Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications
2010
The Role of Atmospheric Conditions in Determining Intensity of Crepuscular and Anticrepuscular Rays, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke, William H. Beasley, and Michael B. Richman
Mesocyclone and RFD evolution in simulated supercell storms with varying wind profiles, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke, Jerry M. Straka, and Erik Rasmussen
Improved algorithm for MODIS satellite retrievals of aerosol optical thickness over land in dusty atmosphere: Implications for air quality monitoring in China, Jun Wang, Xiaoguang Xu, R. Spurr, Yuxuang Wang, and Easan Drury
Salinity dynamics of discharge lakes in dune environments: Conceptual model, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Neville I. Robinson, and Craig T. Simmons
2009
Paleohydrology of Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord), West Greenland During the Last ~8,000 Years, Frank Aebly and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Holocene carbon burial by lakes in SW Greenland, N. J. Anderson, W. D'Andrea, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Coupled collaborative in-class activities and individual follow-up homework promote interactive engagement and improve student learning outcomes in a college-level Environmental Geology course, Leilani Arthurs and Alexis Templeton
The Nature and Origin of Decadal to Millennial Scale Climate Variability in the Southern Tropics of South America: The Holocene Record of Lago Umayo, Peru, Paul A. Baker, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Stephen J. Burns, Erik Ekdahl, and CAtherine A. Rigsby
High-Resolution Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy for the Coniacian/Santonian Stage Boundary, Western Interior Basin, Stacie A. Blair and David K. Watkins
Reply to the comments of W. Helland-Hansen on “Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy” by Catuneanu et al. [Earth-Sciences Review 92 (2009), pp. 1–33], Octavian Catuneanu, V. Abreu, J. P. Bhattacharya, M. D. Blum, R. W. Dalrymple, P. G. Eriksson, Christopher R. Fielding, W. L. Fisher, W. E. Galloway, M. R. Gibling, K. A. Giles, J. M. Holbrook, R. Jordan, C. G. St.C. Kendall, B. Macurda, O. J. Martinsen, A. D. Miall, J. E. Neal, D. Nummedal, L. Pomar, H. W. Posamentier, B. R. Pratt, J. F. Sarg, K. W. Shanley, R. J. Steel, A. Strasser, M. E. Tucker, and C. Winker
Towards the Standardization of Sequence Stratigraphy, Octavian Catuneanu, V. Abreu, J. P. Bhattacharya, M. D. Blum, R. W. Dalrymple, P. G. Eriksson, Christopher R. Fielding, W. L. Fisher, W. E. Galloway, M. R. Gibling, K. A. Giles, J. M. Holbrook, R. Jordan, C. G. St.C. Kendall, B. Macurda, O. J. Martinsen, A. D. Miall, J. E. Neal, D. Nummedal, L. Pomar, H. W. Posamentier, B. R. Pratt, J. F. Sarg, K. W. Shanley, R. J. Steel, A. Strasser, M. E. Tucker, and C. Winker
Interannual Variations in the Opening Date of the Prudhoe Bay Shipping Season: Links to Atmospheric and Surface Conditions, Sheldon D. Drobot, James A. Maslanik, and Mark R. Anderson
Fluvial-estuarine reinterpretation of large, isolated sandstone bodies in epicontinental cyclothems, Upper Pennsylvanian, northern Midcontinent, USA, and their significance for understanding late Paleozoic sea-level fluctuations, Steven A. Fischbein, R. Matthew Joeckel, and Christopher R. Fielding
Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity from Drainage Patterns Derived from DEM-a Case Study in The Oregon Cascades, B. P. Grudzinski, W. Luo, and Darryll T. Pederson
Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity from Drainage Patterns Derived from DEM -- A Case Study in the Oregon Cascades, B. P. Grudzinski, W. Luo, and Daryll Pederson
Chapter 13: Space- and Ground-Based Studies of Lightning Signatures, Timothy Hamlin, Kyle Wiens, Abram Jacobson, Tracey E. L. Light, and Kenneth B. Eack
Antarctic Drilling Recovers Stratigraphic Records From the Continental Margin, David M. Harwood, Fabio Florindo, Franco M. Talarico, Richard Levy, Gerhard Kuhn, Tim Naish, F. Niessen, Ross Powell, Alex Pyne, and Gary Wilson
LONG-LEGGED PURSUIT CARNIVORANS (AMPHICYONIDAE, DAPHOENINAE) FROM THE EARLYMIOCENE OF NORTH AMERICA, Robert M. Hunt Jr.
Detecting Source Regions of Wave Activities in the Tropical Atmosphere by Applying Beamforming to Interpolated Data Grids, Q. Steven Hu and Zhaoning Liang
Biostratigraphy of the Hunter Creek Sandstone, Verdi Basin, Washoe County, Nevada, Thomas S. Kelly and Ross Secord
Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans, Peter R. Leavitt, Sherilyn C. Fritz, N. J. Anderson, P. A. Baker, T. Blenckner, L. Bunting, J. Catalan, D. J. Conley, W. O. Hobbs, E. Jeppesen, A. Korhola, S. McGowan, K. Rühland, J. A. Rusak, G. L. Simpson, N. Solovieva, and J. Werne
Does sedimentary 231Pa/230Th from the Bermuda Rise monitor past Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?, Jörg Lippold, Jens Grützner, Diane Winter, Yann Lahaye, Augusto Mangini, and Marcus Christl
Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations, T. Naish, R. D. Powell, R. Levy, G. Wilson, R. Scherer, F. Talarico, L. Krissek, F. Niessen, M. Pompilio, T. J. Wilson, L. Carter, R. DeConto, P. Huybers, R. McKay, D. Pollard, J. Ross, D. Winter, P. Barrett, G. Browne, R. Cody, E. A. Cowan, J. Crampton, G. Dunbar, N. Dunbar, F. Florindo, C. Gebhardt, I. Graham, M. Hannah, D. Hansaraj, David M. Harwood, D. Helling, S. Henrys, L. Hinnov, G. Kuhn, P. Kyle, A. La¨ufer, P. Maffioli, D. Magens, K. Mandernack, W. McIntosh, C. Millan, R. Morin, C. Ohneiser, T. Paulsen, D. Persico, I. Raine, J. Reed, C. Riesselman, L. Sagnotti, D. Schmitt, C. Sjunneskog, P. Strong, M. Taviani, S. Vogel, T. Wilch, and T. Williams
The Dilemma of Disappearing Diatoms: Incorporating Diatom Dissolution Data into Paleoenvironmental Modeling and Reconstruction, David B. Ryves, Richard W. Battarbee, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Phytoplankton productivity across prairie saline lakes of the Great Plains (USA): a step toward deciphering patterns through lake classification models, Courtney R. Sahm, Jasmine E. Saros, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Christopher L. Osburn, and David M. Reineke
Inventories and Mobilization of Unsaturated Zone Sulfate, Fluoride, and Chloride Related to Land Use Change in Semiarid Regions, Southwestern United States and Australia, Bridget R. Scanlon, David A. Stonestrom, Robert C. Reedy, Fred W. Leaney, John B. Gates, and Richard G. Cresswell
CLUES TO THE MEDIEVAL DESTABILIZATION OF THE NEBRASKA SAND HILLS, USA, FROM ANCIENT POCKET GOPHER BURROWS, Rebecca L. Schmeisser, David B. Loope, and David A. Wedin
Evolution of the Cretaceous Calcareous Nanofossil Genus Eiffellithus and Its Biostratigraphic Significance, Jamie L. Shamrock and David K. Watkins
Evolution of the Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil genus Eiffellithus and its biostratigraphic significance, J. L. Shamrock and David K. Watkins
Holocene lake-level trends in the Rocky Mountains, USA, Bryan Shuman, Anna K. Henderson, Steven M. Colman, Jeffery R. Stone, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Lora R. Stevens, Mitchell J. Power, and Cathy Whitlock
Behavioral response of dissimilatory perchlorate-reducing bacteria to different electron acceptors, Yvonne Sun, Ruth L. Gustavson, Nadia Ali, Karrie A. Weber, Lacey L. Westphal, and John D. Coates
On the role of groundwater and soil texture in the regional water balance: An investigation of the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA, Tiejun Wang, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, John D. Lenters, and Durelle T. Scott
Field Evidence of a Negative Correlation between Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Soil Carbon in a Sandy Soil, Tiejun Wang, David A. Wedin, and Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Using Pedotransfer Functions in Vadose Zone Models for Estimating Groundwater Recharge in Semiarid Regions, Tiejun Wang, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Jirka Šimunek, and Marcel G. Schaap
Physiological and taxonomic description of the novel autotrophic, metal oxidizing bacterium, Pseudogulbenkiania sp. strain 2002, Karrie A. Weber, David B. Hedrick, Aaron D. Peacock, J. Cameron Thrash, David C. White, Laurie A. Achenbach, and John D. Coates
A new record of Procynosuchus delaharpeae (Therapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Permian Usili Formation, Tanzania, D. Marie Weide, Christian A. Sidor, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, and Roger M. H. Smith
2008
Alternative Indices for the Warm-Season NAO and Precipitation Variability in West Greenland, Frank A. Aebly, Qi Hu, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Elevated Primary Productivity of Calcareous Nannoplankton Associated with Ocean Anxoic Event 1b during the Aptian/Albian Transition (Early Cretaceous), Emily L. Browning and David K. Watkins
Postgraduate Conference Fund, Conference Reports: Complexity in Geomorphology: 38th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Duke University, North Carolina, USA, 5-7 October 2007, Caroline M. Burberry
Spatial arrangement of fold types in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran, indicated by landform morphology and drainage pattern characteristics, Caroline M. Burberry, John W. Cosgrove, and Jian Guo Liu
Pulsed South-Westerly Migration of the Zagros Deformation Front during the Miocene-Recent: Seismic Evidence from the Persian Gulf [Abstract], Caroline M. Burberry, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, John W. Cosgrove, and Jian-Guo Liu
Modelling the Deformation Front of a Fold-Thrust Belt: The Effect of an Upper Detachment Horizon (ABSTRACT), Caroline M. Burberry, H. Koyi, F. Nilfouroushan, and John W. Cosgrove
Ground-Based Thermography of Fluvial Systems at Low and High Discharge Reveals Potential Complex Thermal Heterogeneity Driven by Flow Variation and Bioroughness, M. Bayani Cardenas, Judson W. Harvey, Aaron I. Packman, and Durelle T. Scott
Life in a Temperate Polar Sea: A Unique Taphonomic Window on the Structure of a Late Cretaceous Arctic Marine Ecosystem, Karen Chin, John Bloch, Arthur Sweet, Justin Tweet, Jaelyn Eberle, Stephen Cumbaa, Jakub Witowski, and David M. Harwood
The Geology of Ukhaa Tolgod (Djadokhta Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Nemegt Basin, Mongolia), Lowell Dingus, David B. Loope, Demberlyin Dashzeveg, Carl C. Swisher III, Chuluun Minjin, Michael J. Novacek, and Mark A. Norell
Improved algorithm for MODIS satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depths over western North America, Easan Drury, Daniel J. Jacob, Jun Wang, Robert J.D. Spurr, and Kelly Chance
Constraining the amplitude of late Oligocene bathymetric changes in Western Ross Sea during orbitally-induced oscillations in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet: (1) Implications for glacimarine sequence stratigraphic models, Gavin B. Dunbar, T. R. Naish, Peter J. Barrett, Christopher R. Fielding, and R. D. Powell
Holocene Multidecadal- to Millennial-Scale Hydrologic Variability on the South American Altiplano, Erick Ekdahl, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul A. Baker, Catherine Rigsby, and Kirstin Coley
Atlantic and Pacific SST influences on Medieval drought in North America simulated by the Community Atmospheric Model, Song Feng, Robert J. Oglesby, Clinton M. Rowe, David B. Loope, and Qi Steven Hu
Atlantic and Pacific SST influences on Medieval drought in North America simulated by the Community Atmospheric Model, Song Feng, Robert Oglesby, Clinton M. Rowe, David B. Loope, and Qi Hu
Stratigraphic imprint of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in eastern Australia: A record of alternating glacial and nonglacial climate regime, Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, Lauren P. Birgenheier, Michael C. Rygel, Andrew T. Jones, and John Roberts
Seismic facies and stratigraphy of the Cenozoic succession in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for tectonic, climatic and glacial history, Christopher R. Fielding, J. Whittaker, Stuart A. Henrys, T. J. Wilson, and T. R. Naish
Seismic facies and stratigraphy of the Cenozoic succession in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for tectonic, climatic and glacial history, Christopher R. Fielding, Joanne Whittaker, Stuart A. Henrys, Terry J. Wilson, and Timothy R. Naish
Late Holocene island reef development on the inner zone of the northern Great Barrier Reef: Insights from Low Isles Reef, Tracy D. Frank
Deciphering climatic history from lake sediments, Sherilyn C. Fritz
Rationale for a Permanent Seismic Network in the U.S. Central Plains Utilizing USArray, Stephen S. Gao, Tina M. Niemi, Ross A. Black, Kelly H. Liu, Raymond R. Anderson, Robert M. Joeckel, Robert W. Busby, and John Taber
A 700-Year History of Groundwater Recharge in the Drylands of NW China, John B. Gates, W. Mike Edmunds, Jinzhu Ma, and Paul R. Sheppard
Tectonic history of mid-Miocene to present southern Victoria Land Basin, inferred from seismic stratigraphy in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Stuart A. Henrys, T. J. Wilson, Christopher R. Fielding, J. Hall, and T. R. Naish
Gender Imbalance in U.S. Geoscience Academia, Mary Anne Holmes, Suzanne O'Connell, Connie Frey, and Lois Ongley
The Optimal Bulk Wind Differential Depth and the Utility of the Upper-Tropospheric Storm-Relative Flow for Forecasting Supercells, Adam L. Houston, Richard L. Thompson, and Roger Edwards
Variation of the North American Summer Monsoon Regimes and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Q. Steven Hu and Yongjun Zheng
New approaches and progress in the use of polar marine diatoms in reconstructing sea ice distribution, A. Leventer, L. Armand, David M. Harwood, R. Jordan, and R. Ligowski
Wind Scour of Navajo Sandstone at the Wave (Central Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.), David B. Loope, Winston M. Seiler, Joseph A. Mason, and Marjorie A. Chan
Chloride and the Environmental Isotopes as the Indicators of the Groundwater Recharge in the Gobi Desert, Northwest China, J. Z. Ma, Z. Ding, John B. Gates, and Y. Su
Loess record of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition on the northern and central Great Plains, USA, Joseph A. Mason, Xiaodong Miao, P.R. Hanson, William C. Johnson, Peter M. Jacobs, and Ronald J. Goble
An Observational Analysis and Evaluation of Land Surface Model Accuracy in the Nebraska Sand Hills, David B. Radell and Clinton M. Rowe
The Lower Permian Wasp Head Formation, Sydney Basin: High-latitude, shallow marine sedimentation following the late Asselian to early Sakmarian glacial event in eastern Australia, Michael C. Rygel, Christopher R. Fielding, Kerrie L. Bann, Tracy D. Frank, Lauren Birgenheier, and Stuart C. Tye
Reef Foraminifera as Bioindicators of Coral Reef Health: Low Isles Reef, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Jonathan D. Schueth and Tracy D. Frank
The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (Middle and Late Paleocene) in the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Ross Secord
Stable Isotopes in Early Eocene Mammals as Indicators of Forest Canopy Structure and Resource Partitioning, Ross Secord, Scott L. Wing, and Amy Chew
Polarimetric Radar Observations at Low Levels during Tornado Life Cycles in a Small Sample of Classic Southern Plains Supercells, Matthew S. Van Den Broeke, Jerry M. Straka, and Erik N. Rasmussen
Global distribution of solid and aqueous sulfate aerosols: Effect of the hysteresis of particle phase transitions, Jun Wang, Andrew A. Hoffmann, Rokjin J. Park, Daniel L. Jacob, and Scot T. Martin
Sensitivity of sulfate direct climate forcing to the hysteresis of particle phase transitions, Jun Wang, Daniel J. Jacob, and Scot T. Martin
Cenozoic Antarctic DiatomWare/BugCam: An aid for research and teaching, Sherwood W. Wise, M. Olney, J. M. Covington, V. M. Egerton, S. Jiang, D. K. Kulhanek, S. Ramdeen, H. Schrader, P. A. Sims, A. S. Wood, A. Davis, D. R. Davenport, N. Doepler, W. Falcon, C. Lopez, T. Pressley, O. L. Swedberg, and David M. Harwood
A novel ecological role of the Firmicutes identified in thermophilic microbial fuel cells, Kelly C. Wrighton, Peter Agbo, Falk Warnecke, Karrie A. Weber, Eoin L. Brodie, Todd Z. DeSantis, Philip Hugenholtz, Gary L. Andersen, and John D. Coates
High-spectral resolution simulation of polarization of skylight: Sensitivity to aerosol vertical profile, Jing Zeng, Qingyuan Han, and Jun Wang
2007
Sedimentology and Stratigraphic Architecture of the Late Permian Betts Creek Beds, Queensland, Australia, Jonathan P. Allen and Christopher R. Fielding
Evaluating climatic and non-climatic influences on ion chemistry in natural and man-made lakes of Nebraska, USA, D. M. Bennett, Sherilyn C. Fritz, John C. Holz, Aris A. Holz, and Vitaly A. Zlotnik
A Novel Over-Sea-Ice Seismic Reflection Survey in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, S. J. Betterly, M. A. Speece, R. H. Levy, David M. Harwood, and S. A. Henrys
A diatom record of late Holocene climate variation in the northern range of Yellowstone National Park, USA, Brandi B. Bracht, Jeffery R. Stone, and Sherilyn C. Fritz
Combined Remote Sensing and Field Investigations of Hydrocarbon Trap Analogue Structures: Examples from the Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran and the Sawtooth Range, Montana [ABSTRACT], Caroline M. Burberry, David Cannon, John W. Cosgrove, and Terry Engelder
Drainage Diversion Patterns and Landform Morphology as an Indicator of Deformation Style: Examples from the Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Islamic Republic of Iran (ABSTRACT), Caroline M. Burberry, John W. Cosgrove, and J.-G. Liu
Stream network characteristics used to infer the distribution of fold types in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran, Caroline M. Burberry, John W. Cosgrove, and Jian Guo Liu
Consequences of Early Late-Pleistocene Megadroughts in Tropical Africa, Andrew S. Cohen, Jeffery R. Stone, Kristina R M Beuning, Lisa E. Park, Peter N. Reinthal, David Dettman, Christopher A. Scholz, Thomas C. Johnson, John W. King, Michael R. Talbot, Erik T. Brown, and Sarah J. Ivory
Modeling Annual Extreme Precipitation in China Using the Generalized Extreme Value Distribution, Song Feng, Saralees Nadarajah, and Qi Hu
Sedimentology of the Whiteclay Gravel Beds (Ogallala Group) in northwestern Nebraska, USA: Structurally controlled drainage promoted by Early Miocene uplift of the Black Hills Dome, Christopher R. Fielding, Hannan E. LaGarry, Leigh Anne LaGarry, Bruce E. Bailey, and James B. Swinehart
Quaternary glaciation and hydrologic variation in the South American tropics as reconstructed from the Lake Titicaca drilling project, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul A. Baker, Geoffrey O. Seltzer, Ashley Ballantyne, Pedro Tapia, Hai Cheng, and R. Lawrence Edwards
Dinosaur Tectonics: A Structural Analysis of Theropod Undertracks with a Reconstruction of Theropod Walking Dynamics, Ole Graversen, Jesper Milán, and David B. Loope
Leaks in the Pipeline: Why Do Women Remain Curiously Absent from the Ranks of Academia?, Mary Anne Holmes
The Sensitivity of Convective Initiation to the Lapse Rate of the Active Cloud-Bearing Layer, Adam L. Houston and Dev Niyogi
Observational Analysis of the 27 May 1997 Central Texas Tornadic Event. Part II: Tornadoes, Adam L. Houston and Robert B. Wilhelmson
Observational Analysis of the 27 May 1997 Central Texas Tornadic Event. Part I: Prestorm Environment and Storm Maintenance/Propagation, Adam L. Houston and Robert B. Wilhelmson
An Improved QC Process for Temperature in the Daily Cooperative Weather Observations, Kenneth Hubbard, Nathaniel B. Guttman, Jinsheng You, and Zhirong Chen
Decadal Variation of the Southwest U.S. Summer Monsoon Circulation and Rainfall in a Regional Model, Q. Steven Hu and Yongjun Zheng
Lacustrine evidence for moisture changes in the Nebraska Sand Hills during Marine Isotope Stage 3, Kimberly C. Jacobs, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and James B. Swinehart
Evaluation of the streambed leakage concept in analytical models using data from three pumping tests, Sefan J. Kollet and Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Burrows Dug by Large Vertebrates into Rain-Moistened Middle Jurassic Sand Dunes: A Reply, David B. Loope
Metastable equilibria among dicarboxylic acids and the oxidation state during aqueous alteration on the CM2 chondrite parent body, Jason A. McAlister and Richard M. Kettler
Preservation and Erosion of Theropod Tracks in Eolian Deposits: Examples from the Middle Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, Utah, U.S.A., Jesper Milán and David B. Loope
CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation, Isabel P. Montañez, Neil J. Tabor, Deb Niemeier, William A. DiMichele, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R. Fielding, John L. Isbell, Lauren P. Birgenheier, and Michael C. Rygel