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Project Staff |
Name |
Role |
Richard Reynolds |
Project Chief; soil and sediment magnetism & geochemistry; geologic framework of ecosystems |
Pat Chavez, Jr. |
Associate Project Chief; remote sensing for vegetation change & dust-storm evolution |
Mark Miller |
Plant ecology and soils; Inventory and Monitoring in National Parks, Colorado Plateau |
Jason Neff |
Associate Project Chief; ecology; ecological forecasting; biogeochemical cycling |
Gary Clow |
Climatology; regional climate modeling |
Harland Goldstein |
Surficial geology; soil lab manager |
Eric Fisher |
Soil lab; physical characterization of modern dust |
Marith Reheis |
Quaternary geology; geomorphology; modern dust sources and flux |
Jim Yount |
Quaternary geology; geomorphology |
Frank Urban |
Meteorology/surface dynamics monitoring stations & interpretation; paleoclimates |
Mark Ohms |
Electronics engineer |
Jiang Xiao |
Magnetic and soils laboratory measurements |
Dan Fernandez |
Biogeochemical cycling; Student |
Todd Preston |
Lab measurement of physical properties of soil and surficial sediment; analysis of wind-erosion data |
Paco Van Sistine |
GIS |
Richard Pelltier |
Geography, GIS, and web site development |
Susan Buckingham |
Erosion in Las Vegas Wash; biogeochemistry of P, Fe, and Ca compounds; GIS analysis of landscape stability, Colorado Plateau; Student |
Paul Lamothe |
ICP geochemistry |
Jim Budahn |
INAA geochemistry |
Ray Kokaly |
Hyper-spectral remote sensing for landscape geochemistry and vegetation (plant invasions)` |
Miguel Velasco |
Remote sensing |
Rian Bogle |
Instrument development for monitoring wind erosion |
Davis Tucker |
Computer programming |
Dave MacKinnon |
Physics of wind erosion, meteorology; remote sensing |
John Whitney |
Geomorphology, Las Vegas Wash erosion; Mojave sand ramps |
Pat Glancy |
Las Vegas Wash erosion, Hydrologist Emeritus |
Richard Hereford |
Fluvial geomorphology, hydroclimatology, historic climate; Geologist Emeritus |
Ivo Lucchitta |
Geomorphic history & landscape evolution, Grand Canyon; Geologist Emeritus |
Allen Gellis |
Rio Puerco hydrology and sediment budgets |
Rich Madole |
Quaternary studies of Great Sand Dunes National Monument; sand deposits, eastern Colorado; Geologist Emeritus |
Gary Skipp |
X-ray diffraction analysis and interpretation |
George Breit |
Geochemistry of groundwater and surface water |
Mark Bultman |
Soil habitats harboring infectious agent for valley fever--maps and modeling |
Fred Fisher |
Studies of valley fever; new methods to detect C. Immitis in soil |
Project Collaborators |
Name |
Affiliation |
Role |
Jayne Belnap |
USGS, Moab UT |
Soil ecology, biologic soil crusts, invasive plants |
Paul Demott |
Dept. of Atmospheric Science, CSU Fort Collins |
Studies of ice nucleation in clouds |
Rob Fulton |
California Desert Studies Consortium, Baker, CA |
Vegetation studies, Mojave National Preserve |
Tom Gill |
Texas Tech University, Lubbock |
Eolian processes |
Dale Gillette |
NOAA, Triangle Park, NC |
Wind erosion models |
Anthony Goldtooth |
Diné College, Shiprock, NM |
Navajo translation |
Robert Sanford |
Univ. of Denver, CO |
Ecology, soil and dust phosphorus, landscape studies |
John Izbicki |
USGS, San Diego, CA |
Chemistry of precipitation |
Nick Lancaster |
Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV |
Eolian processes, sand dune mobility, landscape evolution |
Dave Miller |
USGS, Menlo Park, CA |
Landscape studies |
Jon Pelletier |
Univ. of Arizona |
Dust emission and transport models |
Sue Phillips |
USGS, Moab, UT |
Plant physiology |
Kathryn Thomas |
USGS, Flagstaff, AZ |
Vegetation dynamics |
Robert Webb |
USGS, Tucson, AZ |
Coachella Valley sand dunes |
H. Bao |
Louisiana State Univ. |
Oxygen-17 isotopes in dust |
Helen Roberts |
Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth |
OSL dating |
Nancy Shearin |
BLM, Utah |
Archeology of Canyonlands |
Greg Okin |
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville |
Climate, wind erosion, & dust |
Subir Banerjee |
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
Magnetic properties of dust |
Doug Miller |
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA |
Meteorology |
Bill Nickling |
Univ. of Guelph, Canada |
Wind erosion, Owens Lake |
Geoff Plumlee |
USGS, Denver |
Dust and human health |
Charles Zender |
California State Univ. Irvine |
Dust emissions and models |
Demosthenes Pappagianis |
Univ. of California, Davis |
Medical aspects of valley fever |
Paul Bierman |
Univ. of Vermont |
Cosmogenic isotopes |
Garniss Curtis |
Univ. of California, Berkeley |
Geochronology |
Steve Forman |
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago |
OSL dating |
Dennis Ojima |
Colorado State Univ. |
Ecologic studies |
Dave Schimel |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Carbon cycling, ecological forecasting |
S. Hobbie |
Univ. of Minnesota |
Ecological studies |
L. Shubitz, M. Orbach, A. Comrie, S. Yool |
Univ. of Arizona |
Valley fever studies |
Tom Mace |
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center |
Remote sensing |
Bruce Coffland |
NASA Moffett Field |
Remote sensing, MASTER data |
Paul Robertson and Kate Caldwell |
The Nature Conservancy |
Great Sand Dunes National Park studies and land management |
Fred Bunch and Andrew Valdez |
National Park Service |
Great Sand Dunes National Park studies and land management |
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