Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
(*indicates co-lead author)
Soranno, P. A., Hanly, P. J., Webster, K. E., Wagner, T., McDonald, A., Shuvo, A., Schliep, E. M., Reinl, K. L., McCullough, I. M., Tan, N., Lottig, N. R., & Cheruvelil, K. S. (2025).**
Abrupt changes in algal biomass of thousands of US lakes are related to climate and are more likely in low-disturbance watersheds. PNAS, 122(9).
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416172122
Harris, T. D.; Reinl, K. L.; Azarderakhsh, M.; Berger, S. A.; Berman, M. C.; Bizic, M.; Bhattacharya, R.; Burnet, S. H.; Cianci-Gaskill, J. A.; Domis, L. N. D. S.; Elfferich, I.; Ger, K. A.; Grossart, H.-P. F.; Ibelings, B. W.; Ionescu, D.; Kouhanestani, Z. M.; Mauch, J.; McElarney, Y. R.; Nava, V.; North, R. L.; Ogashawara, I.; Paule-Mercado, M. C. A.; Soria-Píriz, S.; Sun, X.; Trout-Haney, J. V.; Weyhenmeyer, G. A.; Yokota, K.; Zhan, Q. (2024).
What Makes a Cyanobacterial Bloom Disappear? A Review of the Abiotic and Biotic Cyanobacterial Bloom Loss Factors. Harmful Algae, 133, 102599.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2024.102599
Endris, C.; Shull, S.; Woolfolk, A.; Brophy, L. S.; Brumbaugh, D. R.; Crooks, J. A.; Reinl, K. L.; Fuller, R.; Sanger, D. M.; Stevens, R. A.; Almeida, M.; Wasson, K. (2024).
Lost and Found Coastal Wetlands: Lessons Learned from Mapping Estuaries across the USA. Biological Conservation, 299, 110779.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110779
Lapierre, J.; Webster, K. E.; Hanks, E. M.; Wagner, T.; Soranno, P. A.; McCullough, I. M.; Reinl, K. L.; Domka, M.; Lottig, N. R. (2023).
A Continuous Classification of the 476,697 Lakes of the Conterminous US Based on Geographic Archetypes. Limnology & Oceanography, 68(12), 2759–2773.
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12457
Reinl, K. L., Harris, T. D., North, R. L., Berger, S. A., Bizic, M., Burnet, S. H., Finlay, K., Almela, P., Grossart, H.-P., Jakobsson, E., Knoll, L. B., Lafrancois, B. M., Massa, E., Morales-Williams, A. M., Obertegger, U., Paule-Mercado, M. C., Peierls, B. L., Rusak, J. A., Sarkar, S., Sharma, S., Trout-Haney, J. V., van de Waal, D., Urrutia-Cordero, P., Venkiteswaran, J. J., Wain, D. J., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Yokota, K. (2022).
Blooms also like it cold. Limnology & Oceanography Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10316
Reinl, K. L., Harris, T. D., Elfferich, I., Coker, A., Zhan, Q., De Senerpont Domis, L. N., Morales-Williams, A. M., Bhattacharya, R., Grossart, H.-P., North, R. L., & Sweetman, J. N. (2022).
The role of organic nutrients in structuring freshwater phytoplankton communities in a rapidly changing world. Water Research, 219, 118573.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118573
Reinl, K. L., Brookes, J. D., Carey, C. C., Harris, T. D., Ibelings, B. W., Morales‐Williams, A. M., De Senerpont Domis, L. N., Atkins, K. S., Isles, P. D. F., Mesman, J. P., North, R. L., Rudstam, L. G., Stelzer, J. A. A., Venkiteswaran, J. J., Yokota, K., & Zhan, Q. (2021).
Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high‐nutrient paradigm. Freshwater Biology, fwb.13791.
https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13791
Sterner, R. W., Reinl, K. L., Lafrancois, B. M., Brovold, S., & Miller, T. R. (2020).
A first assessment of cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic Lake Superior. Limnology and Oceanography, 65, 2984–2998.
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11569
Reinl, K. L., Sterner, R. W., Lafrancois, B. M., & Brovold, S. (2020).
Fluvial seeding of cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic Lake Superior. Harmful Algae, 100, 101941–101941.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101941
Reinl, K. L., Sterner, R. W., & Austin, J. A. (2020).
Seasonality and physical drivers of deep chlorophyll layers in Lake Superior, with implications for a rapidly warming lake. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 46, 1615–1624.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2020.09.008
In Preparation
Reinl, K. L., Dunn, R. P., Cressman, K. A., Collins, T., DeBose, J. L., Friedrichs, C. T., Helms, A. R., Kinkade, C., Krask, J. L., Parrish, D. B., Ramage, H. N., Ridge, J. T., Sanger, D., Cianci-Gaskill, J. A., Dix, N., Grothues, T. M., McMurray, S. E., Peter, C. R., Yang, S.
Drivers of Continental Scale Eutrophication and Oxygen Declines in US Estuaries. (To be submitted to Nature.)
Datasets
Lafrancois, B. and K.L. Reinl. (2024). Lake Superior cyanobacterial bloom reports, 2012 - present ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative.
https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/89d1b199d4bdb8d82847c7f39d1018be
Shuvo, A.K., N.R. Lottig, K.E. Webster, A. Delany, K.L. Reinl, C. Gries, N.J. Smith, A.C. Poisson, I.M. McCullough, S.M. Collins, K.B. King, E. Phillips, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. (2023). LAGOS-US LIMNO: Data module of surface water chemistry from 1975-2021 for lakes in the conterminous U.S. ver 5. Environmental Data Initiative.
https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/2c58f5a50ab813919f99cc1f265f271c
Non Peer-Reviewed Publications
Banesh, K.; Lafrancois, B.; Reinl, K. L. (2023). Lake Superior Bloom Bulletin; UW-Madison.
https://doi.org/10.21231/9058-915B
Banesh, K.; Lafrancois, B.; Reinl, K. L.; Banerji, A. (2022). Lake Superior Bloom Bulletin; UW-Madison.
https://doi.org/10.21231/F64B-C8BA
Moen S., K.L. Reinl, E.L. Green, K. Rhude, M. Castro, and G. Spilkia. (2019). Identifying Science and Monitoring Priorities for Lake Superior: Synthesis of the 2019 Lake Superior CSMI Workshop. Proceedings of a workshop held at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mid-continent Ecological Division Laboratory in Duluth, Minnesota, July 10- 11, 2019. Prepared for the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission by Minnesota Sea Grant.
Reinl, Kaitlin. (2016). Assessing the impacts of climate change on the surface temperature of inland lakes in Michigan. Master’s Thesis, Michigan Technological University.