The Department of Earth Sciences at UNH aims to improve our understanding of the Earth, and the processes that affect it, through excellence in teaching, research, and service. We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees encompassing a broad spectrum of disciplines including geology, hydrology, oceanography, ocean mapping, geochemistry, climate science, and geophysics.
Faculty may submit research here.
Submissions from 2002
An introduction to the ALERT 2000 and SUMMIT 2000 Arctic research studies, J Bottenheim, Jack E. Dibb, R E. Honrath, and P B. Shepson
Combining remote sensing and ground census data to develop new maps of the distribution of rice agriculture in China, Steve Frolking, Jianjun Qiu, Stephen Boles, Xiangming Xiao, Jiyuan Liu, Yahui Zhuang, Changsheng Li, and Xiaoguang Qin
Comparison of two ice-core chemical records recovered from the Qomolangma, Shugui Hou, Dahe Qin, Zhang Dongqi, Ren Jiawen, S Kang, Paul A. Mayewski, and Cameron P. Wake
Detecting and predicting spatial and interannual patterns of temperate forest springtime phenology in the eastern U.S., J P. Jenkins, Rob Braswell, Steve Frolking, and John Aber
Determination of subpixel fractions of nonforested area in the Amazon using multiresolution satellite sensor data, Stephen Hagen, Rob Braswell, Steve Frolking, William A. Salas, and Xiangming Xiao
Distinguishing the relative contribution of fossil fuel and biomass combustion aerosols deposited at Summit, Greenland through isotopic and molecular characterization of insoluble carbon, J F. Slater, L A. Currie, Jack E. Dibb, and B A. Benner Jr.
Enhancement of wind-driven upwelling and downwelling by alongshore bathymetric variability, James M. Pringle
Evaluating TERRA-1 MODIS data for discrimination of tropical secondary forest regeneration stages in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, Richard M. Lucas, Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Hagen, and Steve Frolking
Fast nitrogen oxide photochemistry in Summit, Greenland snow, Jack E. Dibb, Matthew Arsenault, Matthew C. Peterson, and R E. Honrath
Impacts of snowpack emissions on deduced levels of OH and peroxy radicals at Summit, Greenland, J Yang, R E. Honrath, Matthew C. Peterson, Jack E. Dibb, A L. Sumner, P B. Shepson, Markus M. Frey, H W. Jacobi, Aaron L. Swanson, and N J. Blake
Landscape-scale characterization of cropland in China using Vegetation and Landsat TM images, Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, William A. Salas, B Moore, Changsheng Li, L He, and R Zhao
Light extinction by fine atmospheric particles in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire and its relationship to air mass transport., J F. Slater, Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, and Barry D. Keim
Measurements of pernitric acid at the South Pole during ISCAT 2000, D Slusher, L Gregory Huey, D Tanner, G Chen, D D. Davis, Martin Buhr, J Nowak, Fred Eisele, E Kosciuch, R L. Mauldin, Barry Lefer, R E. Shetter, and Jack E. Dibb
Modeling seasonal to annual carbon balance of Mer Bleue Bog, Ontario, Canada, Steve Frolking, Nigel T. Roulet, Tim R. Moore, P M. Lafleur, Jill L. Bubier, and P Crill
Observation of flooding and rice transplanting of paddy rice fields at the site to landscape scales in China using VEGETATION sensor data, Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, William A. Salas, B Moore, L He, and R Zhao
Peatland Responses to varying interannual moisture conditions as measured by automatic CO2 Chambers, Jill L. Bubier, P Crill, Andrew Mosedale, Steve Frolking, and Ernst Linder
Photochemically induced production of CH3Br, CH3I, C2H5I, ethene, and propene within surface snow at Summit, Greenland, Aaron L. Swanson, Nicola J. Blake, Jack E. Dibb, D R. Blake, and F Sherwood Rowland
Plant biomass and production and CO2 exchange in an ombrotrophic bog, Tim R. Moore, Jill L. Bubier, Steve Frolking, P M. Lafleur, and Nigel T. Roulet
Preliminary results from the chemical records of an 80.4 m ice core recovered from East Rongbuk Glacier, Qomolangma (Everest), Himalaya, Dahe Qin, Shugui Hou, Zhang Dongqi, Ren Jiawen, S Kang, Paul A. Mayewski, and Cameron P. Wake
Quantitative relationships between field-measured leaf area index and vegetation index derived from VEGETATION images for paddy rice fields, Xiangming Xiao, L He, William A. Salas, Changsheng Li, B Moore, R Zhao, Steve Frolking, and Stephen Boles
Reduced methane emissions from large-scale changes in water management of China’s rice paddies during 1980-2000, Changsheng Li, Jianjun Qiu, Steve Frolking, Xiangming Xiao, William A. Salas, B Moore, Stephen Boles, Yao Huang, and Ronald Sass
Satellite-Based Observations of Inter-annual Variation of Vegetation Water Content and Productivity in Northern Asia During 1998-2001, Xiangming Xiao, Rob Braswell, Q Zhang, Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, and B Moore
Shouldn’t snowpacks be sources of monocarboxylic acids?, Jack E. Dibb and Matthew Arsenault
Simulating Pan-Arctic Runoff With a Macro-Scale Terrestrial Water Balance Model, Michael A. Rawlins, Richard B. Lammers, Steve Frolking, Balazs M. Fekete, and Charles Vorosmarty
Studies of Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and its interaction with the snowpack at Summit, Greenland, Kevin M. Ford, Bradley M. Campbell, P B. Shepson, Steven B. Bertman, R E. Honrath, Matthew C. Peterson, and Jack E. Dibb
The climate signal recorded in the oxygen-isotope, accumulation and major-ion time series from the Eclipse ice core, Yukon Territory, Canada, Cameron P. Wake, Kaplan Yalcin, and Niels S. Gundestrup
The effects of flowline length evolution on chemistry-d180 profiles from the Penny ice cap, Baffin Island, Canada, David Fisher, Roy M. Koerner, Gregory A. Zielinski, Cameron P. Wake, Christian Zdanowicz, Jocelyne Bourgeois, and Paul A. Mayewski
U.S. East Coast Trough Indices at 500 hPa and New England Winter Climate Variability, James A. Bradbury, Barry D. Keim, and Cameron P. Wake
Vertical fluxes of NOx, HONO, and HNO 3 above the snowpack at Summit, Greenland, R E. Honrath, Y Lu, Matthew C. Peterson, Jack E. Dibb, Matthew Arsenault, N J. Cullen, and K Steffen
Submissions from 2001
A diagnostic study of temperature controls on global terrestrial carbon exchange, Tomislava Vukicevic, Rob Braswell, and David S. Schimel
Anthropogenic signals recorded in an ice core from Eclipse Icefield, Yukon Territory, Canada, Kaplan Yalcin and Cameron P. Wake
Application of the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) for Determining the Daily Frozen and Nonfrozen Landscape of Alaska, John Kimball, Kyle McDonald, A R. Keyser, Steve Frolking, and S W. Running
A Preliminary Assessment of Tidal Flooding along the New Hampshire Coast: Past, Present and Future, Larry G. Ward and Jamie R. Adams
A Reason for Resin, Michael Gerasimoff and Cameron P. Wake
Boreal forest CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration predicted by nine ecosystem process models: Intermodel comparisons and relationships to field measurements, Jeffrey S. Amthor, J M. Chen, Joy S. Clein, Steve Frolking, M L. Goulden, Robert F. Grant, John Kimball, A W. King, A D. McGuire, Ned T. Nikolov, Christopher S. Potter, S Wang, and Steven C. Wofsy
Combining Remote Sensing and Ground Census Data to Develop New Maps of the Distribution of Rice Agriculture in China, Steve Frolking, Jianjun Qiu, Stephen Boles, Xiangming Xiao, J Liu, Changsheng Li, and Xiaoguang Qin
Comparing a process-based agro-ecosystem model to the IPCC methodology for developing a national inventory of N2O emissions from arable lands in China, Changsheng Li, Yahui Zhuang, Meiqio Cao, Zhaohua Dai, P Crill, Steve Frolking, B Moore, William A. Salas, Wenzhi Song, and Xiaoke Wang
Comparison of boreal ecosystem model sensitivity to variability in climate and forest site parameters, Christopher S. Potter, Shusen Wang, Ned T. Nikolov, A D. McGuire, Jane Liu, A W. King, John Kimball, Robert F. Grant, Steve Frolking, Joy S. Clein, Jing M. Chen, and Jeffrey S. Amthor
Cross-shelf eddy heat transport in a wind-free coastal ocean undergoing winter time cooling, James M. Pringle
Linking remote-sensing estimates of land cover and census statistics on land use to produce maps of land use of the conterminous United States, George C. Hurtt, Lynn Rosentrater, Steve Frolking, and B Moore
Modeling northern peatland decomposition and peat accumulation, Steve Frolking, Nigel T. Roulet, Tim R. Moore, Pierre J.H. Richard, Martin Lavoie, and Serge D. Muller
Modeling Short-Term and Long-Term Carbon Accumulation in Northern Peatlands, Steve Frolking, Nigel T. Roulet, Tim Moore, Pierre J.H. Richard, P M. Lafleur, Jill L. Bubier, and P Crill
N2O emissions from humid tropical agricultural soils: effects of soil moisture, texture, and nitrogen availability, A M. Weitz, Ernst Linder, Steve Frolking, P Crill, and Michael Keller
Net Ecosystem Exchange in a Tall Tower Footprint: Reconciling Observations, Modeling, and Remote Sensing, Rob Braswell, Galina Churkina, David S. Schimel, and K Davis
Oxygen isotopic and soluble ionic composition of a shallow firn core, Inilchek glacier, central Tien Shan, K Kreutz, V Aizen, L DeWayne Cecil, and Cameron P. Wake
Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems, David S. Schimel, J I. House, K A. Hibbard, P Bousquet, P Ciais, P Peylin, Rob Braswell, M J. Apps, D. N. Baker, A Bondeau, J Canadell, Galina Churkina, W Cramer, A S. Denning, C B. Field, P Friedlingstein, Christine L. Goodale, M Heimann, R A. Houghton, Jerry M. Melillo, B Moore, Daniel Murdiyarso, I Noble, S W. Pacala, I C. Prentice, M R. Raupach, P J. Raynor, R J. Scholes, W L. Steffen, and C Wirth
Relationships between synoptic-scale transport and interannual variability of inorganic cations in surface snow at Summit, Greenland: 1992-1996, J F. Slater, Jack E. Dibb, Barry D. Keim, and D W. Kahl
Sub-pixel Mapping of Croplands in China: Using Multi-temporal VEGETATION Sensor Data and Spectral Mixture Analysis, Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Boles, J Liu, Steve Frolking, William A. Salas, Changsheng Li, and B Moore
Variability of sea ice extent in Baffin Bay over the last millennium, Nancy S. Grumet, Cameron P. Wake, Paul A. Mayewski, Gregory A. Zielinski, Sallie I. Whitlow, Roy M. Koerner, David Fisher, and James M. Woollett
Submissions from 2000
A Bayesian Unmixing Algorithm for Retrieving Landcover Distributions Using Global Reflectance Data, Rob Braswell, Ernst Linder, Stephen Hagen, Xiangming Xiao, Steve Frolking, and B Moore
A Holocene Record of Atmospheric Dust Deposition on the Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada, Christian Zdanowicz, Gregory A. Zielinski, Cameron P. Wake, David Fisher, and Roy M. Koerner
Chemical NOx budget in the upper troposphere over the tropical South Pacific, Martin G. Schultz, Daniel J. Jacob, J D. Bradshaw, S T. Sandholm, Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, and Hanwant B. Singh
Composition and distribution of aerosols over the North Atlantic during the Subsonic Assessment Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment (SONEX), Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, and Eric Scheuer
Evidence for recent climate change from ice cores in the central Himalaya, Dahe Qin, Paul A. Mayewski, Cameron P. Wake, S Kang, Ren Jiawen, Hou Shugui, Yao Tandong, Qinzhao Yang, Jin Zhefan, and Mi Desheng
Large-Scale/Coarse-Resolution Characterization of Paddy Rice Agriculture in China Using VEGETATION Sensor Data, Xiangming Xiao, B Moore, L He, William A. Salas, Stephen Boles, Steve Frolking, Changsheng Li, and R Zhao
Large Scale Remote Observations of Disturbance in the Amazon Basin, Stephen Hagen, Rob Braswell, William A. Salas, Xiangming Xiao, and Steve Frolking
Linking Remote Sensing Estimates of Land-Cover to Census Statistics on Land-Use for the Coterminous United States, George C. Hurtt, Lynn Rosentrater, and Steve Frolking
Monsoon and dust signals recorded in Dasuopu glacier, Tibetan Plateau, S Kang, Cameron P. Wake, Dahe Qin, Paul A. Mayewski, and Yao Tandong
Palaeoecological Implications of Archaeological Seal Bone Assemblages: Case Studies from Labrador and Baffin Island, James M. Woollett, Anne S. Henshaw, and Cameron P. Wake
Photochemical production of gas phase NO x from ice crystal NO3 −, R E. Honrath, S Guo, Matthew C. Peterson, M P. Dziobak, Jack E. Dibb, and Matthew Arsenault
Precipitation fluctuations in the Nepal Himalaya and its vicinity and relationship with some large scale climatological parameters, Arun B. Shrestha, Cameron P. Wake, Jack E. Dibb, and Paul A. Mayewski
Release of NO(x) from sunlight-irradiated midlatitude snow, R E. Honrath, Matthew C. Peterson, M P. Dziobak, Jack E. Dibb, Matthew Arsenault, and S A. Green
Satellite observation of El Niño effects on Amazon Forest phenology and productivity, Gregory P. Asner, Alan R. Townsend, and Rob Braswell
Seasonal variations in aerosol concentrations and compositions in the Nepal Himalaya, Arun B. Shrestha, Cameron P. Wake, Jack E. Dibb, Paul A. Mayewski, Sallie I. Whitlow, Gregory R. Carmichael, and Martin Ferm
Soil water dynamics in humid tropical soils of low bulk density: correlation with N2O gas fluxes, A M. Weitz, Michael Keller, P Crill, and Steve Frolking
Tropospheric reactive odd nitrogen over the South Pacific in austral springtime, Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, Eric Scheuer, J D. Bradshaw, S T. Sandholm, D R. Blake, N J. Blake, Elliot Atlas, and F Flocke
Variation of Modern Turbidite Systems Along the Subduction Zone Margin of Cascadia Basin and Implications for Turbidite Reservoir Beds, C. Hans Nelson, Chris Goldfinger, Joel E. Johnson, and Gita Dunhill
Submissions from 1999
Abrupt decrease in recent snow accumulation at Mount Qomolangma (Everest), Himalaya, Shugui Hou, Dahe Qin, Cameron P. Wake, and Paul A. Mayewski
Accumulation rate measurements at Taylor Dome, East Antarctica: Techniques and strategies for mass balance measurements in polar environments, David L. Morse, Edwin D. Waddington, Hans-Peter Marshall, University of Washington - Seattle Campus, Eric J. Steig, Jack E. Dibb, Dale P. Winebrenner, and Robert J. Athern
Aerosol chemical composition and distribution during the Pacific Exploratory Mission (PEM) Tropics, Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, Eric Scheuer, D R. Blake, N J. Blake, G L. Gregory, G W. Sachse, and D C. Thornton
Agricultural land-use in China: a comparison of area estimates from ground-based census and satellite-borne remote sensing, Steve Frolking, Xiangming Xiao, Yahui Zhuang, William A. Salas, and Changsheng Li
Application of Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar to Monitoring Seasonal Ecological and Hydrologic Processes in Boreal Forest, Kyle McDonald, John Kimball, A R. Keyser, S W. Running, Steve Frolking, Reiner Zimmermann, and JoBea Way
BOREAS TE-19 Ecosystem Carbon Balance Model, Steve Frolking, John Aber, and Changsheng Li
Chemical characteristics of air from differing source regions during the Pacific Exploratory Mission-Tropics A (PEM-Tropics A), Ashley S. Board, H Fuelberg, G L. Gregory, B J. Heikes, Martin G. Schultz, D R. Blake, Jack E. Dibb, S T. Sandholm, and R. Talbot
Concentrations and snow-atmosphere fluxes of reactive nitrogen at Summit, Greenland, J W. Munger, D J. Jacob, S M. Fan, A S. Colman, and Jack E. Dibb
Constraints on the age and dilution of Pacific Exploratory Mission-Tropics biomass burning plumes from the natural radionuclide tracer 210Pb, Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, David Meeker, Eric Scheuer, N J. Blake, D R. Blake, G L. Gregory, and G W. Sachse
Contemporary and pre-industrial global reactive nitrogen budgets, Elisabeth A. Holland, Frank Dentener, Rob Braswell, and James Sulzman
Dating Quaternary lacustrine sediments in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Peter T. Doran, G W. Berger, W. Berry Lyons, Robert A. Wharton Jr, M L. Davisson, J Southon, and Jack E. Dibb
Evidence of NOx production within or upon ice particles in the Greenland snowpack, R E. Honrath, Matthew C. Peterson, S Guo, Jack E. Dibb, P B. Shepson, and Bradley M. Campbell
Influence of biomass combustion emissions on the distribution of acidic trace gases over the southern Pacific basin during austral springtime, R. Talbot, Jack E. Dibb, Eric Scheuer, D R. Blake, N J. Blake, G L. Gregory, G W. Sachse, J D. Bradshaw, S T. Sandholm, and H B. Singh
Learning to think globally, Steve Frolking and Lynn Rosentrater
Maximum Temperature Trends in the Himalaya and Its Vicinity: An Analysis Based on Temperature Records from Nepal for the Period 1971–94, Arun B. Shrestha, Cameron P. Wake, Paul A. Mayewski, and Jack E. Dibb
Net ecosystem productivity and its uncertainty in a diverse boreal peatland, Jill L. Bubier, Steve Frolking, P Crill, and Ernst Linder
Ozone and aerosol distributions and air mass characteristics over the South Pacific during the burning season, Marta Fenn, Edward V. Browell, Carolyn Butler, William B. Grant, Susan A. Kooi, Marian B. Clayton, G L. Gregory, Reginald E. Newell, Yong Zhu, Jack E. Dibb, H Fuelberg, Bruce E. Anderson, A R. Bandy, D R. Blake, J D. Bradshaw, B J. Heikes, G W. Sachse, S T. Sandholm, H B. Singh, R. Talbot, and D C. Thornton
Radar remote sensing proposed for monitoring freeze-thaw transitions in boreal regions, S W. Running, J B. Way, Kyle McDonald, John Kimball, Steve Frolking, A R. Keyser, and R Zimmerman
Reactive nitrogen budget during the NASA SONEX Mission, R. Talbot, Jack E. Dibb, Eric Scheuer, Y Kondo, M Koike, H B. Singh, L Salas, F Fukui, J O. Ballenthin, R F. Meads, T M. Miller, D E. Hunton, A A. Viggiano, D R. Blake, N J. Blake, Elliot Atlas, F Flocke, D J. Jacob, and L Jaegle
Two Answers are Better than One, Steve Frolking and Lynn Rosentrater
Using the space-borne NASA scatterometer (NSCAT) to determine the frozen and thawed seasons, Steve Frolking, Kyle McDonald, John Kimball, S W. Running, and R Zimmermann
Year-round research gets boost at summit of Greenland Ice Sheet, R Bales and Jack E. Dibb
Submissions from 1998
Air-snow exchange of HNO3 and NOy at Summit, Greenland, Jack E. Dibb, R. Talbot, J W. Munger, Daniel J. Jacob, and S M. Fan
Characteristics of modern atmospheric dust deposition in snow on the Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, Christian Zdanowicz, Gregory A. Zielinski, and Cameron P. Wake
Comparison of N2O emissions from soils at three temperate agricultural sites: simulations of year-round measurements by four models, Steve Frolking, A R. Mosier, Dennis S. Ojima, Changsheng Li, W J. Parton, Christopher S. Potter, E Priesack, R Stenger, C Haberbosch, P Dorsch, H Flessa, and K A. Smith
Ecological Research Needs from Multiangle Remote Sensing Data, Gregory P. Asner, Rob Braswell, David S. Schimel, and Carol A. Wessman
Influence of vertical transport on free tropospheric aerosols over the central USA in springtime, R. Talbot, Jack E. Dibb, and M Loomis
Nitric acid scavenging by mineral and biomass burning aerosols, A Tabazadeh, M Z. Jacobson, H B. Singh, O Brian Toon, J S. Lin, R B. Chatfield, A N. Thakur, R. Talbot, and Jack E. Dibb
Penny Ice Cap Cores, Baffin Island, Canada, and the Wisconsinan Foxe Dome Connection: Two States of Hudson Bay Ice Cover, David Fisher, Roy M. Koerner, Jocelyne Bourgeois, Gregory A. Zielinski, Cameron P. Wake, C U. Hammer, Henrick B. Clausen, Niels S. Gundestrup, S Johnsen, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, T Hondoh, E Blake, and Michael Gerasimoff
Preservation of glaciochemical time-series in snow and ice from the Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Nancy S. Grumet, Cameron P. Wake, Gregory A. Zielinski, David Fisher, Roy M. Koerner, and John D. Jacobs
Relationship between continuous aerosol measurements and firn core chemistry over a 10-year period at the South Pole, M H. Bergin, E A. Meyerson, Jack E. Dibb, and Paul A. Mayewski
Relationship between ecosystem productivity and photosynthetically-active radiation for northern peatlands, Steve Frolking, Jill L. Bubier, Tim R. Moore, T Ball, L M. Bellisario, A Bhardwaj, P Carroll, P Crill, P M. Lafleur, Harry McCaughey, Nigel T. Roulet, Andrew E. Suyker, J M. Whittington, and G J. Whiting
Soluble species in aerosol and snow and their relationship at Glacier 1, Tien Shan, China, Junying Sun, Dahe Qin, Paul A. Mayewski, Jack E. Dibb, Sallie I. Whitlow, Zhongqin Lee, and Qinzhao Yang