Usgs scientist Emeritus Publications 2012-2013

Rigge, M., Wylie, B., Gu, Y., Belnap, J., Phuyal, K., & Tieszen, L. (2013). Monitoring the status of forests and rangelands in the Western United States using ecosystem performance anomalies. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(11), 4049–4068.

Robertson, D.M., Garn, H.S., Rose, W.J., Juckem, P.F., & Reneau, P.C. (2012). Water quality, hydrology, and simulated response to changes in phosphorus loading of Mercer Lake, Iron County, Wisconsin, with special emphasis on the effects of wastewater discharges. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5134.

Robinson, G.R., Jr., & Menzie, W.D. (2012). Economic filters for evaluating porphyry copper deposit resource assessments using grade-tonnage deposit models, with examples from the U.S. Geological Survey global mineral resource assessment: Chapter H In Global Mineral Resource Assessment. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5090.

Rodriguez, J.P., Bourke, M., Tanaka, K.L., Miyamoto, H., Kargel, J., Baker, V., … Berman, D.C. (2012). Infiltration of Martian outflow channel floodwaters into lowland cavernous systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L22201.

Rodríguez-Pascua, M.A., Abad Casal, L., Pérez-López, R., Gamo Parra, B., Silva, P.G., Garduño-Monroy, V.H., Bischoff, J., … Calvo, J.P. (2013). Roman, Visigothic and Islamic evidence of earthquakes recorded in the archaeological site of “El Tolmo de Minateda” (Prebetic zone, southeast of Spain). Cuaternario y Geomorfologia, 27(3-4), 83–90.

Rodríguez-Pascua, M.A., Pérez-López, R., Garduño-Monroy, V.H., Giner-Robles, J.L., Silva, P.G., Perucha-Atienza, M.A., … Bischoff, J.L. (2012). Paleoseismic and geomorphologic evidence of recent tectonic activity of the Pozohondo fault (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology, 38(1), 255–267.

Rose, E.J., Fuis, G.S., Stock, J.M., Hole, J.A., Kell, A.M., Kent, G., … Rosa, C.M. (2013). Borehole-explosion and air-gun data acquired in the 2011 Salton Seismic Imaging Project (SSIP), southern California: description of the survey. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1172.

Rosenbauer, R.J., Thomas, B., Bischoff, J.L., & Palandri, J. (2012). Carbon sequestration via reaction with basaltic rocks: geochemical modeling and experimental results. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 89, 116–133.

Rosenbaum, J.G., Reynolds, R.L., & Colman, S.M. (2012). Fingerprinting of glacial silt in lake sediments yields continuous records of alpine glaciation (35-15ka), western USA. Quaternary Research, 78(2), 333–340.

Ross, S.L., Jones, L.M., Miller, K., Porter, K.A., Wein, A., Wilson, R.I., Kirby, S.H., … Wood, N.J. (2013a). SAFRR (Science Application for Risk Reduction) Tsunami Scenario--Executive Summary and Introduction: Chapter A in The SAFRR (Science Application for Risk Reduction) Tsunami Scenario. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1170.

Ross, S.L., Jones, L.M., Miller, K., Porter, K.A., Wein, A., Wilson, R.I., Kirby, S.H., … Wood, N.J. (2013b). The SAFRR tsunami scenario: improving resilience for California. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013-3081.

Rover, J., Ji, L., Wylie, B.K., & Tieszen, L.L. (2012). Establishing water body areal extent trends in interior Alaska from multitemporal Landsat data. Remote Sensing Letters, 3(7), 595–604.

Runkel, R.L., Walton-Day, K., Kimball, B.A., Verplanck, P.L., & Nimick, D.A. 2013. Estimating instream constituent loads using replicate synoptic sampling, Peru Creek, Colorado. Journal of Hydrology, 489, 26–41.

Russoniello, C.J., Fernandez, C., Bratton, J.F., Banaszak, J.F., Krantz, D.E., Andres, A.S., Konikow, L.F., … Michael, H.A. (2013). Geologic effects on groundwater salinity and discharge into an estuary. Journal of Hydrology, 498, 1–12.

Rutherford, D.W., Wershaw, R.L., Rostad, C.E., & Kelly, C.N. (2012). Effect of formation conditions on biochars: compositional and structural properties of cellulose, lignin, and pine biochars. Biomass and Bioenergy, 46, 693–701.

Ryan, H., von Huene, R., Scholl, D., & Kirby, S. (2012). Tsunami hazards to U.S. coasts from giant earthquakes in Alaska. Eos, 93(19), 185–186.

Ryan, H.F., von Huene, R., Wells, R.E., Scholl, D.W., Kirby, S., & Draut, A.E. (2012). History of earthquakes and tsunamis along the eastern Aleutian-Alaska megathrust, with implications for tsunami hazards in the California Continental Borderland. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1975A, i-31

Ryberg, T., Hole, J.A., Fuis, G.S., Rymer, M.J., Bleibinhaus, F., Stromeyer, D., & Bauer, K. (2012). Tomographic V p and V s structure of the California Central Coast Ranges, in the vicinity of SAFOD, from controlled-source seismic data. Geophysical Journal International, 190(3), 1341–1360.

Ryu, G.S., Lee, M.W., Jeong, S.H., & Song, C. (2012). Thermally dried ink-jet process for 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)-pentacene for high mobility and high uniformity on a large area substrate. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 51(5).

Sanada, Y., Hino, R., Kinoshita, M., Park, J.O., Araki, E., Moore, G., von Huene, R., … Kodaira, S. (2013). Long offset walkaway and circle VSP in Nankai Trough seismogenic zone. In Borehole Geophysics Workshop II - 3D VSP: Benefits, Challenges and Potential.

Santi, P., Cannon, S., & DeGraff, J. (2013). Wildfire and landscape change. In J. F. Shroder (Ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology, 262–287. San Diego: Academic Press.

Savage, J.C., & Simpson, R.W. (2013a). Clustering of GPS velocities in the Mojave Block, southeastern California. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 118(4), 1747–1759.

Savage, J.C., & Simpson, R.W. (2013b). Clustering of velocities in a GPS network spanning the Sierra Nevada Block, the Northern Walker Lane Belt, and the Central Nevada Seismic Belt, California-Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 118(9), 4937–4947.

Savage, W.U., Lamichhane, S., Luke, B., & Smith, K.D. (2012). Improving earthquake monitoring for the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. In Proceedings of the 44th Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering.

Schenk, C.J., Brownfield, M.E., Charpentier, R.R., Cook, T.A., Klett, T.R., Kirschbaum, M.A., … Tennyson, M.E. (2012). Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of South America and the Caribbean, 2012. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3046.

Schenk, C.J., Brownfield, M.E., Charpentier, R.R., Cook, T.A., Klett, T.R., Pitman, J.K., & Pollastro, R.M. (2012). Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of Papua-New Guinea, Eastern Indonesia, and East Timor, 2011. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3029.

Schenk, C.J., Brownfield, M.E., Charpentier, R.R., Cook, T.A., Klett, T.R., Pitman, J.K., … Weaver, J.N. (2012). Assessment of undiscovered, conventional oil and gas resources of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, 2012. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3069.

Schenk, C.J., Klett, T.R., Whidden, K.J., Kirschbaum, M.A., Charpentier, R.R., Cook, T.A., … Pitman, J.K. (2013). Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of North Africa, 2012. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3147.

Schmidt, C., & Chou, I.-M. (2012). Chapter 7: The hydrothermal diamond anvil cell (HDAC) for Raman spectroscopic studies of geological fluids at high pressures and temperatures. In Applications of Raman spectroscopy to Earth sciences and cultural heritage 12, 35 p. Mineralogical Society.

Schmidt, T.S., Clements, W.H., Wanty, R.B., Verplanck, P.L., Church, S.E., San Juan, C.A., … Klein, T.L. (2012). Geologic processes influence the effects of mining on aquatic ecosystems. Ecological Applications, 22(3), 870–879.

Schneider, D.J., & Hoblitt, R.P. (2013). Doppler weather radar observations of the 2009 eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 259, 133–144.

Schumann, D., Hartman, H., Eberl, D.D., Sears, S.K., Hesse, R., & Vali, H. (2012). Formation of replicating saponite from a gel in the presence of oxalate: implications for the formation of clay minerals in carbonaceous chondrites and the origin of life. Astrobiology, 12(6), 549–561.

Schumann, D., Hartman, H., Eberl, D.D., Sears, S.K., Hesse, R., & Vali, H. (2013). The influence of oxalate-promoted growth of saponite and talc crystals. Clays and Clay Minerals, 61(3-4), 342–360.

Schuur, E.A.G., Abbott, B.W., Bowden, W.B., Brovkin, V., Camill, P., Canadell, J.G., Harden, J., … Zimov, S.A. (2013). Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change. Climatic Change, 119(2), 359–374.

Schwalb, A., Dean, W., Güde, H., Hanisch, S., Sobek, S., & Wessels, M. (2013). Benthic ostracode δ13c as sensor for early Holocene establishment of modern circulation patterns in central Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 66, 112–122.

Schwarzenbach, E.M., Früh-Green, G.L., Bernasconi, S.M., Alt, J.C., Shanks III, W.C., Gaggero, L., & Crispini, L. (2012). Sulfur geochemistry of peridotite-hosted hydrothermal systems: comparing the Ligurian ophiolites with oceanic serpentinites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 91, 283–305.

Sevilgen, V., Stein, R.S., & Pollitz, F.F. (2012). Stress imparted by the great 2004 Sumatra earthquake shut down transforms and activated rifts up to 400 km away in the Andaman Sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(38), 15152–15156.

Shah, A.K., Vogt, P.R., Rosenbaum, J.G., Newell, W., Cronin, T.M., Willard, D.A., … Hofstra, A. (2012). Shipboard magnetic field “noise” reveals shallow heavy mineral sediment concentrations in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Geology, 303, 26–41.

Shanks, W.C., & Thurston, R. (Eds.). (2012). Volcanogenic massive sulfide occurrence model: Chapter C In Mineral deposit models for resource assessment. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5070-C.

Shelly, D.R., Hill, D.P., Massin, F., Farrell, J., Smith, R.B., & Taira, T. (2013). A fluid-driven earthquake swarm on the margin of the Yellowstone caldera. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(9), 4872–4886.

Sherfy, M.H., Anteau, M.J., Shaffer, T.L., Sovada, M.A., & Stucker, J.H. (2012). Foraging ecology of least terns and piping plovers nesting on Central Platte River sandpits and sandbars. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1059.

Shervais, J.W., Nielson, D., Lachmar, T., Christiansen, E.H., Morgan, L., Shanks, W.C., … Freeman, T. (2012). Hotspot: the Snake River Geothermal Drilling Project--initial report. GRC Transactions, 767–772).

Singh, R.K., Liu, S., Tieszen, L.L., Suyker, A.E., & Verma, S.B. (2012). Estimating seasonal evapotranspiration from temporal satellite images. Irrigation Science, 30(4), 303–313.

Sio, C.K.I., Dauphas, N., Teng, F.-Z., Chaussidon, M., Helz, R.T., & Roskosz, M. (2013). Discerning crystal growth from diffusion profiles in zoned olivine by in situ Mg-Fe isotopic analyses. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 123, 302–321.

Sisson, T.W., & Moore, J.G. (2013). Geologic map of southwestern Sequoia National Park, Tulare County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1096.

Skinner, J.A., Tanaka, K.L., & Platz, T. (2012). Widespread loess-like deposit in the Martian northern lowlands identifies Middle Amazonian climate change. Geology, 40(12), 1127–1130.

Skipp, B., & Brandt, T.R. (2012). Geologic map of the Fish Creek Reservoir 7.5‘ quadrangle, Blaine County, Idaho. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3191.

Slate, J.L., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Koning, D.J., Wan, E., Wahl, D.B., Connell, S.D., & Perkins, M.E. (2013). Upper Neogene tephrochronologic correlations of the Española Basin and Jemez Mountains volcanic field, northern Rio Grande rift, north-central New Mexico. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America, 494.

Sleeter, B.M., & Calzia, J.P. (2012). Klamath Mountains Ecoregion: Chapter 13 In Status and trends of land change in the Western United States--1973 to 2000. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1794-A-13, 141-149.

Sleeter, B.M., Calzia, J.P., & Walter, S.R. (2012). Earthquakes and faults in southern California (1970-2010). U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3222.

Smith, D.B., Cannon, W.F., Woodruff, L.G., Rivera, F.M., Rencz, A.N., & Garrett, R.G. (2012). History and progress of the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes Project, 2001-2010. Earth Science Frontiers, 19(3), 19–32.

Smith, D.B., Cannon, W.F., Woodruff, L.G., Solano, F., Kilburn, J.E., & Fey, D.L. (2013). Geochemical and mineralogical data for soils of the conterminous United States. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 801.

Soderblom, J.M., Barnes, J.W., Soderblom, L.A., Brown, R.H., Griffith, C.A., Nicholson, P.D., … Clark, R.N. (2012). Modeling specular reflections from hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Icarus, 220(2), 744–751.

Sonsthagen, S.A., Talbot, S.L., Wilson, R.E., Petersen, M.R., Williams, J.C., Byrd, G.V., & McCracken, K.G. (2013). Genetic structure of the common eider in the western Aleutian Islands prior to fox Eradication. Condor, 115(1), 28–39.

Sotin, C., Lawrence, K.J., Reinhardt, B., Barnes, J.W., Brown, R.H., Hayes, A.G., Sonderblom, L.A., … Stephan, K. (2012). Observations of Titan’s northern lakes at 5μm: implications for the organic cycle and geology. Icarus, 221(2), 768–786.

Soto-Viruet, Y., Menzie, W.D., Papp, J.F., & Yager, T.R. (2013). An exploration in mineral supply chain mapping using tantalum as an example. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1239.

Spencer, J.E., Jonathan Patchett, P., Pearthree, P.A., Kyle House, P., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Wan, E., … Faulds, J.E. (2013). Review and analysis of the age and origin of the Pliocene Bouse Formation, lower Colorado River Valley, southwestern USA. Geosphere, 9(3), 444–459.

Staley, D.M., Kean, J.W., Cannon, S.H., Schmidt, K.M., & Laber, J.L. (2013). Objective definition of rainfall intensity-duration thresholds for the initiation of post-fire debris flows in southern California. Landslides, 10(5), 547–562.

Stein, R.S., & Toda, S. (2013). Megacity megaquakes-two near misses. Science, 341(6148), 850–852.

Stokes, S.S., Gowravaram, M., Huynh, H., Lu, M., Mullen, G.B., Chen, B., O’Shea, T.J., … Mills, S.D. (2012). Discovery of bacterial NAD(+)-dependent DNA ligase inhibitors: improvements in clearance of adenosine series. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 22(1), 85–89.

Stone, P., Stevens, C.H., Howard, K.A., & Hoisch, T.D. (2013). Stratigraphy and paleogeographic significance of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Bird Spring Formation in the Ship Mountains, southeastern California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5109.

Storchak, D.A., Di Giacomo, D., Bondar, I., Engdahl, E.R., Harris, J., Lee, W.H.K., … Bormann, P. (2013). Public release of the ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900-2009). Seismological Research Letters, 84(5), 810–815.

Storlazzi, C.D., Field, M.E., Cheriton, O.M., Presto, M.K., & Logan, J.B. (2013). Rapid fluctuations in flow and water-column properties in Asan Bay, Guam: implications for selective resilience of coral reefs in warming seas. Coral Reefs, 32(4), 949–961.

Storlazzi, C.D., Field, M.E., Presto, M.K., Swarzenski, P.W., Logan, J.B., Reiss, T.E., … Chezar, H. (2012). Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics in Pelekane and Kawaihae Bays, Hawaii--measurements of waves, currents, temperature, salinity, turbidity, and geochronology: November 2010--March 2011. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1264.

Swanson, S.M., Engle, M.A., Ruppert, L.F., Affolter, R.H., & Jones, K.B. (2013). Partitioning of selected trace elements in coal combustion products from two coal-burning power plants in the United States. International Journal of Coal Geology, 113, 116–126.

Swarzenski, P.W., Baskaran, M., Rosenbauer, R.J., Edwards, B.D., & Land, M. (2013). A combined radio- and stable-isotopic study of a California coastal aquifer system. Water, 5(2), 480–504.

Tabor, R.W., Haugerud, R.A., Booth, D.B., & Troost, K.G. (2013). Lidar-revised geologic map of the Olalla 7.5’ quadrangle, King, Kitsap, and Pierce Counties, Washington. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3277

Tan, Z., Liu, S., Bliss, N., & Tieszen, L.L. (2012). Current and potential sustainable corn stover feedstock for biofuel production in the United States. Biomass and Bioenergy, 47, 372–386.

Taylor, R.G., Scanlon, B., Döll, P., Rodell, M., van Beek, R., Wada, Y., Konikow, L., … Treidel, H. (2013). Ground water and climate change. Nature Climate Change, 3(4), 322–329.

Thomas, L.K., Widdowson, M.A., Chapelle, F.H., Novak, J.T., Boncal, J.E., & Lebrón, C.A. (2013). Distribution of potentially bioavailable natural organic carbon in aquifer sediments at a chloroethene-contaminated site. Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States), 139(1), 54–60.

Thomas, L.K., Widdowson, M.A., Novak, J.T., Chapelle, F.H., Benner, R., & Kaiser, K. (2012). Potentially bioavailable natural organic carbon and hydrolyzable amino acids in aquifer sediments. Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 32(4), 92–95.

Tinker, M.T., Guimarães Jr., P.R., Novak, M., Marquitti, F.M.D., Bodkin, J.L., Staedler, M., … Estes, J.A. (2012). Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters. Ecology Letters, 15(5), 475–483.

Toda, S., & Stein, R.S. (2013). The 2011 M=9.0 Tohoku Oki earthquake more than doubled the probability of large shocks beneath Tokyo. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(11), 2562–2566.

Toda, S., Stein, R.S., Beroza, G.C., & Marsan, D. (2012). Aftershocks halted by static stress shadows. Nature Geoscience, 5(6), 410–413.

Jorgenson, M.T., Harden, J.W., Kanevskiy, M., O’Donnell, J., Wickland, K., Ewing, S., … Koch, J. (2013). Reorganization of vegetation, hydrology and soil carbon after permafrost degradation across heterogeneous boreal landscapes. Environmental Research Letters, 8(3).

Tucker, R.D., Belkin, H.E., Schulz, K.J., Peters, S.G., Horton, F., Buttleman, K., & Scott, E.R. (2012). A major light rare-earth element (LREE) resource in the Khanneshin Carbonatite Complex, southern Afghanistan. Economic Geology, 107(2), 197–208.

van Riper, C., Powell, R.B., Machlis, G., van Wagtendonk, J.W, van Riper, C.J., Schwarzbach, S.E., … Galipeau, R.E. (2012). Using integrated research and interdisciplinary science: Potential benefits and challenges to managers of parks and protected areas. George Wright Forum, 29(2), 216–226.

Vaquero, M., Allue, E., Bischoff, J.L., Burjachs, F., & Vallverdu, J. (2013). Environmental, depositional and cultural changes in the upper Pleistocene and early Holocene: the Cinglera del Capello sequence (Capellades, Spain). Quaternaire, 24(1), 49–64.