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In the News: Publications and Presentations

Our research is a valuable resource for the department, broadening the knowledge base of both faculty and students. Department faculty are often contacted the media to discuss regional, national and international geological events.

Faculty 08.29.23

UD climate scientist Shuang-Ye Wu was selected for Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science Class of 2023-2024.

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Campus and Community 07.13.23

University of Dayton faculty members are working in northwest Dayton through a community engagement program of the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

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Faculty 04.13.23

Charles “Chuck” Ritter, a geology professor at the University of Dayton from 1967 to 1994, when he retired at the rank of professor emeritus, recently passed away.

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Faculty and Staff 05.09.22

The National Science Foundation awarded two UD researchers a grant to establish a link between rain-producing climate patterns and water supply in the Horn of Africa.

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Research 11.09.21

The National Science Foundation awarded University of Dayton isotope geochemist Zelalem Bedaso a three-year, $156,776 grant to study seasonal rainfall variability over the last 200,000 years in East Africa to understand the impact of extreme weather on early humans and the ecosystems on which they depended.

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Sciences 10.28.21

University of Dayton geologist Umesh Haritashya was recognized in August with a 2020-21 SOCHE Faculty Excellence Award for his contributions to understanding the relationship between climate change and natural disasters in alpine environments.

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Faculty publications and presentations

Publications

Azam, M. F., Kargel, J. S., Shea, J., Nepal, S., Haritashya, U., Srivastava, S., Maussion, F., Qazi, N., Chevallier, P., Dimri, A. P., Kulkarni, A., Cogley, J. Graham, Bahuguna, I. M. (2021). Glacio-hydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram: status and perspectives. Science, 373(6557).

Bedaso, Z., Wu, S.-Y. (2021). Linking precipitation and groundwater recharge in Ethiopia - implications from local meteoric water lines and isoscapes. Journal of hydrology, 596, 126074.

Chen, F., Haritashya, U., Prakash, M., Wang, L. (2021). Editorial: Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:727547.

Chen, F., Zhang, M., Guo, H., Allen, S., Kargel, J., Haritashya, U., Watson, C. Scott (2021). Annual 30-meter Dataset for Glacial Lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017. Earth System Science Data, 13, 741-766.

Haritashya, U., Harbor, J., French, H. (2021). The Development, History and Future of Cryospheric Geomorphology. In Haritashya, U. K. (Ed.), Cryospheric Geomorphology: Treatise of Geomorphology (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Haritashya, U., Wu, C.-Y., Johnson, B., Jespersen, I., Drake, J. (2021)., Geospatial technologies and human rights: Views of destruction and displacement in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh. Dayton, OH:. https://issuu.com/udhumanrights/docs/joint_myanmar_report

Hou, S., Zhang, W., Fang, L., Jenk, M., Wu, S.-Y., Pang, H., Schwikowski, M. (2021). Brief communication: New evidence further constraining Tibetan ice core chronologies to the Holocene. The Cryosphere, 15(4), 2109–2114.

Johnstone, C., Bedaso, Z., Ekberg, M. (2021). Characterizing surface water and groundwater interaction for sustainable water resources management in southwestern Ohio. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 8(1), 16.

Kargel, J. S., Upadhyay, K., Maxwell, A., Ramos, A., Harrison, S., Shugar, D., Haritashya, U. (2021). Climate change, land use change, and mountain disasters. Part I. Shifting Mountain Hazards and Early Warning. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/08/23/part-i-climate-change-land-use-change-and-mountain-disasters/

Kargel, J. S., Upadhyay, K., Maxwell, A., Ramos, A., Harrison, S., Shugar, D., Haritashya, U. (2021). Climate change, land use change, and mountain disasters. Part II. Knowledge Aids Safety and Efficiency. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/09/01/part-ii-climate-change-land-use-change-and-mountain-disasters/

Kullmer, O., Violla, T. B., Oliver, S., Huijer, W., Bedaso, Z. The Pliocene deposits, fossil mammals and paleoecology from Galili, Ethiopia. In Raynolds, S., Bobe, R. (Eds.), Pliocene and Early Pleistocene African Fauna and Paleoecology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Kumar, A., Haritashya, U. (2021). Glacier Sediment Dynamics, Flux and Facies: a perspective from the Indian Himalaya. In Haritashya, U. K. (Ed.), Cryospheric Geomorphology: Treatise of Geomorphology (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Liu, K., Hou, S., Pang, H., Wu, S.-Y., Zhang, W., Zou, X., Yu, J. (2021). Progress in the study of iron in the snow and ice. Quaternary Sciences, 41(3), 792-803.

Liu, K., Hou, S., Wu, S.-Y., Pang, H., Zhang, W., Song, J., Yu, J., Zou, X., Wang, J. (2021). The atmospheric iron variations during 1950–2016 recorded in snow at Dome Argus, East Antarctica. Atmospheric Research, 248(15).

McGrew, A. J., Schwartz, J. (2021). Introduction: Active margins in transition -- magmatism and tectonics through time: An issue in honor of Arthur W. Snoke. Geosphere, 17(4), 981 - 986. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02422.1

Mishra, S., Rupper, S., Kapnick, S., Casey, K., Chan, H. G., Ciraci, E., Haritashya, U., Hayse, J., Kargel, J. S., Kayastha, R. B., Krakauer, N. Y., Kumar, S. V., Lammers, R., Maggioni, V., Margulis, S., Olson, M., Osmanoglu, B., Qian, Y., Richey, S., Rittger, K., Rounce, D., Shean, D., Velicogna, I., Veselka, T., Arendt, A. (2021). Grand Challenges of Hydrologic Modeling for Food-Energy-Water Nexus Security in High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Water, 3:728156.

Perugini, S., Rettig, A. (2021). Operating Systems Laboratory Manual: Mobile Devices and Massive Concurrency. In Rettig, A., Khanna, S. (Eds.), Chapter 21-23. National Science Foundation (Award No. 1712406): https://sites.google.com/a/udayton.edu/operatingsystems/labs

Sattar, A., Goswami, A., Kulkarni, A., Emmer, A., Haritashya, U., Allen, S., Frey, H., Huggel, C. (2021). Future glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya. Geomorphology, 388(107783).

Sattar, A., Haritashya, U., Kargel, J., Leonard, G., Shugar, D., Chase, D. V. (2021). Modeling lake outburst and downstream hazard assessment of the Lower Barun glacial lake, Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Hydrology, 598(126208).

Shugar, D., Jacquemart, M., Shean, D., Bhushan, S., Upadhyay, K., Sattar, A., Schwanghart, W., McBride, S., de Vries, M. V. W., Mergili, M., Emmer, A., Deschamps-Berger, C., McDonnell, M., Bhambri, R., Allen, S., Berthier, E., Carrivick, J., Clague, J., Dokukin, M., Dunning, S., Frey, H., Gascoin, S., Haritashya, U., Huggel, C., Kääb, A., Kargel, J., Kavanaugh, J., Lacroix, P., Petley, D., Rupper, S., Azam, M. F., Cook, S., Dimri, A. P., Eriksson, M., Farinotti, D., Fiddes, J., Gnyawali, K. R., Harrison, S., Jha, M., Koppes, M., Kumar, A., Leinss, S., Majeed, U., Mal, S., Muhuri, A., Noetzli, J., Paul, F., Rashid, I., Sain, K., Steiner, J., Ugalde, F., Watson, C. S., Westoby, M. (2021). A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya. Science, 373(6552).

Wang, Qiu, Y., Han, Z., Xu, C., Wu, S.-Y., Wang, Y., Holmgren, M., Xu, Z. (accepted). Climate, topography and anthropogenic effects on desert greening: A 40-year satellite monitoring in the Tengger desert, northern China. Catena, 209(2), 105851.

Wu, C.-Y. (2021). Estimate of decadal scale riverbed deformation and bedload sediment transport during flood events in the lowermost Mississippi River. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/esp.5316

Wu, S.-Y., Bedaso, Z. (2021). Quantifying moisture source for NW Ethiopian highlands and its implication for isotope variation. Journal of Hydrology, 605, 127322.

Xie, Z., Asari, V. K., Haritashya, U. (2021). Deep-Learning Models for Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping. Applied Computing and Geoscience, 12.

Xu, T., Pang, H., Zhan, Z., Zhang, W., Guo, H., Wu, S.-Y., Hou, S. (accepted). Water vapor isotopes indicating rapid shift among multiple moisture sources for the 2018–2019 winter extreme precipitation events in southeastern China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(1), 177-127.

Yuan, W., Wu, S.-Y., Hou, S., Xu, Z., Lu, H. (2021). Projecting Future Vegetation Change for Northeast China Using CMIP6 Models. Remote Sensing, 13(17), 3531-3546. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173531

Zhang, W., Hou, S., Wu, S.-Y., Sneed, S. B., Korotkitikh, E. V., Mayewski, P. A., Pang, H. (2021). A new method of resolving annual precipitation for the past millennia from Tibetan ice cores. The Cryosphere Discussion

Zhang, Pang, H., Wu, S.-Y., Song, J., Zou, X., Hou, S. (accepted). Decadal temperature variations over the northwestern Tibetan Plateau deduced from a 489‐year ice core stable isotopic record. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 127(1), e2021JD036087.

Zou, X., Hou, S., Wu, S.-Y., Pang, H., Liu, K., Zhang, W., Yu, J., Song, J., Huang, R., Liu, Y. (accepted). Ice-core based assessment of nitrogen deposition in the central Tibetan Plateau over the last millennium. Science of The Total Environment, 814, 152692.

Presentations

Agarwal, V., Akyilmaz, O., Shum, C., Feng, W., Forootan, E., Haritashya, U., Syed, T. (2021)., Machine Learning approach to study groundwater depletion in Central Valley, California using GRACE and other hydrological data. Beijing: Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy. https://www.iag2021.com/en/web/program/1646

Agarwal, V., Haritashya, U., Kargel, J., de Vries, M. S. V. W. (2021)., Multi-decadal Dynamically Coupled Glacier and Proglacial Lake Development in Central and Eastern Himalaya. New Orleans: American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/webprogrampreliminary/Paper955735.html

Bedaso, Z., Invited Lecture or Address, Hamilton College, "Precipitation isotope, paleoenvironment study and research experience in Ethiopia", Presenter/Lecturer, Academic, National, Invited. (April 16, 2021).

Bedaso, Z., Invited Lecture or Address, University of Cincinnati, "Modern precipitation isotope perspective for east African terrestrial paleoclimatology", Presenter/Lecturer, Academic, State, Invited. (March 5, 2021).

Brimmer, R. (Presenter & Author), Winget, M. (Co-Presenter), Beck, C. (Author Only), Bedaso, Z., Van Der Lubbe, J. (Author Only), Calixto, C. (Author Only), Poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Documenting water δ18O variability from individual modern and Pleistocene ostracods from the Turkana Basin, Kenya", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (December 15, 2021).

Creviston, W. (Presenter & Author), Bedaso, Z. (Author Only), Ali, A. (Author Only), Sullivan, C. (Author Only), David, K. (Author Only), Bowen, R. (Author Only), Poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Tracing nitrate sources to Saginaw Bay using environmental isotopes (δ15N and δ18O) implication for Harmful Algal Blooms", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (December 13, 2021).

Dubey, S., Goyal, M., Sattar, A., Haritashya, U. (2021)., Susceptibility of glacial lakes to avalanche and rockfall in the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya. Vienna: European Geosciences Union General Assembly. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-12475.html

Dunham, A., Kiser, E., Kargel, J., Haritashya, U., Shugar, D., Watson, C. S., Hughes, A. (2021)., Linking Strong Ground Motions and Coseismic Landsliding Associated With the 25 April 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake. Online due to COVID: Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting. https://seismosoc.secure-platform.com/a/gallery/rounds/27/details/6681; https://www.seismosoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SSA-2021-Program-for-SRL.pdf

Dunham, A., Kiser, E., Kargel, J., Haritashya, U., Watson, C. S., Shugar, D. (2021)., The role of topographic amplification in triggering landslides from the 2005 M7.6 Kashmir Earthquake. New Orleans: American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/webprogrampreliminary/Paper901175.html

Dunham, A., Kiser, E., Kargel, J., Haritashya, U., Watson, C. S., Shugar, D., Hughes, A., DeCelles, P. (2021)., Topographic control of ground motions and landslides from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Online due to COVID: Southern California Earthquake Center. https://www.scec.org/meetings/2021/am/poster/046

Gebregiorgis, D. (Presenter & Author), Bedaso, Z. (Co-Presenter), Cobb, K. (Author Only), Deocampo, D. (Author Only), Diem, L. (Author Only), Asrat, A. (Author Only), Paper, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Stable isotopic insights into intraseasonal variability of East African monsoon precipitation", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (December 13, 2021).

Goldman, D., Sadler, P. M., Leslie, S. A. (2021). Keynote Conference Address., The Geologic Time Scale 2020 (vol. Numéro Spécial 2, pp. 34). Lille: Lille 2021: Ordovician of the World - Programmed with Abstracts.

Gong, M., Haritashya, U., Chern, W. C., Asari, V. K., Kargel, J., Osmanoglu, B., Vijay, S., Bahuguna, I. M., Singh, S., Watson, C. S. (2021)., Machine/Deep Learning Based Glacier Surface Segmentation of ISRO-ASAR Datasets. New Orleans: American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/webprogrampreliminary/Paper983999.html

Hardie, A., Haritashya, U. (2021)., Deep Learning for the Detection and Segmentation of Glacial Lakes in Landsat Imagery. New Orleans: American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/webprogrampreliminary/Paper989725.html

Haritashya, U. (Author Only), Invited Lecture or Address, Wright State University Colloquium, Virtual due to COVID-19, "The Canary in the Ice", Presenter/Lecturer, Non-Academic, State, Invited. (March 11, 2021).

Haritashya, U., Panel Discussion, Global Climate Change Week, Academic, National. (October 20, 2021).

Haritashya, U., Workshop, Geospatial and Human Rights Training, Academic, Local. (November 11, 2021).

Haritashya, U., Workshop, 3rd Ohio View Multi-University Geospatial Workshop, Academic, Regional. (February 26, 2021).

Herrera Sanchez, N. C., Toro, B. A., Goldman, D. (2021)., Testing the Ordovician Graptolite Distribution And Diversity At The Central Andean Basin, South America, With Constrained Optimization (Conop9). Buenos Aires: XII Congress of the Paleontological Association, Argentina. https://www.congresoapa.org.ar/

Kargel, J., Rodriguez, A., Leonard, G., Domingue, D., Bishop, M., Haritashya, U., Castle, N. (2021)., Evidence for buried stratiform volatiles and their impact mobilization in Mercury’s Caloris Basin. New Orleans: American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/webprogrampreliminary/Paper1003204.html

Koziol, A. M. (Presenter & Author), Paper, 2021 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Portland OR, "Re-imagining a Multi-Instructor Entry Level Geology Course: Formulating Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Strategies.", Presenter/Lecturer, Academic, National, Peer-reviewed/refereed, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (October 12, 2021).

Langston, J. (Presenter & Author), Levin, N. (Author Only), Bedaso, Z., Quade, J. (Author Only), Haile-Selasssie, Y. (Author Only), Roger, M. (Author Only), Salyor, B., Semaw, S. (Author Only), Paper, America Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Carbonate Paragenesis in the Afar rift system, Ethiopia: insights from clumped isotope thermometry", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (December 15, 2021).

McGrew, A. J., Metcalf, J. (2021)., Episodic Late Eocene to Recent extension in the vicinity of the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range, Nevada (4th ed., vol. 53). Boulder: Geological Society of America. 2534 Coldsprings Dr.

Mergili, M., Sattar, A., Carrivick, J., Emmer, A., Mandli, K., Jacquemart, M., Watson, C. Scott, Westoby, M., Clague, J., Haritashya, U., Shugar, D. (2021)., Exploring the flow evolution of the Chamoli event (Uttarakhand, India) of 7 February 2021: From geomorphological mapping to multi-model computer simulations. Vienna: European Geosciences Union General Assembly. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-16591.html

O'Reilly, C. (Presenter & Author), Beck, C. (Author Only), Bedaso, Z., Wegter, B. (Author Only), Poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Precipitation isotope variation in Central New York: Tracing current and past hydrologic and atmospheric processes", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (December 13, 2021).

Rettig, A., LTC Forum, Online, University of Dayton, "Campus as Lab", Panel Participant, Academic, Local, Invited. (January 8, 2021).

Sullivan, C. (Presenter & Author), Ali, A. (Author Only), Bedaso, Z., Creviston, W. (Author Only), David, K. (Author Only), Bowen, R. (Author Only), Poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Harmful Algal Blooms in Saginaw Bay using Sentinel-2 MSI Data", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Accepted. (December 15, 2021).

Vijay, S., Bhasin, H., Haritashya, U. (2021)., Application of LS-ASAR, a pre-cursor to NISAR mission, data for glacier mapping: a case study from Black Rapids Glacier. New Orleans: American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/webprogrampreliminary/Paper886544.html

Wu, C.-Y. (Presenter & Author), Invited Lecture or Address, ASI 160 Course (First-Year Seminar), University of Dayton, "ArcGIS Online Introduction", Presenter/Lecturer, Non-Academic. (November 1, 2021).

Wu, S.-Y. (Presenter & Author), Bedaso, Z. (Author Only), Poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Quantifying the Effect of Moisture Source and Transport on the Precipitation Isotopic Variations in Northwest Ethiopian Highland", Academic, International, Published in proceedings, Published elsewhere, Accepted. (December 13, 2021).

Stander

Beaver, I. M. (Presenter & Author), Wu, C.-Y., Stander Symposium, "Watersheds in The Region of Columbus, Ohio Located Between Cowan Lake/Creek and East/Todd Fork", Advisor, Academic. (April 22, 2021).

Holmes, P. M. (Presenter & Author), Wu, C.-Y., Stander Symposium, "Assessing and Modeling Landslide Lake Outburst Floods Along the Araniko Highway in Nepal", Advisor, Academic. (April 22, 2021).

Mehari, T. G. (Presenter & Author), Wu, C.-Y., Stander Symposium, "Contamination Potential of Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer (GMBVA)", Advisor, Academic. (April 22, 2021).

Pacovsky, R. J., Wu, C.-Y., Stander Symposium, "Recurrence Interval of Hurricane Level Flooding in the Florida Panhandle", Advisor. (April 22, 2021).


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