Publications and creative works by faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, College of Science and Mathematics, are collected here.

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Submissions from 2008

Bromate Ion Formation in Dark Chlorination and Ultraviolet/Chlorination Processes for Bromide-Containing Water, Xin HUANG, Naiyun Gao, and Yang Deng (2008)

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Organic Chemostratigraphic Markers Characteristic of the (Informally Designated) Anthropocene Epoch, Michael A. Kruge (2008)

Modeling Urban Growth using GIS and Remote Sensing, Jun Luo, Danlin Yu, and Miao Xin (2008)

Oligocene-Miocene Antarctic Continental Weathering Record and Paleoclimatic Implications, Cape Roberts Drilling Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Sandra Passchier and L. A. Krissek (2008)

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Recent Advances in Understanding Antarctic Climate Evolution, Martin J. Siegert, Peter Barrett, Robert Deconto, Robert Dunbar, Colm Ó Cofaigh, Sandra Passchier, and Tim Naish (2008)

Chapter 9 The Oligocene-Miocene Boundary - Antarctic Climate Response to Orbital Forcing, G. S. Wilson, S. F. Pekar, T. R. Naish, S. Passchier, and R. DeConto (2008)

Groundwater Quality Evaluation for Productive Uses - the Afram Plains Area, Ghana, Sandow Mark Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo (2008)

Hydrochemical Evaluation of the Voltaian System-the Afram Plains Area, Ghana, Sandow Mark Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo (2008)

Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Characterization of the Voltaian Basin: The Afram Plains Area, Ghana, Sandow Mark Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo (2008)

A Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Surface Water Chemistry Data-the Ankobra Basin, Ghana, Sandow M. Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo (2008)

Groundwater Availability in the Shallow Aquifers of the Southern Voltaian System: a Simulation and Chemical Analysis, Sandow Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo (2008)

Spatial Data Analysis of Regional Development in Greater Beijing, China, in a GIS Environment, Danlin Yu and Yehua Dennis Wei (2008)

Lead (Pb) Isotopes as a Tracer of Pb Origin in Yangtze River Intertidal Zone, Weiguo Zhang, Huan Feng, Jinna Chang, Jianguo Qu, and Lizhong Yu (2008)

Distinguishing Sediments from the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, China: a Mineral Magnetic Approach, Weiguo Zhang, Yu Xing, Lizhon Yu, Huan Feng, and Min Lu (2008)

Submissions from 2007

Advances in Mapping Woody Plant Canopies Using the NASA MISR Instrument on Terra, Mark Chopping, Lihong Su, Naushad Kollikkathara, and Libertad Urena (2007)

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Physical and Oxidative Removal of Organics During Fenton Treatment of Mature Municipal Landfill Leachate, Yang Deng (2007)

Electrochemical Oxidation for Landfill Leachate Treatment, Yang Deng and James D. Englehardt (2007)

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Oxidation of Aqueous EDTA and Associated Organics and Coprecipitation of Inorganics by Ambient Iron-Mediated Aeration, James D. Englehardt, Daniel E. Meeroff, Luis Echegoyen, Yang Deng, Francisco M. Raymo, and Shibata Tomoyuki (2007)

Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Scaling of Discharge with Drainage Area for Multiple Watersheds, Josh Galster (2007)

Characterization of Methane Hydrate Host Sediments Using Synchrotron-Computed Microtomography (CMT), Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, Stanmire Tomov, William J. Winters, Maša Prodanović, and Devinder Mahajan (2007)

Microstructure of Natural Hydrate Host Sediments, Keith W. Jones, P. B. Kerkar, D. Mahajan, W. Brent Lindquist, and Huan Feng (2007)

The Somuncura Large Igneous Province in Patagonia: Interaction of a Transient Mantle Thermal Anomaly With a Subducting Slab, S. Mahlburg Kay, A. A. Ardolino, Matthew Gorring, and V. A. Ramos (2007)

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Organic Geochemical Investigation of a Highly Contaminated Urban Waterway: The Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Michael A. Kruge, Kevin K. Olsen, and Eric A. Stern (2007)

Management of Groundwater Resources in Punjab, Pakistan, using a Groundwater Flow Model, Ghulam Mujtaba, Zulfiqar Ahmed, and Duke Ophori (2007)

A Simulation of Large-Scale Groundwater Flow in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Duke Ophori (2007)

Chapter 27 The Use of Heavy Minerals in the Reconstruction of Ice-Sheet Drainage Patterns: An Example from the Edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Sandra Passchier (2007)

Expansion of Urban Area in the Yellow River Zone, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, from DMSP OLS Nighttime Lights Data, Xiaoming Qi and Mark Chopping (2007)

Support Vector Machines for Recognition of Semi-Arid Vegetation Types using MISR Multi-Angle Imagery, Lihong Su, Mark Chopping, Albert Rango, John V. Martonchik, and Debra P.C. Peters (2007)

Differentiation of Semi-Arid Vegetation Types Based on Multi-Angular Observations from MISR and MODIS, Lihong Su, Mark Chopping, A. Rango, John V. Martonchik, and Debra P.C. Peters (2007)

Assessment of Metal Contamination in Surface Sediments of Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao, China, Xu Chen Wang, Huan Feng, and Hai Qing Ma (2007)

Irrigation Water Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture - the Ankobra Basin, Ghana, Sandow Mark Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bruce Banoeng-Yakubo (2007)

Hydrochemical Analysis of Groundwater from the Keta Basin, Ghana, Sandow Mark Yidana, Duke Ophori, and Bright Obeng (2007)

Modeling Owner-Occupied Single-Family House Values in the City of Milwaukee: a Geographically Weighted Regression Approach, Danlin Yu (2007)

Modeling Spatial Dimensions of Housing Prices in Milwaukee, WI, Danlin Yu, Yehua Dennis Wei, and Changshan Wu (2007)

Heavy Metal Contamination in Western Xiamen Bay Sediments and its Vicinity, China, Luoping Zhang, Xin Ye, Huan Feng, Youhai Jing, Tong Ouyang, Xingtian Yu, Rongyuan Liang, Chengtie Gao, and Weiqi Chen (2007)

Magnetic Approach to Normalizing Heavy Metal Concentrations for Particle Size Effects in Intertidal Sediments in the Yangtze Estuary, China, Weiguo Zhang, Lizhong Yu, Min Lu, Simon M. Hutchinson, and Huan Feng (2007)

Submissions from 2006

The Distribution of Macrozoobenthos in the Southern North Sea in Relation to Meso-Scale Bedforms, Martin J. Baptist, Jan van Dalfsen, Anke Weber, Sandra Passchier, and Sytze van Heteren (2006)

Progress in Retrieving Canopy Structure Parameters from NASA Multi-Angle Remote Sensing, Mark Chopping (2006)

Mapping Woody Plant Cover in Desert Grasslands using Canopy Reflectance Modeling and MISR Data, Mark Chopping, Lihong Su, Andrea Laliberte, Albert Rango, Debra P.C. Peters, and John V. Martonchik (2006)

Natural Radionuclides as Tracers of Coastal Biogeochemical Processes, J. Kirk Cochran, Huan Feng, D. Amiel, and A. Beck (2006)

Removal of Aqueous Organic Pollutants with Hydrogen Peroxide-Enhanced Iron Mediated Aeration, Yang Deng and James D. Englehardt (2006)

Treatment of Landfill Leachate by the Fenton Process, Yang Deng and James D. Englehardt (2006)

Effects of Urbanization on Watershed Hydrology: The Scaling of Discharge with Drainage Area, Josh Galster, Frank J. Pazzaglia, Bruce R. Hargreaves, Donald P. Morris, Stephen C. Peters, and Richard N. Weisman (2006)

Rodinian Collisional and Escape Tectonics in the Hudson Highlands, New York, Alexander E. Gates, David W. Valentino, Matthew Gorring, Eric R. Thern, and Jeffrey Chiarenzelli (2006)

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Properties of New York/New Jersey Harbor Sediments, K. W. Jones, Huan Feng, E. A. Stren, U. Neuhäusler, J. Osán, N. Marinkovic, and Z. Song (2006)

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Significance of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Petroleum Biomarker Compounds in Contaminated Passaic River Sediments, Michael A. Kruge (2006)

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Marine sediment record from the East Antarctic margin reveals dynamics of ice sheet recession, Amy Leventer, Eugene Domack, Jennifer Pike, Catherine Stickley, Eleanor Maddison, Stefanie A. Brachfeld, Patricia Manley, and Charlie McClennen (2006)

High Variability of the Metal Content of Tree Growth Rings as Measured by Synchrotron Micro X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Ronald R. Martin, Steven J. Naftel, Sheila M. Macfie, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, and Chantelle Trembley (2006)

Anomalous Geochemical Provenance and Weathering History of Plio-Pleistocene Glaciomarine Fjord Strata, Bardin Bluffs Formation, East Antarctica, Sandra Passchier and Jason M. Whitehead (2006)

State Policy and the Globalization of Beijing: Emerging Themes, Yehua Dennis Wei and Danlin Yu (2006)

Spatially Varying Development Mechanisms in the Greater Beijing Area: a Geographically Weighted Regression Investigation, Danlin Yu (2006)

Incorporating Remote Sensing Information in Modeling House Values: a Regression Tree Approach, Danlin Yu and Changshan Wu (2006)

Submissions from 2005

Internal Structure of Type I Deep-Sea Spherules by X-Ray Computed Microtomography, Huan Feng, Keith W. Jones, S. Tomov, B. Stewart, G. F. Herzog, Christoph Schnabel, and Donald E. Brownlee (2005)

Synchrotron X-Ray Microprobe and Computed Microtomography for Characterization of Nanocatalysts, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, A. Lanzirotti, and D. Mahajan (2005)

Mapping Metal Catalysts using Synchrotron Computed Microtomography (CMT) and Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence (Μxrf), Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, A. Lanzirotti, and Manoj D. Mahajan (2005)

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Morphology of Methane Hydrate Host Sediments, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, Stanmire Tomov, William J. Winters, Michael Eaton, and Devinder Mahajan (2005)

Carbon Isotope of Bulk Organic Matter: a Proxy for Precipitation in the Arid and Semiarid Central East Asia, Xinqing Lee, Zhaodong Feng, Lanlan Guo, Lixia Wang, Liya Jin, Yongsong Huang, Mark Chopping, Daikuan Huang, Wei Jiang, Qian Jiang, and Hongguang Cheng (2005)

A Preliminary Analysis of Regional Groundwater Movement in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Duke Ophori (2005)

An Analysis of Groundwater Flow At a Proposed Wetland Mitigation Site, Central New Jersey, Duke Ophori and Robert M. Riberdy (2005)

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Observations of Sand Waves, Megaripples, and Hummocks in the Dutch Coastal Area and their Relation to Currents and Combined Flow Conditions, Sandra Passchier and Maarten Kleinhans (2005)

Special Issue Upper Cenozoic stratigraphy of the southern North Sea and Baltic basins, Sandra Passchier, Kenneth Rijsdijk, and Cees Laban (2005)

The Edison Magnetite Deposits in the Context of Pre-, Syn-, and Post-Orogenic Metallogenesis in the Grenville Highlands of New Jersey, J. H. Puffer and Matthew Gorring (2005)

Revised Upper Cenozoic Stratigraphy of the Dutch Sector of the North Sea Basin: Towards an Integrated Lithostratigraphic, Seismostratigraphic and Allostratigraphic Approach, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Sandra Passchier, H. J.T. Weerts, Cees Laban, R. J.W. van Leeuwen, and J. H.J. Ebbing (2005)

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Characterizing the Urban Heat Island in Current and Future Climates in New Jersey, Cynthia Rosenzweig, William D. Solecki, Lily Parshall, Mark Chopping, Greg Pope, and Richard Goldberg (2005)

Mitigation of the Heat Island Effect in Urban New Jersey, William D. Solecki, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Lily Parshall, Greg Pope, Maria Clark, Jennifer Cox, and Mary Wiencke (2005)

Submissions from 2004

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Rock-magnetic Analysis of Sediments from Andvord Bay, Stefanie A. Brachfeld (2004)

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Magnetic Granulometry of Igneous and Metasedimentary Rocks from Northern Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Stefanie A. Brachfeld, Anne Grunow, and Emily Youcha (2004)

Exploitation of Multi-Angle Data from CHRIS on PROBA: First Results from the Jornada Experimental Range, Mark Chopping, Andrea Laliberte, and Albert Rango (2004)

Multi-Angle Data from CHRIS/Prob: a for Determination of Canopy Structure in Desert Rangelands, Mark Chopping, Andrea Laliberte, and Albert Rango (2004)

Differences in Grass-Shrub Transition Zone Canopy Composition from CHRIS/Proba Multi-Angle Data, Mark Chopping, Cindy Snyder, Andrea Laliberte, Albert Rango, and Connie Maxwell (2004)

Modelling the Reflectance Anisotropy of Chihuahuan Desert Grass-Shrub Transition Canopy-Soil Complexes, Mark Chopping, Lihong Su, Albert Rango, and C. Maxwell (2004)

Characterization of Petroleum Deposits Formed in a Producing Well by Synchrotron Radiation-Based Microanalyses, E. Chouparova, A. Lanzirotti, Huan Feng, Keith W. Jones, Nebojsa Marinkovic, Curtis Whitson, and R. Paul Philp (2004)

A Preliminary Study of Heavy Metal Contamination in Yangtze River Intertidal Zone Due to Urbanization, Huan Feng, Xiaofei Han, Weiguo Zhang, and Lizhong Yu (2004)

Chronological Discord Between the Last Interglacial Paleosol (S1) and its Parent Material in the Chinese Loess Plateau, Z. D. Feng, H. B. Wang, C. Olson, Greg Pope, F. H. Chen, J. W. Zhang, and C. B. An (2004)

Geochemistry of the Late Mesoproterozoic Mount Eve Granite Suite: Implications for Late to Post-Ottawan Tectonics in the New Jersey-Hudson Highlands, Matthew Gorring, Todd C. Estelle, and Richard A. Volkert (2004)

Microanalysis of NY/NJ Harbor Sediments using Synchrotron X-Ray Beams, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, A. Lanzirotti, Nebojsa Marinkovic, U. Neuhäusler, C. Riekel, L. Vincze, B. Vekemans, I. Szaloki, and Zhiguang Song (2004)

Magmatic Sources, Setting and Causes of Eocene to Recent Patagonian Plateau Magmatism (36°S to 52°S Latitude), Suzanne M. Kay, Matthew Gorring, and Victor A. Ramos (2004)

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Application of Pyrolysis-GC/MS for Rapid Assessment of Organic Contamination in Sediments from Barcelona Harbor, Michael A. Kruge and Albert Permanyer (2004)

Prydz Channel Fan and the History of Extreme Ice Advances in Prydz Bay, P. E. O'Brien, A. K. Cooper, Fabio Florindo, D. A. Handwerger, Mark Lavelle, Sandra Passchier, J. J. Pospichal, P. G. Quilty, C. Richter, K. M. Theissen, and Jason M. Whitehead (2004)

A Simulation of Large-Scale Groundwater Flow and Travel Time in a Fractured Rock Environment for Waste Disposal Purposes, Duke Ophori (2004)

Variability in Geochemical Provenance and Weathering History of Sirius Group Strata, Transantarctic Mountains: Implications for Antarctic Glacial History, Sandra Passchier (2004)

A Field Evaluation of Enhanced Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Solvents in Groundwater, New York Metropolitan Area, Eric Rodriguez, Kevin A. McGuinness, and Duke Ophori (2004)

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Magnetic properties of a sediment core from Andvord Drift, Emily Youcha and Stefanie A. Brachfeld (2004)

Understanding Population Segregation from Landsat ETM+ Imagerya Geographically Weighted Regression Approach, Danlin Yu and Changshan Wu (2004)

Submissions from 2003

Canopy Attributes of Desert Grassland and Transition Communities Derived from Multiangular Airborne Imagery, Mark Chopping, Albert Rango, Kris M. Havstad, Frank R. Schiebe, Jerry C. Ritchie, Thomas J. Schmugge, Andrew N. French, Lihong Su, Lynn McKee, and M. Rene Davis (2003)

Desert Landscape Scene Simulation with Simple Geometric and Radiosity Models, Mark Chopping, Lihong Su, Albert Rango, and Connie Maxwell (2003)

Validation of Bidirectional Reflectance Models Using the First Scene Acquired By the CHRIS Sensor over the Jornada Experimental Range, Mark Chopping, Lihong Su, Thomas Schmugge, and Albert Rango (2003)

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Plio-Pleistocene Basalts from the Meseta Del Lago Buenos Aires, Argentina: Evidence for Asthenosphere-Lithosphere Interactions During Slab Window Magmatism, Matthew Gorring, Brad Singer, Jason Gowers, and Suzanne M. Kay (2003)

Study of the Microgeometry of Porous Materials using Synchrotron Computed Microtomography, Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, W. Brent Lindquist, P. M. Adler, J. F. Thovert, B. Vekemans, L. Vincze, I. Szaloki, Rene Van Grieken, F. Adams, and C. Riekel (2003)

Mapping Metal Catalysts using Synchrotron Computed Microtomography (CMT) and Micro X-Ray Fluorescence (Μxrf), Keith W. Jones, Huan Feng, and Manoj D. Mahajan (2003)

Micro-Synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence of the Metal Distribution in a Black Spruce Tree Stem: Evidence for Radial Mobility, R. R. Martin, S. J. Naftel, W. Skinner, Keith W. Jones, and Huan Feng (2003)

Characterization of Sulfur in New York/New Jersey Waterway Sediment, U. Neuhäusler, Huan Feng, and Keith W. Jones (2003)

Pliocene-Pleistocene Glaciomarine Sedimentation in Eastern Prydz Bay and Development of the Prydz Trough-Mouth Fan, ODP Sites 1166 and 1167, East Antarctica, Sandra Passchier, P. E. O'Brien, J. E. Damuth, N. Januszczak, D. A. Handwerger, and Jason M. Whitehead (2003)

Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Solvents in Groundwater: a Case Study, Eric Rodriguez, Kevin A. McGuinness, and Duke Ophori (2003)

Intercalibration of Vegetation Indices from Different Sensor Systems, Michael D. Steven, Timothy J. Malthus, Frédéric Baret, Hui Xu, and Mark Chopping (2003)

Implications of Quartz Grain Microtextures for Onset Eocene/Oligocene Glaciation in Prydz Bay, ODP Site 1166, Antarctica, Kari Strand, Sandra Passchier, and Jari Näsi (2003)

Analyzing Regional Inequality in Post-Mao China in a GIS Environment, Danlin Yu and Yehua Dennis Wei (2003)

Submissions from 2002

The Importance of Early Morning Local Overpass Times of BRDF Retrieval, Modeling of Spectral Reflectance and Fapar Estimation, Mark Chopping, Albert Rango, and Enrique Gomez-Landesa (2002)

Simulation of Grassland-Shrubland Transition Zone Landscape Images At 650 Nm using a Simple BRDF Model, Mark Chopping, Albert Rango, Sarah Goslee, Tom Schmugge, and Jerry C. Ritchie (2002)

Improved Semi-Arid Community Type Differentiation with the NOAA AVHRR Via Exploitation of the Directional Signal, Mark Chopping, Albert Rango, and Jerry C. Ritchie (2002)