Speaker Readings and Presentations
Derek Vance's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Marine geochemical budgets, chemical weathering and the carbon cycle in the ice-house world of the Quaternary
Video of Presentation
Derek Vance et al.: Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets, NATURE Vol 458|26 March 2009|
Required Reading
Claude J. Allegre et al.: The fundamental role of island arc weathering in the oceanic Sr isotope budget, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 292 (2010) 51-56
Required reading
Robert Aller's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Deltaic systems as global biogeochemical reactors: C cycling, diagenetic pathways, and reverse weathering
Video of Presentation
Panagiotis Michalopoulos, and Robert C. Aller: Early diagenesis of biogenic silica in the Amazon delta: Alteration, authigenic clay formation, and storage, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 1061-1085, 2004
Required Reading
Robert C. Aller, Neal E. Blair, and Gregg J. Brunskill: Early diagenetic cycling, incineration, and burial of sedimentary organic carbon in the central Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea), Journal Of Geophysical Research, Vol. 113, F01S09, doi:10.1029/2006JF000689, 2008
Required Reading
Rocky Geyer's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
The influence of estuaries on the transport of sediment and solutes from rivers to the ocean
Video Presentation
W.R. Geyer, P.S. Hill, G.C. Kineke: The transport, transformation and dispersal of sediment by buoyant coastal flows, Continental Shelf Research 24 (2004), 927 - 949
Required Reading
Peter Traykovski and Rocky Geyer: Rapid sediment deposition and fine-scale strata formation in the Hudson estuary, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 109, 2004
Required Reading
John Day's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Energy Scarcity and Climate Change: The Mississippi and Place-Based Sustainability
Video of Presentation
Charles A. S. Hall and John W. Day, Jr.: Revisiting the Limits to Growth After Peak Oil, American Scientist, Volume 97, May June 2009
Required Reading
John W. Day, Jr. et al.: Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, SCIENCE Vol 315 23 March 2007
Required Reading
David Batker et al.: Gaining Ground Wetlands, Hurricanes and the Economy: The Value of Restoring the Mississippi River Delta, EARTH ECONOMICS, 97 pages, June 2010
Suggested Additional Reading
Peter Raymond's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentaion
The role of rivers in the global carbon budget
Video of Presentation
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Peter A. Raymond, Neung-Hwan Oh, R. Eugene Turner, and Whitney Broussard: Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River, NATURE, Vol 451|24 January 2008
Required Reading
Anthony K Aufdenkampe et al.: Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere, Front Ecol Environ 2011; 9(1): 53-60
Required Reading
Robert Spencer's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Floodplains as biogoechemical reactors
Video of Presentation
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Rolf Aalto et al.: Episodic sediment accumulation on Amazonian flood plains influenced by El Nino/Southern Oscillation, NATURE |VOL 425 | 2 OCTOBER 2003 |
Required Reading
Michael E. McClain et al.: Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems, Ecosystems (2003) 6: 301-312
Required Reading
Robin L. Vannote et al.: The River Continuum Concept,CAN. J. FISH. AQUAT. SCI. VOL. 37, 1980
Suggested additional reading
Wolfgang J. Junk, Peter B. Bayley and Richard E. Sparks: The Flood Pulse Concept in River-Floodplain Systems, pp110 -127
Suggested additonal reading
Heather Buss's Presentation and Readings
S. L. Brantley et al.: Twelve testable hypotheses on the geobiology of weathering, Geobiology (2011), 9, 140 - 165
Required Reading
Video of presentation
Critical Zone Processes and their Influence on Watershed Exports
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Festo Lugolobi et al.: Germanium - silicon fractionation in a tropical, granitic weathering environment, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74 (2010) 1294 -1308
Required Reading
Heather L. Buss et al.: Phosphorus and iron cycling in deep saprolite, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico, Chemical Geology 269 (2010) 52-61
Suggested additional reading
Daniel D. Richter and Daniel Markewitz: How Deep Is Soil? Soil, the zone of the earth's crust that is biologically active, is much deeper than has been thought by many ecologists, Bioscience; Oct 1995; 45, 9; Research Library Core, pg. 600
Suggested Additional Reading
Arjun Heimsath's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentaion
Quantifying Hillslope Processes: Holes, Isotopes, Exploration
Arjun M. Heimsath
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
Video of the Presentation
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Arjun M. Heimsath et al.: The illusion of diffusion: Field evidence for depth-dependent sediment transport, Geology; v. 33; no. 12; p. 949-952; December 2005
Required Reading
Jean L. Dixon, Arjun M. Heimsath, James Kaste, and Ronald Amundson: Climate-driven processes of hillslope weathering, GEOLOGY, vol 37; no. 11; p. 975-978; November 2009
Required Reading
Rudy Slingerland's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Landscape Evolution and Sediment Fluxes to the Ocean
Rudy Slingerland
Professor of Geosciences
Penn State University
Video of the Presentation
Quicktime
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/slingerlandC.mov
Windows
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/slingerland.wmv
Gregory E. Tucker' and Rudy Slingerland: Predicting sediment flux from fold and thrust belts, Basin Research (1996) 8, 329-349
Required Reading
Sebastien Castelltort, Jean Van Den Driessche, and Philippe Davy: Reply to comment on "How plausible are high-frequency sediment supply-driven cycles in the stratigraphic record?" by Jasper Knight, Sedimentary Geology, 164 (2004) 331-334
Required Reading
Suzanne Prestrud-Andersons Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Glacier- Rivers of ice in surficial Earth systems
Suzanne Prestrud-Anderson
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Univ. of Colorado
Video of the Presentation
Quicktime
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/anderson.mov
Windows
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/anderson.wmv
Suzanne Prestrud Anderson: Biogeochemistry of Glacial Landscape Systems, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 35:375-399, 2007
Required Reading
Tim Bartholomaus, Bob S. Anderson, and Suzanne P. Anderson: Response of glacier basal motion to transient water storage, Nature Geoscience, Vol 1 January 2008
Required Reading
Tim Bartholomaus, Bob S. Anderson, and Suzanne P. Anderson: Midnight glacier hikes Nature Geoscience Vol 1 January 2008 (This is the Backstory to the work by Tim Bartholomaus and colleagues, published on page 33 of this issue)
Suggested additional reading
Josh West's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Floods, Earthquakes, and Rivers: The Effects of Rare Large Events on Weathering, Erosion, and the Transport of Carbon
Josh West
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
Video of the Presentation
Quicktime
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/west.mov
Windows
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/west.wmv
Robert G. Hilton et al.: Tropical-cyclone-driven erosion of the terrestrial biosphere from mountains, Nature GeoscienceVol 1 November 2008
Required Reading
West et al.: Mobilization and transport of coarse woody debris to the oceans triggered by an extreme tropical storm, Limnol. Oceanogr., 56(1), p. 77 - 85, 2011
Required reading
Simon J. Dadson et al.: Earthquake-triggered increase in sediment delivery from an active mountain belt, Geology; v. 32; no. 8; p.733-736; August 2004
Suggested additional reading
Valier Galy et al.: Efficient organic carbon burial in the Bengal fan sustained by the Himalayan erosional system, NATURE| Vol 450| 15 November 2007
Suggested additional reading
Taylor Perron's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Coupling of River Networks and Hill Slopes in Landscape Evolution
Taylor Perron
Dept. Of Earth, Atmosphere & Planetary Sciences, MIT
Video of the Presentaion
Quicktime
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/taylor.mov
Windows
http://wbc.whoi.edu:8060/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/taylor.wmv
Perron, J.T., J.W. Kirchner and W.E. Dietrich: Formation of evenly spaced ridges and valleys. Nature, 460, 502-505 (2009).
Required Reading
Dietrich, W.E., Bellugi, D., Heimsath, A.M., Roering, J.J., Sklar, L., and Stock, J.D.: Geomorphic transport laws for predicting landscape form and dynamics,: in Wilcock, P., and Iverson, R., eds., Prediction in geomorphology: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 135, pp 103 - 132 (2003)
Required Reading
James Syvitski's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
Rivers as Land to Sea Transport Arteries
James P.M. Syvitski
Community Surface Dynamic Modeling System UC-Boulder, CO
Video of Presentation:
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James P.M. Syvitski: Global sediment fluxes to the Earth?s coastal ocean, CSDMS Integration Facility, INSTAAR, Univ. Colorado, Boulder
Required Reading (talk abstract)
James P. M. Syvitski and John D. Milliman: Geology, Geography, and Humans Battle for Dominance over the Delivery of Fluvial Sediment to the Coastal Ocean, The Journal of Geology, volume 115, p. 1?19] 2007
Required Reading
James P. M. Syvitski, et al.: Impact of Humans on the Flux of Terrestrial Sediment to the Global Coastal Ocean, 15 APRIL 2005 VOL 308 SCIENCE
Reguired Reading
James P. M. Syvitski, et al.: Sinking deltas due to human activities, Nature Geoscience Advance Online Publication, 20 September 2009
Additional Reading
Ray Schmitt's Presentation and Readings
PowerPoint Presentation
The Role of the Oceans in the Global Water Cycle
Ray Schmitt
Physical Oceanograpgy Department, WHOI
Video of the Presentation
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Raymond W. Schmitt: The ocean component of the global water cycle, Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, Pages 1395-1409, July 1995, U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994
Required Reading
Raymond W. Schmitt: Salinity and the Global Water Cycle, Oceanography Vol.21, No.1, March 2008
Required Reading
Paul Durack and Susan E. Wijffels: Fifty-Year Trends in Global Ocean Salinities and Their Relationship to Broad-Scale Warming, J. Climate, 23, 4342?4362, August 2010
Additional Reading