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Submissions from 2024
The Tybee Island, Georgia Black History Trail: A Community Approach To Black Geographies, Amy Potter, Julia Pearce, Patricia Leiby, Joyah Michell, and Allen Lewis
Submissions from 2021
Submarine Groundwater Discharge as a Potential Driver of Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica, Populations in Georgia, John M. Carroll, Jacque L. Kelly, Laura M. Treible, and Thomas Bliss
Submissions from 2020
Rainfall interception and redistribution by a common North American understory and pasture forb, Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam. dogfennel), D. Alex Gordon, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Brent A. Sellers, S. M. Moein Sadeghi, and John T. Van Stan II
Wrack and ruin: Legacy hydrologic effects of hurricane-deposited wrack on hardwood-hammock coastal islands, John T. Van Stan II, Scott T. Allen, and Travis Swanson
Submissions from 2019
Early European Observations of Precipitation Partitioning by Vegetation: A Synthesis and Evaluation of 19th Century Findings, Jan Friesen and John T. Van Stan II
Improving Estimates of Built-Up Area from Night Time Light Across Globally Distributed Cities Through Hierarchical Modeling, Zutao Ouyang, Meimei Lin, Jiquan Chen, Peilei Fan, Song S. Qian, and Hogeun Park
Submissions from 2018
“You’re Out of Your Place:” Black Mobility on Tybee Island, Georgia From Civil Rights to Orange Crush, Jeffrey R. Finney and Amy E. Potter
Integration of Aerial Infrared Thermography and In Situ Radon-222 to Investigate Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA, Jacque L. Kelly, Henrietta Dulaiova, Craig R. Glenn, and Paul G. Lucey
Unfinished Geographies: Women’s Roles in Shaping African American Historical Counter Narratives, Amy E. Potter and Matthew R. Cook
A Computer Program for use with Pace and Compass Exercises, James Reichard
Switching from a Traditional to a Computer-Based Format for Introductory Geoscience Lectures, James Reichard
Teaching Stereo Viewing in the Classroom, James S. Reichard
Submissions from 2017
Guano Core Evidence of Palaeoenvironmental Change and Woodland Indian Inhabitance in Fern Cave, Alabama, USA, from the Mid-Holocene to Present, Joshua W. Campbell, Matthew N. Waters, and Fredrick J. Rich
Observed Compression of in Situ Tree Stems During Freezing, Ethan D. Gutmann, John T. Van Stan, Jan Friesen, Doug P. Aubrey, and Jessica D. Lundquist
Review of The Migration of People From the Caribbean to the Bahamas by Keith L. Tinker, Amy E. Potter
Antigua and Barbuda, Amy E. Potter, Sean Chenoweth, and Mick Day
Commemorating the Enslaved Along Louisiana’s River Road, Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, and Perry L. Carter
Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, Amy E. Potter, E. Arnold Modlin, and Phillip P. Schmutz
The Absorption and Evaporation of Water Vapor by Epiphytes in an Old-growth Douglas-fir Forest During the Seasonal Summer Dry Season: Implications for the Canopy Energy Budget, Thomas G. Pypker, Michael Unsworth, John T. Van Stan, and Barbara J. Bond
Canopy Hydrometeorological Dynamics Across a Chronosequence of a Globally Invasive Species, Ailanthus Altissima (Mill., Tree of Heaven), Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, John T. Van Stan, Thomas G. Pypker, and Jan Friesen
Do Storm Synoptic Patterns Affect Biogeochemical Fluxes From Temperate Deciduous Forest Canopies?, Courtney M. Siegbert, Delphis F. Levia, Daniel Leathers, John T. Van Stan, and Myron J. Mitchell
Molecular and Optical Properties of Tree-derived Dissolved Organic Matter in Throughfall and Stemflow From Live Oaks and Eastern Red Cedar, Aron Stubbins, Leticia M. Silva, Thorsten Dittmar, and John T. Van Stan
Hydrology, John T. Van Stan
Effects of Phenology and Meteorological Disturbance on Litter Rainfall Interception for a Pinus Elliottii Stand in the Southeastern US, John T. Van Stan, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Michael Dribble, and Zachary Norman
Edge-to-Stem Variability in Wet-Canopy Evaporation From an Urban Tree Row, John T. Van Stan, Zachary Norman, Adrian Meghoo, Jan Friesen, Anke Hildebrandt, Jean-François Côté, S. Jeffrey Underwood, and Gustavo O. Maldonado
Surface Roughness Affects the Running Speed of Tropical Canopy Ants, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Cheryl Silveri, Alyssa Y. Stark, John T. Van Stan, and Delphis F. Levia
Submissions from 2016
The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security, Rebecca Boger, Rusty Low, and Amy E. Potter
Sustainable Resilience in Barbuda: Learning From the Past and Developing Strategies for the Future, Rebecca Boger, Sophia Perdikaris, Amy E. Potter, and Jennifer Adams
Alteration of Soil Chitinolytic Bacterial and Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeal Community Diversity by Rainwater Redistribution in an Epiphyte-laden Quercus Virginiana Canopy, L. Dean Moore, John T. Van Stan, Trent E. Gay, Carl L. Rosier, and Tiehang Wu
“She Goes into Character as the Lady of the House”: Tour Guides, Performance and the Southern Plantation, Amy E. Potter
A Biography of Alfred Traverse, James B. Riding, William G. Chaloner, Martin B. Farley, Frederick J. Rich, and Paul K. Strother
Seasonal Dynamics of Soil Microbial Community Structure Within the Proximal Area of Tree Boles: Possible Influence of Stemflow, Carl L. Rosier, Delphis F. Levia, John T. Van Stan, A. Aufdenkampe, and Jinjun Kan
The Importance of Considering Rainfall Partitioning in Afforestation Initiatives in Semiarid Climates: a Comparison of Common Planted Tree Species in Tehran, Iran, Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, Pedram Attarod, John T. Van Stan, and Thomas G. Pypker
Spatial Variations in the Associations of Birth Weight with Ambient Air Pollution: A Retrospective Study in Georgia, USA, Jun Tu, Wei Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to Identify Interactive Meteorological Conditions Affecting Relative Throughfall, John T. Van Stan, Trent E. Gay, and Elliot S. Lewis
Modeling Rainfall Interception Loss for an Epiphyte-Laden Quercus virginiana Forest Using Reformulated Static- and Variable-Storage Gash Analytical Models, John T. Van Stan, Ethan D. Gutmann, Elliot S. Lewis, and Trent E. Gay
Impact of Interacting Bark Structure and Rainfall Conditions on Stemflow Variability in a Temperate Beech-oak Forest, Central Germany, John T. Van Stan, Elliot S. Lewis, Anke Hildebrandt, Corinna Rebmann, and Jan Friesen
Submissions from 2015
Throughfall Nutrients in a Degraded Indigenous Fagus Orientalis Forest and a Picea Abies Plantation in the of North of Iran, Parisa Abbasian, Pedram Attarod, Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, John T. Van Stan, and Seyed M. Hojjati
Evolution of Forest Precipitation Water Storage Measurement Methods, Jan Friesen, Jessica D. Lundquist, and John T. Van Stan
Throughfall Alterations by Degree of Tillandsia Usneoides Cover in a Southeastern US Quercus Virginiana Forest, Trent E. Gay, John T. Van Stan, Leslie Dean Moore, Elliot S. Lewis, and James S. Reichard
Chlorofluorocarbon Apparent Ages of Groundwaters From West Hawaii, USA, Jacque L. Kelly and Craig R. Glenn
Calcium and Aluminum Cycling in a Temperate Broadleaved Deciduous Forest of the Eastern Usa: Relative Impacts of Tree Species, Canopy State, and Flux Type, Delphis F. Levia, Alexey N. Shiklomanov, John T. Van Stan, Carrie E. Scheick, Sheeram Inamdar, Myron J. Mitchell, and Patrick J. McHale
“Fighting for the Rock at Home and Abroad": Barbuda Voice Newspaper as a Transnational Space, Amy E. Potter
The Commons as a Tourist Commodity: Mapping Memories and Changing Sense of Place on the Island of Barbuda, Amy E. Potter
Introduction, Amy E. Potter and E. Arnold Modlin
Peat, Its Origins, Characteristics, and Geological Transformations, Fredrick J. Rich
Alfred Traverse: A Man of Letters, Fredrick J. Rich and Paul K. Strother
The Presence of Carya (Hickory) Pollen in St. Catherines Island Sediments (USA), and Its Significance in Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions, Fredrick J. Rich, R. Kelly Vance, and D. B. Potter
The Palynology of Upper Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments From the Eastern Shoreline and Central Depression of St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA, Fredrick J. Rich, R. Kelly Vance, and Clara R. Rucker
Forest Canopy Precipitation Partitioning: An Important Plant Trait Influencing the Spatial Structure of the Symbiotic Soil Microbial Community, Carl L. Rosier, Leslie Dean Moore, Tiehang Wu, and John T. Van Stan
Forest Canopy Structural Controls Over Throughfall Affect Soil Microbial Community Structure in an Epiphyte-laden Maritime Oak Stand, Carl L. Rosier, John T. Van Stan, Leslie Dean Moore, Joshua O.S. Schrom, Tiehang Wu, James S. Reichard, and Jinjun Kan
Efficiency of the Reformulated Gash's Interception Model in Semiarid Afforestations, Seyed Mohammad Moein Sadeghi, Pedram Attarod, John T. Van Stan, Thomas G. Pypker, and David Dunkerley
A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Effect on Preterm Births in Georgia, USA, Wei Tu, Jun Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Forest Canopy Interception Loss Across Temporal Scales: Implications for Urban Greening Initiatives, John T. Van Stan, Delphis F. Levia, and R. Brett Jenkins
A Review and Evaluation of Forest Canopy Epiphyte Roles in the Partitioning and Chemical Alteration of Precipitation, John T. Van Stan and Thomas G. Pypker
Tillandsia Usneoides (L.) L. (Spanish Moss) Water Storage and Leachate Characteristics From Two Maritime Oak Forest Settings, John T. Van Stan, Aron Stubbins, Thais Bittar, James S. Reichard, Kasey A. Wright, and Robert B. Jenkins
Submissions from 2014
Final Report of the Georgia Southern University Ad Hoc Committee on Student Ratings of Instruction, Helen W. Bland, James Harris, James Jupp, William B. Levernier, Nan S. LoBue, Trent W. Maurer, James S. Reichard, Sonya S. Shepherd, and Rebecca Ziegler
Water Resources and the Historic Wells of Barbuda: Tradition, Heritage and Hope for a Sustainable Future, Rebecca Boger, Sophia Perdikaris, Amy E. Potter, and John Mussington
The Informal Economy of Veracruz State during the Fox Administration, Gregory J. Brock, Jie Tan, and Robert Yarbrough
Notes on the Origin of the Resinite-Rich “Pine Needle” Lithotype of the Cretaceous Cambria Coals, Weston County, Wyoming, Michelle N. Johnston, James C. Hower, and Fredrick J. Rich
Using Wavelet Analysis to Examine Bark Microrelief, David R. Legates, Delphis F. Levia, John T. Van Stan, and Victor M. Velasco Herrera
Connecting Transdisciplinary Scientists and Local Experts for Climate Change Research and Community-Based Adaptation in Barbuda, West Indies, Sophia Perdikaris, Katherine Hejtmanek, Rebecca Boger, Jennifer D. Adams, Amy E. Potter, and John Mussington
Review of Myths and Realities of Caribbean History by Basil A. Reid, Amy E. Potter
“A Tale of Mice and Men”: The WPA, the LSU Indian Room Museum, and the Emergence of Professional Archaeology in the U.S. South, Amy E. Potter, Dydia Delyser, and Rebecca Saunders
Obituary for Dr. William Spackman (1919-2014), Fredrick J. Rich, Lynn A. Brant, Gareth D. Mitchell, and James C. Hower
Radiocarbon Dates and the Genesis of Phytogenic Near-Shore Sediments on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA, Fredrick J. Rich, Lee A. Newsom, Brian Meyer, and R. Kelly Vance
Structural Geology of the Linville Falls Shear Zone along the Western Margin of the Grandfather Mountain Window, Northwestern North Carolina, Charles H. Trupe
Estimating Neighbourhood-Level Socio-Economic Effect on Preterm Births Using a Multilevel Approach: A Case Study in Georgia, USA, Wei Tu, Jun Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Meteorological Influences on Stemflow Generation Across Diameter Size Classes of Two Morphologically Distinct Deciduous Species, John T. Van Stan, Jarrad H. Van Stan, and Delphis F. Levia
Submissions from 2013
Pleistocene Shorelines and Coastal Rivers: Sensitive Potential Indicators of Quaternary Tectonism along the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Mervin J. Bartholomew and Fredrick J. Rich
Teaching Qualitative Research: Experiential Learning in Group-Based Interviews and Coding Assignments, Dydia DeLyser, Amy E. Potter, James Chaney, Stephanie Crider, Ian Debnam, Gentry Hanks, Corey David Hotard, E. Arnold Modlin, Martin Pfeiffer, and Jörn Seemann
Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs, Michael D. D'Emic, John A. Whitlock, Kathlyn M. Smith, Daniel C. Fisher, and Jeffrey A. Wilson
Perception or Reality of Body Weight: Which Matters to the Depressive Symptoms, Jaynie L. Gaskin, Adam J. Pulver, Kiswana Branch, Ahmed Kabore, Tabitha James, and Jian Zhang
Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study – Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, Craig R. Glenn, Robert B. Whittier, Meghan L. Dailer, Henrieta Dulaiova, Aly I. El-Kadi, Joseph Fackrell, Jacque L. Kelly, Christine A. Waters, and Jeff Sevadjian
They Just Don’t Make Storms Like This One Anymore: Analyzing the 1959 Record Snowfall Season at Mt. Shasta CA, Cassandra Hansen, Michael L. Kaplan, Scott A. Mensing, S. Jeffrey Underwood, John M. Lewis, K. C. King, and Jake E. Haugland
Salt Marsh Elevation and Habitat Mapping Using Hyperspectral and LIDAR Data, Christine M. Hladik, Merryl Alber, and John F. Schalles
Temporal Variation in End-member Chemistry and its Influence on Runoff Mixing Patterns in a Forested, Piedmont Catchment, Sherman Inamdar, Gurbir Dhillon, Shatrughan Singh, Sudarshan Dutta, Delphis F. Levia, Durelle Scott, Myron J. Mitchell, John T. Van Stan II, and Patrick McHale
Spatio-temporal Analysis of Shoreline Change of the Georgia Coast 1857 to 2006, Chester W. Jackson, David M. Bush, and Clark R. Alexander
Re-examination of the Interstate-5 Dust Storm of November 1991: Alternate Interpretation of Governing Dynamics, Michael L. Kaplan, Ramesh K. Vellore, John M. Lewis, S. Jeffrey Underwood, Patricia M. Pauley, Jonathan E. Martin, and R. Krishnan
Polar Jet Interactions in Southern Plains Dust Storms, Michael L. Kaplan, Ramesh K. Vellore, John M. Lewis, S. Jeffrey Underwood, Patricia M. Pauley, Jonathan E. Martin, Robert M. Rabin, and R. Krishnan
High-Resolution Aerial Infrared Mapping of Groundwater Discharge to the Coastal Ocean, Jacque L. Kelly, Craig R. Glenn, and Paul G. Lucey
Development and Testing of a Snow Interceptometer to Quantify Canopy Water Storage and Interception Processes in the Rain/Snow Transition Zone of the North Cascades, Washington, USA, Kael Martin, John T. Van Stan, Susan E. Dickerson-Lange, James A. Lutz, Jeffrey W. Berman, Rolf Gersonde, and Jessica D. Lundquist
Integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into Sport Business Practice and Research, Calvin Nite and S. Jeffrey Underwood
The Tools and Technologies of Transdisciplinary Climate Change Research and Community Empowerment in Barbuda, Sophia Perdikaris, Katherine Hejtmanek, Rebecca Boger, Jennifer D. Adams, Amy E. Potter, and John Mussington
Heavy-Mineral Mining in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and What Deposit Locations Tell Us about Ancient Shorelines, Fredrick J. Rich, Fredric L. Pirkle, and William A. Pirkle
Depositional Environment of the Heavy-Mineral Deposits of Bailey, North Carolina, U.S.A, Fredrick J. Rich, Fredric L. Pirkle, William A. Pirkle, E. C. Pirkle, Daniel P. Spangler, and David L. Pirkle
Landscape Estimates of Habitat Types, Plant Biomass, and Invertebrate Densities in a Georgia Salt Marsh, John F. Schalles, Christine M. Hladik, Alana A. Lynes, and Steven C. Pennings
Sexual Dimorphism and Inter-generic Variation in Proboscidean Tusks: Multivariate Assessment of American Mastodons (Mammut americanum) and Extant African Elephants, Kathlyn M. Smith and Daniel C. Fisher
A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Georgia, USA, Jia Tian, Wei Tu, Stuart H. Tedders, and Dongmei Chen
Evaluation of an Instrumental Method to Reduce Error in Canopy Water Storage Estimates via Mechanical Displacement, John T. Van Stan, Kael Martin, Jan Friesen, Matthew T. Jarvis, Jessica D. Lundquist, and Delphis F. Levia
Physical Geography Bibliography, Mark R. Welford
Is Neotropical Conservation Sold-Short: Diminishing Returns for Birding Suggest Ecolodges Could Encourage Longer Stays, Mark R. Welford and Anthony G. Barilla
Submissions from 2012
Synoptic-scale Weather Patterns and Large Slab Avalanches at Mt. Shasta California, Cassandra Hansen and S. Jeffrey Underwood
Application of the AMBUR R Package for Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Shoreline Change: Jekyll Island, Georgia, U.S.A., Chester W. Jackson, Clark R. Alexander, and David M. Bush
Documenting Beach Loss in Front of Seawalls in Puerto Rico: Pitfalls of Engineering a Small Island Nation Shore, Chester W. Jackson, David M. Bush, and William J. Neal
Spatial Variations in the Associations of Birth Weight with Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Behavioral Factors in Georgia, USA, Jun Tu, Wei Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Assessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach: The Case of Shanghai, Wei Tu
Urban Environmental Management in Shanghai: A Multi-Scale Perspective, Wei Tu, Daniel Z. Sui, and Weichun Ma
