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Publications

(Wheaton people in bold letters)

Chakraborty, M. I., Sharifi, A., Benzoni, F., Tissot, F. L. H., Pourmand, A., Taviani, M., Howes, B., Swart, P. K., Lu, C., Rodrigue, M., & Purkis, S. J. (2025). Deep-water corals indicate the Red Sea survived the last glacial lowstand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(8), e2415559122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415559122.

Gochenour, J. A., Rinehart, A. J., Luhmann, A. J., Grapenthin, R., & Bilek, S. L. (2024). Poroelastic response to karst conduit pressurization: A finite element modeling exercise toward the use of tiltmeters in karst aquifer monitoring applications. Water Resources Research, 60(7), e2022WR034293. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034293

Howes, B., Mehra, A., Geyman, E., Wilcots, J., Manzuk, R., Deutsch, C., & Maloof, A. (2024). The where, when, and how of ooid formation: What ooids tell us about ancient seawater chemistry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 637, 118697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118697.

Purkis, S. J., Ward, S. N., Howes, B. J., Longenecker, J. M., Chakraborty, M. I., Kalman, A., Clement, A. C., Sharifi, A., Benzoni, F., Clarke, C., & Rodrigue, M. (2025). A 1600-year record of extreme rainfall in northern Arabia. Science Advances, 11(8), eadq3173. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq3173.

Rinehart, A. J., Luhmann, A. J., & Tutolo, B. M. (2025). The geochemistry of carbon capture and storage with implications for hydromechanical feedbacks and geophysical monitoring. In Geophysics and the Energy Transition (pp. 235-274). Ed. by M. Wilson, T. Davis, and M. Landrø. Elsevier.

Abstracts 

Covington, M., Shobe, C., Luhmann, A. J., Abolins, M., Noble, M., Oleson, E., Gao, Y., & Ye, M. (2024). Exploring the controls of karstification by analyzing karst surface drainage across the United States. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 56(5), Paper No. 134-8. doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-405803.

Paul, E., Maneiro, K.A., and Baxter, E.F., 2024, Pressure-temperature constraints for ca. 2.6 Ga metamorphism in the Narryer Terrane, near the Jack Hills Metasedimentary Belt, Western Australia, Goldschmidt Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Rinehart, A., Simmons, J., Heath, J., Luhmann, A. J., Zu, Z., Dewers, T. A., & Wang, S. (2024). Quantifying microtextural controls on changes in absolute permeability during fluid-rock interactions using Lattice Boltzmann simulations of XRCT-measured sandstone pore networks. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 56(5), Paper No. 9-13. doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-405243.

Research Grant

DOE. Four Corners Carbon Storage Hub: CarbonSAFE Phase III Project. 10/1/2024-9/30/2027: subaward to A.J. Luhmann: $64,642 + $51,338 in cost share.