D. Scott Mackay

PhD

Scott Mackay.

D. Scott Mackay

PhD

D. Scott Mackay

PhD

Professor
Department of Geography
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department of Environment and Sustainability
College of Arts and Sciences

Research Areas

Ecohydrology; Land surface hydrology; Hydrologic and ecosystem modeling; GIS; Remote sensing

Education

  • Ph.D (Civil Engineering, Minor - Computer Science), 1997, University of Toronto 
  • M.Sc. (Physical Geography), 1991, University of Toronto 
  • B.Sc. (Specialist - Biophysical Systems, Minor - Computer Science), 1989, University of Toronto

Recent Publications

  • McDowell, N.G., C. Grossiord, H.D. Adams, S. Pinzon-Navarro, D.S. Mackay, D.D. Breshears, C.D. Allen, I. Borrego, L.T. Dickman, A. Collins, M. Gaylord, N. McBranch, W.T. Pockman, A. Vilagrosa, B. Aukema, D. Goodsman, and C. Xu. 2019. Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat. Environmental Research Letters. 14 045014, doi:10.1088/1748- 9326/ab0921.
  • *Wang, D.R., C.R. Guadagno, X. Mao, D.S. Mackay, J.R. Pleban*, R.L. Baker, C. Weinig, J.-L. Jannink, and B.E. Ewers. 2019. A framework for genomics-informed ecophysiological modeling in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz090. 
  • Fan, Y., M. Clark, D.M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L.E. Band, S.L. Brantley, P.D. Brooks, W.E. Dietrich, A. Flores, G. Grant, J.W. Kirchner, D.S. Mackay, J.J. McDonnell, P.C.D. Milly, P.L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnehad-Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B.P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, M. Safeeq, C. Shen, W. van Verseveld, J. Volk, and D. Yamazaki. 2019. Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth system modeling. Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1737-1772, doi:10.1029/2018WR023903.
  • Love, D.M., M.D. Venturas, J.S. Sperry, P.D. Brooks, J.L. Pettit, Y. Wang, W.R.L. Anderegg, X. Tai*, and D.S. Mackay. 2019. Dependence of aspen stands on a subsurface water subsidy: Implications for climate change impacts. Water Resources Research, 55, 1833-1848, doi:10.1029/2018WR023468.
  • *Tai, X., D.S. Mackay, J.S. Sperry, P. Brooks, W.R.L. Anderegg, L.B. Flanagan, S.B. Rood, and C. Hopkinson. 2018. Distributed plant hydraulic and hydrological modeling to understand the susceptibility of riparian woodland trees to drought-induced mortality. Water Resources Research, 54(7), 4901-4915, doi:10.1002/2018WR022801.
  • *Pleban, J.R., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, T.L. Aston, and C. Weinig. 2018. Phenotypic trait identification using a multimodel Bayesian method: A case study using photosynthesis in Brassica rapa genotypes. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 448, doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00448. 
  • *Mitra, B., D.S. Mackay, E. Pendall, B.E. Ewers, H. Kwon, M.B. Cleary, and K.J. Naithani. 2018. Model-data fusion approach to quantify evapotranspiration and net ecosystem exchange across the sagebrush ecosystem at different temporal resolutions. Ecohydrology, 11:e1957, doi: 10.1002/eco.1957. 
  • Johnson, D.M., J.-C. Domec, Z.C. Berry, A.M. Schwantes, D.R. Woodruff, K.A. McCulloh, H.W. Polley, R. Wortemann, J.J. Swenson, D.S. Mackay, N.G. McDowell, and R.B. Jackson. 2018. Cooccurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought. Plant, Cell & Environment, 41(3), 576-588, doi:10.1111/pce/13121.
  • Millar, D., B.E. Ewers, D.S. Mackay, S.D. Peckham, D. Reed, and A. Sekoni. 2017. Improving ecosystem-scale modeling of evapotranspiration using ecological mechanisms that account for compensatory responses following disturbance. Water Resources Research, 53, 7853-7868, doi:10.1002/2017WR020823.
  • Clark, M.P., J.A. Bahr, M.F.P. Bierkens, X. Cai, T.S. Hogue, C.H. Luce, J.D. Lundquist, D.S. Mackay, H.J. (Ilja) van Meerveld, H. Rajaram, X. Sanchez-Vila, and P.A. Troch. 2017. Editorial: A vision for Water Resources Research. Water Resources Research, 53, doi:10.1002/2017WR021050. 
  • Sperry, J.S., M. Venturas, W.R.L. Anderegg, M. Mencuccini, D.S. Mackay, Y. Wang, D. Love. 2017. Predicting stomatal response to the environment from the optimization of photosynthetic gain and hydraulic cost. Plant, Cell & Environment, 40(6), 816-830, doi:10.1111/pce.12852.
  • *Tai, X., D.S. Mackay, W.R.L. Anderegg, J.S. Sperry, and P.D. Brooks. 2017. Plant hydraulics improves and topography mediates prediction of aspen mortality in southwestern U.S. New Phytologist, 213(1), 113-127, doi:10.111/nph.14098.
  • Mitra, B., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, and E. Pendall. 2016. Response of sagebrush carbon metabolism to experimental precipitation pulses. Journal of Arid Environments, 135, 181-194.
  • Sperry, J.S., Y. Wang, B.R. Wolfe, D.S. Mackay, W.R.L. Anderegg, N.G. McDowell, and W.T. Pockman. 2016. Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits. New Phytologist, 212, 577-589, doi:10.1111/nph.14059.
  • McDowell, N.G., A.P. Williams, C. Xu, W.T. Pockman, L.T. Dickman, S. Sevanto, R. Rangle, J. Limousin, J. Plaut, D.S. Mackay, J. Ogee, J.C. Domec, C.D. Allen, R.A. Fisher, X. Jiang, J.D. Muss, D.D. Breshears, S.A. Rauscher, and C. Koven. 2016. Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortaility due to chronic temperature rise. Nature Climate Change, 6, 295-300, doi:10.1038/nclimate2873.

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