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SS#20 Judy Yang et al. 2020 4D imaging reveals mechanisms of clay-carbon protection and release
Salutation: The beautiful microscopic experimentation reveals the surprising mechanisms of soil carbon storage and release. What was awesome? It was surprising! I couldn’t stop thinking about it! It’s a scientific frontier! https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-54393/v1 From: Hongbo Ma, University of Arkansas
SS#19 Thran et al. (2018) Controls on the global distribution of contourite drifts
Salutation: I’m a huge fan of studies that provide a global perspective of an Earth-system phenomenon and this one, on the relationship of contourite deposits to results of oceanographic modeling, is a fantastic example. It’s very clearly written and made … Continue reading
SS #18 Mapping the Fine-Scale Organization and Plasticity of the Brain Vasculature, Kirst et al. 2020
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30109-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420301094%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Salutation: Long anticipated! Gave me a lot of ideas on questions that need to be asked theoretically. What was awesome? There were excellent figures and documentation! It was helpful! I couldn’t stop thinking about it! It’s a scientific frontier! … Continue reading
SS #16 Rivera (2020) Disaster Colonialism
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12950 Salutation: The ideas in this paper are huge – the premise is a powerful one. I keep, and will keep, coming back to this work. What was awesome? I couldn’t stop thinking about it! It’s a scientific frontier! From: … Continue reading
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
Shaw Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Laboratory at the University of Arkansas 