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Adams, K.D., 2005: Sedimentary record of late Holocene lake-level fluctuations at Walker Lake, Nevada, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 225.

Adams, K.D., 2003: Lake-level responses to late Holocene changes in effective wetness in the western Great Basin: 3rd International Limnology Congress Abstracts, Tucson, Arizona. p. 3.

Adams, K.D. 2001: Estimating paleowind conditions from late Pleistocene beach deposits in the western Great Basin: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.33, no.6, p.A21.

Arrowood, T., M.H. Young, Z. Yu, S. Labahn, and D. Moser. 2007. Fate and transport of acrylamide in soil and groundwater systems: sorption, retardation, and numerical simulations. Poster. AGU Fall Meeting, December 13, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Bacon, S.N, E.V. McDonald, S.D. Bassett, T.G. Caldwell, and G. Stullenbarger. 2007. Desert Terrain Mapping of Landforms and Surface Cover within Vehicle Endurance and Dust Test Courses at U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground, International Society of Terrain-Vehicle Systems Conference, June 23-26, 2007, Fairbanks, AK.

Bacon, S.N., E.V. McDonald, G.K. Dalldorf, and T.G. Caldwell. 2007. Late Holocene soil stratigraphy and geochronology of alluvial sedimentation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, EOS Trans., AGU, 88 (52), December 10-14, 2007, Fall Meet., Suppl. Abstract H53C-1390.

Bacon, S.N., E.V. McDonald, G.K. Dalldorf, and T.G. Caldwell. 2007. Late Holocene Soil Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Alluvial Sedimentation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Bacon, S.N., E.V. McDonald, S.D. Bassett, T. Bullard. 2007. Catalogue of analogs: Identifying terrain similarities between the World’s deserts and the US Army Desert/Hot Weather test site, Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), southwestern Arizona: 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography, June 18-21, 2007, Quebec, Canada, Session 4 Spatial Analysis, abstract and talk, p. 8.

Bacon, S.N., E.V. McDonald, S.E. Baker, T.G. Caldwell, and G. Stullenbarger. 2007. Desert terrain characterization of landforms and surface cover within vehicle test courses at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, USA: Proceedings of the Joint North American, Asia-Pacific ISTVS Conference and Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Terramechanics, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, June 23-26, 2007, Session 41 Terrain Impacts.

Beaty, D.W., Buxbaum, K.L., Meyer, M.A., Barlow, N.G., Boynton, W.V., Clark, B.C., Deming, J.W., Doran, P.T., Edgett, K.S., Hancock, S.L., Head, J.W.; Hecht, M.H., Hipkin, V., Kieft, T.L., Mancinelli, R.L., McDonald, E.V., McKay, C.P., Mellon, M.T., Newsom, H., Ori, G.G., Paige, D.A., Schuerger, A.C., Sogin, M.L., Spry, J.A., Steele, A., Tanaka, K.L., Voytek, M.A., 2006: Findings of the Special Regions Science Analysis Group, Astrobiology, Vol. 6, Number 5, 677-732.

Beaty, D.W., Buxbaum, K.L., Meyer, M.A., Barlow, N.G., Boynton, W.V., Clark, B.C., Deming, J.W., Doran, P.T., Edgett, K.S., Hancock, S.L., Head, J.W.; Hecht, M.H., Hipkin, V., Kieft, T.L., Mancinelli, R.L., McDonald, E.V., McKay, C.P., Mellon, M.T., Newsom, H., Ori, G.G., Paige, D.A., Schuerger, A.C., Sogin, M.L., Spry, J.A.; Steele, A., Tanaka, K.L., Voytek, M.A., 2006: Findings of the Special Regions Science Analysis Group, 76 p, Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG).

Beck, C.M. 2007. Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative. Mohave-Southern Nevada Resource Advisory Council, January 19, 2007.

Beck, C.M. 2007. Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative: Current and Future. Nevada Archaeological Association, Ely, NV.

Beck, C.M. 2007. Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative: Nominations and Ranking of Projects. Archaeo-Nevada Society, College of Southern Nevada, February 6, 2007, Las Vegas, NV.

Beck, C.M. and S.R. Edwards. 2007. Off-NTS Plowshare (Non-Nuclear) and Vela Uniform Projects: Research and Liabilities. DRI Environmental Seminar Series, Desert Research Institute, March 23, 2007, Las Vegas, NV.

Beck, Colleen M., Harold Drollinger, and John Schofield, 2006: The Archaeology of a Nevada Protest Movement, abstract in the 30th Great Basin Anthropological Conference Program, p. 40, Great Basin Anthropological Association, Las Vegas.

Beck, Colleen M., Harold Drollinger, and John Schofield, 2006: The Archaeology of a Nevada Protest Movement, Poster Session 4, October 21, 2006, presented at the 30th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Beck, Colleen M., Harold Drollinger, and John Schofield, 2006: The Archaeology of a Peace Camp, Abstracts for the Society for American Archaeology 71st Annual Meeting, April 26-April 30, 2006, p. 59, Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

Beck, C., J. Schofield, H. Drollinger, 2003: Archaeology of Dissent: Research at a Nevada Peace Camp, presentation at World Archaeological Congress V, Washington, D.C.

Berger, G.W. 2007. “Luminescence from sediment within the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean”. Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP51A-0179.

Berger, G.W., A. Perez-Gonzalez, E. Carbonell, J.L. Arsuaga, and J.M. Bermudez de Castro, 2005: Luminescence Chronology for Cave Sediments at the Atapuerca Paleoanthropological Site, Spain. Paleoanthropology Society Ann. Meeting, Abstracts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, p.4.

Berger, G.W. 2004: Application of Photonic Dating to Antarctic and Arctic Sediments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Luminescence and its Applications (ICLA-2004), Mumbai (Bombay), India, Feb. 2004 (eds. A.S. Pradhan, S.V. Godbole, A.G. Page, K.V.R. Murthy), p.13-16. Luminescence Society of India.

Berger, G.W., 2004: Luminescence Dating of Irrigation-canal Features. Archaeological Sciences of the Americas 2004, Sept. 22-25, University of Arizona-Tucson, Tucson, Arizona. 3 p.

Berger, G.W., M. Melles, A. Raab, and H.-W. Hubberton, 2003: Evidence for Limited Eurasian Ice-sheet Extent During the LGM via Luminescence Dating of Postglacial Sediments from Lakes in the Area of the Taymyr Peninsula, Russian High Arctic. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstracts with Programs, v.35(6), p.295.

Berger, G.W., E.W. Domack, and S.E. Draucker, 2003: Photonic-dating tests of glacimarine sediments around the Antarctic Peninsula. XVI INQUA Congress Program with Abstracts, Reno, p.226.

Berger, G.W., M. Melles, and A. Raab, 2003: Limiting extent of ice sheets in the Russian High Arctic during isotope stages 2-3 from IRSL dating of lake sediments, Taymyr Peninsula. In: ARCSS Program 2003. Proceedings of the Arctic System Science Program All-hands Workshop 2002. p. 63, Fairbanks, Alaska: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. 271 pp.

Berli, M., T.G. Caldwell, and E.V. McDonald. 2007. Trafficability of fine-textured arid soils – A model evaluation, International Society of Terrain-Vehicle Systems Conference, June 23-26, 2007, Fairbanks, AK.

Berli, M., T.G. Caldwell, E.V. McDonald, and D.A. Gilewitch. 2007. Modeling Desert Pavement Deterioration due to Heavy Vehicle Traffic. Proceedings from the Joint North America, Asia-Pacific ISTVS Conference and Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Terramechanics, June 23-26, 2007, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.

Boyle, D.P., G. Lamorey, S. Bassett, G. Pohll, and J. Chapman, 2005: Development and testing of a groundwater management model for the fautless underground nuclear test, Central Nevada Test Area. 33pp.

Bristow, C.S., N. Lancaster, and G.A.T. Duller, 2003: Combining ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys and optical dating to determine dune migration in Namibia. Geological Society of America, Abstracts, 35(6):89.

Bristow, C.S. and N.Lancaster: Movement of a small slipfaceless dune in Namibia. . In: Lee, J.A. And Zobeck, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference, International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA, Publication 02-2, 440-4.

Bullard, T., E. McDonald, S. Bassett, and J. Burke. 2007. Developing a Soil-Geomorphic Tool to Support the ITAM Program at US Army National Training Center, Fort Irwin, in the Mojave Desert, California: 2007 Sustaining Military Readiness.

Bullard, T.F., E.V. McDonald, S. Bassett, and J. Burke. 2007. Maintenance of military training lands: soil-geomorphic applications: 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography, Abstracts, p. 20.

Cablk, M.E. Working with Nature: Dogs and Tortoises. Native American Land Conservancy Annual Conference, February 8-10, 2007, El Cajon, CA.

Cablk, M.E., R.S. Harmon and C. Valentin. 2007. Maintaining real-time calibration of detection dog teams during field deployment given uncertainty in target location. The Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and Workshop: Meeting DOD’s Environmental Challenges, December 4-6, 2007, Washington, D.C.

Caldwell, T.G., and M.H. Young. 2007. Heterogeneities of Soil Hydraulic Properties from Canopy to Interspace, NSF EPSCoR RING-TRUE III, Scaling Environmental Processes in Heterogeneous Arid Soils (SEPHAS), NSF Panel Meeting - Thursday, August 30, 2007, Las Vegas, NV.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, and G. McCurdy. 2007. Hillslope Soils, Microclimate and Hydrology: Influence of Slope and Aspect, Oak Ecosystem Restoration Workshop, February 2-4, 2007, Catalina Island, CA.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, and S.N. Bacon. 2007. Vehicle dust courses and military testing at the U.S. Army’s: Proceedings of the Joint North American, Asia-Pacific ISTVS Conference and Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Terramechanics, June 23-26, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, Session 41 Terrain Impacts, poster and short paper.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, D.P. Boyle and M.H. Young. 2007. Parameter Optimization of Hydrus-1D: Single and Multi-Objective Functions, W-1188 Soil Physics Multi-State Research Group 2007 Annual Meeting, January 2-4, 2007, Las Vegas, NV.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, D.P. Boyle, and M.H. Young. 2007. Numerical Models for the Active Restoration of Arid Lands: Parameterization, Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis, ARO Terrestrial Sciences Soil Moisture/Arid Lands Research Review Meeting, March 5-6, 2007, Colorado Springs, CO.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, M.H. Young, E.P. Hamerlynck and S.N. Bacon. 2007. Soil Development and Hydrology of an Arid Soil Chronosequence in the Sonoran Desert, 2007, Unsaturated Zone Interest Group Meeting, August 27-30, 2007, Los Alamos, NM.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, S.N. Bacon, and G. Stullenbarger. 2007. Performance of Vehicle Dust Courses for Desert Military Testing: Realistic Test Setting or Gone with the Wind? International Society of Terrain-Vehicle Systems Conference, June 23-26, 2007, Fairbanks, AK.

Caldwell, T.G., M.H. Young, J. Zhu, and E.V. McDonald. 2007. Impact of Small-Scale Heterogeneity of Soil Hydraulic Properties on Large-Scale Water Balance, ASA-SSSA-CSA Annual Meeting, November 5-9, 2007, New Orleans, LA.

Caldwell, T.G., M.H. Young, J. Zhu, L. Fenstermaker, and E.V. McDonald, Scaling Heterogeneous Soil Hydraulic Properties using Canopy/Interspace Distributions in a Mojave Desert Ecosystem, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, M.H. Young, and B.A. Stevenson, 2005: Modeling the Interdependence of Hydropedology and Root Distributions of Larrea Tridentata in the Mojave Desert. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 5-9, 2005.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, and M.H. Young, 2004: Seedbed Microclimate: Modeling and Monitoring Soil Moisture in Support of the Restoration of Military Lands. Desert Surficial Processes and Landscape Dynamics on Military Lands. September 18-22, Zzyzx, CA.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, and M.H. Young, 2004: Seedbed Microclimate: Modeling and Monitoring Soil Moisture in Support of the Restoration of Military Lands. Mojave Science Symposium, November 16-18, Redlands, CA.

Caldwell, T.G., E.V. McDonald, and M.H. Young, 2004: Soil Disturbance and Hydrologic Response at the National Training Center,Ft. Irwin, California, Mojave Science Symposium, November 16-18, Redlands, CA.

Crouvi, O., R. Amit, Y. Enzel, and E. McDonald. 2007. Combining soil profile database and remote sensing data for determining spatial patterns of topsoil properties in the Negev desert, Israel. In: Israel Geological Society, Annual meeting, Abstracts. (Eds: Crouvi, O., Malik, U., Oren, O., Shalev, E., Friedman, V., Yechieli Y). p 115.

Crouvi, O., R. Amit, Y. Enzel, N. Porat, and E. McDonald. 2007. Regional pedo-sedimentary stratigraphic units in the primary eolian loess of the Negev desert Israel. In: Israel Geological Society, Annual meeting, Abstracts. (Eds: Crouvi, O., Malik, U., Oren, O., Shalev, E., Friedman, V., Yechieli Y.) p 22-23.

de Leon, J.M., A. Villoso, J. Wallace, and D.P. Moser. 2007. “Distribution of Shewanella species from diverse aquatic habitats of the western United States.” Poster, American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, NV-AZ Branch, April 14, 2007, Flagstaff, AZ.

Deng, Y. and E.V. McDonald. 2007. Mineral occurrence, translocation, and weathering in soils developed on four types of alluvial fan deposits in Mojave desert, southeastern California. 44th Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society, June 2-7, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Deng, Y., and E. McDonald. 2007. Mineral Occurrence, Translocation, and Weathering in Soils Developed on Four Types of Carbonate and Non-carbonate Alluvial Fan Deposits in Mojave Desert, Southeastern California. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Doran, P.T. C.H. Fritsen, F. Kenig, A. Murray, 2006: Ice-sealed Lake Vida, McMurdo Dry Valleys: Lessons on entry and cleaning procedures. Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments Advanced Science and Technology Planning Workshop, April 2006. Grenoble France.

Dussaq, A, C.S. Riesenfeld, B.J. Baker, A.E. Murray. 2007. Isolation of a Palmerolide-producing microorganism. Nevada INBRE Summer Fellowship Program, August 2007, Reno NV.

Edwards, S.R. 2007. “Camp Desert Rock: The Material Culture of America’s Atomic Army,” Society for American Archaeology 72nd Annual Meeting, April 26, 2007, Austin, TX.

Edwards, S.R. 2007. Camp Desert Rock: The Material Culture of America’s Atomic Army. abstract in the Society for American Archaeology 72nd  Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. 104, Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C.

Edwards, S.R. and C.M. Beck. 2007.  Investigating Plowshare Environmental Liabilities through Applied Archaeology, CEMP Annual Retreat, July 23, 2007, Brian Head, Utah.

Edwards, S. and C. Beck, 2003: Project Tugboat: Hawaii’s Contribution to the Plowshare Program, Hawaii International Conference On Social Sciences, Honolulu.

Engelbrecht, J., E. McDonald, J. Gillies, A. Gertler, and M. Skiba. 2007. Enhanced Particulate Matter Surveillance Program: 10th Annual Force Health Protection Conference, August 2007, Louisville, Kentucky.

Fritsen, C. 2007. Environmental controls and potential food web impacts of Didymosphenia geminata, a comparative ecosystem study.  International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, SIL), August 2007, Montreal.

Fritsen, C. 2007. Low temperature brine beneath the twenty meter ice cover of Lake Vida: Access, geochemistry and cells.  ASLO annual Meeting, February 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

Fritsen, C. 2007. Microbial life in cold brines collected from permanently ice-covered Lake Vida, Antarctica. ASLO annual Meeting, February 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

Fritsen, C.H., A.E. Murray, P.D. Doran, F. Kenig, C.P. McKay. 2007. Low temperature brine beneath the 20 meter ice cover of Lake Vida: Access, geochemistry and cells. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Feb. 2007.

Gillies, J.A., W.G. Nickiling, and N. Lancaster: Aeolian Sediment Flux Characteristics Observed at Owens(dry) Lake, CA. Association of American Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting Abstracts, March 2001, 328.

Glennie, K.W., A.K. Singhvi, N. Lancaster, and J.T. Teller: Quaternary climatic changes over southern Arabia and the Thar desert, India. The Geologic & Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea region, Geological Society of London, April 2001.

Griffiths, P.G., R.H. Webb, and N. Lancaster, 2003: Preservation Holocene wind vectors by vegetation and ventifacts in an eolian sand system. XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, p. 140.

Grzymski, J.J., A.E. Murray, M. Kaplarevic, R.F. Feldman, B.J. Campbell, G.R. Gao, S.C. Cary. 2007. “Environmental genome analysis of the Alvinella pompejana epibiont consortia.” ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Feb. 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

Grzymski, J., A. Marsh, R. Dale, D. Miller, S. Liu and E. DeLong. 2007. Universal patterns of environmental adaptation in microbial genomes. Ecological Genomics, Kansas City, MO.

Grzymski, J., A.E. Murray, G.Gao, B. Campbell, M. Kaplarevic, R. Feldman, and S.C. Cary. 2007. “Environmental genome analysis of the Alvinella pompejana epibiont consortia.” American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, NM.

Grzymski JJ, DeLong, E.F., Marsh, A.G. 2007. Amino acid word structure and usage in microbial genomes. American Society of Microbiology. Toronto, Canada.

Grzymski, J.J. and A.E. Murray, 2006: Antarctic bacterial genome sequence analysis suggests widespread cold adaptation. SCAR Open Sciences Meeting, Hobart, Australia, July, 2006.

Grzymski, J.J., Murray, AE, Kaplarevic, M., Feldman, R., Campbell, B.J., Gao, G.R. and S.C. Cary, 2006: Environmental genome analysis of the Alvinella pompejana epibiont consortia. 14th International Meeting on Microbial Genomics, Lake Arrowhead, CA. September, 2006.

Hartwell, W.T. 2007. The Community Environmental Monitoring Program: A Historical Perspective. Waste Management ’07 meetings, Tucson, Arizona.

Hartwell, W.T. 2007. The Community Environmental Monitoring Program: Reducing Public Perception of Risk through Stakeholder Involvement, International Symposium on Technology and Society meetings, Las Vegas, NV.

Hartwell, W.T. 2007. The Community Environmental Monitoring Program: A Model for Stakeholder Involvement in Environmental Monitoring. International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management (ICEM’07), Brugges, Belgium.

Huntington, J., S. Burak, T.G. Caldwell, R. Naranjo, and S.W. Tyler. 2007. Testing Bouchet’s Hypothesis to Estimate Actual Evapotranspiration from Selected Sites in Nevada, Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference, February 20-22, 2007, Reno, NV.
 
Huntington, J., T. Caldwell, R. Naranjo, S. Burak, and S. Tyler. 2007. Trends in Pan Evaporation and Application of the Complimentary Relationship of Evaporation in the Great Basin, USA, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Jacoby, Y., T. Grodek., Y. Enzel, E. McDonald, O. Dahan, N. Porat, 2005: Impact of twentieth century floods on hyperarid ephemeral stream, Arava Valley, Israel. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 428.

Jayco, A. S., Forester, R.M., Sharpe, S., and Smith, G.I.: Constraints on the lacustrine environment during the last pluvial highstand(Late Wisconsin, Tioga Age) in Panamint Valley, southeast California. In Program and Abstracts American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December, 2001. San Francisco, CA.

Johnson, W.G., and M. Thursby: Cultural Resources Management on the Nevada Test Site. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual ESRI Users Conference, July 8, 2002. San Diego, CA.

Kapralevic, M., and A.E. Murray. 2007. ENGENIUS – Environmental Genome Informational Utility System. Conference on computational systems bioinformatics, August, 2007, San Diego, CA.

Labahn, S.K., D.P. Moser, T.J. Arrowood and M.H. Young. 2007. Fate of acrylamide in soil and groundwater systems: microbial degradation. Poster. AGU Fall Meeting, December 13, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Labahn, S.K., D.P. Moser, T.J. Arrowood and M.H. Young. 2007. Microbial degradation of acrylamide in soil. Microbiology Group Seminar, November 2007, UNLV, SOLS.

Lancaster, N.: Farouk El Baz Award for Desert Research: Dynamics of linear sand dunes: present, past, and future. Geological Society of America, Abstracts, 33, 6, A-252.

Lancaster, N., E.J. Corbett, and K. Cupp. Decadal scale dynamics of the Christmas valley sand dunes, Lake County, Oregon. Geological Society of America, Abstracts, 33, 6, A-438.

Lancaster, N., 2003: Linear dunes: are they a product of glacial wind regimes? XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, p. 128.

Lancaster, N., A. Singhvi, J.T. Teller, K. Glennie, and V.P. Pandey, 2003: Eolian chronology and paleowind vectorsin the northern Rub al Khali, United Arab Emirates. XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, p. 141.

Lancaster, N., C. Mckenna Neuman, and W.G. Nickling. Grainfall processes in the lee of transverse dunes, Silver Peak, Nevada. Association of American Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting Abstracts, March 2001, 525-526.

Lancaster, N., Nickling, W.G., Gillies, J.A. Exceptionally coarse-grained wind ripples in the Wright Valley, Antarctica. In: Lee, J.A. And Zobeck, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference, International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA, Publication 02-2, 447.

Lancaster, N., Kocurek, G., Singhvi, A.K., Pandey, V,, Deynoux, M., Ghienne, J-P., Lo, K, Linear dunes in the western Sahara, Mauritania: chronology and reconstruction of Late Pleistocene and Holocene wind regimes. In: Lee, J.A. And Zobeck, T.M., Proceedings of ICAR5/GCTE-SEN Joint Conference, International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA, Publication 02-2, 398-399.

Levy, K., and D.P. Moser. 2007. Microbial biotransformation of estrogen compounds in the Las Vegas Wash. NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Symposium. Desert Research Institute, April 17, 2007, Las Vegas, NV.

Lollar, B.S., G. Slater, D.P. Moser, T.M. Gihring, J. Telling, G. Lacrampe-Couloume, L.H. Lin, and T.C. Onstott, 2005. Abiogenic gases, H2 autotrophy and methanogenesis in the deep subsurface. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 229:U888-U888.

Loope, D.B., M. B. Steiner, C. M. Rowe, And N. Lancaster, 2003: Tropical Westerlies Over Pangean Sand Seas. Geological Society of America, Abstracts 35 (6)89.

Marion, G. M., 2003: Salt precipitation in the Europan ice shell and its potential astrobiological importance.” Contributed paper, Forum on Concepts and Approaches for Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, June 2003.

McDonald, E.V. 2007. Integrated Terrain Forecasting for Military Operations, Joint ARO-ERDC Review Meeting of ARO Terrestrial Science Program Basic Research, September 24-25, 2007, Vicksburg, MS.

McDonald, E.V., and T.F. Bullard. 2007. Limited response of ephemeral stream dynamics to extreme vegetation change – Late Holocene alluvial history of ephemeral streams, Catalina Island, California, USA, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 88 (52), Fall Meeting, Supplemental, Abstract p. H51E-0822.

McDonald, E.V., and T.G. Caldwell. 2007. Ecohydrology Along First-Order Channels of Inter-mountane Piedmonts, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, ARO Terrestrial Sciences Soil Moisture/Arid Lands Research Review Meeting, March 5-6, 2007, Colorado Springs, CO.

McDonald, E.V., S. Bassett, S.N. Bacon, T.B. Minor, and T.F. Bullard. 2007. Integrated terrain forecasting for military operations: predicting the location of critical soil conditions using geomorphic image analysis: 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography, Abstracts, p. 22.

McDonald, E.V., S.D. Bassett, S.N. Bacon, T.B. Minor, and T.F. Bullard. 2007. Integrated terrain forecasting for military operations: Predicting the location of critical soil conditions using geomorphic image analysis: 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography, June 18-21, Quebec, Canada, Session 9 Soil and Technology, p. 22.

McDonald, E.V., T.F. Bullard, J.T. Britt, and M.O. Ruiz. 2007. Identification of geologic variables in developing and archeological predictive model for cultural resources management on military lands in desert terrain: 2007 Sustaining Military Readiness.

McDonald, E.V., T.F. Bullard, T.G. Caldwell. 2007. Limited Response of Ephemeral Stream Dynamics to Extreme Vegetation Change Related to Historic Overgrazing, Catalina Island, California, U.S. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007.

McDonald, E.V. Scott D. Bassett, Steven N. Bacon, Timothy B. Minor. Thomas F. Bullard. 2006: Integrated desert terrain forecasting for military operations, 25th Army Science Conference Proceedings, 6pp.

McDonald, E.V., Bassett, S.D., Bacon, S.N., Minor, T.B., Bullard, T.F., 2006: Integrated desert terrain forecasting for military operations: 25th Army Science Conference, November 27-30, 2006, Orlando, Fl, Session O Environmental and Engineering Geosciences; OP-14, poster & short paper, 6 p.

McDonald, E.V., and T.G. Caldwell, 2005: Geochemical characteristics of Iraqi dust and soil samples and related impacts to weapon malfunctions. Sixth International Conference on Military Geology & Geography, Nottingham, UK, June 19-22, 2005.

McDonald, E.V., T.G. Caldwell, B. Stevenson, and R. Sparks, 2004: Integrated Site Design: The Integration of Soils and Hydrology for Restoration Planning. Mojave Science Symposium, November 16-18, Redlands, CA.

McGwire, K., B. Schultz, T. Minor, C. Kratt. 2007. Airborne Hyperspectral Research & Development for Invasive Species Detection and Mapping, NASA workshop for Federal program managers, March 2007, Washington DC.

McGwire, K., B. Schultz, T. Minor, C. Kratt. 2007. Invasive Species Mapping in Northern Nevada Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery, Nevada Weed Management Association, October 2007, Las Vegas, NV.

Moser, D., S. Labahn, A. Villoso, J. de Leon. 2007. PAM and AMD fate: microbial breakdown. 30 minute talk to PAM Advisory Panel, DRI, February 5, 2007, Reno, NV.

Moser, D., S. Labahn, E. Robleto. 2007. Microbial interaction with acrylamide and polyacrylamide. Microbiology Group Seminar, UNLV, March 2007, SOLS.

Moser, D.P. 2007. Oral presentation. Playa lakes: Insights into Mars’ last aquatic ecosystems. ASLO, Aquatic Sciences Meeting, February 8, 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

Moser, D.P. 2007. Seminar. New Insights into the Deep Dark Biosphere: Late Developments from the South African Mine Environment. Close-out lecture for Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Conference. Mt. Holyoke College, July 18, 2007, South Hadley, MA.

Moser, D.P. and J. Bruckner. 2007. Microbial processes leading to the production of substances that are harmful to fish (e.g. H2S). Presented at Walker Basin meeting, November 30, 2007, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV.

Moser, D.P., and S.M. Blunt. 2007. Microbial degradation of EDCs. Project summary talk given at USGS/SNPLMA Lake Mead Endocrine Disruptors Group, National Park Service, November 8, 2007, Lake Mead, NV.

Moser, D.P., C. Jacovides, J. Wallace, and J. de Leon. Shewanella of desert aquatic habitats. Poster. Shewanella Federation Annual Meeting, Pacific Northwest National Lab., September 28, 2007, Richland, WA.

Mouat, D. 2007.  Alternative Futures at the Range Complex Level: Southwestern United States.  Presentation at the Western Regional Partnership meeting, November 2007, Tucson, AZ. 

Mouat, D. 2007.  Alternative Futures at the Range Complex Level: Southwestern United States.  Western Regional Partnership meeting, November 2007, Tucson, AZ. 

Mouat, D. and J. Lancaster. 2007. Drylands in Crisis: Environmental Change and Human Response.  Presentation at NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts, June 2007, Newport, RI.

Mouat, D., L, Zhou and J. Lancaster. 2007.  Alternative Futures Analysis for Maintaining Sustainability of Drylands.  Presentation at AAAS, February 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Mouat, D., L, Zhou and J. Lancaster. 2007. Alternative Futures Analysis for Maintaining Sustainability of Drylands. AAAS, February 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Mouat, D., S. Bassett and D. Brunckhorst. 2007. Addressing the Future Through Understanding Critical Uncertainties and Linked Process Models. Place and Purpose, May 2007, Bendigo, Victoria.

Mouat, D., S. Bassett, J. Trammell, A. Gertler, D. Boyle, J. Lancaster, A. Shearer. 2007. Alternative Futures Analysis: A Scenario-based Strategic Planning Assessment Technique to Aid Environmental Management, Presentation to OSD and DoD visitors, December 2007, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV.

Mouat, D., S. Bassett, and J. Lancaster, 2002: Water Source and Linear Oasis: Assessing Alternative Futures for the Kuiseb River Basin, Namibia. Proceedings of "Alternative Ways to Combat Desertification: Connecting Community Action with Science and Common Sense, Capetown, S.A. Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, Windhoek, S.A.

Murray, A.E., J. Grzymski, B. Carter, B. Campbell, M. Kaplarevic, C. Cary, 2006: From the Southern cold waters to the deep hot vents, environmental genomics reveals clues to adaptation, function and diversity. New Zealand Microbiogical Society, Hamilton, New Zealand, November, 2006.

Murray, A.E. and J.J. Grzymski, 2006: Diversity and genomic signatures of coastal Antarctic bacterioplankton. Alpine and Polar Microbiology Meeting, Innsbruck Austria, March, 2006.

Murray, A.E., C.H. Fritsen, F. Kenig, C. McKay, P. Doran, 2006: Detecting life in isolated habitats – examples from Lake Vida, an ice-covered lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. New Zealand Microbiogical Society, Hamilton, New Zealand, November, 2006.

Murray, A.E., 2006: Endemism of Antarctic Marine Microorganisms, CAML Workshop, Hobart, Australia, July, 2006.

Murray, A.E., 2001: International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam, NE, August 2001. Published abstract. Functional genomics of Shewanella oneidensis, str. MR-1: variation in gene expression during growth with different electron acceptors.

Murray, A.E., DL. Lies, G. Li, K.H. Nealson, J. Zhou, J.M. Tiedje: DNA:DNA hybridization to microarrays reveals gene-specific differences between closely related microbial genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98(17):9853-9858, 2001.

Myers, K, M. Erickson, A.E. Murray, and H. Ducklow. 2007. Response of bacterioplankton communities to inorganic and organic nutrient enrichments at Palmer Station, Antarctica.  September 2007, SAME10, Faro Portugal.

Myers, K.A., A. Murray, M Erickson, N. Middaugh, H. Quinby, H. Ducklow, 2006: Bacterial dynamics and diversity in Antarctic Seas. LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO. September 2006.

Nickling, W.G., J.A. Gillies., and N. Lancaster: Surface controls on dust emissions, Owens (dry) Lake, California. N. Association of American Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting Abstracts, March 2001, 697.

Passow, U., C. De La Rocha, C. Arnosti, H. Grossart, A.E. Murray, and A. Engel. 2007. Overview of a mesocosm experiment investigating the impact of phytoplankton on the microbial loop. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, February 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

Plata, J., D.P. Moser, H. Sun, S. Qian. 2007. Detecting DNA in “Mars-like” soils from the Atacama Desert, Chile. NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 17, 2007, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV.

Potosnak, M., J. Rinne, A. Guenther, P. Harley, J. Greenberg, T. Karl, L.V. Gatti, S. Avione, J.W. Munger and S. Wofsy, 2005: "Seasonal cycle of isoprene fluxes from a tropical ecosystem," Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 05880.

Potosnak, M, K Griffin, M Stieglitz, G Kling, J Schimel and J Hobbie, 2005: "Fluxes of isoprene and monoterpenes from a tundra ecosystem" AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A51B-0053.

Rhode, D. 2007. “Late Prehistoric Subsistence Change at High Elevations in the White Mountains, Eastern California: the Archaeobotanical Record.” Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.

Rhode, D., and L. Louderback. 2007. Holocene Vegetation Change and Human Plant Use in the Northwest Bonneville Basin, Nevada/Utah. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.

Rhode, D., L. Louderback, D.B. Madsen, M. Metcalf, and A. D. Reed. 2007. Paleoenvironmental Research on the Piceance Basin Lateral and REX Pipeline Project:  A Preliminary Report. Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Jackson, WY.

Rhode, D., M. Haizhou, D.B. Madsen, P.J. Brantingham, and S.L. Forman. 2007.  Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Investigations at Qinghai Lake, western China:  Geomorphic and Chronometric Evidence of Lake Level History. 17th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Cairns, Australia.

Riesenfeld, C.S., A.E. Murray, and B.J. Baker. 2007. Evidence for biosynthesis of palmerolide natural products by polyketide synthetases within bacterial symbionts of the Antarctic tuicate Synoicum adareanum.  ASM General Meeting, May 2007, Toronto, CA.

Sabol, D.E. 2007. Desert soil characterization for detection of buried landmines and unexploded ordinance, Proc. NGA Academic Research Symposium, September 12-14, 2007, Washington, DC, p. 69-70.

Sancho, C., G. Benito, A. Muñoz, J.L. Peña, L.A. Longares, E. McDonald, E. Rhodes, and M.A. Saz. 2007. Actividad aluvial durante la Pequeña Edad del Hielo en Bardenas Reales de Navarra Alluvial activity during Little Ice Age in Bardenas Reales of Navarra, Spanish Geological Society Annual Meeting, Madrid.

Schofield, J., C. Beck, and H. Drollinger, 2003: Cold War Heritage: Peace Camps at Greenham and Nevada. Contemporary and Historical Archaeology Theoretical Conference, Archaeology as Political Action 2 Session, Nov. 21-23, 2003, Program with Abstracts, p. 96, Bristol.

Shafer, D.S., M.H. Young, S.F. Zitzer, E.V. McDonald and T.G.Caldwell, 2005: Coupled Environmental Processes in the Mojave Desert and Implications ET Covers as Stable Landforms. American Society of Civil Engineers, Los Angeles, CA, October 27-29, 2005.

Sharpe, S. E., 2003: The Solute Ecotone, A key to Past Hydrology. XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, Desert research Institute, Reno, NV.

Sharpe, S. E., 2003: Glacial and Interglacial Patterns in the Devils Hole, Nevada, Record: Are We Currently in Marine Isotope Stage 3? In “Proceedings Climate Variability of the Eastern North Pacific and Western North America Conference”, April 6-9, 2003, Pacific Grove, CA.

Sharpe, S. E., 2003: Yucca Mountain Climate: Past, Present, and Future. Program and Abstracts, GSA Annual Meeting, Nov 2-5, 2003. Seattle, WA.

Sharpe, S.E., and Forester, R.M.: Reconstructing Past and Forecasting Future Climate at Yucca Mountain, Nevada In "Back to the Future-Managing the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cell to Create a More Secure Energy Future," Proceedings of the 9th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM), April 29-May 3, 2001, Las Vegas, NV. La Grange Park , Illinois: American Nuclear Society.

Sharpe, S.E., Young, M.H., Cooper, C.A., Miller, J.J.: Estimating Climate and Unsaturated Zone Moisture Flux for the Past 24,000 Years at the Nevada Test Site. In "Proceedings Climate Variability of the Eastern North Pacific and Western North America Conference," March 3-6, 2002, Pacific Grove, CA.

Sherman, William R., Simon Su, Frederick Harris, Jr., Phil McDonald, Yi Mu, 2006: Open-source Tools for Immersive Environmental Visualization, Final review by IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications editorial members.

Sherry, R.A., S. Gu, X. Zhou, N.A. Zerbach, L.L. Wallace, Y. Luo, J.A. Arnone, P.S.J. Verburg, D. Schimel, 2006: Species-specific differences in flowering phenology in warmed Tallgrass Prairie plots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 10.1073.

Simhai, O., A. Matmon, R. Amit, Y. Enzel, E. McDonald, N. Porat, R.C. Finkel. 2007b. Pliocene to present climatic trend derived from cumulic hyperarid soils in tectonically stable alluvial surfaces in southern Israel. XVII INQUA congress The tropics: Heat Engine of the Quaternary. Quaternary International, V. 167-168 Supplement, July 1-2, 2007, p. 386-387.

Su, Simon, William Sherman, Frederick Harris, Mike Dye, 2006: TAVERNS: Visualization and Manipulation of GIS data in 3D Large Screen Immersive Environments, The Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, November 2006.

Su, Simon, William R. Sherman, R Bowen Loftin, 2006: Latest R&D trends in VR and AR in both extremes [high-end oriented and low-end oriented], Invited paper, MMU International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, November 2006.

Sweeney, M.R., and E.V. McDonald, 2005: Fingerprinting sediment sources and eolian processes in the formation of desert Av horizons. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 425.

Verburg, P.S.J., A.C. Young, I. Glanzmann, B. Stevenson, J.A. Arnone III, R.S. Nowak. 2007. Linkages between biotic and abiotic belowground processes in a Mojave Desert ecosystem: Responses to experimental nitrogen and water additions. American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly Meeting, Acapulco, MX.

Verburg, P.S.J., D.W. Johnson, D.E. Schorran, L.L. Wallace, Y. Luo, J.A. Arnone III. 2007. Impacts of an anomalously warm year on nutrient availability in experimentally manipulated tallgrass prairie ecosystems. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Verusub, K. and others. 2006: Workshops: Scientific Coring in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Eos. Trans. 87:3 Jan 2006.

Whittaker, T.E., B.L. Hall, C.H. Hendy, G.M. Henderson, and Berger, Glenn W., 2003: Recent and Abrupt Variations in Depositional Environment in Lake Fryxell, Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstracts with Programs, v.35(6), p.414.

Young, M.H., E.V. McDonald, T.G. Caldwell, S.G. Benner, and D. Meadows. 2007. Hydraulic Properties of a Desert Soil Chronosequence in the Mojave Desert, USA, 2007 Unsaturated Zone Interest Group Meeting, August 27-30, 2007, Los Alamos, NM.

Young, M.H., T.G. Caldwell, and J. Zhu. 2007. Spatial Variability of Soil Hydraulic Properties at Interspace/Canopy Microsites, ASA-SSSA-CSA Annual Meeting, November 5-9, 2007, New Orleans, LA.

Young, M.H., T.G. Caldwell, J.J. Miller, and G.K. Dalldorf. 2007. Combining Pedotransfer Functions and Detailed Geomorphic Mapping to Characterize Runoff Potential on an Arid Alluvial Fan Complex, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

Young. M.H., T.G. Caldwell, J. Goreham, D.G. Meadows, D.S. Shafer, J.J. Miller, and E.V. McDonald, 2005: Hydrologic impacts of a surface-applied, organic emulsion on arid soils, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 5-9, 2005.

 
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