Earth Systems and Climate Change

• Brachfeld, S. (PI). “Collaborative research: Deglacial ice dynamics in the Weddell Sea embayment using sediment provenance,” National Science Foundation, 2014-2017.
• Chopping, M. (PI). “Changes in Shrub Abundance in Arctic Tundra from the Satellite High Resolution Record for the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment and Impacts on Albedo,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2015-2016.
• Li, X. (PI) with co-PIs S. Brachfeld, Y. Deng, S. Passchier, and D. Sarkar. “MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma- Mass Spectrometry (ICP MS) for elemental concentration and speciation analysis at Montclair State University.” National Science Foundation, 2015-2017.
• Lorenzo-Trueba, J., (PI). “Managing for biodiversity and blue carbon in the face of sea-level rise and barrier-island migration,” National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration – NJ Sea Grant Consortium, 2016-2017.
• Passchier, S., (PI). “Expedition 347 Baltic Sea Onshore Science Party,” NSF-ODP Subaward, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, 2014-2016.
• Passchier, S. (PI). “Understanding ice dynamics, meltwater discharge and paleocirculation in the Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment through laser particle size and XRF analysis,” National Science Foundation, 2014-2016.
• Passchier, S., (PI) “The Stratigraphic Expression of the Onset of Glaciation in Eocene-Oligocene Successions on the Antarctic Continental Margin”, 2013-2017.

* indicates a Montclair State University student author or program alumnus

• Chopping, M.J. Remote Sensing in Environmental Management (2016) An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management, 397-422.
• *Hansen, M.A. and Passchier, S., (2016) Oceanic circulation changes during early Pliocene marine ice-sheet instability in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica. Geo-Mar Lett., doi:10.1007/s00367-016-0489-8.
• Alo, C.A., Anagnostou, E.N. A sensitivity study of the impact of dynamic vegetation on simulated future climate change over Southern Europe and the Mediterranean (2016) International Journal of Climatology, in press.
• Chopping, M., *Duchesne, R., North, M. Assessing remotely-sensed aboveground biomass estimates in the Sierra National Forest (2014) International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), art. no. 6946606, pp. 1041-1044.
• Christ, A.J., Talaia-Murray, M., Elking, N., Domack, E.W., Leventer, A., Lavoie, C., Brachfeld, S., Yoo, K.-C., Gilbert, R., Jeong, S.-M., Petrushak, S., Wellner, J., Balco, G., Late Holocene glacial advance and ice shelf growth in Barilari Bay, Graham Land, West Antarctic Peninsula (2015) Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 127 (1-2), pp. 297-315.
• *Duchesne, R.R., Chopping, M.J., Tape, K.D. Capability of the CANAPI algorithm to derive shrub structural parameters from satellite imagery in the Alaskan Arctic (2016) Polar Record, 52 (2), pp. 124-133.
• *Hansen, M.A., Passchier, S., Khim, B.-K., Song, B., Williams, T. Threshold behavior of a marine-based sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in response to early Pliocene ocean warming (2015) Paleoceanography, 30 (6), pp. 789-801.
• Hodson, T.O., Powell, R.D., Brachfeld, S.A., Tulaczyk, S., Scherer, R.P. Physical processes in Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica: Inferences from sediment cores (2016) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 444, pp. 56-63.
• Iacoviello, F., Giorgetti, G., Turbanti Memmi, I., Passchier, S., 2014. Early Miocene Antarctic glacial history: new insights from heavy mineral analysis from ANDRILL AND 2A drill core sediments. International Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-014-1117-3.
• *Oteng F. M, C. A. Alo, and S. M. Yidana (2014), Evaluation of groundwater recharge estimates in a partially metamorphosed sedimentary basin in a tropical environment: application of natural tracers, The Scientific World Journal, Vol. 2014, Article ID 419508, 8 pages. doi: 10.1155/2014/419508
• Passchier, S., *Ciarletta, D., *Miriagos, T., Bijl, P., Bohaty, S., 2016. An Antarctic stratigraphic record of step-wise ice growth through the Eocene-Oligocene Transition. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 128, doi: 10.1130/B31482.1.
• Rebesco, M., Domack, E., Zgur, F., Lavoie, C., Leventer, A., Brachfeld, S., Willmott, V., Halverson, G., Truffer, M., Scambos, T., Smith, J., Pettit, E. Boundary condition of grounding lines prior to collapse, Larsen-B Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2014) Science, 345 (6202), pp. 1354-1358.
• *Reilly, B.R., *Natter, C., and Brachfeld, S.A., 2016. Holocene glacial activity in Barilari Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula, tracked by magnetic mineral assemblages: Linking ice, ocean, and atmosphere, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 17, doi:10.1002/2016GC006627.
• Rogers, L.J., Moore, L.J., Goldstein, E.B., Hein, C.J., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., Ashton, A.D. Anthropogenic controls on overwash deposition: Evidence and consequences (2015) Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, 120 (12), pp. 2609-2624.
• St. John, K., Passchier, S., Tantillo, B., Darby, D., Kearns, L., 2015. Microfeatures of Modern Sea Ice-Rafted Sediment and Implications for Paleo-Sea Ice Reconstructions. Annals of Glaciology 56 (69), doi: 10.3189/2015AoG69A586.
• Wang, Z., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Chopping, M.J., Román, M.O., Shuai, Y., Woodcock, C.E., Hollinger, D.Y., Fitzjarrald, D.R. Evaluation of MODIS albedo product (MCD43A) over grassland, agriculture and forest surface types during dormant and snow-covered periods (2014) Remote Sensing of Environment, 140, pp. 60-77.