Monthly Archives: December 2020
SS #15 Jacobson et al. (2009) Sediment regime constraints on river restoration—An example from the Lower Missouri River
Salutation: This paper gave an excellent example of evaluating multiple engineering influences on sediment transportation in the Lower Missouri River. We are now doing a project on the Lower Arkansas River and partly referred to the methods and parameters that … Continue reading
SS#13 Chunzai Wang et al. 2008 Atlantic Warm Pool acting as a link between Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Atlantic tropical cyclone activity
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007GC001809 Salutation: This paper helped me develop the dynamical setting for my paleohurricane reconstruction. I was trying to understand the connection between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and tropical cyclone rainfall, so reading this paper set up the perfect framework for … Continue reading
SS #12 Yu et al. 2018 Where Does Titan Sand Come From: Insight From Mechanical Properties of Titan Sand Candidates
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JE005651 Salutation: I was stuck thinking about aeolian dunes forming on different planets as a problem purely about if winds are fast enough to pick up grains. This work really opened my eyes to also considering if the grains can … Continue reading
SS #11 Hutchinson et al. 2020, The Eocene-Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model-data comparisons
https://cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2020-68/ Salutation: Comprehensive and timely review of the Eocene-Oligocene climatic/oceanographic transition. This work has been immensely helpful to our group as we finalize a manuscript from a study that’s been years in the making. What was awesome? It was helpful! … Continue reading
SS#10 Dr. Qiusheng Wu’s Google Earth Engine code
https://gist.github.com/giswqs https://geemap.herokuapp.com/voila/render/timelapse.ipynb Salutation: I am someone who understands the power of Google Earth Engine, but is having trouble with the steep early learning curve. Dr. Wu’s repos and apps give me basic functionality I didn’t have before. It’s very motivating! … Continue reading
SS#9 Brzinski and Daniels 2018 Sounds of Failure: Passive Acoustic Measurements of Excited Vibrational Modes
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.218003 Salutation: The authors literally uncover the sounds that are precursors to failure in sheared granular media. When geophysicists discover how to link this seismic, it is gonna change the game. Such elegant experiments and deep insight. What was awesome? … Continue reading
SS#8 Campbell et al. 2018 Potential carbon storage in biochar made from logging residue: Basic principles and Southern Oregon case studies
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0203475 I love this paper! I’ve used it a lot in my work, but I also have shared with people to explain the idea of climate parity, a point in time when the climate impacts of doing something (in this … Continue reading
SS#7 Sanks et al. Field‐Based Estimate of the Sediment Deficit in Coastal Louisiana
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JF005389 My group and I loved this paper! Careful analysis and error propagation, a wonderful discussion of knowns and unknowns, and to top it off a fresh perspective on the land loss situation in the Mississippi River Delta. No other … Continue reading
SS#6 Dunne and Jerolmack 2020, What Sets River Width?
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc1505 Salutation: Thought-provoking, convincing, well-written What was awesome? Couldn’t stop thinking about it! From Jaap Nienhuis
Shaw Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Laboratory at the University of Arkansas 