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Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction (2019)
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Clubb, F., Mudd, S., Hurst, M., & Grieve, S. (2020). Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction. Geology, 48(2), 184-188. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46939.1

Tectonic plate motion, and the resulting change in land surface elevation, has been shown to have a fundamental impact on landscape morphology. Changes to uplift rates can drive a response in fluvial channels, which then drives changes to hillslopes.... Read More about Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction.

Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake (2021)
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Rosser, N., Kincey, M., Oven, K., Densmore, A., Robinson, T., Pujara, D., …Dhital, M. (2021). Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake. Progress in disaster science, 10, Article 100159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100159

The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake triggered in excess of 20,000 landslides across 14 districts of Central and Western Nepal. Whilst the instantaneous impact of these landslides was significant, the ongoing effect of the earthquake on changing... Read More about Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake.

Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples (2020)
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Dellinger, M., Hilton, R. G., & Nowell, G. M. (2020). Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 35(2), 377-387. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ja00288j

Rhenium (Re) is a trace element whose redox chemistry makes it an ideal candidate to trace a range of geochemical processes. In particular, fractionation of its isotopes 187Re (62.6% abundance) and 185Re (37.4%) may be used to improve our understandi... Read More about Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples.

Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the Art and Prospects (2020)
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Piégay, H., Arnaud, F., Belletti, B., Bertrand, M., Bizzi, S., Carbonneau, P., …Slater, L. (2020). Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the Art and Prospects. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(1), 157-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4787

The rivers of the world are undergoing accelerated change in the Anthropocene, and need to be managed at much broader spatial and temporal scales than before. Fluvial remote sensing now offers a technical and methodological framework that can be depl... Read More about Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the Art and Prospects.

Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago (2020)
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McClymont, E., Ford, H., Ho, S., Tindall, J., Haywood, A., Alonso-Garcia, M., …Zhang, Z. (2020). Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago. Climate of the Past, 16(4), 1599-1615. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1599-2020

A range of future climate scenarios are projected for high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, given uncertainties over future human actions as well as potential environmental and climatic feedbacks. The geological record offers an opportunity to underst... Read More about Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago.

The Effect of Biofilms on Turbulent Flow over Permeable Beds (2020)
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Kazemifar, F., Blois, G., Aybar, M., Calleja, P., Nerenberg, R., Sinha, S., …Christensen, K. (2021). The Effect of Biofilms on Turbulent Flow over Permeable Beds. Water Resources Research, 57(2), Article e2019WR026032. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr026032

Despite an increasingly large body of work advancing our understanding of flow interactions occurring at the interface of a turbulent flow overlying a permeable bed, little is known concerning how such flow may be affected by the presence of biofilms... Read More about The Effect of Biofilms on Turbulent Flow over Permeable Beds.

Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes (2019)
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Hage, S., Cartigny, M. J., Sumner, E. J., Clare, M. A., Hughes Clarke, J. E., Talling, P. J., …Watts, C. (2019). Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(20), 11310-11320. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl084526

Rivers (on land) and turbidity currents (in the ocean) are the most important sediment transport processes on Earth. Yet, how rivers generate turbidity currents as they enter the coastal ocean remains poorly understood. The current paradigm, based on... Read More about Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes.

Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures:New insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes (2019)
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Ono, K., Plink‐Björklund, P., Eggenhuisen, J. T., & Cartigny, M. J. (2021). Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures:New insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes. Sedimentology, 68(4), 1328-1357. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12682

Recognition of Froude supercritical flow deposits in environments that range from rivers to the ocean floor has triggered a surge of interest in their flow processes, bedforms and sedimentary structures. Interpreting these supercritical flow deposits... Read More about Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures:New insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes.

Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province (2022)
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Rodgers, J., Su, G., Qi, W., Milledge, D., Densmore, A., Davis, C., …Guo, C. (2022). Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101305

In efforts to address government-identified gaps between top-down policies and local-level preparedness approaches, a team from China, the UK and the US undertook a transdisciplinary, participatory project to develop an earthquake scenario for two ad... Read More about Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province.

Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica (2020)
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Arthur, J., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Carr, J., & Leeson, A. (2020). Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 14(11), 4103-4120. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4103-2020

Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) enhance surface melting and can flex and fracture ice shelves when they grow and subsequently drain, potentially leading to ice shelf disintegration. However, the seasonal evolution of SGLs and their influence on ice shelf s... Read More about Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica.

Major ice‐sheet change in the Weddell Sector of West Antarctica over the last 5000 years (2019)
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Siegert, M. J., Kingslake, J., Ross, N., Whitehouse, P. L., Woodward, J., Jamieson, S. S., …Sugden, D. E. (2019). Major ice‐sheet change in the Weddell Sector of West Antarctica over the last 5000 years. Reviews of Geophysics, 57(4), 1197-1223. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019rg000651

Until recently, little was known about the Weddell Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. In the last 10 years, a variety of expeditions and numerical modelling experiments have improved knowledge of its glaciology, glacial geology, and tectonic... Read More about Major ice‐sheet change in the Weddell Sector of West Antarctica over the last 5000 years.

Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain (2019)
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Lane, R. A., Coxon, G., Freer, J. E., Wagener, T., Johnes, P. J., Bloomfield, J. P., …Reaney, S. M. (2019). Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(10), 4011-4032. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4011-2019

Benchmarking model performance across large samples of catchments is useful to guide model selection and future model development. Given uncertainties in the observational data we use to drive and evaluate hydrological models, and uncertainties in th... Read More about Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain.

The cause of advective slowdown of tracer pebbles in rivers: Implementation of Exner-Based Master Equation for coevolving streamwise and vertical dispersion (2016)
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Pelosi, A., Schumer, R., Parker, G., & Ferguson, R. (2016). The cause of advective slowdown of tracer pebbles in rivers: Implementation of Exner-Based Master Equation for coevolving streamwise and vertical dispersion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121(3), 623-637. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015jf003497

Tracer pebbles are often used to study bed load transport processes in gravel bed rivers. Models have been proposed for their downstream dispersion, and also for vertical dispersion, but not for the combined effects of downstream and vertical movemen... Read More about The cause of advective slowdown of tracer pebbles in rivers: Implementation of Exner-Based Master Equation for coevolving streamwise and vertical dispersion.

Advance, Retreat, and Halt of Abrupt Gravel-Sand Transitions in Alluvial Rivers (2017)
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Blom, A., Chavarrías, V., Ferguson, R. I., & Viparelli, E. (2017). Advance, Retreat, and Halt of Abrupt Gravel-Sand Transitions in Alluvial Rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(19), 9751-9760. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl074231

Downstream fining of bed sediment in alluvial rivers is usually gradual, but often an abrupt decrease in characteristic grain size occurs from about 10 to 1 mm, i.e., a gravel-sand transition (GST) or gravel front. Here we present an analytical model... Read More about Advance, Retreat, and Halt of Abrupt Gravel-Sand Transitions in Alluvial Rivers.

Monitoring soil erosion on agricultural land: results and implications for the Rother valley, West Sussex, UK (2020)
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Boardman, J., Burt, T., & Foster, I. (2020). Monitoring soil erosion on agricultural land: results and implications for the Rother valley, West Sussex, UK. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(15), 3931-3942. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5011

Monitoring has played a key role in understanding the rates, extent and frequency of erosion on agricultural land and this includes projects in Switzerland, Germany and the UK. In this case we focus on highly erodible soils in the Rother valley, West... Read More about Monitoring soil erosion on agricultural land: results and implications for the Rother valley, West Sussex, UK.

Contextualizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh (2020)
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Ruszczyk, H., Rahman, M., Bracken, L., & Sudha, S. (2021). Contextualizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh. Environment and Urbanization, 33(1), 239-254. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247820965156

The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities in Bangladesh (Mongla and Noapara) during March to May 2020. Due to restrict... Read More about Contextualizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh.

The transport and mass balance of fallout radionuclides in Brotherswater, Cumbria (UK) (2019)
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Appleby, P., Semertzidou, P., Piliposian, G., Chiverrell, R., Schillereff, D., & Warburton, J. (2019). The transport and mass balance of fallout radionuclides in Brotherswater, Cumbria (UK). Journal of Paleolimnology, 62(4), 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-019-00095-z

This paper investigates the role of intervening transport processes on lake sediment records of the atmospherically deposited radionuclides 210Pb and 137Cs. Brotherswater is of particular interest to this issue in that its large catchment/lake area r... Read More about The transport and mass balance of fallout radionuclides in Brotherswater, Cumbria (UK).

Preservation of organic carbon during active fluvial transport and particle abrasion (2019)
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Scheingross, J., Hovius, N., Dellinger, M., Hilton, R., Repasch, M., Sachse, D., …Turowski, J. (2019). Preservation of organic carbon during active fluvial transport and particle abrasion. Geology, 47(10), 958-962. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46442.1

Oxidation of particulate organic carbon (POC) during fluvial transit releases CO2 to the atmosphere and can influence global climate. Field data show large POC oxidation fluxes in lowland rivers; however, it is unclear if POC losses occur predominant... Read More about Preservation of organic carbon during active fluvial transport and particle abrasion.

Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle (2019)
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Lam, H., Haines, A., McGregor, G., Chan, E., & Hajat, S. (2019). Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(17), Article 3146. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16173146

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major driver of climatic variability that can have far reaching consequences for public health globally. We explored whether global, regional and country-level rates of people affected by natural disasters... Read More about Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle.

The importance of riparian plant orientation in river flow: implications for flow structures and drag (2019)
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Boothroyd, R. J., Hardy, R. J., Warburton, J., & Marjoribanks, T. I. (2019). The importance of riparian plant orientation in river flow: implications for flow structures and drag. Journal of Ecohydraulics, 3(2), 108-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/24705357.2019.1573648

In a series of high resolution numerical modelling experiments, we incorporated submerged riparian plants into a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model used to predict flow structures and drag in river flow. Individual plant point clouds were captu... Read More about The importance of riparian plant orientation in river flow: implications for flow structures and drag.