The GeoQuEST Research Centre represents an interdisciplinary team from the Faculties of Science and Engineering that has a focus on environmental and climate change research under the overall theme of Earth System Science and Technology. The centre brings together outstanding researchers studying the atmosphere (Atmospheric Chemistry), earth (Geography and Geology), and water (Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering) who share central interests in environmental processes and climate change.

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Papers from 2014

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Tectono-stratigraphy and structure of the northwestern Zagros collision zone across the Iraq-Iran border, Sarmad A. Ali, Mohammad Mohajjel, Khalid Aswad, Sabah Ismail, Solomon Buckman, and Brian Jones

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Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption, Thomas J. Breider, Loretta J. Mickley, Daniel Jacob, Qiaoqiao Wang, Jenny A. Fisher, Rachel Y.-W Chang, and Becky Alexander

Multichannel rivers: their definition and classification, Paul Carling, John Jansen, and Lyubov Meshkova

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Discordance between cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in amalgamated sands and individual fluvial pebbles in an arid zone catchment, Alexandru T. Codilean, Cassandra R. Fenton, Derek Fabel, Paul Bishop, and Sheng Xu

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Factors governing the rejection of trace organic contaminants by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes, Hai Q. Dang, Long D. Nghiem, and William E. Price

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Distributed leadership: building capacity for interdisciplinary climate change teaching at four universities, Aidan Davison, Paul Brown, Emma Pharo, Kristin Warr, Helen McGregor, Sarah Terkes, Davina Boyd, and Pamela Abuodha

Gaseous nitrogen emissions from Australian cattle feedlots, O Tom Denmead, Deli Chen, Doug Rowell, Zoe Loh, Julian Hill, Stephanie Muir, David W.T Griffith, Travis Naylor, Mei Bai, Frances Phillips, and Sean McGinn

Implications for Rodinia reconstructions for the initiation of Neoproterozoic subduction at ~860Ma on the western margin of the Yangtze Block: evidence from the Guandaoshan Pluton, Lilin Du, Jinghui Guo, Allen Phillip Nutman, Derek Wyman, Yuansheng Geng, Chonghui Yang, Fulai Liu, Liudong Ren, and Xiwen Zhou

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Cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne surface exposure dating of young basalts from Southern Mendoza, Argentina, Venera R. Espanon, Masahiko Honda, and Allan R. Chivas

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The impact of spectral resolution on satellite retrieval accuracy of CO2 and CH4, A Galli, Sandrine Guerlet, Andre Butz, Ilse Aben, H Suto, A Kuze, Nicholas Deutscher, Justus Notholt, Debra Wunch, Paul Wennberg, D W. T Griffith, Otto Hasekamp, and J Landgraf

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Late-Holocene climatic variability indicated by three natural archives in arid southern Australia, Luke A. Gliganic, Timothy J. Cohen, Jan-Hendrik May, John D. Jansen, Gerald C. Nanson, Anthony Dosseto, Joshua R. Larsen, and Maxime Aubert

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Environmental character and history of the Lake Eyre Basin, one seventh of the Australian continent, Anna Habeck-Fardy and Gerald C. Nanson

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Critical cartography and the use of new technologies for conserving the Australian coastline: a case study from Lord Howe Island, Sarah Hamylton

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Will coral islands maintain their growth over the next century? A deterministic model of sediment availability at Lady Elliot Island, Great Barrier Reef, Sarah Hamylton

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Response to Sheppard, C. Atoll rim expansion or erosion in Diego Garcia Atoll, Indian Ocean? Comment on Hamylton, S.; East, H. A Geospatial appraisal of ecological and geomorphic change on Diego Garcia Atoll, Chagos Islands (British Indian Ocean Territory). Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 3444-3461, Sarah Hamylton and holly East

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Isomer-specific product detection of gas-phase xylyl radical rearrangement and decomposition using VUV synchrotron photoionization, Patrick Hemberger, Adam J. Trevitt, Thomas Gerber, Edward Ross, and Gabriel da Silva

A test of equilibrium theory and a demonstration of its practical application for predicting the morphodynamics of the Yangtze River, He Qing Huang, Caiyun Deng, Gerald Nanson, Beilin Fan, Xiaofang Liu, Tonghuan Liu, and Yuanxu Ma

Commentary on a "Conceptual model for complex river responses using an expanded Lane diagram by David Dust and Ellen Wohl", Geomorphology, Volume 139-140, March 2012, Pages 109-121, He Qing Huang, Xiaofang Liu, and Gerald Nanson

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Inner gorges cut by subglacial meltwater during Fennoscandian ice sheet decay, John Jansen, Alexandru T. Codilean, Arjen P. Stroeven, Derek Fabel, C Hattestrand, Johan Kleman, J M. Harbor, J Heymann, Peter Kubik, and S Xu

Object-oriented classification of a high-spatial resolution SPOT5 image for mapping geology and landforms of active volcanoes: Semeru case study, Indonesia, Zeineb Kassouk, Jean-Claude Thouret, Avijit Gupta, Akhmad Solikhin, and Soo Chin Liew

Japan's sediment flux to the Pacific Ocean revisited, Oliver Korup, Yuichi Hayakawa, Alexandru T. Codilean, Yuki Matsushi, Hitoshi Saito, Takashi Oguchi, and Hiroyuki Matsuzaki

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Himalayan denudation: noise vs. time, Oliver Korup, Henry Munack, Alexandru T. Codilean, Jan-Henrik Blothe, and Peter Kubik

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Late Pleistocene glaciation of the Kodar Mountains, south-central Siberia, constrained by Be-10 exposure dating, Martin Margold, John Jansen, Artem L. Gurinov, Natalya V. Reznichenko, Alexandru T. Codilean, and David Fink

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Photodissociation of TEMPO-modified peptides: new approaches to radical-directed dissociation of biomolecules, David L. Marshall, Christopher S. Hansen, Adam J. Trevitt, Han Bin Oh, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Constraining the timescales of sediment transport in lowland regions using U-series isotopes and morphometric analysis, Ashley Martin, Anthony Dosseto, Allan Chivas, and Jan-Hendrik May

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Trace elements and metal pollution in aerosols at an alpine site, New Zealand: sources, concentrations and implications, Samuel K. Marx, Karen S. Lavin, Kimberly J. Hageman, Balz S. Kamber, Tadhg O'Loingsigh, and Grant H. McTainsh

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Unprecedented wind erosion and perturbation of surface geochemistry marks the Anthropocene in Australia, Samuel Marx, Hamish McGowan, Balz Kamber, Jon M. Knight, John Denholm, and Atun Zawadzki

Quaternary Sea-Level Changes: A Global Perspective, Colin Murray-Wallace and Colin Woodroffe

Gondwanan Eoarchean-Neoproterozoic ancient crustal material in Iran and Turkey: zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic evidence, Allen Phillip Nutman, Mohammad Mohajjel, Vickie Bennett, and Chris L. Fergusson

Late Pleistocene coastal loess deposits of the central west coast of North America: terrestrial facies indicators for marine low-stand intervals, Curt D. Peterson, Georg H. Grathoff, Frank Reckendorf, David Percy, and David M. Price

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Simultaneous nitrification/denitrification and trace organic contaminant (TrOC) removal by an anoxic-aerobic membrane bioreactor (MBR), Hop Phan, Faisal Ibney Hai, Jinguo Kang, Hoa Dam, Ren Zhang, William Price, Andreas Broeckmann, and Long Nghiem

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Using communities of practice to enhance interdisciplinary teaching: lessons from four Australian institutions, Emma Pharo, Aidan Davison, Helen McGregor, Kristin Warr, and Paul Brown

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Preliminary results of dietary and environmental reconstructions of Early to Middle Pleistocene Stegodons from the So'a Basin of Flores, Indonesia, based on enamel stable isotope records, Mika Puspaningrum, Gerrit Van Den Bergh, Allan Chivas, Erick Setiabudi, Iwan Kurniawan, Adam Brumm, and Thomas Sutikna

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Synthesis, properties, water and solute permeability of MWNT buckypapers, Md. Harun-Or Rashid, Son Q. T Pham, Luke J. Sweetman, Leighton J. Alcock, Anthony Wise, Long D. Nghiem, Gerry Triani, Marc in het Panhuis, and Stephen F. Ralph

Tidal flats and salt marshes, Kerrylee Rogers and Colin Woodroffe

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Interdependency of tropical marine ecosystems in response to climate change, Megan I. Saunders, Javier X. Leon, David P. Callaghan, Chris M. Roelfsema, Sarah Hamylton, Christopher J. Brown, Tom Baldock, Aliasghar Golshani, Stuart R. Phinn, Catherine E. Lovelock, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Colin Woodroffe, and Peter J. Mumby

Ice dams, outburst floods, and glacial incision at the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau: a >100 k.y. chronology from the Shyok Valley, Karakoram, Dirk Scherler, Henry Munack, Jurgen Mey, Patricia Eugster, Hella Wittmann, Alexandru T. Codilean, Peter Kubik, and Manfred R. Strecker

Lead isotope variability of fine-grained river sediments in Tibetan Plateau water catchments: implications for geochemical provinces and crustal evolution, Hongbing Tan, Jun Chen, Wenbo Rao, Jiedong Yang, Junfeng Ji, and Allan R. Chivas

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Rapid profiling of laser-induced photochemistry in single microdroplets using mass spectrometry, Phillip J. Tracey, Bartholomew S. Vaughn, Brendon J. Roberts, Berwyck L. J Poad, and Adam J. Trevitt

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Earth is (mostly) flat: apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales: REPLY, J K. Willenbring, Alexandru T. Codilean, and B Mcelroy

Coral reefs and sea-level change, Colin Woodroffe and Jody M. Webster

Papers from 2013

Reply to comment on "Accordion vs. quantum tectonics: insights into continental growth processes from the Paleozoic of eastern Gondwana", Jonathan Aitchison and Solomon Buckman

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The tectonic evolution of a Neo-Tethyan (Eocene-Oligocene) island-arc (Walash and Naopurdan groups) in the Kurdistan region of the Northeast Iraqi Zagros Suture Zone, Sarmad A. Ali, Solomon Buckman, K J. Aswad, Brian G. Jones, Sabah A. Ismail, and Allen P. Nutman

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Polycyclic evolution of Camboriú Complex migmatites, Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil: integrated Hf isotopic and U-Pb age zircon evidence of episodic reworking of a Mesoarchean juvenile crust, Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei, Mario Da Costa Campos Neto, Angela Pacheco Lopes, Allen Phillip Nutman, Dunyi Liu, and Kei Sato

Historical area and shoreline change of reef islands around Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati, Naomi Biribo and Colin D. Woodroffe

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A methodology for the rapid assessment of the potential impact and hazard of coal seam gas mining on aquifers and the environment, John M. Bradd, Emma Kiekebosch-Fitt, Tim J. Cohen, Sam K. Marx, and Solomon Buckman

Sea-level rise impacts and responses: a global perspective, Sally Brown, Robert J. Nicholls, Colin D. Woodroffe, Susan Hanson, Jochen Hinkel, Abiy S. Kebede, Barbara Neumann, and Athanasios T. Vafeidis

Knickpoint retreat and transient bedrock channel morphology triggered by base-level fall in small bedrock river catchments: the case of the Isle of Jura, Scotland, Miguel Castillo, Paul Bishop, and John D. Jansen

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Ten trenches: a scienceart collaboration, Timothy J. Cohen, Martin Cohen, Stephanie Kermode, and Michael G. Leggett

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Factors driving mercury variability in the Arctic atmosphere and ocean over the past 30 years, Jenny A. Fisher, Daniel J. Jacob, Anne L. Soerensen, Helen M. Amos, Elizabeth S. Corbitt, David G. Streets, Qiaoqiao Wang, Robert M. Yantosca, and Elsie M. Sunderland

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the Australian drylands, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, Timothy J. Cohen, Paul P. Hesse, John Jansen, Gerald C. Nanson, Jan-Hendrik May, Timothy T. Barrows, David Haberlah, Alexandra Hilgers, Tegan Kelly, Joshua Larsen, Johanna Lomax, and Pauline Treble

A thermoluminescence (TL) analysis of ceramics from cairns in Jordan: using TL to integrate off-site features into regional chronologies, James A. Fraser and David M. Price

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N-nitrosamine rejection by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes: The importance of membrane characteristics, Takahiro Fujioka, Stuart J. Khan, James A. McDonald, Annalie Roux, Yvan Poussade, Jorg E. Drewes, and Long D. Nghiem

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Formation of dimethylketene and methacrolein by reaction of the CH radical with acetone, Fabien Goulay, Adeeb Derakhshan, Eamonn Maher, Adam J. Trevitt, John D. Savee, Adam M. Scheer, David L. Osborn, and Craig A. Taatjes

A single origin for the limnetic-euryhaline taxa in the Corbulidae (Bivalvia), Anders Hallan, Donald J. Colgan, Laurie C. Anderson, Adriana García, and Allan R. Chivas

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The use of remote sensing to scale up measures of carbonate production on reef systems: a comparison of hydrochemical and census-based estimation methods, Sarah Hamylton, Jacob Silverman, and Emily Shaw

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UV photodissociation action spectroscopy of haloanilinium ions in a linear quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer, Christopher S. Hansen, Benjamin B. Kirk, Stephen J. Blanksby, Richard A. J O'Hair, and Adam J. Trevitt

Ultraviolet photodissociation of the N-methylpyridinium ion: action spectroscopy and product characterization, Christopher S. Hansen, Benjamin B. Kirk, Stephen J. Blanksby, and Adam J. Trevitt

Direct observation of para-Xylylene as the decomposition product of the meta-Xylyl radical using VUV synchrotron radiation, Patrick Hemberger, Adam J. Trevitt, Edward Ross, and Gabriel da Silva

Effects of the March 2011 Japanese Tsunami in Bays and Estuaries of SE Australia, Jon B. Hinwood and Errol J. McLean

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Assessing processes and timescales of sandstone landscape formation in Zhangjiajie Geopark of China, H Huang, Jan-Hendrik May, David Fink, Toshiyuki Fujioka, Robert Wray, and J Gu

Rocky coast hazards and public safety: moving beyond the beach in coastal risk management, David M. Kennedy, Shauna Sherker, Barbara Brighton, Adam Weir, and Colin D. Woodroffe

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Determining the impact of the Holocene highstand at the coastal-fluvial interface, Shoalhaven River, south-eastern Australia, Stephanie J. Kermode, Martin R. Gibling, Brian G. Jones, Tim J. Cohen, David M. Price, and James S. Daley

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Does addition of NO2 to carbon-centered radicals yield RONO or RNO2? An investigation using distonic radical ions, Benjamin B. Kirk, Adam J. Trevitt, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Ultraviolet action spectroscopy of iodine labeled peptides and proteins in the gas phase, Benjamin B. Kirk, Adam J. Trevitt, Stephen J. Blanksby, Yuanqi Tao, Benjamin N. Moore, and Ryan Julian

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Characterisation of the ionic products arising from electron photodetachment of simple dicarboxylate dianions, Benjamin B. Kirk, Adam J. Trevitt, Berwyck L. Poad, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Accuracy of micrometeorological techniques for detecting a change in methane emissions from a herd of cattle, Johannes Laubach, Mei Bai, Cesar S. Pinares-Patino, Frances A. Phillips, Travis A. Naylor, German Molano, Edgar A. Cardenas Rocha, and David W. T Griffith

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Systematic ENSO-driven nutrient variability recorded by central equatorial Pacific corals, Michele LaVigne, Intan S. Nurhati, Kim M. Cobb, Helen V. McGregor, Daniel Sinclair, and Robert M. Sherrell

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Using formative feedback to identify and support first year chemistry students with missing or misconceptions. A practice report, Gwen Lawrie, Anthony Wright, Madeleine Schultz, Timothy Dargaville, Glennys O'Brien, Simon B. Bedford, Mark Williams, Roy Tasker, Hayden Dickson, and Christopher Thompson

Filling the 'white ribbon' - a multisource seamless digital elevation model for Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Javier X. Leon, Stuart R. Phinn, Sarah Hamylton, and Megan I. Saunders

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Morphological characterisation of reef types in Torres Strait and an assessment of their carbonate production, Javier X. Leon and Colin D. Woodroffe

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Post-glacial sea-level changes around the Australian margin: a review, Stephen E. Lewis, Craig R. Sloss, Colin V. Murray-Wallace, Colin D. Woodroffe, and Scott G. Smithers

Paleo- to Eoarchean crustal evolution in eastern Hebei, North China Craton: new evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb dating and in-situ Hf isotopic study of detrital zircons from paragneisses, Shoujie Liu, Yusheng Wan, Huiyi Sun, Allen P. Nutman, Hangqiang Xie, Chunyan Dong, Mingzhu Ma, Dunyi Liu, and Bor-Ming Jahn

Isomer specific product detection in the reaction of CH with acrolein, Jessica F. Lockyear, Oliver Welz, John D. Savee, Fabien Goulay, Adam J. Trevitt, Craig A. Taatjes, David L. Osborn, and Stephen R. Leone

Direct observation of photodissociation products from phenylperoxyl radicals isolated in the gas phase, Alan T. Maccarone, Benjamin B. Kirk, Christopher S. Hansen, Thomas M. Griffiths, Seth Olsen, Adam J. Trevitt, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Laboratory simulation of karst on titan, Michael J. Malaska, Robert P. Hodyss, Karl L. Mitchell, and Robert Wray

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Coral microatoll reconstructions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation: New windows on seasonal and interannual processes, Helen V. McGregor, C D. Woodroffe, M Fischer, M K. Gagan, and David Fink

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Sandstone versus conglomerate erosional landscapes - Why similarities? Why differences?, Piotr Migon and Robert Wray

Anabranching and anastomosing rivers, Gerald Nanson

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The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of Greenland: Episodic 3900 to 3660 Ma juvenile crust formation and recycling in the 3660 to 3600 Ma Isukasian orogeny, Allen P. Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, Clark R. L Friend, Hiroshi Hidaka, Keewook Yi, Seung Ryeol Lee, and Tomoyuki Kamiichi

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Middle Carboniferous-Early Triassic eclogite-blueschist blocks within a serpentinite mélange at Port Macquarie, eastern Australia: implications for the evolution of Gondwana's eastern margin, Allen P. Nutman, Solomon Buckman, Hiroshi Hidaka, Tomoyuki Kamiichi, Elena Belousova, and Jonathan Aitchison

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The emergence of the Eoarchaean proto-arc: evolution of a c. 3700 Ma convergent plate boundary at Isua, southern West Greenland, Allen Phillip Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, and Clark R L Friend

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Protoliths of enigmatic Archaean gneisses established from zircon inclusion studies: case study of the Caozhuang quartzite, E. Hebei, China, Allen Phillip Nutman, Ronni Maciejowski, and Yusheng Wan

LT2 cryptosporidium data: what do they tell us about cryptosporidium in surface water in the United States?, Jerry E. Ongerth

The concentration of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in water - The role and importance of recovery efficiency, Jerry E. Ongerth

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Effects of atmospheric light scattering on spectroscopic observations of greenhouse gases from space. Part 2: Algorithm intercomparison in the GOSAT data processing for CO2 retrievals over TCCON sites, Sergey Oshchepkov, Andrey Bril, Tatsuya Yokota, Paul O. Wennberg, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Debra Wunch, Geoffrey C. Toon, Yukio Yoshida, Christopher W. O'Dell, David Crisp, Charles E. Miller, Christian Frankenberg, Andre Butz, Ilse Aben, Sandrine Guerlet, Otto Hasekamp, Hartmut Boesch, Austin Cogan, Robert Parker, David Griffith, Ronald Macatangay, Justus Notholt, Ralf Sussmann, Markus Rettinger, Vanessa Sherlock, John Robinson, Esko Kyro, Pauli Heikkinen, Dietrich G. Feist, Isamu Morino, Nikolay Kadygrov, Dmitry Belikov, Shamil Maksyutov, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Osamu Uchino, and Hiroshi Watanabe

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Simultaneous retrieval of atmospheric CO2 and light path modification from space-based spectroscopic observations of greenhouse gases: Methodology and application to GOSAT measurements over TCCON sites, Sergey Oshchepkov, Andrey Bril, Tatsuya Yokota, Yukio Yoshida, Thomas Blumenstock, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Susanne Dohe, Ronald Macatangay, Isamu Morino, Justus Notholt, Markus Rettinger, Christof Petri, Matthias Schneider, Ralf Sussmann, Osamu Uchino, Voltaire A. Velazco, Debra Wunch, and Dmitry Belikov

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Rapid differentiation of isomeric lipids by photodissociation mass spectrometry of fatty acid derivatives, Huong T. Pham, Adam J. Trevitt, Todd W. Mitchell, and Stephen J. Blanksby

Tracking short-term effects of nitrogen-15 addition on nitrous oxide fluxes using fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, Rebecca Phillips, David W. T Griffith, Feike Dijkstra, Glenys Lugg, Roy Lawrie, and Ben Macdonald

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Paleoclimate data-model comparison and the role of climate forcings over the past 1500 years, Steven J. Phipps, Helen V. McGregor, Joelle Gergis, Ailie J. E Gallant, Raphael Neukom, Samantha Stevenson, Duncan Ackerley, Josephine R. Brown, Matt J. Fischer, and Tas D. Van Ommen

Late Quaternary changes in flow-regime on the Gwydir distributive fluvial system, southeastern Australia, Timothy J. Pietsch, Gerald C. Nanson, and Jon M. Olley

Direct detection of a persistent carbonyloxyl radical in the gas phase, Berwyck L. J Poad, Benjamin B. Kirk, Pramesh I. Hettiarachchi, Adam J. Trevitt, Stephen J. Blanksby, and Timothy Clark

Dissociative photodetachment of the ethoxide anion and stability of the ethoxy radical CH3CH2O•, Berwyck L. J Poad, Amelia W. Ray, and Robert E. Continetti

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Hydroxyl radical formation in the gas phase oxidation of distonic 2-methylphenyl radical cations, Matthew Prendergast, Phillip A. Cooper, Benjamin B. Kirk, Gabriel da Silva, Stephen J. Blanksby, and Adam J. Trevitt

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Quaternary, Gilbert Price, Dionisio Cendon, Allan Chivas, Adriana Garcia, and John S. Jell

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Coastal evolution on volcanic oceanic islands: a complex interplay between volcanism, erosion, sedimentation, sea-level change and biogenic production, Ricardo S. Ramalho, Rui Quartau, Alan S. Trenhaile, Neil C. Mitchell, Colin D. Woodroffe, and Sergio P. Avila

Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation, Jessica M. Reeves, Timothy T. Barrows, Timothy J. Cohen, Anthony S. Kiem, Helen C. Bostock, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, John D. Jansen, Justine Kemp, Claire Krause, Lynda Petherick, and Steven J. Phipps

Millennium-scale records of benthic foraminiferal communities from the central Great Barrier Reef reveal spatial differences and temporal consistency, Claire E. Reymond, George Roff, Allan R. Chivas, Jian-xin Zhao, and John M. Pandolfi

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Rates of shoreline change along the coast of Bangladesh, Md. Golam Mahabub Sarwar and Colin D. Woodroffe

Streams of the montane humid tropics, F N. Scatena and Avijit Gupta