Jeffrey McKenzie

Impacts des changements
sur les ressources en eau

McGill

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

jeffrey.mckenzie [at] mcgill.ca (jeffrey[dot]mckenzie[at]mcgill[dot]ca)

Thèmes de recherche
Publications
Étudiants

Hydrogeology, including pore water flow in northern peatlands, heat transport, heat as a tracer of natural systems, groundwater modeling, coupled numerical models of pore water flow and heat transport with freeze/thaw processes, and the impact of melting tropical glaciers on water resources.

Accès libre Charonnat, B., Baraer, M., Valence, E., Masse-Dufresne, J., Monty, C., Wang, K., Devoie, E., McKenzie, J. M., 2025. The influence of a rock glacier on the riverbed hydrological system. EGUsphere, 2025, 1-33.

Ji, S., Wu, P., Chen, L., Yang, Y., Pi, X., McKenzie, J. M., Liang, X., 2025. Quantifying permafrost thawing and its impact on lake storage dynamics in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Journal of Hydrology 650, 132529.

Voss, C. I., Provost, A. M., McKenzie, J. M., Kurylyk, B. L, 2024. SUTRA—A code for simulation of saturated-unsaturated, variable-density groundwater flow with solute or energy transport—Documentation of the version 4.0 enhancements—Freeze-thaw capability, saturation and relative-permeability relations, spatially varying properties, and enhanced budget and velocity outputs (No. 6-A63). US Geological Survey.

Accès libre Aubry-Wake, C., McNamara, G., Somers, L., McKenzie, J. M., Pomeroy, J. W., Hellström, R., 2024. Sensitivity of surface water and groundwater contributions to streamflow in a tropical glacierized basin under climate change scenarios. Environmental Research Letters 19(11), 114036. Données / Data

Accès libre Samways, J., Salehi, S., McKenzie, J. M., Somers, L. D., 2024. Long‐term trends in mountain groundwater levels across Canada and the United States. Hydrological Processes 38(9), e15280. Données / Data

Accès libre Smith, K. A., McKenzie, J. M., Kurylyk, B. L., 2024. Tidal pumping and intertidal groundwater springs create pronounced spatiotemporal thermal variability in a coastal lagoon. Limnology and Oceanography 69(10), 2263-2277. Données / Data

Accès libre Tjoelker, A. R., Baraër, M., Valence, E., Charonnat, B., Masse-Dufresne, J., Mark, B. G., McKenzie, J. M., 2024. Drone-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar with Manual Transects for Improved Field Surveys of Buried Ice. Remote Sensing 16(13), 2461. Données / Data

Deschamps, L., Maire, V., Chen, L., Fortier, D., Gauthier, G. et al., 2023. Increased nutrient availability speeds up permafrost development, while goose grazing slows it down in a Canadian High Arctic wetland. Journal of Ecology 111(2), 449-463.

Wiebe, A. J., McKenzie, J. M., Hamel, E., Rudolph, D. L., Mulligan, B., de Grandpré, I., 2023. Groundwater vulnerability in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada. Hydrogeology Journal, 1-6.

Accès libre Aubry-Wake, C., Lamontagne-Hallé, P., Baraër, M., McKenzie, J. M., Pomeroy, J. W., 2022. Using ground-based thermal imagery to estimate debris thickness over glacial ice: fieldwork considerations to improve the effectiveness. Journal of Glaciology 69(274), 353-369.

Accès libre Devoie, É. G., Gruber, S., McKenzie, J. M., 2022. A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 2021. Earth System Science Data 14(7), 3365-3377.

Accès libre Mohammed, A. A., Guimond, J., Bense, V., Jamieson, R., McKenzie, J. M., Kurylyk, B., 2022. Mobilization of subsurface carbon pools driven by permafrost thaw and reactivation of groundwater flow: a virtual experiment. Environmental Research Letters 17(12), 124036.

Chen, L., Voss, C.I., Fortier, D., McKenzie, J.M., 2021. Surface energy balance of sub‐Arctic roads with varying snow regimes and properties in permafrost regions. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 32(4), 681-701.

Accès libre McKenzie, J.M., Kurylyk, B.L., Walvoord, M.A., Bense, V.F., Fortier, D., Spence, C., Grenier, C., 2021. Invited perspective: What lies beneath a changing Arctic? The Cryosphere 15(1), 479-484.

Accès libre Wu, R., Lamontagne-Hallé, P., McKenzie, J.M., 2021. Uncertainties in Measuring Soil Moisture Content with Actively Heated Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing. Sensors 21(11), 3723.

Wu, R., Martin, V., McKenzie, J.M., Broda, S., Bussière, B., Selker, J., Aubertin, M., 2021. Fiber Optic Measurements of Soil Moisture in a Waste Rock Pile. Groundwater 59(4), 549-561.

Chen, L., Fortier, D., McKenzie, J.M., Sliger, M., 2020. Impact of Heat Advection on the Thermal Regime of Roads Built on Permafrost. Hydrological Processes 34(7), 1647-1664.

Guittard, A., Baraer, M., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Rapre, A.C., Bury, J., Carey, M., Young, K., 2020. Trace metal stream contamination in a post peak water context: Lessons from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 4(4), 506-514.

Accès libre Lamontagne‐Hallé, P., McKenzie, J.M., Kurylyk, B.L., Molson, J., Lyon, L.N., 2020. Guidelines for cold‐regions groundwater numerical modeling. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 7(6), e1467.

Accès libre Rodriguez-Avella, K.A., Baraer, M., Mark, B., McKenzie, J., Somers, L., 2020. Comparing the performance of three methods to assess DOM dynamics within two distinct glacierized watersheds of the tropical Andes. Environmental Pollution 265(A), 115052.

Accès libre Somers, L.D., McKenzie, J.M., 2020. A review of groundwater in high mountain environments. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 7(6), e1475.

Accès libre Wu, P., Liang, S., Wang, X.S., McKenzie, J.M., Feng, Y., 2020. Climate Change Impacts on Cold Season Runoff in the Headwaters of the Yellow River Considering Frozen Ground Degradation. Water 12(2), 602.

Wu, R., Martin, V., McKenzie, J., Broda, S., Bussière, B., Aubertin, M., Kurylyk, B.L., 2020. Laboratory Scale Assessment of a Capillary Barrier using Fibre Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (FO-DTS). Canadian Geotechnical Journal 57(1), 115-126.

Baker, E.A., Lautz, L.K., McKenzie, J.M., Aubry-Wake, C., 2019. Improving the Accuracy of Time-Lapse Thermal Infrared Imaging for Hydrologic Applications. Journal of Hydrology 571, 60-70.

Glas, R., Lautz, L., McKenzie, J., Moucha, R., Chavez, D., Mark, B., Lane, J.W., 2019. Hydrogeology of an alpine talus aquifer: Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Hydrogeology Journal 27(6), 2137-2154.

Kang, M., Dong, Y., Liu, Y., Williams, J.P., Douglas, P., McKenzie, J.M., 2019. Potential increase in oil and gas well leakage due to earthquakes. Environmental Research Communications 1(12), 121004.

Somers, L.D., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Lagos, P., Ng, G.H.C., Wickert, A.D., Yarleque, C., Baraër, M., Silva, Y., 2019. Groundwater buffers decreasing glacier melt in an Andean watershed‐but not forever. Geophysical Research Letters 46(22), 13016-13026.

Wigmore, O., Mark, B., McKenzie, J., Baraer, M., Lautz, L., 2019. Sub-metre mapping of surface soil moisture in proglacial valleys of the tropical Andes using a multispectral unmanned aerial vehicle. Remote Sensing of Environment 222, 104-118.

Aubry-Wake, C., Zéphir, D., Baraer, M., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., 2018. Importance of longwave emissions from adjacent terrain on patterns of tropical glacier melt and recession. Journal of Glaciology 64 (243), 49-60. DOI: 10.1017/jog.2017.85

Baker, E.A., Lautz, L.K., Kelleher, C.A., McKenzie, J.M., 2018. The Importance of Incorporating Diurnally Fluctuating Stream Discharge in Stream Temperature Energy Balance Models. Hydrological Processes 32 (18), 2901-2914.

Glas, R., Lautz, L., McKenzie, J., Mark, B., Baraer, M., Chavez, D. and Maharaj, L., 2018. A review of the current state of knowledge of proglacial hydrogeology in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 5 (5), e1299.

Grenier, C., Anbergen, H., Bense, V., Chanzy, Q., Coon, E., Collier, N., Costard, F., Ferry, M., Frampton, A., Frederick, J., Gonçalvès, J., Holmén, J., Jost, A., Kokh, S., Kurylyk, B., McKenzie, J., Molson, J., Mouche, E., Orgogozo, L., Pannetier, R., Rivière, A., Roux, N., Rühaak, W., Scheidegger, J., Selroos, J.-O., Therrien, R., Vidstrand, P. and Voss, C., 2018. Groundwater flow and heat transport for systems undergoing freeze-thaw: Intercomparison of numerical simulators for 2D test cases. Advances in Water Resources 114, 196-218.

Lamontagne-Hallé, P., McKenzie, J.M., Kurylyk, B. and Zipper, S.C., 2018. Changing groundwater discharge dynamics in permafrost regions. Environmental Research Letters 13 (8), 084017.

Ng, G.-H.C., Wickert, A.D., Somers, L.D., Saberi, L., Cronkite-Ratcliff, C., Niswonger, R.G., McKenzie, J.M., 2018. GSFLOW–GRASS v1. 0.0: GIS-enabled hydrologic modeling of coupled groundwater–surface-water systems. Geoscientific Model Development 11(12), 4755-4777.

Somers, L.D., McKenzie, J.M., Zipper, S.C., Mark, B.G., Lagos, P., Baraer, M., 2018. Does hillslope trenching enhance groundwater recharge and baseflow in the Peruvian Andes? Hydrological Processes 32 (3), 318-331. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11423

Wu, P., Liang, S., Wang, X.-S., Feng, Y., McKenzie, J.M., 2018. A new assessment of hydrological change in the source region of the Yellow River. Water 10 (7), art. no. 877. DOI: 10.3390/w10070877

Zipper, S.C., Lamontagne‐Hallé, P., McKenzie, J.M., Rocha, A.V., 2018. Groundwater controls on post‐fire permafrost thaw: Water and energy balance effects. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 123 (10), 2677-2694.

Guittard, A., Baraer, M., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Wigmore, O., Fernandez, A., Rapre, A.C., Walsh, E., Bury, J., Carey, M., French, A., 2017. Trace-metal contamination in the glacierized Rio Santa watershed, Peru. Environmental monitoring and assessment 189(12), 649.

Mark, B.G., French, A., Baraer, M., Carey, M., Bury, J., Young, K.R., Polk, M.H., Wigmore, O., Lagos, P., Crumley, R., McKenzie, J.M., 2017. Glacier loss and hydro-social risks in the Peruvian Andes. Global and Planetary Change 159, 61-76.

Polk, M.H., Young, K.R., Baraer, M., Mark, B.G., McKenzie, J.M., Bury, J., Carey, M., 2017. Exploring hydrologic connections between tropical mountain wetlands and glacier recession in Peru's Cordillera Blanca. Applied Geography 78, 94-103.

Van Hinsberg, V., Vigouroux, N., Palmer, S., Berlo, K., Mauri, G., Williams-Jones, A., Mckenzie, J., Williams-Jones, G., Fischer, T., 2017. Element flux to the environment of the passively degassing crater lake-hosting Kawah Ijen volcano, Indonesia, and implications for estimates of the global volcanic flux. Geological Society of London Special Publication 437 (1), 9-34.

Kurylyk, B.L., Hayashi, M., Quinton, W.L., Mckenzie, J.M., Voss, C.I., 2016. Influence of vertical and lateral heat transfer on permafrost thaw, peatland landscape transition, and groundwater flow. Water Resources Research 52 (2), 1286-1305.

Larocque, M., Biron, P.M., Buffin-Bélanger, T., Needelman, M., Cloutier, C.-A., McKenzie, J.M., 2016. Role of the geomorphic setting in controlling groundwater–surface water exchanges in riverine wetlands: A case study from two southern Québec rivers (Canada). Canadian Water Resources Journal 41 (4), 528-542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2015.1128360

Somers, L.D., Gordon, R.P., Mckenzie, J.M., Lautz, L.K., Wigmore, O., Glose, A., Glas, R., Aubry-Wake, C., Mark, B., Baraer, M., Condom, T., 2016. Quantifying groundwater-surface water interactions in a proglacial valley, Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Hydrological Processes 30 (17), 2915-2929.

Aubry-Wake, C., Baraer, M., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Wigmore, O., Hellström, R.Å., Lautz, L., Somers, L., 2015. Measuring glacier surface temperatures with ground-based thermal infrared imaging. Geophysical Research Letters 42 (20), 8489-8497.

Baraer, M., Mckenzie, J., Mark, B.G., Gordon, R., Bury, J., Condom, T., Gomez, J., Knox, S., Fortner, S.K., 2015. Contribution of groundwater to the outflow from ungauged glacierized catchments: A multi-site study in the tropical Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Hydrological Processes 29 (11), 2561-2581.

Gordon, R.P., Lautz, L.K., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Chavez, D., Baraer, M., 2015. Sources and pathways of stream generation in tropical proglacial valleys of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Journal of Hydrology 522, 628-644.

Irvine, D.J., Lautz, L.K., Briggs, M.A., Gordon, R.P., McKenzie, J.M., 2015. Experimental evaluation of the applicability of phase, amplitude, and combined methods to determine water flux and thermal diffusivity from temperature time series using VFLUX 2. Journal of Hydrology 531, 728-737.

Kurylyk, B.L., MacQuarrie, K.T.B., Caissie, D., McKenzie, J.M., 2015. Shallow groundwater thermal sensitivity to climate change and land cover disturbances: Derivation of analytical expressions and implications for stream temperature modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 19 (5), 2469-2489.

Lefebvre, R., Gleeson, T., McKenzie, J.M., Gassiat, C., 2015. Reply to comment by Flewelling and Sharma on "hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: Numerical simulation of potential contamination of shallow aquifers over long time scales". Water Resources Research 51 (3), 1877-1882.

Rühaak, W., Anbergen, H., Grenier, C., McKenzie, J., Kurylyk, B.L., Molson, J., Roux, N., Sass, I., 2015. Benchmarking Numerical Freeze/Thaw Models. Energy Procedia 76, 301-310.

Briggs, M.A., Walvoord, M.A., McKenzie, J.M., Voss, C.I., Day-Lewis, F.D., Lane, J.W. 2014, New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes, but will it last?, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1585-1592.

Carey, M., Baraer, M., Mark, B.G., French, A., Bury, J., Young, K.R., McKenzie, J.M. 2014, Toward hydro-social modeling: Merging human variables and the social sciences with climate-glacier runoff models (Santa River, Peru), Journal of Hydrology, vol. 518, no. PA, pp. 60-70.

Kurylyk, B.L., McKenzie, J.M., MacQuarrie, K.T.B., Voss, C.I. 2014, Analytical solutions for benchmarking cold regions subsurface water flow and energy transport models: One-dimensional soil thaw with conduction and advection, Advances in Water Resources, vol. 70, pp. 172-184.

Kurylyk, B.L., MacQuarrie, K.T.B., McKenzie, J.M. 2014, Climate change impacts on groundwater and soil temperatures in cold and temperate regions: Implications, mathematical theory, and emerging simulation tools, Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 138, pp. 313-334.

Wrathall, D.J., Bury, J., Carey, M., Mark, B., McKenzie, J., Young, K., Baraer, M., French, A., Rampini, C. 2014, Migration Amidst Climate Rigidity Traps: Resource Politics and Social-Ecological Possibilism in Honduras and Peru, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. vol. 104. no.2, pp. 292-304.

Gassiat, C., Gleeson, T., Lefebvre, R., McKenzie, J. 2013, Hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: Numerical simulation of potential contamination of shallow aquifers over long time scales, Water Resources Research, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 8310-8327.

McKenzie, J.M., Voss, C.I. 2013, Permafrost thaw in a nested groundwater-flow system, Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 299-316.

Briggs, M.A., Lautz, L.K., Mckenzie, J.M. 2012. A comparison of fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing to traditional methods of evaluating groundwater inflow to streams, Hydrological Processes, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1277-1290.

Briggs, M.A., Lautz, L.K., McKenzie, J.M., Gordon, R.P., Hare, D.K. 2012. Using high-resolution distributed temperature sensing to quantify spatial and temporal variability in vertical hyporheic flux, Water Resources Research, vol. 48, no. 2.

Baraer, M., Mark, B.G., Mckenzie, J.M., Condom, T., Bury, J., Huh, K.-I., Portocarrero, C., Gómez, J., Rathay, S. 2012. Glacier recession and water resources in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca. Journal of Glaciology, 58(207), 134-150.

Gordon, R.P., Lautz, L.K., Briggs, M.A., McKenzie, J.M. 2012. Automated calculation of vertical pore-water flux from field temperature time series using the VFLUX method and computer program. Journal of Hydrology, 420-421, 142-158.

Bury, J.T., Mark, B.G., McKenzie, J.M., French, A., Baraer, M., Huh, K.I., Zapata Luyo, M.A., Gómez López, R.J. 2011. Glacier recession and human vulnerability in the Yanamarey watershed of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Climatic Change, 105(1), 179-206.

Fortner, S.K., Mark, B.G., McKenzie, J.M., Bury, J., Trierweiler, A., Baraer, M., Burns, P.J., Munk, L. 2011. Elevated stream trace and minor element concentrations in the foreland of receding tropical glaciers, Applied Geochemistry, 26(11), 1792-1801.

Ge, S., McKenzie, J., Voss, C., Wu, Q., 2011. Exchange of groundwater and surface-water mediated by permafrost response to seasonal and long term air temperature variation, Geophysical Research Letters, 38(14), L14402.

Palmer, S.C.J., van Hinsberg, V.J., McKenzie, J.M., Yee, S., 2011. Characterization of acid river dilution and associated trace element behavior through hydrogeochemical modeling: A case study of the Banyu Pahit River in East Java, Indonesia, Applied Geochemistry, 26(11), 1802-1810.

Mckenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Thompson, L.G., Schotterer, U., Lin, P.-N., 2010. A hydrogeochemical survey of Kilimanjaro (Tanzania): Implications for water sources and ages, Hydrogeology Journal, 18(4), 985-995.

Baraer, M., McKenzie, J.M., Mark, B.G., Bury, J., Knox, S., 2009. Characterizing contributions of glacier melt and groundwater during the dry season in a poorly gauged catchment of the Cordillera Blanca (Peru), Advances in Geosciences, 22, 41-49.

McKenzie, J.M., 2008. Book Review: "Groundwater in Geologic Processes; Second Edition" by Steven E. Ingebritsen, Ward E. Sanford, and Christopher Neuzil, Hydrogeology Journal, 2008. – Not peer reviewed.

Bury, J., French, A., McKenzie, J., Mark, B.G., 2008. Adapting to uncertain futures: A report on new glacier recession and livelihood vulnerability research in the Peruvian Andes, Mountain Research and Development, 28 (3-4), 332-333.

Mark, B.G., Mckenzie, J.M., 2007. Tracing increasing tropical Andean glacier melt with stable isotopes in water, Environmental Science and Technology, 41(20), 6955-6960.

McKenzie, J.M., Siegel, D.I., Rosenberry, D.O., Glaser, P.H., Voss, C.I., 2007. Heat transport in the Red Lake Bog, Glacial Lake Agassiz Peatlands, Hydrological Processes, 21(3), 369-378.

McKenzie, J.M., Voss, C.I., Siegel, D.I., 2007. Groundwater flow with energy transport and water-ice phase change: Numerical simulations, benchmarks, and application to freezing in peat bogs, Advances in Water Resources, 30 (4), 966-983.

Mark, B., McKenzie, J.M., Gomez, J., 2005. Hydrochemical evaluation of changing meltwater contribution to stream discharge: Callejon de Huaylas, Peru, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 50(6), 975-987.

Siegel, D.I., McKenzie, J.M., 2004. Contamination in Orangetown: A Mock Trial and Site Investigation Exercise, Journal of Geological Education, 52(3), 266-273.

McKenzie, J.M., Siegel, D.I., McKenzie, D.J., 2003. Response to comments on an article entitled ‘A geochemical survey of spring water from the main Ethiopian rift valley, southern Ethiopia: implications for well-head protection’ by McKenzie et al. in Hydrogeology Journal, 2001, 9,265-272, Hydrogeology Journal, 11, 316-317.

McKenzie, J.M., Siegel, D.I., Shotyk, W., Steinmann, P., Pfunder, G., 2002. Heuristic Numerical and Analytical Models of the Hydrologic Controls over Vertical Solute Transport in a Domed Peat Bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland, Hydrologic Processes, 16, 1047-1064.

McKenzie, J.M., Siegel, D.I., Patterson, W., McKenzie, D.J., 2001. A Geochemical Survey of Spring Water from the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley, Southern Ethiopia: Implications for Well-Head Protection, Hydrogeology Journal, 9(3), 265-272.

Lackey, Rachel : Doctorat en sciences de la Terre et des planètes
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Assessing multiple techniques for geochemical characterization of urban sources of chloride to streams and groundwater

Petersen, Niklas : Doctorat en sciences de la Terre et des planètes
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Groundwater modelling in permafrost environments.

Stribling, Selsey : Doctorat en sciences de la Terre et des planètes
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Groundwater vulnerability in the North.

Valence, Eole : Doctorat en sciences de la Terre et des planètes
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Codirection : Michel Baraër

Wang, Kaiyuan : Maîtrise en sciences de la Terre et des planètes
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Hydrological changes in glacial valleys in southwestern Yukon