Recent Department Publications

Recent Department Publications

Bolded text denotes a faculty member or student in the Department of Geography & Planning.

2023

Shay, E, M MacNamara, “Planning and social work: Teaching pre-professional university students across colleges.” Journal of Community Practice, 31: 1, 11-23, 2023

Runkle, J.D., K. Risley., Roy, M., and Sugg, M.M., (2023) “Association between perinatal mental health and reproductive and neonatal complications: a retrospective birth cohort study” Women’s Health Issues. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2022.12.001

Sugg, M.M., Runkle J.D., Ryan, S., Singh, D., Green, S., and Thompson, M., (2023) “A follow-up retrospective analysis of essential workers and their children throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: 2020 - 2021” Public Health Reports https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549221148177

Grant Harley, Matt Therrell., Justin Maxwell, Arvind Bhuta, Joshua Bregy, Karen Heeter,...Saskia L. van de Gevel…& Sarir Ahmad. 2023. The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 0(0): 1–27. (PDF).

2022

Christiana, R., S. Daily, T. Bias, V. Haas, A. Dwyer, E. Shay, A. Hege, R. Broce, H. Venrick, and C. Abildso, 2022. “Effectiveness of a point-of-decision prompt to encourage physical distancing on greenways and rail-trails during Covid19 pandemic,” Environment & Behavior, 54:6. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165221114897

Bagli, H., E. Shay, and T. Combs, 2022. “AVs—Use, share, own? Young adults’ perceptions of connected and automated vehicles,” Transportation Research Record, 2676: 11 

Bonevac, A., E. Shay, and T. Combs, 2022. “Key informant perceptions of flooding and landslides in Western NC following 2018 floods and landslides,” Southeastern Geographer, 62: 2. DOI:10.1353/sgo.2022.0011

Ryan, S., Runkle, J., Andersen, L.M.,  Sugg, M.M. (2022) “Spatial analysis of mental health and completed suicide clustering among older adults in North Carolina: An exploratory analysis,”  Social Science and Medicine - Mental  Health https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100162

Ryan, S, J.D. Runkle, M. M. Sugg, D. Singh, S. Green, and L. Wertis., (2022) “Spatio-temporal clustering of adolescent bereavement in the United States during the extended response to COVID-19: A follow-up study” Journal of Adolescent Health https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.08.021

Lane, S. J., Spaulding, T. J., Hege, A., & Sugg, M.M (2022). Self-reported resilience of North Carolina long-term care organizations and public health agencies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103371

Sugg, M.M., Andersen, L.M., and Runkle J.D., (2022). Trends in Spatial Disparities and Inequalities in Life Expectancy. North Carolina Medical Journal. 83 (5) 325-326. https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.83.5.325.

Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., Andersen, L.M., Desjardins, M.R. (2022). Exploring Place-Based Differences in Suicide and Suicide-Related Outcomes Among North Carolina Adolescents and Young Adults. Journal of Adolescent Health.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.06.013

Wertis, M.L., Runkle, J.D., Sugg, M.M., Singh, D. (2022). Examining Hurricane Ida's Impact on Mental Health: Results from a Quasi-Experimental Analysis. Earth and Space Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10512208.1

Birkel, S.D., Mayewski, P.A., Perry, L.B., Seimon, A., and Andrade-Flores, M. (2022). Evaluation of reanalysis temperature and precipitation for the Andean Altiplano and adjacent cordilleras. Earth and Space Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001934.

Dempsey, K.D. (2022). Concealed productions of structural violence: A cultural flagship in post-authoritarian Spain. Social and Cultural Geographyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2114533

Evans, S.G., Raberg, J.H., Crump, S.E., Raynolds, M.K., Sugg, M.M., Brodie, A.R., and Miller, G.H. (2022). Control of short-stature vegetation type on shallow ground temperatures in permafrost across the eastern Canadian Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeoscienceshttps://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006941.

Harden, S.R., Runkle, J.D., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). An exploratory spatiotemporal analysis of socio‑environmental patterns in severe maternal morbidity. Maternal and Child Health Journalhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03330-0.

Hass, A.L., McCanless, K., Cooper, W., Ellis, K., Fuhrmann, C., Kintziger, K.W., Sugg, M.M., and Runkle, J.D. (2022). Heat exposure misclassification: Do current methods of classifying diurnal range in individually experienced temperatures and heat indices accurately reflect personal exposure? International Journal of Biometeorology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02280-8.

Lane, S.J., Sugg, M.M., Spaulding, T.J., Hege, A., and Iyer, L. (2022). Southeastern United States predictors of COVID-19 in nursing homes. Journal of Applied Gerontologyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221082022.

Miles, L., Spurlock, T., Livesay, N., Henry, M., Sugg, M., Farris, A., Roy, M., and Nunnery, D. (2022). P153 spatial analysis of perinatal food assistance resources in relation to food deserts in North Carolina. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviorhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2022.04.194.

Mitchell, J.H., Runkle, J.D., Andersen, L.M., Shay, E.D., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). Inequalities in life expectancy across North Carolina: A spatial analysis of the Social Determinants of Health and the Index of Concentration at Extremes. Family and Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1097/FCH.0000000000000318.

Moreno, C., Sugg, J., Runkle, J.D., Leeper, R.D., Perry, L.B., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). Examining spatiotemporal trends of drought in the conterminous United States using self-organizing maps. Physical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2022.2035891.

Pelto, M.S., Dryak, M., Pelto, J., Matthews, T., and Perry, L.B. (2022). Contribution of glacier runoff during heat waves in the Nooksack River Basin USA. Waterhttps://doi.org/10.3390/w14071145.

Potocki, M., Mayewski, P.A., Matthews, T., Perry, L.B., Schwikowski, M., Tait, A.M., Korotkikh, E., Clifford, H., Kang, S., Chogyal Sherpa, T., Singh, P.K., Koch, I., and Birkel, S. (2022). Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00230-0.

Runkle, J.D., Harden, S., Hart, L., Moreno, C., Michael, K., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). Socioenvironmental drivers of adolescent suicide in the United States: A scoping review. Journal of Rural Mental Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000208.

Runkle, J.D., Matthews, J.L., Sparks, L., McNicholas, L., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). Racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy complications and the protective role of greenspace: A retrospective birth cohort study. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152145.

Runkle, J.D., Yadav, S., Michael, K., Green, S., Weiser, J., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). Crisis response and suicidal patterns in U.S. youth before and during COVID-19: A latent class analysis. Journal of Adolescent Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.10.003.

Soulé, P. T. (2022). Temporal patterns of drought frequency and severity in North Carolina, 1920-2019 and the drought gap of the 1960s-1970s. Southeastern Geographerhttps://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2022.0003.

Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., Dow, K., Barnes, J., Steens, S., Pearce, J., Bossak, B., and Curtis, S. (2022). Individually experienced heat index in a coastal Southeastern US city among an occupationally exposed population. International Journal of Biometeorology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02309-y.

Thompson, M.P., Sugg, M.M., and Runkle, J.R. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences and their impact on suicidal behaviors. Journal of the Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina Institute for Health and Human Services: Adverse Childhood Experiences. https://issuu.com/appalachianstateuniversity/docs/ihhs-vol2final.

Yang, B., Liu, H., Kang, E.L., Hawthorne, T.L., Tong, S.T.Y., Shu, S., and Xu, M. (2022). Traffic restrictions during the 2008 Olympic Games reduced urban heat intensity and extent in Beijing. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00427-4.

2021

Andersen, L.M.Harden, S.Sugg, M.M.Runkle, J.D., and Lundquist, T.E. (2021). Analyzing the spatial determinants of local Covid-19 transmission in the United States. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142396.

Bias, T., Daily, S., Abildso, C., Venrick, H., Shay, E., Moyers, S., Hege, A., Haas, V., Dyer, A., Broce, R., and Christiana, R. (2021). Systematic observation of physical distancing behaviors of trail users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Healthy Eating and Active Living, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.51250/jheal.v1i3.19.

Clifford, H.M., Potocki, M., Koch, I., Sherpa, T., Handley, M., Korotkikh, E., Introne, D., Kaspari, S., Miner, K., Matthew, T., Perry, L.B., Guy, H., Gajurel, A., Kumar Singh, P., Elvin, S., Elmore, A.C., Tait, A., and Mayewski, P.A. (2021).  A case study using 2019 pre-monsoon snow and stream chemistry in the Khumbu region, Nepal. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148006.

Dempsey, K.E. (2021). Migrant agency and counter-hegemonic efforts among asylum seekers in the Netherlands in response to geopolitical control and exclusion. Geopoliticshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1924552.

Frappart, F., Blarel, F., Fayad, I., Bergé-Nguyen, M., Crétaux, J-F., Shu, S., Schregenberger, J., and Baghdadi, N. (2021). Evaluation of the performances of radar and Lidar altimetry missions for water level retrievals in mountainous environment: The case of the Swiss Lakes. Remote Sensinghttps://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112196.

Fyffe, C.L., Potter, E., Fugger, S., Orr, A., Fatichi, S., Loarte, E., Medina, K., Hellström, R.Å., Bernat, M., Aubry-Wake, C., Gurgiser, W., Perry, L.B., Suarez, W., Quincey, D.J., and Pellicciotti, F. (2021). The energy and mass balance of Peruvian glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034911.

Gregory, L., Schroeder, K., and Wood, C. (2021). A paradigm shift in international service‐learning: The imperative for reciprocal learning. Sustainability, 13: 4473. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084473.

Handwerger, L.R.Sugg, M.M., and Runkle, J.D. (2021). Present and future sea level rise at the intersection of race and poverty in the Carolinas: A geospatial analysis. The Journal of Climate Change and Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100028.

Harden, S.R., Runkle, J.D., Weiser, J., Green, S., and Sugg, M.M. (2021). Spatial clustering of adolescent bereavement in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.04.035.

Hass, A.L., Runkle, J.D., and Sugg, M.M. (2021). The driving influences of human perception to extreme heat: A scoping review. Environmental Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111173.

Hege, A., Lane, S., Spaulding, T., Sugg, M.M., Iyer, L.S. (2021). County-level social determinants of health and COVID-19 in nursing homes, United States, June 1, 2020–January 31, 2021. Public Health Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1177/00333549211053666.

Jonaitis, J.A., Perry, L.B., Soulé, P.T., Thaxton, C., Andrade-Flores, M.F., Ita Vargas, T., and Ticona, L. (2021). Spatiotemporal patterns of ENSO‐precipitation relationships in the tropical Andes of southern Peru and Bolivia. International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7058.

Khadka, A., Matthews, T., Perry, L.B., Koch, I., Wagnon, P., Shrestha, D., Sherpa, T.C., Aryal, D., Tait, A., Sherpa, T.G., Tuladhar, S., Baidya, S.K., Elvin, S., Elmore, A.C., Gajurel, A. and Mayewski, P.A. (2021). Weather on Mount Everest during the 2019 summer monsoon. Weather. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3931.

Knapp, P.A., Soulé, P.T.Maxwell, J.T., Ortegren, J.T., and Mitchell, T.J. (2020). Tropical cyclone precipitation regimes since 1750 and the great suppression of 1843-1876 along coastal North Carolina, USA. International Journal of Climatologyhttps://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6615.

Martin, D.J., Pavlowsky, R.T., Bendix, J., Dogwiler, T., and Hess, J. (2021). Impacts of an extreme flood on large wood recruitment and transport processes. Physical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2021.1980958.

Matthews, T., Perry, L.B., Aryal, D., Elmore, A.C., Khadka, A., Pelto, M., Shrestha, D., and Wilby, R. (2021). Weather on K2 during historic first winter ascent. Weatherhttps://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4094.

Maxwell, J.T., Bregy, J.C., Robeson, S.M., Knapp, P.A., Soulé, P.T., and Trouet, V. Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US east coast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105636118.

Myadar, O., and Dempsey, K.D. (2021). Making and unmaking refugees: Geopolitics of social ordering and struggle within the global refugee regime. Geopoliticshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1924552.

Pelto, M., Panday, P., Matthews, T., Maurer, J., and Perry, L.B. (2021). Observations of winter ablation on glaciers in the Mount Everest region in 2020–2021. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142692.

Runkle, J.D., Michael, K.D., Stevens, S.E., and Sugg, M.M. (2021). Quasi-experimental evaluation of text-based crisis patterns in youth following Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas, 2018. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141702.

Runkle, J.D., Sugg, M.M., Graham, G., Hodge, B., March, T., Mullendore, J., Tove, F., Salyers, M., Valeika, S., and Vaughan, E. (2021). Participatory COVID-19 surveillance tool in rural Appalachia: Real-time disease monitoring and regional response. Public Health Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1177%2F0033354921990372.

Runkle, J.D.Sugg, M.M., McCrory, S., and Coulson, C.C. (2021). Examining the feasibility of smart blood pressure home monitoring: Advancing remote prenatal care in rural Appalachia. Telemedicine Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1089/tmr.2020.0021.

Shu, S., Liu, H., Beck, R.A., Frappart, F., Korhonen, J., Lan, M. Xu, M., Yang, B., and Huang, Y. (2021). Evaluation of historic and operational satellite radar altimetry missions for constructing consistent long-term lake water level records. Hydrology and Earth System Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1643-2021.

Soulé, P.T., Knapp, P.A., Maxwell, J.T., and Mitchell, T.J. (2021). A comparison of the climate response of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) trees among standardized measures of earlywood, latewood, adjusted latewood, and totalwood radial growth. Treeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-021-02093-z.

Sugg, M.M.Andersen, L.M., Shay, E.D., Tyson, J., and Runkle, J.D. (2021). Climate, environment, and public health in Western North Carolina. Journal of the Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina Institute for Health and Human Services: Sustainable Healthhttps://issuu.com/appalachianstateuniversity/docs/sustainablehealth.

Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D.Andersen, L.M., Weiser, J., and Michael, K. (2021). Crisis response among essential workers and their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventative Medicinehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106852.

Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., Hajnos, S.N., Green, S., and Michael, K.D. (2021). Understanding the concurrent risk of mental health and dangerous wildfire events in the COVID-19 pandemic. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150391.

Sugg, M.M., Spaulding, T.J., Lane, S.J., Runkle, J.D.Harden, S.R., Hege, A., and Iyer, L.S. (2021). Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946.

Wang, C., Yu, B., Chen, Z., Liu, Y., Song, W., Li, X., Yang, C., Small, C., Shu, S., and Wu, J. (2021). Evolution of urban spatial clusters in China: A graph-based method using nighttime light data. Annals of the Association of American Geographershttps://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1914538.

Wu, B., Yu, B., Shu, S., Liang, H., Zhao, Y., Wu, J. (2021). Mapping fine-scale visual quality distribution inside urban streets using mobile LiDAR data. Building and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108323.

Wu, B., Yu, B., Shu, S., Wu, Q., Zhao, Y., and Wu, J. (2021). A spatiotemporal structural graph for characterizing land cover changes. International Journal of Geographical Information Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2020.1778706.

Xu, M., Liu, H., Beck, R., Lekki, J., Yang, B., Liu, Y., Shu, S., Wang, S., Tokars, R., Anderson, R., Reif, M., and Emery, E. (2021). Implementation strategy and spatiotemporal extensibility of multipredictor ensemble model for water quality parameter retrieval with multispectral remote sensing data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensinghttps://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3045921.

Yang, B., Liu, H., Lang, E.L., Shu, S., Xu, M., Wu, B., Beck, R.A., Hinkel, K.M., and Yu, B. (2021). Spatio-temporal Cokriging method for assimilating and downscaling multi-scale remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112190.

Zhao, Y., Wu, B., Shu, S., Yang, L., Wu, J., and Yu, B. (2021).  Evaluation of ICESat-2 ATL03/08 surface heights in urban environments using airborne LiDAR point cloud data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2021.3127540.

2020

Bailey, E., Fuhrmann, C., Runkle, J., Stevens, S., Brown, M., and Sugg, M. (2020). Wearable sensors for personal temperature exposure assessments: A comparative study. Environmental Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108858.

Byrd, B., Richards, S.L., Runkle, J.D., and Sugg, M.M. (2020). Vector-borne diseases and climate change: North Carolina policy should promote resilience at regional scale. North Carolina Medical Journalhttps://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.81.5.324.

Chen, H., Huang, Y., Wang, S., Shu, S., Yu, B., and Wu, J. (2020). Vertical Accuracy Analysis of ASTER GDEM V2 in Byrd Glacier, Antarctica. Journal of Remote Sensinghttp://dx.doi.org/10.11834/jrs.20208361.

Dempsey, K.E. (2020). Fostering grassroots civic nationalism in an ethno-nationally divided community in Northern Ireland. Geopoliticshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1727449.

Dempsey, K.E. (2020). Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU. Political Geographyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102157.

Kaiser, A.L., Soulé, P.van de Gevel, S.L., Knapp, P., Bhuta, A., Walters, J., and Montpellier, E. (2020). Dendroecological investigation of Red-cockaded Woodpecker cavity tree selection in endangered Longleaf pine forest. Forest Ecology and Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118291.

Matthews, T., Perry, L.B., Koch, I., Aryal, D., Khadka, A., Shrestha, D., Abernathy, K., Elmore, A.C., Seimon, A., Tait, A., Elvin, S., Subash, T., Baidya, S.K., Potocki, M., Birkel, S.D., Kang, S., Mayewski, P.A., and National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest Team. (2020). Going to extremes: Installing the world’s highest weather stations on Mount Everest. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0198.1.

Matthews, T., Perry, L.B., Lane, T.P., Elmore, A.C., Khadka, A., Aryal, A., Shrestha, D., Tuladhar, S., Baidya, S.K., Gajurel, A., Potocki, M., and Mayewski, P.A. (2020). Into thick(er) air: Oxygen availability at humans' physiolohical frontier on Mount Everest. iScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101718.

Mayewski, P.A., Gajurel, A.P., Elvin, S., Athans, P., Dinley, T., Sherpa, P., Elmore, A.C., Ghimire, J., Perry, L.B., Matthews, T., Anker, C., Guilford, S.W., Hubbard, M.S., Putnam, A.E., Seimon, T.A., Seimon, A., Ghimere, S., and Tait, A. (2020). Pushing climate change science to the roof of the world. One Earthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.10.021.

Mayewski, P.A., Perry, L.B., Matthews, T., and Birkel, S.D. (2020). Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Basis and gaps. One Earthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.10.007.

McDade, B.Martin, D.J., van de Gevel, S.L., and Mitchell, J. (2020). Impacts of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae) on headwater stream large woody debris loads in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Southeastern Geographerhttp://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2020.0005.

Miner, K.R., Mayewski, P.A., Baidya, S.K., Broad, K., Clifford, H., Elmore, A., Gajurel, A.P., Giri, B., Guilford, S., Hubbard, M., Jaskolski, C., Koldewey, H., Li, W., Matthews, T., Napper, I., Perry, L.B., Potocki, M., Priscu, J.C., Tait, A., Thompson, R., and Tuladhar, S. (2020). An overview of physical risks in the Mt. Everest region. One Earthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.10.008.

Montpellier, E.E., Knapp, P.A., Soulé, P.T., and Maxwell, J.T. (2020). Microelevational differences affect Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) sensitivity to tropical cyclone precipitation: A case study using Lidar. Tree-Ring Research. https://doi.org/10.3959/TRR2019-9.

Montpellier, E.E., Soulé, P.T., Knapp, P.A., and Perry, L.B. (2020). Reconstructing summer upper-level flow in the Northern Rocky Mountains using an Alpine Larch tree-ring chronology. Climate Researchhttps://doi.org/10.3354/cr01592.

Nelson, K., Runkle, J.D., and Sugg, M.M. (2020). Reporting back environmental health data among outdoor occupational workers in the cold season in North Carolina, USA. Southeastern Geographerhttp://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2020.0013.

Wilson, M., Lane, S., Mohan, R. and Sugg, M.M. (2020). Internal and external validation of vulnerability indices: a case study of the Multivariate Nursing Home Vulnerability Index. Natural Hazardshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03837-4.

Perry, L.B., Matthews, T., Guy, H., Koch, I., Khadka, A., Elmore, A.C., Shrestha, D., Tuladhar, S., Baidya, S.K., Maharjan, S., Wagnon, P., Aryal, D., Seimon, A., Gajurel, A., and Mayewski, P.A. (2020). Precipitation characteristics and moisture source regions on Mt. Everest in the Khumbu, Nepal. One Earthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.10.011.

Perry, L.B., Yuter, S.E., Matthews, T., Wagnon, P., Khadka, A., Aryal, D., Shrestha, D., Tait, A., Miller, M.A., O'Neill, A., Rhodes, S.R., Koch, I., Sherpa, T.G., Tuladhar, S., Baidya, S.K., Elvin, S., Elmore, A.C., Gajurel, A., and Mayewski, P.A. (2020). Direct observations of a Mt Everest snowstorm from the world's highest surface‐based radar observations. Weather. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3854.

Runkle, J.D., Sugg, M.M., Leeper, R.D., Rao, Y., Matthews, J.L., and Rennie, J.J. (2020). Short-term effects of specific humidity and temperature on COVID19 morbidity in select US cities. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140093.

Shu, S., Liu, H., Frappart, F., Kang, E.L., Yang, B., Xu, M., Huang, Y., Wu, B., Yu, B., Wang, S., Beck, R., and Hinkel, K. (2020). Improving satellite waveform altimetry measurements with a probabilistic relaxation algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensinghttps://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3010184.

Shu, S., Liu, H., Beck, R.A., Frappart, F., Korhonen, J., Xu, M., Yang, B., Hinkel, K.M., Huang, Y., and Yu, B., (2020). Analysis of Sentinel-3 SAR altimetry waveform retracking algorithms for deriving temporally consistent water levels over ice-covered lakes. Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111643.

Sugg, J.W. (2020). Exploratory geovisualization of the character and distribution of American climate change beliefs. Weather, Climate, and Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0071.1.

Sugg, M.M., Fuhrmann, C.M., and Runkle, J.D. (2020). Geospatial approaches to measuring personal heat exposure and related health effects in urban settings. In Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health (pp. 13-30), edited by Y. Lu and E. Delemelle, Springer.

Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., Leeper, R., Bagli, H.Golden, A.Handwerger, L.Magee, T.Moreno, C., Reed-Kelley, R., Taylor, S., and Woolard, S. (2020). A scoping review of drought impacts on health and society in North America. Climatic Changehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02848-6.

Sugg, M.M., Woolard, S., Lawrimore, M., Michael, K.D., and Runkle, J.D. (2020). Spatial clustering of suicides and neighborhood determinants in North Carolina, 2000 to 2017. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-020-09364-1.

Zhao, Y., Wu, B., Wu, J., Shu, S., Liang, H., Liu, M., Badenko, V., Fedotov, A., Yao, S., & Yu, B. (2020). Mapping 3D Visibility in an Urban Street Environment from Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds. GIScience & Remote Sensinghttps://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2020.1804248.

2019

Andersen, L.M., A.N. Bonevac, L.K. Thompson, K.E. Dempsey, E.D. Shay, M.M. Sugg. 2019. Understanding key-informant experiences and perceptions of the 2016 drought and wildfires in western North Carolina. Weather, Climate, and Society, 11(1):229-241. DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0061.1.

Andersen, L.M., M.M. Sugg. 2019. Geographic multi-criteria evaluation and validation: A case study of wildfire vulnerability in western North Carolina, USA following the 2016 wildfires. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101123.

Beck, R., Xu, M., Zhan, S., Johansen, R., Liu, H., Tong, S., Yang, B., Shu, S., Wu, Q., Wang, S., Berling, K., Murray, A., Emery, E., Reif, M., Harwood, J., Young, J., Nietch, C., Macke, D., Martin, M., Stillings, G., Stumpf, R., Su, H., Ye, Z., Huang, Y. 2019. Comparison of Satellite Reflectance Algorithms for Estimating Turbidity and Cyanobacterial Concentrations in Productive Freshwaters Using Hyperspectral Aircraft Imagery and Dense Coincident Surface Observations. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 45(3):413-433. DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2018.09.001.

Bishop, M., W. Brennan, J. Colby, R. Furfaro, E. Schiassi, Z. Chi. 2019. Theoretical evaluation of anisotropic reflectance correction approaches for addressing multi-scale topographic effects on the radiation-transfer cascade in mountain environments. Remote Sensing, 11(2728), DOI: 10.3390/rs1123278.

Bregy, J.C., J.T. Maxwell, S.M. Robeson, J.T. Ortegren, P.T. Soulé, P.A. Knapp. 2019. Spatiotemporal variability of tropical cyclone precipitation using a high-resolution, gridded (0.25° x 0.25°) dataset for the Eastern United States, 1948–2015. Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0885.1.

Colby, J.D. 2019. "GIS for Watershed Characterization and Modeling.” In Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology and Society, edited by P.A., Maurice, Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781119300762.wsts0095.

Guy, H., A. Seimon, L.B. Perry, B.L. Konecky, M. Rado, M. Andrade, M. Potocki, P.A. Mayewski. 2019. Subseasonal variations of stable isotopes in tropical Andean precipitation. Journal of Hydrometeorology. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0163.1.

Heeter, K.J., Harley, G.L., van de Gevel, S.L., White, P.B. (2019). Blue intensity as a temperature proxy in the eastern United States: A pilot study from a southern disjunct population of Picea rubens (Sarg.). Dendrochronologia, 55:105-109. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2019.04.010.

Kinlaw, T.K., Sugg, J.W., L.B. Perry. 2019. Warm season hydroclimatic variability and change in the Appalachian region of the southeastern U.S. from 1950 to 2018. Atmosphere, 10(5):289. DOI: 10.3390/atmos10050289

Martin, D.J., C.P. Ely, B.C. Wemple. 2019. Stream bank erosion in an Andean páramo river system: Implications for hydro-development and carbon dynamics in the neotropical Andes. Journal of Mountain Science, 16(2):243-255. DOI: 10.1007/s11629-018-5110-3.

Montpellier, E.E.P.T. Soulé, P.A. Knapp, J.T. Maxwell. 2019. Dendroclimatic assessment of Ponderosa Pine radial growth along elevational transects in Western Montana, USA. Forests, 10(12):1094. DOI: 10.3390/f10121094.

Osborne, Z.M., S.L. van de Gevel, M.A. Eck, M.M. Sugg. 2019. An assessment of geospatial technology integration in K-12 education. Journal of Geography. DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2019.1640271.

Rose, L.D., D.M. Akob, S.R. Tuberty, S.R. Corsi, L.A. DeCicco, J.D. Colby, D.J. Martin. 2019. Use of high-throughput screening results to prioritize chemicals for potential adverse biological effects Within a West Virginia watershed. Science of the Total Environment, 677 (10):362-372, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.180.

Runkle, J.R., C. Cui, C.M. Fuhrmann, S. Stevens, J. Del Pinal, M.M. Sugg. 2019. Evaluation of wearable sensors for physiologic monitoring of individually experienced temperatures in outdoor workers in southeastern U.S. Environmental International, 129:229-238. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.05.026

Runkle, J.R., M.M. Sugg, D. Boase, S. Galvin, C. Coulson. 2019. Use of wearable sensors for pregnancy health and environmental monitoring: Descriptive findings from the perspective of patients and providers. Digital Health, 2055207619828220. DOI: 10.1177/2055207619828220.

Shay, E., M. MacNamara. 2019. Rural community development as a teaching environment for crossprofessional training in macro social work and community and regional planning. Contemporary Rural Social Work, 11(1): 6.

Soulé, P.T.J.T. Maxwell, P.A. Knapp. 2019. Climate-growth responses from Pinus Ponderosa trees using multiple measures of annual radial growth. Tree-Ring Research, 75(1):25-33. DOI: 10.3959/1536-1098-75.1.25.

Soulé, P.T., P.A. Knapp. 2019. A 400-year reconstruction of wintertime Arctic sea-ice extent using a high-elevation, mid-latitude tree-ring record. International Journal of Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-019-01739-5 IJBM-D-18-00345R1.

Soulé, P.T., P.A. Knapp. 2019. Radial growth rate responses of Western Juniper (Juniperus Occidentalis Hook.) to atmospheric and climatic changes: A longitudinal study from central Oregon, USA. Forests. DOI: 10.3390/f10121127.

Sugg, J.W., and C.E. Konrad II. 2019. Defining hydroclimatic regions using daily rainfall characteristics in the southern Appalachian Mountains. International Journal of Digital Earth. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2019.1576785.

Sugg, M.M., C.M. Fuhrmann, J.D. Runkle. 2019. Perceptions and experiences of outdoor occupational workers using digital devices for geospatial biometeorological monitoring. International Journal of Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-019-01833-8

Sugg, M.M., K. Michael, S. Stevens, B. Filbin, J. Weiser, J. Runkle. 2019. Crisis text patterns in youth following the release of 13 Reasons Why season 2 and celebrity suicides: A case study of summer 2018. Preventative Medicine Reports, 16:100999. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100999

Sugg, M.M., P.G. Dixon, J.D. Runkle. 2019. Crisis support-seeking behavior and temperature in the United States: Is there an association in young adults and adolescents? Science of the Total Environment, 669:400-411. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.434.

Sugg, M.M., S. Stevens, J.D. Runkle. 2019. Estimating personal ambient temperature in moderately cold environments for occupationally exposed populations. Environmental Research, 173:497-507. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.03.066.

Thompson, L.K., K. Michael, J.R. Runkle, M.M. Sugg. 2019. Crisis Text Line use following the release of Netflix series 13 Reasons Why season 1: Time series analysis of help-seeking behavior in youth. Preventative Medicine Reports, 100825. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100825.

Wilson, M.J., M.M. Sugg, S.J. Lane. 2019. Identifying multivariate vulnerability of nursing home facilities throughout the southeastern United States. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101106.

Wise, L., E. Marland, G. Marland, J. Hoyle, T. Kowalczyk, T. Ruseva, J. Colby, T. Kinlaw. 2019. Accounting for negative CO2 emissions. Carbon Balance and Management, 14:16. DOI: 10.1186/s13021-019-0131-y

Xu, M., Liu, H., Beck, R., Lekki, J., Yang, B., Shu, S., Kang, E.L., Anderson, R., Johansen, R., Emery, E., Reif, M., Benko, T. 2019. A spectral space partition guided ensemble method for retrieving chlorophyll-a concentration in inland waters from Sentinel-2A satellite imagery. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 45(3):454-465. DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2018.09.002.

Xu, M., Liu, H., Beck, R., Lekki, J., Yang, B., Shu, S., Liu, Y., Benko, T., Anderson, R., Tokars, R., Johansen, R., Emery, E., Reif, M. 2019. Regionally and locally adaptive models for retrieving chlorophyll-a concentration in inland waters From remotely sensed multispectral and hyperspectral imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(7):1-17. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2892899.

2018

Dempsey, K.E. 2018. Negotiated positionalities and ethical considerations of fieldwork on migration: Interviewing the interviewer. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 17(1):88-108. No DOI.

Dempsey, K.E., and S. McDowell. 2018. Disaster depictions and geopolitical representations in Europe’s migration “crisis." Geoforum, 98:153-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.008.

Eck, M.A., L.B. Perry, P.T. Soulé, J.W. Sugg, D.K. Miller. 2018. Winter climate variability and change in the southern Appalachian Mountains: 1910-2017. International Journal of Climatology, 39(1):206-217. DOI: 10.1002/joc.5795.

Ely, C.P., and D.J. Martin. 2018. Investigating the geomorphic characteristics of an Amazonian headwater stream draining a páramo ecosystem. Physical Geography, 40(2):164-185. DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2018.1513289.

Endries, J.L., L.B. Perry, S.E. Yuter, A. Seimon, M. Andrade-Flores, G. Mamani, F. Velarde, R. Winkelmann, M. Rado, N. Montoya, S. Arias. 2018. Radar-observed characteristics of precipitation in the tropical high Andes of southern Peru and Bolivia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57(1):1441-1458. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0248.1.

Martin, D.J., C.P. Harden, L. Tran, R.T. Pavlowsky. 2018. Investigating patterns of in-channel wood deposition locations in a low-gradient, variably-confined alluvial river system. Progress in Physical Geography, 42(2):139-161. DOI: 10.1177/0309133318759613.

Montpellier, E.E., P.T. Soulé, P.A. Knapp, J.S. Shelly. 2018. Divergent growth rates of alpine larch trees (Larix lyallii Parl.) in response to microenvironmental variability. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 50(1):e1415626-1. DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2017.1415626.

Shay, E., A. Khattak, B. Wali. 2018. Walkability in the connected and automated vehicle era: A U.S. perspective on research needs. Transportation Research Record, 2672(35):118-128. DOI: 10.1177/0361198118787630.

Sugg, M.M. 2018. Heat-health vulnerability in North Carolina. North Carolina Medical Journal, 79:320-321. DOI: 10.18043/ncm.79.5.320.

Sugg, M.M., Fuhrmann, C.M., J.D. Runkle. 2018. Temporal and spatial variation in personal ambient temperatures for outdoor populations in the southeastern USA. International Journal of Biometeorology, 62(8):1-14. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-018-1553-z.

Thompson, L.K., M.M. Sugg, J.D. Runkle. 2018. Adolescents in crisis: A geographic exploration of help-seeking behavior using data from Crisis Text Line. Social & Scientific Medicine, 215(1):69-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.025.

Thompson, L.K., M.M. Sugg, J.D. Runkle. 2018. Report-back for geo-referenced environmental data: A case study on personal monitoring of temperature in outdoor workers. Geospatial Health, 13(1):629. DOI: 10.4081/gh.2018.629.

2017

Dempsey, K.E., M. Qureshi, S. Ondoma, R. Dempsey. 2017. Effect of geopolitical forces on neurosurgical training in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Neurosurgery, 101:196-202. DOI:10.1016/j.wneu.2017.01.104.

Hutchins, M.G., J.D. Colby, G. Marland, E. Marland. 2017. A comparison of five high-resolution spatially-explicit, fossil-fuel, carbon dioxide emission inventories for the United States. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 22:947-972. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-016-9709-9.

Knapp, P.A., and P.T. Soulé. 2017. Spatio-temporal linkages between declining Arctic sea-ice extent and increasing wildfire activity in the western United States. Forests, 8:313. DOI: 10.3390/f8090313.

Maxwell, J.T., P.A. Knapp, J.T. Ortegren, D.L. Ficklin, P.T. Soulé. 2017. Changes in the mechanisms causing rapid drought cessation in the southeastern United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(24): 12476-12483. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076261.

Pavlowsky, R.T., Lecce, S., Owen, M., Martin, D.J. 2017. Legacy sediment, lead, and zinc storage in channel and floodplain deposits of the Big River, Old Lead Belt mining district, Missouri, USA. Geomorphology, 299:54-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.042.

Perry, L.B., A. Seimon, M.F. Andrade-Flores, J.L. Endries, S.E. Yuter, F. Velarde, S. Arias, M. Bonshoms, E.J. Burton, R. Winkelmann, C.M. Cooper, G. Mamani, M. Rado, N. Montoya, N. Quispe. 2017. Characteristics of precipitating storms in glacierized tropical Andean cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(2):309-322. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1260439.

Rochner, M.L., S.L. van de Gevel, M.D. Spond, H.D. Grissino-Mayer. 2017. Using dendrochronology to investigate the historical and educational value of two log structures at Bear Paw State Natural Area, North Carolina, USA. Tree-Ring Research, 73(2):136-148. DOI: 10.3959/1536-1098-73.2.136.

Schauwecker, S., M. Rohrer, C. Huggel, J. Endries, N. Montoya, R. Neukom, L.B. Perry, N. Salzmann, M. Schwarb, W. Suarez. 2017. The freezing level in the tropical Andes, Peru: An indicator for present and future glacier extents. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 122(10):5172-5189. DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025943.

Sugg, J.W., and C.E. Konrad II. 2017. Relating warm season hydroclimatic variability in the Southern Appalachians to synoptic weather patterns using self-organizing maps. Climate Research, 74:145-160. DOI: 10.3354/cr01493.

Sugg, J.W., C.M. Fuhrmann, L.B. Perry, D.K. Hall, C.E. Konrad II. 2016. Sub-regional snow cover distribution across the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Physical Geography, 38(2):105-123. DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2016.1162020.

van de Gevel, S.L., E. Larson, H.D. Grissino-Mayer. 2017. Separating trends in whitebark pine radial growth related to climate and mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Forests, 8(6):195. DOI: 10.3390/f8060195.

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