The department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences “faculty and staff provide expertise in diverse areas, including Tectonics, Geophysics, Historical Geology, Atmospheric Dynamics and Chemistry, Environmental Geosciences, Biogeochemistry, Climate Change, Geoscience Education, Planetary Sciences, and many other areas. EAS has a uniquely qualified faculty and is well positioned to lead discovery and learning in the earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences.” The department focuses on conducting both interdisciplinary and disciplinary research that can be viewed in the faculty publications below.
Submissions from 2022
Comparison of the Performance of the Observation-Based Hybrid EDMF and EDMF-TKE PBL Schemes in 2020 Tropical Cyclone Forecasts from the Globalnested Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System, Andrew Hazelton, Jun A. Zhang, and Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan
Submissions from 2021
Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Practices for Maize Production in Eastern Ethiopia, Helen Teshome, Kindie Tesfaye, Nigussie Dechassa, Tamado Tana, and Matthew Huber
Submissions from 2020
Simulations and Experiments Reveal Effect of Nanopores on Helium Diffusion in Quartz, Rustin Domingos, Marissa M. Tremblay, David L. Shuster, and Burkhard Militzer
Submissions from 2016
The Purdue Agro-climatic (PAC) Dataset for The U.S. Corn Belt: Development and Initial Results, Xing Liu, Elin Jacobs, Anil Kumar, Larry Biehl, Jeff Andersen, and Dev Niyogi
Improved prediction of severe thunderstorms over the Indian Monsoon region using high-resolution soil moisture and temperature initialization, K. K. Osuri, R. Nadimpalli, U. C. Mohanty, F. Chen, M. Rajeevan, and Dev Niyogi
Deep time evidence for climate sensitivity increase with warming, Gary Shaffer, Matthew Huber, Roberto Rondanelli, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen
Submissions from 2015
What do experienced water managers think of water resources of our nation and its management infrastructure?, Faisal Hossain, Jeffrey R. Arnold, Edward Beighley, Casey M. Brown, Steven J. Burian, Ji Chen, Anindita Mitra, Dev Dutta S Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke, Vincent C. Tidwell, and Dave Wegner
Submissions from 2014
An Efficient Method of Estimating Downward Solar Radiation Based on the MODIS Observations for the Use of Land Surface Modeling, Min Chen, Qianlai Zhuang, and Yujie He
Uncertainties in the Modelled CO2 Threshold for Antarctic Glaciation, E. Gasson, D. J. Lunt, R. DeConto, A. Goldner, M. Heinemann, Matthew Huber, A. N. LeGrande, D. Pollard, N. Sagoo, M. Siddall, A. Winguth, and P. J. Valdes
The Challenge of Simulating the Warmth of the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimun in CESM1, A. Goldner, N. Herold, and Matthew Huber
A Suite of Early Eocene (~55 Ma) Climate Model Boundary Conditions, N. Herold, J. Buzan, M. Seton, A. Goldner, J. A. M. Green, R. D. Müller, P. Markwick, and Matthew Huber
Nd Isotopic Structure of the Pacific Ocean 70-30 and Numerical Evidence for Vigorous Ocean Circulation and Ocean Heat Transport in a Greenhouse World, Deborah J. Thomas, Robert Korty, Matthew Huber, Jessica A. Schubert, and Brian Haines
Impacts of Urban Development on Precipitation in the Tropical Maritime Climate of Puerto Rico, Ángel Torres-Valcárcel, Jonathan Harbor, Cesar González-Avilés, and Ana Torres-Valcárcel
Submissions from 2013
Does Antarctic Glaciation Cool the World, A. Goldner, Matthew Huber, and R. Caballero
Tidal Dissipation in the Early Eocene and Implications for Ocean Mixing, J. A.M. Green and Matthew Huber
Excitation of Equatorial Kelvin and Yanai Waves by Tropical Cyclones in an Ocean General Circulation Model, R. L. Sriver, Matthew Huber, and L. Chafik
Submissions from 2012
Modeling the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Ocean Circulation, Nicholas Herold, Matthew Huber, R. D. Müller, and M. Seton
A Model-data Comparison for a Multi-model Ensemble of Early Eocene Atmosphere-ocean Simulations: EoMIP, D. J. Lunt, T. Dunkley Jones, M. Heinemann, Matthew Huber, A. LeGrande, A. Winguth, C. Loptson, J. Marotzke, C. D. Roberts, J. Tindall, P. Valdes, and C. Winguth
Dietary Heterogeneity Among Western Industrialized Countries Reflected in the Stable Isotope Ratios of Human Hair., Luciano O. Valenzuela, Lesley A. Chesson, Gabriel J. Bowen, Thure E. Cerling, and James R. Ehleringer
Submissions from 2011
Effect of tile effluent on nutrient concentration and retention efficiency in agricultural drainage ditches, L. M. Ahiablame, I. Chaubey, D. R. Smith, and B. A. Engel
Developing a process model for visual penetrative ability, Mathew Alles and Eric M. Riggs
Some lower bounds in the B. and M. Shapiro conjecture for flag varieties, Monique Azar and Andrei Gabrielov
Sources of Terrestrial Organic Carbon in the Mississippi Plume Region: Evidence for the Importance of Coastal Marsh Inputs, Thomas S. Bianchi, Laura A. Wysocki, Kathryn M. Schreiner, Timothy R. Filley, D. R. Corbett, and Alexander S. Kolker
Environmental Forcings of Paleogene Southern Ocean Dinoflagellate Biogeography, Peter K. Bijl, Jörg Pross, Jeroen Warnaar, Catherine E. Stickley, Matthew Huber, Raquel Guerstein, Alexander J.P. Houben, Appy Sluijs, Henk Visscher, and Henk Brinkhuis
Crustal structure across the central Alaska Range: Anatomy of a Mesozoic collisional zone, P.R.K. Brennan, H. Gilbert, and K. D. Ridgway
Refining oxygen isotope analysis in the Nasca region of Peru: An investigation of water sources and archaeological samples, M. R. Buzon, C. A. Conlee, and G. J. Bowen
A Proposed Model-Based Methodology for Feature-Specific Prediction for High-Impact Weather, Jacob R. Carley, Benjamin R.J. Schwedler, Michael E. Baldwin, Robert J. Trapp, John Kwiatkowski, Jeffrey Logsdon, and Steven J. Weiss
Facilitating Joint Chaos and Fractal Analysis of Biosignals through Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering., Jianbo Gao, Jing Hu, and Wen-wen Tung
Implications of the Permanent El Niño Teleconnection "Blueprint" for Past Global and North American Hydroclimatology, A. Goldner, Matthew Huber, N. Diffenbaugh, and R. Caballero
Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Assessment Including Site Effects for Evansville, Indiana, and the Surrounding Region, Jennifer S. Haase, Yoon Seok Choi, Tim Bowling, and Robert L. Nowack
Liquefaction Hazard near the Ohio River from Midwestern Scenario Earthquakes, Jennifer S. Haase, Yoon Seok Choi, and Robert L. Nowack
Earthquake Scenario Ground Motions for the Urban Area of Evansville, Indiana, Jennifer S. Haase and Robert L. Nowack
Modeling the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Part I: Land and Atmosphere, N. Herold, Matthew Huber, and R. D. Müller
Early to Middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia, Nicholas Herold, Matthew Huber, D. R. Greenwood, R. D. Muller, and M. Seton
The Early Eocene Equable Climate Problem Revisited, Matthew Huber and R. Caballero
El Niño in the Eocene Greenhouse Recorded by Fossil Bivalves and Wood from Antarctica, Linda C. Ivany, Thomas Brey, Matthew Huber, Devin P. Buick, and Bernd R. Schöne
Temporal variation of oxygen isotope ratios ([delta] 18O) in drinking water: Implications for specifying location of origin with human scalp hair, Casey D. Kennedy, Gabriel J. Bowen, and James R. Ehleringer
Pacific/North American teleconnection controls on precipitation isotope ratios across the contiguous United States, Zhongfang Liu, Gabriel J. Bowen, and Casey D. Kennedy
Lake Ice phenology of small lakes: Impacts of climate variability in the Great Lakes region, Vimal Mishra, Keith A. Cherkauer, Laura C. Bowling, and Matthew Huber
GPS/INS navigation precision and its effect on airborne radio occultation retrieval accuracy, Paytsar Muradyan, Jennifer S. Haase, Feiqin Xie, James L. Garrison, and Justin Voo
Scaling laws for fractional Brownian motion with power-law clock, Daniel O’Malley, John H. Cushman, and Graham Johnson
The Complexity of Brownian Processes Run with Nonlinear Clocks, Moongyu Park and John H. Cushman
Selection and placement of best management practices used to reduce water quality degradation in Lincoln Lake watershed, Hector German Rodriguez, Jennie Popp, Chetan Maringanti, and Indrajeet Chaubey
Seventh grade students' mental models of the greenhouse effect, Daniel P. Shepardson, Soyoung Choi, Dev Niyogi, and Umarporn Charusombat
Students’ conceptions about the greenhouse effect, global warming, and climate change, Daniel P. Shepardson, Dev Niyogi, Soyoung Choi, and Umarporn Charusombat
Effect of the Deepening of the Tasman Gateway on the Global Ocean, Willem P. Sijp, Matthew H. England, and Matthew Huber
Numerical study of 1998 late summer flood in East Asia, Wen Yih Sun, Ki Hong Min, and Jiun Dar Chern
Ecosystem effects of non-native earthworms in Mid-Atlantic deciduous forests, Katalin Szlavecz, Melissa McCormick, Lijun Xia, Jaclyn Saunders, Taylan Morcol, Dennis Whigham, Timothy Filley, and Csaba Csuzdi
Technical Note: Propagating correlations in atmospheric inversions using different Kalman update smoothers, Jinyun Tang and Quinlai Zhuang
Regional climate of hazardous convective weather through high-resolution dynamical downscaling, Robert J. Trapp, Eric D. Robinson, Michael E. Baldwin, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, and Benjamin R. J. Schwedler
The influence of drinking water on the $ẹlta$D and $ẹlta$18O values of house sparrow plasma, blood and feathers, N. Wolf, G. J. Bowen, and C. M. del Rio
Submissions from 2010
An Extended Solar Cycle 23 with Deep Minimum Transition to Cycle 24: Assessments and Climatic Ramifications, Ernest M. Agee, Emily Cornett, and Kandace Gleason
Nutrient Content at the Sediment-Water Interface of Tile-Fed Agricultural Drainage Ditches, Laurent Ahiablame, Indrajeet Chaubey, and Douglas Smith
Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents, Jason R. Ali and Matthew Huber
Contemporary deformation and stressing rates in Southern Alaska, Syed Tabrez Ali and Andrew M. Freed
Estimating methane emissions from northern lakes using ice-bubble surveys, Katey W. Anthony, Drago A. Vas, Laura Brosius, F. Stuart Chapin III, Sergey A. Zimov, and Qianlai Zhuang
A New Three-Dimensional Visualization System for Combining Aircraft and Radar Data and Its Application to RICO Observations, Dan K. Arthur, Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Ayman Abdel-Haleem, Nicholas Klosterman, and David S. Ebert
Spectroscopy of sulfates, clays, and iron oxides in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Julianne Bell, Brenda B. Bowen, and Brigette Martini
Imaging spectroscopy of jarosite cement in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Julianne H. Bell, Brenda Beitler Bowen, and Brigette A. Martini
Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch forcing of the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) Terres Noires Formation (SE France) and global implications, S. Boulila, B. Galbrun, L. A. Hinnov, P. Y. Collin, James G. Ogg, D. Fortwengler, and D. Marchand
Isoscapes: Spatial Pattern in Isotopic Biogeochemistry, Gabriel J. Bowen
Statistical and geostatistical mapping of precipitation water isotope ratios, Gabriel J. Bowen, Jason West, Todd E. Dawson, and Kevin P. Tung
Spontaneous Transition to Superrotation in Warm Climates Simulated by CAM3, Rodrigo Caballero and Matthew Huber
Spontaneous transition to superrotation in warm climates simulated by CAM3, Rodrigo Caballero and Matthew Huber
Transpressional rupture of an unmapped fault during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, E. Calais, A. Freed, G. Mattioli, F. Amelung, S. Jónsson, P. Jansma, S. H. Hong, T. Dixon, C. Prépetit, and R. Momplaisir
Triggering of New Madrid seismicity by late-Pleistocene erosion, Eric Calais, A. M. Freed, R. Van Arsdale, and S. Stein
Transpressional rupture of an unmapped fault during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Eric Calais, Andrew Freed, Glen Mattioli, Falk Amelung, Sigurjón Jónsson, Pamela Jansma, Sang-Hoon Hong, Timothy Dixon, Claude Prépetit, and Roberte Momplaisir
Effectiveness of best management practices in improving water quality in a pasture-dominated watershed, Indrajeet Chaubey, Lichi Chiang, Margaret W. Gitau, and Sayeed Mohamed
Shear-wave birefringence and current configuration of converging lithosphere under Tibet, Wang-Ping Chen, Michael Martin, Tai-Lin Tseng, Robert L. Nowack, Shu-Huei Hung, and Bor-Shouh Huang
Analysis of the hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios of beverage waters without prior water extraction using isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy, Lesley A. Chesson, G. J. Bowen, and James R. Ehleringer
Differentiating impacts of land use changes from pasture management in a CEAP watershed using SWAT model, Li-Chi Chiang, Indrajeet Chaubey, Margaret W. Gitau, and Jeffrey G. Arnold
Do Earth anD EnvironmEntal SciEncE tExtbookS PromotE miDDlE anD high School StuDEntS’concEPtual DEvEloPmEnt about climatE changE?, Soyoung Choi, Dev Niyogi, Daniel P. Shepardson, and Umarporn Charusombat
Sensitivity and identifiability of stream flow generation parameters of the SWAT model, R. Cibin, K. P. Sudheer, and I. Chaubey
New paleomagnetic and stable-isotope results from the Nanxiong Basin, China: Implications for the K/T boundary and the timing of Paleocene mammalian turnover, William C. Clyde, Suyin Ting, Kathryn E. Snell, Gabriel J. Bowen, Yongsheng Tong, Paul L. Koch, Quan Li, and Yuanqing Wang
Quantifying rock uplift rates using channel steepness and cosmogenic nuclide-determined erosion rates: Examples from northern and southern Italy, Andrew J. Cyr, Darryl E. Granger, Valerio Olivetti, and Paola Molin
Impacts of land use change on climate, Paul A. Dirmeyer, Dev Niyogi, Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, Robert E. Dickinson, and P. K. Snyder
A framework for the incorporation of isotopes and isoscapes in geospatial forensic investigations, James R. Ehleringer, Alexandra H. Thompson, David W. Podlesak, Gabriel J. Bowen, Lesley A. Chesson, Thure E. Cerling, Todd Park, Paul Dostie, and Henry Schwarcz
Biofuels and water quality: challenges and opportunities for simulation modeling, Bernard Engel, Indrajeet Chaubey, Mark Thomas, Dharmendra Saraswat, Patrick Murphy, and Budhendra Bhaduri
Singular perturbation of polynomial potentials in the complex domain with applications to PT-symmetric families, Alexandre Eremenko and Andrei Gabrielov
Tangencies between holomorphic maps and holomorphic laminations, Alexandre Eremenko and Andrei Gabrielov
Temperature and equivalent temperature over the United States (1979–2005), Souleymane Fall, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke Sr, and Gilbert Rochon
Impacts of land use land cover on temperature trends over the continental United States: assessment using the North American Regional Reanalysis, Souleymane Fall, Dev Niyogi, Alexander Gluhovsky, Roger A. Pielke Sr, Eugenia Kalnay, and Gilbert Rochon
Gravitational potential energy and regional stress and strain rate fields for continental plateaus: Examples from the central Andes and Colorado Plateau, Lucy M. Flesch and Corne Kreemer
Improved imaging with phase-weighted common conversion point stacks of receiver functions, A. Frassetto, G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and C. H. Jones
Steady-state laboratory flow laws alone fail to explain postseismic observations, Andrew M. Freed, Thomas Herring, and Roland Bürgmann
Predictability of extreme events in a branching diffusion model, Andrei Gabrielov, Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Sayaka Olsen, and Ilya Zaliapin
Denoising Nonlinear Time Series by Adaptive Filtering and Wavelet Shrinkage: A Comparison, Jianbo Gao, Hussain Sultan, Jing Hu, and Wen-Wen Tung
Inverse Modeling of Beaver Reservoir's Water Spectral Reflectance, Vijay Garg, Sreekala G. Bajwa, Indrajeet Chaubey, and Chetan Maringanti
A computationally efficient inverse modelling approach of inherent optical properties for a remote sensing model, Vijay Garg and Indrajeet Chaubey
Stable Isotopes in Large Scale Hydrological Applications, John J. Gibson, Balazàs M. Fekete, and Garbiel J. Bowen
Regionalization of SWAT Model Parameters for Use in Ungauged Watersheds, Margaret W. Gitau and Indrajeet Chaubey
Impacts of land-use change and best management practice implementation in a Conservation Effects Assessment Project watershed: Northwest Arkansas, Margaret W. Gitau, Indrajeet Chaubey, Lichi Chiang Gbur, and Sayeed Mohamed
Propagation of plasma bubbles observed in Brazil from GPS and airglow data, Jennifer S. Haase, T. Dautermann, M. J. Taylor, N. Chapagain, E. Calais, and D. Pautet
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Estimates Incorporating Site Effects–An Example from Indiana, USA, Jennifer S. Haase, Chi Hyun I. H. Park, Robert L. Nowack, and John R. Hill
Characterizing subdiurnal extreme precipitation in the midwestern United States, Nathan M. Hitchens, Robert J. Trapp, Michael E. Baldwin, and Alexander Gluhovsky
Multiscale analysis of heart rate variability: a comparison of different complexity measures, Jing Hu, Jianbo Gao, Wen-wen Tung, and Yinhe Cao
Urbanization signature in the observed heavy rainfall climatology over India, C. M. Kishtawal, D. Niyogi, M. Tewari, R. A. Pielke Sr, and J. M. Shepherd
Old and stable soil organic matter is not necessarily chemically recalcitrant: implications for modeling concepts and temperature sensitivity, Markus Kleber, Peter S. Nico, Alain Plante, Timothy Filley, Marc Kramer, Christopher Swanston, and Phillip Sollins
Evaluating climate impacts on carbon balance of the terrestrial ecosystems in the Midwest of the United States with a process-based ecosystem model, Xiaoliang Lu and Qianlai Zhuang
Evaluating evapotranspiration and water-use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems in the conterminous United States using MODIS and AmeriFlux data, Xiaoliang Lu and Qianlai Zhuang