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Publications and Presentations

Redsteer, Margaret H. (2004) (Abs) Impacts of Land Use and Climate Variability, Navajo Nation, USA; American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, April 2004

Redsteer, Margaret H. and Block, Debra, (2003) Mapping susceptibility of sand dunes to destabilization on the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau , Paper No. 68-9

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, No. 6, September 2003, p. 170

Redsteer, Margaret H. and Block, Debra, (2004) Drought conditions accelerate destabilization of sand dunes on the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, November 2004

Redsteer, Margaret H. and James, Keith, (2004) (abst.) Native Americans and the Geosciences: Problems with Societally Driven Research, Cultural and Racial Divisions: AGU Annual Fall meeting

Redsteer, Margaret H. and Block, Debra, (2005) Susceptibility of sand dunes to destabilization on the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau: Application of the dune mobility index to normal and drought years; Journal of Geophysical Research, subm.

Breit, G.N., and Redsteer, M.H., (2004) Composition of water sources in the Tsezhin Bii area of the Navajo Nation, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report...

Newkirk, T. Austin, A. Redsteer, M.H., Ort, M., and Block, D, Surficial and bedrock geology of the White Cone 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, scale 1:24,000

Redsteer, M.H , Newkirk, T. Austin, A.., Ort, M., and Block, D, Surficial and bedrock geology of the Satan Butte 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, scale 1:24,000

Redsteer, M.H., Newkirk, T. Austin, and Block, D, Surficial and Bedrock geology of the Greasewood Spring 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, scale 1:24,000

Redsteer, M.H., Newkirk, T. Austin, A., Ort, M., and Block, D, Surficial and Bedrock Geology of the Indian Wells 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, scale 1:24,000


Selected references cited in this website:

Bull, William B. (1997) Discontinuous ephemeral streams: Geomorphology v. 19, p.227-276.

Humphrey, Robert R. (1958) The desert grassland: A history of vegetational change and analyses of causes: Botanical Review, v. 24, p. 193-252.

McFadden, Leslie D., and McAuliffe, Joseph R., Lithologically induced geomorphic responses to Holocene climatic changes in the southern Colorado Plateau, Arizona: A soil-geomorphic and ecologic perspective: Geomorphology v. 19, p. 303-332.

Neilson, Ronald P. (1986) High-resolution climatic analysis and southwest biogeography: Science, v. 232, p.27-34.

Savage, Melissa and Swetnam, Thomas W. (1990) Early 19 th century fire decline following sheep pasturing in a Navajo ponderosa pine forest: Ecology, v. 71, p. 2374-2378.

Schlesinger, William H., Reynolds, James F., Cunningham, Gary L. Huenneke, Laura F., Jarrel, Wesley M., Virginia, ross A., and Whitford, Walter G. (1990) Biological feedbacks of global desertification: Science v. 247, p.1043-1048.

Riebsame, William E. Changnon, Stanley A., and Karl, Thomas R. (1991) Drought and Natural Resource Management, Impacts and Implications of the 1987-89 Drought; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and Oxford, United Kingdom.

Trenberth, Kevin E., Branstator, Grant W., and Arkin, Phillip A. (1988) Origins of the 1988 North American drought: Science v. 242, p.1640-1645.

Trenberth, Kevin E. (1998) Atmospheric moisture residence times and cycling: Implications for rainfall rates and climate change: Climate Change v. 39, p. 667-694.

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