Faculty Publications
Check out two recent publications by Sian Kou-Giesbrecht: Anthropogenic-driven perturbations on nitrogen cycles and interactions with climate changes in Elsevier's Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry and The Impact of Climate Forcing Biases and the Nitrogen Cycle on Land Carbon Balance Projections in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
Check out geophysics PhD student Alireza Niksejel’s (along with his supervisor Miao Zhang) recent work in Geophysical Journal International. They introduce a deep-learning seismic phase picker for OBS data using automated labeling and transfer learning (named OBSTransformer). https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae049
Check out EES MSc student, Anna Ryan's (along with her supervisor Vittorio Maselli and fellow Dal researcher Tony Walker) recent publication in Nature Communications documenting microplastics that were scooped up from the North Atlantic and deposited on land (Newfoundland) during Hurricane Larry in 2021: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01115-7.
Check out Miao Zhang's new article in the Science Direct Tectonophysics journal: Seismogenic structures and earthquake mechanisms in the Changning area, China: Insights from seismicity and tomography. Dr. Zhang and co-authors investigate seismogenic structures and earthquake mechanisms based on seismicity distribution, velocity models, and reflection profiles. The Changning area accommodates both tectonic and induced earthquakes.
New Review Article in the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: Genesis and evolution of kimberlites, co-authored by EES' Yana Fedortchouk exploring the composition, formation and evolution of kimberlite melts and the mechanisms of their ascent.
Check out Miao Zhang's new work in The Seismic Record: P/SV Amplitude Ratios of Shallow Isotropic Explosions and Earthquakes Could Be Indistinguishable at Local Distances: Insights from Single‐Station Waveform Simulations
Dr. Kelvin Fong recently published a paper on the intersection of immigrant and environmental health in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives: The Intersection of Immigrant and Environmental Health: A Scoping Review of Observational Population Exposure and Epidemiologic Studies
Check out Miao Zhang and team's new paper "Machine Learning‐Based Earthquake Catalog and Tomography Characterize the Middle‐Northern Section of the Xiaojiang Fault Zone" at https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220116.
How to apply machine-learning phase picker to seamlessly build high-precision earthquake catalogs from continuous waveforms? Please check out Miao Zhang’s new publication in Seismological Research Letters. LOC-FLOW: An End-to-End Machine-Learning-Based High-Precision Earthquake Location Workflow, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220019. Codes are available on GitHub: https://github.com/Dal-mzhang/LOC-FLOW
Stunning 3D seismic reflection data from the Levant basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea) show how active faulting influence turbidite deposition. Check out the last paper published in GEOLOGY by Vittorio Maselli and colleagues, and the beautiful cover image of the December issue! https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/49/12/1495/607269/Active-faulting-controls-bedform-development-on-a
Congratulations to Martin Gibling on the publication of River Planet: Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis. River Planet introduces readers to the epic geological history of the world’s rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis.
A new study lead by Alexandre Normandeau and co-authored by Vittorio Maselli is just published in Nature Geoscience and shows that icebergs colliding with the seafloor can generate submarine landslides in Arctic and Subarctic environments. If interested, have a look at this link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00767-4 (Free-to-read link: https://rdcu.be/cm8Ry)
Check out Miao Zhang's new paper published in Seismological Research Letters: Source characterization for two small earthquakes in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada: pushing the limit of single station.
Vittorio Maselli's paper on the Mafia mega-slide and its relation with EARS earthquakes, "Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting", published last year in Nature Communications, has been selected for a collection of Nature papers focusing on Natural Hazards: https://www.nature.com/collections/bdhajfjhbc
Check out Owen Sherwood's new paper published in PNAS on oil and gas wellbore integrity from more than 100k wells in CO/NM/PA: Public data from three US states provide new insights into well integrity
Check out Miao Zhang's new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters: Real-time Earthquake Early Warning with Deep Learning: Application to the 2016 M 6.0 Central Apennines, Italy Earthquake. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL089394
Check out Owen Sherwood's new paper published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: Amino acid δ13C and δ15N patterns from sediment trap time series and deep-sea corals: implications for biogeochemical and ecological reconstructions in paleoarchives https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703720307250
Check out Owen Sherwood's new paper: Microbial and Biogeochemical Indicators of Methane in Groundwater Aquifers of the Denver Basin, Colorado: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c04228#.X9GrSHhaKfM.twitter
Aluminum concentrations in Nova Scotia rivers are too high to sustain healthy aquatic life, according to a study by EES' Shannon Sterling and team. You can find the paper in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal: https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/24/4763/2020/hess-24-4763-2020.html
Recent paper published in Nature Geoscience on the origins of iron ore deposits highlighted in this News and Views by James Brenan: https://rdcu.be/b7vG2
Check out Vittorio Maselli's paper "A 1000-yr-old tsunami in the Indian Ocean points to greater risk for East Africa": https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G47257.1/586277/A-1000-yr-old-tsunami-in-the-Indian-Ocean-points
and online at the National Geographic Society's website: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/1000-year-old-bones-oldest-known-east-africa-tsunami-victims/
Check out Vittorio Maselli's paper Tidal modulation of river-flood deposits: How low can you go? just published in the journal GEOLOGY and his new OFI-funded project: https://oceanfrontierinstitute.com/research/pei-source
Check out this paper just published in Nature Geoscience co-authored by EES' James Brenan: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-0560-y