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Works from 2018

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Risk Assesment, Rüdiger Escobar Wolf, El Hachemi Y. Bouali, and Thomas Oommen

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Synthesizing multi-sensor, multi-satellite, multi-decadal datasets for global volcano monitoring, Maria A. Furtney, Matthew E. Pritchard, Juliet Biggs, Simon Carn, Susanna Ebmeier, Jennifer A. Jay, Brendan T. McCormick Kilbride, and Kevin Reath

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Quantifying the influence of cold water intrusions in a shallow, coastal system across contrasting years: Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Brice Grunert, Shelby L. Brunner, Sajad A. Hamidi, Hector R. Bravo, and J. Val Klump

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Characterizing CDOM Spectral Variability Across Diverse Regions and Spectral Ranges, Brice Grunert, Colleen B. Mouw, and Audrey B. Ciochetto

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Climbing the crustal ladder: Magma storage-depth evolution during a volcanic flare-up, Guilherme A. R. Gualda, Darren M. Gravley, Michelle Connor, Brooke Hollmann, Ayla S. Pamukcu, Florence Begue, Mark S. Ghiorso, and Chad Deering

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Sensitivity of atmospheric aerosol scavenging to precipitation intensity and frequency in the context of global climate change, Pei Hou, Shiliang Wu, Jessica L. McCarty, and Yang Gao

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Impacts of enhanced fertilizer applications on tropospheric ozone and crop damage over sub-Saharan Africa, Yaoxian Huang, Jonathan E. Hickman, and Shiliang Wu

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Effect of elastic deformation and rough grain surface on heat conduction in partially saturated granular porous media, Muhammad Fowaz Ikram, Roohollah Askari, S. Hossein Hejazi, and Muhammad Sahimi

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Identification of near-surface fractures via seismic-radial anisotropy, Jer-Yu Jeng, Roohollah Askari, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Reza Dolatabadi

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Evidence of persistent, recurring summertime hypoxia in Green Bay, Lake Michigan, J. Val Klump, Shelby L. Brunner, Brice Grunert, Jerry L. Kaster, Kim Weckerly, Erin M. Houghton, John A. Kennedy, and Tracy J. Valenta

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Seasonal variability of shallow cumuliform snowfall: A CloudSat perspective, Mark Kulie and Lisa Milani

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The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: Overview of 14 years in space, Pieternel F. Levelt, Joanna Joiner, Johanna Tamminen, J. Pepijn Veefkind, Pawan K. Bhartia, Simon Carn, and et. al.

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Anatomy of impactites and shocked zircon grains from Dhala reveals Paleoproterozoic meteorite impact in the Archean basement rocks of Central India, Shan Shan Li, S. Keerthy, M. Santosh, S. P. Singh, C. D. Deering, M. Satyanarayanan, M. N. Praveen, V. Aneeshkumar, G. K. Indu, Y. Anilkumar, and K. S. Sajinkumar

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Reply to the ‘Comment on Anatomy of impactites and shocked zircon grains from Dhala reveals Paleoproterozoic meteorite impact in the Archean basement rocks of Central India’ by Pati et al., 2018, Gondwana Research, Shan Shan Li, S. Keerthy, M. Santosh, S. P. Singh, C. D. Deering, M. Satyanarayanan, M. N. Praveen, V. Aneeshkumar, G. K. Indu, Y. Anilkumar, and K. S. Sajinkumar

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A wearable system for situational awareness estimation in underground mines, Xian Li, Ye Sun, Zhen Liu, and Matthew Portfleet

New insights into the magmatic-hydrothermal system and volatile budget of Lastarria volcano, Chile: Integrated results from the 2014 IAVCEI CCVG 12th Volcanic Gas Workshop, Taryn Lopez, Felipe Aguilera, Franco Tassi, J. Maarten de Moor, Nicole Bobrowski, Simon Carn, and et. al.

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Earth observations from DSCOVR EPIC instrument, Alexander Marshak, Jim Herman, Adam Szabo, Karin Blank, Simon Carn, Alexander Cede, and et. al.

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Correction to: Arctic Micromonas uses protein pools and non-photochemical quenching to cope with temperature restrictions on Photosystem II protein turnover (Photosynthesis Research, (2017), 131, 2, (203-220), 10.1007/s11120-016-0310-6), Guangyan Ni, Gabrielle Zimbalatti, Cole D. Murphy, Audrey B. Barnett, Christopher M. Arsenault, Gang Li, Amanda M. Cockshutt, and Douglas A. Campbell

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Liquefaction, Thomas Oommen

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Surveying, Thomas Oommen

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Grade and Tonnage Uncertainty Analysis of an African Copper Deposit Using Multiple-Point Geostatistics and Sequential Gaussian Simulation, Amol Paithankar and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Melt origin across a rifted continental margin: A case for subduction-related metasomatic agents in the lithospheric source of alkaline basalt, NW Ross Sea, Antarctica, Kurt S. Panter, Paterno Castillo, Susan Krans, Chad Deering, William McIntosh, John W. Valley, Kouki Kitajima, Philip Kyle, Stan Hart, and Jerzy Blusztajn

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Development of a machine vision system using the support vector machine regression (SVR) algorithm for the online prediction of iron ore grades, Ashok Kumar Patel, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Amit Kumar Gorai

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Development of an expert system for iron ore classification, Ashok Kumar Patel, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Amit Kumar Gorai

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Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions, J. A. Perlinger, N. R. Urban, A. Giang, N. E. Selin, A. N. Hendricks, and et. al.

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Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions, Judith Perlinger, Noel R. Urban, Ashley Hendricks, H. Zhang, A. Kumar, Shiliang Wu, Hugh Gorman, and et. al.

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Thermal, deformation, and degassing remote sensing time‐series (A.D. 2000‐2017) at the 47 most active volcanoes in Latin America: Implications for volcanic systems, K. Reath, M. Pritchard, F. Delgado, Simon Carn, D. Coppola, B. Andrews, and et. al.

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Characterization of the Cubilche debris avalanche deposit, a controversial case from the northern Andes, Ecuador, Matteo Roverato, Patricia Larrea, Ismael Casado, Maurizio Mulas, Gustavo Béjar, and Luke Bowman

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SLALOM: An all-surface snow water path retrieval algorithm for the GPM microwave imager, Jean-François Rysman, Giulia Panegrossi, Paolo Sanò, Anna Cinzia Marra, Stefano Dietrich, Lisa Milani, and Mark S. Kulie

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Photogrammetry, K. S. Sajinkumar and Thomas Oommen

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Revisiting the paleomagnetism of the Neoarchean Uauá mafic dyke swarm, Brazil: Implications for Archean supercratons, J. Salminen, E. P. Oliveira, Elisa J. Piispa, Aleksey Smirnov, and R. I. F. Trindade

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Landsliding near Enguri dam (Caucasus, Georgia) and possible seismoectonic effects, Alessandro Tibaldi, Paolo Oppizzi, John S. Gierke, Thomas Oommen, Nino Tsereteli, and Davit Odilavadze

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The Interactive Stratospheric Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (ISA-MIP): motivation and experimental design, Claudio Timmreck, Graham W. Mann, Valentina Aquila, Rene Hommel, Lindsay A. Lee, Simon Carn, and et. al.

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Assessment of water treatment residuals as sorbent material in permeable reactive barriers: Application to a copper-contaminated site, Chris Walkons, Alex S. Mayer, Rupali Datta, and Dibyendu Sarkar

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Regional-scale back-analysis using TRIGRS: an approach to advance landslide hazard modeling and prediction in sparse data regions, Luke Weidner, Thomas Oommen, Rudiger Escobar-Wolf, K. S. Sajinkumar, and Rinu A. Samuel

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Prediction of suspended sediment yield by artificial neural network and traditional mathematical model in Mahanadi river basin, India, Arvind Yadav, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Sk Md Equeenuddin

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Suspended sediment yield estimation using genetic algorithm-based artificial intelligence models: case study of Mahanadi River, India, Arvind Yadav, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Sk. Md. Equeenuddin

Works from 2017

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Pore scale evaluation of thermal conduction anisotropy in granular porous media using Lattice Boltzmann method, R. Askari, M. F. Ikram, and S. H. Hejazi

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Effect of deformation on the thermal conductivity of granular porous media with rough grain surface, Roohollah Askari, S. Hossein Hejazi, and Muhammad Sahimi

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Discovery and geology of the Guinness World Record Lake Copper, Lake Superior, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert Barron

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63rd Annual Meeting Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Wawa, Ontario: Field Trip Guidebook, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Margaret J. Hanson

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63rd Annual Meeting Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Wawa, Ontario: Proceedings, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Margaret J. Hanson

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Differential piston phase variance in non-Kolmogorov atmospheres, Jeremy P. Bos, Rao Gudimetla, and Jason D. Schmidt

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Mapping of slow landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula using the California landslide inventory and persistent scatterer interferometry, El Hachemi Y. Bouali, Thomas Oommen, and Rüdiger Escobar Wolf

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Structure mapping through spatial and temporal deformation monitoring using persistent scatterer interferometry and geographic information systems, El Hachemi Y. Bouali, Thomas Oommen, and Rüdiger Escobar-Wolf

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Estimation of the P-wave Velocity of the Near Surface using Dispersion Analysis of the Guided P-wave, K. F. Campbell, Radwin Askari, Wayne Pennington, and A. Javahery

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Robust body-wave retrieval from ambient-noise seismic interferometry using crosscoherence applied to model and field examples of CO2 sequestrationHaitao Cao, Haitao Cao, Roohollah Askari, and Wayne Pennington

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Crosswell versus surface ambient noise seismic interferometry: A numerical analysis, Garvie Crane, Roohollah Askari, and Wayne Pennington

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A global framework for the Earth: putting geological sciences in context, Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Paul Byrne, Audray Delcamp, Pall Einarson, William I. Rose, Erika Vye, and et. al.

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Using sparse S transform and sparse-slant stacking for the estimation of the group velocity of surface waves, Reza Dolatabadi, Ali Gholami, and Roohollah Askari

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Accurate estimation of the group velocity of surface waves using sparse S-transform and sparse slant-stacking, R. Dokht Dolatabadi Esfahani,; A. Gholami; and R. Askari

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Global evaluation of particulate organic carbon flux parameterizations and implications for atmospheric pCO < inf> 2, Lucas Gloege, Galen A. McKinley, Colleen B. Mouw, and Audrey B. Ciochetto

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Nonlinear response of nitric oxide fluxes to fertilizer inputs and the impacts of agricultural intensification on tropospheric ozone pollution in Kenya, Jonathan E. Hickman, Yaoxian Huang, Shiliang Wu, Willy Diru, Peter M. Groffman, Katherine L. Tully, and Cheryl A. Palm

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Can Deep Groundwater Influx be Detected from the Geochemistry of Thermokarst Lakes in Arctic Alaska?, Kenneth M Hinkel, Christopher D. Arp, Amy Townsend-Small, and Karen E. Frey

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Surface ozone and its precursors at Summit, Greenland: Comparison between observations and model simulations, Yaoxian Huang, Shiliang Wu, Louisa J. Kramer, Detlev Helmig, and Richard E. Honrath

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Monitoring and modeling tailings impoundment settlement near Great Salt Lake (UTAH) using multi-platform time-series InSAR observations, Xie Hu, Zhong Lu, Thomas Oommen, Teng Wang, and Jinwoo Kim

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Consolidation settlement of Salt Lake County tailings impoundment revealed by time-series InSAR observations from multiple radar satellites, Xie Hu, Thomas Oommen, Zhong Lu, Teng Wang, and Jin-Woo Kim

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Machine learning based predictive modeling of debris flow probability following wildfire in the intermountain western United States, Ashley Kern, Priscilla Addison, Thomas Oommen, Sean Salazar, and Richard Coffman

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A comparative analysis of pixel- and object-based detection of landslides from very high-resolution images, Ren N. Keyport, Thomas Oommen, Tapas R. Martha, K. S. Sajinkumar, and John S. Gierke

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Mercury from wildfires: Global emission inventories and sensitivity to 2000–2050 global change, Aditya Kumar, Shiliang Wu, Yaoxian Huang, Hong Liao, and Jed Kaplan

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Nonheating methods for absolute paleointensity determination: Comparison and calibration using synthetic and natural magnetite-bearing samples, Geoffrey A. Lerner, Aleksey Smirnov, Leonid Surovitskii, and Elisa J. Piispa

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New-generation NASA Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) volcanic SO2 dataset: Algorithm description, initial results, and continuation with the Suomi-NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), Can Li, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Simon Carn, Yan Zhang, Robert J.D. Spurr, and Joanna Joiner

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Effect of leakage pathway flow properties on thermal signal associated with the leakage from CO2 storage zone, Yilin Mao, Mehdi Zeidouni, and Roohollah Askari

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Using structure-from-motion to create glacier DEMs and orthoimagery from historical terrestrial and oblique aerial imagery, Jordan Mertes, Jason D. Gulley, Douglas I. Benn, Sarah S. Thompson, and Lindsey I. Nicholson

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A conceptual model of supra-glacial lake formation on debris-covered glaciers based on GPR facies analysis, Jordan Mertes, Sarah S. Thompson, Adam D. Booth, Jason D. Gulley, and Douglas I. Benn

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Rapid, Quantitative Assessment of Submerged Cultural Resource Degradation Using Repeat Video Surveys and Structure from Motion, J. Mertes, C. N. Zant, J. D. Gulley, and T. L. Thomsen

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Expanding understanding of optical variability in Lake Superior with a 4-year dataset, Colleen B. Mouw, Audrey B. Ciochetto, Brice Grunert, and Angela W. Yu

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Quantitating active photosystem II reaction center content from fluorescence induction transients, Cole D. Murphy, Guangyan Ni, Gang Li, Audrey Barnett, Kui Xu, Jessica Grant-Burt, Justin D. Liefer, David J. Suggett, and Douglas A. Campbell

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Early warning system for shallow landslides using rainfall threshold and slope stability analysis, Shruti Naidu, K. S. Sajinkumar, Thomas Oommen, V.J. Anuja, Rinu Samuel, and C. Muraleedharan

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Arctic Micromonas uses protein pools and non-photochemical quenching to cope with temperature restrictions on Photosystem II protein turnover, Guangyan Ni, Gabrielle Zimbalatti, Cole D. Murphy, Audrey B. Barnett, Christopher M. Arsenault, Gang Li, Amanda M. Cockshutt, and Douglas A. Campbell

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A novel applications of photogrammetry for retaining wall assessment, Renee Oats, Rudiger Escobar-Wolf, and Thomas Oommen

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CloudSat-based assessment of GPM Microwave Imager snowfall observation capabilities, Giulia Panegrossi, Jean-François Rysman, Daniele Casella, Anna Cinzia Marra, and Mark Kulie

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Development of machine vision-based ore classification model using support vector machine (SVM) algorithm, Ashok Kumar Patel, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Amit Kumar Gorai

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Spatial variability of CO < inf> 2 uptake in polygonal tundra: Assessing low-frequency disturbances in eddy covariance flux estimates, Norbert Pirk, Jakob Sievers, Jordan Mertes, Frans Jan W. Parmentier, Mikhail Mastepanov, and Torben R. Christensen

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Atmospheric processes affecting the separation of volcanic ash and SO < inf> 2 in volcanic eruptions: Inferences from the May 2011 Grímsvötn eruption, Fred Prata, Mark Woodhouse, Herbert E. Huppert, Andrew Prata, Thor Thordarson, and S. Carn

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How the Rock Connects Us: A Geoheritage Guide to Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, William I. Rose, Erika Vye, and Valerie Martin

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Jacobsville Sandstone: a candidate for nomination for “Global Heritage Stone Resource” from Michigan, USA, William I. Rose, Erika Vye, Carol A. Stein, David H. Malone, John P. Craddock, and Seth A. Stein

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A potential headward retreat landslide site at Munnar, Kerala, K. S. Sajinkumar, M. R. Asokakumar, R. Sajeev, and N. V. Venkatraman

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A composite fall-slippage model for cliff recession in the sedimentary coastal cliffs, K. S. Sajinkumar, J. P. Kannan, G. K. Indu, C. Muraleedharan, and V. R. Rani

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A study on landslides and subsurface piping, facilitated by dykes, using vertical electrical sounding and δO < sup> 18 and δH < sup> 2 stable isotopes, K. S. Sajinkumar, C. Unnikrishnan Warrier, C. Muraleedharan, A. Shahul Hameed, V. R. Rani, A. P. Pradeepkumar, and P. Sundarajan

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Anthropogenic Cycles of Arsenic in Mainland China: 1990-2010, Ya Lan Shi, Wei Qiang Chen, Shiliang Wu, and Yong Guan Zhu

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Rapid pre-eruptive thermal rejuvenation in a large silicic magma body: the case of the Masonic Park Tuff, Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field, CO, USA, J. T. Sliwinski, O. Bachmann, M. A. Dungan, C. Huber, C. D. Deering, P. W. Lipman, L. H.J. Martin, and C. Liebske

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The Impact of Persistent Volcanic Degassing on Vegetation: A Case Study at Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica, R. Tortini, S. M. van Manen, B. R.B. Parkes, and S. A. Carn

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Reference data set of volcanic ash physicochemical and optical properties, A. Vogel, S. Diplas, A. J. Durant, A. S. Azar, M. F. Sunding, William I. Rose, A. Sytchkova, C. Bonadonna, K. Krüger, and A. Stohl

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Thermal remote sensing for moisture content monitoring of main tailings: Laboratory study, Bonnie Zwissler, Thomas Oommen, Stanley Vitton, and Eric A. Seagren

Works from 2016

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Utilizing vegetation indices as a proxy to characterize the stability of a railway embankment in a permafrost region, Priscilla Addison, Pasi T. Lautala, and Thomas Oommen

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Influence of surface tension gradient on liquid circulation time in a draft tube airlift reactor, Boris Albijanic, Snehamoy Chatterjee, Nimal Subasinghe, and Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad

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Numerical modeling of ambient-noise seismic interferometry, Simisola M. Arogundade, Wayne Pennington, Roger Turpening, and Roohollah Askari

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Object-based classification of earthquake damage from high-resolution optical imagery using machine learning, James Bialas, Thomas Oommen, Umaa Rebbapragada, and Eugene Levin

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Predicting Future Water-Quality Impacts from Mining: A 52-year Old Field Analog for Humidity Cell Testing, Copperwood Deposit, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Mark J. Logsdon

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Empirical evaluation of the anisoplanatic bispectrum transfer function for extended objects, Jeremy P. Bos

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Interferometric Stacking toward Geohazard Identification and Geotechnical Asset Monitoring, El Hachemi Bouali, Thomas Oommen, and Rüdiger Escobar-Wolf

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Multi-decadal satellite measurements of global volcanic degassing, S. A. Carn, L. Clarisse, and A. J. Prata

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Ultraviolet Satellite Measurements of Volcanic Ash, S. A. Carn and N. A. Krotkov

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Production phase and ultimate pit limit design under commodity price uncertainty, Snehamoy Chatterjee, Manas Ranjan Sethi, and Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad

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Anthropogenic arsenic cycles: A research framework and features, Wei Qiang Chen, Ya Lan Shi, Shiliang Wu, and Yong Guan Zhu

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Enhancement of Margrave deconvolution of seismic signals in highly attenuating media using the modified S-transform, Adnan Djeffal, Wayne Pennington, and Roohollah Askari

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Ash Aggregation in Volcanic Clouds, A. J. Durant and R. J. Brown

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A global catalogue of large SO < inf> 2 sources and emissions derived from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, Vitali E. Fioletov, Chris A. McLinden, Nickolay Krotkov, Can Li, Joanna Joiner, Nicolas Theys, S. Carn, and Mike D. Moran

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Improving automated global detection of volcanic SO2 plumes using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Verity Flower, Thomas Oommen, and Simon Carn