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Project Tasks and Activities:

• Interactions Among Geology, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, and Climate


• Dust - Geomorphic, Hydrologic, and Climatic Factors of Dust Emission, and Societal Effects


• Sand-Dune Dynamics


• Pathogens in Soil (Related to Valley Fever)


• Geo-Ecological Study of Historic and Prehistoric Land Use in the Tsezhin Bii' area, Navajo Nation


• Sediment Dynamics in Dryland Rivers - Relations to Climate, Groundwater, and Land Use


• Other Topics and Overview Products

Task 1: Interactions Among Geology, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, and Climate

Presentations
Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Vogt, B., and Belnap, J., 1998, Aeolian dust in surficial sediment on the Colorado Plateau, USA--magnetic and geochemical evidence. 4th International Conference on Aeolian Research, Oxford, England, July 1998 p. 67

Reynolds, R.L., Yount, J., Reheis, M., Mazza, N., and Belnap, J., 1999, Rapid detection of eolian dust in desert soils--applications to ecosystem studies. Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-483.

Hanson, K.K., Sanford, R.L., Reynolds, R.L., and Reheis, M.C., 1999, Eolian deposition influences phosphorus cycling and Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) distribution in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Ecological Society of America abstracts, Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America abstracts, Annual Meeting, v. 80, p. 102.

Belnap, J., Phillips, S., Duniway, M., Reynolds, R.L., 2000, Soil fertility in deserts: The effect of soil surface disturbance on nutrient inputs and losses. Dubai International Conference on Desertification, Dubai, U.A.E., Abstracts, p. 100.

Belnap, J, Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., and Phillips, S.L., 2000, What makes the desert bloom? The contribution of dust and crusts to soil fertility on the Colorado Plateau. Supplement Bulletin Ecological Society of America abstracts. ESA Annual Meeting.

Reynolds, R., Yount, J., Reheis, M., Miller, D., and Belnap, J., 2000, Detection of aeolian dust in arid-land soils using magnetic petrology: IGCP conference, Linkages among fluvial, lacustrine, and aeolian systems, Oct. 23-27, 2000, Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, CA.

Reynolds, R., Yount, J., Reheis, M., and Belnap, J., 2000, Eolian dust in arid-land soils-magnetic petrology and nutrient inputs. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Program, v. 32, p. A-256.

Shearin, N., Reheis, M., Boardman, E., Caldwell, M., and Thurlow, M., 2000, Effects of Holocene erosion on a prehistoric lithic procurement site in Utah's Canyonlands. Society of American Archaeology, April 2000

Belnap, J., 2001, Changes in temperatures, rainfall timing, CO2 and land use: wild speculations on what the future holds for ecosystems of the arid southwest. Predicting hydrologic, geologic, and biologic responses to a drier and warmer climate in the desert Southwest, USGS Workshop Tucson, AZ.

Goldstein, H., Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Axford, Y., Yount, J., Tigges, R., Sanford, R.L., Gonzales, K., Neff, J., and Belnap, J., 2001, Aeolian dust in Colorado Plateau (USA) soils: Linking landscape evolution and ecosystem dynamics. Dryland Change 2001 International Conference Abstracts, Upington, South Africa, p. 14.

Neff, J., 2001, Ecological responses to climate, land-use change, and eolian deposition: new approaches to modeling terrestrial biogeochemistry. Predicting hydrologic, geologic, and biologic responses to a drier and warmer climate in the desert Southwest, USGS Workshop Tucson, AZ, 2001.

Neff, J., Reynolds, R.L., Lamothe, P., and Belnap, J., 2001, Plant and microbial dynamics along gradients in soil texture and eolian dust accumulation in the Colorado Plateau. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, Fall Meeting Supplement, p. F163.

Ojima, D., Schimel, D., Hilinski, T., McKeown R., Neff, J., 2002, The impact of disturbance on carbon source and sinks in Colorado ecosystems: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Goldstein, H., Neff, J.C., Simmons, K., Axford, Y., Yount, J. Gonzales, K., and Belnap, J., 2001, Eolian dust in Colorado Plateau soils: Linking landscape and ecosystem evolution. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, Fall Meeting Supplement, p. F163.

Reynolds, R., et al., 2001, Aeolian dust in southwestern soils: changes in nutrient inputs related to climate change and land use. Predicting hydrologic, geologic, and biologic responses to a drier and warmer climate in the desert Southwest: USGS Workshop on A Warmer and Drier Southwest, Tucson, AZ.

Sanford, R.L., Reheis, M., Gonzales, K., and Reynolds, R.L., 2001, Phosphorus in soils of a cool desert ecosystem: Dust inputs and land-use effects on erosion, Colorado Plateau, USA. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, Fall Meeting Supplement, p. F163.

Belnap, J., Reheis, M., Reynolds, R.L., Phillips, S., 2002, Using geology to predict sites of annual grass invasions, or make sure there is "geo" in your "eco": Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, v. 34, p. 75.

Neff J., Reynolds R., Lamothe P., Moscato S., Belnap J., 2002, Does dust matter? Geologic and eolian controls over arid ecosystem dynamics. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting. Tucson AZ

Neff J., Schimel D., Ojima D., McKeown R., Aulenbach S., Hilinski T., 2002, Wildland Fire, Fire Suppression, and the US Carbon Budget: a Colorado Case Study. American Geophysical Union Transactions

Sanford, R., Reheis, M., and Belnap, J., 2002, Phosphorus availability changes seasonally in eolian dust inputs and in surface soils: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 75.

Reheis, M., Reynolds, R., Yount, J., Goldstein, H., Roberts, H., 2002, Aeolian history of the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park: Dunes and dust, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 416-419.

Reynolds, R., 2002, Regional Geology and Ecosystem Overview (invited). Talk for National Park Service Northern Colorado Plateau Geoindicators--Vital Signs Workshop, June 2002.

Reynolds, R., 2002, Past, modern, and future impacts of climate change and land use on the Southwest U.S. USGS Workshop Southwest Landscape Change, Las Crucas, NM, Feb. 2002.

Miller, M., 2003, Issues and challenges associated with the integration of science and resource management on the Colorado Plateau. 7th Biennial Colorado Plateau Science Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, November 2003

Reheis, M.C., Sanford, R.L. Jr., Belnap, J., and Reynolds, R., 2003, Silver linings: Fertility gains and losses through dust redistribution at local and regional scales: Ecological Society of America Annual Meetings Abstracts, p. 278

Reynolds R.L., Reheis, M. Neff, J.C., Goldstein, H., and Yount, J., 2003 Geologic, ecologic, climatic, and land-use interactions in the high desert of the central Colorado Plateau (USA)-the past 40,000 years: XVI International Quaternary Association Congress Programs with Abstracts, p. 139.

Reynolds, R.L., Neff, J.C., Reheis, M., Goldstein, H. and Lamothe, P., 2003, Distribution of aeolian dust in surficial substrates for grass- and shrublands, central Colorado Plateau (Utah), determined from magnetic and chemical properties: AGU, 2003, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 83 (47), Fall Meeting Supplement

Fernandez, D., Belnap, J., Neff, J.C., and Reynolds, R.L., 2004, Decomposition in a desert environment: Abiotic regulators and thresholds: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts p. 153.

Miller, M.E., Belnap, J., Reynolds, R.L., Sanford, R., Neff, J., Reheis, M., and Kokaly, R., 2004, Cheatgrass patterns on the Colorado Plateau - Effects of geology and earth-surface processes: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts p. 351-352.

Miller, M., 2004, Methods for assessing the health of rangeland ecosystems (invited). U.S. Geological Survey Science Seminar Series, Salt Lake City, Utah, July, 2004

Neff, J.C., Belnap, J., Sanford, R., Miller M.E., and Reynolds, R.L., 2004, Plant stoichiometric response to landscape-scale variation in bedrock geochemistry: Interactions of P, Ca, and Fe in a semi-arid environment: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts p. 369.

Neff, J.C., Belnap, J., Sanford, R., Miller M.E., and Reynolds, R.L., 2004, Plant stoichiometric response to landscape-scale variation in bedrock geochemistry: Interactions of P, Ca, and Fe in a semi-arid environment: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts p. 369.

Reynolds R.L., Reheis, M., Lamothe, P., Goldstein, H., and Roberts, H., 2004, Late Quaternary changes in nutrient inputs from dust to Colorado Plateau (USA) drylands: 32nd International Geological Congress, Abstract, p. 949.

Reynolds, R.L., Neff, J.C., and Reheis, M., 2004, Geology and ecosystems: A framework for understanding contemporary ecologic processes through geologic settings and processes: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts p. 425.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Yount, J., Lamothe, P., Goldstein, H., Neff, J.C., and Roberts, H., 2004, Dust and nutrients in modern and late Quaternary ecosystems of central Colorado Plateau drylands: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 85(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract GP-34A-02.

Miller, M., Belnap, J, Reynolds, R., Neff, J, and Reheis, M., 2005, Cheatgrass performance in relation to soil characteristics in Colorado Plateau drylands. Interagency conference on the Ecology and Management of Pinyon-Juniper and Sagebrush Communities, Montrose, Colorado, May 2005.

Miller, M.E., 2005, Salt Creek and Indian Creek vulnerability and degradation assessment projects USGS-NRCS-NPS-BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Miller, M.E., 2005, Soil surveys for Arches and Canyonlands national parks USGS-NRCSNPS- BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Miller, M.E., 2005, Soils, geomorphology, and ecosystem management concepts: USGS-NRCS-NPS-BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Miller, M.E., Belnap, J., Reynolds, R.L., Neff, J.C., and Reheis, M., 2005, Cheatgrass performance in relation to soil characteristics in Colorado Plateau drylands: Ecology and Management of Pinyon-Juniper and Sagebrush Communities, FWS/BLM/PLP Conference.

Neff, J.C., Painter, T., Reynolds, R.L., 2005, Effects of Desert Dust on Nutrient Cycling in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 86(52) Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract B34B-06.

Reheis, M., Reynolds, R.L., Yount, J., and Goldstein, H., 2005, Geomorphic history of Canyonlands: USGS-NRCS-NPS-BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Kokaly R., 2005, Remote sensing studies -- mineralogy, cheatgrass, and vital-signs monitoring: USGS-NRCS-NPS-BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Reynolds, R.L., Neff, J.C., Reheis, M.C., and Belnap, J., 2005, Eolian dust: Physical and ecological linkages (invited): George Wright Society Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, March, 2005, Philadelphia, PA. Program and Abstracts, p. 138.

Reynolds, R.L., and Neff, J.C., Goldstein, H., Reheis, M. 2005 Dust and nutrients in Canyonlands soils USGS-NRCS-NPS-BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Williams, V., 2005, Surficial geologic mapping-relations to vegetation communities: USGS-NRCS-NPS-BLM Soil-Geomorphology Meeting 13-14 October Moab UT.

Fernandez, D.P., Neff, J.C., Barger, N., Asner, G., and Reynolds, R.L., 2006, Biogeochemical and ecological impacts of livestock grazing in semi-arid Utah grassland and pinyon-juniper landscapes: Learning from the Land Symposium, Sept. 12-14 2006 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Miller, M., Belnap, J, Reynolds, R., Neff, J, and Reheis, M., 2006, Cheatgrass performance in relation to soil characteristics in Colorado Plateau drylands. Learning From the Land 2006 Science Symposium, Bureau of Land Management Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Cedar City, UT, Sept. 2006.

Miller, M., 2006, Broad-scale assessment of upland ecosystem conditions in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Learning from the Land 2006 Science Symposium, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Cedar City, UT, Sept. 2006.

Buckingham, S.E., and Neff, J., and Fernandez D., 2006, Hyperspectral mapping of phosphorous in dryland ecosystems. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference, Reno, NV. (May 2006).

Reports
Reynolds, R.L., Belnap, J., Reheis, M., and Mazza, N., 1999, Eolian dust on the Colorado Plateau--magnetic and geochemical evidence from sediment in potholes and biologic soil crust: In Busacca, A., (ed.), Dust aerosols, loess soils, and global change. Washington State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Misc. Publication No.MISC0190, Pullman, WA, p. 231-234.

Drummond, M.A. 1999 A multi-proxy study of late Quaternary climate history, Grand Mesa, Western Colorado M.S. thesis, University of Denver, 246 p.

K.K. Hanson, 1999, Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) invasion in relation to phosphorus sources, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Denver, 114 p.

Miller, D.M. and Yount, J.C., 1999, Surficial geology and geomorphic process studies in support of multidisciplinary ecosystem investigations: Examples from parts of Greenwater and Valjean Valleys, Mojave Desert Ecosystem U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-153.

Miller, M., 2000, Effects of resource manipulations and soil characteristics on Bromus Tectorum L. and Stipa Hymenoides R. & S. in calcareous soils of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, Ph.D. dissertation, Boulder, Univ. of Colorado, 113 p.

Miller, D.M. and Yount, J.C., 2001, Surficial geologic map of the Valjean area, Mojave Desert Ecosystem, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, digital format, scale 1:24,000.

Reynolds, R.L., Belnap, J., Reheis, M., Lamothe, P., Mazza, N., and Luiszer, F.,2001, Eolian dust in Colorado Plateau soils: Nutrient inputs and recent change in source. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 98, p. 7123-7127.

Ollinger S., G. Ågren, B. Berg, E. Davidson, C. Field, M. Lerdau, J. Neff, O. Sala, M. Scholes, and R. Sterner, 2003, New frontiers in the study of element interactions. In Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles (Melillo, Field, and Moldan, eds.), pp 63-91.

Sherrod, S.K., Belnap, J. and Miller, M.E., 2003, Comparison of ion-exchange resin counters in the nutrient measurement of calcareous soils: implications for correlative studies of plant-soil relationships. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 34(13-14): 1981-2001

Harris, T.A., Asner, G., and Miller, M., 2003, Changes in vegetation structure after long-term grazing in pinyon-juniper ecosystems: Integrating imaging spectroscopy and field studies, Ecosystems 6:368-383.

Belnap, Jayne, Phillips, S., Duniway, M., and Reynolds, R.L., 2003, Soil fertility in deserts: A review on the influence of biological soil crust and the effect of soil surface disturbance on nutrient inputs and losses: in Al Sharhan, A.R., Wood, W.W., Goudie, A.S., Fowler, A., and Abdellatif, E., (eds.) Desertification in the Third Millennium: Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, The Netherlands, p. 245-252.

Belnap, J., 2003, Biological soil crusts and wind erosion. In: J. Belnap and O.L. Lange (Editors), Biological Soil Crusts: Structure, Function, and Management. Ecological Studies Series 150. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 339-347

Belnap, J., 2003, Biological soil crusts in deserts: a short review of their role in soil fertility, stabilization, and water relations. Algological Studies, 109: 113-126

Belnap, J., Phillips, S.L. and Miller, M.E., 2004, Response of desert biological soil crusts to alterations in precipitation frequency. Oecologia, 141(2): 306-316

Cleveland C.C., J.C. Neff, A.R. Townsend, and E. Hood, 2004, Composition, dynamics, and fate of leached dissolved organic matter in terrestrial ecosystems: Results from a decomposition experiment: Ecosystems, v. 7(3), 175-285.

Belnap, J., Welter, J.R., Grimm, N.B., Barger, N.N. and Ludwig, J.A., 2005. Linkages between microbial and hydrologic processes in arid and semi-arid watersheds. Ecology, 86(2): 298-307

Neff, J., Reynolds, R.L., Belnap, J., and Lamothe, P., 2005, Multi-decadal impacts of grazing on soil physical and biogeochemical properties in Southeast Utah: Ecological Applications 15(1), 87-95.

Reheis, M.C., Reynolds, R.L., Goldstein, H., Roberts, H.M., Yount, J.C., Axford, Y., Cummings, L.S., and Shearin, N., 2005, Late Quaternary eolian and alluvial response to paleoclimate, Canyonlands, southern Utah: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, issue 7, p. 1051-1069.

Schwinning, S., Starr, B., Wojcik, N., Miller, M., Ehleringer, J., and Sanford, R.L, Jr., 2005. Effects of nitrogen deposition on an arid grassland in the Colorado Plateau cold desert, Rangeland Ecology and Management 58: 565-574.

Miller, M., 2005, The structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems: Conceptual models to inform long-term ecological monitoring: US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5197, 73 p.

Goldstein, H., Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Yount, J., Lamothe, P., Roberts, H., and McGeehin, J., 2005, Particle-size, CaCO3, chemical, magnetic, and age data from surficial deposits in and around Canyonlands National Park: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2005-1186, 192 p.

Parton W.J., J.C. Neff, and P.M. Vitousek, 2005, Modeling phosphorus dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems. 2005. In Organic Phosphorus and the Environment (BL Turner, E Frossard, ETH Lindau, DS Baldwin, eds.) Oxford University Press. 350 pages. pp 325-347.

Bowker, M. A., J. Belnap, D. W. Davidson and H. Goldstein, 2006, Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model. Journal of Applied Ecology 43(1): 152-163.

Newingham, B. A. and J. Belnap, 2006, Direct effects of soil amendments on field emergence and growth of the invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum L. and the native perennial grass Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth. Plant and Soil 280(1-2): 29-40.

Neff, J.C., Reynolds, R.L., Sanford, R.L., Fernandez. D.P., and Lamothe, P., 2006, Geologic controls over soil and plant chemistry in southeastern Utah: Ecosystems, DOI10.1007/s10021-005-0092-8.

Belnap, J., Phillips, S.L. and Troxler, T., 2006, Soil lichen and moss cover and species richness can be highly dynamic: The effects of invasion by the annual exotic grass Bromus tectorum and the effects of climate on biological soil crusts, Applied Soil Ecology, v. 32, Issue 1, p. 63-76.

Barger, N. N., J. E. Herrick, J. Van Zee, and J. Belnap, 2006, Impacts of biological soil crust disturbance and composition on C and N loss from water erosion. Biogeochemistry 77(2): 247-263.

Reynolds, R.L., Neff, J.C., Reheis, M.C., and Lamothe, P., 2006, Atmospheric dust in modern soil on aeolian sandstone, Colorado Plateau (USA): Variation with landscape position and contribution to potential plant nutrients: Geoderma, v. 130, p. 108-123.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Neff, J.C., Goldstein, H., and Yount, J.C., 2006, Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects: Catena, 66, 251-266.

Fernandez. D.P., Neff, J.C., Belnap, J., and Reynolds, R.L., 2006, Decomposition in an arid environment on the Colorado Plateau (USA): Abiotic regulators and thresholds: Biogeochemistry DOI:10.1007/s10533-005-4278-0 v. 78, Number 3, p. 247-265.

Miller, M.E., Belnap, J., Beatty, S.W., and Reynolds, R.L., 2006, Performance of Bromus tectorum L. in relation to soil properties, water additions, and chemical amendments in calcareous soils of southeastern Utah, U.S.A.: Plant Soil, DOI 10.1007/s11104-006-0058-4.

Bowker, M.A., Belnap, J., and Miller, M.E., 2006, Spatial modeling of biological soil crusts to support rangeland assessment and monitoring. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 59:519-529. Miller, M.E., J. Belnap, S.W. Beatty, and Webb, B.L., 2006, Effects of water additions, chemical amendments, and plants on in situ measures of nutrient bioavailability in calcareous soils of southeastern Utah, U.S.A. Plant and Soil, 288: 19-29.

Neff J.C., R. Reynolds, R.L. Sanford, Jr., D. Fernandez and P. Lamothe, 2006, Controls of bedrock geochemistry on soil and plant nutrients in Southeastern Utah. Ecosystems, 9:879-893.1007/s10021-005-0092-8.

Rosenbloom N.A., J.W. Harden, J.C. Neff, and D.S. Schimel, 2006, Geomorphic control of landscape carbon accumulation, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G01004, doi:10.1029/2005JG000077.

Miller, Mark, Mann, Rebecca K., Goldstein, Harland, and Yount, James D., 2007, Ecological investigations of the federally endangered Shivwits milk-vetch (Astragalus ampullarioides); 2006 annual report: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1050 [available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1050/ ].

Fernandez, D.P., J.C. Neff, R.L. Reynolds. Biogeochemical and ecological impacts of livestock grazing in semi-arid Southeastern Utah, USA. In review, Journal of Arid Environments.

Other Websites
Neff, J.C., http://moab.colorado.edu/NeffLab.htm

Neff, J.C. and others, http://moab.colorado.edu/SUEP.htm

Presentations
Reheis, M.C., 1998, Is modern dust representative of paleo-dust inputs to soils?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 7, p. A-100.

Reheis, M.C., and Budahn, J.R., 1998, Geochemical evidence for sources of dust in the southwestern Great Basin, U.S.A.: 4th International Conference on Aeolian Research, Oxford, England, July 1998 p. 65.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Clow, G., Tigges, R., Hinkley, T., Mazza, N., Schumann, R., Lamothe, P., Meeker, G., Chavez, P., MacKinnon, D., Velasco, M., Sides, S., and Soltesz, D., 1999, Dust emission and deposition in the southwestern U.S. - Integrated studies to evaluate past, present, and future response to climatic variability and land use: International Workshop on Mineral Dust, Boulder, CO, June 1999.

MacKinnon, D., Chavez, P., 1999, Low-sun-angle enhancement of suspended dust at Owens Lake, California, as observed in visible-band, GOES-VISSR satellite image data: International Mineral Dust Workshop, Boulder, CO, June, 1999.

Reheis, M.C., 1999, Dust-producing regions of the southwestern United States: Workshop on Mineral Dust, 9-11 June 1999, Boulder, Colorado. (no pagination)

Reheis, M., Brune, J., Yount, J., and Budahn, J., 1999, Eolian dust from natural traps on Yucca Mountain, in Taylor, E.M., ed., Quaternary geology of the Yucca Mountain area, southern Nevada, Field Trip Guide: Pacific Cell, Friends of the Pleistocene, p. 190-193.

Gill, T.E., Reheis, M.C., and Zobeck, T.M., 1999, Present-day aeolian deposition in the southern High Plains of Texas: First results of a dustfall study: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 1, p. A8.

U.S. Geological Survey, California Desert Studies Consortium, Desert Research Institute, and National Park Service, 2000, Dust-emission monitoring and development of a wind-erosion model at Soda Lake and Devil's Playground, Mojave Desert, USA: IGCP conference, Linkages among fluvial, lacustrine, and aeolian systems, Oct. 23-27, 2000, Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, CA.

U.S. Geological Survey, Desert Research Institute, and California Desert Studies Consortium, 2000, Eolian processes and deposits in the southwestern U.S-past, present, and future response to climatic variability and land use: American Quaternary Association, Fayetteville, AR, Biennial Meeting Abstracts, p. 96-97.

Geiss, C., Banerjee, S., and Reheis, M., 2000, Influence of Owens (dry) Lake sediment on magnetic properties of dust samples from southern California: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 81, no. 48, p. F369.

Chavez, P.S., MacKinnon, D.J., Velasco, M.G., Sides, S., and Reynolds, R.L., 2000, Using remote sensing to detect active dust storms and map areas vulnerable to eolian erosion: ERIM International Conference on Applications of Remote Sensing for Geology, Las Vegas, NV, November 2000.

Reheis, M.C., and Okin, G.S., 2000, A 15-year record of relations among ENSO, potential wind erosion, and dust deposition in the western Mojave Desert: Potential applications to land use planning: Abstracts, IGCP 413 Workshop, Understanding future dry land changes from past dynamics, Zzyzx, CA, October 23-27, 2000 (no pagination).

Hinkley, Todd K., 2000, Atmospheric Deposition of Dust and Salt Through more than 25,000 Years of Taylor Dome Antarctic Ice Core: Refinement by Measurement of Major, Minor, and Trace Metal Suites: Workshop on Mineral Dusts, Boulder, CO, June 11-12, 1999. Hinkley, T., Lamothe, P., Meeker, G., Miller, M., and Xiao,J., 2000, Dust in the Southwest -- flux, chemical and mineral composition, and trace element load: EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union v. 80, no. 46, p. F77.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Clow, G., Tigges, R., Hinkley, T., Lamothe, P., Meeker, G., Chavez, P., MacKinnon, D., Velasco, M., Sides, S., and Soltesz, D., 2000, Eolian processes in the southwestern U.S. - Integrated studies to evaluate impacts from climatic variability and land use bearing on ecosystem health and visibility: National Park Service, North by Northwest Program Abstracts 2000, p. 29.

Okin, G.S., and Reheis, M.C., 2001, Determining climate thresholds for wind erosion in the Mojave Desert: Using ENSO-related interannual variability to assess potential desertification: Abstract, International Symposium on Land Degradation and Desertification, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2001.

Reheis, M., Plumlee, G., Lamothe, P., Budahn, J., Hageman, P., Hinkley, T., Meeker, G., Gill, T., Winn, R., and Thames, D., 2001, Potential health hazards of Owens Lake dust: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 6, p. A-237.

U.S. Geological Survey, California Desert Studies Center, Desert Research Institute, and National Park Service, 2001, Dust-emission monitoring and development of a wind-erosion model, central Mojave Desert: Dryland Change 2001 International Conference Abstracts, Upington, South Africa, p. 54.

Chavez, P.S., Jr., MacKinnon, D.J., Reynolds, R.L., and Velasco, M.G., 2002, Use of satellite and ground-based digital images to detect and monitor dust storms in the Mojave Desert: American Geophysical Union International Conference, San Francisco, CA, December, 2002.

Chavez, P.S., MacKinnon, D.J, Clow, G., Tigges, R., Urban, F., Fulton, R., Reheis, M., Miller, D., Bultman, M., Reynolds, R.L., 2002, Monitoring dust emission in the southwest U.S.-interannual differences related to climatic variability: Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, v. 34, no. 6, p. 246.

Chavez, P.S, Jr., MacKinnon, D.J., Reynolds, R.L., Velasco, M.G., 2002, Use of satellite and ground-based images to monitor dust storms and map landscape vulnerability to wind erosion, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 98.

Chavez, P.S., Jr., Velasco, M.G., MacKinnon, D.J., Thomas, K.A., Fulton, R., 2002, Use of Landsat Thematic Mapper multi-temporal images to detect and study vegetation dynamics in the Mojave Desert: Applications to studies of dust emission, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 97.

Goldstein, H., Reheis, M., Reynolds, R., Yount, J., Simmons, K., Lamothe, P., Luiszer, F., 2002, Aeolian dust on isolated surfaces from the Mojave Desert to the Colorado Plateau, USA, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 314-316.

Hinkley, T., Lamothe, P., Meeker, G., Xiao J., Miller, M., Fulton, R., 2002, Trace elements deposited with dusts in Southwestern U.S.-enrichments, fluxes, and comparison with records from elsewhere, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 321-324.

MacKinnon, D.J., and Chavez, P., 2002, Extraction of the geometry of surface clasts from ground-based digital images: Application to studies of wind erosion, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 127-129.

MacKinnon, D.J., Clow, G.D., Tigges, R., Reynolds, R.L., Chavez, P. S. Jr., 2002, Measured and modeled roughness heights (Z0) over diverse roughness elements, central Mojave Desert, California, USA, in Lee, J.A., and Zoback, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Publication 02-2, p. 122-126.

Reheis, M.C., 2003, Long records of dust deposition in the southwestern U.S.A.: Program and Abstracts, 2nd International Workshop on Mineral DST, 10-12 September 2003, Paris, France (no pagination).

Reheis, M., Plumlee, G., Ziegler, T., Reynolds, R., Lamothe, P. Budahn, J., Hageman, P., and Gill, T., 2003, Potential health hazards of Owens Lake dust: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-96, abstracts for USGS Human Health Conference.

Hartman, J.S., Reynolds, R.L., Rosenbaum, J.G., Walsh, M.K., and Moser, K.A., 2005, Post-settlement atmospheric inputs revealed in sedimentologic changes in Uinta Mountain lakes: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

Hartman, J.S., Moser, K.A., Reynolds, R.L., Rosenbaum, J.G., and Walsh, M.K., 2005, Atmospheric inputs recorded in Uinta Mountain lakes: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

Reynolds, R.L., Forester, R., Neff, J.C., and Reheis, M.C., 2005, Dust emission and deposition-linking geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology: Sixth International Conference on Geomorphology, September 7-11, 2005, Zaragoza (Spain), Abstracts volume, p. 501.

Ballantine, J-A., Pelltier, R., and Reynolds, R.L., 2006, The Inventory of North American dust sources, events, and depositional data: Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 145.

Goldstein, H., Reynolds, R.L., Yount, J., and Reheis, M., 2006, Compositional trends in aeolian dust captured on isolated surfaces, southwestern USA: Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 154.

Reheis, M., Reynolds, R.L., and Goldstein, H., 2006, Comparison of modern dust and surface -sediment compositions in the Mojave and Southern Great Basin deserts, USA: Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 155.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Urban, F., Neff, J.C., Fernandez, D. and Goldstein, H., 2006, The dust cycle in drylands of the central Colorado Plateau (USA) from late Pleistocene inputs to modern emissions: Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 195.

Urban, F., and Reynolds, R.L., 2006, The role of climate and vegetation dynamics in controlling dust emission from sparsely populated vegetated drylands at Mojave National Preserve: Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 156.

Yount, J., Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Goldstein, H., Forester, R., Chavez, P., Bogle, R., and Fulton, R., 2006, Dust emission from playas of the Mojave Desert, USA: Importance and variability of evaporite-rich dust derived from wet playas: Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 131.

Reynolds, R.L., Yount, J., Reheis, M., Goldstein, H., Forester, R., Chavez, P., and Fulton, R., 2006, Dust emission from playas in the Mojave Desert, USA: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2006, v. 8, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU06-A-02436.

Chavez, P., Ruhlman, J., Velasco, M., Bogle, R., Vogel, J., and Isbrecht. J., 2007 Lessons learned from the Salton Sea: Potential impact of dust emission to both air quality and human health: U.S.-Mexico Border Workshop, USGS, Tucson, AZ, March 2007.

Chavez, P., Isbrecht, J., Velasco, M., and Bogle, R., 2007, Use of remote sensing to detect and map temporal and spatial vegetation dynamics to help map landscape erosion vulnerability: Mojave Desert and Moloka'i, Hawai'i: American Association of Geographers Conference, San Francisco.

Urban, F.E., Reynolds, R.L., Fulton, R., 2007, The dynamic interaction of climate, annual vegetation, and dust emission, Mojave Desert, USA: International Quaternary Association

Reynolds, R.L.,Goldstein, H., Mordecai, J., Moser, K., Neff, J.C., Reheis, M.C., Rosenbaum, J.G., Yount, J.C., 2007, Changes in dust composition in the western United States related to human activities over the past ca. 150 years: International Quaternary Association

Reports
Reheis, M.C., Budahn, J.R., and Lamothe, P., 1999, Elemental analyses of modern dust in southern Nevada and California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-0531 (data release on World-Wide Web).

Gill, T.E., Reynolds, R.L., and Zobeck, T.M., 2000, Measurements of current and historic settled dusts in west Texas: Proceedings of the 93rd Air and Waste Management Association, AMWA Publication VIP-97, Paper No. 175, p. 1-15.

Tigges, R., Sides, S., Ohms, M., 2001, Automated Remote Digital Imaging System (ARDIS) - application for monitoring dust storms, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2001-0230, 75 p.

Husar, R.B., others, Reheis, M.C., and others, 2001, The Asian dust events of April, 1998: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, no. D16, p. 18137-18330.

Okin, G., and Reheis, M., 2002, An ENSO predictor of dust emission in the southwestern United States: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 29, no. 9, 10.1029/2001GL014494.

Reheis, M.C., Budahn, J.R., and Lamothe, P., 2002, Geochemical evidence for diversity of dust sources in the southwestern United States: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 66, p. 1569-1587.

Chavez, P.S., Jr., MacKinnon, D.J., Reynolds, R.L., Velasco, M.G., 2002, Use of remote sensing and ground-based images to monitor dust storms and map landscape vulnerability to wind erosion: Arid Lands Newsletter, v. 51, Office of Arid Land Studies, Univ. of Arizona. http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln51/chavez.html

Reheis, M., 2003, Dust deposition in Nevada, California, and Utah, 1984-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-138. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/ofr-03-138/

Bao, Huiming, and Reheis, M., 2003, Multiple oxygen and sulfur isotopic analyses on water-soluble sulfate in bulk atmospheric deposition from southwestern U.S.A.: Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, v. 108, D14, 4430, doi:10.1029/2002JD003022.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M., Chavez, P., Hinkley, T., Tigges, R., Clow, G., MacKinnon, D., Lamothe, P., Lancaster, N., Miller, M., Yount, J., Velasco, M., Sides, S., Soltesz, D., Meeker, G., Fulton, R., and Belnap, J., 2003, Dust emission and deposition in the southwestern U.S.-Integrated field, remote sensing, and modeling studies to evaluate response to climatic variability and land use: in Al Sharhan, A.R., Wood, W.W., Goudie, A.S., Fowler, A., and Abdellatif, E., (eds.) Desertification in the Third Millennium: Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, The Netherlands, p. 271-282.

MacKinnon, D., Clow, G., Tigges, R., Reynolds, R.L., and Chavez, P.S., Jr., 2004, Comparison of aerodynamically and model-derived roughness lengths (z0) over diverse surfaces, central Mojave Desert, California, USA: Geomorphology, v. 63, p. 103-113.

Reynolds, R.L. and Rosenbaum, J.G., 2005, Magnetic mineralogy of sediments in Bear Lake and its watershed, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming: Support for paleoenvironmental and paleomagnetic interpretations: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2005-1406, 17 p.

Kohfeld, K., Reynolds. R.L., Pelletier, J., and Nickling, W., 2005, Linking the scales of process, observation, and modeling of dust emissions: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union: v. 8, no. 11, 15 March 2005, p. 113-114.

Reheis, M.C., 2006, Sixteen-year record of dust deposition in southern Nevada and California, U.S.A.: Journal of Arid Environments, v. 67, p. 487-520.

Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Yount, J., and Lamothe, P., 2006, Composition of aeolian dust in natural traps on isolated surfaces of the central Mojave Desert (USA)-insights to mixing, sources, and nutrient inputs: Journal of Arid Environments, v. 66, p. 42-61.

Goldstein, H.L., Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Yount, J.C., Physical and chemical data from eolian sediment collected along a transect from the Mojave Desert to the Colorado Plateau, In review USGS-OFR for FY07

Goldstein, H., Reynolds, R.L., Reheis, M.C., Yount, J.C., and Neff, J.C., Compositional trends in eolian dust along a transect across the southwestern United States, In review Journal of Geophysical Research for FY07

Reynolds, R.L., Yount, J.C., Reheis, M.C., Goldstein, H., Chavez, Jr., P., Fulton, R., Whitney J., Fuller, C., Forester, R.M., Dust Emission from wet and dry playas in the Mojave Desert: in press, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Websites:
Chavez, P.S., MacKinnon, D.J., Velasco, M.G., Sides, S., and Soltesz D., 1999, Using remote sensing to detect active dust storms and map areas vulnerable to eolian erosion Web site, http://TerraWeb.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/projects/RSDust/.

Reheis, M.C., and Miller, D., 1998, Dust Studies in Southern Nevada and California Deserts, http://wrgis.wr.ove/Mojave/dustweb/dusthome.html.

Linking the Scales of Process, Observation, and Modeling of Dust Emissions: 2004 Dust Workshop, Boulder, Colorado http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/dust/

The Inventory of North American Dust Sources http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/dust/inventory/

Presentations
Hiza, M.M., 2002, Factors effecting dune mobility on the Navajo Nation, AZ (abs.): Proceedings from the Fifth International Conference on Aeolian Research and the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems-Soil Erosion Network (Wind), July 22-25, 2002, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas.

Madole, R.F., 2001, Assessment of the potential for reconstructing the Quaternary history of the Great Sand Dunes area, San Luis Valley, Colorado: Annual Meeting of Colorado Council of Professional Archeologists, Abstracts, p. 12.

Madole, R.F., and Romig, J.H., 2002, The Great Sand Dunes (GSD) of south-central Colorado: Origin and implications: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 275.

Muhs, D.R., 1999, Reactivation of Great Plains sand dunes during the 1930's drought: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Toronto.

Reports
Arbogast, A.F. and Muhs, D.R., 2000, Geochemical and mineralogic evidence from eolian sediments for northwesterly mid-Holocene paleowinds, central Kansas, U.S.A.: Quaternary International, v. 67, p. 107-118.

Muhs, D. and Holliday, V., 2001, Origin of late Quaternary dune fields on the southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 75-87.

Muhs, D.R. and Zarate, M., 2001, Eolian records of the Americas and their paleoclimatic significance, in Markgraf, V. ed., Pole-Equator-Pole Paleoclimatic Records of the Americas: Academic Press, p. 183-216.

Muhs, D.R., Reynolds, R.L., Been, J., and Skipp, G., 2003, Eolian sand transport pathways in the southwestern United States: Importance of the Colorado River: Quaternary International, v. 104, p. 3-18.

Madole, R.F., VanSistine, D., and Michael, J.A., 2005, Distribution of late Quaternary wind-deposited sand in eastern Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey SIM-2875, scale 1:600,000, booklet, 45 p.

Wood, K.R., 2005, The Morphology and Structure of a Nebkha Field, (dissertation) BSc Geography, GEO356, University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Madole, R.F., 2005, Quaternary geology and geomorphology, Chapter 4, in Anderson, A.B., ed., Woodlands to wetlands; Human occupation and use of the Great Sand Dunes eolian system: Mosca, CO, Friends of the Dunes, Report submitted to Colorado State Historic Fund, Project #2001-02-069.

Whitney, J.W., Forman, S.L., Paces, J.B., Yount, J.C., Late Quaternary evolution of the Dale Lake sand ramp, San Bernardino County, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, in review

Madole, R.F., and Romig, J.H., New perspectives on the origin of the Great Sand Dunes in south-central Colorado: Geomorphology, in review

Presentations
Bultman, M.W., and Fisher, F.S., 1999, The determination of a geological/ecological habitat model for Coccidioides immitis: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. A-222.

Comrie, Andrew, Kolivras, K., Ampel, N., Bultman, M., Johnson, P.,S. Rogan, K Smith and S.R. Yool, 1999, Exploring Climate Variability and Valley Fever, 24th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Institute for the Study of the Planet Earth, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November 1-5, 1999.

Yool, Stephen, Johnson, P.S., Ampel, N., Bultman, M.W., Comrie,A.C., Kolivras, K., Rogan S., and Smith, K., 1999, Geospatial Modeling of Coccidioides immitis Habitat as Mediated by Climate and Surface Variables, 24th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Institute for the Study of the Planet Earth, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November 1-5, 1999.

Bultman, M.W., Fisher, F.S., and Gettings, M.E., 2000, Modeling the occurrence of Coccidioides immitis with a spatial fuzzy system, Proceedings of the Modeling Complex Systems Conference and Workshop, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), July 31 to August 4, 2000.

Bultman, M.W., and Fisher, F.S., 2001, Definitive parameters and modeling of the saprophytic habitat of Coccidioides immitis in Arizona with a spatial fuzzy system, USGS, Predicting hydrologic, geologic, and biologic responses to a drier and warmer climate in the desert, Southwest USGS workshop. Tucson.

Bultman, M.W., and Fisher, F.S., 2001, Coccidioides immitis: A fungal component of dust and a human pathogen, Proceedings of the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 21-25, 2001.

Fisher, F. S. and Bultman, M.W., 2001, Definitive parameters and modeling of the saprophytic habitat of Coccidioides immitis in Arizona with a spatial fuzzy system, Proceedings of the annual coccidioidomycosis study group meeting, Meeting number 45, March 31, 2001, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Published by The Valley Fever Center for Excellence, Tucson, AZ, p. 6.

Fisher, F.S., Bultman, M.W., Pappagianis, D., Orbach, M.J., Chatigny, J.M., Barton, C., Haddad, M., Panebaker, D., 2002, The ecology of the Swelter Shelter Coccidioides site, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Proceedings of the annual coccidioidomycosis study group meeting, Meeting number 46, April 6, 2002, University of California Davis, California, Published by The Valley Fever Center for Excellence, Tucson, AZ, p. 3.

Fisher F.S. and Bultman, M.W., 2002, Modeling the saprophytic habitat of Coccidioides immitis, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, vol. 34.

Pappagianis, Demosthenes and Fisher, F.S., 2003, Coccidioidomycosis (San Joaquin Valley Fever) Dust Borne Fungal Disease of Humans and Non-Humans, the National Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America,

Gettings, M.E., and Fisher, F.S., 2003, Agent-Based Modeling of Physical Factors That May Control the Growth of Coccidioides immitis (Valley Fever Fungus) in Soils, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting Abstract B21B-0713, December 2003, San Francisco

Bultman, M.W., Gettings, M.E., and Fisher, F.S., 2004, Identification of Coccidioides habitat using a spatial fuzzy system and complex Systems analysis, First International Conference on Fate of Biological Agents, June 7-10, 2004, Williamsburg, VA.

Bultman, MW, 2004, Modeling the habitat of Coccidioides, a soil-borne human pathogen. Workshop on science data in support of environmental health studies in the U.S.-Mexico Border region, McAllen, TX, April 27-28, 2004

Bultman, M.W, Fisher, F.S., Gettings, M.E., 2004, Mapping the Distribution of a Soil-Borne Human Pathogen. Symposium: Application of Complex System Modeling in the Earth Sciences, A New Kind of Science: The NKS Forum, Symposium on the application of complex system science in the earth sciences; Boston, April 22-25, 2004, http://forum.wolframscience.com/showthread.php?threadid=362

Bultman, M.W. 2004, Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis): A Geologically Connected Disease, Arizona geological Socciety, Abstracts for Past AGS Talks, http://www.arizonageologicalsoc.org/oldabstr.htm, August 3, 2004.

Bultman, M.W., Fisher, F.S., and Gettings, M.E., 2004, Modeling the habitat of a soil-borne human pathogen: Coccidioides, USGS Fifth Biennial GIS Workshop, Denver Colorado, March 29-April 2, 2004.

Gettings, Mark E., Fisher, Frederick S., and Bultman, Mark W., 2005, Agent-Based Modeling of Physical Factors That May Control the Growth of Coccidioides (Valley Fever Fungus) in Soils: Proceedings of the First All-USGS Modeling Conference, 14-17 November, 2005, Port Angeles, WA. Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5308. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5308/ p10

Bultman, M.W. 2005, A fuzzy rule-based spatial modeling approach to delineating the habitat of Coccidioides, Proceedings of the First All-USGS Modeling Conference, 14-17 November,2005, Port Angeles, WA. Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5308. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5308/ p5.

Frederick S. Fisher, Mark W. Bultman, Suzanne M. Johnson, Demosthenes Pappagianis and Erik Zaborski, 2006, Habitat parameters of Coccidioides occurrence sites in northern Utah, southern Arizona, central and northern California, Sixth International Symposium on Coccidioidomycosis, Stanford, CA, August 23-26, 2006.

Reports
Fisher, F.S., Bultman, M.W., and Pappagianis, Demosthenes, 2000, Operational Guidelines (version 1.0) for Geological Fieldwork in Areas Endemic for Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-348, Online version 1.0. http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-348/

Bultman, M., Fisher, F., and Pappagianis. D., 2004, An overview of the ecology of soil-borne human pathogens: in Medical Geology: Earth Science in Support of Public Health Protection, Academic Press.

Bultman, M.W., Fisher, F.S., and Gettings, M.E., 2004, Coccidioidomycosis: Mitigating the Risk, USGS GeoHealth News, Volume 3, No. 1, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston Virginia http://energy.er.usgs.gov/medical_geology.htm

Bultman, M.W., Gettings, M.E., and Fisher, F.S., 2005, Identification of Coccidioides habitat using a spatial fuzzy system and complex systems analysis, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Fate of Biological Agents, Williamsburg, VA., U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Aberdeen Proving Ground, 7 p.

Bultman, M.W., Fisher, F.S., and Pappagianis, Demosthenes, 2005, The ecology of soil-borne human pathogens, in Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health, Elsevier-Academic Press, Burlington, MA, p. 481-512.

Fisher, F.S, Bultman, M.W., Johnson, S.M., Pappagianis, Demosthenes and Zaborsky, Erik, 2007, Coccidioides niches and habitat parameters, Southwestern U.S. - a matter of scale, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 44 MS pages.

Presentations
Hereford, R., 1997, Environmental changes in valleys of the Paria River basin, Salt Lake City, Utah: Bureau of Land Management, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Symposium Proceedings 1997, p. 305-306.

Gellis, A.C., Pavich, M., and Aby, 2003, Sediment budgets for two semi-arid watersheds, Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico: XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, July 23-30, 2003, Reno, NV, p. 120.

Elliott, J., and Gellis, A.C., 2003, Recent geomorphic change in the Rio Puerco arroyo of northern New Mexico, USA: XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, July 23-30, 2003, Reno, NV, p. 119-120.

Pavich, M.J., Bierman, P.R., Gellis, A.C., Reuter, J.M., 2003, Rates and scales of sediment production in the Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico: XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, July 23-30, 2003, Reno, NV, p. 119.

Buckingham, S.E., Whitney, J.W., Glancy, P.A., and Ehrenberg, A., 2004, Accelerated Modern Erosion in Las Vegas Wash, Clark County, Nevada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Program with Absracts, Denver, CO. (November 2004)

Gellis, A.C., Pavich, M.J., Clark, I., Ellwein, A., and Aby S., 2005, Sediment budgets the 'old fashioned' way for two subbasins of the Rio Puerco, New Mexico: Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Abstract H51E-0415.

Buckingham, S.E., and Whitney, J.W., 2005, Power of historical remote sensing. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. March 2005 Presentation.

Hereford, R., 2007,Oraibi Wash revisited-A new look at J.T. Hack's classic Southwest stratigraphy: GSA annual meeting.

Reports
Ely, L.L., Hereford, R., House, P.K., and Baker, V.R., 1997, Effects of paleohydrology and climate change on bedrock and alluvial channels, southern Colorado Plateau, A field trip guidebook: American Quaternary Association.

Hereford, R., Thompson, K.S., and Burke, K.J., 1998, Numerical ages of Holocene tributary debris fans inferred from dissolution pitting on carbonate boulders in the Grand Canyon of Arizona: Quaternary Research, v. 50, p. 139-147.

Elliott, J.G., Gellis, A.C., and Aby, S.B., 1999, Evolution of Arroyos--Incised Channels of the Southwestern United States: in Darby, S.E., and Simon, A., eds., Incised Channels - Processes, Forms, Engineering and Management, p. 153-185.

Gellis, A.C. and Pavich, M.J., 1999, The U.S. Geological Survey Global Climate Change Program in the Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico: in Bartolino, J.R., ed, U.S. Geological Survey Middle Rio Grande Basin Study - Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 24-25, 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-203, p.91.

Lucchitta, I., Curtis, G.H., Davis, M.E., Davis, S.W., Turrin, B., 1999, Cyclic aggradation and downcutting, fluvial response to volcanic activity, and calibration of soil-carbonate stages in the western grand Canyon, Arizona: Quaternary Research, v. 53, p. 23-33.

Lucchitta, I., Jeanne, R.A., 2000, Geomorphic features and processes of the Shivwits Plateau, Arizona, and their constraints on the age of the western Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon Symposium (June 11, 2000) Monograph.

Hereford, R., Burke, K.J., and Thompson, K.S., 2000, Map showing Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the Lees Ferry area, Marble Canyon, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2663, scale 1:2,000 (with discussion).

Hereford, R., Burke, K.J., and Thompson, K.S., 2000, Map showing Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the Granite Park area, Grand Canyon, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2662, scale 1:2,000.

Molnar, P. and Ramirez, J.A., 2000, Analyzing the effects of climate variability and change on erosion in the American Southwest using a newly developed ephemeral channel erosion model: International Symposium on Gully Erosion.

Gellis, A.C., and Elliott, J.G., 2001, Arroyo changes in selected watersheds of New Mexico, United States: In Harvey, M., and Anthony, D., eds., Applying Geomorphology to Environmental Management, A Special Publication Honoring Stanley A. Schumm, Water Resources Publications, LLC Press, p. 225-240.

Clapp, E.M., Bierman, P.R., Pavich, M.J., Nichols, K.K., and Caffee, M., 2001, Rates of sediment supply to arroyos from upland erosion determined using in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al: Quaternary Research, v.55, p. 235-245.

Love, D.W., and Gellis, A.C., 2001, What decision makers should know about arroyos in New Mexico: in Johnson, P.S., ed., Water, Watersheds, and Land Use in New Mexico, New Mexico Decision-Makers Field Guide no. 1, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico, p. 81-83.

Gellis, A.C., and Elliott, J.G., 2001, Arroyo changes in selected watersheds of New Mexico, United States: In Harvey, M., and Anthony, D., eds., Applying Geomorphology to Environmental Management, A Special Publication Honoring Stanley A. Schumm: Water Resources Publications, LLC Press, p. 225-240.

Gellis, A.C., Pavich, M.J., and Ellwein, A., 2001, Erosion and sediment yields in two subbasins of contrasting land use, Rio Puerco, New Mexico: Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Reno, Nevada, p. V83-V90.

Love, D.W., and Gellis, A.C., 2001, What decision makers should know about arroyos in New Mexico: in Johnson, P.S., ed., Water, Watersheds, and Land Use in New Mexico, New Mexico Decision-Makers Field Guide no. 1: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico, p. 81-83.

Lucchitta, I., Curtis, G.H., Davis, M.E., Davis, S.W., Hanks, T.C., Finkel, R.C., Turrin, B., 2001, Rates of downcutting of the Colorado River during the mid-to-late Quaternary: Grand Canyon Symposium (June 11, 2000) Monograph.

Lucchitta, I., McDougall, K., Metzger, D.G., Morgan, P., Smith, G.R., Chernoff, B., 2001, The Bouse Formation and Post-Miocene uplift of the Colorado Plateau: Grand Canyon Symposium (June 11, 2000) Monograph.

Molnar, P. and Ramirez, J.A., 2001, Recent trends in precipitation and streamflow in the Rio Puerco Basin: Journal of Climate, v. 14, n. 10, p. 2317-2328.

Riihimaki, C.A. and Pavich, M.J., 2001 Charcoal production, transport and deposition: implications for the charcoal record of the Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico: USGS Open-File Report.

Webb, R.H. and Hereford, Richard, 2001, Floods and geomorphic change in the American Southwest: an historical perspective: Reno, NV, Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, v. IV, p. IV30 - IV37.

Fairley, H.C. and Hereford, R., 2002, Geoarcheological research along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona, in, Phillips, B.P., and Ware, J.A. eds., Culture and Environment in the American Southwest: Papers in honor of Robert C. Euler, Phoenix, Arizona, SWCA Anthropological Research Paper Number 8, p. 38-39.

Gellis, A.C., 2002, Twentieth Century Channel Changes in Chaco Culture National Historic Park: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4251, 42 p.

Hereford, R., 2002, Valley-fill alluviation (ca. 1400-1880) during the Little Ice Age, Paria River basin and southern Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1550-1563.

Hereford, R., Webb, R.H., and Graham, Scott, 2002, Precipitation history of the Colorado Plateau, 1900-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 119-02.

Hereford, R., and Webb, R.H., 2003, Map showing Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the Lonely Dell reach of the Paria River, Lees Ferry, Arizona with with a section on landscape rephotography by Robert H. Webb and Richard Hereford: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-2771, scale 1:5,000.

Burke, K.J., Fairley, H.C., Hereford, R., and Thompson, K.S., 2003, Holocene terraces, sand dunes, and debris fans along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, in, Beus, S.S., and Morales, Michael, eds., Grand Canyon Geology: London, Oxford University Press, p. 352-370.

Quade, J., Forester, R. M., and Whelan, J. F., 2003, Late Quaternary paleohydrology and paleotemerature change in Southern Nevada, In Enzel, Y., Wells, S., and Lancaster, N., eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper 368, p. 165-188.

Gellis, A.C., Pavich, M.J., Bierman, P., Ellwein, A., Aby, S., and Clapp, E., 2004, Modern sediment yield compared to geologic rates of sediment generation in a semiarid basin, New Mexico-Determining the human impact: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 29, p.1359-1372.

Poore, R.Z., Pavich, M.J., and Grissino-Mayer, H.D., 2005, Record of the North American southwest monsoon from Gulf of Mexico sediment cores: Geology, v. 33, no. 3, p. 209-212 http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-toc&issn=0091-7613&volume=33&issue=3.

Bierman, P.R., Reuter, J.M., Pavich, M., Gellis, A.C., Caffee, M.W., and Larsen, J., 2005, Using cosmogenic radionuclides to contrast rates of erosion and sediment yield in a semi-arid, arroyo-dominated landscape, Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico: Earth Surfaces Processes and Landforms, v. 30.

Webb, R.H., Hereford, Richard, and McCabe G.J., 2005, Climatic fluctuations, drought, and flow in the Colorado River, in, Gloss, S.P., Lovich, J.E., and Melis, T.S., eds., The state of the Colorado River ecosystem in Grand Canyon: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1282, p. 57-68.

Friedman, J.M., Auble, G.T., Andrews, E.D., Kittel, G., Madole, R.F., Griffin, E.R., and Allred, T.M., 2006, Transverse and longitudinal variation in woody riparian vegetation along a montane river: Western North American Naturalist, v. 66, no. 1, p. 78-91.

Hereford, Richard, and Betancourt, J.L., in press, Historic geomorphology of the San Pedro River: Archival and physical evidence, in Stromberg, J., and Tellman, B., eds., Riparian conservation in a semi-arid region, The San Pedro River example: Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

Lucchitta, Ivo, Letters from Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon National Park Nature Notes. Seven articles 1997-2004. Lucchitta, Ivo, Boatman's Quarterly Review, Nine articles 2000-2004. These publications are for "outreach", intended for the layperson and NPS employees, on topics of the geologic history of the Colorado River and its Grand Canyon.

Friedman, J.M., Auble, G.T., Andrews, E.D., Kittel, G., Madole, R.F., Griffin, E.R., and Allred, T.M., in press, Transverse and longitudinal variation in riparian vegetation along a montane river: Journal of Biogeography.

Duffield, W., Riggs, N., Kaufman, D., Champion, D., Fenton, C., Forman, S., McIntosh, W., Hereford, R., Plescia, J., and Ort, M., 2006, Multiple constraints on the age of a Pleistocene lava dam across the Little Colorado River at Grand Falls, Arizona: Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 118, p. 421-429.

Whitney, J.W., Buckingham, S.E., Ehrenburg, E., Glancy, P.A., Hester, J., The rapid erosion of Las Vegas Wash, Clark County, Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin. (in review)

Glancy, P.A., and Whitney, J.W., Geomorphic evolution and modern erosion of Las Vegas Wash, Clark County, Nevada: USGS Scientific Investigation Report. in review

Buckingham, S.E., and Whitney, J.W., GIS methdology for assessing erosion in Las Vegas, Nevada: Journal of Amercan Water Resources Association, 35 p. in review

Whitney, J., Buckingham, S.E., Glancy, P., Ehrenberg, A., The Rapid Erosion of Las Vegas Wash, Clark County, Nevada: Geology, in review.

Reynolds, R.L., Dettinger, M., Cayan, D., Stephens, D., and Highland, L., 1997, Effects of El Nino on streamflow, lake level, and landslide potential. http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/elnino/

U.S. Geological Survey, 1998, Impacts of climate change and land use on the southwestern United States: Desert Research Institute Workshop on New Research Directions in Desert Surficial Processes and Landscape Dynamics on Military Lands, Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, California, p. 23.

Drummond, M.A., 1999, A multi-proxy study of late Quaternary climate history, Grand Mesa, Western Colorado: M.S. thesis, University of Denver, 246 p.

Hinkley, T., Lamothe, P., Wilson, S., Finnegan, D., and Gerlach, T., 1999, Metal emissions from Kilauea and a suggested revision of the estimated worldwide metal output by quiescent degassing of volcanoes: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 170, p. 315-325.

Reynolds, R.L. Rosenbaum, J.G., Mazza, N., Luiszer, F., and Bischoff, J., 1999, Magnetic record of hydrochemical change at Owens Lake (California) between 134-46 Ka: American Geophysical Union Supplement to EOS Transactions, v. 79, no. 45, p. F239.

Reynolds, R.L., Rosenbaum, J.G., van Metre, P., Tuttle, M., Callender, E., Goldin, A., 1999, Greigite (Fe3S4) as an indicator of drought - The 1912-1994 sediment magnetic record from White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas, USA: Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 21, p. 193-206.

Miller, D.M. and Yount, J.C., 1999, Surficial geology and geomorphic process studies in support of multidisciplinary ecosystem investigations: Examples from parts of Greenwater and Valjean Valleys, Mojave Desert Ecosystem, in Slate, J.L., ed., Proceedings of conference on status of geologic research and mapping in Death Valley National Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-11, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-153, p. 113-114.

Kay, P.T., Pollastro, R.M., Reynolds, R.L., Wendlandt, R.F., Geib, P.B., Ward, D.A., Allen, D., and Frisbie, T.R., 1999, Archeological mysteries of Anasazi artisans in the southwestern USA solved by nondestructive X-ray diffraction: Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-323.

Hinkley, Todd K., 2000, Atmospheric Deposition of Dust and Salt Through more than 25,000 Years of Taylor Dome Antarctic Ice Core: Refinement by Measurement of Major, Minor, and Trace Metal Suites: Workshop on Mineral Dusts, Boulder, CO, June 11-12, 1999. Matsumoto, A., and Hinkley, T., 2001, Trace metal suites in 75,000 years of Antarctic ice are consistent with emissions from quiescent degassing of volcanoes worldwide: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 186, p. 33-43.

Sprigg, William A. and Hinkley, Todd K., 2000, Southwest Regional Component of the National Climate Assessment: Proceedings American Geophysical Union v. 80 no. 17, p. S22.

Sprigg, W., Hinkley, T., and Southwest Regional Assessment Group, 2000, Preparing for a changing climate: The potential consequences of climate variability and change - Southwest: Tucson, Univ. of Arizona, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, 60 p.

Reynolds, R.L., Sweetkind, D.S., and Axford, Yarrow, 2001, An inexpensive magnetic mineral separator for fine-grained sediment: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-281, 7 p.

Reynolds, R.L., Rosenbaum, J.G., Reheis, M., Goldhaber, M., Neff, J., and Goldstein, H., 2002, Magnetic expressions of environmental change: Records and proxies: Quadreni di Geofisica, no. 26, Abstracts, Fundamental Rock Magnetism and Environmental Applications, 20th Course of the International School of Geophysics, Erice, Italy, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. P. 135-136.

Pelletier, J.D., Harrington, C.D., Whitney, J.W., Cline, M., DeLong, S.B., Keating, G., 2005, Geomorphic control of radionuclide diffusion in desert soils: Geophysical Research Letters, V. 32, L23401, 4 p.

Hereford, Richard, 2006, User's guide, software for reduction and analysis of daily weather and surface-water data: Tools for time series analysis of precipitation, temperature, and streamflow data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1101 available on the World Wide Web at URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1101/