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Works from 2015

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Seasonal variability of atmospheric nitrogen oxides and non-methane hydrocarbons at the GEOSummit station, Greenland, L. J. Kramer, D. Helmig, J. F. Burkhart, A. Stohl, S. Oltmans, and R. E. Honrath

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Stratospheric volcanic ash emissions from the 13 February 2014 Kelut eruption, N. I. Kristiansen, A. J. Prata, A. Stohl, and S. A. Carn

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Source mechanism of small long-period events at Mount St. Helens in July 2005 using template matching, phase-weighted stacking, and full-waveform inversion, Robin S. Matoza, Bernard A. Chouet, Phillip B. Dawson, Peter M. Shearer, Matthew M. Haney, G. P. Waite, Seth C. Moran, and T. Dylan Mikesell

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Kı ̄lauea’s 5–9 march 2011 kamoamoa fissure eruption and its relation to 30+ years of activity from pu‘u ‘o̅ ‘ō, Tim R. Orr, Michael P. Poland, Matthew R. Patrick, Weston A. Thelen, A. Jeff Sutton, Tamar Elias, Carl R. Thornber, Carolyn Parcheta, and Kelly M. Wooten

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Volcanic ash hazards to aviation, Alfredo Prata and William I. Rose

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Changes in magma storage conditions following caldera collapse at Okataina Volcanic Center, New Zealand, Allison Rubin, Kari M. Cooper, Marissa Leever, Josh Wimpenny, Chad Deering, Tyrone Rooney, Darren Gravley, and Qing zhu Yin

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Hazard assessment of rainfall-induced landslides: a case study of San Vicente volcano in central El Salvador, Daniel M. Smith, Thomas Oommen, Luke Bowman, John S. Gierke, and Stanley Vitton

Works from 2014

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Building zoned ignimbrites by recycling silicic cumulates: Insight from the 1,000 km < sup> 3 Carpenter Ridge Tuff, CO, Olivier Bachmann, Chad Deering, Peter W. Lipman, and Charles Plummer

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Phase-equilibrium geobarometers for silicic rocks based on rhyolite-MELTS. Part 2: application to Taupo Volcanic Zone rhyolites, Florence Bégué, Guilherme A.R. Gualda, Mark S. Ghiorso, Ayla S. Pamukcu, Ben M. Kennedy, Darren M. Gravley, Chad Deering, and Isabelle Chambefort

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Bank Storage in Karst Aquifers: The Impact of Temporary Intrusion of River Water on Carbonate Dissolution and Trace Metal Mobility, Amy L. Brown, Jonathan B. Martin, Elizabeth J. Screaton, John E. Ezell, Patricia Spellman, and Jason Gulley

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Attenuation and scattering tomography of the deep plumbing system of Mount St. Helens, L. De Siena, C. Thomas, G. P. Waite, S. C. Moran, and S. Klemme

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Absorption and fluorescence properties of chromophoric dissolved organic matter of the eastern Bering Sea in the summer with special reference to the influence of a cold pool, E. J. D'sa, J. I. Goes, H. Gomes, and C. Mouw

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Vadose CO < inf> 2 gas drives dissolution at water tables in eogenetic karst aquifers more than mixing dissolution, Jason Gulley, Jonathan Martin, and Paul Moore

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Large values of hydraulic roughness in subglacial conduits during conduit enlargement: Implications for modeling conduit evolution, J. D. Gulley, P. Spellman, M. D. Covington, J. B. Martin, D. I. Benn, and G. Catania

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral scanner (MSS) studies examine coastal environments influenced by mining, Charlie Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Colin Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Jamey Anderson, and Molly Reif

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Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral scanner (MSS) studies examine coastal environments influenced by mining, W. Charles Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Colin N. Brooks, Robert Shuchman, Jamey Anderson, and Molly Reif

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Paleomagnetism of the ∼1.1 Ga Coldwell Complex (Ontario, Canada): Implications for Proterozoic geomagnetic field morphology and plate velocities, Evgeniy V. Kulakov, Aleksey Smirnov, and Jimmy F. Diehl

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NanoSIMS results from olivine-hosted melt embayments: Magma ascent rate during explosive basaltic eruptions, Alexander S. Lloyd, Philipp Ruprecht, Erik H. Hauri, William I. Rose, Helge M. Gonnermann, and Terry Plank

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Monitoring large oil slick dynamics with moderate resolution multispectral satellite data, Pieralberto Maianti, Marco Rusmini, Riccardo Tortini, Giorgio Dalla Via, Federico Frassy, Andrea Marchesi, Francesco Rota Nodari, and Marco Gianinetto

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A comparison of satellite- and ground-based measurements of SO < inf> 2 emissions from tungurahua volcano, Ecuador, Brendan T. McCormick, Michael Herzog, Jian Yang, Marie Edmonds, Tamsin A. Mather, Simon Carn, Silvana Hidalgo, and Baerbel Langmann

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Evaluation of Structure from Motion Software to Create 3D Models of Late Nineteenth Century Great Lakes Shipwrecks Using Archived Diver-Acquired Video Surveys, J. Mertes, T. Thomsen, and J. Gulley

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Separation of ash and sulfur dioxide during the 2011 Grímsvötn eruption, E. D. Moxnes, N. I. Kristiansen, A. Stohl, L. Clarisse, A. J. Durant, K. Weber, and A. Vogel

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Computer vision-based limestone rock-type classification using probabilistic neural network, Ashok Kumar Patel and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Varying seismic-acoustic properties of the fluctuating lava lake at Villarrica volcano, Chile, Joshua P. Richardson, Gregory P. Waite, and José Luis Palma

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Recent Springtime regional CO variability in Southern China and the adjacent Ocean: Anthropogenic and Biomass burning contribution, Ka Ming Wai and Peter A. Tanner

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Seasonal variability and long-term evolution of tropospheric composition in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere, K. M. Wai, S. Wu, A. Kumar, and H. Liao

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Advancing measurements of tropospheric NO < inf> 2 from space: New algorithm and first global results from OMPS, Kai Yang, Simon Carn, Cui Ge, Jun Wang, and Russell R. Dickerson

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Effects of stratospheric ozone recovery on photochemistry and ozone air quality in the troposphere, H. Zhang, Shiliang Wu, Y. Huang, and Y. Wang

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A Study of the Impacts of Freeze-Thaw on Cliff Recession at the Calvert Cliffs in Calvert County, Maryland, Bonnie Zwissler, Thomas Oommen, and Stanley Vitton

Submissions from 2013

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59th Annual Meeting Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Houghton, Michigan: Proceedings, Program and Abstracts, Allan R. Blaske and Theodore J. Bornhorst

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59th Annual Meeting Institute on Lake Superior Geology, Houghton, Michigan: Proceedings, Part 2: Field Trip Guidebook, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert J. Barron

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Geologic Overview of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert J. Barron

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Caledonia Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula Native Copper District, Ontonagon County, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst, Robert J. Barron, and Richard C. Whiteman

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Geology and Environmental Site Conditions of the Copperwood Deposit, Gogebic County, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst, Allan R. Blaske, D T. Anderson, and Thomas D. Repaal

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The Mesoproterozoic Copperwood sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform copper deposit, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and William C. Williams

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Crater lake evolution at Santa Ana Volcano (El Salvador) following the 2005 eruption, Anna S. Colvin, William I. Rose, J. C. Varekamp, José Luis Palma, D. Escobar, E. Gutierrez, F. Montalvo, and Ann Maclean

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Toms and Avhrr observations of drifting volcanic clouds from the August 1991 eruptions of Cerro Hudson, Emily K. Constantine, Gregg J. Bluth, and William I. Rose

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The size range of bubbles that produce ash during explosive volcanic eruptions, Kimberly Genareau, Gopal K. Mulukutla, Alexander A. Proussevitch, Adam J. Durant, William I. Rose, and Dork L. Sahagian

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Dissolution in a variably confined carbonate platform: Effects of allogenic runoff, hydraulic damming of groundwater inputs, and surface-groundwater exchange at the basin scale, J. D. Gulley, J. Martin, P. Spellman, P. Spellman, P. Moore, and E. Screaton

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Dispersant adsorption and effects on settling behavior of iron ore, Howard J. Haselhuhn

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Large-volume Barriles and Caisán debris avalanche deposits from Volcán Barú, Panama, Julie A. Herrick, Lee Siebert, and William I. Rose

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Impact of aging mechanism on model simulated carbonaceous aerosols, Y. Huang, S. Wu, M. K. Dubey, and N. H.F. French

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Projected effect of 2000-2050 changes in climate and emissions on aerosol levels in China and associated transboundary transport, H. Jiang, H. Liao, H. O.T. Pye, S. Wu, L. J. Mickley, J. H. Seinfeld, and X. Y. Zhang

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La Yeguada volcanic vomplex in the Republic of Panama: An assessment of the geologic hazards using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, Karinne L. Knutsen, William I. Rose, and Brian Jicha

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Absolute geomagnetic paleointensity as recorded by ~1.09 Ga Lake Shore Traps (Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan), Evgeniy V. Kulakov, Aleksey Smirnov, and Jimmy F. Diehl

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Free-troposphere ozone and carbon monoxide over the North Atlantic for 2001-2011, Aditya Kumar, S. Wu, M. F. Weise, R. Honrath, R. C. Owen, D. Helmig, L. Kramer, M. Val Martin, and Q. Li

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A pilot GPS study of Santa Ana Volcano (Ilamatepec) and Coatepeque caldera, El Salvador, Hans N. Lechner, Charles DeMets, Douglas Hernandez, and William I. Rose

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Evaluation and optimization of bio-optical inversion algorithms for remote sensing of Lake Superior's optical properties, Colleen B. Mouw, Haidi Chen, Galen A. McKinley, Steven Effler, David O'Donnell, Mary Gail Perkins, and Chris Strait

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Validation of the FALL3D model for the 2008 chaitén eruption using field and satellite data, María Soledad Osores, Arnau Folch, Estela Collini, Gustavo Villarosa, Adam J. Durant, Gloria Pujol, and José G. Viramonte

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Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Aircraft and Satellites (BORTAS) experiment: Design, execution and science overview, P. I. Palmer, M. Parrington, J. D. Lee, A. C. Lewis, A. R. Rickard, P. F. Bernath, T. J. Duck, D. L. Waugh, D. W. Tarasick, R. C. Owen, and et. al.

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Global, long-term sulphur dioxide measurements from TOVS data: A new tool for studying explosive volcanism and climate, A. J. Prata, William I. Rose, S. Self, and D. M. O'Brien

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Waveform inversion of shallow repetitive long period events at Villarrica Volcano, Chile, Joshua P. Richardson and Gregory P. Waite

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The february–march 2000 eruption of Hekla, Iceland from a satellite perspective, William I. Rose, Y. Gu, M. I. Watson, T. Yu, Gregg J. Bluth, A. J. Prata, A. J. Krueger, N. Krotkov, S. Carn, M. D. Fromm, D. E. Hunton, G. G. J. Ernst, A. A. Viggiano, T. M. Miller, J. O. Ballenthin, J. M. Reeves, J. C. Wilson, B. E. Anderson, and D. E. Flittner

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Open-vent volcanism and related hazards: Overview, William I. Rose, José Luis Palma, Hugo Delgado Granados, and Nick Varley

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A 50 yr eruption of a basaltic composite cone: Pacaya, Guatemala, William I. Rose, José Luis Palma, Rüdiger Escobar Wolf, and Rubén Otoniel Matías Gomez

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An integrated field-numerical approach to assess slope stability hazards at volcanoes: the example of Pacaya, Guatemala, Lauren N. Schaefer, Thomas Oommen, Claudia Corazzato, Alessandro Tibaldi, Rüdiger Escobar Wolf, and William I. Rose

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Quantifying Available Water Supply in Rural Mali based on Data Collected by and from Women, Cara Shonsey and John S. Gierke

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The sulfur budget of the 2011 Grímsvötn eruption, Iceland, Olgeir Sigmarsson, Baptiste Haddadi, Simon Carn, Séverine Moune, Jõnas Gudnason, Kai Yang, and Lieven Clarisse

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Detailed multidisciplinary monitoring reveals pre- and co-eruptive signals at Nyamulagira volcano (North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo), Benoît Smets, Nicolas d'Oreye, François Kervyn, Matthieu Kervyn, Fabien Albino, Santiago R. Arellano, Montfort Bagalwa, Charles Balagizi, Simon A. Carn, Thomas H. Darrah, José Fernández, Bo Galle, Pablo J. González, Elisabet Head, Katcho Karume, Deogratias Kavotha, François Lukaya, Niche Mashagiro, Georges Mavonga, Patrik Norman, Etoy Osodundu, José L.G. Pallero, Juan F. Prieto, Sergey Samsonov, Muhindo Syauswa, Dario Tedesco, Kristy Tiampo, Christelle Wauthier, and Mathieu M. Yalire

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Surfactant addition to alkali solutions for increased carbon dioxide absorption rates, Brett P. Spigarelli

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Effect of CO2 inhibition on biogenic isoprene emission: Implications for air quality under 2000 to 2050 changes in climate, vegetation, and land use, Amos P.K. Tai, Loretta J. Mickley, Colette L. Heald, and Shiliang Wu

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Modeling acute respiratory illness during the 2007 San Diego wildland fires using a coupled emissions-transport system and general additive modeling, Brian Thelen, Nancy H. F. French, Benjamin W. Koziol, Michael Billmire, Robert Chris Owen, Jeffrey Johnson, Michele Ginsberg, Tatiana Loboda, and Shiliang Wu

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Variability in eruption style and associated very long period events at Fuego volcano, Guatemala, Greg Waite, Patricia A. Nadeau, and John J. Lyons

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Modeling of 2008 Kasatochi volcanic sulfate direct radiative forcing: Assimilation of OMI SO < inf> 2 plume height data and comparison with MODIS and CALIOP observations, J. Wang, S. Park, J. Zeng, C. Ge, K. Yang, S. Carn, N. Krotkov, and A. H. Omar

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Sensitivity of surface ozone over China to 2000-2050 global changes of climate and emissions, Yuxuan Wang, Lulu Shen, Shiliang Wu, Loretta Mickley, Jingwei He, and Jiming Hao

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Secondary organic aerosol formation from semi- and intermediate-volatility organic compounds and glyoxal: Relevance of O/C as a tracer for aqueous multiphase chemistry, Eleanor M. Waxman, Katja Dzepina, Barbara Ervens, Julia Lee-Taylor, Bernard Aumont, Jose L. Jimenez, Sasha Madronich, and Rainer Volkamer

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First observations of SO < inf> 2 from the satellite Suomi NPP OMPS: Widespread air pollution events over China, Kai Yang, Russell R. Dickerson, S. Carn, Cui Ge, and Jun Wang

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Retrieval of sulfate and silicate ash masses in young (1 to 4 days old) eruption clouds using multiband infrared HIRS/2 data, Tianxu Yu and William I. Rose

Submissions from 2012

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Michigan’s earliest geology: The Precambrian, Theodore J. Bornhorst and D. Brandt

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Copper mining: A billion years of geologic and human history, Theodore J. Bornhorst and L D. Lankton

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A Review of Volcanic Ash Aggregation, R. J. Brown, C. Bonadonna, and A. J. Durant

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Estimation and propagation of volcanic source parameter uncertainty in an ash transport and dispersal model: Application to the Eyjafjallajokull plume of 14-16 April 2010, Marcus Bursik, Matthew Jones, Simon A. Carn, Ken Dean, Abani Patra, Michael Pavolonis, E. Bruce Pitman, Tarunraj Singh, Puneet Singla, Peter Webley, Halldor Bjornsson, and Maurizio Ripepe

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Multiple effects of changes in arctic snow cover, Terry V. Callaghan, Margareta Johansson, Ross D. Brown, Pavel Ya Groisman, Niklas Labba, Vladimir Radionov, Richard E. Honrath, and et al.

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Space- and ground-based measurements of sulphur dioxide emissions from Turrialba Volcano (Costa Rica), Robin Campion, Maria Martinez-Cruz, Thomas Lecocq, Corentin Caudron, Javier Pacheco, Gaia Pinardi, Christian Hermans, Simon A. Carn, and Alain Bernard

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Map of the 1961-2010 Eruptions of Volcán de Pacaya, Guatemala, Rubén Otoniel Matías Gomez, William I. Rose, José Luis Palma, and Rüdiger Escobar Wolf

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A comparison of SO2 retrieval techniques using mini-UV spectrometers and ASTER imagery at Lascar volcano, Chile, L. A. Henney, L. A. Rodríguez, and M. I. Watson

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Increasing expertise in earth science education through master's education, Jacqueline E. Huntoon and Brad Baltensperger

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An eruptive history of Maderas volcano using new 40Ar/39Ar ages and geochemical analyses, Lara Kapelanczyk, William I. Rose, and Brian Jicha

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Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral studies of disturbed Lake Superior coastal environments, W. Charles Kerfoot, Foad Yousef, Sarah A. Green, Robert Regis, Robert Shuchman, Colin N. Brooks, Michael Sayers, Bruce Sabol, and Mark Graves

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Recent explosive eruptions and volcano hazards at Soputan volcano-a basalt stratovolcano in north Sulawesi, Indonesia, Kushendratno, John S. Pallister, Kristianto, Farid Ruskanda Bina, Wendy McCausland, Simon A. Carn, Nia Haerani, Julia Griswold, and Ron Keeler

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Volatile loss from melt inclusions in pyroclasts of differing sizes, Alexander S. Lloyd, Terry Plank, Philipp Ruprecht, Erik H. Hauri, and William I. Rose

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Numerical modeling of volcanic slope instability and related hazards at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, L. N. Schaefer, T. Oommen, C. Corazzato, A. Tibaldi, and W. I. Rose

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The magmatic plumbing system beneath Santiaguito Volcano, Guatemala, Jeannie A.J. Scott, Tamsin A. Mather, David M. Pyle, William I. Rose, and Gustavo Chigna

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Geochemistry and evolution of the Santiaguito volcanic dome complex, Guatemala, Jeannie A.J. Scott, David M. Pyle, Tamsin A. Mather, and William I. Rose

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Impacts of changes in land use and land cover on atmospheric chemistry and air quality over the 21st century, S. Wu, L. J. Mickley, J. O. Kaplan, and D. J. Jacob

Submissions from 2011

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Copper deposits of the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert J. Barron

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Opportunistic validation of sulfur dioxide in the Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption cloud, S. Carn and T. M. Lopez

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Long-range volcanic ash transport and fallout during the 2008 eruption of Chaitén volcano, Chile, Adam J. Durant, Gustavo Villarosa, William I. Rose, Pierre Delmelle, Alfred J. Prata, and José G. Viramonte

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Ethane, ethyne and carbon monoxide concentrations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from ACE and GEOS-Chem: A comparison study, G. González Abad, N. D.C. Allen, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, S. D. McLeod, G. L. Manney, G. C. Toon, C. Carouge, Y. Wang, Shiliang Wu, and x

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Impacts of future climate change and effects of biogenic emissions on surface ozone and particulate matter concentrations in the United States, Y. F. Lam, J. S. Fu, S. Wu, and L. J. Mickley

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Multiple Regressive Pattern Recognition Technique: An Adapted Approach for Improved Georesource Estimation, Thomas Oommen, Debasmita Misra, Anupma Prakash, Sukumar Bandopadhyay, Sathy Naidu, and John J. Kelley

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Fate of volcanic ash: Aggregation and fallout, William I. Rose and Adam J. Durant

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Evolving Core Conditions ca. 2 Billion Years Ago Detected by Paleosecular Variation, Aleksey V. Smirnov, John A. Tarduno, and David A.D. Evans

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Determination of time-and height-resolved volcanic ash emissions and their use for quantitative ash dispersion modeling: The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, A. Stohl, A. J. Prata, S. Eckhardt, L. Clarisse, A. Durant, S. Henne, N. I. Kristiansen, A. Minikin, U. Schumann, P. Seibert, K. Stebel, H. E. Thomas, T. Thorsteinsson, K. Tørseth, and B. Weinzierl

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Sulphur dioxide as a volcanic ash proxy during the April-May 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland, H. E. Thomas and A. J. Prata

Works from 2010

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Pre-colombian mercury pollution associated with the smelting of argentiferous ores in the bolivian andes, Colin A. Cooke, Prentiss H. Balcom, Charles Kerfoot, Mark B. Abbott, and Alexander P. Wolfe

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Source attribution and interannual variability of Arctic pollution in spring constrained by aircraft (ARCTAS, ARCPAC) and satellite (AIRS) observations of carbon monoxide, J. A. Fisher, D. J. Jacob, M. T. Purdy, M. Kopacz, P. Le Sager, Shiliang Wu, and et. al.

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Kudzu (Pueraria montana) invasion doubles emissions of nitric oxide and increases ozone pollution, Jonathan E. Hickman, Shiliang Wu, Loretta J. Mickley, and Manuel T. Lerdau

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Modeling dust and soluble iron deposition to the South Atlantic Ocean, Matthew Johnson, Nicholas Meskhidze, Fabien Solomon, Santiago Gassó, Patrick Y. Chuang, Shiliang Wu, and et. al.

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Shape and surface area measurements using scanning electron microscope stereo-pair images of volcanic ash particles, Owen P. Mills and William I. Rose