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Huang Y-F, Tsang Y. 2025. Streamflow responses to varied rainfall spatial patterns in tropical forest watersheds. Journal of Hydrology. 662(Part C), December 2025, 134069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134069.

Carlson AK, Krueger DM, Fetzer WW, Steward JS, Westenbroek SM, Wang L, Wehrly KE, Wieferich D, Tsang Y, Yu H, Taylor WW, and Infante DM. 2024. Application of a fine-scale modeling approach to assess broad-scale changes in stream salmonid habitat in a changing climate. In Lobon-Cervia, J, Budy P, and Gresswell R (eds.), Advances in the Ecology of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids. Springer International Publishing, p. 461-489.

Hsueh Y-T, Wu F-C, Ye Q, Lai S Y, Tsang Y. 2024. Reservoir mud releasing may suboptimize fluvial sand supply to coastal sediment budget: Modeling the impact of Shihmen Reservoir case on Tamsui River estuary. Water Resources Research, 60(6), e2023WR03701.https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036701.

Sears M, Nugent A, Tsang Y. 2024. Weather system contributions to high streamflow in Haleleʻa, Kauaʻi. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 25(9), 1345-1355. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-23-0099.1.

Strauch A, Huang Y-F, Tsang Y. 2024. Characterizing streamflow regimes using a distributed model to develop environmental flow standards for sustainable resource management in the humid tropics. Journal of Hydrology, 636, June 2024, 131287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131287.

Huang Y-F, Tsang Y, Nugent A. 2023. Deriving gridded hourly rainfall on Oʻahu by combining gauge network and radar rainfall. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24, 2239-2257. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0196.1.

Ching C, Miller J, Tsang Y, Fraiola K, Clilverd H, Honarvar S. 2023. Uncovering migratory patterns of the native Hawaiian goby, ʻOʻopu Nākea (Awaous stamineus). Journal of Fish Biology, 103(5), 1163-1177. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15511.

Thornbrugh D, Infante D, Tsang Y. 2023. Regional trends of biodiversity indices in the temperate mesic United States: Testing for influences of anthropogenic land use on stream fish while controlling for natural landscape variables. Water, 15(8), 1591. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15081591.

Huang Y-F, Gayte M Tsang Y, Longman R, Nugent A, Kodama K, Lucas M, Giambelluca T. 2022. Publisher Correction: Hourly rainfall data from rain gauge networks and weather radar up to 2020 across the Hawaiian Islands. Scientific Data, 9, 505. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01617-7.

Wilmot E, Wong J, Tsang Y, Lynch A, Infante D, Oleson K, Strauch A, Clilverd H ^PD. 2022. Characterizing mauka-to-makai connections for aquatic ecosystem conservation on Maui, Hawaiʻi. Ecological Informatics, 70, 101704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101704.

Huang Y-F, Gayte M, Tsang Y, Longman R, Nugent A, Kodama K, Lucas M, Giambelluca T. 2022. Hourly rainfall data from rain gauge networks and weather radar up to 2020 across the Hawaiian Islands. Scientific Data, 9, 334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01430-2.

Widanage R, Chan C, Tsang Y-P, Sipes B, Melakeberhan H, Sanchez-Perez A, Mejía-Coroy A. 2022. Enhancing technical efficiency and economic welfare: A case study of smallholder potato farming in the western highlands of Guatemala. Economia Agro-alimentare/Food Economy - Open Access, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.3280/ecag2022oa13227.

Chandrasekaran S, Danos N, George U, Han J-P, Quon G, Müller R, Tsang Y, Wolgemuth C. 2021. The axes of life: A roadmap for understanding dynamic multiscale systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icab114. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab114.

Huang Y-F, Tsang Y, Strauch A, Clilverd H^PD. 2021. Shifting magnitude and timing of streamflow extremes and the relationship with rainfall across the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Hydrology, 600, 126424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126424.

Tsang Y, Infante DM, Wang L, Krueger D, Wieferich D. 2021. Conserving stream fishes with changing climate: Assessing fish responses to changes in habitat over a large region. Science of the Total Environment, 755(2), 142503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142503.

Benoit L, Lucas M, Tseng H, Huang Y-F, Tsang Y, Nugent A, Giambelluca T, Mariethoz G. 2021. High space-time resolution observation of extreme orographic rain gradients in a Pacific island catchment. Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 8, 546246. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.546246.

Published before promotion in 2020

Cohen S, Raney A, Munasinghe D, Loftis D, Molthan A, Bell J, Rogers L, Galantowicz J, Brakenridge GR, Kettner AJ, Huang Y-F, Tsang Y. 2019. The Floodwater Depth Estimation Tool (FwDET v2.0) for improved remote sensing analysis of coastal flooding. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 19(9), 2053-2065. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2053-2019.

Tsang Y, Tingley RW III, Hsiao J, Infante DM. 2019. Identifying high value areas for conservation: Accounting for connections among terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats in a tropical island system. Journal for Nature Conservation, 50,125711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125711.

Cooper AR, Tsang Y, Infante DM, Daniel WM, McKerrow AJ, Wieferich D. 2019. Protected areas lacking for many common fluvial fishes of the conterminous USA. Diversity and Distributions, 25, 1289-1303. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12937.

Martin B, Tsang Y, Tingley RW III, Clilverd H, Infante DM. 2019. Characterizing natural barriers to non-native stream fauna in Hawai‘i. In Hughes RM, Infante DM, Wang L, Chen K, de Freitas Terra B (eds.), Advances in Understanding Landscape Influences on Freshwater Habitats and Biological Assemblages. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 90. Bethesda, Maryland, p. 83-104. https://doi.org/10.47886/9781934874561.ch5.

Clilverd H, Tsang Y, Lynch AJ, Infante DM. 2019. Long-term streamflow trends in Hawaiʻi and implications for native stream fauna. Hydrological Processes, 33(5), 699-719. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13356.

Tingley RW III, Infante DM, MacKenzie RA, Cooper AR, Tsang Y. 2019. Identifying natural catchment landscape influences on tropical stream organisms: classifying stream reaches of the Hawaiian Islands. Hydrobiologia, 826(1), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3726-5.

Munasinghe D, Cohen S, Huang Y-F, Tsang Y, Zhang J, Fang Z. 2018. Intercomparison of satellite remote sensing-based flood inundation mapping techniques. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 54(4), 834-846. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12626.

Zhang J, Huang Y-F, Munasinghe D, Fang Z, Tsang Y, Cohen S. 2018. Comparative analysis of inundation mapping approaches for the 2016 flood in the Brazos River, Texas. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 54(4), 820-833. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12623.

Yang D, Cai J, Hull V, Wang K, Tsang Y, Liu J. 2016. New road for telecoupling global prosperity and ecological sustainability. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2(10), e01242. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehs2.1242.

Tsang Y, Infante DM, Stewart J, Wang L, Tingly RW, Thornbrugh D, Cooper AR, Daniel WM. 2016. StreamThermal: A software package for calculating thermal metrics from stream temperature data. Fisheries, 41(9), 548-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2016.1210517.

Sievert NA, Paukert CP, Tsang Y, Infante D. 2016. Development and assessment of indices to determine stream fish vulnerability to climate change and habitat alteration. Ecological Indicators, 67, 403-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.013.

Published before UH hire

Daniel WM, Infante DM, Hughes RM, Tsang Y, Esselman PC, Wieferich D, Herreman K, Cooper AR, Wang L, Taylor WW. 2015. Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages. Ecological Indicators, 50, 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.10.018.

Tsang Y, Wieferich D, Fung K, Infante DM, Cooper AR. 2014. An approach for aggregating upstream catchment information to support research and management of fluvial systems across large landscapes. SpringerPlus, 3(1), 589. https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-589.

Deweber JT, Tsang Y, Krueger DM, Whittier JB, Wagner T, Infante DM, Whelan G. 2014. Importance of understanding landscape biases in USGS gage locations: Implications and solutions for managers. Fisheries, 39(4), 155-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2014.891503.

Tsang Y, Hornberger G, Kaplan LA, Newbold JD, Aufdenkampe AK. 2014. A variable source area for groundwater evapotranspiration: impacts on modeling stream flow. Hydrological Processes, 28, 2439-2450. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9811.

Esselman P, Infante D, Wang L, Cooper AR, Wieferixh D, Tsang Y, Thornbrugh DJ, Taylor WW. 2013. Regional fish community indicators of landscape disturbance to catchments of the conterminous United States. Ecological Indicators, 26, 163-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.10.028.

Tsang Y, Felton GK, Moglen GE, Paul M. 2011. Region of influence method improves macroinvertebrate predictive models in Maryland. Ecological Modelling, 222(19), 3473-3485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.08.006.

Wu F-C, Tsang Y. 2004. Second-order Monte Carlo uncertainty/variability analysis using correlated model parameters: application to salmonid embryo survival risk assessment. Ecological Modelling, 177(3-4), 393-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.02.016.

Adopted in Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms, Volume 3: Methodologies for Transgenic Fish (CABI Publishers, 2007); selected as one of the representative papers in modelling theory category in “Ecological Modelling: editorial overview 2000–2005”, Ecological Modelling, 2005, 188, 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.08.003.

Wu F-C, Ma DY, Tsang Y. 2001. Sensitivity analysis of embryo survival model for salmonid spawning gravels. Journal of Chinese Agricultural Engineering, 47(4), 39-47.

Ma DY, Wu F-C, Tsang Y. 2001. Comparison of fuzzy α-cuts method and Monte Carlo method in uncertainty analysis of salmonid embryo survival. Journal of Chinese Agricultural Engineering, 47(4), 48-55.