Tuesday, May 25, 2021

New publications by Geology and Physics faculty

 Zeb Page and Dan Stinebring published these papers in the past two months:

Cruz-Uribe, A. M., F. Zeb Page, Associate Professor of Geology, et al. 2021. Trace element and isotopic zoning of garnetite veins in amphibolitized eclogite, Franciscan Complex, California, USA. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 176:41.

Pol, N. S. … Daniel R. Stinebring, Emeritus Professor of Physics, et al., and NANOGrav Collaboration. 2021. Astrophysics milestones for pulsar timing array gravitational-wave detection. Astrophysical Journal Letters 911:L34.

Yao, J. … Daniel R. Stinebring, Emeritus Professor of Physics, et al. Evidence for three-dimensional spin-velocity alignment in a pulsar. Nature Astronomy, early access May 2021.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Geology faculty publish in Frontiers in Marine Science; Earth and Planetary Science

Assistant Professor Rachel Eveleth and Associate Professor Amanda Schmidt, both of the Geology Department, published journal articles recently.  Alex Grande, Class of 2020, is the first author on the paper with Prof. Schmidt.

Grande, AlexandraAmanda H. Schmidt, P. R. Bierman, L. B. Corbett, C. Lopez-Lloreda, J. Willenbring, W. H. McDowell, and M. W. Caffee. 2021. Landslides, hurricanes, and sediment sourcing impact basin-scale erosion estimates in Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 562:116821.


Eveleth, Rachel, D. M. Glover, M. C. Long, I. D. Lima, A. P. Chase, and S. C. Doney. 2021. Assessing the Skill of a High-resolution marine biophysical model using geostatistical analysis of mesoscale ocean chlorophyll variability from field observations and remote sensing. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:612764.

The publisher notes that this article is part of the research topic "Unraveling Mechanisms Underlying Annual Plankton Blooms in the North Atlantic and their Implications for Biogenic Aerosol Properties and Cloud Formation"  View all 17 articles on the topic from Frontiers in Marine Science.  Open Access.




Thursday, May 06, 2021

New faculty publications in Astronomy, Biology, and Physics from Jillian Scudder, Mike Moore, and Bruce Richards

 Recently published, as found in Web of Science 

Jillian Scudder, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy


Ellison, S. L., L. Lin, M. D. Thorp, H. Pan, J. M. Scudder, S. F. Sanchez, A. F. L. Bluck, and R. Maiolino. 2021. The ALMaQUEST Survey - V. The non-universality of kpc-scale star formation relations and the factors that drive them. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 501:4777-4797.
  repository copy, open access

Mike Moore, Professor of Biology

Morales-Briones, D. F., G. Kadereit, D. T. Tefarikis, Michael J. Moore, S. A. Smith, S. F. Brockington, A. Timoneda, W. C. Yim, J. C. Cushman, and Y. Yang. 2021. Disentangling sources of gene tree discordance in phylogenomic data sets: testing ancient hybridizations in Amaranthaceae s.l. Systematic Biology 70:219-235.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa066

Bruce Richards, Emeritus Professor of Physics

Richards, W. Bruce 2021. Understanding a paradox in special relativity. Physics Teacher 59:284-285. https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0004159