Publications

As of July 31, 2025

Visit the Pub Map for an updated and interactive view. The publications in this list that predate the 2019 beginning of this project are provided for their relevance to the project effort.

Nichols, Cody and Mary C Hill. (forthcoming). Projecting Wind Energy for future conditions: wind speed height issues and solutions.

Vincent Amanor-Boadu, James Bloodgood, Mary C Hill. (forthcoming). To Switch or Not to Switch: Factors Influencing Adoption of Green Energy for Irrigation.

Bloodgood, Modaressi. (forthcoming). Economic and Social Influences on Fault Perception and Innovation Non-Adoption: The Case of Water Resources and Farmer Resiliency. Journal of Innovation Management.

Nanaadom Nyarko, Robert Barron, Peter Pfromm, Mary C. Hill, Vincent Amanor-Boadu. (forthcoming). Green Ammonia Fertilizer for Sustainable Agriculture: An Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Green Ammonia on Food, Energy, Water, and Land Use in the United States.

Amir Modarresi, Jim Bloodgood, Mary C Hill. (forthcoming). Graph theory for fault ranking.

Peter Pfromm, James Bloodgood, Mary Hill. (In review). How to compare the impact of green ammonia fertilizer on water demand in agricultural settings.

Patience Bosompemaa, Andrea Brookfield, Sam Zipper, Mary C Hill. (forthcoming). County-scale relationships between pumping and groundwater level change in the High Plains Aquifer.

Patience Bosompemaa, Andrea Brookfield, Sam Zipper, Mary C Hill. (forthcoming). Anticipated impact of climate change on groundwater levels in an irrigated region.

Xuebo Liu. (2025). Integrating Machine Learning for Energy Management: Applications in Power System, Building, and Agriculture. PhD Dissertation.

Patience Bosompemaa. (2025). Projecting water availability in semi-arid agricultural regions under future climate scenarios. PhD Dissertation.

Pfromm, Peter, James Bloodgood, and Mary C Hill. (2025). The water demand of ammonia production to fertilize crops. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/36094

Nyarko, Nanaadom. (2025). An Assessment of the Impact of Locally Produced Green Ammonia on the Improvement of Small-Scale & Rural Agriculture. PhD Dissertation.

Patience Bosompemaa, Andrea Brookfield, Sam Zipper, Mary C Hill. (2025). Using national hydrologic models to obtain regional climate change impacts on streamflow basins with unrepresented processes. Environmental Modeling and Software. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815224002950

Cody Nichols, Mary Hill, Xuebo Liu. (2025). Climate Change Impacts on Solar Energy Generation in the Continental United States, Forecasts from Deep Learning. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815225002191

Xuebo Liu, Alex Modarresi, Lawryn Kiboma, Hongyu Wu, John Symons and Mary Hill. (2024). Budget-Constrained Sizing of Renewable and Energy Storage Systems for Farm-Scale Ammonia Production Within the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. 2024 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10520453

Xuebo Liu, Yingying Wu, Hongyu Wu. (2024). Enhancing HVAC energy management through multi-zone occupant-centric approach: A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning solution. Energy & Buildings. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378778823010009

NASEM (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) Committee members: Michael Clegg; S.Carolina Cordova; Eric Davidson; Bruce McCarl; Peter Pfromm; Jeffrey Silverstein. (2024). Review of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action White Paper on Building a Scientific Roadmap to a Carbon-Negative Agricultural System. https://doi.org/10.17226/27471

Echchelh, Alban, Justin M. Hutchison , Stephen J. Randtke , Edward Peltier. (2024). Treated water from oil and gas extraction as an unconventional water resource for agriculture in the Anadarko Basin. Science of the Total Environment. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723074491

Sam Zipper, Andrea Brookfield, Hoori Ajami, Jessica R Ayers, Chris Beightel, Michael N Fienen, Tom Gleeson, John Hammond, Mary Hill, Anthony D Kendall, Ben Kerr, Dana Lapides, Misty Porter, S Parimalarenganayaki, Melissa M Rohde, Chloe Wardropper. (2024). Streamflow depletion caused by groundwater pumping: Fundamental research priorities for management‐relevant science. Water Resources Research. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023WR035727

Amir Modarresi, John Symons. (2023). Resilient Network Dynamics for Food, Energy, and Water Systems. 13th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10293043

Amir Modarresi, John Symons. (2023). Failures to Food, Energy, and Water Systems: Mapping and Simulating Components to Improve Resilience. International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Instanbul Turkey. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10215865

Ofori-Bah, Catherine Obiribea and Amanor-Boadu, Vincent. (2023). Directing the wind: Techno-economic feasibility of green ammonia for farmers and community economic viability. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1070212/full

Lawryn (Edmonds) Kiboma. (2022). Distributed renewable energy integration using distribution locational marginal pricing and the food-energy-water nexus. PhD Dissertation.

Pfromm, Peter H. and Aframehr, Wrya. (2022). Green ammonia from air, water, and renewable electricity: Energy costs using natural gas reforming, solid oxide electrolysis, liquid water electrolysis, chemical looping, or a Haber–Bosch loop. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jrse/article-abstract/14/5/054701/2844035/Green-ammonia-from-air-water-and-renewable

Liu, Xuebo and Wu, Yingying and Zhang, Hang and Liu, Bo and Edmonds, Lawryn and Wu, Hongyu. (2022). Home Energy Management with Clothing Integrated Thermal Comfort and EV SOC Concern. 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). . https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/24/13826

Edmonds, Lawryn and Liu, Xuebo and Wu, Hongyu. (2022). A Demand-Responsive Green Ammonia Plant and its Impact on the Electricity Distribution System. 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9917204

Edmonds, Lawryn and Pfromm, Peter and Amanor-Boadu, Vincent and Hill, Mary and Wu, Hongyu. (2022). Green ammonia production-enabled demand flexibility in agricultural community microgrids with distributed renewables. Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352467722000698

Aframehr, Wrya Mohammadi; Pfromm, Peter H. (2022). Activating dinitrogen for chemical looping ammonia Synthesis: Mn nitride layer growth modeling. Chemical Engineering Science 2022, Journal of Materials Science, 2021. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009250921008526

Hill, M, V Amanor-Boadu, O Ofori-Bah, P Pfromm, H Wu, S Stover (2022). Economic Analysis for Preparedness and Adaptation: the Case of Local Green Energy and Ammonia. Geological Society of America Abstracts 54, 379577. Pittsburgh.

Hill, M (2022). Policy Conferences for Environmental Challenges: Role Playing to Integrate Science and Policy. Geological Society of America Abstracts 54, 379592. Pittsburgh.

Stover, S, MC Hill (2021). Capturing Wind for Food-Energy in the High Plains. Geological Society of America Abstracts 53 2021, 364879. Denver.

Phetheet, J, MC Hill, RW Barron, MW Rossi, V Amanor-Boadu, H Wu, I Kisekka. (2021). Consequences of climate change on food-energy-water systems in arid regions without agricultural adaptation, analyzed using FEWCalc and DSSAT. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 168. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344920306248

Liu, Xuebo and Wu, Yingying and Zhang, Haifeng and Wu, Hongyu. (2021). Hourly occupant clothing decisions in residential HVAC energy management. Journal of Building Engineering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710221005660

Liu, Xuebo and Ross, Molly and Bindra, Hitesh and Wu, Hongyu. (2021). Optimal Sizing of Battery Energy Storage Systems for Small Modular Reactor based Microgrids. 2021 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9446203

Phetheet, Jirapat and Hill, Mary C. and Barron, Robert W. and Gray, Benjamin J. and Wu, Hongyu and Amanor-Boadu, Vincent and Heger, Wade and Kisekka, Isaya and Golden, Bill and Rossi, Matthew W. (2021). Relating agriculture, energy, and water decisions to farm incomes and climate projections using two freeware programs, FEWCalc and DSSAT. Agricultural Systems. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X2100175X

Edmonds, Lawryn and Derby, Melanie and Hill, Mary and Wu, Hongyu. (2021). Coordinated operation of water and electricity distribution networks with variable renewable energy and distribution locational marginal pricing. Renewable Energy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148121008570

Liu, Xuebo and Wu, Yingying and Wu, Hongyu. (2021). PV-EV Integrated Home Energy Management Considering Residential Occupant Behaviors. Sustainability. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/24/13826

Aframehr, Wrya Mohammadi and Pfromm, Peter H. (2021). Activating dinitrogen for chemical looping ammonia synthesis: nitridation of manganese. Journal of Materials Science. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10853-021-06079-7

Liu, B., Manavi, N., Deng, H., Huang, C., Shan, N., Chikan, V., Pfromm, P. (2021). Activation of N2 on Manganese Nitride-Supported Ni3 and Fe3 Clusters and Relevance to Ammonia Formation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(28), 6535-6542, 2021. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01752

Alex Amir Modarresi. (2020). Network Resilience Architecture and Analysis for Smart Homes. PhD Dissertation. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/32574

Liu, B., Shan, N., Huang, C., Chikan, V., Lee, R., Pfromm, P. (2020). Manipulating the Geometric and Electronic Structures of Manganese Nitrides for Ammonia Synthesis. ChemCatChem, 12(8), 2233-2244. https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cctc.201902383

Aframehr, Wrya Mohammadi , Chaoran Huang, Tim Taylor, Peter Pfromm. (2020). Chemical Looping of Manganese to Synthesize Ammonia at Atmospheric Pressure: Sodium as Promoter. Chemical Engineering & Technology. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/33687

Modarresi, A., Symons, J. (2020). Resilience and Technological Diversity in Smart Homes: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Modeling IoT Systems with Integrated Heterogeneous Networks. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humane Computing. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/33686

Yolanda Gil, Suzanne A Pierce, Hassan Babaie, Arindam Banerjee, Kirk Borne, Gary Bust, Michelle Cheatham, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Carla Gomes, Mary Hill, John Horel, Leslie Hsu, Jim Kinter, Craig Knoblock, David Krum, Vipin Kumar, Pierre Lermusiaux, Yan Liu,. (2019). Intelligent Systems for Geosciences: An Essential Research Agenda. Communications of the ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3192335

Hill, MC, V Amanor-Boadu, P Pfromm, H Wu, R Barron, AE Brookfield, ... (2019). Using Chords, Datax, and Agent Based Modeling to Create Sustainable Agriculture with Renewable Energy. Geological Society of America Abstracts 51, 338167. Denver.

Shan, N., Chikan, V., Pfromm, P., Liu, B. (2018). Fe and Ni-Dopants Facilitating Ammonia Synthesis on Mn4N and Mechanistic Insights from First-Principles Methods. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(11), 6109-6116. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12569

Robert W. Barron and Mary C. Hill. (2018). A wedge or a weight? Critically examining nuclear power’s viability as a low carbon energy source from an intergenerational perspective. Energy Research & Social Science. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618303888

Jingguang G. Chen Richard M. Crooks, Lance C. Seefeldt, Kara L. Bren, R. Morris Bullock, Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Patrick L. Holland, Brian Hoffman, Michael J. Janik, Anne K. Jones11, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Paul King, Kyle M. Lancaster, Sergei V. Lymar,. (2018). Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations. Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aar6611

Greg Fisher, Donald F. Kuratko, James M. Bloodgood, Jeffrey S. Hornsby. (2017). Legitimate to whom? The challenge of audience diversity and new venture legitimacy. Journal of Business Venturing. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902616302087

James Bloodgood, Jeffrey S. Hornsby, Matthew Rutherford, and Richard G. McFarland. (2017). The role of network density and betweenness centrality in diffusing new venture legitimacy: an epidemiological approach. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/33680

Peter Pfromm. (2017). Towards sustainable agriculture: Fossil-free ammonia. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jrse/article/9/3/034702/1058681/Towards-sustainable-agriculture-Fossil-free

Jane W. Gibson, Benjamin J. Gray. (2016). Regulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas. The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/33679

Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Peter Pfromm, Richard Nelson. (2014). Economic feasibility of algal biodiesel under alternative public policies. Renewable Energy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148113006071

Benjamin J. Gray and Jane W. Gibson. (2013). Actor-Networks, Farmer Decisions, and Identity. The Journal of Culture & Agriculture. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cuag.12013

Ronald Michalksy, Byron J. Parman, Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Peter Pfromm. (2012). Solar thermochemical production of ammonia from water, air and sunlight: Thermodynamic and economic analyses. Energy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544212002654

Peter Pfromm, Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Richard Nelson. (2011). Sustainability of algae derived biodiesel: A mass balance approach.. Bioresource Technology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852410015634

Peter Pfromm, Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Richard Nelson, Praveen Vadlani, Ronald Madl. (2010). Bio-butanol vs. bio-ethanol: A technical and economic assessment for corn and switchgrass fermented by yeast or Clostridium acetobutylicum. Biomass and Bioenergy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953409002645