Presentations

(A) Published Abstracts:

Herold, J.I., Leschhorn, C, Richards, D.M., Stinchcomb, G.E., 2025, Micro X-Ray Fluorescence as a Tool for Understanding Spatial Distributions of Critical Minerals in Aquic Soils: Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section meeting, 20-21 Mar, Harrisonburg, VA, Vol. 57, no. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025SE-408817.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Ross, S., Miles, M., Moon, J.B., El Masri, B., Runkle, B., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., 2024, Geomorphic Controls on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Bottomland Critical Zone: American Geophysical Union annual meeting, 9-13 Dec., Washington D. C. 

Khatiwada, K. R., Tang, R., Moon, J. B., Stinchcomb, G., El Masri, B., Runkle, B., 2024, Towards a generalized model to represent the complexities of methane flux processes in forested wetlands: American Geophysical Union annual meeting, 9-13 Dec., Washington D.C.

Henkes, G. A., Beck, C. C., Feibel, C. S., Poulsen, C. J., Uno, K. T., Bahadori, A., Becel, A., Cox, S., Fortelius, M., Green, D., Hemming, S., Holt, W., Kinyanjui, R. N., Liutkus-Pierce, C. M., Malit, N., Mana, S., Miller, E. R., Rowan, J., Rasbury, T., Russo, G. A., Smiley, T. M., Sousa, F., Stinchcomb, G. E., Ungar, P. S., Vitek, N. S., Žliobaitė, I., & TMP members, 2024, Miocene Landscape Reconstruction and Faunal Evolution in Kenya’s Turkana Basin: A Report from the Turkana Miocene Project: Geological Society of America meeting, vol. 56, no. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-402921.

Tweedy, R., de los Rios, N., Lukens, W. E., Liutkus-Pierce, C. M., Beck, C. C., Miller, E., Feibel, C. S., Saslaw, M., Henkes, G. A., Stinchcomb, G. E., Minya, A., Shedroff, S., Uno, K. T., 2024, Reconstructing Miocene Ecologies in the Turkana Basin: Insights from Plant Wax n-Alkanes: Geological Society of America meeting, vol. 56, no. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-401757.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Shedroff, S., Beck, C. C., 2024, Topographic controls on alkaline soil development in East Africa Rift Valley Critical Zones: Goldschmidt Abstracts 2024, https://doi.org/10.46427/gold2024.23794.

Esber, R., Mana, S., Beck, C., Stinchcomb, G. E., Beverly, E. J., Feibel, C., 2024, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Locherangan Miocene lacustrian fossiliferous site, Kenya: Geological Society of America NE section meeting, vol. 56, no. 1, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024NE-397641. 

Minya, A., Edome, P. A., Liutkus-Pierce, C. M., Cote, S., Lukens, W. E., Stinchcomb, G. E., Rossie, J., Feibel, C. S., Uno, K. T., Kinyanjui, R. N., 2024, Vegetation cover and structure of Kalodirr and Loperot Early Miocene sites West Turkana, using phytolith data: Eastern Africa Association for Paleoanthropologists and Paleontologists (EAAPP), 28th July to 1st Aug, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., Stinchcomb, G., Cáceres, I., Gilbert, W. H., Baab, K., 2024, The late Middle Stone Age at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: The Awash River as an Out-of-Africa corridor: Eastern Africa Association for Paleoanthropologists and Paleontologists (EAAPP), 28th July to 1st Aug, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Semaw, S., Rogers, M., Baab, K., Stinchcomb, G., Cáceres, I., Leiss, A., 2024, Mode 1 and 2 stone tool assemblages associated with Homo erectus ca. 1.5 and 1.2 Ma from Gona, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa Association for Paleoanthropologists and Paleontologists (EAAPP), 28th July to 1st Aug, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Ross, S., Klaus, N., Moon, J. B., Miles, M., Khatiwada, K., Runkle, B., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2023, The effects of climate extremes on greenhouse gas emissions from Bald cypress “knees”: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 11-15, December, San Francisco, CA.

Khatiwada, K., Runkle, B., Moon, J. B., Stinchcomb, G. E., El Masri, B., 2023, Modeling forested wetland methane dynamics: insights from 5 flux towers and observations from a western Kentucky wetland: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 11-15, December, San Francisco, CA.

Miles, M., Moon, J. B., Ross, S., Khatiwada, K., El Masri, B., Runkle, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2023, The Relationship Between Hydrogeomorphic Settings and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Soils and Stems in Western Kentucky’s Bottomland Hardwood Forests: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 11-15, December, San Francisco, CA.

El Masri, B., Ross, S., Miles, M., Asselta, J., Khatiwada, K., Runkle, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2023, Variability in Soil Methane Fluxes in Bald Cypress and Other Bottomland Hardwood Forests in Response to Weather Events: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 11-15, December, San Francisco, CA.

Shedroff, S., Stinchcomb, G. E., Beck, C., Liutkus-Pierce, C., 2023, From lakes to rivers – Paleoenvironmental reconstructions from paleosols of Loperot, Kenya: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. ##, no. ##, doi:

Esber, R., Stinchcomb, G. E., Beck, C., Mana, S., Batlay, A., Minya, A., Saslaw, M., Beverly, E. J., Feibel, C., Henkes, G., 2023, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Locherangan, a Miocene fossil bearing locality, Turkana Basin, Kenya: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. ##, no. ##, doi:

Batlay, A., Stinchcomb, G. E., Rowan, J., Beck, C., Saslaw, M., Henkes, G., 2023, Exploring post-depositional processes in Late Miocene paleosols at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. ##, no. ##, doi:

Saslaw, M., Lee, D., Poulsen, C. J., Liutkus-Pierce, C., Stinchcomb, G. E., Shedroff, S., Beck, C., Feibel, C., Miller, E., Henkes, G. A., 2023, Insights from ~17 Ma soil carbonate stable isotopes and GCM results in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. ##, no. ##, doi:

Stinchcomb, G. E., Rogers, M. R., Semaw, S., 2023, A 2.6-million-year record of stone tools found primarily in Fluvisols at Gona, Afar Depression, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. ##, no. ##, doi:

Stinchcomb, G. E., Asselta, J., Miles, M., El Masri, B., Moon, J. B., Runkle, B. R. K., 2023,  Linking soil phosphorus to soil greenhouse gas emissions in humid, subtropical forests: Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2023, 16897, https://doi.org/10.7185/gold2023.16897

McCarty, M., Asselta, J., Stinchcomb G. E., Lukens, W., O’Keefe, J., 2023, Preliminary examination of palynology across the K-Pg boundary in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023SE-386062.

Tesfay, K. N., Levin, N. E., Stinchcomb, G. E., Simpson, S. W., Dunbar, N. W., McIntosh, W. C., Quade, J., Rogers, M., Semaw, S., Peppe, D. J., 2022, Geochronology of Ardipithecus Ramidus Fossil Sites at Gona, Afar Depression, Ethiopia: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 12-16, December.

Moon, J. B., Miles, M., Ross, S., Klauss, N., Radford, I., Stinchcomb, G. E., Runkle, B., El Masri, B., 2022, Methane Dynamics of Stems and Exposed Woody Root Structures in Bottomland Hardwood Forests of the Upper Mississippi Alluvial Valley: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 12-16, December.

El Masri, B., Moon, J. B., Asselta, J., Stinchcomb, G. E., Runkle, B., Miles, M., 2022, Methane Dynamics of Vegetation-Soil Interactions in Bald Cypress and Other Bottomland Hardwood Forests: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 12-16, December.

Stinchcomb, G. E., El Masri, B., Moon, J. B., Runkle, B., Asselta, J., Miles, M., 2022, The importance of tree species and soil phosphorus in driving soil greenhouse gas emissions in humid, subtropical forests: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 12-16 December.

Driese S. G., Lukens. W. E., Nordt, L. C., Medaris, L., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2022, Reinterpreting the Juniata Paleo-Vertisol (Late Ordovician) at Beans Gap in Eastern Tennessee: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5, 2022, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-376979.

Saslaw, M., Liutkus-Pierce, C., Stinchcomb, G., Shedroff, S., Uno, K., Tweedy, R., Beck, C., Feibel, C., Miller, E., Henkes, G., 2022, Soil Carbonate Clumped Isotope Temperatures and Paleoenvironmental Interpretations from the Miocene of the Turkana Basin, East Africa: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5, 2022, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-382365.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Liutkus-Pierce, C. M., Beck, C., Saslaw, M., Shedroff, S., Minya, A., Winget, M., Tweedy, R., Rowan, C. M., Mana, S., Feibel, C., Henkes, G., Uno, K., 2022, Early Miocene Climate and Landscape Change Inferred from Paleosols at Loperot, West Turkana, Kenya: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5, 2022, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-383126

Stinchcomb, G. E., El Masri, B., Ferguson, B., 2022, Species-Level Effects on Long-Term Soil Phosphorus Loss in Bottomland Forests: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5, 2022, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-376697.

Lesko, A., Dworkin, S. I., Nordt, L. C., Leslie, C. E., Peppe, D., Atchley, S., Stinchcomb G., 2021, Contrasting Climate and Weathering Processes During Two Hyperthermal Events Preceding the K/Pg Boundary, Dawson Creek Section, Big Bend National Park, Texas: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 13-17, December.

Asselta, J.*, Stinchcomb, G. E., Lukens, W. E., 2021, Revisiting the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in western Kentucky, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 53, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2021AM-369510.

Lesko, A., Dworkin, S. I., Nordt, L. C., Leslie, C. E., Peppe, D., Atchley, S., Stinchcomb G., 2021, Hydrologic conditions across the K/Pg boundary, Dawson Creek section, Big Bend National Park, Texas: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 53, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2021AM-368820.

El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., Cetin, H., Ferguson, B., Kim, S., Sanderman, J., 2020,  Examining the relationships between chemical properties and VNIR reflectance properties of Kentucky soils using in-situ data: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 7-11, December.

Takashita-Bynum, K. K., Stinchcomb, G. E., White, M. N., Beasley, M. R., Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., 2020, Paleosol-based evidence of dynamic Middle to Late Pleistocene climates and environmental change at Gona, Ethiopia: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 7-11 December.

Takashita-Bynum, K. K., Stinchcomb G. E., White, M. N., Driese, S. G., Beasley M. R., Rogers, M. J. and Semaw, S., 2020, Paleosols reveal climate-driven fluctuations of weathering in the Middle to Late Pleistocene paleo-critical zones of Gona, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. #, No. #.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Quade, J., Levin, N. E., Iverson, N., Dunbar, N., McIntosh, W., Arnold, L. J., Duval, M., Grün, R., Takashita-Bynum, K. K., White, M. N., Gilbert, H., Rogers, M. J. and Semaw, S., 2020, Fluvial response and its implications for human-environment interactions during the Middle to Late Pleistocene and African Humid Period in Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. #, No. #.

Driese, S., Nordt, L., Lukens, W., Stinchcomb, G., and Tubbs, J., 2019, Development of geochemical paleoclimate proxies and pedotransfer functions for paleosols: Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2019.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Ferguson, B. W., El Masri, B., 2019, Terrace soil variability and effects on bottomland oak forest development in the Mississippi River Valley: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 51, No. 5.

Takashita-Bynum, K. K., Stinchcomb, G. E., White, M. N., 12 other authors, 2019, Physical and chemical analysis of paleosols before, during and after periods of anatomically modern human migration at Gona, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 51, No. 5.

White, M. N., Takashita-Bynum, K. K., Stinchcomb, G. E., 9 other authors, 2019, Evidence of late Pleistocene and Holocene paleo-critical zones archived in paleosols at Gona, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 51, No. 5.

Driese, S. G., Nordt., L. C., Stinchcomb, G. E., Lukens, W. E., 2019, Critical zone studies of Texas Vertisols: Implications for interpreting climate, landscapes, and biota of the past: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 51, No. 5.

Rogers, M. Semaw, S., Stinchcomb, G., Levin, N. and Quade, J., 2019, The Middle Stone Age at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: Implications for Regionalization and Migrations: Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.

*Ferguson, B. W., Stinchcomb, G. E., El Masri, B., Lukens, W. E., 2018, The effects of alluvial landform variability on soil organic carbon in the Clarks River valley, western KY, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

Hasenmueller, E. A., Gu, X., Weitzman, J. N., Adams, T. S., Stinchcomb, G. E., Eissenstat, D. M., Drohan, P. J., Brantley, S. L. And Kaye, J. P., 2018, Exploring how deep roots in bedrock fractures turn rock into regolith: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

*Takashita-Bynum, K. K., Stinchcomb, G. E., Levin, N. E., Quade, J., Iverson, N., Mcintosh, W., Dunbar, N., Arnold, L. J.,, Duval, M., Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., 2018, The persistence of salt-affected paleosols at Gona, Ethiopia: A sedimentary archive of Middle to Late Pleistocene soil salinity within a corridor of early human migration: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Lukens, W. E., Forman, S. L., Binetti, K. M. And Ferraro, J. V., 2018, Geology and paleoenvironments of Farre, a large open-air Middle to Late Pleistocene archaeological site in East Africa: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

Stinchcomb, G. E., *Stewart, C. L., Blackaby, E., Lombardi, R., Davis, L., Forman, S. L., Hockaday, W. C., And Leigh, D. S., 2018, Floodplains as repositories of information on carbon addition rates in depositional soil profiles: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

*Stewart, C. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., Forman, S. L., Davis, L., *Lombardi, R., Leigh, D. S., Blackaby, E., And Hockaday, W C, 2018, Late Holocene paleofloods and grain-size variability along the middle Tennessee River in northern Alabama: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

*Blackaby, E., Hockaday, W. C., Forman, S. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., Stewart, C. L., and Craven, O., 2018, The pre-depositional age of organic matter in flood deposits: insights to the timescale of biogeochemical processes: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, no. 6.

Vanacker, V., Hoffmann, T., Kettner, A., Xixi, L., Stinchcomb, G., Penny, D., and GLOSS team, 2018, Towards a global assessment of anthropogenic soil erosion and sediment transfers to the coastal zones: European Geophysical Union – Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 2, EGU2018-13214, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018.

Lukens, W. E., Stinchcomb, G. E., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., Kahle, D. J., Tubbs, J. D., 2018, A re-evaluation of paleosol elemental proxies for climate through cross-validation and machine learning: Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018 1606.

*Blackaby, E., Craven, O. D., Hockaday, W. C., Forman, S. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2017, Molecular analysis of flood deposits in the Tennessee River valley: Implications for understanding carbon cycling in fluvial environments and anthropogenic impacts: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 11-15, December.

*Stewart, C. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., Forman, S. L., Davis, L., *Lombardi, R., 2017, Paleoflood reconstruction efforts along the middle Tennessee River valley, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, no. 6.

Hasenmueller, E. A., Gu, X., Weitzman, J. N., Adams, T. S., Stinchcomb, G. E., Eissenstat, D. M., Drohan, P. J., Brantley, S. L., Kaye, J. P., 2017, Weathering of rock to regolith: The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, no. 6.

Driese, S. G., Riber, L., Dypvik, H., Stinchcomb, G. E., Sorlie, R., 2017, How deep does “terrestrial” weathering extend into crystalline basement? Examples from the Mesozoic Utsira High, Norwegian North Sea basin (Invited presentation): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, no. 6.

*Gerzan, M. N., Stinchcomb, G. E., Ferraro, J. V., Forman, S. L., Blegen, N., *Stewart, C. L., 2017, Site formation of the Late and potentially Middle Pleistocene Farre archaeological site, Chalbi basin, northern Kenya: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, no. 6.

*Ferguson, B. W., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2017, The role of alluvial landforms in storing soil organic carbon: A case study from humid-temperate western Kentucky: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, No. 6.

Semaw, S., Rogers, M., Caceres, I., Stout, D., Levin, N., Stinchcomb, G., 2017, The Gona archaeological investigations, Afar, Ethiopia: Overview of major research results: III Jornadas de Prehistoria Africana, Tarragona, Spain, 28-29, Marzo.

*Ferguson, B. W., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2017, How do alluvial landforms affect the storage of soil organic carbon? A case study from humid-temperate western Kentucky: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, No. 3.

Driese, S. G., Medaris Jr., L G., Stinchcomb, G., 2017, Applications of tP2O5 and tFe2O3 as indicators of microbial biocycling and redox processes in Precambrian paleosols and paleosaprolites: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, No. 1.

Dunbar, N. W., Brown, F. H., Levin, N. E., McIntosh, W. C., Rogers, M., Semaw, S., Simpson, S. W., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2016, Rhyolitic tephra record of the Gona region, southern Afar Rift, Ethiopia: Characteristics correlation and chronology: Abstract V11A-2756 presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 12-16 December.

Driese, S. G., Medaris, L. G., Kirsimai, K., Somelar, P., Stinchcomb, G., 2016, Geochemical constraints on duration of weathering for Neoproterozoic Baltic paleosol: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48(7).

Stinchcomb, G. E., Levin, N. E., Peppe, D. J., DiPietro, L., Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., 2016, A comparison of paleosols from Oldowan and Acheulian sites at Gona, Ethiopia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48(7).

Stewart, C. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., Hasenmueller, E. A., Forman, S. L., 2016, Digital image analysis as a tool to explore OSL overdispersion and sediment in thin section: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 48(7).

Hoffmann et al., 2016, Global Soil and Sediment transfer during the Anthropocene: EGU2016-18463 Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly.

Thieme, D., Stinchcomb, G., Gunnels, J., Baker, J., 2016, Anthracite coal silt deposition as an Anthropocene event: 2016 AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, 31 Dec.

Hasenmueller, E. A., Weitzman, J. N., Adams, T. S., Stinchcomb, G. E., Eissenstat, D. M., Brantley, S. L., Kaye, J. P., 2015, The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, USA: Abstract H21C-1383 presented at 2015 Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.

Kim, H., Stinchcomb, G. E., Brantley, S. L., 2015, The importance of hydrologic and lithologic controls on pCO2 and pO2 dynamics in the soil atmosphere in a temperate forest at meters depth: Abstract B41G-0510 presented at 2015 Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.

Stinchcomb, G., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., Lukens, W. E., Williamson, F. C., Tubbs, J. D., 2015, A data-driven empirical model that predicts paleoclimate for a diverse range of conditions for paleosols: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, No. 7, p. 0.

*Lukens, W. E., Stinchcomb, G. E., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., 2015, A new pedotransfer function for estimating soil pH in paleosols: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, No. 7, p. 0.

Thieme, D., Stinchcomb, G., 2015, Anthracite coal as a proxy for human impact and environmental change, Mid-Atlantic U.S.A.: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, No. 7, p. 0.

*Casselberry, A., Stinchcomb, G., 2015, Buried soils as an important control on C storage along human-impacted landscapes in Kentucky, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 47, No. 7., p. 0.

Li, Z-H.., Driese, S. G., Stinchcomb, G. E., Kocis, J. J., Horn, S. P., Buckles, J., Rowe, H., Cheng, H., 2014, Earlier onset of the “4.2 ka event” in the Eastern U.S. is possible at 4.5 ka: Middle Holocene mega-droughts identified using stable isotopes and micrmorphology of speleothems and d13C of floodplain SOM: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, No. 6, p. 699.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Davis, R., Sak, P. B., Brantley, S. L., 2014, Relationships between soil gas and regolith geochemistry in the Appalachian Critical Zone: An example from the Cumberland valley, Pa: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, No. 2.

Ferraro, J., Binetti, K.., Stinchcomb, G. and F. Manthi, 2014. Farre: an early Middle Pleistocene archaeological locality in the Chalbi Basin, northern Kenya. To be presented April 25th 2014 at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeologists, Austin, Texas. Abstract to be published in the Annual Meeting Program 2014.

Stinchcomb, G., Brantley, S., 2013, A review of CO2 and O2 gas dynamics within the sub-surface Critical Zone and implications for early-atmosphere studies using paleosols: Goldschmidt Conference in Florence, Italy: Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5) 2266.

DiPietro, L., Driese, S. G., Stinchcomb, G. E., Graf, K. E., Goebel, T., Younie, A. M., and Gillispie, T. E., 2012, First Americans archaeology and climate: Soil chemistry and its applications for geoarchaeology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, No. 7.

Driese, S., Li, Z-H., Cheng, H., Stinchcomb, G. E., Kocis, J. J., Horn, S. P., and Boehm, M. S., 2012, Speleothem micromorphology improves interpretations of floodplain paleoclimate records and enhances interpretations of the timing and structure of the mid-Holocene warm period: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, No. 7.

*Stinchcomb, G. E., Messner, T. C., Stewart, R. M., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., and Allen, P. M., 2012, Prehistoric anthropogenic event II (AE-II) and its influence on earth surface processes along the Middle Delaware Valley, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, No., 7.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Williamson, F. C., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., Tubbs, J. D., and Dworkin, S. I., 2012, Towards a unified model of predicting climate from mineral soils: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 44, No. 7.

Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Stinchcomb, G.E., and Kuijper, K., 2012, Towards reconstructing climate and ecosystem for paleoVertisols using bulk geochemistry: poster presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76, p. 1663.

Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Stinchcomb, G.E., and Kuijper, K., 2012, Construction of a fully searchable database integrating soil characterization data and whole-soil geochemical data: invited keynote talk presented at June 2012 International Goldschmidt Conference in Montreal, Canada: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 76, p. 1662.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Peppe, D. J., Driese, S. G., 2011, Time as an important soil-forming factor influencing modern and past magnetic susceptibility enhancement along the Delaware River Valley, USA: Abstract GP33A-1115 presented at 2011 Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 5-8 Dec.

Nevle, R. J., Bird, D. K., Ruddiman, W. F., Dull, R. A., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2011, Ecological-hydrological effects of reduced biomass burning in the neotropics after A.D. 1500: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, No. 5.

Stinchcomb, G. E., and Messner, T. C., 2011, The causes and consequences of early agriculture and fluvial activity throughout eastern North America: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, No. 5.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Driese, S. G., Messner, T. C., Nordt, L. C., 2011, Climatic and human controls on Holocene vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 43, No. 5.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., 2010, Soil geomorphology and stratigraphy reveal channel instability along the Delaware River Valley, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, No. 5.

Stinchcomb, G., Messner, T. C., Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., and Stewart, R. M., 2009, Floodplain response to late Holocene climate change and human land-use at the Manna Site (36PI04), Upper Delaware Valley, PA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, n. 7, p. 648.

Stinchcomb, G., Terry, D. O. Jr., and Mintz, J., 2007, Paleosols And Stratigraphy of the Scenic-Poleslide Member boundary: Implications for pedofacies analysis and regional correlation of the Early Oligocene Brule Formation, South Dakota, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, n. 6, p. 305.

Mintz, J., Terry, D. O., Jr., Stinchcomb, G., 2007, The terrestrial response to the post Eocene-Oligocene climatic transition, Poleslide Member, Brule Formation, Badlands National Park, South Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, n. 6, p. 193.

Stinchcomb, G. and Terry, D. O. Jr., 2006, Soilscape analysis of the Scenic-Poleslide Member boundary, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in The Terrestrial Eocene–Oligocene Boundary Revisited: A Comparison of Multi-proxy Records of Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Change: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, n. 7, p. 202.

Mintz, J. S., Stinchcomb, G. E., Laudadio, C., Oliver, P., Erney, A., Gobbi, K., Kirsch, A., Mitchell, N., Jannett, P., and Terry, D. O. Jr., 2005, Paleopedology of the East Windham roadcut, East Windham, New York, in Paleosol Environments from across the Landscape: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Northeast Section Meeting, v. 38, n. 2, p. 29.

Stinchcomb, G, E., Mintz, J. S., Oliver, P., Laudadio, C., Erney, A., Gobbi, K., Kirsch,  A., Mitchell, N., Jannett, P., and Terry, D. O. Jr., 2005,  A preliminary analysis of late middle Devonian paleosols within the Manorkill Formation, Catskill magnafacies, Platte Clove, New York, in Paleosol Environments from across the Landscape: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Northeast Section Meeting, v. 38, n. 2, p. 30.

(B) Papers & posters presented (* - invited):

White, S. J., Atchley, S. A., Stinchcomb, G. E., Dworkin, S., 2024, Terminal sediment fill within the Paradox Basin (SE Utah) during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition: paleogeographic and paleoclimatic implications: The International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (IMAGE), 26-29, August, Houston, TX.

Esber, R., Stinchcomb, G. E., Beck, C. C., Mana, S., Batlay, A., Minya, A., Saslaw, M., Beverly, E. J., Feibel, C. S., Henkes, G. A., 2024, Paleoenvironmental analysis of Locherangan: Reconstructing a Miocene fossil bearing locality, Turkana Basin, Kenya.

*Stinchcomb, G. E., Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., 2023, A 2.6-Million-Year record of stone tools found primarily in Fluvisols: virtual presentation at Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science Friday Seminar, 10th of November, 2023.

Miles, M., Moon, J. B., Ross, S., Carey, R., Khatiwada, K., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G., Runkle, B. R. K., 2023, Carbon dynamics of Taxodium distichum across various western Kentucky hydrogeomorphic settings: paper presented at Kentucky Academy of Sciences annual conference.

Ross, S., Klauss, N., Moon, J. B., Miles, M., Khatiwada, K., El Masri, B., Runkle, B., Stinchcomb G. E., 2023, Contribution of Bald cypress knees to greenhouse gas emissions during climate extremes: paper presented at Kentucky Academy of Science annual conference. 

Miles, M., Moon, J. B., Ross, S., Asselta, J., Klauss, N., Cari, R., Khatiwada, K. R., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G., Runkle, B. R. K., 2023, Methane Dynamics of Kentucky Bottomland Hardwood Forested Systems: KWRRI Research Symposium.

Ross, S., Moon, J. B., Klauss, N., Miles, M., Khatiwada, K. R., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G., Runkle, B. R. K., 2023, Measuring the contribution of Bald cypress “knees” to greenhouse gas emissions during climate extremes: KWRRI Research Symposium.

Ross, S., Moon, J.B., Miles, M., Klauss, N., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G., Runkle, B. April 12th, 2023. Assessing the effect of Taxodium distichum “knee” density on CH4 and CO2 emissions during drought conditions. Scholars Week, Murray State University, Murray, KY, USA.

Ross, S., Moon, J.B., Miles, M., Thompson, M., Klauss, N., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G., Runkle, B. March 2nd, 2023. Does Taxodium distichum “knee” density affect greenhouse gas fluxes in bottomland hardwood wetlands? Posters at the Capital.

El Masri, B., Moon, J.B., Asselta, J., Miles, M, Klauss, N., Ross, S., Stinchcomb, G.E., Runkle B. May 16th, 2023. Methane Dynamics of Vegetation-Soil Interactions in Bald Cypress and Other Bottomland Hardwood Forests. DOE PI Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Khatiwada, K. R., Runkle B., Moon J.B., Stinchcomb, G. E., El Masri, B. May 16-17, 2023, Modeling methane dynamics in a bottomland hardwood wetland. Department of Energy's Environmental System Science (ESS) PI Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA.

White, S. J., Atchley, S. C., Stinchcomb, G. E., Dworkin, S., Petsios, E. 2023, Dynamic paleoclimatic, glacioeustatic, and biotic change within a Late Paleozoic mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system, Paradox Basin, SE Utah: Paper presented at IMAGE 2023 - International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (Abstract ID: 3910186).

Tipton, M., Stinchcomb, G., O’Keefe, J.M.K., 2023, Plant communities and ancient climate change associated with the K-Pg boundary in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky: A preliminary study: Posters-at-the-Capitol, Frankfurt, KY.

Tipton, M., Romero, I., Stinchcomb, G. E., O’Keefe, J., 2022, Preliminary examination of Palynology across the K-Pg Boundary in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky: Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, 10-12 November, Morehead State University.

Ross, S., Moon, J. B., Miles, M., Thompson, M., Klauss, N., El Masri, B, Stinchcomb, G., 2022, Does Taxodium distichum 'knee' density affect CO2 and CH4 emissions in bottomland hardwood forests?: Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, 10-12 November, Morehead State University.

Miles, M., Thompson, M., Ross, S., Klauss, N., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., Runkle, B., Moon, J. B., 2022, Methane Dynamics of Stems in Bottomland Hardwood Wetlands of the Upper Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, 10-12 November, Morehead State University.

Klauss, N., Miles, M., Thompson, M., Ross, S., El Masri, B., Stinchcomb, G. E., Runkle, B., Moon, J. B., 2022, Contribution of Taxodium distichum 'knees' to greenhouse gas emissions in a bottomland hardwood wetland: Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, 10-12 November, Morehead State University.

Driese, S. G., Nordt, L. C., Lukens, W. E., Stinchcomb, G. E., Tubbs, J. D., 2018, The long journey of discovery in development of soil geochemical paleoclimate proxies and pedotransfer functions for paleosols: International Sedimentological Conferences, Quebec, Canada.

Riber, L., Driese, S. G., Dypvik, H., Stinchcomb, G., Sørlie, R., Thompson, L., 2018, Terrestrial paleoweathering and the presence of deep biosphere in fractured granites, Utsira High, Norwegian North Sea: Paper presented at 33rd Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Denmark.

Davis, L., Stinchcomb, G., 2017, Collection of paleoflood evidence: Talk presented at 3rd Annual Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment Workshop, U.S. NRC Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland.

Stewart, C. L., Stinchcomb, G. E., Forman, S. L., Davis, L., Lombardi, R., Blackaby, E., Craven, O., Hockaday, W., 2017, Late Holocene paleofloods along the Middle Tennessee River Valley: Poster presented at 3rd Annual Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment Workshop, U.S. NRC Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland.

Davis, L., Lombardi, R., Stinchcomb, G., Stewart, C. L., Therrell, M. D., Gage, M., 2017, A regional chronology of floods and river activity during the last 10,000 years in the Eastern U.S.: Poster presented at 3rd Annual Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment Workshop, U.S. NRC Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland.

Davis, L., Lombardi, R., Stinchcomb, G., Therrell, M., Gage, M., Sherwood, S., Stewart, L., 2017, A regional paleoflood analysis for the eastern U.S., Implications for extreme flood frequency: Poster 072 presented at AAG annual meeting, Boston, Massachussetts.

*Stinchcomb, G. E., Levin, N. E., Peppe, D. J., DiPietro, L., Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., 2016, Oldowan and Acheulian landscapes in Gona, Ethiopia: What can we learn from fossil soils?: Invited lecture, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis, 11/3/2016.

Maggard, G. J., Carlson, J., Sea, D., Stinchcomb, G. E., 2016, Middle Archaic Lifeways and the Holocene Climatic Optimum: A View from Ireland Cave, Kentucky: Poster presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference 73rd meeting, Athens, GA.

*Stinchcomb, G. E., Levin, N. E., Peppe, D. J., DiPietro, L., Rogers, M. J., Semaw, S., 2016, Oldowan and Acheulian landscapes in Gona, Ethiopia: What can we learn from fossil soils?: Invited lecture, Baylor Anthropology and The Institute of Archaeology, Baylor University, 10/6/2016.

Casselberry, A., Stinchcomb, G., 2016, Buried soils as an important control on C storage along human-impacted floodplains in Kentucky, USA: Poster presented at the Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium, Lexington, KY, March 28, 2016.

Stinchcomb, G., Casselberry, A., Smith, A., 2016, Buried soils are an important chemical interface controlling mineral weathering and solute gradients along river corridors: Poster presented at the Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium, Lexington, KY, March 28, 2016.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Forman, S. L., Driese, S. G., 2015, Paleoflood reconstructions using sedimentology and OSL in the Mid-Atlantic, USA: Paper presented at the Tennessee River Paleoflood workshop, Chattanooga, TN, USA.

*Stinchcomb, G. E., 2015, Developing mass-transfer baselines for human impact on soils and sediments: A North American Perspective: Paper presented at the PAGES GLoSS working group meeting, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Stinchcomb, G. E., Driese, S. G., Forman, S. L., Messner, T. C., 2015, Development and Application of a Holocene Grain-size Paleoflood Proxy for the Middle Atlantic Region, USA: Paper presented at the annual AAG meeting in Chicago, IL USA.

*Stinchcomb, G. E., 2015, From Homo habilis to the Anthropocene: How radiometric dating resolves our story: Invited lecture presented at Kentucky Community & Technical College.