Tectonic geomorphology, surface processes, landform evolution.
2019
Climate preconditions the Critical Zone: Elucidating the role of subsurface fractures in the evolution of asymmetric topography. West, N., Kirby, E., Nyblade, A., and Brantley, S.L. (2019): Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 513, p. 197-205
2018
Stratigraphic control of landscape response to base-level fall, Young Womans Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. DiBiase, R.A., Denn, A.R., Bierman, P.R., Kirby, E., West, N., and Hidy, A.J. (2018): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 504, p. 163-173
2017
Cosmogenic nuclides indicate that boulder fields are dynamic, ancient, multigenerational features. Denn, Alison R., Bierman, Paul R., Zimmerman, Susan R. H., Caffee, Marc W., Corbett, Lee B., and Kirby, Eric (2017): GSA Today 28:4-10
2016
Oxidative Dissolution under the Channel Leads Geomorphological Evolution at the Shale Hills Catchment . Sullivan, P.L., Hynek, S., Gu, X., Singha, K., White, T.S., West, N., Kim, H., Kirby, E., Clarke, B.; Duffy, C.; Brantley, S.L. (2016): American Journal of Science, 316 (10): 981-1026
2014
Aspect-dependent variations in regolith creep revealed by meteoric 10Be. West, Nicole , Kirby, Eric, Bierman, Paul and Clarke, Brian A. (2014): Geology, vol 42 (6):507-510
2013
Regolith production and transport in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Part 1: Insights from U-series isotopes. Ma, L., Chabaux, F., West, N., Kirby, E., Jin, L., and Brantley, S. (2013): Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface 118 (2) 722-740
2013
Neogene rejuvenation of central Appalachian topography: Evidence for differential rock uplift from stream profiles and erosion rates. Miller, S.R., Sak, R.B., Kirby, E., and Bierman, P.R. (2013): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 369-370:1-12
2013
Regolith production and transport at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory: Part 2 - Insights from meteoric 10Be. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P., Slingerland, R., Ma, L., Rood, D., and Brantley, S. L. (2013): Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface 118:1-20
2011
Preliminary estimates of regolith generation and mobility in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Pennsylvania, using meteoric 10Be. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P., Rood, D. (2011): Applied Geochemistry v.26, S146 – S148
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
2018
Stratigraphic control of landscape response to base-level fall, Young Womans Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. Roman A DiBiase*, Alison Denn, Paul R Bierman, Eric Kirby, Nicole West, Alan Hidy (2018): Abstract EP21D-2271 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14
2017
ASPECT-DEPENDENT FEEDBACKS BETWEEN REGOLITH PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORT AT THE SHALE HILLS CRITICAL ZONE OBSERVATORY. West, N., Kirby, E., Nyblade, A., and Brantley, S.L. (2017): 2017 Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, Seattle, WA, 22-25 October
2016
Microclimate Controls on the Evolution of Critical Zone Architecture in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. West, N., Kirby, E., Nyblade, A., and Brantley, S.L. (2016): 2016 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
2015
Using the Susquehanna - Shale Hills CZO to Project from the Geological Past to the Anthropocene Future . Brantley, Susan L., Davis, Kenneth J., Eissenstat, David M., Li, Li, Russo, Tess (2015): NSF Award # 1331726 - Annual Report: Year 2
2015
INVESTIGATION OF A RELICT PERIGLACIAL FEATURE: HICKORY RUN BOULDER FIELD, HICKORY RUN STATE PARK, PENNSYLVANIA. Denn A., Bierman P., and Kirby E. (2015): 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.550
2015
REGOLITH PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORT IN THE SUSQUEHANNA SHALE HILLS CRITICAL ZONE OBSERVATORY: INSIGHTS FROM U-SERIES ISOTOPES (Invited). Ma L., Chabaux F., West N., Kirby E., Jin L., and Brantley S.L. (2015): Pardee Symposium, 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.832
2015
The interplay of regolith evolution and watershed hydrodynamics in a first order watershed. Sullivan P.L., Hynek, S., Gu, X., Singha, K., White, T., West, N., Kim, H., Clarke, B., Kirby, E., Duffy, C., and Brantley, S.L (2015): 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, CZ, 16-21 Aug
2015
TOPOGRAPHIC FINGERPRINTS OF MICRO-CLIMATE AND LITHOLOGY IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS (Invited). West, N. and Kirby, E. (2015): Pardee Symposium, 2015 GSA National Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.831
2015
Microclimate controls on weathering: Insights into deep critical zone evolution from seismic refraction surveys in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. West, Nicole, Eric Kirby, Andrew Nyblade and Susan Brantley (2015): EP41C-0941 Mechanistic Underpinnings of Damage, Disruption, and Downslope Transport of Rock and Regolith Posters, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2014
An Accomplishment-Based Request for Renewal of the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHO). Brantley, S.L., Duffy, C.J., Eissenstat, D.M., and Kirby, E. (2014): NSF Award # 1239285 Project Outcomes Report
2014
Using the Susquehanna - Shale Hills CZO to Project from the Geological Past to the Anthropocene Future . Brantley, Susan L., Davis, Kenneth J., Duffy, Christopher J., Eissenstat, David M., Li, Li (2014): NSF Award # 1331726 - Annual Report: Year 1
2014
EP33B-3635 Using shallow seismic tomography to characterize patterns of near-surface weathering and the mobile-immobile regolith transition: Implications for the erodibility and morphology of hillslopes . Brian Clarke • Eric Kirby • Douglas Burbank • Nicole West (2014): 2014 AGU Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19th Cross-CZO
2014
EP32B-06 Hillslope response to differences in aspect-related microclimate (Invited) . Nicole West • Eric Kirby (2014): 2014 AGU Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19th
2014
An Accomplishment-Based Request for Renewal of the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHO). Susan L Brantley, Christopher J Duffy, David M Eissenstat, Eric Kirby (2014): NSF Award # 1239285 Final Report
2014
Aspect-related topographic asymmetry at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. West N., Kirby E., and Bierman, P. (2014): Presented at the NSF National Critical Zone Observatory Program All Hands Meeting, , Yosemite, CA, 21-24 Sept., 2014
2014
ASYMMETRIC TOPOGRAPHY REFLECTS VARIABLE TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY ON SOIL-MANTLED HILLSLOPES IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS. WEST, Nicole and KIRBY, Eric (2014): GSA Northeastern Section 49th Annual Meeting 23–25 March 2014
2014
ASPECT-DEPENDENT REGOLITH FLUX REVEALED BY METEORIC 10BE. WEST, Nicole, KIRBY, Eric, and BIERMAN, Paul (2014): 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia (19–22 October 2014)
2013
Cross-CZO Contrasts: Aspect Controls and Critical Zone Architecture. Clarke, B.A., Kirby, E., Burbank, D.W., West, N. (2013): Abstract H43L-07presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. Cross-CZO
2013
Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory: Annual Report to National Science Foundation. Duffy, C. and Brantley, S.L. (2013): NSF Award #1239285
2013
Characterizing the Recent Cenozoic Erosional History of the Appalachian Mountains through Spatial Variation in Stream Profile Metrics across the Allegheny Front. Neely, A (2013): Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State University.
2013
Topographic fingerprints of hillslope erosion in the North American Appalachians. Nicole West and Eric Kirby (2013): EGU General Assembly 2013
2013
Going Steady: Using multiple isotopes to test the steady-state assumption at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (Invited) . West, N., Kirby, E., Ma, L., Bierman, P.R. (2013): Abstract H54A-03 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
2013
Quantifying Aspect Control on Transport Efficiency and Mobile Regolith Flux at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory . WEST, Nicole, KIRBY, Eric, BIERMAN, Paul R., and CLARKE, Brian (2013): GSA Annual Meeting
2012
An Accomplishment-Based Request for Renewal of the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHO). Brantley, S.L., Duffy, C.J., Eissenstat, D.M., and Kirby, E. (2012): NSF Award # 1239285
2012
Testing hillslope transport models in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. West, N., Kirby, E. (2012): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2011
Using meteoric 10Be to estimate soil residence times and erosion rates at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, PA. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P., (2011): European Science Foundation Conference on Cosmogenic Nuclides, Obergurgl, Austria, August, 2011
2011
Preliminary estimates of regolith generation and mobility in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Pennsylvania, using meteoric 10Be. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P., Rood, D., (2011): International Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface, Boulder, CO, June, 2011
2011
Toward an understanding of landscape change in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P., Slingerland, R., Ma, L., Jin, L., Brantley, S., (2011): All Hands Meeting, Oracle, AZ, May, 2011
2011
Constraints on regolith formation and erosion rates at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, PA, determined using meteoric 10Be. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P.R., Rood, D.H. (2011): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2010
Using meteoric 10Be to track soil erosion and transport within a forested watershed, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, PA. West, N., Kirby, E., Bierman, P.R., Rood, D.H. (2010): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
Isotopic Estimates of Weathering
Isotope geochemistry (Uranium, Thorium, Beryllium) offer estimates of weathering rates at Shale Hills.
13 May 2015 - The annual SSHCZO All Hands meeting featured Dr. Dorothy Merritts, Harry W. and Mary B. Huffnagle Professor of Geosciences and Chair of the...
13 Jun 2013 - We proudly announce the fifth and final award has been granted on the 2012 RFP seed grant for collaborative research at Shale Hills. The...
06 May 2013 - Geology undergraduate Greg Bailey (B.S. Dec 2013) and recent geology graduate Alexander Neely (B.S. May 2013) have been awarded summer 2013 Research...
26 Apr 2013 - Utilizing the Shale Hills CZO and beyond, four senior geosciene majors from the College of Earth and Mineral Science at Penn State presented...
06 Feb 2013 - Drillers arrived onsite this afternoon to begin the "Drill the Ridge" campaign for the Shale Hills catchment. To complement the 80ft well...
01 Apr 2010 - PI’s Eric Kirby and Rudy Slingerland and PhD student, Nicole West, hosted A.J. Herrs (University of Kansas) from March 21st – 23rd to...
Critical Zone Seminar Series - All Hands Fall 2012
117 EES Building.
Tree throw mini symposium featuring Eric Kirby, Rudy Slingerland and Tim White
301 Steidle Building.