Fifth-Year Assessment of Baylor University Major Strategic Proposal (MSP) “Research Initiative in Terrestrial Paleoclimatology”: Faculty and Student Research Accomplishments, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (partial)

Executive Summary: The Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Research Initiative, an MSP initially funded by Baylor University beginning in 2007, that currently (October 29, 2012) consists of 6 Geology Faculty and one post-doc, has seen important growth and advancements of the initiative over the past 5 years, which are reported in detail in what follows. Especially noteworthy for this summary are the following:

1) Seven Ph.D. students (Drs. Ahr, Cleveland, Kahmann-Robinson, Mintz, Shunk, Stinchcomb, and Trendell) and two M.S. students (Bongino, Dhillon) have graduated, along with 12 B.S. Senior Thesis students. Three Ph.D. students (Jennings, Meier, and Michel) and two M.S. students (Culbertson and Felda) are anticipated to graduate in 2012-2013. There are currently 11 graduate students (3 M.S., 8 Ph.D.) and 4 B.S. students engaged in thesis research in the program. Three new graduate students (all Ph.D.) were recruited starting fall semester, 2012.

2) Faculty have published 97 total peer-reviewed journal articles (27 so far in 2012, 19 in 2011, 20 in 2010, 11 in 2009, 10 in 2008, and 10 in 2007), indicating a strong positive increase in research output. Of the peer-reviewed journal articles, 18 were first-authored by 7 Ph.D. students. Faculty and students gave 168 total presentations at professional meetings (24 in 2012 so far, 44 in 2011, 39 in 2010, 27 in 2009, 17 in 2008, and 17 in 2007), indicating a strong presence at professional presentations. Of the professional presentations, 58 were first-authored and presented by students.

3) Faculty submitted 45 grant proposals to competitive external funding agencies, of which 17 were funded, totaling $1,160K. The total number of federally funded grants currently (November, 2012) held by Geology MSP faculty is eight and the number of Geology MSP faculty funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is four (Driese, Hockaday, Nordt, and Peppe), with Hockaday also funded by the US Department of Agriculture, and Peppe also funded by the Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society). A first-ever NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (for Ph.D. student Steve Ahr, Dr. Lee C. Nordt, director) was awarded in 2009. A first-ever NSF Doctoral Fellowship (for TIEEES Ph.D. student Zach Valdez, Dr. William C. Hockaday, director) was also awarded in 2013.

4) Two visiting sabbatical research professors (Dr. Julia Sankey from Cal State-Stanislaus, Dr. Yon Wang from Southwest University, Chongqing, Peoples Republic of China) were hosted by the program.

5) Two new tenure-track Assistant Professors were hired as approved in the MSP plan: (1) Dr. Daniel (Dan) Peppe from Yale University was hired in 2009. Dr. Peppe supports the MSP through addition of his new expertise areas of Paleobotany and Paleomagnetism. (2) Dr. William C. (Bill) Hockaday from the Ohio State University was hired in 2010. Dr. Hockaday supports the MSP through addition of his new expertise area of Organic Geochemistry using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A search for a third Senior-level hire emphasizing paleoclimatology is currently ongoing in fall-spring of 2012-2013. This will be the last hire for the Department approved in the original MSP.

6) A $250K gift was received in 2009 from Baylor Geology alumnus Dr. Ken Carlile and wife Celia to support construction of the Thomas T. Goforth Paleomagnetic Laboratory for new hire Dr. Dan Peppe; the magnetometer was installed in the lab in May of 2011 and dedicated in October of 2011. A $100K gift

1 was received in 2010 from Ken and Celia Carlile to support construction of the Paul Marchand Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy laboratory for new hire Dr. Bill Hockaday. This lab was dedicated in November of 2012.

7) A new Thermo isotope-ratio mass spectrometer and laboratory was set up in BSB room B408 in 2009- 2010. As specified in the MSP plan, the GEO Department hired Dr. Ren Zhang from the University of Manitoba in May of 2010 as a new a Instrumentation Specialist to manage the new laboratory. The position has a partial research scientist appointment so that he is also PI-eligible for writing and submitting grants. Dr. Zhang supports the MSP through his expertise interpreting paleoclimate records from speleothems (cave deposits) and co-authored a FRIP grant ($17.3K from Baylor) for construction of a fluid inclusion extraction device, which is ongoing.

8) The Baylor Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Group hosted an SEPM-NSF Research Conference and Workshop on Paleosols at Petrified Forest National Park in Holbrook, AZ from September 21-25, 2010, attended by 27 Ph.D. professionals, 15 graduate students, and 2 National Park Service scientists. It was supported by the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), the National Science Foundation (NSF), ExxonMobil Corporation and Baylor University’s Vice-Provost for Research.

9) A paper was published in 2011 in Science that includes 2 Baylor Geology MSP faculty: Waters, M.R., Forman, S.L., Jennings, T.A., Nordt, L.C., Driese, S.G., Feinberg, J.M., Keene, J.L., Halligan, J., Lindquist, A., Pierson, J., Hallmark, C.T., Collins, M.B., and Wiederhold, J.E., 2011, The Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas and the origins of Clovis: Science, v. 331, p. 1599-1603. ______

DETAILED REPORT

Participating Baylor Faculty: Six current Baylor Geology faculty members and one post-doc conduct research in Terrestrial Paleoclimatology as part of the Baylor University Major Strategic Proposal (MSP):

Dr. Stacy C. Atchley (2007-present) Professor (Ph.D., University of Nebraska – Lincoln). Research Interests: Petroleum Geology, Applied Sequence Stratigraphy, Paleopedologic Applications to Sequence Stratigraphy.

Dr. Steven G. Driese (2007-present) Professor and Chair of the Geology Department (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison). Research Interests: Paleopedology, Clastic Sedimentology, Environmental Sedimentology.

Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin (2007-present) Professor and Graduate Program Director (Ph.D., University of Texas – Austin). Research Interests: Sedimentary Petrology, Low Temperature Geochemistry, Geochemical Applications to Paleopedology.

Dr. Zhaodong (Jordan) Feng (2007-2011) Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Kansas). Research Interests: Geomorphology, Quaternary Paleoclimatology, GIS/RS Applications in Physical Geography. (Dr. Feng left BU in May, 2011).

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Dr. William C. Hockaday (2010 -present) Assistant Professor (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Research Interests: Organic geochemistry, NMR- based fingerprinting of terrestrial organic matter, reconstructing fire temperatures from charcoal, carbon sequestration.

Dr. Lee C. Nordt (2007-present) Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D., Texas A&M University) Research Interests: Paleoclimatology and paleoecology, soils and paleosols, and Quaternary Geology.

Dr. Daniel J. Peppe (2009-present) Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Yale University) Research Interests: Paleoclimatology, paleobotany, paleoecology, ecology, biostratigraphy, paleomagnetism, geochronology, human evolution.

Dr. Gary E. Stinchcomb (2012-present) Post-doctoral researcher (Ph.D., Baylor University) Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, Quaternary geology, geoarchaeology, paleoclimate proxy development.

Full curriculum vitae for the above-listed faculty are available upon request; additional information can be obtained from the Geology Department website at: http://www.baylor.edu/Geology/ under each Faculty member’s name.

Research Staff:

Dr. Ren Zhang (2010-present) Instrumentation Specialist and Manager of Stable Isotope Laboratory (Ph.D., McMaster University) Research Interests: Speleothem paleoclimatology; stable isotope geochemistry; fluid inclusions.

Faculty Awards:

Dr. Steven G. Driese was elected President of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), a 3,500 member international society based in Tulsa, OK. His term of office began in April, 2008 and ended in April, 2010.

Dr. Steven G. Driese was invited as one of 16 panelists to attend an NSF-Sponsored Workshop July 26- 27, 2010 in Lake Tahoe, NV, representing soil and paleosol research disciplines encompassed by NSF’s Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP) program to identify the grand challenges for the future of our broad disciplines. Specifically, their goal is to articulate the research frontiers, opportunities and priorities for SGP over the next decade. The reason for convening such a group at this time is to provide input to the just -initiated NRC study on New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation. We prepared a “Grand Challenges in SGP” white paper for distribution to the NRC committee as well as for circulation at NSF. My participation was a critical component of this effort.

3 Dr. Steven G. Driese was invited as one of 6 NSF review panelists to evaluate the progress of the current 6 NSF-supported Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) in the Earth Sciences (EAR) Earth Surface Processes program, which met from March 28-30, 2011 in Washington, DC. Recommendations to issue a new call for proposals and for establishing additional CZOs will hopefully be followed with a major proposal for a Texas-based CZO with Baylor University as the lead institution (such efforts are currently ongoing).

Dr. Steven G. Driese was invited by the Agronomy Department at Iowa State University, under the William Pierre Lecture Series, to debate the geological record of climate change recorded in paleosols, March 29-30, 2012.

Dr. Steven G. Driese was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will be inducted as a fellow on February 16, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Lee C. Nordt presented an invited lecture at the America Quaternary Association in August, 2010 in Laramie, WY.

Dr. Lee C. Nordt was invited as one of eight panelists for an NSF Workshop, chaired by J.T. Parrish, to evaluate the NSF Earth Sciences (EAR) Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program, meeting March 27-28, 2011 in Washington, DC, as well as a follow up meeting scheduled for October 24-25, 2011 in Washington, DC to build a final plan for NSF EAR Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program. A “Transitions” summary volume was published in 2012 and a newly funded NSF program “Earth-Life Transitions” was established as a result of this report, with a call for proposals and submission deadline in February, 2013.

Dr. Daniel J. Peppe received the George Gaylord Simpson Prize for a paper on evolution and the fossil record, Yale Peabody Museum, spring of 2011.

Dr. Daniel .J. Peppe in 2011 was selected as one of 30 early career scientists to participate in Dissertation Initiatives for the Advancement of Climate Change Research Symposium (DISCCRS) (http://disccrs.org/). The symposium is for early career scientists interested in conducted interdisciplinary research. Participants are chosen by an interdisciplinary committee of scientists based on a review of more than 200 applications. ______Participating Students: The following 22 Baylor Geology Graduate students and 16 Baylor Geology Undergraduate students conducted research in Terrestrial Paleoclimatology, 2007 to 2012:

Completed Paleoclimatology Graduate Theses and Dissertations (Ph.D. students in bold):

1) Bongino, John D., 2007, “Late Quaternary history of the Waco Mammoth Site: Environmental reconstruction and interpreting the cause of death”: M.S. Thesis, degree granted in August, 2007. (Dr. Lee C. Nordt, Director)

4 2) Cleveland, David M., 2007, “Fluvial sequence stratigraphy and paleoclimate of the Upper Triassic Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) Chinle strata, northern New Mexico”: PhD. Dissertation, degree granted in December, 2007. (Dr. Stacy C. Atchley and Dr. Lee C. Nordt, Co-Directors)

3) Kahmann-Robinson, Julia A., 2008, “High-frequency climate forcing of Upper Mississippian Pennington Formation paleosols at Pound Gap, Kentucky, USA”: Ph.D. dissertation, degree granted in December, 2008. (Dr. Steven G. Driese, Director)

4) Shunk, Aaron J., 2009, “Late Tertiary paleoclimate and stratigraphy of the Gray Fossil Site (eastern TN) and the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (north-central IN)”: Ph.D. dissertation, degree granted in May, 2009. (Dr. Steven G. Driese, Director)

5) Mintz, Jason S., 2011, “Rise of the Givetian (385 Ma) Forests, Northern Appalachian Basin, Catskill State Park, New York, U.S.A.”: Ph.D. Dissertation, degree granted in May, 2011. (Dr. Steven G. Driese, Director)

6) Dhillon, Ryan S., 2011, “The influence of climate and expansion of C4 grasses sequence-scale cyclicity and landscape development during the late Miocene to Pleistocene in West Texas”: M.S. Thesis, degree granted in December, 2011. (Dr. Stacy C. Atchley, Director.)

7) Lemons, Casee, 2012,“Leaf Economic Traits of Extant Ferns as a Proxy for Growth Habits”: MS Thesis, degree granted in May, 2012. (Dr. Daniel J. Peppe, Director.)

8) Van Plantinga, Alex, 2012, “Pleistocene paleosols and paleolandscapes, Rusinga Island, Kenya”: M.S. Thesis, degree granted in May, 2012. (Dr. Daniel Peppe, Director.)

9) Stinchcomb, Gary E., 2012, “Climatic and human influences on the Holocene alluvial history and paleoenvironment of the Middle Delaware River Valley, USA”: Ph.D. dissertation, degree granted in August, 2012. (Dr. Steven G. Driese and Dr. Lee C. Nordt, co-Directors).

10) Ahr, Steven W., 2012, “Age, genesis, and archaeological geology of the sandy mantle on the Gulf Coastal plain of Texas”: Ph.D. Dissertation awarded in December, 2012. (Dr. Lee C. Nordt, Director.)

11) Trendell, Aislyn M., 2012, “Lithofacies heterogeneity, fluvial style variations, and floodplain vegetation distributions: Deposition and diagenesis of the Lower Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona”: Ph.D. Dissertation awarded in December, 2012. (Dr. Stacy C. Atchley and Dr. Lee C. Nordt, Co-Directors.)

Paleoclimatology Graduate Theses and Dissertations – Currently in Progress (Ph.D. in bold)

1) Beverly, Emily, in progress, “Comparative study of semi-arid modern and Pleistocene paleo- Vertisols from Cameron County, Texas and Karungu, Kenya”: Ph.D. Dissertation, Co-Directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese and Dr. Daniel J. Peppe.

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2) Culbertson, Amos, in progress, “Paleoclimatic records from Late Pennsylvanian paleosols: a comparative application of multiple geochemical proxies”: M.S. Thesis., Dr. Steven G. Driese, Director.

3) Davis, Adam, in progress “Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA”: Ph.D. Dissertation, Co-Directed by Dr. Stacy C. Atchley and Dr. Daniel J. Peppe.

4) DiPietro, Lyndsay: in progress, “First Americans geoarchaeology in central Alaska”: Ph.D. Dissertation, Dr. Steven G. Driese, Director.

5) Felda, Garrett, “Palustrine carbonates and equivalent petrocalcic paleosols within the Owl Rock Member of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona”: M.S Thesis, Dr. Stacy C. Atchley, Director.

6) Jennings, Debra S., “Differentiating paleoclimate and volcanogenic signatures of the Morrison Formation depositional basin, USA”: Ph.D. Dissertation, Dr. Steven G. Driese, Director.

7) Longbottom, Todd, in development: Ph.D. Dissertation, Directed by Dr. William C. Hockaday.

8) Meier, Holly A., “Owl Creek: Investigation of the geologic record as a product of climate change, geomorphic threshold and cultural preservation”: Ph.D. Dissertation, Dr. Lee C. Nordt, Director.

9) Michel, Lauren A., “Field, micromorphologic and stable isotopic comparative study of modern and ancient soils from Riesel, Texas and Rusinga and Mfangango Islands, Kenya”: Ph.D. Dissertation, Dr. Steven G. Driese and Dr. Daniel J. Peppe, Co-Directors.

10) Nguyen, Michael, in development: Ph.D. Dissertation, Dr. Boris L.T. Lau and Dr. William C. Hockaday, Co-Directors.

11) Von Bargen, Justin, in progress, “Charcoal chemistry: Developing a proxy for paleofire regimes using NMR”: M.S Thesis, Dr. William C. Hockaday, Director.

Paleoclimatology Undergraduate B.S. Theses – Completed

1) Dixon, Alex, 2008, “Provenance and the early diagenetic alteration of volcaniclastic material incorporated in fluvial channel sandstone deposits, Morrison Fm. near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese.

2) Seitz, Jenny, 2008, “Characterization of pedogenic minerals across the K-T boundary, Big Bend Texas”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin.

3) Fitzgerald, Amy, 2009, “Provenance and diagenesis of Chinle Formation sandstones from the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin.

6 4) Keeton, Gabriela, 2009, “Grain size analysis of paleosols across the K-T boundary, Big Bend, Texas”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin.

5) Turpin, Lisa, 2009, “Environmental significance of a thick mudrock deposit in the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin.

6) Wright, T. Colby, 2009, “Quantification of pedogenic clay in Middle Devonian Catskill paleosols and estimation of relative soil ages”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese.

7) Harlow, R. Hunter, 2010, “Paleosol geochemistry and terrestrial sequence stratigraphy: Using molecular weathering ratios in the sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Upper Plattekill, Manorkill, and Oneonta Formations, Catskill State Park, New York, USA”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese.

8) Torsch, William C., 2010, “Abundance and character of Late Quaternary paleosols preserved at Red Bluff, along Owl Creek, Fort Hood, Texas”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin.

9) DiPietro, Lyndsay M., 2011, “Paleoclimate interpretation using clay mineralogy for Early Miocene fossil localities of the Hiwegi Formation on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Daniel J. Peppe.

10) Landers, Tyler C., 2011, “Influence of late Holocene climate change on floodplain deposition, erosion, and soil formation along Williams Creek, Central Texas, USA”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese.

11) Kuijper, Kimberly E., 2012, “Analysis of the CIA-K geochemical proxy for Alfisols using the Baylor soil geochemical database”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese.

12) LeBlanc, Stephanie, 2012, "Clay mineralogy as an indicator of volcanogenesis: the Late Triassic Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona": B.S. Senior Thesis, co-directed by Dr. Stacy C. Atchley and Dr. Stephen I. Dworkin.

Paleoclimatology Undergraduate B.S. Theses – Currently in Progress

1) Horner, Will H., in progress, Using clay mineralogy and particle size analysis to reconstruct early Miocene paleoenvironment in the Kibanga Member, Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Kenya: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Steven G. Driese.

2) DeGarmo, Dillon, in progress,“Magnetostratigraphy of the Paleocene Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, Williston Basin, USA: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Daniel Peppe

3) McCollum, Mark, in progress, “Magneotstratigraphy of the Miocene Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Kenya”: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. Daniel Peppe

7 4) Cestari, Nicolas, in progress, “Alkanes as molecular markers for organic matter source apportionment in modern sediment, Brazos River, Waco, TX: B.S. Senior Thesis, directed by Dr. William Hockaday ______Baylor Paleoclimatology Faculty Publications (underline = Baylor MSP Geology Faculty) (* = peer-reviewed journal article) (S=Baylor Paleoclimatology student first- authored publication)

2012 (published, accepted or in press)

S*(1) Ahr, S.W., Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Assessing lithologic discontinuities and parent material uniformity within the Texas sandy mantle and implications for archaeological burial and preservation potential in upland settings: Quaternary Research, v. 78, p. 60-71.

S* (2) Ahr, S.W., Nordt, L.C., and Forman, S.L.( in press), Soil genesis, optical dating, and geoarchaeological evaluation of two upland Alfisol pedons within the Tertiary Gulf Coastal Plain: Geoderma, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.08.016.

*(3) Ashley, G.R., Deocampo, D.M., Kahmann-Robinson, J.A., and Driese, S.G., accepted, Groundwater-fed wetland sediments and paleosols: It’s all about water table: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

*(4) Atchley, S.C., Nordt. L.C., Dworkin, S.I., Cleveland, D.M., Mintz, J.S., and Harlow, R.H., in press, Alluvial stacking pattern analysis and sequence stratigraphy: concepts and case studies: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

*(5) Breecker, D.O., Yoon, J., Michel, L.A., Dinka, T.M., Driese, S.G., Mintz, J.S., Nordt, L.C., Romanak, K.D., and Morgan, C.L.S., in press, CO2 concentrations in Vertisols: seasonal variability and shrink-swell: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

*(6) Cusak, D.F., Chadwick, O.A., Hockaday, W.C., and Vistousek, P.M., 2012, Mineralogical controls on soil black carbon preservation: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB004109.

*(7) Danley, P.D., *Husemann, M., *Ding, B., *DiPietro, L., *Beverly, E., Peppe, D.J., 2012, The impact of the geologic history and the paleoclimate of the African Great Lakes on the diversification of East African cichlids: International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Article ID 574851: 20 pages.

*(8) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Waters, M.R., and Keene, J.L., accepted, Analysis of site formation history and potential disturbance of stratigraphic context at the Debra L. Friedkin archaeological site in central Texas, USA: Geoarchaeology.

*(9) Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., in press, New frontiers in paleopedology and terrestrial paleoclimatology: paleosols and soil surface analog systems: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

8 *(10) Dyar, M.D., Carmosino, M.L., Tucker, J.M. Brown, E.A., Clegg, S.M., Wiens, R.C., Barefield, J.E., Delaney, J.S., Ashley, G.M., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Remote laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy analysis of East African Rift sedimentary samples under Mars conditions: Chemical Geology, v. 294-295, p. 135-151.

*(11) Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., in press, The fossil history of endangered Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa: Journal of Biogeography.

*(12) Kinney, T., Masiello, C.A., Dugan, B., Hockaday, W.C, Dean, M.R., Zygourakis, K., and Barnes, R.T., 2012, Hydrologic properties of biochars produced at different temperatures: Biomass and Bioenergy, 34-43.

*(13) Koarashi, J., Hockaday, W.C., Trumbore, S., and Masiello, C.A., 2012, Dynamics of decadally-cycling carbon in subsurface soils: Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, v. 117, G03033.

*(14) Li, Z.-H., and Driese, S.G., accepted, Open- and closed-system controls on late Holocene paleo-vegetation and paleo-temperature revealed by δ13C and δ18O values of speleothems in Raccoon Mountain Cave, southern Appalachians: A multiple cave deposit assessment: Sedimentology.

*(15) Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Fowle, D.A., Roberts, J.A., Driese, S.G., Villarreal, M.A., Smith, J.J., and Suarez, M.B., in press, Paleoclimatic implications and modern process studies of pedogenic siderite: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

*(16) Nordt, L.C., Hallmark, C.T., Driese, S.G., Dworkin, S.I., and Atchley, S.C., 2012, Biogeochemistry of an ancient Critical Zone: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 87, p. 267-282.

*(17) Nordt, L.C., Hallmark, C.T., Driese, S.G., Dworkin, S.I., and Atchley, S.C., in press, Multi-analytical pedosystem approach to characterizing and interpreting the fossil record of soils: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

*(18) Nordt, L.C., in press, Late Quaternary fluvial landscape evolution of the Rio Casas Grandes and San Pedro: Implications for the archaeological record, In Late Archaic Cerros de Trincheras Sites of Chihuahua, Mexico, R. Hard and R. Roney (eds.), University of Utah Press.

*(19) Peppe, D.J. and Deino, A.L., in press, Dating rocks and fossils using the geologic record: Nature Education Knowledge Project.

*(20) Royer, D.L., Peppe, D.J., Niinemetes, Ü., Wheeler, E.A., 2012, Roles of climate and functional traits in controlling toothed vs. untoothed leaf margins: American Journal of Botany, v. 99(5), p. 915-922.

S*(21) Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Allen, P.A., 2012, A mid to late Holocene history of floodplain and terrace reworking along the middle Delaware River valley, USA: Geomorphology: v. 169-170, pp. 123-141.

*(22) Sun, H. , Hockaday, W.C., Masiello, C.A., and Zygourakis, K., 2012, Multiple controls on the physical and chemical properties of biochars: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, v. 51, p. 3587-3597.

S*(23) Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L.C., and Dworkin, S.I., 2012, Depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir attributes within a fluvial outcrop analog: Late Triassic Sonsela Member, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin , v. 96, p. 679-707.

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S* (24) Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., in press, Facies analysis of a probable large fluvial fan depositional system: the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: Journal of Sedimentary Research.

*(25) Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., *Van Plantinga, A., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., Fox, D.L., accepted, Late Pleistocene artefacts and associated fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya, Azania. v. 47, p. 14-38.

*(26) Vulava, V.M., McKay, L.D., Broholm, M.M., McCarthy, J.F., Driese, S.G., and Sayler, G.S., 2012, Dissolution and transport of coal tar compounds in fractured clay-rich residuum: Journal of Hazardous Materials, v. 203-204, p. 283-289.

*(27) Weissmann, G.S., Hartley, A.J., Scuderi, L.A., Nichols, G.J., Davidson, S.K., Owen, A., Atchley, S.C., Bjattacharyya, P., Chakraborty, T., Ghosh, P., Nordt, L.C., and tabor, N.J., in press, Prograding distributive fluvial systems – geomorphic models and ancient examples: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume.

2011

*(1) Driese, S.G., Jirsa, M.A., Ren, M., Brantley, S.L., Sheldon, N.D., Parker, D., and Schmitz, M., 2011, Neoarchean paleoweathering of tonalite and metabasalt: implications for reconstructions of 2.69 Ga early terrestrial ecosystems and paleoatmospheric chemistry: Precambrian Research, v. 189, p. 1-17.

*(2) Driese, S.G., Schultz, B.S., and McKay, L.D., 2011, Genesis of clay-rich soils from carbonate bedrock on upland surfaces in the Valley and Ridge Province, eastern Tennessee, USA: Southeastern Geology, v. 48, p. 1- 22.

*(3) Faith, J.T., Choiniere, J.N., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., and Fox, D.L., 2011, On the taxonomic status and paleoecology of Rusingoryx atopocranion (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), an extinct Pleistocene bovid from Rusinga Island, Kenya: Quaternary Research, v. 75, p. 697-707.

*(4) Gallagher, M.E., Hockaday, W.C., Masiello, C.A., Snapp, S., McSweeney, C.P., and Baldock, J.A., 2011, Biochemical Suitability of crop residues for cellulosic ethanol: Disincentives to nitrogen fertilization in corn agriculture: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 45(5), p. 2013-2020.

S*(5) Jennings, D.S., Lovelace, D.M., and Driese, S.G., 2011, Differentiating paleowetland subenvironments using a multi-disciplinary approach: an example from the Morrison Formation, south central Wyoming, USA: Sedimentary Geology, v. 238, p. 23-47.

*(6) Lehmann, J., Rillig, M., Thies, J., Masiello, C.A., and Hockaday, W.C., 2011, Biochar effects on soil biota – a review: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, v. 43, p. 1812-1836.

*(7) Li, D., Hockaday, W.C., Masiello, C.A., and Alvarez, P.M., 2011, Earthworm avoidance of biochar can be mitigated by wetting: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, v. 43, p. 1732-1737.

*(8) Li, Z.-H., Labbé, N., Driese, S.G., and Grissino-Mayer, H.D., 2011, Micro-scale analysis of tree-ring δ13C and δ18O on α-cellulose spline reveals high-resolution intra-annual climate variability and tropical cyclone activity: Chemical Geology, v. 284, p. 138-147.

10 S*(9) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., Ludvigson, G.A., and Breecker, D.O., 2011, Seasonal influence of changing hydrology on pedogenic calcite precipitation in Vertisols, Dance Bayou, Brazoria County, TX: Implications for estimating paleoatmospheric pCO2: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 81, p. 394-400.

*(10) Nordt, L.C., Collins, M., Monger, H., and Fanning, D., 2011, Entisols (2nd Edition), in Handbook of Soil Science, P. Huang (ed.), pp. 33-49 to 33-63: CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

*(11) Nordt, L.C, Dworkin, S.I., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Ecosystem response to biogeochemical behavior during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene within the western interior of North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 1745-1762.

(12) Peppe, D.J., Johnson, K.R., and Evans, D.A., 2011, Magnetostratigraphy of the Lebo and Tongue River Members of the Fort Union Formation (Paleocene) in the northeastern Powder River Basin, Montana: American Journal of Science, v. 311, p. 813-850.

*(13) Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Cariglino, B., Oliver, S.Y., Newman, S., Leight, E., Enikolopov, G., Fernandez- Burgos, M., Herrara, F., Adams, J.M., Correa, E., Currano, E.D., Erickson, J.M., Hinojosa, L.F., Hoganson, J.W., Iglesias, A., Jaramillo, C.A., Johnson, K.R., Jordan, G., Kraft, N.J.B., Lovelock, E.C., Lusk, C.H., Niinemetes, Ü., Peñuelas, J. Rapson, G., Wing, S.L., Wright, I.J., 2011, Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications: New Phytologist. v. 190: 724-739.

*(14) Ramezani, J., Hoke, G.D., Fastovsky, D.E., Bowering, S., Therrien, F., Dworkin, S.I., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 2142-2159.

*(15) Southard, R.J., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Vertisols: Chapter E5.7, (2nd Edition), in Handbook of Soil Science, P. Huang (ed.), pp. 33-82 to 33-97: CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

S*(16) Stinchcomb, G.E., Messner, T.C., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Stewart, R.M., 2011, Pre-colonial (A.D. 1,100-1,600) sedimentation related to prehistoric maize agriculture and climate change in eastern North America: Geology, v. 39, p. 363-366.

*(17) Vulava, V.M., McKay, L.D., Broholm, M.M., McCarthy, J.F., Driese, S.G., and Sayler, G.S., 2012, Dissolution and transport of coal tar compounds in fractured clay-rich residuum: Journal of Hazardous Materials, v. 203-204, p. 283-289.

*(18) Waters, M.R., Forman, S.L., Jennings, T.A., Nordt, L.C., Driese, S.G., Feinberg, J.M., Keene, J.L., Halligan, J., Lindquist, A., Pierson, J., Hallmark, C.T., Collins, M.B., and Wiederhold, J.E., 2011, The Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas and the origins of Clovis: Science, v. 331, p. 1599-1603.

*(19) Zeng, F.-W., Masiello, C.A. and Hockaday, W.C., 2011, Controls on the cycling of dissolved inorganic carbon in the Brazos River, Texas: Biogeochemistry, v. 104, p. 279-291.

2010

(1) Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., Trendell, A.M., and Cleveland, D.M., 2010, Alluvial sequence stratigraphy of the late Triassic Chinle Formation at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 31-43.

11 *(2) Driese, S.G., Ludvigson, G.A., Roberts, J.A., Fowle, D.A., González, L.A., Smith, J.J., Vulava, V.M., and McKay, L.D., 2010, Micromorphology and stable-isotope geochemistry of historical pedogenic siderite formed in PAH-contaminated alluvial clay soils, Tennessee, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 80, p. 943- 954.

(3) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2010, Stop Five: Micromorphology and paleoclimatologic significance of Mountain Lion Mesa “silcrete” and underlying paleosols, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 111-122.

*(4) Lin, C., Qi, J., Feng, Z., Yin, R., Guo, B., Zhang, F., and Zou, S., 2010, Quantifying the effect of ecological restoration on soil erosion in China’s Loess Plateau region: An application of the MMF approach: Environmental Management, v. 45, p. 476-487. doi: 10.1007/s00267-009-9369-6.

S*(5) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and White, J.D., 2010, Environmental and ecological variability of Middle Devonian (Givetian) forests in Appalachian basin paleosols, New York, USA: PALAIOS, v. 25, p. 85-96. doi: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-086r.

(6) Nordt, L.C., Atchley, S.C., and Dworkin, S.I., 2010, Paleosols of the Blue Mesa and Sonsela Members of the Chinle Formation in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: Importance, methods and assumptions, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 45-49.

(7) Nordt, L.C., Atchley, S.C., and Dworkin, S.I., 2010, Stops Six and Seven: Lions and Flats Paleoseries: Paleo- Vertisols, rhizohalos and carbonate rhizocretions, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 123-130.

*(8) Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2010, A modern soil characterization approach to reconstructing physical and chemical properties of paleo-Vertisols: American Journal of Science, v. 310, p. 37-64. doi: 10.2475/01.2010.02.

*(9) Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2010, New weathering index improves rainfall estimates from Vertisols: Geology, v. 38, no. 5, p. 407-410. doi: 10.1130/G30689.1.

(10) Nordt, L.C., Trendell, A., Atchley, S.C., and Dworkin, S.I., 2010, Tepees and Metas Paleoseries – A well- grained/gleyed paleo-Vertisol sequence, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 73-81.

*(11) Peppe, D.J., 2010, Megafloral change in the early and middle Paleocene in the Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 298, p. 224-234.

*(12) Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Wilf, P., and Kowalski, E.A., 2010, Quantification of large uncertainties is fossil leaf paleoaltimetry: Tectonics, 29, TC3015, doi:10.1029/2009TC002549.

*(13) Royer, D.L, Miller, I.M., Peppe, D.J., and Hickey, L.J., 2010, Leaf economic traits support a weedy habitat for early angiosperms: American Journal of Botany, 97(3): 1-8.

S(14) Trendell, A.M., and Atchley, S.C., 2010, Introduction to Stops One to Four: Depositional and pedogenic history of the Mesa Redondo, Blue Mesa and Sonsels Members, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 55-58.

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S(15) Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L.C., and Dworkin, S.I., 2010, Stop Four: Climate, base level and tectonism – influences on soil development, lithofacies heterogeneity and fluvial stacking patterns in the Sonsela Member, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 89-104.

S(163) Trendell, A.M., Parker, W.G., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Stop Three: Lacustrine deposits of the upper Blue Mesa – Biota, paleosols and climatic significance, in Program Volume for SEPM-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, September 21-26, 2010, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ”, p. 83-88.

*(17) Tryon, C.A., Faith, T.J, Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., McNulty, K.P., Jenkins, K., Garrett, N., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., 2010, Paleoenvironmental context for Middle Stone Age hominins in Equatorial Africa: The Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds of Rusinga Island (Kenya): Journal of Human Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.020.

*(19) Wang, W., Ma Y.Z., Feng Z.-D., Ts Narantsetseg, Liu K.-b., and Zhai X.W., 2010, A prolonged dry mid- Holocene climate revealed by pollen and diatom records from Lake Ugii Nuur in central Mongolia: Quaternary International , v. 229, p. 74-83. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.005.

*(20) Zhang, C.J., Feng, Z.-D., Yang, Q.L., Gou, X., and Sun, F., 2010, Holocene environmental variations recorded by organic-related and carbonate-related proxies of the lacustrine sediments from Bosten Lake, northewestern China: The Holocene, v. 20, p. 363-373. doi: 10.1177/0959683609353428.

2009

(1) Driese, S.G., 2009, Paleosols, pre-Quaternary, in Gornitz, V. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments: New York, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 748-751.

*(2) Forman, S., Nordt, L., Gomez, J., and Pierson, J., 2009, Late Holocene dune migration on the south Texas sand sheet: Geomorphology, v. 108, p. 159-170. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.01.001.

*(3) Li, C., Qi, J., Feng, Z., Yin, R., Guo, B., and Zhang, F., 2009, Process-based soil erosion simulation on a regional scale: The effect of ecological restoration in the Chinese Loess plateau, in Yin, R. (ed.), An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 113-130.

*(4) Nordt, L.C., and Wilding, L.P., (2009), Organic carbon sequestration potential of cultivated Vertisols in the Coast Prairie Major Land Resource Area of Texas: Soil Science Society of America Special Publication 57, Madison, WI, p. 159-168.

*(5) Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2009 Hydropedological assessment of a Vertisol climosequence on the Gulf Coast Prairie land Resource Area of Texas: Hydrology and Earth System Science Discussions, v. 6, p. 3637– 3668, www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/6/3637/2009/

*(6) Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Cote, S.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., Dunsworth, H.M., and Van Couvering, J.A., 2009, Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 56, p. 447-461.

13 *(7) Peppe, D.J., Evans, D.A.D., and Smirnov, A.V., 2009, Magnetostratigraphy of the Ludlow Member of the Fort Union Formation (Lower Paleocene) of the Williston Basin North Dakota: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 65-79.

S *(8) Shunk, A.J., Driese, S.G., and Dunbar, J.A., 2009, Late Tertiary paleoclimatic interpretation from lacustrine rhythmites in the Gray Fossil Site, northeastern Tennessee, USA: Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 42, p. 11-24: doi 10.1007/s10933-008-9244-0.

S *(9) Shunk, A.J., Driese, S.G., Farlow, J.O., Zavada, M., and Zobaa, M.K., 2009, Late Neogene paleoclimate and paleoenvironment reconstructions from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole, Indiana, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 274, p. 173-184.

*(10) Wang, W., Ma, Y.-Z.., Feng, Z.-D., Meng, H.-W., Sang, Y.-L.., and Zhai, X.-W., 2009, Vegetation and climate changes during the last 8660 cal. A BP in central Mongolia, based on a high-resolution pollen record from Lake Ugii Nuur: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 54, p. 1579-1589.

*(11) Wu, H.N., Ma, Y.Z. and Feng, Z.-D., 2009. Climatic and environmental changes in the Zulihe River Basin on the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau since 25,000 yr BP. Paleogeography Paleoclimatology Paleoecology, 273 (2009) 191–199.

*(12) Zou, S., Cheng, G., Xiao, H., Xu, B., and Feng, Z., 2009, Holocene natural rhythms of vegetation and present potential ecology in the Western Chinese Loess Plateau: Quaternary International, v. 194, p. 55-67.

2008

S*(1) Cleveland, D.M., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2008, Paleosols, trace fossils, and precipitation estimates of the uppermost Triassic strata in northern New Mexico: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 257, p. 421-444.

S *(2) Cleveland, D.M., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., and Atchley, S.C., 2008, Pedogenic carbonate isotopes as evidence for extreme climate events and biotic crisis near the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 120, p. 1405-1415.

*(3) Driese, S.G., Li, Z.-H., and McKay, L.D., 2008, Evidence for multiple, episodic, mid-Holocene Hypsithermal recorded in two soil profiles along an alluvial floodplain catena, southeastern Tennessee, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 69, p. 276-291.

*(4) Driese, S.G., and Medaris, L.G., 2008, Evidence for biological and hydrological controls on the development of a Paleoproterozoic paleoweathering profile in the Baraboo Range, Wisconsin, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p. 443-457.

*(5) Feng Z.-D., Wang L.X., Ji Y.H., Guo L.L., and Dworkin S.I., 2008, Climate dependency of soil organic carbon isotopic composition along the S-N transect from 32oN to 52oN in central-east Asia: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 257, p. 335-343.

S *(6) Kahmann, J.A., and Driese, S.G., 2008, Paleopedology and geochemistry of Late Mississippian (Chesterian) Pennington Formation paleosols at Pound Gap, Kentucky, USA: Implications for high-frequency climate variations: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 259, p. 357-381.

14 S *(7) Kahmann, J.A., Seaman, J., III, and Driese, S.G., 2008, Evaluating trace elements as paleoclimate indicators: multivariate statistical analysis of Late Mississippian Pennington Formation paleosols, Kentucky, USA: Journal of Geology, v. 116, p. 254-268.

*(8) Ma, Y.Z., Liu, K.-b., Feng. Z.-D., Sang, Y, Wang, W. and Sun, A., (2008), A survey of modern pollen and vegetation along a north-south transect in Mongolian: Journal of Biogeography, v. 35, p. 1512-1532.

*(9) Nordt, L., Von Fischer, J., Tieszen, L., and Tubbs, J., 2008, Coherent changes in relative C4 plant productivity and climate during the late Quaternary in the North American Great Plains: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, p. 1600-1611.

*(10) Wang, H.B., Liu, L.Y., and Feng, Z.-D., 2008, Spatio-temporal variations of Zr/Rb ratio in three last interglacial paleosol sections across Chinese Loess Plateau and their implications for climatic interpretations: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 3, p. 1413-1422.

2007

S*(1) Cleveland, D.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2007, Allo- and Autocyclic origins of paleosol-bearing alluvial successions: the Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) Chinle strata, northern New Mexico: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 909-924.

*(2) Driese, S.G., Orvis, K.H., Horn, S.P., Li, Z.-H., and Jennings, D.S., 2007, Paleosol evidence for Quaternary uplift and for climate and ecosystem changes in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 248, p. 1-23.

*(3) Driese, S.G., Medaris, L.G., Ren, M., Runkel, A.C., and Langford, R.P., 2007, Differentiating pedogenesis from diagenesis in early terrestrial paleoweathering surfaces formed on granitic composition parent materials: Journal of Geology, v. 115, p. 387-406.

*(4) Feng, Z.-D., Tang, L.Y., Ma, Y.Z., and Zhai, X.W., 2007, Vegetation and associated environmental changes during the marine isotope stage 3 in the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 246, p. 278-291.

*(5) Feng, Z.-D., Zhai, X.W., Wang, W.G., Zhang, H.C., and Ma, Y.Z., 2007, Eolian climatic variations during the past 30,000 years in the northern Mongolian Plateau, as indicated by geophysical, geochemical and geobotanical proxy data: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 245, p. 505-517.

*(6) Guo, L.L., Feng, Z.-D., Liu, L.Y., Li, X.Q., and Wang, L.X., 2007, Holocene climatic and environmental changes recorded in Baahar Nuur lake core in the Erdos Plateau, Inner Mongolia: Chinese Scientific Bulletin, v. 52, no. 7, p. 959-966.

*(7) Miller, D.L., Mora, C.I., and Driese, S.G., 2007, Isotopically concentric growth in large carbonate nodules in Vertisols: implications for climate and ecosystem assessments: Geoderma, v. 142, p. 104-111.

*(8) Nordt, L., von Fischer, J., and Tieszen, L., 2007, Late Quaternary temperature record from buried soils of the North American Great Plains: Geology 35:159-162.

*(9) Sun, A.Z., Ma, Y.Z., Feng, Z.-D., Li, F. and Wu, H.N., 2007, Pollen-recorded climate changes between 13.0 and 7.0 C-14 ka BP in southern Ningxia, China: Chinese Scientific Bulletin, v. 52, no. 8, p. 1080-1088.

15 *(10) Vulava, V.M., McKay, L.D., Driese, S.G., Menn, F.-M., and Sayler, G.S., 2007, Distribution and transport of coal tar-derived PAHs in fine-grained residuum: Chemosphere, v. 68, p. 554-563.

Faculty and Student Professional Presentations (underline = Baylor MSP Geology Faculty) (S=Baylor Paleoclimatology student first-authored publication, * indicates Baylor Paleoclimatology student co-author) ______

2012

(1) Atchley, S.C., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., Ash, S.R., Parker, W.G., Ramezani, J., and Bowring, S.A., 2012, Tectonic and climatic controls on cyclic alluviation and biologic turnover within the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C., November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

S(1) *Beverly, E.J., Peppe, D. J., Faith, J.T., Driese, S.G., Tryon, C., Blegen, N., Patterson, D., and *Horner, W.H., 2012, Paleoenvironmental context of Late Quaternary archaeological and paleontological sites in Kenya’s Lake Victoria Basin: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

S(2) *Culbertson, A., Driese, S.G., and Dworkin, S.I., 2012, Paleoclimate records from late Pennsylvanian paleosols: A comparative application of multiple geochemical proxies: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

S(3) *DiPietro, L.M., Driese, S.G., Stinchcomb, G.E., Graf, K.E., Goebel, T., Younie, A.M., and Gillispie, T.E., 2012, First Americans archaeology and climate: soil chemistry and its applications to geoarchaeology in central Alaska: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

(4) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Stinchcomb, G.E., and *Kuijper, K., 2012, Towards reconstructing climate and ecosystem for paleoVertisols using bulk geochemistry: poster presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76, p. xxx, December, 2012.

(5) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Stinchcomb, G.E., and *Kuijper, K., 2012, Construction of a fully searchable database integrating soil characterization data and whole-soil geochemical data: invited keynote talk presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76, p. xxx, December, 2012.

(6) Driese, S.G., Li, Z.-H., Cheng, H., Stinchcomb, G.E., Kocis, J.J., Horn, S.P., and Boehm, M. S., 2012, Speleothem micromorphology improves interpretations of floodplain paleoclimate records and enhances interpretations of the timing and structure of the mid-Holocene warm period: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

(7) Gallagher, M.E., Hockaday, W.C., Masiello, C.A., Valdez, Z.P., Gao, X., 2012. The Effects of N Fertilization and Harvest Frequency on Switchgrass Feedstock Quality for Biofuel Production, Soil/Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October 21-24, 2012.

16 (8) Hockaday, W.C., and Lau, B.L.T., 2012, When iron and silver nanoparticles meet natural organic matter: Probing interactions with molecular spectroscopy and quartz crystal microgravimetry, Goldschmidt, Conference, Montreal, Quebec, June 24-29, 2012.

S(9) *Horner, W.H., *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., McNulty, K.P., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth, H., and Harcourt-Smith, W.H.E., 2012, Determining depositional heterogeneity through clay mineralogy and particle size analysis of early Miocene paleo-forest paleosol, Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Kenya: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 5.

(10) Jenkins, K., Tyler Faith, J., Tryon, C., Peppe, D., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., Roure Johnson, C., and Driese, S.G., 2012, New excavations of a late Pleistocene bonebed and associated MSA artifacts, Rusinga Island, Kenya: Archaeological Society meeting, Memphis, TN, April 2012.

(11) Li, Z.-H., Cheng, H., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Episodic drought during mid-Holocene warm period revealed by speleothem carbon and oxygen isotopes and UV fluorescence in southern Appalachians, USA: Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2012.

(12) Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Fowle, D.A., Roberts, J.A., Driese, S.G., Suarez, M., and Villarreal, M. A., 2012, The paleoclimatic record of pedogenic siderites: Validation by modern process studies and new application to the Cretaceous Arctic: Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2012.

(13) Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Fowle, D.A., Roberts, J.A., Driese, S.G., Villarreal, M. A., and Suarez, M., 2012, What’s the low down on soil-formed siderite?: Modern process studies and validation of deep time terrestrial paleoclimate proxy: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

(14) Medaris, G., Jr., Driese, S.G., Boerboom, T., and Jirsa, M., 2012, Granitic saprolites in the Lake Superior region: K-metamorphism, intensity vs. magnitude of weathering, and estimates of atmospheric pCO2: 58th Annual Institute for Lake Superior Geology meeting in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, May, 2012.

S(15) *McCollum, M.S., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., Andrews, A.L., 2012, Magnetostratigraphy of the early Miocene Hiwegi Formation (Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs: 44(7): 241.

S(16) *Meier, H.A., Nordt, L.C., Forman, S.L., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Late Quaternary alluvial history of the Owl Creek drainage basin: a geomorphic response to environmental change: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

S(17) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Driese, S.G., Lehmann, T., Nightingale, S., Horner, W.H., and Dunsworth, H., 2012, Seeing the apes through the trees: paleoecological reconstruction of Proconsul and Dendropithecus site, Rusinga Island, Kenya: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

S(18) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Driese, S.G., Lutz, J., Nightingale, S., Maxbauer, D., *Horner, W.H., *DiPietro, L.M., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth, H., Harcourt-Smith, W.H.E., and Ogando, J., 2012, Paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstruction of early Miocene terrestrial equatorial deposits, Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2012.

17 (19) Nordt, L.C., Atchley, S.C., Dworkin, S.I., Ramezani, J., and Bowring, S., 2012, Characterization and interpretation of a well-dated succession of late Triassic paleosols from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

(20) Nordt, L.C., Driese, S.G., Waters, M.R., and Forman, S.L., 2012, Abrupt eco-climate transitions during pre- Clovis occupation along the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7. (Invited)

S(21) *Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L. C., and Stewart, R. M., 2012, Pre-colonial (A.D. 1100-1600) sedimentation related to prehistoric maize agriculture and climate change in eastern North America: Paper presented at Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, March 22 - 25, 2012, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

(22) Stinchcomb, G.E., Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Soil and paleosol informatics: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7.

(23) Stinchcomb, G.E., Messner, T.C., Stewart, R.M., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Allen, P.M., 2012, Prehistoric Anthropogenic Event II (AE-II) and its influence on Earth surface processes along the Middle Delaware River Valley, USA: GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, November 2012. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 44, No. 7. (Invited)

S(24) *Valdez, Z.P., Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C.A., Gao, X., 2012, Effects of nitrogen fertilizer on soil organic matter pools under switchgrass agriculture, Soil/Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October 21-24.

2011

S(1) *Ahr, S., 2011, Argillic horizon formation rates in modern Alfisols as determined by optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating: implications for paleopedology and geochronology: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 3, 2011).

S(2) *Beverly, E.J., Ashley, G.M., and Driese, S.G., 2011, High-resolution paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction of a Pleistocene catena using paleopedology and geochemistry of lake margin paleo-Vertisols, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5). (3) Breecker, D.O., *Michel, L.A., Yoon, J., *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Towards calibrating the paleosols carbonate CO2 barometer for paleoVertisols: International Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 75 (3), p. 577.

S(4) *Dhillon, R.S., *Mintz, J.S., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Influence of climate and the expansion of C4 grasses on sequence-scale cyclicity and landscape development during the Late Miocene to Pleistocene of west Texas: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).

S(5) *DiPietro, L., 2011, Stratigraphic integrity of geoarchaeological site at Owl Ridge, Alaska: Evaluating the influences of Gelisol processes: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).

(6) Driese, S.G., 2011, “New research opportunities in “deep-time” paleopedology”: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).

18 (7) Driese, S.G., 2011, “New research opportunities in studies of “deep-time” using paleosols and proposed interface with NSF Critical Zone studies”: (talk presented to NSF Earth Sciences, Earth Surface Processes Directorate in Arlington, VA, by Dr. Steven G. Driese and Dr. Gail M. Ashley on March 31, 2011.)

(8) Driese, S.G., 2011, “Investigations of Evidence for the Earliest Humans in the Americas at the Debra L. Friedkin Site near Salado, TX”: (talk presented to Waco Gem and Mineral Society on November 7, 2011).

(9) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Mintz, J.S., Robinson, A.E., and Miller, W.F., 2011, The overlooked soil-forming factors: Distinguishing influences of soil age and hydrology from climate influences on Vertisols, and application to paleosols: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5). (10) Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Stinchcomb, G.E., Graf, K.E., Goebel, T., and Waters, M.R., 2011, Applications of soil micromorphology, pedology and geochemistry to interpreting potential for disturbance of stratigraphic context at geoarchaeological sites: Texas Vertisols and Alaskan Gelisols: Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG) Conference meeting, Knoxville, TN; Abstracts p. 21-22, September 23, 2011. (11) Dworkin, S.I., Nordt, L., and Atchley, S., 2011, Carbon isotope ratios in bulk organic matter from paleosols of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5). (12) Dyar, M.D., Carosino, M.L., Tucker, J.M., Speicher, E.A., Brown, E.A., Clegg, S.M., Wiens, R.C., Barefield, J.E., Delaney, J.S., Ashley, G.M., and Driese, S.G., 2011, Error analysis for remote laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy analysis using combinations of igneous, sedimentary and phyllosilicate samples: (talk to be presented at 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March, 2011).

S(13) *Felda, G.R., 2011, Development of a 3-dimensional sequence stratigraphic model for the Late Triassic (Norian) Owl Rock Member located at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: A reconstruction of paleodepositional environments and paleoclimatic conditions: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).

(14) Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C.A., Hockaday, W.C., Snapp, S., McSwiney, C.P., and Baldock, J.A., 2011, Estimating oxidative ratio in U.S. agricultural ecosystems: Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX, August, 10, 2011.

(15) Gallagher, M.E., Hockaday, W.C., and Masiello, C.A., 2011, Using 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to estimate biochemical stocks and biofuel feedstock quality: USDA bioenergy project directors meeting, Washington, D.C., Oct. 23-25, 2011.

(16) Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C.A., Polley, W., Pyle, L., and Baldock, J., 2011, Biochemical inventory as a means to assay ecosystem carbon cycling: Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX, August 9, 2011.

(17) Hockaday, W.C., 2011, Biochar carbon sequestration: City of Austin Public Works, Carbon management workshop, June 11-12, 2011. Invited

(18) Hockaday, W.C., 2011, Studying the effects of atmospheric CO2 concentration on the carbon cycle using ecosystem biochemical inventories: Texas A&M University, March 22, 2011. Invited

(19) Hockaday, W.C., Gallagher, M.E., Masiello, C.A., Pyle, L., Polley, W., and Baldock, J., 2011, The responses of soil carbon and biochemical stocks to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration are soil-type-dependent, Texas Soil Survey and Land Resources Workshop, College Station, TX, Feb. 3, 2011

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S(20) *Kuijper, K., 2011, Testing the universal paleoprecipitation equation (CIA-K) using the newly constructed NRCS/Baylor soil geochemical database: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).

S(21) *LeBlanc, S., Dworkin, S.I., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Reconstructing Late Triassic environmental conditions using paleosol mineral assemblages from the Chinle Formation, Arizona, USA: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5). (22) *Lemons, C.R., Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Wright, I.J., and Lusk, C.B., 2011, Are modern fern leaf economics coherent enough to use as a proxy for fossil interpretations?: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA, Abstract with Programs, 43(5): 615.)

S(23) *Lemons, C.R., Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Wright, I.J., and Lusk, C.B., 2011, Linking ecologies past and present: fern leaf economics quantified: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, August, 9, 2011.

S(24) Maxbauer, D.P., Peppe, D.J., Bamford, M, McNulty, K., Dunsworth, H., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., and Davis, L.E., 2011, New paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic interpretations from fossil leaves for the Early Miocene faunas of Rusinga Island (Lake Victoria, Kenya): PaleoAnthropology 2011.

S(25) *Meier, H., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Dworkin, S.I., and Forman, S., 2011, Interpretation of dynamic Late Quaternary climate and landscape variability based upon paleosol macro- and micromorphology and stable isotopes of soil organic matter, Owl Creek, central Texas, USA: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).

S(26) *Michel, L.A., Breecker, D.O., *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Soil CO2 measurements in modern Vertisols and implications for estimations of paleoatmospheric CO2 from pedogenic carbonates: (talk to be presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 3, 2011).

S(27) *Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., McNulty, K.P., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth, H.M., and Harcourt- Smith, W.E.H., 2011, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of early Miocene catarrhine localities using fossil forest paleosols from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).

S(28) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., *Wright, T.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Sequence stratigraphic analysis of Middle Devonian fluvial deposits and correlation with marine accommodation trends in the Appalachian basin, New York, USA: talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Houston, TX, April 2011.

S(29) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., *Wright, T.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2011, Middle Devonian landscapes, climates and the correlation of continental strata in the northern Appalachian basin: talk presented at the Northeastern Section GSA Meeting in Pittsburg, PA, in March, 2011.

(30) Nordt, L.C., Driese, S.G., and Dworkin, S.I., 2011, Terrestrial paleoclimate futures: Gambling on investments in modern analogs: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).

(31) Peppe, D.J., Deino, A.L., Lehmann, T., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., and McNulty, K.P., 2011, New age constraints for the early Miocene faunas of Rusinga and Mfangano Islands (Lake Victoria, Kenya): Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting.

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(32) Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Fox, D.L., Garrett, N., *Van Plantinga, A., Keegan, W., Nightingale, S., Ogondo, J., and Zaarur, S., 2011, Terrestrial evidence for late Quaternary lake level changes from the Lake Victoria Basin, Equatorial Africa: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011.GSA, Abstract with Programs, 43(5): 335.

(33) Peppe, D.J., *Lemons, C., and Royer, D.L., 2011, Fern leaf economic quantified: Midcontinent Paleobotany Colloquium.

(34) Peppe, D.J., Deino A.L., McNulty, K.P., Lehmann, T., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., Dunsworth, H.M., and Fox, D.L., 2011, New age constraints on the early Miocene faunas from Rusinga and Mfangano Islands (Lake Victoria, Kenya): American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 144(S52): 237.

(35) Peppe, D.J., 2011, Late Pleistocene lake level change and the expansion of arid grasslands: evidence from the Lake Victoria region, Equatorial Africa: Texas A&M (invited talk).

(36) Peppe, D.J., 2011, Using the size and shape of leaves to interpret ancient climates: University of Texas at Arlington (invited talk).

S(37) *Stinchcomb, G.E., 2011, Construction of a fully searchable soils database integrating soil characterization data and whole-soil geochemical data: (talk presented at 48th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, on February 3, 2011).

S(38) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Messner, T.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Climatic and human controls on Holocene vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG) Conference meeting in Knoxville, TN, September 23-24, 2011, p. 41-42.

S(39) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., Messner, T.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2011, Climatic and human controls on Holocene vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5).

S(41) *Stinchcomb, G.E., Peppe, D.J., and Driese, S.G., 2011, Precipitation and time are factors influencing modern and past magnetic susceptibility enhancement within alluvial soils along the Delaware River Valley, USA: Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2011.

(42) Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., *Van Plantinga, A., Fox, D.L., Garrett, N., Keegan, W.F., Ogondo, J. 2011, Middle Stone Age hominin occupation of arid environments in the Lake Victoria basin: New evidence from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Kenya: PaleoAnthropology 2011.

(43) Villarreal, M.A., Ludvigson, G.A., Fowle, D.A., González, L.A., Roberts, J.A., Smith, J.J., Driese, S.G., and McKay, L.D., 2011, Actualistic calibration of the pedogenic siderite paleoclimate proxy: GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 43, No. 5.

(44) Williamson, T.E., Peppe, D.J., Secord, R., Brusatte, S., and Weil, A., 2011, A long-term terrestrial record of Early Paleocene climate and ecosystem change in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting.

2010

21 S(1) Beverly, E.J., Ashley, G.M., Driese, S.G., and Sikes, N.S., 2010, New insights into spatial variability of rift basin paleosols using sedimentology, paleopedology, and soil geomorphology, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).

(2) Breecker, D.O., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., *Michel, L.A., *Mintz, J.S., Quade, J., Daëron, M., and Eiler, J.M., 2010, The formation of pedogenic carbonate in modern soils: Evidence from Texas and Tibet: talk presented at SEPM-NSF workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, Holbrook, AZ, September 23, 2010.

(3) Breecker, D.O., *Michel, L.A., *Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Soil CO2 measurements in modern Vertisols and implications for estimations of paleoatmospheric CO2 from pedogenic carbonates: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5). (note: L.A. Michel presented talk).

S(4) *DiPietro, L., *Michel, L.A., and Peppe, D.J., 2010, Late Pleistocene expansion of arid grasslands in equatorial Africa: evidence from the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Texas Association of Biological Anthropology Conference.

(5) Driese, S.G., 2010, “Soil CO2 measurements in modern Vertisols and implications for estimations of paleoatmospheric CO2 from pedogenic carbonates”: talk presented at Department of Geography and Earth and Planetary sciences combined colloquium at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, October 15, 2010.

(6) Driese, S.G., 2010, “Multi-proxy approaches to interpreting climate and time in the geologic record using soils”: talk presented at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geosciences, November 8, 2010.

(7) Driese, S.G., Jirsa, M.A, Ren, M., Schmitz, M.D., and Parker, D.F., 2010, Neoarchean paleoweathering of tonalite and metabasalt: implications for reconstructions of 2.69 Ga early soil ecosystems and paleoatmospheric chemistry: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).

(8) Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Abundance of paleo-Vertisols in the Phanerozoic rock record: Product of preservation, recognition, or paleoclimate?: SEPM-NSF Workshop on Paleosols and Soil Surface analog Systems, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, September 21-25, 2010.

(9) Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., McNulty, K.P., and Peppe, D.J., 2010, New catarrhine fossils from the early Miocene of Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Kenya, American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 47: 74.

(10) Dworkin, S.I., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2010, Isotopic reliability of dispersed organic matter in paleosols: Program Volume for SEPN-NSF Workshop “Paleosols and soil surface analog systems”, September 21-25, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.

(11) Dworkin, S.I., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2010, A 7 Ma record of atmospheric δ13C derived from organic matter in Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary paleosols: 2010 GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs.

(12) Gallagher, M., Hockaday, W., Masiello, C., McSweeney, C., Snapp, S., and Baldock, J., 2010, Biochemical disincentives to fertilizing cellulosic ethanol crops: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 16, 2010.

22 (13) Garrett, N.D., Fox, D.L., McNulty, K.P., Tryon, C.A., and Peppe, D.J., 2010, Isotope paleoecology of the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds of Rusinga Island, Kenya: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30 (Suppl. 3): 94A.

S(14) Harlow, H., *Mintz, J.S., and Driese, S.G., 2010, Recognition of Acadian orogeny tectophases in terrestrial strata and correlation with the marine in the middle Devonian stratigraphy of the Appalachian basin in Catskill State Park, New York, USA: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).

(15) Hockaday, W., Gallagher, M., Masiello, C., Pyle, L., Polley, W., and Baldock, J., 2010, The responses of soil carbon and biochemical stocks to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration are soil-type-dependent: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 17, 2010.

(16) Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Roberts, J.A., Fowle, D.A., and Driese, S.G., 2010, The current status of the sphaerosiderite paleoclimate proxy: talk presented at SEPM-NSF workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, Holbrook, AZ, September 23, 2010.

(17) Masiello, C., Gallagher, M., and Hockaday, W., 2010, Global carbon reservoir oxidative ratios: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 18, 2010.

(18) McCarthy, P.J., and Atchley, S.C., 2010, Pedologic approaches to alluvial sequence stratigraphy: talk presented at SEPM-NSF workshop "Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems", Holbrook, AZ, September 25, 2010.

(19) Mclellan, T., Deenik, J., Hockaday, W., Campbell, S., and Antal, M., 2010, Effect of charcoal volatile matter and feedstock on soil microbe-carbon-nitrogen dynamics: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 17, 2010.

S(20) Meier, H., Nordt, L., and Forman, S., 2010, Late Quaternary alluvial history of the Owl Creek drainage basin: A geomorphic response to environmental change: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, Denver, CO.

S(21) Mintz, H.E., Dunbar, J.A., Gunnell, A.R., *Stinchcomb, G.E., *Mintz, J.S., and Driese, S.G., 2010, Stream valley resistivity in Central Texas: Laying the foundation for multi‐disciplinary research: Society of Exploration Geophysicists ( SAGEEP), Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, v. 23, p. 751.

S*(22) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., and *Wright, T.C., 2010, Strong seasonality during early forestation on tectonically influenced landscapes in the Middle Devonian, Appalachian Basin, New York: poster presented at SEPM-NSF workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, Holbrook, AZ, September 23, 2010.

S(23) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., *Harlow, R.H., and *Wright, T.C., 2010, Strong seasonality during early forestation on tectonically influenced landscapes in the Middle Devonian, Appalachian Basin, New York: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).

S(24) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., Ludvigson, G.A., and Breecker, D.O., 2010, Influence of changing hydrology on pedogenic calcite precipitation in Vertisols, Dance Bayou, Brazoria County, TX: Implications for estimating paleoatmospheric pCO2: talk presented at fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 2010.

(25) Nordt, L., 2010, The buried soil stable C isotope record of vegetation and climate change across the

23 Pleistocene/Holocene in the midcontinent: American Association of Quaternary Geologists, Laramie WY. August (Invited).

(26) Nordt, L., and Driese, S., 2010, Pedosystem science approach to characterizing and interpreting the fossil record of soils: SEPM-NSF Workshop on Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, September 21-25, 2010.

(27) Nordt, L., Dworkin, S., and Atchley, S.C., 2010, Characterization of paleosols across the K-T boundary using pedotransfer functions: a case study from Big Bend National Park, U.S.A., integrating biogeochemical and climate controls on evolving terrestrial ecosystems: 2010 GSA Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, No. 5, p. 670.

(28) Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C., Faith, J.T., Van Plantinga, A., Garrett, N.D., Fox, D.L., Nightingale, S., and Ogondo, J., 2010, Late Pleistocene expansion of arid grasslands in equatorial Africa: evidence from the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Texas Association of Biological Anthropology Conference.

(29) Peppe, D.J., 2010, Towards a better understanding of the terrestrial ecosystem: integrating paleobotany, paleopedology, sedimentology, and geochemistry: talk presented at SEPM-NSF workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, Petrified Forest National Park, Holbrook, AZ, September 25, 2010.

(30) Peppe, D.J., 2010, Digital leaf physiognomy: using leaf size and shape to reconstruct ancient climates: talk presented at Southern Methodist University, Department of Earth Sciences colloquium series.

(31) Pyle, L., Hockaday, W., Masiello, C., Boutton, T., LeCroy, C., and Kinney, T., 2010, Production and isotopic composition of black nitrogen following the experimental charring of plant materials: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 17, 2010.

(32) Ramezani, J., Fastovsky, D.E., Bowring, S.A., Dworkin, S.I., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, A geochronologic framework for the Late Triassic Chinle fluvial system at the Petrified Forest National Park: Sediment accumulation rates and paleoenvironmental implications: talk presented at SEPM-NSF workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, Holbrook, AZ, September 25, 2010.

S*(33) Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Floodplain response to orbital and millennial-scale climate change in the humid-temperate Mid-Atlantic, USA: poster presented at SEPM-NSF workshop “Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems”, Holbrook, AZ, September 23, 2010.

S(34) Stinchcomb, G.E., Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Soil geomorphology and stratigraphy reveal mid- to late Holocene channel instability along the Delaware River, USA: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).

S(35) Trendell, A.M., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2010, Channels, overbanks and paleosols: the relationship between climate, base level and lithofacies heterogeneity within the Triassic Sonsela Member, PFNP Arizona: 2010 AAPG Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, AAPG Search and Discovery #90104.

(36) Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., and Peppe, D.J., 2010, Late Quaternary mammals from Rusinga Island, Kenya: implications for environmental change and megafaunal extinctions: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30 (Suppl 3).

24 (37) Tryon, C., Faith, T.J, Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., McNulty, K.P., Jenkins, K., Garrett, N., Dunsworth, H.M., and Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., 2010, Paleoenvironmental context for Middle Stone Age hominins in Equatorial Africa: The Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds of Rusinga Island (Kenya): PaleoAnthropology 2010: A34.

S(38) Van Plantinga, A., Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C., and Faith, J.T., 2010, Geoarcheology of the Pleistocene Wasirya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya: presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, October 2010 (GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5).

S(39) Van Plantinga, A.A., Peppe, D.J., Tryon, C., and Faith, J.T., 2010, Geoarchaeology of the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya: Texas Association of Biological Anthropology Conference.

2009

(1) Andrews, A.L., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P., Hartcourt-Smith, W., Dunsworth, H.M., Deino, A.L., Fox, D.L., 2009, Magnetostratigraphy of the early Miocene Kulu and Hiwegi Formations on Rusinga Island (Lake Victoria, Kenya): Geological Society of America, Abstract with Programs, v. 41, no. 7, p. 672.

(2) Driese, S.G., 2009, “Formation of historical pedogenic siderite in a US EPA Superfund site, Chattanooga, TN”: (talk presented at 46th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 5, 2009).

(3) Driese, S.G., Ludvigson, G.A., Roberts, J.A., Fowle, D., González, L.A., McKay, L.D., and Vulava, V.M., 2009, Formation of historical pedogenic siderite in PAH-contaminated alluvial clay soils, Tennessee, USA: Part I: Insights from field relationships and micromorphology: Geological Society of America, Abstract with Programs, Portland. OR.

(4) Feng, Z.-D., 2009, Holocene climatic variations: geographic coherency, temporal rhythms and controlling mechanisms. Salt Lake Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai (August 5, 2009) (invited).

(5) Feng, Z.-D., and Y.Z. Ma, 2009, Asynchroneity of the Mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum across the Mongolian Plateau. AGU fall Meeting (San Francisco, December 14-19).

(6) Feng, Z.-D., Y.Z. Ma, K.-b. Liu, L.Y. Tang, T. Narantsetseg, W. Wang, H.N. Wu, 2009, High-resolution Lacustrine Records of Holocene Bioclimatic Variations in the Mongolian Plateau. IMPACS 3 Symposium on Holocene Lake Records (India, March 21-24). (invited)

(7) Feng, Z.-D., Ma, Y.Z., Tang, L.Y., Narantsetseg, T., Wang, W. and Wu, H.N., 2009, Spatial Variations in lake core-recorded Holocene climatic changes in central Asian arid areas: 11th International Paleolimnology Symposium (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; 23rd to the 26th).

(8) Feng, Z.-D., and Wang, H.B., 2009, Non-magnetic factors affecting the magnetic signatures in the loess- paleosol sequence of Chinese Loess Plateau: 2009 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

(9) Feng, Z.-D., and Wang, W., 2009, A prolonged dry Mid-Holocene climate in central Mongolia and Beyond: AAG Annual Meeting (Las Vegas, March 22-27).

(10) Fox, D.L., Peppe, D.J., McNulty, K.P, Hartcourt-Smith, W. Dunsworth, H.M., Lehman, T.,Andrews, A.L., 2009, Geochronology,stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of early Miocene vertebrate faunas from Mfangano

25 and Rusinga Islands, eastern Lake Victoria, Kenya: Geological Society of America, Abstract with Programs, v. 41, no. 7, p. 362.

(11) Jirsa, M.A., and Driese, S.G., 2009, Neoarchean weathering and atmospheric pO2 inferred from a paleosaprolitic unconformity between granite-greenstone and superjacent conglomerate in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, NE Minnesota: presented at 55th Annual Institute for Lake Superior Geology meeting in Ely, MN, May 2009.

(12) Liu, K.-B., and Feng, Z.D., 2009. A Dramatic Environmental Deterioration in China and Corresponding Cultural Boom in Central Plain of China around 4000 14C yr BP. International Conference on Climate Changes of Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Areas (Qingdao of China, September 15-20).

(13) Ludvigson, G.A., Driese, S.G., Smith, J.J., González, L.A., Roberts, J.A., Fowle, D., McKay, L.D., and Vulava, V., 2009, Formation of historical pedogenic siderite in PAH-contaminated alluvial clay soils, Tennessee, USA: Part II: Stable isotopic data on modern analogue for a deep-time paleoclimate proxy: submitted to GSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, October 2009.

S(14) Messner, T.C., *Stinchcomb, G., Stewart, M., and Driese, S.G., 2009, Layer upon layer of late Woodland: Reconstructing the paleoenvironment and its relationship to landform evolution in the upper Delaware Valley: presented at Society of American Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

S*(15) Mintz, J.M. (with S.G. Driese, W. Miller, and J. Wiedenfeld as co-authors), 2009, “Micromorphologic assessment of pedogenesis in hydromorphic vertisols from bottomland hardwood forests, Old Ocean, Brazoria County, Texas, USA”: (talk presented at 46th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 5, 2009).

S*(16) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and White, J.D., 2009, Environmental and ecological variability of Middle Devonian (Givetian) forested paleosols in the Catskill region, Appalachian basin, New York: presented at Northeastern section GSA meeting in Portland, ME.

S*(17) Mintz, J.S., Driese, S.G., and Ludvigson, G.A., 2009, Seasonal influence of changing hydrology on pedogenic carbonate formation in Vertisols, Dance Bayou, Brazoria County, TX: Implications for quantification of past atmospheric pCO2: submitted to GSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, October 2009.

(18) Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Oliver, S., 2009, Digital Leaf Physiognomy: Using Leaf Size and Shape to Reconstruct Early and Middle Paleocene Climate Change in the Western Interior of North America: Eos Transactions AGU, PP11F-06.

(19) Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Oliver, S., 2009, Digital leaf physiognomy: using leaf size and shape to reconstruct ancient climates: Geological Society of America, Abstract with Programs, v. 41, no. 7, p. 568.

(20) Peppe, D.J., Royer, D.L., Wilf, P., et al., 2009, Digital leaf physiognomy: using leaf size and shape to reconstruct ancient climates: Leaf Summit Work Group Conference.

(21) Royer, D.L., Peppe, D.J., Wilf, P., 2009, Paleoaltimetry from Fossil Leaves: Errors Bigger than Mountains: Eos Transactions AGU, T43D-2141.

(22) Sankey, J.T., Atchley, S., Nordt, L., Dworkin, S., Driese, S., and Fricke, C., 2009, A less diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna in Texas due to warmer and drier paleoclimates: evidence from vertebrates, paleosols, and isotopes: presented at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Cretaceous Conference

26 “Advances in Western Interior Late Cretaceous Paleontology and Geology" meeting to be held in St. George, Utah, May 22nd-23rd, 2009.

S*(23) Stinchcomb, G., *Trendell, A., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Li, Z.-H., 2009, “Floodplain soil geomorphology at the Williams Creek section, Axtell, TX: Implications for Late Holocene Fluvial Dynamics and Paleoclimate”: talk presented at 46th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 5, 2009).

S*(24) Stinchcomb, G.S., Messner, T., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., and Stewart, R.M., 2009, Floodplain response to Late Holocene climate change and human land-use at the manna Site (36PI04), Upper Delaware Valley, PA: submitted to GSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, October 2009.

(25) Tryon, C., Faith, T.J, Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., McNulty, K.P., Dunsworth, H.M., Hartcourt-Smith, W., Manthi, F.K., 2009, Paleoenvironmental context for modern human origins in equatorial Africa: introducting the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds of Rusinga Island (Kenya): Geological Society of America, Abstract with Programs, v. 41, no. 7, p. 362.

(26) Wang, Y. and Feng, Z.-D., 2009, Non-Magnetic Factors Affecting Magnetic Susceptibility of the Loess- Paleosol Sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau. AGU fall Meeting (San Francisco, December 14-19).

S*(27) Wright, T.C., *Mintz, J.S., and Driese, S.G., 2009, Estimating Middle Devonian soil ages using point- counting of pedogenic clays in paleosols: submitted to GSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, October 2009.

2008

(1) Clegg, S.M., Wiens, R.C., Barefield , J.E., Dyar, M.D., Delaney, J.S., Ashley, G.M., and Driese, S.G., 2008, Simulated CHEMCAM laboratory investigations of East African Rift Sedimentary Samples: poster presented presented at 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March, 2008).

(2) Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2008, Critical Zone studies of soils and weathering: Implications for interpreting climate and landscapes of the past: Overview: Invited talk for GSA Pardee Session at joint GSA-SSSA National Meeting in Houston, TX.

(3) Driese, S.G., 2008, “Micromorphology of floodplain soils at the Buttermilk Creek Archaeological Site near Salado, Bell County, Texas”: (talk presented at 45th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 7, 2008).

(4) Driese, S.G., 2008, “Applications of soil micromorphology, pedology and geochemistry to interpreting a possible pre-Clovis (13-17 kyr) archaeological site at Buttermilk Creek, Bell County, Texas”: (talk presented as 16th Kansas Geological Survey Stratigraphic Research Seminar in Lawrence, KS, November 11, 2008).

(5) Feng, Z.-D., and Liu, G.F., 2008, Environmental changes and their cultural responses around 4000 yr BP in the Yellow River Basin: Association of American Geographers Meeting (Boston, April 15-20).

(6) Feng, Z.-D., and Wu, H.N., 2008, High-resolution Bioclimatic Variations in East Asia and Central Asia during the Past 50,000 Years. French-English QUEST Programme-sponsored International Symposium on Abrupt Climate Changes and Vegetation Responses during the Last Glacial: (Bordeaux, France, June 14-18, 2008) (invited).

27 (7) Feng, Z.-D., and Wu. H.N., 2008, Vegetation variations and associated environmental changes during the past ~25,000 14C yr BP in the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau: AGU fall Meeting (San Francisco, December 14-19).

S *(8) Keeton, G. I., S.I. Dworkin, L.C. Nordt, and S.C. Atchley, 2008, Grain size distribution and organic matter content from paleosols that span the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Big Bend, Texas: 2008 GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, Houston, TX.

(9) Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2008, Hydropedological properties of a Vertisol climosequence along the Coast Prairie of Texas: 1st International Conference on Hydropedology convened at Penn State University, July, 2008.

(10) Nordt, L.C., and Driese, S.G., 2008, Geochemical trends along a modern Vertisol climosequence applied to vertic-paleosols as proxy for physical-chemical colloidal properties and pedogenic interpretations: Invited talk for GSA Pardee Session at joint GSA-SSSA National Meeting in Houston, TX.

(11) Sankey, J.T., S. Atchley, L. Nordt, S. Dworkin, S. Driese, 2008, Dinosaur and Paleosol Change across the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas. California Paleontology (Cal Paleo) Annual Meeting, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California, April 19, 2008, PaleoBios, University of California Press.

S*(12) Seitz, J. A., S.I. Dworkin, L.C. Nordt, and S.C. Atchley, Temporal trends in mineral assemblages and abundances from paleosols that span the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Big Bend, Texas: 2008 GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, Houston, TX.

S*(13) Shunk, A.J., Driese, S.G., 2008, Multiple proxy evidence from paleosols for abrupt Late Neogene warming at the Gray Fossil site, northeastern TN, USA: joint GSA-SSSA National Meeting in Houston, TX.

(14) Wang, W., Feng, Z.-D., Zhang, C.J. and Zhai, X.W., 2008, Holocene environmental changes and associated vegetation variations in the Western Mongolian Plateau: An International Conference on Mongolian Plateau Climate Changes (Ulaan Bartor, August 20-25).

S*(15) Westfield, I., Dworkin, S.I., Bonem, R.M., and Lane, E., 2008, Identification of sediment sources using geochemical fingerprinting at Pear Tree Bottom Reef, Runaway Bay, Jamaica: Presentation for International Coral Reef Symposium (July 11, 2008).

(16) Zhai, X.W., Feng, Z.-D., Wang, W. and Zhang, C.J., 2008, Holocene environmental changes and associated vegetation variations in the Northern Mongolian Plateau: An International Conference on Mongolian Plateau Climate Changes (Ulaan Bartor, August 20-25).

(17) Zhang, C.J., Feng, Z.-D., Wang, W. and Zhai, X.W., 2008, Holocene environmental changes and associated vegetation variations in the Southern Mongolian Plateau: An International Conference on Mongolian Plateau Climate Changes (Ulaan Bartor, August 20-25).

2007

S*(1) Cleveland, D.M., Nordt, L.C., and Atchley, S.C., 2007, Paleosols and pedogenic isotopes as evidence for extreme Late Triassic climatic events, Chinle Formation, northern New Mexico: 2007 GSA Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs.

28 S*(2) Dixon, A.H., Driese, S.G., and *Jennings, D.S., 2007, Provenance and the early diagenetic alteration of volcaniclastic material incorporated in fluvial channel sandstone deposits, Morrison Fm. near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah: GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

(3) Driese, S.G., Multi-proxy approaches to interpreting time in the geologic record using soils: (talk presented at 44th Annual Soil Survey and Land Resource Workshop in College Station, TX, February 1, 2007).

(4) Driese, S.G., Medaris, L.G., Ren, M., Runkel, A.C., and Langford, R.P., 2007, Differentiating pedogenesis from diagenesis in early terrestrial paleoweathering surfaces formed on granitic composition parent materials: Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

(5) Feng, Z.-D., 2007, Late Quaternary Gobi dynamics and the relation to the East Asian monsoon: An International Symposium on Asian Monsoon under Global Warming, New Deli, India, December 20-24.

(6) Feng, Z.-D., 2007. Geographic differentiation of the last interglacial paleo-pedocomplex in the Chinese Loess Plateau: An International Symposium on Paleopedology and Landscape Evolution, Ladakh, India. September 11-14.

(7) Feng, Z.-D., 2007. Gobi Dynamics during the past 50,000 years in east-central Asia: Geological Sciety of America (GSA) Abstract and Presentation, Denver, Colorado, October 10-13.

(8) Feng, Z.-D., 2007. Holocene climate changes recorded in Baahar Nuur lake core in the Erdos Plateau of the Inner Mongolian Plateau: Association of American Geographers, Abstract and Presentation. San Francisco, California. April 17-21. (9) Feng, Z.-D., Ma, Y.Z., Zhai, X.W., Wang, W. and Guo, L.L., 2007. Holocene environmental changes in the Mongolian Plateau. AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, December 14-19).

(10) Feng, Z.-D., Zhai, X.W., Wang, W., Ma, Y.Z. and Guo, L.L., 2007, Holocene climatic changes in the Mongolian Plateau: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 10-14.

S*(11) Gotcher, C., Atchley, S.C., and Nordt, L.C., 2007, The Mid-Norian paleolandscape of the Newspaper Interval within the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: 2007 GSA Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs.

S*(12) Jennings, D.S., and Driese, S.G., 2007, Using comparative micromorphology and geochemistry to distinguish paleocatena relationships in barite-bearing paleosols: GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

S*(13) Kahmann, J.A., Seaman, J., III, and Driese, S.G., 2007, Multivariate statistical analysis of Late Mississippian paleosol trace element chemistry and application to interpreting pedogenic processes and climate through time: American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

(14) Nordt, L.C., 2007, Grassland evolution of the southern Great Plains of the U.S.A.: Society of American Archaeologists, Austin, TX (April) (invited).

(15) Sankey, J.T., Atchley, S., Nordt, L., Dworkin, S., and Driese, S., 2007, Dinosaurs and dirt: dinosaur paleoecology, paleosol stratigraphy, and isotope geochemistry from the upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous: late Campanian - early Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas: submitted to 67th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers.

29 S*(16) Shunk, A.J., Dunbar, J., and Driese, S.G., 2007, Solar periodicities and a monsoon climate phase recorded at the latest Miocene to earliest Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, northeastern TN, USA: American Geophysical Union Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico.

S*(17) Shunk, A.J., Driese, S.G., Farlow, J.O., and Fluegeman, R., 2007, A rare Early Pliocene record of paleoclimate from north-central Indiana, USA: American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Grants AWARDED (underline = Baylor Geology MSP Faculty)

2012-2013

(1) Driese, S.G., Dworkin, S.I., and Zhang, R., 2012, Hydrogen stable isotope analysis of speleothem fluid inclusions: Baylor University, Faculty Research Investment Program (FRIP), $17,131 awarded for 1 year, commencing June 1, 2012 AWARDED.

(2) Hockaday, W.C., Driese, S.G., Farmer, P.J., Lau, B.L.T., and Peppe, D.J., 2012, Early Career: Acquisition of a nuclear magnetic resonance facility for Earth Science research at Baylor University: NSF-EAR Instrumentation and Facilities program, grant is for $92,801, awarded from 09/01/12 to 08/31/13 AWARDED.

(3) Nesmith, S.M., Brooks, B., Matson, C., Hockaday, W. Paludology Pedagogy: Creating a wetlands environmental academy for P-12 educators, Baylor University Research Council (URC), $6,000 from 6/1/12 to 5/31/12. AWARDED.

(4) Peppe, D.J., and Driese, S.G., 2012, Collaborative research: IPG: Research on East African catarrhine and hominoid evolution: NSF-BCS-IPG program, awarded $152,906, awarded from 01/01/13 to 12/31/17 AWARDED.

(5) Peppe, D.J., 2012, Climate, tectonics and the ecosystem response: exploring the relationship between extrinsic controls and cyclic alluvial stratal accumulations within the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA: American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, awarded $100,000, awarded from 01/01/13 – 08/31/15 AWARDED.

(6) Peppe, D.J., 2012, Paleoenvironment reconstruction of the Early Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya, The Leakey Foundation, awarded $13,000, awarded from 06/01/2012 – 05/31/2013 AWARDED.

S* (7) Valdez, Z.P., with Hockaday, W.C. (faculty advisor), Effects of the bioenergy crop Panicum virgatum (Switchgrass) on soil carbon storage and turnover in agricultural lands, NSF GEO Graduate Research Fellowship Program, $121,500 awarded from 06/01/2013 to 05/31/2015. AWARDED

2011

(1) Hockaday, W.C., 2010, with Rice University as the lead institution and C.A. Masiello as PI, Effects of nitrogen management strategies on biofuel crop biochemistry and soil carbon stocks: U.S. Department of Agriculture AFRI Biofuels program, $443,541 (Baylor subcontract is $110,811) , from 01/01/11 to 12/31/13 AWARDED.

30 (2) Hockaday, W.C., 2010, with Rice University as the lead institution and C.A. Masiello as PI, Assessing the impact of developing world land use on riverine carbon delivery to the ocean: National Science foundation, EAR, OCE $389,261 (Baylor subcontract is $40,000) , from 08/01/11 to 7/31/13 AWARDED.

(3) Kane, E.S. and Hockaday, W.C., 2012, Does more intense burning in warmer, drier boreal forest create more stable black carbon in soils?: (with Michigan Technical University as the lead institution): DOE/USDA accelerator mass spectrometry program, $8,000 from 4/1/11 to 12/31/11. AWARDED

(4) Peppe, D.J., 2011, Baylor University Young Investigator Development Program grant for June 1, 2011 – May 31, 2012 for $24,550 AWARDED.

2010

(1) Driese, S.G., 2010, Joint SEPM-NSF Workshop: Paleosols and Surface Soil Analog Systems: NSF EAR- 1047609awarded by Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology, and Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry programs, $20,000, from 08/01/10 to 07/31/11 AWARDED.

(2) Peppe, D.J., 2010, with New York University as the lead institution (with C.A. Tryon as the PI) and in collaboration with the University of Minnesota (D.L. Fox), Collaborative research: Quaternary Archaeology and Environments of Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Kenya, submitted to NSF-BCS program, $180,082 requested for two years from 06/01/10 to 05/-31/12 (Note: Baylor University’s share of grant is $52,722 for two years commencing June 2010) AWARDED.

(3) Peppe, D.J., 2010, Paleoclimate reconstructions using soils from Early Miocene Proconsul sites on Rusinga Island, Kenya: Evolving Earth Foundation, $3K requested for 1 year from 06/01/10 to 05/31/11 AWARDED.

2009

(1) Driese, S.G., 2009, with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as the lead institution (with Z.-H. Li as PI/PD, and S.P. Horn as co-PIs), Collaborative research: Pleistocene-Holocene climate variability of the southern Appalachian region, southeastern U.S.: NSF Paleo-Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) program, $390,919 total award for 3 years ($61,057, from 10/01/09 to 09/30/12) AWARDED.

(2) Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., 2009, with the University of Texas-Austin as the lead institution (with D.O. Breecker as PI/PD), Collaborative research: Calibrating the paleosol carbonate CO2 paleobarometer for vertic paleosols by monitoring soil CO2 in modern Vertisols: NSF Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry program $292,200 total award for 3 years (Note: Baylor University share of grant for three years is $94,395, from 08/15/09 to 08/14/12) AWARDED.

(3) Dworkin, S.I., 2009, Absolute age dating of Chinle sandstones using detrital zircons, Petrified Forest National Park.: US Park Service, December, 2009, funded for $1500 AWARDED.

(4) Nordt, L.C., and Ahr, S., 2009, Doctoral dissertation improvement grant: "Determining the age and the origin of the Texas Sandy Mantle: Implications for archaeological integrity in upland settings”: NSF BCS- Archaeology program ($14,999, from 04/01/09 to 03/30/10) AWARDED.

(5) Peppe, D.J., 2009 with New York University as the lead institution (C. Tryon), Paleoanthropological Survey of Pleistocene sediments of Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Kenya: National Geographic Society, $25,000 requested from 06/01/10 to 05/31/11 (Note: all grant money is awarded to NYU) AWARDED.

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2008

(1) Peppe, D.J., 2008, with University of Minnesota as the lead institution (K. McNulty as lead PI, and Dunsworth, H. as co-PI) and the American Museum of Natural History (W. Hartcourt-Smith and I. Tattersol), Collaborative research: Paleobiology of Early Miocene primates from Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Kenya, awarded by NSF-BCS, $219,415 total awarded for 3 years (Note: Although a project director and major contributor to the proposal, Dr. Peppe is only listed on a sub-contract on this proposal through the University of Minnesota because this proposal was submitted after Peppe was hired by Baylor but prior to beginning his the position. The sub-contract is for $9933 for three years commencing June 2009) AWARDED.

2007

(1) Atchley, S.M., and Nordt, L.C., 2006-2009, The interrelationship of sequence stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, and terrestrial ichnology in Triassic paleosol-bearing alluvial successions, Moenkopi and Chinle Formations, southwestern United States: American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, $79,707, 05/15/06 to 08/31/10 AWARDED.

(2) Driese, S.G., 2007-2010, Co-PI with 4 University of Kansas (KU) Geology faculty members (Ludvigsen, G., Fowle, D.A., González, L.A., and Roberts, J.A., KU as lead institution), Collaborative Research: Actualistic calibration of the sphaerosiderite paleoclimate proxy: National Science Foundation, Geobiology and Low- temperature Geochemistry program $373,647 total award for 3 years ($118,967 awarded to Baylor University for three years, from 07/01//07 to 06/30/11) AWARDED.

(3) Dworkin, S.I., 2007-2008, University Research Council (URC) grant, $3,000 AWARDED.

(4) Feng, Z.-D., 2006-2009, (Lead PI): Collaborative research (with Dr. K.-B Liu at LSU): Bioclimatic reconstruction of the past 50,000 years from eolian sequences in the westerlies-dominated Central Asia: National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Sciences Program, (Feng’s portion = $150,000, from 02/15/06 to 02/14/09) AWARDED.

(5) Feng, Z.-D., 2007, Summer Faculty Research Incentive Program (FRIP) grant from Office of the Vice Provost for Research as ‘seed” money to develop a new NSF grant for research in Kazakhstan, $25,000 AWARDED.

Grants SUBMITTED and either not awarded, or still pending (underline = Baylor Geology MSP Faculty)

2012

(1) Cobb, G.P., Driese, S.G., Hockaday, W.C., Matson, C., and Trumble, S.J., 2012, MRI: Acquisition of Ion- Chromatograph Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer to Facilitate Integrated Environmental Assessments: submitted to NSF-EAR MRI program, grant is for $353,147, awarded from 10/01/12 to 09/30/2014. NOT FUNDED.

(2) Marin-Spiotta, E., Hockaday, W.C., Homann, P., Hurteau, M., Kane, E., Townsend, P., and Wiedinmyer, C., 2012, (with the University of Wisconsin, Madison as the lead institution), Collaborative Research: Interactions between climate and disturbance on biomass and soil carbon storage in fire prone conifer forests, submitted to NSF DEB Macrosystems program, Hockaday requested $234,089, awarded from 8/1/12 to 7/31/15. NOT FUNDED

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(3) Cusak, D.F., McDowell, W., Templer, P., and Hockaday, W.C., 2012, (with UCLA as the lead institution), Collaborative Research: Does Increased Nitrogen Availability Lead to Higher Carbon Storage in Nitrogen-Rich Tropical Forests? Submitted to NSF DEB Ecosystems science program, Hockaday requested $148,840 awarded from 6/1/13 to 5/31/13. PENDING

(4) Nesmith, S.M., Brooks, B., Matson, C., Hockaday, W., and Wynveen, C., 2012, Paludology Pedagogy: Creating a wetlands environmental academy for P-12 educators, submitted to EPA Office of Environmental Education, requesting $216,000 to be awarded from 6/1/13 to 5/31/15. PENDING.

2011

(1) Peppe, D.J., 2011, Examining the biotic response to climate change in Early Paleocene faunas and floras: submitted to NSF EAR Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program, $213,934 requested from 07-17-11 to 07-16-14. NOT FUNDED.

(2) Peppe, D.J., and Atchley, S.A., 2011, Can 1D alluvial stacking pattern analysis characterize 3D lithofacies and their heterogeneity? A test of concept within the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, $85,159 requested from 09/01/12 – 08/31/14. NOT FUNDED.

(3) Lau, B.L.T., Hockaday, W.C., and Lawler, D., 2011, Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Role of Natural Organic Matter on Silver Nanoparticle Removal by Granular Media Filtration: Submitted to NSF ENG Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Program, $330, 518 requested, from 07/11/12 to 06/31/14. NOT FUNDED

(4) Vogel, J., Kane, E., Hockaday, W.C., and Bond-Lamberty, B., 2011, How do climate, fire and chemistry affect soil organic matter cycling in the boreal forest? An integrated modeling-measurement approach: DOE BER Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program, $206,249 requested from 06/01/12 to 05/31/2015. NOT FUNDED

(5) Hockaday, W.C., and Lau, B.L.T., 2011, A spectroscopic investigation of silver nanoparticle interactions with organic matter in aqueous systems: implications for water treatment, The Camile and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Postdoctoral program in environmental chemistry, $120,000 requested from 01/01/2012 to 12/31/13

(6) Hockaday, W.C., and Lau, B.L.T., 2011, Mechanism and kinetics of nanoscale iron mineral interactions with organic ligands: The Welch Foundation, $100,000 requested from 06/01/2012 – 05/31/13. NOT FUNDED

(7) Lau, B.L.T, and Hockaday, W.C, The role of natural organic matter in the surface adsorption of iron nanoparticles, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund: $100,000 request from 6/01/12 to 5/31/13. NOT FUNDED

(8) Kemanian, A., Masiello, C.A., Hockaday, W.C., and Jin, V.A., 2011, Measuring and modeling the cycling of black carbon and black nitrogen in agroecosystems: USDA AFRI: $ 62,114 requested from 01/01/12 to 12/31/16. NOT FUNDED

2010

(1) Feng, Z.-D., 2010, Environmental and archaeological investigations of the rise and fall of early complex societies in China: NSF, $204,826 requested from 07-01-11 to 06-30-14. NOT FUNDED.

33 (2) Feng, Z.-D., and Dworkin, S.I., 2010, Collaborative Research: High-resolution Reconstruction of Holocene Bioclimatic Changes in Central Asia: NSF, $363,302 requested from 07-01-11 to 06-30-14. NOT FUNDED.

(3) Feng, Z.-D., Liu, K.-B. (at LSU) and Lu, H. (at Chinese Academy of Sciences), 2010, Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Mid-Holocene bioclimatic changes in the Central Plain of China and their cultural implications: submitted to NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, $151,844 requested from 07- 01-10 to 06-30-12. NOT FUNDED.

(4) Hockaday, W.L., Farmer, P. and Lau, B., 2010, Early Career: Acquisition of a solid-state NMR spectrometer for Geo-Bio-Chemical sciences at Baylor: NSF, $222,150 requested for 01-01-11 to 08-30-30-12. NOT FUNDED.

(5) Peppe, D.J., 2010, with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History as the lead institution (with T. Williamson) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (with R. Secord), Collaborative research: The First Four Million Years of the Age of Mammals in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Examining Early Paleocene Climate Change and the Mammalian Radiation: submitted to the NSF-EAR program, $536,300 requested for three years from 06/01/10 – 05/31/13 (Note: Baylor University’s share of the grant would be $ $203,439 for three years commencing in June 2010). NOT FUNDED.

(6) Peppe, D.J., 2010, Paleoenvironmental interpretations of hominin deposits from the Wasiriya Beds on Rusinga Island: NHARP, State of Texas, $81,259 requested for two years from 06-01-10 to 05-31-12. NOT FUNDED.

(7) Hockaday, W.C., Farmer, P.J., and Lau, B.T., 2010, Acquisition of a shared solid-state NMR spectrometer for environmental research at Baylor University: NSF GEO Instrumentation and facilities, $222,150, from 03/1/11 to 02/28/12. NOT FUNDED.

(8) Lau, B.T., and Hockaday, W.C., 2010, Elucidating the role of natural organic matter on the surface adsorption of iron mineral nanoparticles: ACS Petroleum Research Fund, $100,000, from 09/01/2011 to 08/31/2013/. NOT FUNDED.

2009

(1) Driese, S.G., 2009, with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as the lead institution (with Z.-H. Li as PI/PD, and S.P. Horn and D.M. Finklestein as co-PIs), Collaborative research: Multiproxy expression of the mid- Holocene Warm Period in the southern Appalachian region, southeastern U.S.: submitted to NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences program (Note: Baylor University share of grant would be $66,288 requested for three years, commencing August 1, 2009). NOT FUNDED.

(2) Driese, S.G., Bradley, W.L., Lau, B.L.T., Rushing, A., and Skurla, C.., 2009, MRI-R2: Acquisition of an environmental SEM for Baylor University: submitted to NSF MRI-R2 program, grant is for one year totaling $576,620, awarded from 06-01-10 to 05-31-11. NOT FUNDED.

(3) Feng, Z.-D., and Dworkin, S.I., 2009, High-resolution Reconstruction of Holocene Bioclimatic Changes in the core area of the Central Asian Arid Zone: submitted to NSF Paleo-Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) Program, $412,129 requested, awarded from 07-01-10 to 06-30-13. NOT FUNDED.

(4) Park, K., Zhang, Goodman, Driese, S.G., and Lau, B.L.T., 2009, MRI-R2: Acquisition of high-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: submitted to NSF MRI-R2 program, grant is for one year totaling $785,351, awarded from 02-01-10 to 01-31-11. NOT FUNDED.

34 (5) Peppe, D.J., 2009, with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History as the lead institution (with T. Williamson) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (with R. Secord), Collaborative research: The First Four Million Years of the Age of Mammals in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Examining Early Paleocene Climate Change and the Mammalian Radiation, submitted to the NSF-EAR program, $684,553 requested for three years from 06/01/09 – 05/31/12 (Note: Baylor University’s share of the grant would be $320,395 for three years commencing in June 2009). NOT FUNDED.

(7) Peppe, D.J., 2009, Paleoenvironmental interpretations of hominin deposits on Rusinga Island, Kenya: Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program, $81,259 requested for two years from 06/01/10 – 05/31/12. NOT FUNDED

2008

(1) Driese, S.G., and Atchley, S.C., 2008, Global implications for the rise of the Givetian (375 Ma) forests, Manorkill Formation, Catskill State Park, New York, USA: submitted to NSF Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) program ($225,865 requested for three years, commencing July 1, 2008). NOT FUNDED.

(2) Feng, Z.-D., 2008, Collaborative Research: Reconstructing the temporal and spatial patterns of MIS 3 bioclimatic changes from eolian and lacustrine sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau: submitted to NSF Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program ($185,750, requested for 07/01/08 to 06/30/10). NOT FUNDED.

(3) Feng, Z.-D., 2008, Collaborative Research: Mid-Holocene bioclimatic changes in the Central Plain of China and their cultural implications: NSF Geography and Regional Science ($254,270 requested for 07/01/08 to 06/30/11). NOT FUNDED.

(4) Feng, Z.-D., 2008, High-resolution reconstruction of Holocene bioclimatic changes in Central Asian arid zone: NSF Paleo-Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) program ($507,428 requested for 07/01/08 to 06/30/11). NOT FUNDED.

(5) Nordt, L.C., 2008, Development of a new dating technique for alluvial deposits containing archaeological materials: a case study from the Fort Hood Military Reservation, Texas, U.S. Department of Defense. (submitted in December, 2008; Total amount requested is $54,000). NOT FUNDED.

2007

(1) Driese, S.G., 2007, with Baylor University as the lead institution and S.P. Horn from the University of Tennessee as co-PI, Collaborative research: Differentiating paleoclimate and volcanogenic signatures in the Morrison Formation depositional basin, USA: submitted to NSF Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program ($185,659 requested for two years, commencing June 1, 2007). NOT FUNDED.

(2) Driese, S.G., 2007, with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as the lead institution (with Z.-H. Li as PI/PD, and C.I. Mora and S.P. Horn as co-PIs), Collaborative research: Pleistocene-Holocene climate variability of the southern Appalachian region, southeastern U.S.: submitted to NSF Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program ($56,794 requested for three years, commencing June 1, 2008). NOT FUNDED.

(3) Dworkin, S.I., Doyle, R., Feng, Z., Driese, S.G., and King, R.S., 2008, MRI: Acquisition of a stable isotope mass spectrometer for paleoclimate and ecology research and training: submitted to NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program ($342,185 for one year, commencing July 1, 2007). NOT FUNDED.

35 (4) Nordt, L.C., 2007, Late Pleistocene adaptations and behaviorial transformations in the South African Highveld Grassland. Co-Principal investigators Britt Bousman and David Brink; L. Nordt is a paid collaborator. NOT FUNDED.

Last updated: 10/29/12

Respectfully submitted by

Steven G. Driese Professor and Chair

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