Research Roundup 2015

All over the Earth, inside and out, and off into the Solar System and beyond. Forwards in time, backwards in time, stretching nano-seconds, shrinking millennia: Here is a selection of peer-reviewed papers authored or co-authored by EAPS faculty and investigators in 2015.

Please email eapsweb@mit.edu missing citations/ errata.

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Alemohammad, S. H. and McColl, K. A. and Konings, A. G. and Entekhabi, D. and Stoffelen, A. (2015) Characterization of precipitation product errors across the United States using multiplicative triple collocation Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 3489-3503

Alemohammad, S. H. and McLaughlin, D. B. and Entekhabi, D. (2015) Quantifying Precipitation Uncertainty for Land Data Assimilation Applications Monthly Weather Review, vol. 143, no. 8, pp. 3276-3299

Albani, S. and Mahowald, N. M. and Winckler, G. and Anderson, R. F., et al. (2015) Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives Climate of the Past, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 869-903

Alberts, B. and Cicerone, R. J. and Fienberg, S. E. and Kamb, A., et al. (2015) Self-correction in science at work Science, vol. 348, no. 6242, pp. 1420-1422

Almuhaidib, A. M. and Toksoz, M. N. (2015) Finite difference elastic wave modeling with an irregular free surface using ADER scheme Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 435-447

Almuhaidib, A. M. and Toksoz, M. N. (2015) Imaging of near-surface heterogeneities by scattered elastic waves Geophysics, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. A83-A88

Ardon-Dryer, K. and Huang, Y. W. and Cziczo, D. J. (2015) Laboratory studies of collection efficiency of sub-micrometer aerosol particles by cloud droplets on a single-droplet basisAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 15, no. 16, pp. 9159-9171

Atkinson, D. B. and Radney, J. G. and Lum, J. and Kolesar, K. R. and Cziczo, D. J. and Pekour, M. S. and Zhang, Q. and Setyan, A. and Zelenyuk, A. and Cappa, C. D. (2015) Aerosol optical hygroscopicity measurements during the 2010 CARES campaign Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 4045-4061

Ault, A. K. and Flowers, R. M. and Bowring, S. A. (2015) Synchroneity of cratonic burial phases and gaps in the kimberlite record: Episodic magmatism or preservational bias? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 410, pp. 97-104

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Balaguru, K. and Foltz, G. R. and Leung, L. R. and D' Asaro, E. and Emanuel, K. A. and Liu, H. L. and Zedler, S. E. (2015) Dynamic Potential Intensity: An improved representation of the ocean's impact on tropical cyclones Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 6739-6746

Balikhin, M. A. and Shprits, Y. Y. and Walker, S. N. and Chen, L. J. and Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N. and Dandouras, I. and Santolik, O. and Carr, C. and Yearby, K. H. and Weiss, B. (2015)Observations of discrete harmonics emerging from equatorial noise Nature Communications, vol. 6

Barclay, R. S. and Rioux, M. and Meyer, L. B. and Bowring, S. A. and Johnson, K. R. and Miller, I. M. (2015) High precision U-Pb zircon geochronology for Cenomanian Dakota Formation floras in Utah Cretaceous Research, vol. 52, pp. 213-237

Beaupre, S. R. and Roberts, M. L. and Burton, J. R. and Summons, R. E. (2015) Rapid, high-resolution C-14 chronology of ooids Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 159, pp. 126-138

Behn, M. D. and Grove, T. L. (2015) Melting systematics in mid-ocean ridge basalts: Application of a plagioclase-spinel melting model to global variations in major element chemistry and crustal thickness Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 120, no. 7, pp. 4863-4886

Bellugi, D. and Milledge, D. G. and Dietrich, W. E. and McKean, J. A. and Perron, J. T. and Sudderth, E. B. and Kazian, B. (2015) A spectral clustering search algorithm for predicting shallow landslide size and location Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 300-324

Bender, M. and Schmidtmann, M. and Summons, R. E. and Rullkotter, J. and Christoffers, J. (2015) A Geomimetic Approach to the Formation and Identification of Fossil Sterane Biomarkers in Crude Oil: 18-nor-D-homo-Androstane and 5 alpha,14 beta-Androstane Chemistry-a European Journal, vol. 21, no. 35, pp. 12501-12508

Binzel, R. P. and DeMeo, F. E. and Burt, B. J. and Cloutis, E. A., et al. (2015) Spectral slope variations for OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu: Possible evidence for a fine-grained regolith equatorial ridge Icarus, vol. 256, pp. 22-29

Black, B. A. and Weiss, B. P. and Elkins-Tanton, L. T. and Veselovskiy, R. V. and Latyshev, A. (2015) Siberian Traps volcaniclastic rocks and the role of magma-water interactions Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 127, no. 9-10, pp. 1437-1452

Boehlert, B. and Solomon, S. and Strzepek, K. M. (2015) Water under a Changing and Uncertain Climate: Lessons from Climate Model Ensembles Journal of Climate, vol. 28, no. 24, pp. 9561-9582

Booth, J. F. and Polvani, L. and O'Gorman, P. A. and Wang, S. G. (2015) Effective stability in a moist baroclinic wave Atmospheric Science Letters, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 56-62

Bosh, A. S. and Person, M. J. and Levine, S. E. and Zuluaga, C. A., et al. (2015) The state of Pluto's atmosphere in 2012-2013 Icarus, vol. 246, pp. 237-246

Boyle, E. A. and Anderson, R. F. and Cutter, G. A. and Fine, R. and Jenkins, W. J. and Saito, M. (2015) Introduction to the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect (GA-03): USGT10 and USGT11 cruises Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, vol. 116, pp. 1-5

Bradley, K. and Weiss, B. P. and Buick, R. (2015) Records of geomagnetism, climate, and tectonics across a Paleoarchean erosion surface Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 419, pp. 1-13

Brix, H. and Menemenlis, D. and Hill, C. and Dutkiewicz, S. and Jahn, O. and Wang, D. and Bowman, K. and Zhang, H. (2015) Using Green's Functions to initialize and adjust a global, eddying ocean biogeochemistry general circulation model Ocean Modelling, vol. 95, pp. 1-14

Brown, S. M. and Grove, T. L. (2015) Origin of the Apollo 14, 15, and 17 yellow ultramafic glasses by mixing of deep cumulate remelts Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 171, pp. 201-215

Burchfiel, B. C. and Nakov, R. (2015) The multiply deformed foreland fold-thrust belt of the Balkan orogen, northern Bulgaria Geosphere, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 463-490

Burgess, S. D. and Bowring, S. A. and Fleming, T. H. and Elliot, D. H. (2015) High-precision geochronology links the Ferrar large igneous province with early-Jurassic ocean anoxia and biotic crisis Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 415, pp. 90-99

Burke, Andrea and Stewart, Andrew L. and Adkins, Jess F. and Ferrari, Raffaele and Jansen, Malte F. and Thompson, Andrew F. (2015) The glacial mid-depth radiocarbon bulge and its implications for the overturning circulation , pp. 1021--1039

Buz, J. and Weiss, B. P. and Tikoo, S. M. and Shuster, D. L. and Gattacceca, J. and Grove, T. L. (2015) Magnetism of a very young lunar glass Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, vol. 120, no. 10, pp. 1720-1735

Byrne, M. P. and O'Gorman, P. A. (2015) The Response of Precipitation Minus Evapotranspiration to Climate Warming: Why the "Wet-Get-Wetter, Dry-Get-Drier'' Scaling Does Not Hold over LandJournal of Climate, vol. 28, no. 20, pp. 8078-8092

Byrne, P. K. and Klimczak, C. and McGovern, P. J. and Mazarico, E. and James, P. B. and Neumann, G. A. and Zuber, M. T. and Solomon, S. C. (2015) Deep-seated thrust faults bound the Mare Crisium lunar mascon Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 427, pp. 183-190

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Callies, Jörn and Ferrari, Raffaele and Klymak, Jody M. and Gula, Jonathan (2015) Seasonality in submesoscale turbulence Nature Communications, vol. 6, pp. 6862

Calvo, N. and Polvani, L. M. and Solomon, S. (2015) On the surface impact of Arctic stratospheric ozone extremes Environmental Research Letters, vol. 10, no. 9

Carry, B. and Matter, A. and Scheirich, P. and Pravec, P., et al. (2015) The small binary asteroid (939) Isberga Icarus, vol. 248, pp. 516-525

Casagrande, E. and Mueller, B. and Miralles, D. G. and Entekhabi, D. and Molini, A. (2015)Wavelet correlations to reveal multiscale coupling in geophysical systems Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, vol. 120, no. 15, pp. 7555-7572

Cassata, W. S. and Shuster, D. L. and Renne, P. R. and Weiss, B. P. (2015) Evidence for shock heating and constraints on Martian surface temperatures revealed by Ar-40/Ar-39 thermochronometry of Martian meteorites (vol 74, pg 6900, 2010) Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 148, pp. 496-498

Castillo, A. and Castelli, F. and Entekhabi, D. (2015) An entropy-based measure of hydrologic complexity and its applications Water Resources Research, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 5145-5160

Castillo, A. and Castelli, F. and Entekhabi, D. (2015) Gravitational and capillary soil moisture dynamics for distributed hydrologic models Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1857-1869

Chatterjee, N. and Jagoutz, O. (2015) Exhumation of the UHP Tso Morari eclogite as a diapir rising through the mantle wedge Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 169, no. 1

Chatterjee, N. and Sheth, H. (2015) Origin of the Powai ankaramite, and the composition, P-T conditions of equilibration and evolution of the primary magmas of the Deccan tholeiitesContributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 169, no. 3

Chavas, D. R. and Lin, N. and Emanuel, K. (2015) A Model for the Complete Radial Structure of the Tropical Cyclone Wind Field. Part I: Comparison with Observed Structure* Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 3647-3662

Chen, M. L. and Lee, J. M. and Nurhati, I. S. and Switzer, A. D. and Boyle, E. A. (2015) Isotopic record of lead in Singapore Straits during the last 50 years: Spatial and temporal variations Marine Chemistry, vol. 168, pp. 49-59

Chen, Q. and Heald, C. L. and Jimenez, J. L. and Canagaratna, M. R., et al. (2015) Elemental composition of organic aerosol: The gap between ambient and laboratory measurementsGeophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 4182-4189

Chen, R. and Flierl, G. R. (2015) The Contribution of Striations to the Eddy Energy Budget and Mixing: Diagnostic Frameworks and Results in a Quasigeostrophic Barotropic System with Mean Flow Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2095-2113

Chen, R. and Flierl, G. R. and Wunsch, C. (2015) Quantifying and Interpreting Striations in a Subtropical Gyre: A Spectral Perspective Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 387-406

Chen, R. and Gille, S. T. and McClean, J. L. and Flierl, G. R. and Griesel, A. (2015) A Multiwavenumber Theory for Eddy Diffusivities and Its Application to the Southeast Pacific (DIMES) Region Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 1877-1896

Cloutis, E. A. and Sanchez, J. A. and Reddy, V. and Gaffey, M. J. and Binzel, R. P. and Burbine, T. H. and Hardersen, P. S. and Hiroi, T. and Lucey, P. G. and Sunshine, J. M. and Tait, K. T. (2015) Olivine-metal mixtures: Spectral reflectance properties and application to asteroid reflectance spectra Icarus, vol. 252, pp. 39-82

Cohen, P. A. and Macdonald, F. A. and Pruss, S. and Matys, E. and Bosak, T. (2015) FOSSILS OF PUTATIVE MARINE ALGAE FROM THE CRYOGENIAN GLACIAL INTERLUDE OF MONGOLIA Palaios, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 238-247

Cohen, Y. and Devauchelle, O. and Seybold, H. F. and Yi, R. S. and Szymczak, P. and Rothman, D. H. (2015) Path selection in the growth of rivers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, no. 46, pp. 14132-14137

Cohen, Y. and Rothman, D. H. (2015) Mechanisms for mechanical trapping of geologically sequestered carbon dioxide Proceedings of the Royal Society a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 471, no. 2175

Collinet, M. and Medard, E. and Charlier, B. and Vander Auwera, J. and Grove, T. L. (2015)Melting of the primitive martian mantle at 0.5-2.2 GPa and the origin of basalts and alkaline rocks on Mars Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 427, pp. 83-94

Condon, D. J. and Schoene, B. and McLean, N. M. and Bowring, S. A. and Parrish, R. R. (2015)Metrology and traceability of U-Pb isotope dilution geochronology (EARTHTIME Tracer Calibration Part I) Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 164, pp. 464-480

Cournede, C. and Gattacceca, J. and Gounelle, M. and Rochette, P. and Weiss, B. P. and Zanda, B. (2015) An early solar system magnetic field recorded in CM chondrites Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 410, pp. 62-74

Cronin, T. W. and Emanuel, K. A. and Molnar, P. (2015) Island precipitation enhancement and the diurnal cycle in radiative-convective equilibrium Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 141, no. 689, pp. 1017-1034

Cross, M. and McGee, D. and Broecker, W. S. and Quade, J. and Shakun, J. D. and Cheng, H. and Lu, Y. B. and Edwards, R. L. (2015) Great Basin hydrology, paleoclimate, and connections with the North Atlantic: A speleothem stable isotope and trace element record from Lehman Caves, NVQuaternary Science Reviews, vol. 127, pp. 186-198

Cruikshank, D. P. and Grundy, W. M. and DeMeo, F. E. and Buie, M. W., et al. (2015) The surface compositions of Pluto and Charon Icarus, vol. 246, pp. 82-92

Czaja, Arnaud and Marshall, John (2015) Why is there net surface heating over the Antarctic Circumpolar Current? Ocean Dynamics

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Daloz, A. S. and Camargo, S. J. and Kossin, J. P. and Emanuel, K., et al. (2015) Cluster Analysis of Downscaled and Explicitly Simulated North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Tracks Journal of Climate, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1333-1361

Day, M. O. and Ramezani, J. and Bowring, S. A. and Sadler, P. M. and Erwin, D. H. and Abdala, F. and Rubidge, B. S. (2015) When and how did the terrestrial mid-Permian mass extinction occur? Evidence from the tetrapod record of the Karoo Basin, South Africa Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1811

Demeo, F. E. and Dumas, C. and Cook, J. C. and Carry, B. and Merlin, F. and Verbiscer, A. J. and Binzel, R. P. (2015) Spectral variability of Charon's 2.21-mu m feature Icarus, vol. 246, pp. 213-219

Demory, B. O. and Ehrenreich, D. and Queloz, D. and Seager, S., et al. (2015) Hubble Space Telescope search for the transit of the Earth-mass exoplanet a Centauri B b Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 450, no. 2, pp. 2043-2051

Desert, J. M. and Charbonneau, D. and Torres, G. and Fressin, F., et al. (2015) LOW FALSE POSITIVE RATE OF KEPLER CANDIDATES ESTIMATED FROM A COMBINATION OF SPITZER AND FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS Astrophysical Journal, vol. 804, no. 1

DesOrmeau, J. W. and Gordon, S. M. and Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. and Hacker, B. R. and Bowring, S. A. and Schoene, B. and Samperton, K. M. (2015) Insights into (U)HP metamorphism of the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: A high-spatial resolution and high-precision zircon studyChemical Geology, vol. 414, pp. 138-155

Dutkiewicz, S. and Hickman, A. E. and Jahn, O. and Gregg, W. W. and Mouw, C. B. and Follows, M. J. (2015) Capturing optically important constituents and properties in a marine biogeochemical and ecosystem model Biogeosciences, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 4447-4481

Dutkiewicz, S. and Morris, J. J. and Follows, M. J. and Scott, J. and Levitan, O. and Dyhrman, S. T. and Berman-Frank, I. (2015) Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities Nature Climate Change, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1002-+

Duyck, J. and Finn, C. and Hutcheon, A. and Vera, P. and Salas, J. and Ravela, S. (2015) Sloop: A pattern retrieval engine for individual animal identification Pattern Recognition, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1059-1073

Dwyer, J. G. and Camargo, S. J. and Sobel, A. H. and Biasutti, M. and Emanuel, K. A. and Vecchi, G. A. and Zhao, M. and Tippett, M. K. (2015) Projected Twenty-First-Century Changes in the Length of the Tropical Cyclone Season Journal of Climate, vol. 28, no. 15, pp. 6181-6192

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Earle, A. M. and Binzel, R. P. (2015) Pluto's insolation history: Latitudinal variations and effects on atmospheric pressure Icarus, vol. 250, pp. 405-412

Eldrett, J. S. and Ma, C. and Bergman, S. C. and Lutz, B., et al. (2015) An astronomically calibrated stratigraphy of the Cenomanian, Turonian and earliest Coniacian from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, USA: Implications for global chronostratigraphy Cretaceous Research, vol. 56, pp. 316-344

Emanuel, K. (2015) Effect of Upper-Ocean Evolution on Projected Trends in Tropical Cyclone Activity Journal of Climate, vol. 28, no. 20, pp. 8165-8170

Escobedo-Hinojosa, W. I. and Vences-Guzman, M. A. and Schubotz, F. and Sandoval-Calderon, M. and Summons, R. E. and Lopez-Lara, I. M. and Geiger, O. and Sohlenkamp, C. (2015) OlsG (Sinac_1600) Is an Ornithine Lipid N-Methyltransferase from the Planctomycete Singulisphaera acidiphila Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 290, no. 24, pp. 15102-15111

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Fang, H. J. and Yao, H. J. and Zhang, H. J. and Huang, Y. C. and van der Hilst, R. D. (2015) Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for three-dimensional shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing: methodology and application Geophysical Journal International, vol. 201, no. 3, pp. 1251-1263

Fang, X. D. and Cheng, A. and Fehler, M. C. (2015) Investigation of borehole cross-dipole flexural dispersion crossover through numerical modeling Geophysics, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. D75-D88

Feng, X. and Yu, Y. and Liu, C. and Fehler, M. (2015) Combination of H-Alpha Decomposition and Migration for Enhancing Subsurface Target Classification of GPR Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 4852-4861

Feng, X. and Yu, Y. and Liu, C. and Fehler, M. (2015) Subsurface polarimetric migration imaging for full polarimetric ground-penetrating radar Geophysical Journal International, vol. 202, no. 2, pp. 1324-1338

Ferrari, R. and Merrifield, S. T. and Taylor, J. R. (2015) Shutdown of convection triggers increase of surface chlorophyll Journal of Marine Systems, vol. 147, pp. 116-122

Ferreira, D., and Marshall, J. (2015) Freshwater transport in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a passive ocean Ocean Dynamics, vol. 65, pp. 1029–1036

Ferreira, D., Marshall, J., Bitz, C.M., Solomon, S., and A. Plumb (2015) Antarctic Ocean and Sea Ice Response to Ozone Depletion: A Two-Time-Scale Problem Journal of Climate, vol. 28, pp. 1206–1226

Fitzsimmons, J. N. and Bundy, R. M. and Al-Subiai, S. N. and Barbeau, K. A. and Boyle, E. A. (2015) The composition of dissolved iron in the dusty surface ocean: An exploration using size-fractionated iron-binding ligands Marine Chemistry, vol. 173, pp. 125-135

Fitzsimmons, J. N. and Carrasco, G. G. and Wu, J. F. and Roshan, S. and Hatta, M. and Measures, C. I. and Conway, T. M. and John, S. G. and Boyle, E. A. (2015) Partitioning of dissolved iron and iron isotopes into soluble and colloidal phases along the GA03 GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, vol. 116, pp. 130-151

Fitzsimmons, J. N. and Hayes, C. T. and Al-Subiai, S. N. and Zhang, R. F. and Morton, P. L. and Weisend, R. E. and Ascani, F. and Boyle, E. A. (2015) Daily to decadal variability of size-fractionated iron and iron-binding ligands at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station ALOHAGeochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 171, pp. 303-324

Flierl, G. R. and Woods, N. W. (2015) Copepod Aggregations: Influences of Physics and Collective Behavior Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 158, no. 3, pp. 665-698

Forget, G. and Campin, J. M. and Heimbach, P. and Hill, C. N. and Ponte, R. M. and Wunsch, C. (2015) ECCO version 4: an integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean state estimation Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 3071-3104

Fournier, G.P. and Alm E.J. (2015), Ancestral Reconstruction of a Pre-LUCA Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Ancestor Supports the Late Addition of Trp to the Genetic Code, J Mol Evol. 2015 Apr;80(3-4):171-85.

Gregory P Fournier, Cheryl P Andam and Johann Peter Gogarten (2015), Ancient horizontal gene transfer and the last common ancestors, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 201515:70.

Franco-Moreno, R. A. and Cruz-Escalona, V. H. and Aurioles-Gamboa, D. and Vera-Alfaro, P. and Salas, J. and Ravela, S. (2015) Variability and sexual dimorphism in skull morphometry of California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) in Mexico Mammalian Biology, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 316-327

Frey, F. A. and Silva, I. G. N. and Huang, S. C. and Pringle, M. S. and Meleney, P. R. and Weis, D. (2015) Depleted components in the source of hotspot magmas: Evidence from the Ninetyeast Ridge (Kerguelen) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 426, pp. 293-304

Freissinet, C. and Glavin, D. P. and Mahaffy, P. R. and Miller, K. E., et al. (2015) Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, vol. 120, no. 3, pp. 495-514

French, K. L. and Hallmann, C. and Hope, J. M. and Schoon, P. L., et al. (2015) Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, no. 19, pp. 5915-5920

French, K. L. and Rocher, D. and Zumberge, J. E. and Summons, R. E. (2015) Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C-40 carotenoids through time Geobiology, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 139-151

Fu, Q. and Lin, P. and Solomon, S. and Hartmann, D. L. (2015) Observational evidence of strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson circulation since 1980 Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, vol. 120, no. 19

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Gallot, T. and Malcolm, A. and Szabo, T. L. and Brown, S. and Burns, D. and Fehler, M. (2015)Characterizing the nonlinear interaction of S- and P-waves in a rock sample Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 117, no. 3

Garcia-Menendez, F. and Saari, R. K. and Monier, E. and Selin, N. E. (2015) US Air Quality and Health Benefits from Avoided Climate Change under Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 49, no. 13, pp. 7580-7588

Genova, A. and Goossens, S. and Lemoine, F. G. and Mazarico, E. and Fricke, S. K. and Smith, D. E. and Zuber, M. T. (2015) Long-term variability of CO2 and O in the Mars upper atmosphere from MRO radio science data Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, vol. 120, no. 5, pp. 849-868

Giang, A. and Stokes, L. C. and Streets, D. G. and Corbitt, E. S. and Selin, N. E. (2015) Impacts of the Minamata Convention on Mercury Emissions and Global Deposition from Coal-Fired Power Generation in Asia Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 5326-5335

Gulbis, A. A. S. and Emery, J. P. and Person, M. J. and Bosh, A. S. and Zuluaga, C. A. and Pasachoff, J. M. and Babcock, B. A. (2015) Observations of a successive stellar occultation by Charon and graze by Pluto in 2011: Multiwavelength SpeX and MORIS data from the IRTF Icarus, vol. 246, pp. 226-236

Gunturu, U. B. and Schlosser, C. A. (2015) Behavior of the aggregate wind resource in the ISO regions in the United States Applied Energy, vol. 144, pp. 175-181

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Hayes, C. T. and Fitzsimmons, J. N. and Boyle, E. A. and McGee, D. and Anderson, R. F. and Weisend, R. and Morton, P. L. (2015) Thorium isotopes tracing the iron cycle at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station ALOHA Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 169, pp. 1-16

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