PUBLICATIONS

Recent work appearing in journals and other media

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field focus: microplastics

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TOPIC: DEPOSITION

Plastic Rain in Protected Areas of the United States

"Urban centers and resuspension from soils or water are principal sources for wet-deposited plastics."

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TOPIC: TRANSPORTATION

Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle

"Most continents were net importers of plastics from the marine environment, underscoring the cumulative role of legacy pollution in the atmospheric burden of plastic."

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Relation between regional drought and mountain dust deposition revealed by a 10-year record from an alpine critical zone

Munroe, J.S.. 2022. Science of the Total Environment. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156999
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Multivariate receptor modeling with widely dispersed Lichens as bioindicators of air quality

Heiner, M., Grimm, T., Smith, H., Leavitt, S.D., Christensen, W.F., Carling, G.T., St. Clair, L.L.. 2022. Environmetrics. e2785 https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2785

Uranium Isotopic Composition and Constraints on the Provenance of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau's Surface Dust

Jiao X, Dong Z, Parteli EJ, Brahney J, Wei T, Augusto M, Nie J, Ren J, Qin X. 2022. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 127(3), e2021JF006480. e2021JF006480

Uranium isotopes of aeolian dust deposited in northern Tibetan Plateau glaciers: Implications for tracing aeolian dust provenance

Jiao, X., Dong, Z., Brahney, J., Parteli, E. J., Li, F., Augusto, M., & Wei, T.. 2022. Fundamental Research. 2(5), 716-726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2022.01.026

Strontium isotope dynamics reveal streamflow contributions from shallow flow paths during snowmelt in a montane watershed, Provo River, Utah, USA

Hale, C.A., Carling, G.T., Nelson, S.T., Fernandez, D.P., Brooks, P.D., Rey, K.A., Tingey, D.G., Packer, B.N., & Aanderud, Z.T.. 2022. Hydrological Processes. 36, e14458.

Hf–Nd–Sr Isotopic Composition of the Tibetan Plateau Dust as a Fingerprint for Regional to Hemispherical Transport.

Wei, T., Brahney, J., Dong, Z., Kang, S., Zong, C., Guo, J., ... & Qin, X. 2021. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(14), 10121-10132.

Pedogenic clay formation from allochthonous parent materials in a periglacial alpine critical zone

Munroe, J. S., Ryan, Peter C., and Proctor, A. 2021. Catena. 203, 105324.

Holocene Records of Eolian Dust Deposition from High-Elevation Lakes in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA

Munroe, J.S., McElroy, R., O’Keefe, S., Peters, A., and Wasson, L. 2021. Journal of Quaternary Science. 36(1), 66-75.

A new sampler for the collection and retrieval of dry dust deposition.

Brahney, J., Wetherbee, G., Sexstone, G. A., Youngbull, C., Strong, P., & Heindel, R. C. 2020. Aeolian Research. 45, 100600.

Quantifying the Contribution of Dust to Alpine Soils in the Periglacial Zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA

Munroe, J.S., Norris, E.D., Olson, P.M., Ryan, P.C., Tappa, M.J., and Beard, B.L. 2020. Geoderma. 378, 114631.

Trace element export from the Critical Zone triggered by snowmelt runoff in a montane watershed, Provo River, Utah, USA

Checketts, H.N., Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Nelson, S.T., Rey, K.A., Tingey, D.G., Hale, C.A., Packer, B.N., Cordner, C.P., Dastrup, D.B., & Aanderud, Z.T.. 2020. Frontiers in Water. 2, 578677.

Using strontium isotopes to trace dust from a drying Great Salt Lake to adjacent urban areas and mountain snowpack

Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Rey, K.A., Hale, C.A., Goodman, M.M., & Nelson, S.T.. 2020. Environmental Research Letters. 15, 114035.

Mercury and dissolved organic matter dynamics during snowmelt runoff in a montane watershed, Provo River, Utah, USA

Packer, B.N., Carling, G.T., Veverica, T., Russell, K.A., Nelson, S.T., & Aanderud, Z.T.. 2020. Science of the Total Environment. 704, 135297.

Regional sources control dust in the mountain critical zone of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, USA

Jeffrey S Munroe, Elsa J Soderstrom, Camryn L Kluetmeier, Michael J Tappa, Derek V Mallia and Ann M Bauer. 2023. Environmental Research Letters. 18 (10) 10.1088/1748-9326/acfb26
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Trace element chemistry and strontium isotope ratios of atmospheric particulate matter reveal air quality impacts from mineral dust, urban pollution, and fireworks in the Wasatch Front, Utah, USA

Micah J. Marcy, Gregory T. Carling, Alyssa N. Thompson, Barry R. Bickmore, Stephen T. Nelson, Kevin A. Rey, Diego P. Fernandez, Matthew Heiner, Bradley R. Adams. 2024. Applied Geochemistry. 162 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2024.105906