2019-20 EES FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Summer Brown

Thigpen, J.R., Brown, S.J., McGlue, M.M., Woolery, E.W., Hoar, R.M., Guenthner, W.R., Gallen, S.F., and Swallom, M.L., in revision, Cataclysmic collapse of mountain topography, Nature Communications

Andrea Erhardt

Magiera, M., Lechleitner, F.A., Erhardt, A.M., Hartland, A., Kwiecien, O., Cheng, H., Bradbury, H., Turchyn, A.V., Riechelmann, S., Edwards, L., Immenhauser A., F.M. Breitenbach, S.F.M. (2019) Local and regional Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation dynamics during Termination II and the Last Interglacial, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 12454-12463. doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083721

*Lyon, E., Freeman, R., Bathon, J., Fryar, A., McGlue., MM, Erhardt, A.M., Rosen, A., Sampson, S., Nelson, A., Parsons, J. (2019). Attitudinal impediments to geoscience major recruitment among ninth graders at a STEAM high school. Journal of Geoscience Education. doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2019.1700593

Wilson J, Munizzi J, Erhardt AM. Preservation methods for the isotopic composition of dissolved carbon species in non-ideal conditions. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2020;34:e8903. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8903 

Erhardt, A.M., Turchyn, A.V., Dickson, J.A.D., Sadekov, A.Y., Taylor, P.D., Wilson, M.A., Schrag, D.P. (2020). Carbonate hardgrounds suggest persistence of low Mg/Ca oceans over the Phanerozoic, In Press, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

Erhardt, A.M, Turchyn, A.V., Bradbury, H.J., Dickson, J.A.D. (2020) The calcium isotopic composition of carbonate cements: A record of sedimentary carbonate precipitation and ocean chemistry? Chemical Geology, 540, 119490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119490

Ford, W.I., Fox J.F., Mahoney, T., DeGraves, G., Erhardt, A.M., Yost, S. (2020) Backwater Confluences of the Ohio River: Organic and Inorganic Fingerprints Explain Sediment Dynamics in Wetlands and Marinas, In Press, Journal of the American Water ResourcesAssociation.

Reis, A., Erhardt, A.M., McGlue, M.M., Waite, L. (2019) Evaluating the Effects of Post-Depositional Alteration of Carbonates on the Interpretation of d13Ccarb and d 18Ocarb in a Mud-Rich Depositional Environment: A Case Study from the Midland Basin, USA. Chemical Geology, 524, 196-212. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.06.021

Frank Ettensohn

Harris, A.W., Ettensohn, F.R., and Carnahan-Jarvis, J., 2020, Paleoecology and taxonomy of Schoenaster carterensis, a new encrinasterid ophiuroid species from the Upper Mississippian (Chesterian) Slade Formation of northeastern Kentucky, U.S.A.: Journal of Paleontology, p. 1-17. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2019.107

*Ettensohn, F.R., Seckinger, D.C., Eble, C., Clayton, G., Li, J., Martins, G., Lo, E., Hodelka, B., Harris, F., and Taghizadeh, N., 2020, Age and tectonic significance of diamictites at the Devonian-Mississippian transition in the Central Appalachian Basin: Geological Society of America Field Guide 57, p. 79–103.

*Ettensohn, F.R., Pashin, J.C., and Gilliam, W., 2019, The Appalachian and Black Warrior Basins: Foreland Basins in the Eastern United States, in Miall, A.D., ed., The Sedimentary basins of the United States and Canada, 2nd ed.: Sedimentary Basins of the World, Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 129–237.

*Guo, W.L., Su, W.B., Zhang, J., Li, H.M., Zhou, H.Y., Li., H.K., Ettensohn, F.R., and Huff, W.D., 2019, Zircon U-Pb dating and HF isotopes of bentonites from the Teiling Formation, a new exposure of the Jixian Section, Tianjin, North China Craton: Acta Petrologica Sinica, v. 35, p. 2433–2454

Lumm, D.K., Popp, J.T., and Ettensohn, F.R., 2019, Notes for clastics and coal core-logging workshop: Lexington, Kentucky Section, American Institute of Professional Geologists and Geological Society of Kentucky, 35 p.

*Ettensohn, F.R., 2019, Geologic origins of the North American shale-gas revolution: Can it happen elsewhere?, in Boughdiri, M., et al. (eds.), Paleobiodiversity and tectono-sedimentary records in the Mediterranean Tethys and related eastern areas: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI), IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development, Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG) : Switzerland, Springer, v. 9, p. 279–281 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01452-0_67).

Rebecca Freeman

O’Farrell, K. A. and Freeman, R.L. (2020) Quantitative Planet: Teaching General Education Math for Non-Science Majors in a Geoscience Department, In the Trenches https://nagt.org/nagt/publications/trenches/v10-n1/quantitative_planet_teaching_g.html

Paton, T., Freeman, R.L., Dattilo, B.F., Brett, C.E., and Sumrall, C., Taphonomic feedback of an edrioasteroid-encrusted coral graveyard from the upper Ordovician (Cincinnatian, Richmondian) of central Kentucky. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeecology.

Brett, C.E., Aucoin, C.D., Dattilo, B.F., Freeman, R.L., Hartshorn, K.R., McLaughlin, P.I., and Schwalbach, C.E., Revised stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy of the upper Katian (Cincinnatian) strata in the Cincinnati Arch reference area. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Dattilo, D.F., Freeman, R.L., Zubevic, Y., Brett, C.E., Straw, A., Frauhiger, M., Hartstein, A., and Shoemaker, L., Time richness and phosphatic microsteinkern abundance in the Cincinnatian (Katian) Ordovician, USA: an example of polycyclic phosphogenic condensation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeecology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018219300719

Freeman, R.L., Dattilo, B.F., and Brett, C.E. An integrated stratinomic model for the genesis and concentration of “small shelly fossil”-style phosphatic microsteinkerns in not-so-exceptional conditions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeecology.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018218310125

Stigall, A.L., Edwards, C.E., Freeman, R.L., and Rasmussen, C.M.Ø. 2019.Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 530, 249–270.

Browne, K., Sahl, L., Freeman, R., Smalley, G., White, C., and Lichtenwalter, C.S. 2019. Anoxic Events. OOI Data Labs Collection. https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/explorations/2019/anoxia.php

Alan Fryar

Barna, J.M., Fryar, A.E., Cao, L., Currens, B.J., Peng, T., Zhu, C., 2019, Variability in groundwater flow and chemistry in the Houzhai karst basin, Guizhou Province, China: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, submitted.

Lyon, E., Freeman, R., Bathon, J., Fryar, A., McGlue, M., Erhardt, A., Rosen, A., Sampson, S., Nelson, A., and Parsons, J., 2019, Attitudinal impediments to geoscience major recruitment among ninth graders at a STEM high school: Journal of Geoscience Education, in revision.

*Bandy, A., Cook, K., Fryar, A.E., and Zhu, J., 2019, Differential transport of Escherichia coli isolates compared to abiotic tracers in a karst aquifer: Groundwater, 9 p., https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12889

Hanley, C., Freeman, R.L., Fryar, A.E., *Sherman, A.R., and Edwards, E., 2019, Water in India and Kentucky: developing an online curriculum with field experiences for high school classes in diverse settings: Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, v. 168, 15 p.

Coomar, P., *Mukherjee, A., Bhattacharya, P., Bundschuh, J., Verma, S., Fryar, A.E., Ramos Ramos, O., Ormachea Muñoz, M., Gupta, S., Mahanta, C., Quino, I., and Thunvik, R., 2019, Contrasting controls on hydrogeochemistry of arsenic-enriched groundwater in the homologous tectonic settings of Andean and Himalayan basin aquifers, Latin America and South Asia: Science of the Total Environment, v. 689, p. 1370–1387, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.444

*Currens, B.J., Hall, A., Brion, G.M., and Fryar, A.E., 2019, Use of acetaminophen and sucralose as coanalytes to differentiate sources of human excreta in surface waters: Water Research, v. 157, p. 1–7, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.03.023]

Howell, B.A., Fryar, A.E., Benaabidate, L., Bouchaou, L., and Farhaoui, M., 2019, Variable responses of .karst springs to recharge in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 27, p.1693–1710, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-019-01945-w..

*Mukherjee, A., Gupta, S., Coomar, P., Fryar, A.E., Guillot, S., Verma, S., Bhattacharya, P., Bundschuh, J., and Charlet, L., 2019, Plate tectonics influence on geogenic arsenic cycle: from primary source to global groundwater enrichment: Science of the Total Environment, v. 683, p. 793–807, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.255.

Taheri Tizro, A., Fryar, A.E., Pour, M.K., Voudouris, K.S., and Mashhadian, M.J., 2019, Groundwater flow simulation under climate change in a semi-arid area of western Iran: Groundwater for Sustainable Development, v. 9, article 100273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2019.100273

William Haneberg

Haneberg, W.C., Johnson, S.J., and Gurung, N., in preparation, Response of the Laprak landslide to the 2015 M7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake: Effects of pore water pressure

uncertainty on simplified Newmark model calculations.

Chapella H., Haneberg W., Crawford M., Shakoor A., 2019, Landslide inventory and susceptibility models, Prestonsburg 7.5-min quadrangle, Kentucky, USA, in Shakoor A.

and Cato K. (eds), IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018 - Volume 1. Springer, Cham, p. 217-226.

James Hower

Zhang, S., Dai, S., Finkelman, R., Graham, I.T., French, D., Hower, J.C., Li, X., 2019. Leaching characteristics of alkaline coal combustion by-products: A case study from a coal-fired power plant, Hebei Province, China. Fuel 255, 115710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.115710 .

Hower, J.C., Cantando, E., Eble, C.F., Copley, G.C., 2019. Characterization of stoker ash from the combustion of high-lanthanide coal at a Kentucky bourbon distillery. Int. J. Coal Geology 213, 103260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103260

Eble, C.F., Greb, S.F., Williams, D.A., Hower, J.C., O’Keefe, J.M.K., 2019. Palynology, organic petrology and geochemistry of the Bell coal bed in Western Kentucky, Eastern Interior (Illinois) Basin, USA. Int. J. Coal Geology 213, 103264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103264.

Yan, X., Dai, S., Graham, I.T., French, D., Hower, J.C., 2019. Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Palaeogene low-rank coal from the Baise Coalfield, Guangxi Province, China. Int. J. Coal Geology 214, 103282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103282

Medunić, G., Grigore, M., Dai, S., Berti, D., Hochella, M.F., Jr., Mastalerz, M., Valentim, B., Guedes, A., Hower, J.C., 2020. Characterization of superhigh-organic-sulfur Raša coal, Istria, Croatia, and its environmental implication. Int. J. Coal Geology 217, 103344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103344

Dai, S., Hower, J.C., Finkelman, R.F., Graham, I., French, D., Ward, C.R., Eskenazy, G., Wei, Q., Zhao, L., 2020. Organic associations of non-mineral elements in coal: A review. Int. J. Coal Geology 218, 103347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103347.

Silva, L.F.O., Crissien, T.J., Sampaio, C.H., Hower, J.C., Dai, S., 2020. Occurrence of carbon nanotubes and implication for the siting of elements in selected anthracites. Fuel 263, 116740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116740.

Akinyemi, S., Gitari, W., Thobakgale, R., Petrik, L.F., Nyakuma, B.B., Hower, J.C., Ward, C.R., Oliveira, M.L.S., Silva, L.F.O., 2020. Geochemical fractionation of hazardous elements in fresh and drilled weathered South African coal fly ashes. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00511-3 ().,-.

Dai, S., Bechtel, A., Eble, C.F., Flores, R.M., French, D., Graham, I.T., Hood, M.M., Hower, J.C., Korasidis, V.A., Moore, T.A., Püttmann, W., Wei, Q., O’Keefe, J.M.K., 2020. Recognition of peat depositional environments in coal: A review. Int. J. Coal Geology 219, 103383, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103383.

Hood, M.M., Eble, C.F., Hower, J.C., Dai, S.D., 2020. Geochemistry, Petrology, and Palynology of the Princess No. 3 coal, Greenup County, Kentucky. International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40789-020-00298-0 .

Weisenberger, M.C., Burgess, J., Schobert, H.H., Hower, J.C., 2020. Thermal properties of Pennsylvania anthracite. Fuel 266, 117101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.117101

Hower, J.C., Qian, D., Briot, N.J., Hood, M.M., Eble, C.F., 2020. Nano-scale mineralogy of a Rare earth element-rich Manchester coal lithotype, Clay County, Kentucky. Int. J. Coal Geology 220, 103413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103413.

Hower, J.C., Groppo, J.G., Joshi, P., Preda, D.V., Gamliel, D.P., Mohler, D.T., Wiseman, J.D., Hopps, S.D., Morgan, T.D., Beers, T., Schrock, M., 2020. Distribution of Lanthanides, Yttrium, and Scandium in the pilot-scale beneficiation of fly ashes derived from eastern Kentucky coals. Minerals 10, 105. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10020105

Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Hower, J.C., Hu, S., 2020. Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of pyrometamorphic rocks induced by coal fires in Xinjiang, China. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 213, 106511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2020.106511

Akinyemi, S.A., Adebayo, O.F., Nyakuma, B.B., Adegoke, A.K., Aturamu, O.A., OlaOlorun, AoA., Adetunji, A., Hower, J.C., Hood, M.M., Jauro, A., 2020. Petrology, physicochemical and thermal analyses of selected Cretaceous coals from the Benue Trough Basin in Nigeria. International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40789-020-00303-6

Wang, Z., Coyte, R.M., Dwyer, G.S., Ruhl, L.S., Hsu-Kim, H., Hower, J.C., Vengosh, A.V., 2020. Distinction of strontium isotope ratios between water-soluble and bulk coal combustion residuals from the United States: International Journal of Coal Geology 222, 103464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2020.103464

Liu, J., Nechaev, V.P., Dai, S., Song, H., Nechaeva, E.V., Jiang, Y., Graham, I., French, D., Yang, P., Hower, J.C., 2020. Unusually critical element depleted coals and host rocks of the Tucheng coal deposit, western Guizhou, China: evidence for multiple terrigenous sources for their inorganic components. International Journal of Coal Geology 223, 103468. https://doi.org/10.1016/jcoal.2020.103468

Nechaev, V.P., Bechtel, A., Dai, S., Chekryzhov, I.Yu., Pavlyutkin, B.I., Vysotskiy, S.V., Ignatiev, A.V., Velivetskaya, T.A., Guo, W., Tarasenko, I.A., Nechaeva, E.V., French, D., Hower, J.C., 2020. Bio-geochemical evolution and critical element mineralization in the Cretaceous-Cenozoic coals from the southern Far East Russia and northeastern China: Applied Geochemistry, in press.

Michael McGlue

Thigpen, J.R., Brown, S.J., McGlue, M.M., Woolery, E.W., Hoar, R.M., Guenthner, W.R., Gallen, S.F., and Swallom, M.L., in revision, Cataclysmic collapse of mountain topography, Nature Communications

Lucas, J.*, McGlue, M.M.†, Kimirei, I., Soreghan, M., Mbonde, A., Yeager, K., Limbu, P., Apse, C., McIntyre, P., (2020) Geophysical benthic habitat mapping at Lake Tanganyika: Implications for placing small scale fisheries protected zones: Journal of Great Lakes Research 46 243-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2020.01.010

Ryan, E.K.*, Soreghan, M.J., McGlue, M.M., Todd, J.A., Michel, E., Kaufman, D.S., Kimirei, I.,( 2020) Paleoenvironmental implications of time averaging and taphonomic variation of shell beds in Lake Tanganyika, Africa- Palaios 35 49-66 http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2019.037

Hodelka, B.*, McGlue, M.M.†, Zimmerman, S., Ali, G., Tunno, I., (2019) Paleoproduction and environmental change at Mono Lake (CA) during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition - Palaeo3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109565

Ivory, S.J., McGlue, M.M., Spera, S., Silva, A., Bergier, I., (2019) Vegetation, rainfall, and pulsing hydrology in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland - Environmental Research Letters

Ryan, E.K.*, Soreghan, M.J., McGlue, M.M., Todd, J.A., Michel, E., Kimirei, I., Kaufman, D.S., (2019) Variation in time averaging and taphonomic character of shell beds in Lake Tanganyika, Africa: Paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic implications of shell beds in rift lakes - Palaios

Novello, V. *, Cruz, F.W., McGlue, M.M., Wong, C., Vuille, M., Ward, B., Santos, R. *, Jaqueto, P.F., Pessenda, L.C., Atorre, T., Ribeiro, L., Karmann, I., Barreto, E., Cheng, H., Lawrence, E.R., Paula, M.S., (2019) Abrupt changes in South America during the transition of the glacial to the Holocene - Earth and Planetary Science Letters 524, 115717

Muttashar, W.*, Bryson, L.S., McGlue, M.M., Woolery, E.W., (2019) The integration of grain-size distribution and plasticity parameters for characterizing and classifying unconsolidated fine-grained sediments - Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 1-15

Bertassoli, D.*, Sawakuchi, A.O., Chiessi, C.M., Schefuß, E., Hartmann, G.A., Haggi, C., Cruz, F., Zabel, M., McGlue, M.M., Santos, R.A., Pupim, F.N., (2019) Variations on the relative discharge of the Amazon and Xingu Rivers during the late Holocene linked to interhemispheric temperature anomalies - Geophysical Research Letters 46 (15), 9013-9022

Lo, E.L.*, McGlue, M.M. †, Silva, A., Yeager, K., Bergier, I., O’Dell, M., Macedo, H., Assine, M.,(2019) Fluvial-lacustrine sedimentary processes and landforms on the distal Paraguay fluvial megafan (Brazil) - Geomorphology 342, 163-175 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.06.001

Lyon, E.*, McGlue, M.M., Kim, S., Stone, J., Woolery, E., Zimmerman, S., (2019) Sub-lacustrine geomorphology and modern sedimentation at June Lake (CA), a glacial scour basin in the eastern Sierra Nevada - Journal of Sedimentary Research 89 (10), 919-934

Reis, A.*, Erhardt, A., McGlue, M.M., Lowell, W., (2019) Evaluating the Effects of Post-Depositional Alteration of Carbonates on δ13Ccarb and δ18Ocarb in a Mud-Rich Depositional Environment: A Case Study from the Midland Basin, USA - Chemical Geology 524, 196-212

David Moecher

Moecher, D.P., Kelly*, E.M., Hietpas, J., Samson, S.D., 2019, Proof of recycling in clastic sedimentary systems from textural analysis and geochronology of detrital monazite: Implications for detrital mineral provenance analysis. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 131, p. 1115-1132. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31947.1

Keely O'Farrell

O’Farrell, K. A. and Freeman, R.L. (2020) Quantitative Planet: Teaching General Education Math for Non-Science Majors in a Geoscience Department, In the Trenches https://nagt.org/nagt/publications/trenches/v10-n1/quantitative_planet_teaching_g.html

Király, A., D. E. Portner, K. L. Haynie, B. H. Chilson-Parks, T. Ghosh, M. Jadamec, M. Manga, L. Moresi, K. A. O’Farrell, The effect of slab gaps on subduction dynamics and mantle upwelling, Tectonophysics, Vol. 785, 228458, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228458, 2020

Kent Ratajeski

R.T. Ratheesh-Kumar, EES Post-Doc

Ratheesh‐Kumar, R. T., Dharmapriya, P. L., Windley, B. F., Xiao, W. J., & Jeevan, U. (2020). The tectonic “umbilical cord” linking India and Sri Lanka and the tale of their failed rift. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018225. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018225

Ratheesh-Kumar, R.T., B. Windley, +3 authors F. K. Zeba-Nezrin (2020). Early growth of the Indian lithosphere: Implications from the assembly of the Dharwar Craton and adjacent granulite blocks, southern India. Precambrian Research 336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105491

Dhananjay Ravat

Zhang, H. L., Ravat, D., & Lowry, A. R. ( 2020). Crustal composition and Moho variations of the central and eastern United States: Improving resolution and geologic interpretation of EarthScope USArray seismic images using gravity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018537. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018537

Ryan Thigpen

THIGPEN, J.R, ROBERTS, D., SNOW, Z.K., WALKER, C.D. & BERE, A. 2019. Integrating kinematic restorations and forward finite element simulations to constrain the evolution of salt diapirism and overburden deformation in evaporite basins: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 118, p. 68-86, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2018.10.003.

MAKO, C.M., LAW, R.D., CADDICK, M., THIGPEN, J.R, ASHLEY, K.T., COTTLE, J. & KYLANDER-CLARK, A. 2019. Thermal evolution of the Scandian hinterland, Naver Nappe, northern Scotland: Journal of the Geological Society, London

SPENCER, B., THIGPEN, J.R, MCDONALD, C.S., HODGES, K.V., MAKO, C.A., LAW, R.D. & ASHLEY, K.T. 2019. Rapid rates of orogenic collapse in the Scottish Caledonides: to be submitted to the Journal of the Geological Society, London.

Edward Woolery

Peng, Y. Z. Wang, E. Woolery, Y. Lyu, *N.S. Carpenter, Y. Fang, S. Huang (2020). Ground-motion site effects in Beijing metropolitan area. Engineering Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.105395

Eason, A., E. Woolery, R. Counts, R. Van Arsdale, D. Larsen, S. Mahan, G. Beck (2019). Quaternary displacement on the Joiner Ridge blind fault, eastern Arkansas: Seismological Research Letters. v. 90(6), p. 2250–226, doi: 10.1785/0220190149.

*Lyon, E., M. McGlue, E. Woolery, S. Kim, J. Stone, S. Zimmerman (2019). Sublacustrine geomorphology and modern sedimentation in a glacial scour basin, June Lake, eastern Sierra Nevada, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research. v. 89(10), p. 919–934, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2019.52.

*Muttashar, W., L. Bryson, M. McGlue, E. Woolery (2019). The integration grain-size distribution and plasticity parameters for better characterizing and classifying unconsolidated fine-grained sediments: Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, doi.org/10.1007/s10064-019-01588-x.

*Crawford, M. L. Bryson, F. Ashland, E. Woolery, Z. Wang (2019). Long-term landslide monitoring using soil-water relationships and electrical data to estimate suction stress: Engineering Geology, v. 251, p. 146–157, doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.02.015.

Wang, Z., *N.S. Carpenter, and E. Woolery (2019). Horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio of S-wave and SH-wave transfer function at the vertical seismic and strong-motion arrays in the central United States: Journal of Applied Geophysics, v. 160, p. 64–71, doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2018/10.017.

Kevin Yeager

Zhang, H., S. Huo, K.M. Yeager, X. Beidou, X. Li, J. Zhang, Z. He, C. Ma, 2019. Impacts if anthropogenic activities and climate warming on microbial eukaryotes and cyanobacterial diversity from a lake sedimentary archive. J. of Environmental Quality (IF 2.58)

Brunner, C.A., K.M. Yeager, R.A. Feagin, 2019. Late Holocene paleoenvironment across a fault on the Matagorda Peninsula, Texas, based on foraminifera and sediments. The Holocene (IF 2.42)

McGlue, M.M., K.M. Yeager, M.J. Soreghan, I.A. Kimirei, A.S. Cohen, C. Apse, P. Limbu, J.S. Lucas, R. Smiley, A. Mbonde, P.B. McInytre, 2019. Quantifying spatial variability in nearshore sediment pollution in a co-managed area of Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania). Conservation Letters (IF 7.28)

Buongiorno, J., L. Herbert, L. Wehrmann, A. Michaud, K. Laufer, H. Roy, B.B. Jorgensen, A. Szynkiewicz, A. Faiia, K.M. Yeager, K.J. Schindler, K. Lloyd, 2019. Complex microbial communities drive iron and sulfur cycling in Arctic fjord sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology DOI:10.1128/AEM.00949-19 (IF 3.63)

Zhang, H., S. Huo, K.M. Yeager, C. Li, B. Xi, J. Zhang, Z. He, C. Ma, 2019. Apparent relationships between anthropogenic factors and climate change indicators and POPs deposition in a lacustrine system. J. of Environmental Sciences 83: 174-182 (IF 3.12) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2019.03.024

Zhang, H., S. Huo, K.M. Yeager, B. Xi, J. Zhang, F. Wu, 2019. A historical sedimentary record of mercury in a shallow eutrophic lake: Impacts of human activities and climate change. Engineering 5(2): 296-304 (IF 1.00) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2018.11.022

Yan, D., H. Xu, J. Lan, K. Zhou, Y. Ye, J. Zhang, Z. An, K.M. Yeager, 2019. Solar activityand the westerlies dominate decadal hydroclimate changes over arid central Asia. Global and Planetary Change 173: 53-60 (IF 3.98) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.12.006

Yeager, K.M., P.C. Wolfe, R.A. Feagin, C.A. Brunner, K.J. Schindler, 2019. Active near surface growth faulting and late Holocene history of motion: Matagorda Peninsula, Texas. Geomorphology 327: 159-169 (IF 2.96) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.10.019

Zhang, H., S. Huo, K.M. Yeager, Z. He, B. Xi, X. Li, C. Ma, F. Wu, 2019. Phytoplankton response to climate changes and anthropogenic activities recorded by sedimentary pigments in a shallow eutrophied lake. Science of the Total Environment 647: 1,398-1,409 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.081

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