Publications

PUBLICATIONS (*denotes undergraduate and †gradaute student advisee)

*Hatch, K., Evans, S.G., Chew, C.C., Yokeley, B.A., Godsey, S.E., Rupasinghe, H. S., and Watagoda, L., Employing spectral signatures from vegetation to differentiate hydrologic features above continuous permafrost, Arctic Science Journal (in revision).

†Yokeley, B.A., Godsey, S.E., Crosby, B.T., and Evans, S.G., Abundance and topographic characteristics of gullies and water tracks in the upland Arctic using a novel automated identification method, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (in revision).

*Cusack, K.T., Evans, S.G., Chew, C.C., Yokeley, B.A., Godsey, S.E., and Hatch, K. (2026), Quantifying snow duration in small-scale Arctic drainage features above continuous permafrost, Arctic Science Journal, doi: 10.1139/as-2025-0066 (link).

Del Vecchio, J. and Evans, S.G. (2025), Climate and hydrogeological controls on water tracks in permafrost landscapes, Reviews of Geophysics, doi:10.1029/2024RG000854 (link).

Eos Writeup: Water Tracks: The Veins of Thawing Landscapes, Eos (June 2025)

Evans, S.G., Chew, CC., and Godsey, S.E. (2025), Near-surface drying of a continuous permafrost hillslope with water tracks following ground collapse, Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.70269 (link).

*Harris, R.H., Evans, S.G., Marshall, S.T., Godsey, S.E., and Parsekian, A.D. (2025), Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to infer ice wedge characteristics proximal to water tracks, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/2024JF007832 (link).

Rasmussen, M., Eppes, M.C., Mushkin, A., Meredith, P.G., Mitchell, T.M., Keanini, R., Aldred, J., Andri˘cevi´c, P., Berberich, S., Dahlquist, M.P., Evans, S.G., Jain, M., Morovati, M, Layzell, A., Nara, Y., Rinehart, A. J., Sellwood, E. L., and Shaanan, U. (2025), Field observations of decreasing rock fracturing rates over time, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: 10.1029/2025JF008288. 

Soltanian, M.R., Moeini, F., Dai, Z., Sawyer, A. H., Fleckenstein, J. H., Doherty, J., Curtis, Z., Chaudhuri, A., Chiogna, G., Fahs, M., Han, W.S., Mseli, Z.H., Lotti, F., Moon, H.S., Zhu, L., Al-Masri, D., Zhan, C., Hoteit, H., Matin, M.A., Zarei, A., Carroll, K.C., Evans, S.G., and Madani K. (2024), Sustainability Nexus AID: Groundwater, Sustainability Nexus Forum, doi:10.1007/s00550-024-00557-7.

Eppes, M.C., Aldred, J., Berberich, S., Dahlquist, M., Evans, S.G., Keanini, R., Moser, F., Porson, S., Rasmussen, M., Rinehart, A., and Shaanan U. (2024), Standardized field methods for fracture characterization in surface processes research, Earth Surface Dynamics, doi:10.5194/esurf-12-35-2024 (link).

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 cross the eastern Canadian Arctic, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, doi:10.1029/2022JG006941 (link).

Selected as an Eos Editor's Highlight: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/its-cool-to-be-short-when-youre-in-the-arctic-permafrost  

*Moore, C. and Evans, S.G. (2022) Shallow soil temperatures are heterogeneous across a small mountain fen, Wetlands, doi:10.1007/s13157-022-01566-2 (link).

Evans, S. G., Godsey, S.E., Rushlow, C.R., and Voss, C. (2020), Water tracks influence hydrologic cycling in upland Arctic Alaska hillslopes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, doi: 10.1029/2019JF005256 (link).

Evans, S.G., *Yokeley, B., *Stephens, C., and *Brewer, B. (2020), Potential mechanistic causes of increased baseflow across northern Eurasia catchments underlain by permafrost, Hydrological Processes, 34: 2676– 2690, doi:10.1002/hyp.13759 (link). 

Evans, S.G., Ge, S., Voss, C., and Molotch, N. (2018), The role of frozen soil in groundwater discharge predictions for warming alpine watersheds,Water Resources Research, 54, 1599-1615,  doi:10.1002/2017WR022098 (link).

Evans, S. G. and Ge, S. (2017), Contrasting hydrogeologic responses to warming in seasonally frozen ground and permafrost hillslopes, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 1803-1813, doi: 10.1002/2016GL072009 (link). 

Evans, S. G., Ge, S., and Sihai, L. (2015), Analysis of groundwater flow in mountainous, headwater catchments with permafrost, Water Resources Research, 51, 9564-9576, doi: 10.1002/2015WR017732 (link). 

Evans, S. G., Small, E. E. and Larson, K. M. (2014), Comparison of vegetation phenology in the western U.S. determined from reflected GPS microwave signals and NDVI, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39 (9), 2996-3017, doi:10.1080/01431161.2014.894660 (link).