• Kourakos G., Harter T., Dahlke H.E. (2024) Ichnos: A universal parallel particle tracking tool for groundwater flow simulations. SoftwareX 28,101893. 10.1016/j.softx.2024.101893

• Kourakos G., Pauloo R., Harter T. (2024) An Imputation Method for Simulating 3D Well Screen Locations from Limited Regional Well Log Data. Groundwater. doi: 10.1111/gwat.13424.

• Kourakos G., Brunetti G., Bigelow D.P., Wallander S., Dahlke H.E. (2023) Optimizing Managed Aquifer Recharge Locations in California’s Central Valley using an Evolutionary Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm coupled with a Hydrological Simulation Model. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2022WR034129.

• Kourakos G., Harter T. (2021) Simulation of Unconfined Aquifer Flow Based on Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement. Water Resources Research. 57(12), doi: 10.1029/2020WR029354.

• Marwaha, N., Kourakos G., Levintal E., Dahlke H.E (2021) Identifying agricultural managed aquifer recharge locations to benefit drinking water supply in rural communities. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2020WR028811.

• Kourakos, G., Dahlke, H. E., & Harter, T. ( 2019). Increasing Groundwater Availability and Seasonal Baseflow through Agricultural Managed Aquifer Recharge in an Irrigated Basin. Water Resources Research, 55. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024019

• Bell, Andrew M., Barber, Quinn E., Kourakos, George, Harter, Thomas, Ransom, Katherine M, Bell, Andrew M, & Barber, Quinn E. (2018). A Bayesian approach to infer nitrogen loading rates from crop and land-use types surrounding private wells in the Central Valley, California. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences., 22(5), 2739-2758.

• Ransom, K.M., Nolan, B.T., A. Traum, J., Faunt, C.C., Bell, A.M., Gronberg, J.A.M., Wheeler, D.C., Z. Rosecrans, C., Jurgens, B., Schwarz, G.E., Belitz, K., M. Eberts, S., Kourakos, G., Harter, T., 2017. A hybrid machine learning model to predict and visualize nitrate concentration throughout the Central Valley aquifer, California, USA. Science of The Total Environment 601–602, 1160–1172. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.192

• Kourakos G., and A. Mantoglou (2015) An efficient Simulation-Optimization Coupling for Management of Coastal Aquifers. Hydrogeology Journal 23(6),1167 – 1179, doi:10.1007/s10040-015-1293-7.

• Datta B., and G.Kourakos (2015) Preface: Optimization for groundwater characterization and management. Hydrogeology Journal 23(6), 1043-1049, doi: 10.1007/s10040-015-1297-3.

• Medellin-Azuara, J.; MacEwan, Duncan; Howitt, Richard Edgar; Kourakos, George; Dogrul, Emin Can; Brush, Charles F; Kadir, Tariq; Harter, Thomas H; Melton, Forrest S; Lund, Jay R (2015) Hydro-economic analysis of groundwater pumping for irrigated agriculture in California’s Central Valley, USA. Hydrogeology Journal 23(6), 1205-1216, doi: 10.1007/s10040-015-1283-9

• Kourakos G., and T. Harter (2014) Parallel Simulation of Groundwater Non-point Source Pollution Using Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners. Computational Geosciences 18(5), 851-867, doi:10.1007/s10596-014-9430-2

• Kourakos G., and T. Harter (2014), Simulation of Groundwater Flow based on Adaptive Mesh Refinement. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 7th Intl. Congress on Env. Modelling and Software, Eds: Daniel P. Ames, Nigel W.T. Quinn and Andrea E. Rizzoli.

• Rosenstock T.S., A. McNalley, D. Liptzin, J.H. Viers, A. Hollander, J. Quinn, A. Fryjoff-Hung, G. Kourakos, K. Dzurella, G.S. Pettygrove, T. Harter (2014) Agriculture’s Contribution to Nitrate Contamination of Californian Groundwater (1945-2005). Journal of Environmental Quality, 43, 895-907, doi:10.2134/jeq2013.10.0411.

• Kourakos G., and T. Harter (2014), Vectorized simulation of groundwater flow and streamline transport. Environmental Modelling and Software 52, 207-221, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.029

• Kourakos G., and A. Mantoglou (2013), Development of a multi-objective optimization algorithm using surrogate models for coastal aquifer management. Journal of Hydrology 479 (4), 13-23.

• Kourakos, G., F.Klein, A.Cortis, and T.Harter (2012), A groundwater nonpoint source pollution modeling framework to evaluate long-term dynamics of pollutant exceedance probabilities in wells and other discharge locations, Water Resour. Res., 48, W00L13, doi:10.1029/2011WR010813

• Kourakos, G., and A.Mantoglou (2012), Inverse groundwater modeling with emphasis on model parameterization, Water Resour. Res., 48, W05540, doi:10.1029/2011WR011068.

• Kourakos, G. and Mantoglou, A. (2011). Simulation and Multi-Objective Management of Coastal Aquifers in Semi-Arid Regions. Water Resources Management, DOI 10.1007/s11269-010-9677-x.

• Kourakos, G. and Mantoglou, A. (2009). Pumping optimization of coastal aquifers based on evolutionary algorithms and surrogate modular neural network models. Advances in Water Resources, 32(4), 507-521.

• Kourakos, G. and Mantoglou, A. (2008). Remediation of heterogeneous aquifers based on multi-objective optimization and adaptive determination of critical realizations. Water Resources Research, 44, W12408.

• Mantoglou, A. and Kourakos, G. (2007). Optimal Groundwater Remediation Under Uncertainty Using Multi-Objective Optimization. Water Resources Management, 21(5), 835-847.