith, T. (2021).
Reallocating Crop Rotation Patterns Improves Water Quality and Maintains Crop Yield. Agricultural Systems, 187.
Saha, G., Cibin, R., Elliott, H. A., & Gall, H. E. (2021).
Development of a Land Suitability Framework for Sustainable Manure Utilization: A Case Study in Western Pennsylvania. Transactions of ASABE, 64(1).
Jiang, F., Gall, H. E., Veith, T., Cibin, R., & Drohan, P. J. (2020).
Riparian buffer effectiveness as a function of buffer design and input loads. Journal of Environmental Quality.
Spiegal, S., Kleinman, P., Endale, D., Bryan, R., Goslee, S., Meinen, R., Flynn, C., Baker, J.,
Browning, D., McCarty, G., Bittman, S., Carter, J., Cavigelli, M., Duncan, E., Gowda, P., Li, X.,
Ponce-Campos, U., Cibin, R., Silveira, M., Smith, D., Arthur, D., & Yang, Q. (2020).
Manuresheds: Tools to recycle nutrients for the sustainable intensification of agriculture. Agricultural Systems, 182, 102813.
Malone, R. W., Herbstritt,, S., Ma, L., Richard, T. L., Cibin, R., Gassman, P., Zhang, H., Karlen,
D., Hatfield, J., Obrycki, J., Helmers, M., Jaynes, D., Kaspar, T., Parkin, T., & Fang, Q. X.
(2019).
Corn stover harvest and N losses in central Iowa. Science of the Total Environment, 663, 776-792.
Neupane, R. P., Ficklin, D. L., Knouft, J. H., Ehsani, N., & Cibin, R. (2019).
Hydrologic
responses to projected climate change in ecologically diverse watersheds of the Gulf Coast,
United States. International Journal of Climatology, 39(4), 2227-2243.
Cibin, R. , Chaubey, I., Sudheer, K. P., White, M., Arnold, J. G., & Helmers, M. J. (2018).
Improved filter strip representation in SWAT model to simulate energy crop filter strips. Transactions of the ASABE, 61(3), 1017-1024.
Krishnan, N., Cibin, R., Chaubey, I., & Sudheer, K. (2018).
Parameter estimation of SWAT and
quantification of consequent confidence bands of model simulations. Environmental Earth Sciences, 77(12), 469-485.
Femeena, V. P., Sudheer, K. P., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2018).
Spatial optimization of
cropping pattern for sustainable food and biofuel production with minimal downstream pollution. Journal of Environmental Management, 212, 198-209.
Gall, H. E., Schultz, D., Veith, T., Goslee, S., Mejia, A., Harman, C., Cibin, R., & Patterson, P.
H. (2018).
The effects of disproportional load contributions on quantifying vegetated filter strip
sediment trapping efficiencies. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 32(8), 2369-2380.
Feng, Q., Chaubey, I., Cibin, R., Engel, B., Sudheer, K. P., & Volenec, J. (2018).
Perennial biomass production from marginal land in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Land Degradation
& Development, 29(6), 1748-1755.
Guo, T., Cibin, R., Chaubey, I., Gitau, M., Volenec, J., Srinivasan, R., Kiniry, J. R., & Engel, B.
(2018).
Evaluation of bioenergy crop growth and the impacts of bioenergy crops on streamflow,
tile drain flow and nutrient losses in an extensively tile-drained watershed using SWAT. Science
of the Total Environment, 613–614, 724-735.
Gassman, P. W., Kling, C. L., Panagopoulos, Y., Cibin, R., Chaubey, I., Valcu, A., Wolter, C. F.,
& Schilling, K. E. (2017).
Assessment of bioenergy cropping scenarios for the Boone River
watershed in North Central Iowa, United States. Journal of the American Water Resources
Association, 53(6), 1336-1354.
Panagopoulos, Y., Gassman, P. W., Kling, C. L., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2017).
Assessment of
large-scale bioenergy cropping scenarios for the Upper Mississippi and Ohio-Tennessee River
Basins. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 53(6), 1355-1367.
Wang, R., Bowling, L., Cherkauer, K. A., Cibin, R., Her, Y., & Chaubey, I. (2017).
Biophysical
and hydrological effects of future climate change including trends in CO2, in the St. Joseph River
watershed, Eastern Corn Belt. Agricultural Water Management, 180, 280-296.
Cibin, R., Chaubey, I., Muenich, R. L., Cherkauer, K. A., Panagopoulos, Y., Gassman, P. W., &
Kling, C. L. (2017).
Influence of bioenergy crop production and climate change on ecosystem
services. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 53(6), 1323-1335.
Kling, C. L., Chaubey, I., Cibin, R., Gassman, P. W., & Panagopoulos, Y. (2017).
Policy
implications from multi-scale watershed models of biofuel crop adoption across the Corn Belt. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 53(6), 1313-1322.
Feng, Q., Chaubey, I., Engel, B., Cibin, R., Sudheer, K. P., & Volenec, J. (2017).
Simulating
establishment periods of perennial bioenergy grasses in the soil and water assessment tool
(SWAT) model. Transactions of the ASABE, 60(5), 1621-1632.
Feng, Q., Chaubey, I., Engel, B., Cibin, R., Sudheer, K. P., & Volenec, J. (2017).
Marginal land
suitability for switchgrass, Miscanthus and hybrid poplar in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
(UMRB). Environmental Modelling & Software, 93, 356-365.
Song, J., Gramig, B., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2017).
Integrated Economic and Environmental
Assessment of Cellulosic Biofuel Production in an Agricultural Watershed. BioEnergy Research,
10(2), 509-524.
Pignotti, G., Rathjens, H., Cibin, R., Chaubey, I., & Crawford, M. (2017).
Comparative Analysis
of HRU and Grid-Based SWAT Models. Water, 9(4), 20.
Liu, Y., Cibin, R., Bralts, V. F., Chaubey, I., Bowling, L. C., & Engel, B. A. (2016).
Optimal
selection and placement of BMPs and LID practices with a rainfall-runoff model. Environmental
Modelling & Software, 80, 281–296.
Athira, P., Sudheer, K., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2016).
Predictions in ungauged basins: an
approach for regionalization of hydrological models considering the probability distribution of
model parameters. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 30(4), 1131–1149.
Cibin, R., Trybula, E., Chaubey, I., Brouder, S. M., & Volenec, J. J. (2016).
Watershed-scale
impacts of bioenergy crops on hydrology and water quality using improved SWAT model. GCB
Bioenergy, 8(4), 837–848.
Her, Y., Cibin, R. , & Chaubey, I. (2015).
Application of parallel computing methods for
improving efficiency of optimization in hydrologic and water quality modeling. Applied
Engineering in Agriculture, 31(3), 455–468.
Feng, Q., Chaubey, I., Her, Y. G., Cibin, R., Engel, B., Volenec, J., & Wang, X. (2015).
Hydrologic and water quality impacts and biomass production potential on marginal land. Environmental Modelling & Software, 72, 230–238.
Trybula, E. M., Cibin, R., Burks, J. L., Chaubey, I., Brouder, S. M., & Volenec, J. J. (2015).
Perennial rhizomatous grasses as bioenergy feedstock in SWAT: parameter development and
model improvement. GCB Bioenergy, 7(6), 1185–1202.
Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2015).
A computationally efficient approach for watershed scale spatial
optimization. Environmental Modelling & Software, 66, 1–11.
Cibin, R., Athira, P., Sudheer, K., & Chaubey, I. (2013).
Application of distributed hydrological
models for predictions in ungauged basins: a method to quantify predictive uncertainty. Hydrological Processes, 28(4), 2033–2045.
Kasiviswanathan, K., Cibin, R., Sudheer, K., & Chaubey, I. (2013).
Constructing prediction
interval for artificial neural network rainfall runoff models based on ensemble simulations. Journal of Hydrology, 499, 275–288.
Gramig, B. M., Reeling, C. J., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2013).
Environmental and economic
tradeoffs in a watershed when using corn stover for bioenergy. Environmental Science &
Technology, 47(4), 1784–1791.
Hoque, Y. M., Cibin, R., Hantush, M. M., Chaubey, I., & Govindaraju, R. S. (2013).
How do
land-use and climate change affect watershed health? a scenario-based analysis. Water Quality,
Exposure and Health, 6(1-2), 19–33.
Cibin, R., Chaubey, I., & Engel, B. (2012).
Simulated watershed scale impacts of corn stover
removal for biofuel on hydrology and water quality. Hydrological Processes, 26(11), 1629–1641.
Athira, P., Sudheer, K., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. (2010).
A multi-criterion based approach to
quantify predictive uncertainty of distributed hydrologic models when applied to ungauged
basins. Advances in Geosciences, 23, 75–88.
Book Chapters
Ale, S., Femeena, P. V., Mehan, S., & Cibin, R. (2019). Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy
Crop Production and Benefits of Multifunctional Bioenergy Systems. Bioenergy with Carbon
Capture and Storage: Using Natural Resources for Sustainable Development (pp. 195-217.). San
Diego, CA: Academic Press, Elsevier Inc.
Chaubey, I., Cibin, R., & Feng, Q. (2016). Precision Conservation for Biofuel Production.
Precision conservation: Geospatial techniques for agricultural and natural resources
conservation (pp. 253-283). Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science
Society of America, Inc. Peer-reviewed/refereed.
Conference Proceeding
Cibin, R., Muenich, R. L., Chaubey, I., & Cherkauer, K. A. (2016). Ecosystem services
evaluation of futuristic bioenergy based land use change and their uncertainty from climate
change and variability. (pp. 3). St.
Joseph, MI: ASABE.