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Works from 2018

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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 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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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

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

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Satellite-based global volcanic SO < inf> 2 emissions and sulfate direct radiative forcing during 2005-2012, Cui Ge, Jun Wang, Simon Carn, Kai Yang, Paul Ginoux, and Nickolay Krotkov

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Long-term changes in extreme air pollution meteorology and the implications for air quality, Pei Hou and Shiliang Wu

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Hydrothermal native copper in ocean island alkali basalt from the Mineoka belt, Boso Peninsula, Japan, Kei Ikehata, Koshuke Choda, Toshiaki Tsunogae, and Theodore J. Bornhorst

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Limestone quarry production planning for consistent supply of raw materials to cement plant: A case study from Indian cement industry with a captive quarry, D. Joshi, Snehamoy Chatterjee, and Sk. Md. Equeenuddin

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Open-pit coal mine production sequencing incorporating grade blending and stockpiling options: An application from an Indian mine, Ashish Kumar and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Adjusting particle-size distributions to account for aggregation in tephra-deposit model forecasts, Larry G. Mastin, Alexa R. Van Eaton, and Adam J. Durant

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Developing the greatest Blue Economy: Water productivity, fresh water depletion, and virtual water trade in the Great Lakes basin, A. L. Mayer, Stanley Mubako, and Benjamin L. Ruddell

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Experimental laboratory study on the formation of multiple shock waves observed during volcanic eruptions, E. F. Medici and G. P. Waite

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Global ocean particulate organic carbon flux merged with satellite parameters, Colleen B. Mouw, Audrey Barnett, Galen A. McKinley, Lucas Gloege, and Darren Pilcher

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Phytoplankton size impact on export flux in the global ocean, Colleen B. Mouw, Audrey Barnett, Galen A. McKinley, Lucas Gloege, and Darren Pilcher

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Forecasting time-to-failure of machine using hybrid Neuro-genetic algorithm – a case study in mining machinery, Amol Paithankar and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Measurement and modeling of atmosphere-surface exchangeable pollutants (ASEPs) to better understand their environmental cycling and planetary boundaries, Judith Perlinger, Hugh Gorman, Emma S. Norman, Daniel Obrist, Noelle E. Selin, Noel R. Urban, and Shiliang Wu

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Post-eruption deformation processes measured using ALOS-1 and UAVSAR InSAR at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, Lauren Schaefer, Zhong Lu, and Thomas Oommen

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Three-dimensional displacements of a large volcano flank movement during the May 2010 eruptions at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, L. N. Schaefer, T. Wang, R. Escobar-Wolf, T. Oommen, Z. Lu, J. Kim, P. R. Lundgren, and G. P. Waite

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New insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift, Seth Stein, Carol A. Stein, Jonas Kley, Randy Keller, Miguel Merino, Emily Wolin, Douglas Wiens, Michael E. Wysession, Ghassan Al-Equabi, Weisen Shen, Andrew Frederiksen, Fiona Darbyshire, Donna Jurdy, Greg Waite, William I. Rose, Erika Vye, Tyrone Rooney, Robert Moucha, and Eric Brown

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Prediction Model of Longwall Powered Support Capacity Using Field Monitored Data of a Longwall Panel and Uncertainty-Based Neural Network, Abhiram Kumar Verma, Kaushal Kishore, and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Global atmospheric transport and source-receptor relationship for arsenic, Ka-ming Wai, Shiliang Wu, Xueling Li, Daniel A. Jaffe, and Kevin D. Perry

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Nonlinear inversion of tilt-affected very long period records of explosive eruptions at Fuego volcano, Gregory P. Waite and Federica Lanza

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Impacts of changes in climate, land use and land cover on atmospheric mercury, H. Zhang, C. D. Holmes, and Shiliang Wu

Works from 2015

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Spatial analysis of Mount St. Helens tephra leachate compositions: implications for future sampling strategies, P. M. Ayris, P. Delmelle, B. Pereira, E. C. Maters, D. E. Damby, A. J. Durant, and D. B. Dingwell

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Michigan mineral alliance, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Christopher J. Poulsen

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Disaster risk reduction and resettlement efforts at San Vicente (Chichontepec) Volcano, El Salvador: Toward understanding social and geophysical vulnerability, Luke J. Bowman and Kari Henquinet

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Extending the long-term record of volcanic SO < inf> 2 emissions with the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite nadir mapper, S. A. Carn, K. Yang, A. J. Prata, and N. A. Krotkov

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Automatic cluster selection using gap statistics for pattern-based multi-point geostatistical simulation, Snehamoy Chatterjee and Manasi Manjari Mohanty

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Fast wavelet-based stochastic simulation using training images, Snehamoy Chatterjee, Hussein Mustapha, and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

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The impact of mpowir a decade of investing in mentoring women in physical oceanography, Sarah Clem, Sonya Legg, Susan Lozier, and Colleen B. Mouw

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Natural variations in calcite dissolution rates in streams: Controls, implications, and open questions, M. D. Covington, J. D. Gulley, and F. Gabrovšek

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Capturing optically important constituents and properties in a marine biogeochemical and ecosystem model, S. Dutkiewicz, A. E. Hickman, O. Jahn, W. W. Gregg, C. B. Mouw, M. J. Follows, and C. Mouw

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Sustainable Geotechnical Asset Management Along the Transportation Infrastructure Environment Using Remote Sensing: Final Report, Rudiger Escobar-Wolf, El Hachemi Y. Bouali, Thomas Oommen, Richard Dobson, Stanley Vitton, Colin Brooks, and Pasi Lautala

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Heterogeneous distributions of CO2 may be more important for dissolution and karstification in coastal eogenetic limestone than mixing dissolution, Jason Gulley, Jonathon B. Martin, Paul J. Moore, Amy Brown, Patricia Spellman, and John Ezell

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Sensitivity of global wildfire occurrences to various factors in the context of global change, Yaoxian Huang, Shiliang Wu, and Jed Kaplan