Publications: Journal Articles

Adams, K.D., 2007:

Late Holocene sedimentary environments and lake-level fluctuations at Walker Lake, Nevada, USA: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, no. 1/2, p. 126-139.

Adams, K.D., 2003:

Age and paleoclimatic significance of late Holocene lakes in the Carson Sink, Nevada, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 60, p. 294-306.

Adams, K.D., 2003:

Estimating paleowind strength from beach deposits: Sedimentology 50(3):565-578.

Adams, K.D., 2003:

Lake levels and sedimentary environments during deposition of the Wono and Trego Hot Springs tephras in the Lake Lahontan basin, Nevada and California, USA: XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, p. 182.

Adams, K.D., and T.B.Minor, 2002:

Historic shoreline change at Lake Tahoe from 1938 to 1998 and its impact on sediment and nutrient loading: Journal of Coastal Research 18(4):637-651.

Arnone, J.A. III and D. Obrist 2003:

A large daylight geodesic dome for quantification of whole-ecosystem CO₂ and water vapor fluxes in arid shrublands. Journal of Arid Environments, in press.

Bacon, S.N., Burke, R.M., Pezzopane, S.K., and Jayko, A.S., 2006:

Last glacial maximum and Holocene lake levels of Owens Lake, eastern California, USA: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 25, n. 11-12, p. 1264-1282.

Bacon, S.N., R.M. Burke, S.K. Pezzopane, and A.S. Jayko, 2006:

Last glacial maximum and Holocene lake levels of Owens Lake, eastern California, USA: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 25, n. 11-12, p. 1264-1282.

Barth, M., J.P. McFadden, J.L. Sun, C. Wiedinmyer, P. Chuang, B. Collins, R. Griffin,

M. Hannigan, T. Karl, S. W. Kim, S. Lasher-Trapp, S. Levis, M. Litvak, N. Mahowald, K. Moore, S. Nandi, E. Nemitz, A. Nenes, M. Potosnak, T.M. Raymond, J. Smith, C. Still, and C. Stroud, 2005. Coupling between land ecosystems and the atmospheric hydrologic cycle through biogenic aerosol pathways. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 86:1738-1742.

Bassett, S. 2003:

Biological Consequences of the Alternative Futures. Pages 153-362 in Environmental Decisions and Uncertain Futures. A. Shearer, D. Mouat, S. Bassett, M. Binford, C. Johnson, and J. Saarinen, Environmental Security, MCB Camp Pendleton, CA.

Bassett, S.D., and T.C. Edwards, Jr., 2003:

Effect of different sampling schemes on the spatial placement of conservation reserves in Utah, USA. Biological Conservation, 113:141-151.

BassiriRad , H., J. Constable, J. Lussenhop, B. Kimball, R. Norby, W. Oecchel, P. Reich,

W. Schlesinger, S. Zitzer, H. Sehtiya and S. Silim, 2003: Widespread foliage d15N depletion under elevated CO₂: inferences for the nitrogen cycle. Global Change Biology 9: 11-9.

Berger, G.W. 2006:

Trans-Arctic-Ocean tests of fine-silt luminescence sediment dating provide a basis for an additional geochronometer for this region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 2529-2551.

Berger, G.W., T.K. Henderson, D. Banerjee, and F.L. Nials, 2004:

Photonic dating of prehistoric irrigation canals at Phoenix, Arizona. Geoarchaeology 19: 1-19.

Berger, G.W., M. Melles, D. Banerjee, A.S. Murray, and A. Raab, 2004:

Luminescence Chronology of Nonglacial Sediments in Changeable Lake, Russian High Arctic and Implications for Limited Eurasian Ice-sheet Extent During the LGM. Journal of Quaternary Science 19:513-523.

Berger, G.W., 2003:

Luminescence chronology of late Pleistocene loess-paleosol and tephra sequences near Fairbanks, Alaska. Quaternary Research 60:70-83.

Berger, G.W., A.S. Murray and K.G. Havholm, 2003:

Photonic dating of Holocene back-barrier coastal dunes, northern North Carolina, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 22:1043-1050.

Berger, G.W., T.K. Henderson, D. Banerjee, and F.L. Nials, 2003:

Photonic dating of prehistoric irrigation canals at Phoenix, Arizona. Geoarchaeology (in press).

Berger, G.W., B.J.Pillans, J.G.Bruce, and P.D.McIntosh, 2002:

Luminescence chronology of loess from southern South Island, New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews 21:1899-1913.

Berger, G.W., B.J. Pillans, and P. Tonkin, 2001:

Luminescence chronology of loess-paleosol sequences from Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 44:501-516.

Berger, G.W. and T.L. Péwé, 2001:

Last Interglacial Age of the Eva Forest Bed, Central Alaska, from Thermoluminescence Dating of Bracketing Loess. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:485-498.

Berger, G.W. and P.T.Doran, 2001:

Luminescence-dating zeroing tests in Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Journal of Paleolimnology 25(4):519-529.

Berger, G.W., P. Almond, and B.Pillans, 2001:

Luminescence dating and glacial stratigraphy in Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 44:25-35.

Beveridge, C., G. Kocurek, R. Ewing, N. Lancaster, P. Morthekal, A.K. Singhvi, S.A. Mahan, 2006:

Development of spatially diverse and complex dune-field patterns: Gran Desierto Dune Field, Sonora, Mexico, Sedimentology, 53, 6,1391-1409.

Billings, S.A., S.M. Schaeffer, S. Zitzer, T. Charlet, S.D. Smith, and R.D. Evans, 2002:

Alterations of nitrogen dynamics under elevated carbon dioxide in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem: evidence from nitrogen-15. Oecologia 131:463-467.

Billings, S.A., S.F. Zitzer, H.E. Weatherly, S.M. Schaeffer, T. Charlet, J.A. Arnone, and R.D. Evans, 2003:

Effects of elevated CO₂ on green leaf tissue and litter quality in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem. Global Change Biology, in press.

Briggs, R.W., Wesnousky, S.G., and Adams, K.D., 2005:

Late Pleistocene and late Holocene lake highstands in the Pyramid Lake subbasin of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 64, p. 257-263.

Bristow, C.S., and N. Lancaster:

Movement of a small slipfaceless dune in Namibia. Geomorphology. In Press.

Brock, J.T. and K.W. Cummins, 2002:

Ecosystem metabolism in the Kissimmee River, South Florida, USA. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28(2):680-686.

Buck, P.E., 2003:

Authentic Research Experiences for Nevada High School teachers and students. Journal of Geoscience Education 51(1):48-53.

Buck, P.E., D. Sabol, and A.R. Gillespie, 2003:

Subpixel Artifact Detection Using Remote Sensing. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:973-989.

Buck, P.E., B. Hockett, T. Goebel, K. Graf, L. Perry, G. Greigo, and E. Dillingham, 2002:

Oranjeboom Cave: a Single Component Eastgate Site in Northeastern Nevada. Utah Archaeology 15(1):99-112.

Bullard, T.F., 2002:

Geomorphic history and fluvial responses to active tectonics and climate change in an uplifted forearc region, Pacific coast of southern Costa Rica, Central America: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 129:1-29.

Busacca, A.J., J.E. Begét, D.R. Muhs, N. Lancaster, M.R. Sweeney, 2003:

Eolian Sediments, In: Gillespie, A.R., Porter, S.C., Atwater, B.F., (eds.), The Quaternary Period in the United States, Elsevier, 275-309.

Cablk, M.E., J.C. Sagebiel, J.S Heaton and C. Valentin. 2008:

Olfaction-based detection distance: A quantitative analysis of how far away dogs recognize tortoise odor and follow it to source. Sensors. 8(4):2208-2222.

Cablk, M.E. and J.S. Heaton, 2006:

Accuracy and reliability of dogs in surveying for desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Ecological Applications, 16(5):1926-1935.

Cablk, M.E. and T.B. Minor, 2003:

Detecting and discriminating impervious cover with high-resolution IKONOS data using princicpal component analysis and morphological operators. Int. J. Remote Sensing 24(23):4627-4645.

Cablk, M.E. and J.S. Heaton, 2006:

Accuracy and reliability of dogs in surveying for Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agasizii). Ecological Applications. 16(5):1926-1935.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, and M.H. Young, 2006:

Soil disturbance and hydrologic response at the National Training Center, Ft. Irwin, California, Journal of Arid Environments 67: 456-472.

Caldwell, T.G., D.W. Johnson, W.W. Miller, and R.G. Qualls, 2002:

Forest Floor Carbon and Nitrogen Losses Due to Prescription Fire. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 66:262-267.

Clark, M.S., A. Clarke, C.S. Cockell, P. Convey, H.W. Dietrich III, K.P.P. Fraser, I.A. Johnston,

B.A. Methe, A.E. Murray, L.S. Peck, K. Roemisch, and A.D. Rogers, 2004: Antarctic Genomics. Comp. Functional Genomics 5:230-238.

Dahan, O., E.V. McDonald, and M.H. Young. 2003:

Development of a flexible TDR probe for deep vadose zone monitoring. Vadose Zone Journal 2: 270-275.

Devitt, D.A., R.L Morris, L.F. Fenstermaker, M. Baghzouz and D.S. Neuman, 2005:

Foliar Damage and Flower Production of Landscape Plants Sprinkle Irrigated with Reuse Water. Hort Science, 40(6):1871-1878.

Devitt, D.A., R.L. Morris, L.F. Fenstermaker, 2005:

Foliar Damage, Spectral Reflectance and Tissue Ion Concentrations of Trees Sprinkle Irrigated with Waters of Similar Salinity but Different Chemical Composition. Hort Science, 40(3):819-826.

Doran P.T., J.C. Priscu, W.B. Lyons, J.E. Walsh, A.G. Fountain, D.M. McKnight, D.L. Moorhead,

R.A. Virginia, D.H. Wall, G.D. Clow, C.H. Fritsen, C.P. McKay, A.N. Parsons, 2005. Comment on "El Nino suppresses Antarctic warming". Geophysical Research Letters 32 (7).

Doran, P.T., C.H. Fritsen, E.A. Adams, C.P. McKay, J.C. Priscu, R. Virginia, and D. Wall, 2003:

Formation and Character of an Ancient 19m Ice Cover. Proceedings of National Academy of Science 100:26-31.

Doran, P.T., J.C. Priscu, W.B. Lyons, J.E. Walsh, A.G. Fountain, D. McKnight, D. Moorhead,

R.A. Virginia, D.H. Wall, G.D. Clow, C.H. Fritsen, C.P. McKay, and A.N. Parsons, 2002: Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response. Nature 415:517-520.

Engel, V.C., K.L. Griffin, R. Murthy, L. Patterson, C. Klimas, and M. Potosnak, 2004:

Growth CO₂ concentration modifies the transpiration response of Populus deltoides to drought and vapor pressure deficit. Tree Physiology 24(10):1137-1145 2004.

Enzel, Y, S.G. Wells, and N. Lancaster, 2003:

Late Pleistocene lakes along the Mojave River, in Enzel, Y, Wells, S.G., and Lancaster, N (eds.), Paleoenvironments and Paleohydrology of the Mojave and Southern Great Basin Deserts, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 368, 61-78.

Enzel, Y, S.G.Wells, and N. Lancaster (eds.), 2003:

Paleoenvironments and Paleohydrology of the Mojave and Southern Great Basin Deserts. Geological Society of America Special Paper. Vol. (368): p. 249.

Fairbanks, D., and K. McGwire, 2004:

Patterns of Floristic Richness and Diversity in Vegetation Communities of California: Regional Scale Analysis with Multi-temporal NDVI. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13:221-235.

Fenstermaker, L. K., T.N. Charlet, T.E. Huxman, J.S. Coleman, R.S. Nowak,

and S.D. Smith, 2002: Global Climate Change Research in the Nevada Desert. Pages 97-106 in D.A.Charlet (editor). Nevada Environmental Issues, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA.

Friedmann, E.I. and H. Sun, 2005:

Communities Adjust their Temperature Optima by Shifting Producer-to-Consumer Ratio, Shown in Lichens as Models: I. Hypothesis. Microbial Ecology 49:523 - 527.

Fritsen, C.H., S.L. Coale, D.R. Neenan, A.H. Gibson, and D.L. Garrison, 2001:

Biomass production and microhabitat characteristics near the Freeboard of ice floes in the Ross Sea during the austral summer. Annals of Glaciol. 33:280-286.

Fritsen, C.H., S. Coale, D.R. Neenan, A. Gibson, and D.L. Garrison, in preparation:

Mesoscale distribution of sea ice microbial communities in the summer sea ice of the eastern Ross Sea. J. Geophs. Resources.

Gaidos, E., and G.M. Marion, 2003:

Geological and Geochemical Legacy of a Cold Early Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(E6)5055, doi. 10.1029/2002JE002000.

Garrison, D.L., A.H. Gibson, S.L. Coale, M.M. Gowing, Y.B. Okolodkov, C.H. Fritsen, and M.O. Jeffries. 2005:

Sea Microbial Communities in the Ross Sea: Autumn and Summer Biota. Mar. Ecol Prog. Ser. 300:39-52.

Garrison, D. L., M. O. Jeffries, A. H. Gibson, S. L. Coale, D. R. Neenan, C. H. Fritsen, Y. B. Okolodkov,

and M. M. Gowing, 2003. Development of sea ice microbial communities during autumn ice formation. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 259: 1-15.

Gee, G.W., A.L. Ward, T.G. Caldwell and J.C. Ritter, 2002:

Vadose-zone water-flux meter with divergence control. Water Resour. Res. Accepted for publication.

Gihring, T.M., D.P. Moser, L.H. Lin, M. Davidson, T.C. Onstott, L. Morgan, M.Milleson, T.L. Kieft, E. Trimarco,

D.L. Balkwill, and M.E. Dollhopf. 2006: The distribution of microbial taxa in the subsurface water of the Kalahari Shield, South Africa. Geomicrobiol. J. 23:415-430.

Goverde, M., Arnone, J.A., Ehardt, A., 2003:

Species-specific reactions to elevated CO₂ and nutrient availability in four grass species. Basic and Applied Ecology, in press.

Gowing, M.M., D.L. Garrison, A.H. Gibson, J.M. Krupp, M.O. Jeffries, and C.H. Fritsen, 2004:

Abundance of Bacteria and Viruses in Ross Sea Summer Pack Ice. Mar. Ecol Prog. Ser. 279:3-12.

Green, M.B., and C. H. Fritsen. 2006:

Spatial variation of nutrient balance in the Truckee River, California-Nevada. J. American Water Resources Association 42(3): 659-674.

Green, M.B., and C.H. Fritsen, 2003:

Nutrient balance for periphyton growth along a montane to desert gradient: The Truckee River, Nevada. J. American Water Resources, submitted.

Grzymski, J.J., , B. Carter, E.F. DeLong, R. Feldman, A. Ghadiri, A.E. Murray, 2006:

Comparative genomics of DNA fragments from six Antarctic marine, planktonic bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72 (2):1532-1541.

Hartwell, W.T., C.R. Barrett, and S.R. Edwards, 2005:

"Retracing the Past: the Austin and Reese River Transportation Company Toll Road", Nevada Archaeologist 2002-2003, Volumes 20 and 21:23-34.

Hartwell, W.T., 2004:

President’s Column. Plains Anthropologist 49(189):4-6.

Hartwell, W.T., and K. Varley, 2004:

A Fluted Projectile Point Base from Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20:30-31.

Hartwell, W.T., 2003:

President’s Column. Plains Anthropologist 49(190):103.

Havholm, K.G., Ames, D.V., Whittecar, G.R., Wenell, B.A., Riggs, S.R. Jol, H.M., Berger, G.W.,

and Holmes, M.A., 2003: Stratigraphy of back-barrier coastal dunes, northern North Carolina and southern Virginia. J. Coastal Research (in press).

Housman D.C., S.F. Zitzer, T.E. Huxman and S.D. Smith, 2003:

Functional ecology of shrub seedlings after a natural recruitment event at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. Global Change Biology 9, 718-728.

Hunter, L.M., M. De J. Gonzalez, M. Stevenson, K.S. Karish, R. Toth, T.C Edwards Jr., R.J. Lilieholm,

and M. Cablk, 2003: Population and land use change in the California Mojave: Natural habitat implications of alternative futures. Population Research and Policy Review 22:373-397.

Johnson, D.W., P.S.J. Verburg, and J.A. Arnone, 2005:

Soil extraction, ion exchange resin, and ion exchange membrane measures of soil mineral N during incubation of a Tallgrass Prairie soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 69:260-265.

Johnson, D.W., R.B. Susfalk, T.G. Caldwell, J.D. Murphey, W.W. Miller, and R.F. Walker, 2004:

Fire effects on carbon and nitrogen budgets in forests. Water Air Soil Pollut. 4:263-275.

Johnson, D.W., R.B. Susfalk, R.A. Dahlgren, T.G. Caldwell, and W.W. Miller, 2001:

Nutrient fluxes in a snow-dominated, semi-arid forest: spatial and temporal patterns. Biogeochemistry 55(3):219-246.

Johnson D.W., P.S.J. Verburg, J.A. Arnone III, 2005:

Soil extraction, ion exchange resin, and ion exchange membrane measures of soil mineral nitrogen during incubation of a tallgrass prairie soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:260-265.

Karl, T., M. Potosnak, A. Guenther, D. Clark, J. Walker, J.D. Herrick, and C. Geron, 2004:

Exchange processes of volatile organic compounds above a tropical rain forest: Implications for modeling tropospheric chemistry above dense vegetation. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 109 (D18): Art. No. D18306.

Kepner, W.G., D.J. Semmens, S.D. Bassett, D.A. Mouat, and D.C. Goodrich, 2004:

Scenario Analysis for the San Pedro River: Analyzing Hydrological Consequences of a Future Environment. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 94:115-128.

Kieft, T.L. and D.P. Moser. 2006:

Preface for Special Issue (Deep Biosphere). Geomicrobiol. J. 23:343.

Kish, S.M., J. Bartlett, J.J. Warwick, A. McKay, and C.H. Fritsen, 2006:

A long-term dynamic modeling approach to quantifying attached algal growth and associated impacts on dissolved oxygen in the lower Truckee River, Nevada, Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 132, No. 10, pp. 1366-1375.

Kratt, C., M. Coolbaugh, and W. Calvin, 2006:

Remote detection of Quaternary borate deposits with ASTER satellite imagery as a geothermal exploration tool. Transactions – Geothermal Resources Council, v. 30.

Kratt, C., W. Calvin, and M. Coolbaugh, 2006:

Geothermal exploration with Hymap hyperspectral data at Brady-Desert Peak, Nevada. Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 104, p. 313-324.

Lancaster, N., 2006:

Perspectives, Planetary Science, Linear Dunes on Titan, Science, 702-703.

Lancaster, N., 2006:

XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, Nevada, USA, July 23–30, 2003, Official Compte Rendu, Quaternary International, 145–146, 145–154.

Lancaster, N., Gillies, J.A., Nickling, W.G., 2006:

Recent progress in aeolian research, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 87, 45, 496-497.

Lancaster, N., 2004:

Relations between aerodynamic and surface roughness in a hyper arid cold desert: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29:853-867.

Lancaster, N., 2004:

XVI INQUA Congress: Conference Report. Episodes 27:53-54.

Lancaster, N., 2003:

Dunes, Eolian. In: Middleton G.V. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, pp. 243-246. Kluwer.

Lancaster, N. and Tchakerian, V.P., 2003:

Late Quaternary aeolian dynamics in the Mojave Desert, in Enzel, Y, Wells, S.G., and Lancaster, N (eds.), Paleoenvironments and Paleohydrology of the Mojave and Southern Great Basin Deserts, Geological Society of America Special Paper 368, 231-249.

Lancaster, N. 2002:

Flux of aeolian sediment in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: a preliminary assessment. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 34(3):318-323.

Lancaster, N., G. Kocurek, A.K. Singhvi, V. Pandey, M. Deynoux, J-P. Ghienne, K. Lo, 2002.

Late Pleistocene and Holocene dune activity and wind regimes in the western Sahara of Mauritania. Geology 30(11):991-994.

Lancaster, N., W.G. Nickling, and C.K. McKenna Neuman, 2002:

Particle size and sorting characteristics of sand in transport over a small dune. Geomorphology 43:233-242.

Lancaster, N., 2002:

How dry was dry? Late Quaternary environments in the Namib Desert. Quaternary Science Reviews 21:769-782.

Lin, L.H., P.L. Wang, D. Rumble, J. Lippmann-Pipke, E. Boice, L.M. Pratt, B.S. Lollar, E.L. Brodie, T.C. Hazen,

G.L. Andersen, T.Z. DeSantis, D.P. Moser, D. Kershaw, and T.C. Onstott. 2006: Long-term sustainability of a high-energy, low-diversity crustal biome. Science 314:479-482.

Lin, L.-H., J.A. Hall, J. Lippmann, J.A. Ward, B. Sherwood Lollar, M. DeFlaun, R. Rothmel, D. Moser,

T.M. Gihring, B. Mislowack, and T.C. Onstott, 2005. Radiolytic H2 in the continental crust: nuclear power for deep subsurface microbial communities. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 6:Q07003. [Online.] doi:10.1029/2004GC000907.

Lollar, B.S., G. Lacrampe-Couloume, G.F. Slater, J. Ward, D.P. Moser, T.M. Gihring, L.H. Lin, and T.C. Onstott. 2006:

Unravelling abiogenic and biogenic sources of methane in the Earth's deep subsurface. Chem. Geol. 226:328-339.

Loope, D.B., M.B. Steiner, C.M. Rowe, and N. Lancaster, 2004:

Tropical westerlies over Pangean sand seas. Sedimentology 51:315-322.

Madsen, D., Haizhou Ma, Jeffrey Brantingham, Xing Gao, David Rhode, Haiying Zhang, and John Olsen 2006:

The Late Upper Paleolithic Occupation of the Northern Tibetan Plateau Margin. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1433-1444.

Martin, D., R.M. Ross, L. B. Quetin, and A.E. Murray, 2006:

Molecular approach (PCR-DGGE) to diet analysis in young Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 319:155-165.

Marion, G.M., W. Davis, H. Eicken, C.H. Fritsen, R. Navarro-Gonzalez, and M.C. Payne. In Prep:

Earth Environmental Analogs for Life on Europa. Astrobiology.

Marion, G.M., D.C. Catling, and J.S. Kargel, 2003:

Modeling Aqueous Ferrous Iron Chemistry at low temperatures with application to Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol: 67: 4251-4266.

Marion,G.M., 2002:

Data and Models in Action: Methodological Issues in Production Ecology. Journal of Environmental Quality 31(3):

Marion,G.M., 2002:

A molal-based model for strong acid chemistry at low temperatures. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(14):2499-2516.

Massana, R., A.E. Murray, C.M. Preston, and E.F. DeLong,1997:

Vertical distribution and phylogenetic characterization of marine planktonic Archaea in the Santa Barbara Channel. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63(1):50-56.

McAuliffe, J.R., and McDonald E., 2006:

Persistent plant scars on desert pavements: long-term records of environmental change in the Sonoran Desert, Quaternary Research, Vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 204-215.

McCalpin, J.P., S.S. Olig, J.B.J. Harrison, and G.W. Berger, 2006:

Quaternary faulting and soil formation on the County Dump Fault, Albuquerque, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Circular 212, 36 p.

McCalpin, J.P., Olig, S.S., Harrison, J.B.J., and Berger, G.W., 2003:

Paleoseismicity and soil formation in the past 500 ka on the County Dump Fault, Albuquerque, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines Circular (in press).

McDonald, E.V, L.D. McFadden, and S.G. Wells, 2003:

Regional response of alluvial fans to the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, Mojave Desert, California, Geological Society of America Special Paper 368, p.189-205.

McGwire KC, Segura EL, Scavuzzo M, Gómez A, Lamfri M, 2006:

Spatial Pattern of Reinfestation by Triatoma infestans in Chancaní, Argentina, Journal of Vector Ecology 31(1).

Meadows, D.G., M.H. Young, E.V. McDonald. 2006:

Estimating clay content and saturated hydraulic conductivity on clay-rich surfaces using GPR. Vadose Zone J. 5:720-730.

Meadows, D.G., M.H. Young, E.V. McDonald, 2005:

A laboratory method for determining the unsaturated hydraulic properties of soil peds. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69:807-815.

Miller, D.L., S. Archer, and S.F. Zitzer, M.T. Longnecker, 2001:

Annual rainfall, topoedaphic heterogeneity and growth of an arid land tree(Prosopis glandulosa). J. Arid Environments 48:23-33.

Miller, W.W., D.W. Johnson, C. Denton, P.S.J. Verburg, G.L. Dana, and R.F Walker, 2005:

Inconspicuous nutrient laden surface runoff from mature forest Sierran watersheds. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 163:3-17.

Minor, T., and M.E. Cablk, 2004:

Estimation of Impervious Cover in the Lake Tahoe Basin Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Data Integration. Journal of Nevada Water Resources Association 1(1):58-75.

Minshall, G.W., J.T. Brock, D.A. Andrews, and C.T. Robinson, 2001:

Water quality, substratum and biotic responses of fire in central Idaho (USA) streams during the first year following the Mortar Creek fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10:185-199.

Mosier, A.C., A.E. Murray and C.H. Fritsen, 2007:

Microbiota within the perennial ice cover of Lake Vida, Antarctica, FEMS Microbial Ecology. 59: 274-288.

Moser, D.P., T.M. Gihring, F.J. Brockman, J.K. Fredrickson, D.L. Balkwill, M.E. Dollhopf, B. Sherwood Lollar,

L.M. Pratt, E. Boice, G. Southam, G. Wanger, B.J. Baker, S.M. Pfiffner, L.-H. Lin, and T.C. Onstott, 2005: Desulfotomaculum spp. and Methanobacterium spp. Dominate 4-5 km Deep Fault. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 12:8773-8783.

Mouat, D., J. Lancaster, S. D. Bassett:

“You can’t do that here”: developing alternative futures for military lands in the Southwest. GSA Special Publications.

Mouat, D. and J. Lancaster, 2003:

Rangeland desertification: Evaluating land-use options with alternative futures analysis. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 20(2).

Mouat, D. and S. Bassett, 2003:

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