EES Faculty High Impact Journal Publications
Our department punches above its weight class鈥攚e currently have only 15 research professors including active emeriti.
Here we list over 50 articles by current members of our department published in NATURE, SCIENCE, PlosONE, and PNAS families of journals.
Sian Kou-Giesbrecht, Vivek K. Arora, Chris D. Jones, Victor Brovkin, Tomohiro Hajima, Michio Kawamiya, Spencer K. Liddicoat, Alexander J. Winkler & S枚nke Zaehle. Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models. Nature, Communications Earth & Environment 6, 216 (2025).聽
Norris, S.N.,听Gosse J.C,聽Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A., Morlighem, M., Bolton, M., Alley, R. 2024-in press, Drivers of Global Glacial Erosion. 聽Nature Geosciences.聽
Dong, X., Wang, X., Yang, L., Zhao, Z., Van Balen, R., Miao, X., Liu, T., Vandenberghe, J., Pan, B., Gibling, M. and Lu, H., 2024. Quantitative assessment of the erosion and deposition effects of landslide-dam outburst flood, Eastern Himalaya.聽Scientific Reports,听14(1), p.7038.
Gong, C., Tian, H., Liao, H., Pan, N., Pan, S., Ito, A., Jain, A.K.,听Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Joos, F., Sun, Q. and Shi, H., 2024. Global net climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen.聽Nature, pp.1-7.
Jian, H., Canales, J.P., Dunn, R. and聽Nedimovi膰, M.R., 2024. Hydrothermal flow and serpentinization in oceanic core complexes controlled by mafic intrusions.聽Nature Geoscience, pp.1-6.
Yang, Y.,听Maselli, V., Zhou, L., Gao, J., Gao, Y., Wang, Y.P., Jia, J. and Gao, S., 2024. Anomalously weak intensity of tropical cyclones striking eastern China over the past two millennia.聽npj Climate and Atmospheric Science,听7(1), p.127.
Carreras Pereira, K.A., Wolf, A.A.,听Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Akana, P.R., Funk, J.L. and Menge, D.N., 2023. Allometric relationships for eight species of 4鈥�5 year old nitrogen-fixing and non-fixing trees.聽Plos one,听18(8), p.e0289679.
Giuliani, A., Schmidt, M.W., Torsvik, T.H. and聽Fedortchouk, Y., 2023. Genesis and evolution of kimberlites.聽Nature Reviews Earth & Environment,听4(11), pp.738-753.
Marjanovi膰, M., Carbotte, S.M., Stopin, A., Singh, S.C., Plessix, R.脡., Marjanovi膰, M.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Canales, J.P., Carton, H.D., Mutter, J.C. and Escart铆n, J., 2023. Insights into dike nucleation and eruption dynamics from high-resolution seismic imaging of magmatic system at the East Pacific Rise.聽Science Advances,听9(39), p.eadi2698.
Ielpi, A., Lap么tre, M.G.,聽Gibling, M.R. and Boyce, C.K., 2022. The impact of vegetation on meandering rivers.聽Nature Reviews Earth & Environment,听3(3), pp.165-178.
Kj忙r, K.H., Winther Pedersen, M., De Sanctis, B., De Cahsan, B., Korneliussen, T.S., Michelsen, C.S., Sand, K.K., Jelavi膰, S., Ruter, A.H., Schmidt, A.M. Kjeldsen, K.K.,听Gosse, J.C.聽and others. 2022. A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA.聽Nature,听612(7939), pp.283-291.
脰zpolat, E., Y谋ld谋r谋m, C., G枚r眉m, T.,听Gosse, J.C., 艦ahiner, E., Sar谋kaya, M.A. and Owen, L.A., 2022. Three-dimensional control of alluvial fans by rock uplift in an extensional regime: Ayd谋n Range, Aegean extensional province.聽Scientific reports,听12(1), p.15306.
Kotkov谩, J.,听Fedortchouk, Y., Wirth, R. and Whitehouse, M.J., 2021. Metamorphic microdiamond formation is controlled by water activity, phase transitions and temperature.聽Scientific Reports,听11(1), p.7694.
Lackey, G., Rajaram, H., Bolander, J.,聽Sherwood, O.A., Ryan, J.N., Shih, C.Y., Bromhal, G.S. and Dilmore, R.M., 2021. Public data from three US states provide new insights into well integrity.聽Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,听118(14), p.e2013894118.
Normandeau, A., MacKillop, K., Macquarrie, M., Richards, C., Bourgault, D., Campbell, D.C.,聽Maselli, V., Philibert, G. and Clarke, J.H., 2021. Submarine landslides triggered by iceberg collision with the seafloor.聽Nature Geoscience,听14(8), pp.599-605.
Brenan, J.M.,聽2020. The magmatic forge.聽Nature Geoscience,听13(11), pp.716-717.
Lesher, C.E., Dannberg, J., Barfod, G.H., Bennett, N.R., Glessner, J.J., Lacks, D.J. and聽Brenan, J.M., 2020. Iron isotope fractionation at the core鈥搈antle boundary by thermodiffusion.聽Nature Geoscience,听13(5), pp.382-386.
Maselli, V., Iacopini, D., Ebinger, C.J., Tewari, S., de Haas, H., Wade, B.S., Pearson, P.N., Francis, M., van Vliet, A., Richards, B. and Kroon, D., 2020. Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting.聽Nature communications,听11(1), p.3456.
Milkov, A.V., Schwietzke, S., Allen, G.,听Sherwood, O.A.聽and Etiope, G., 2020. Using global isotopic data to constrain the role of shale gas production in recent increases in atmospheric methane.聽Scientific Reports,听10(1), p.4199.
Brenan, J.M., Mungall, J.E. and Bennett, N.R., 2019. Abundance of highly siderophile elements in lunar basalts controlled by iron sulfide melt.聽Nature Geoscience,听12(9), pp.701-706.
Kou-Giesbrecht, S.聽and Menge, D., 2019. Nitrogen-fixing trees could exacerbate climate change under elevated nitrogen deposition.聽Nature Communications,听10(1), p.1493.
B茅cel, A., Shillington, D.J., Delescluse, M.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Abers, G.A., Saffer, D.M., Webb, S.C., Keranen, K.M., Roche, P.H., Li, J. and Kuehn, H., 2017. Tsunamigenic structures in a creeping section of the Alaska subduction zone.聽Nature Geoscience,听10(8), pp.609-613.
Canales, J.P., Carbotte, S.M.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R. and Carton, H., 2017. Dry Juan de Fuca slab revealed by quantification of water entering Cascadia subduction zone.聽Nature Geoscience,听10(11), pp.864-870.
Minter, N.J., Buatois, L.A., M谩ngano, M.G., Davies, N.S.,听Gibling, M.R., MacNaughton, R.B. and Labandeira, C.C., 2017. Early bursts of diversification defined the faunal colonization of land.聽Nature Ecology & Evolution,听1(7), p.0175.
Madricardo, F., Foglini, F., Kruss, A., 鈥�Maselli, V.聽鈥β�2017. High resolution multibeam and hydrodynamic datasets of tidal channels and inlets of the Venice Lagoon.聽厂肠颈别苍迟颈蹿颈肠听顿补迟补聽4, 170121聽
Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., Osborn, G., Margold, M., Ward, B., Bond, J., Clarke, G.K., Clague, J.J., Lakeman, T., Koch, J., Caffee, M.W.,听Gosse, J., Striven, A.P., Heyman, J. 聽2017. Cordilleran Ice Sheet mass loss preceded climate reversals near the Pleistocene Termination.聽Science,听358(6364), pp.781-784.
Nedimovi膰, M.R., 2016. Delayed response to mantle pull.聽Nature Geoscience,听9(8), pp.571-572.
Schwietzke, S.,听Sherwood, O.A., Bruhwiler, L.M., Miller, J.B., Etiope, G., Dlugokencky, E.J., Michel, S.E., Arling, V.A., Vaughn, B.H., White, J.W. and Tans, P.P., 2016. Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database.聽Nature,听538(7623), pp.88-91.
Sherwood, O.A., Rogers, J.D., Lackey, G., Burke, T.L., Osborn, S.G. and Ryan, J.N., 2016. Groundwater methane in relation to oil and gas development and shallow coal seams in the Denver-Julesburg Basin of Colorado.聽Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,听113(30), pp.8391-8396.
Mungall, J.E.,听Brenan, J.M., Godel, B., Barnes, S.J. and Gaillard, F., 2015. Transport of metals and sulphur in magmas by flotation of sulphide melt on vapour bubbles.聽Nature Geoscience,听8(3), pp.216-219.
McMahon, K.W., McCarthy, M.D.,聽Sherwood, O.A., Larsen, T. and Guilderson, T.P., 2015. Millennial-scale plankton regime shifts in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.聽Science,听350(6267), pp.1530-1533.
Shillington, D.J., B茅cel, A.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Kuehn, H., Webb, S.C., Abers, G.A., Keranen, K.M., Li, J., Delescluse, M. and Mattei-Salicrup, G.A., 2015. Link between plate fabric, hydration and subduction zone seismicity in Alaska.聽Nature Geoscience,听8(12), pp.961-964.
Sherwood, O.A., Guilderson, T.P., Batista, F.C., Schiff, J.T. and McCarthy, M.D., 2014. Increasing subtropical North Pacific Ocean nitrogen fixation since the little ice age.聽Nature,听505(7481), pp.78-81.
Murphy, M.A., Taylor, M.H.,听Gosse, J., Silver, C.R.P., Whipp, D.M. and Beaumont, C., 2014. Limit of strain partitioning in the Himalaya marked by large earthquakes in western Nepal.聽Nature Geoscience,听7(1), pp.38-42.
Carbotte, S.M., Marjanovi膰, M., Carton, H., Mutter, J.C., Canales, J.P.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Han, S. and Perfit, M.R., 2013. Fine-scale segmentation of the crustal magma reservoir beneath the East Pacific Rise.聽Nature Geoscience,听6(10), pp.866-870.
Marjanovi膰, M., Carbotte, S.M., Carton, H.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Mutter, J.C. and Canales, J.P., 2014. A multi-sill magma plumbing system beneath the axis of the East Pacific Rise.聽Nature Geoscience,听7(11), pp.825-829.
Maselli, V.聽and Trincardi, F., 2013. Man made deltas.聽Scientific Reports,听3(1), p.1926.
Rybczynski, N.,听Gosse, J.C., Richard Harington, C., Wogelius, R.A., Hidy, A.J. and Buckley, M., 2013. Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution.聽Nature communications,听4(1), p.1550.
Sterling, S.M., Ducharne, A. and Polcher, J., 2013. The impact of global land-cover change on the terrestrial water cycle.聽Nature Climate Change,听3(4), pp.385-390.
Brenan, J., 2012. Ubiquitous late veneer.聽Nature Geoscience,听5(9), pp.591-592.
Canales, J.P., Carton, H., Carbotte, S.M., Mutter, J.C.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Xu, M., Aghaei, O., Marjanovi膰, M. and Newman, K., 2012. Network of off-axis melt bodies at the East Pacific Rise.聽Nature Geoscience,听5(4), pp.279-283.
Gibling, M.R.聽and Davies, N.S., 2012. Palaeozoic landscapes shaped by plant evolution.聽Nature Geoscience,听5(2), pp.99-105.
Sherwood, O.A.,聽Lehmann, M.F., Schubert, C.J., Scott, D.B. and McCarthy, M.D., 2011. Nutrient regime shift in the western North Atlantic indicated by compound-specific 未 15N of deep-sea gorgonian corals.聽Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,听108(3), pp.1011-1015.
Davies, N.S. and聽Gibling, M.R., 2011. Evolution of fixed-channel alluvial plains in response to Carboniferous vegetation.聽Nature Geoscience,听4(9), pp.629-633.
Brenan, J.M.聽and McDonough, W.F., 2009. Core formation and metal鈥搒ilicate fractionation of osmium and iridium from gold.聽Nature Geoscience,听2(11), pp.798-801.
Canales, J.P.,听Nedimovi膰, M.R., Kent, G.M., Carbotte, S.M. and Detrick, R.S., 2009. Seismic reflection images of a near-axis melt sill within the lower crust at the Juan de Fuca ridge.聽Nature,听460(7251), pp.89-93.
Nedimovi膰, M.R., Carbotte, S.M., Harding, A.J., Detrick, R.S., Canales, J.P., Diebold, J.B., Kent, G.M., Tischer, M. and Babcock, J.M., 2005. Frozen magma lenses below the oceanic crust.聽Nature,听436(7054), pp.1149-1152.
Nedimovi膰, M.R., Hyndman, R.D., Ramachandran, K. and Spence, G.D., 2003. Reflection signature of seismic and aseismic slip on the northern Cascadia subduction interface.聽Nature,听424(6947), pp.416-420.
Schulze, D.J., Harte, B., Valley, J.W.,听Brenan, J.M. and Channer, D.M.D.R., 2003. Extreme crustal oxygen isotope signatures preserved in coesite in diamond.聽Nature,听423(6935), pp.68-70.
Plug, L.J.聽and Werner, B.T., 2002. Nonlinear dynamics of ice-wedge networks and resulting sensitivity to severe cooling events.聽Nature,听417(6892), pp.929-933.
Beaumont, C.,听Jamieson, R.A., Nguyen, M.H. and Lee, B., 2001. Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation.聽Nature,听414(6865), pp.738-742.
Brenan, J.M., Shaw, H.F. and Ryerson, F.J., 1995. Experimental evidence for the origin of lead enrichment in convergent-margin magmas.聽Nature,听378(6552), pp.54-56.
Gosse, J.C., Klein, J., Lawn, B., Middleton, R. and Evenson, E.B., 1995. Beryllium-10 dating of the duration and retreat of the last Pinedale glacial sequence.聽Science,听268(5215), pp.1329-1333.
Vasconcelos, C., McKenzie, J.A., Bernasconi, S.,聽Grujic, D. and Tiens, A.J., 1995. Microbial mediation as a possible mechanism for natural dolomite formation at low temperatures.聽Nature,听377(6546), pp.220-222.