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Works from 2012

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The regeneration of waste foundry sand and residue stabilization using coal refuse, Chong Lyuck Park, Byoung Gon Kim, and Youngchul Ra

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Properties of Sarychev sulphate aerosols over the Arctic, C. Perro, A. Saha, G. Lesins, T. J. Duck, E. W. Eloranta, G. J. Nott, M. L. Karumudi, I. Abboud, S. A. Carn, and V. Savastiouk

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Icequake locations and discrimination of source and path effects with small aperture arrays, Bering Glacier terminus, AK, Joshua P. Richardson, Gregory P. Waite, Wayne D. Pennington, Roger M. Turpening, and James M. Robinson

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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

Works from 2011

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Collaborative studies target volcanic hazards in Central America, Gregg J.S. Blut and William I. Rose

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

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In situ measurements of tropospheric volcanic plumes in Ecuador and Colombia during TC4, Simon Carn, K. D. Froyd, B. E. Anderson, P. Wennberg, J. Crounse, K. Spencer, J. E. Dibb, N. A. Krotkov, E. V. Browell, J. W. Hair, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, and S. A. Vay

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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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Improving student learning by addressing misconceptions, Carol A. Engelmann and Jacqueline Huntoon

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Life cycle assessment of vertical and horizontal flow constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment considering nitrogen and carbon greenhouse gas emissions, Valerie J. Fuchs, James R. Mihelcic, and John S. Gierke

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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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Insight into volatile behavior at Nyamuragira volcano (D.R. Congo, Africa) through olivine-hosted melt inclusions, Elisabet M. Head, Alison M. Shaw, Paul J. Wallace, Kenneth W.W. Sims, and Simon Carn

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Degassing processes during lava dome growth: Insights from Santiaguito lava dome, Guatemala, A. S.Peter Holland, I. Matthew Watson, Jeremy C. Phillips, Luca Caricchi, and Marika P. Dalton

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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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Dynamics of explosive volcanism at Fuego volcano imaged with very long period seismicity, John Lyons and Gregory P. Waite

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Linking volcanic tremor, degassing, and eruption dynamics via SO2 imaging, Patricia A. Nadeau, José L. Palma, and Gregory P. Waite

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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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Volcanic hazards and remote sensing in Pacific Latin America, Bill Rose, Rdiger Escobar, and John Lyons

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Advancing remote sensing of volcanic clouds, William I. Rose

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

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Development of a low-temperature insert for the measurement of remanent magnetization direction using superconducting quantum interference device rock magnetometers, Aleksey V. Smirnov and John A. Tarduno

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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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Satellite-based constraints on explosive SO2 release from Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, Simon A. Carn and Fred J. Prata

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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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Recent rift-related volcanism in Afar, Ethiopia, David J. Ferguson, Talfan D. Barnie, David M. Pyle, Clive Oppenheimer, Gezahegn Yirgu, Elias Lewi, Tesfaye Kidane, Simon Carn, and Ian Hamling

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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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A model for wet aggregation of ash particles in volcanic plumes and clouds: 2. Model application, A. Folch, A. Costa, A. Durant, and G. Macedonio

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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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Holocene valley-floor deposition and incision in a small drainage basin in western Colorado, USA, Lawrence S. Jones, Margaret Rosenburg, Maria del Mar Figueroa, Kathleen McKee, Ben Haravitch, and Jenna Hunter

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Interdisciplinary Minor In Hydrogen Technology At Michigan Technological University, Jason M. Keith, Daniel Crowl, David W. Caspary, Jeffrey Allen, Jeffrey Naber, Dennis Meng, Abhijit Mukherjee, John T. Lukowski, Jay Meldrum, and Barry Solomon

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Dispersion and lifetime of the SO2 cloud from the August 2008 Kasatochi eruption, N. A. Krotkov, M. R. Schoeberl, G. A. Morris, Simon Carn, and K. Yang

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Erratum to A multidisciplinary effort to assign realistic source parameters to models of volcanic ash-cloud transport and dispersion during eruptions [J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 188, (2009), 1-21], L. G. Mastin, M. Guffanti, R. Servranckx, P. Webley, S. Barsotti, K. Dean, A. Durant, J. W. Ewert, A. Neri, W. I. Rose, D. Schneider, L. Siebert, B. Stunder, G. Swanson, A. Tupper, A. Volentik, and C. F. Waythomas

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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

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A volcano rekindled: the renewed eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004–2006, William I. Rose

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Co-location of eruption sites of the Siberian Traps and North Atlantic Igneous Province: Implications for the nature of hotspots and mantle plumes, Aleksey Smirnov and John A. Tarduno

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Validation of ozone monitoring instrument SO2 measurements in the Okmok volcanic cloud over Pullman, WA, July 2008, Elena Spinei, Simon A. Carn, Nickolay A. Krotkov, George H. Mount, Kai Yang, and Arlin Krueger

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Observations of volcanic emissions from space: Current and future perspectives, H. E. Thomas and M. I. Watson

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Geologic Map of Santiaguito Dome Complex, Guatemala, Rüdiger Escobar Wolf, Rubén Otoniel Matías Gomez, and William I. Rose

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Direct retrieval of sulfur dioxide amount and altitude from spaceborne hyperspectral UV measurements: Theory and application, Kai Yang, Xiong Liu, Pawan K. Bhartia, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Simon Carn, Eric J. Hughes, Arlin J. Krueger, Robert J.D. Spurr, and Samuel G. Trahan

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Spatial distributions of particle number concentrations in the global troposphere: Simulations, observations, and implications for nucleation mechanisms, Fangqun Yu, Gan Luo, Timothy S. Bates, Bruce Anderson, Antony Clarke, Vladimir Kapustin, Robert M. Yantosca, Yuxuan Wang, and Shiliang Wu

Works from 2009

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Surge in sulphur and halogen degassing from Ambrym volcano, Vanuatu, Philipson Bani, Clive Oppenheimer, Vitchko I. Tsanev, Simon Carn, Shane J. Cronin, Rachel Crimp, Julie A. Calkins, Douglas Charley, Michel Lardy, and Tjarda R. Roberts

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Remarkable geochemical changes and degassing at Voui crater lake, Ambae volcano, Vanuatu, Philipson Bani, Clive Oppenheimer, Johan C. Varekamp, Thomas Quiniou, Michel Lardy, and Simon Carn

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The Unexpected Awakening of Chaitén Volcano, Chile, S. A. Carn, J. S. Paluster, L. Lara, J. W. Ewert, S. Watt, A. J. Prata, R. J. Thomas, and G. Villarosa

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Micron-scale roughness of volcanic surfaces from thermal infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy, Adam J. Carter, Michael S. Ramsey, Adam J. Durant, Ian P. Skilling, and Amy Wolfe

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Assessment of the UV camera sulfur dioxide retrieval for point source plumes, Marika P. Dalton, I. Matthew Watson, Patricia Nadeau, Cynthia Werner, William Morrow, and Jeremy M. Shannon

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Sedimentological constraints on hydrometeor-enhanced particle deposition: 1992 Eruptions of Crater Peak, Alaska, Adam J. Durant and William I. Rose

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Hydrometeor-enhanced tephra sedimentation: Constraints from the 18 May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Adam J. Durant, William I. Rose, A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki, S. Carey, and A. C. M. Volentik

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40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala, Rüdiger P. Escobar Wolf, Jimmy F. Diehl, Brad S. Singer, and William I. Rose

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Particle sizes of andesitic ash fallout from vertical eruptions and co-pyroclastic flow clouds, Volcán de Colima, Mexico, Jason Evans, Jacqueline E. Huntoon, William I. Rose, Nick Varley, and John A. Stevenson

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Multimodel estimates of intercontinental source‐receptor relationships for ozone pollution, Arlene M. Fiore, F. J. Dentener, O. Wild, C. Cuvelier, M. G. Schultz, Shiliang Wu, and et. al.

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Mineral carbonation for carbon sequestration in cement kiln dust from waste piles, Deborah N. Huntzinger, John S. Gierke, Lawrence Sutter, S. K. Kawatra, and Timothy Eisele

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Dissection of a composite volcanic earthquake at Santiaguito, Guatemala, J. B. Johnson, R. Sanderson, J. Lyons, R. Escobar-Wolf, G. Waite, and J. M. Lees

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Correcting satellite-based infrared sulfur dioxide retrievals for the presence of silicate ash, C. S. Kearney and I. M. Watson

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A comparison of thermal infrared and ultraviolet retrievals of SO < inf> 2 in the cloud produced by the 2003 Al-Mishraq State sulfur plant fire, C. Kearney, I. M. Watson, G. J.S. Bluth, S. Cam, and V. J. Realmuto

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Effect of agglomeration binders on the copper solvent extraction process, K. A. Lewandowski and S. K. Kawatra

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Patterns in open vent, strombolian behavior at Fuego volcano, Guatemala, 2005–2007, John J. Lyons, Gregory P. Waite, William I. Rose, and Gustavo Chigna

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Influence of the 2008 Kasatochi volcanic eruption on sulfurous and carbonaceous aerosol constituents in the lower stratosphere, B. G. Martinsson, C. A.M. Brenninkmeijer, S. A. Cam, M. Hermann, K. P. Heue, P. F.J. Van Velthoven, and A. Zahn

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A multidisciplinary effort to assign realistic source parameters to models of volcanic ash-cloud transport and dispersion during eruptions, L. G. Mastin, M. Guffanti, R. Servranckx, P. Webley, S. Barsotti, K. Dean, Adam J. Durant, J. W. Ewert, A. Neri, William I. Rose, D. Schneider, L. Siebert, B. Stunder, G. Swanson, A. Tupper, A. Volentik, and C. F. Waythomas

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The source of infrasound associated with long-period events at mount St. Helens, Robin S. Matoza, Milton A. Garces, Bernard A. Chouet, Luca D'Auria, Michael A.H. Hedlin, Catherine De Groot-Hedlin, and Gregory P. Waite

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Apparent downwind depletion of volcanic SO2 flux - Lessons from Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua, Patricia Nadeau and Glyn Williams-Jones

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Technical note: a new method for the Lagrangian tracking of pollution plumes from source to receptor using gridded model output, R. C. Owen and R. E. Honrath

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Effect of changes in climate and emissions on future sulfate-nitrate-ammonium aerosol levels in the United States, H. O.T. Pye, H. Liao, S. Wu, L. J. Mickley, D. J. Jacob, D. J. Henze, and J. H. Seinfeld

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Community partnered projects: A case study of a collaborative effort to improve sanitation in a marginalized community in northwest Mexico, Agustin Robles-Morua, Alex Mayer, and Mary Durfee

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Fine ash content of explosive eruptions, William I. Rose and Adam J. Durant

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Global health and economic impacts of future ozone pollution, N. E. Selin, S. Wu, K. M. Nam, J. M. Reilly, S. Paltsev, R. G. Prinn, and M. D. Webster

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Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow, Robert B. Smith, Michael Jordan, Bernhard Steinberger, Christine M. Puskas, Jamie Farrell, Gregory P. Waite, Stephan Husen, Wu Lung Chang, and Richard O'Connell

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Assessing the application of SeaWiFS ocean color algorithms to Lake Erie, Donna L. Witter, Joseph D. Ortiz, Sarah Palm, Robert T. Heath, and Judith W. Budd

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Late quaternary explosive silicic volcanism on St Lucia, West Indies, J. V. Wright, M. J. Roobol, A. L. Smith, R. S. J. Sparks, William I. Rose, and Haraldur Sigurdsson

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Chemical nonlinearities in relating intercontinental ozone pollution to anthropogenic emissions, Shiliang Wu, Bryan N. Duncan, Daniel J. Jacob, Arlene M. Fiore, and Oliver Wild

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Improving retrieval of volcanic sulfur dioxide from backscattered UV satellite observations, Kai Yang, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Arlin J. Krueger, Simon A. Carn, Pawan K. Bhartia, and Pieternel F. Levelt

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Estimating the altitude of volcanic sulfur dioxide plumes from space borne hyper-spectral UV measurements, Kai Yang, Xiong Liu, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Arlin J. Krueger, and Simon A. Carn

Works from 2008

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Optimal Design of Pump-and-Treat Systems under Uncertain Hydraulic Conductivity and Plume Distribution, Domenico A. Baú and Alex Mayer

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Investigation of at-vent dynamics and dilution using thermal infrared radiometers at Masaya volcano, Nicaragua, Yvonne K. Branan, Andrew Harris, I. Matthew Watson, J. C. Phillips, Keith Horton, Glyn Williams-Jones, and Harold Garbeil

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Measurements of so2 profiles in volcanic plumes from the NASA Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), C. Clerbaux, P. F. Coheur, L. Clarisse, J. Hadji-Lazaro, D. Hurtmans, S. Turquety, K. Bowman, H. Worden, and Simon Carn

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Ice nucleation and overseeding of ice in volcanic clouds, Adam J. Durant, R. A. Shaw, William I. Rose, Y. Mi, and G. G. J. Ernst

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Trans-1,2-Dicyano-cyclopropane and other cyano-cyclopropane derivatives : AAAA theoretical and experimental VA, VCD, Raman and ROA spectroscopic study, K. J. Jalkanen, J. D. Gale, G. J. Jalkanen, D. F. McIntosh, A. A. El-Azhary, and G. M. Jensen

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Economic valuation of environmental services sustained by water flows in the Yaqui River Delta, Monica Ilija Ojeda, Alex Mayer, and Barry Solomon

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Correlations between SO2 flux, seismicity, and outgassing activity at the open vent of Villarrica volcano, Chile, José Luis Palma, Eliza S. Calder, Daniel Basualto, Stephen Blake, and David A. Rothery

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Chemical characteristics of Finnish bedrock– 1:1000000 scale bedrock map units, K Rasilainen, R Lahtinen, and Theodore J. Bornhorst

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SO2 loss rates in the plume emitted by Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat, Lizzette Rodriguez, I. Matthew Watson, Marie Edmonds, Graham Ryan, Vicky Hards, Clive M.M. Oppenheimer, and Gregg J. S. Bluth

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El Chichón volcano, April 4, 1982: volcanic cloud history and fine ash fallout, William I. Rose and Adam J. Durant

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Eruption dynamics at Mount St. Helens imaged from broadband seismic waveforms: Interaction of the shallow magmatic and hydrothermal systems, Gregory P. Waite, Bernard A. Chouet, and Phillip B. Dawson

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Rise dynamics and relative ash distribution in vulcanian eruption plumes at Santiaguito Volcano, Guatemala, revealed using an ultraviolet imaging camera, Hiroko Yamamoto, I. Matthew Watson, Jeremy C. Phillips, and Gregg J. S. Bluth

Works from 2007

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Data-worth analysis for multiobjective optimal design of pump-and-treat remediation systems, Domenico A. Baú and Alex Mayer

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Development of an ultra-violet digital camera for volcanic SO2 imaging, G. J.S. Bluth, J. M. Shannon, I. M. Watson, A. J. Prata, and V. J. Realmuto

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Greenockite and associated uranium-vanadium minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, S. M. Carlson, George W. Robinson, M. J. Elder, John A. Jaszczak, and Theodore J. Bornhorst

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Multi-university Internet video-conferencing course provides novel approach to student-directed learning, Adam J. Durant, William I. Rose, Crystal Mann, and John Stix

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Disc Cutting Tests in Colorado Red Granite: Implications for TBM Performance Prediction, R. Gertsch, L. Gertsch, and J. Rostami

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Diversity in the geosciences and successful strategies for increasing diversity, Jacqueline E. Huntoon and Melissa J. Lane

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Magnetofossil spike during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: Ferromagnetic resonance, rock magnetic, and electron microscopy evidence from Ancora, New Jersey, United States, Robert E. Kopp, Timothy D. Raub, Dirk Schumann, Hojatollah Vali, Aleksey Smirnov, and Joseph L. Kirschvink

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Volcanic emissions from Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico, quantified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) infrared data: A case study of the December 2000–January 2001 emissions, M. A. Matiella-Novak, M. I. Watson, H. Delgado-Granados, William I. Rose, L. Cárdenas-González, and V. J. Realmuto

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Simultaneous Optimization of Dense Non-aqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL) Source and Contaminant Plume Remediation, Alex Mayer and Karen L. Endres

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Estimation of fault-zone conductance by calibration of a regional groundwater flow model: Desert Hot Springs, California, Alex Mayer, Wesley May, Chad Lukkarila, and Jimmy F. Diehl