Recent Publications

2017 Publications

• Clary, R.M., & Sharpe, T. (2017). The farthest end of the Earth: The role of geological research in Antarctic exploration, 1895 – 1922. In W. Mayer, R. Clary, L. Azuela, T. Mota, & S. Wolkowicz (eds.) History of Geoscience: Celebrating 50 Years of INHIGEO. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 442, 387-399. London: Geological Society of London. SP442.36.
• Meng, Q. 2017. Fracking, in Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (Chen, W.Y., Suzuki, T., Lackner, M. eds., 2017 Edition), pp1265-1278.

2016 Publications

• Weremeichik J.M., Thien B., Sadekov A., and Gabitov R.I.  2016. The effect of growth rate on uranium partitioning between individual calcite crystals and fluid. Chem. Geol. (in press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.12.026
• Simakin A.G., Salova T.P., Gabitov R.I., and Isaenko S.I. 2016. Dry CO2-CO fluid as an important potential Deep Earth solvent. Geofluids, 16, 1043–1057. doi:10.1111/gfl.12204
• Peacock E., Gabitov R.I., Frisch J., Carlock B., Henderson K., and Hadden C. 2016.  Archaeological Otolith Chemistry as a Tool for Seasonality and Site Catchment Studies: Some Preliminary Considerations.  J. Archaeol. Sci., 65, 11–19.
• Bortoleto, L.A., Gigueira, C.J.M., Dunning Jr., J.B., Rodgers, J. , da Silva, A.M. 2016. Suitability index for restoration in landscapes:An alternative proposal for restoration projects. Ecological Indicators 60:724-735
• Mitchell, J., Peacock, E., and S. Myatt. Sampling to Redundancy in an Applied Zooarchaeology. 2016. A Case Study from a Freshwater Shell Ring in the Mississippi Delta, Southeastern USA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5:499-508.
• Sugg, J.W., C.M. Fuhrmann, L.B. Perry, D.K. Hall, and C.E. Konrad II. 2016. Sub-regional snow cover distribution across the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Physical Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2016.1162020
• Fuhrmann, C.M., M.M. Sugg, C.E. Konrad II, and A. Waller. 2016. Impact of extreme heat events on emergency department visits in North Carolina (2007-2011). Journal of Community Health, 41, 146-156.
• Sugg, M.M., C.E. Konrad II, and C.M. Fuhrmann, 2016. Relationships between maximum temperature and heat-related illness across North Carolina, USA. International Journal of Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-1060-4
• Meng, Q. 2016. The spatiotemporal characteristics of environmental hazards caused by offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Science of The Total Environment. 565, 663–671.
• Li, T. & Meng, Q. 2016. Forest dynamics to precipitation and temperature in the Gulf of Mexico coastal region. International Journal of Biometeorology. doi:10.1007/s00484-016-1266-0.
• Meng, Q. 2016. The impacts of fracking on the environment: A total environmental study paradigm. Science of the Total Environment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.045.
• Yang, Y., Meng, Q., McCarn, C., Cooke, W., Rodgers, J., Shi, K. 2016. Effects of path dependencies and lock-ins on urban spatial restructuring in China: A historical perspective on governments role in Lanzhou since 1978. Cities. 56, 24-34.

2015 Publications

• Ambinakudige, S. and K. Joshi. 2015. Multi-decadal changes in glacial parameters of the Fedchenko glacier in Tajikistan. International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS. 4 (1), 911-919.
• Clary, R.M. 2015. The human impact on earthquakes: Natural fracturing versus fracking. Science Scope, 38(5), 24-31.
• Clary, R.M., and Wandersee, J.L. 2015. The evolution of non-quantitative geological graphics in texts during the formative years of geology (1788-1840). Earth Sciences History, 54(1), 59-91.
• Dash, P., Silwal S., Ikenga, J. O., Pinckney, J. L., Arslan, Z., and Lizotte, R. E. 2015. Water quality of four major lakes in Mississippi, USA: Impacts on human and aquatic ecosystem health, Water, 7, 4999-5030.
• Kovach, M.M., C.E. Konrad II, and C.M. Fuhrmann, 2015: Area-level risk factors for heat-related illness in rural and urban locations across North Carolina, USA. Applied Geography, 60, 175-183.
• Jones J.P., Carricart-Ganivet J.P., Iglesias-Prieto R., Enríquez S., Ackerson M., and Gabitov R.I. 2015. Microstructural variation in oxygen isotopes and elemental calcium ratios in the coral skeleton of Orbicella annularis. Chemical Geol., 419, 192-199.
• Meng, Q. 2015. Spatial analysis of environment and population at risk of natural gas fracking in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. Science of the Total Environment. 515-516:198-206.
• Meng, Q. 2015. Regional landscape mapping through a method of chain standardization of Landsat images. Landscape and Urban Planning, 134:1-9.
• Meng, Q. 2015. Modeling and prediction of natural gas fracking pad landscapes in the Marcellus Shale region, USA. A rejoinder to Klein and Manda.  Landscape and Urban Planning 136:52-53.
• Grimes, A., and A. Mercer, 2015:  Synoptic-scale precursors to tropical cyclone rapid intensification in the Atlantic Basin.  Adv. Meteor., 1.
• Chen, H., S. Zhang, W. Chen, H. Mei, J. Zhang, A. Mercer, R. Liang, and H. Qu, 2015:  Uncertainty-aware multidimensional ensemble data visualization and exploration.  IEEE Transactions Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1, 1.
• Dakhlalla, A. O.; Parajuli, P. B.; Ouyang, Y.; and Schmitz, D. W. 2015, Evaluating the impacts of crop rotations on groundwater storage and recharge in an agricultural watershed. Agricultural Water Management, 163: 332-343.  
• Sherman-Morris, K., Antonelli, K., Williams, C. 2015. Measuring the effectiveness of the graphical communication of hurricane storm surge threat. Weather, Climate and Society 7(1): 69-82.
• Wood, K. M., and E. A. Ritchie, 2015: A definition for rapid weakening of North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones. Geophys. Res. Lett.
• Wood, K. M., O. G. Rodríguez-Herrera, E. A. Ritchie, M. F. Piñeros, I. A. Hernández, and J. S. Tyo, 2015: Tropical cyclogenesis detection in the North Pacific using the deviation angle variance technique. Wea. Forecasting.
• Rodríguez-Herrera, O. G., K. M. Wood, K. P. Dolling, E. A. Ritchie, and J. S. Tyo, 2015: Objective automatic storm tracking based on the deviation-angle variance method. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12, 254-258.
• Mylroie, J. E., Kambesis, P. N., Owen-Nagel, A. M., Sumrall, J. B., Larson, E. B., Mylroie, J. R., and Lace, M. J., 2015, Flank margin cave development at Cala Pi and Cala Figuera, Mallorca Island, Spain.   In Glumac, B. and Savarese, M., eds., Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on the geology of the Bahamas and other carbonate regions.
• Kambesis, P. N., Mylroie, J. R., Mylroie, J. E., Larson, E. B., Owen-Nagel, A. M., and Sumrall, J. B., 2015, Influence of karst denudation on the northwest coast of Curaçao.  In Glumac, B. and Savarese, M., eds., Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on the geology of the Bahamas and other carbonate regions.