Papers and Abstracts

PUBLICATIONS

  • Phillips, C.B., Masteller, C.C., Slater, L.J., Dunne K.B., Francalanci, S., Lanzoni, S., Merritts, D.J., Lajeunesse, E., Jerolmack, D.J., The importance of threshold in alluvial river channel geometry and dynamics. (Submitted)
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., Turowski, J.M., Yager, E.M., Rickenmann, D., (in press), History-dependent variation to the onset of motion revealed by continuous bedload transport measurements in a steep mountain stream: Geophysical Research Letters. [link]
  • ​Masteller, C.C. and Finnegan, N.J., (2017), Interplay of grain protrusion and bedload transport rates in an experimental flume: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface. [link]
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., Warrick, J., Miller, I., (2015), Kelp, Cobbles, and Currents: Biologic reduction of coarse grain entrainment: Geology. [link]
  • Jerolmack, D.J., Ewing, R.C., Falcini, F., Martin, R.L., Masteller, C., Phillips, C., Reitz, M., Buynevich, I., (2012), Internal boundary layer model for the evolution of desert dune fields: Nature – Geoscience. [link]​

NON-REFEREED

  • Masteller, C.C. and Turowski, J.M., (2018), Rock erodibility controls on bedrock erosion across landscapes, National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste internal report.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS  

(+ denotes undergraduate author, * denotes graduate student author, ^ denotes postdoc author)

  • Constantine, J.C., Masteller, C.C., Hosseiny, H., River Avulsion and the Environmental Legacy of Neglect: Environmental Injustice in the Mississippi River Floodplain, (Invited), American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York City, NY, 25 Feb – 1 March 2022, Oral.
  • Conner, S. +, McAllister, B., Burk, T., Lyon, L., Masteller, C.C., Constantine, J.C., A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing Environmental Injustices in the American Bottom, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Roth, D.R., Ge, J., Titov, A. *, Siegfried, M., Masteller, C.C., Jakobsen, H. *, A river on fiber: capturing fluvial processes with distributed acoustic sensing, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Childress, K. +, Hosseiny, S.H., Masteller, C.C., Constantine, J.C., Community-Based Hydrological Modeling for Flood Mitigation in Centreville, IL, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Garcia Nueva, B. +, Dale, J. *, Huang, A. +, Hosseiny, S.H.^, Masteller, C.C., Constantine, J.C., Invisible Floods on the Mississippi: Assessing the controls on urban flooding in Centreville, IL , AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Masteller, C.C., Hovius, N., Thompson, C., Vann Jones, E.C., Woo, H., Adams, P., Dickson, M., Rosser, N.J., Young, A., (Invited), Exploring patterns of seismic attenuation on rocky coasts to assess the potential for active rock damage processes and erosion, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Phillips, C.B., Benitez, G.*, Wiggles in width: Insights into alluvial channel dynamics from variability in high-resolution downstream hydraulic geometry, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster. Phillips, C.B., Masteller, C.C., Slater, L.J., Dunne K.B., Francalanci, S., Lanzoni, S., Merritts, D.J., Lajeunesse, E., Jerolmack, D.J. The importance of a Null Model for Identifying Change in Alluvial River Channels, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Dale, J.*, Masteller, C.C., Constantine, J.C., The legacy of entrenchment on the floodplain and tributary basins of the Central Mississippi River Valley, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Hosseiny, S.H.^, Masteller, C.C., Implementation of Heuristic Search Algorithms in the Calibration of a River Hydraulic Model, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Neeley, J.R.+, Masteller, C.C., Bradley, A.S., Linking bedrock river morphology, surface roughness, and rock damage in a blocky river in southeast Missouri, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Submitted.Benitez, G.*, Masteller, C.C., Phillips, C., Defining the Reach Scale of a Mountain River from High-resolution Hydraulic Geometry, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021. Poster.
  • Masteller, C.C., Johnson, J.P.L., (Invited), Modeling memory in gravel bed rivers: consideration of a discharge-dependent threshold for motion, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 7-11 December 2020. Oral.  **Meeting held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic**
  • Constantine, J.A., Masteller, C., Invisible Floods on the Mississippi:  Geomorphology and Hydrology in Social Justice. Pardee Session 2 – Frontiers of Research, Discovery, and Societal Impact in the Hydrological Sciences, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, 26-30 October 2020. Oral. **Meeting held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic**
  • Masteller, C.C., Hovius, N., Thompson, C., Vann Jones, E.C., Woo, H., Adams, P., Dickson, M., Rosser, N.J., Young, A., Exploring the interplay of wave climate, vertical land motion, and rocky coast evolution, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 May 2020. Oral. **Meeting held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic**
  • Turowski, J.M., Schwangert, W., Huppert, K.L., Masteller, C.C., Uncertainties in Chi analysis: implications for drainage network and divide stability, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 May 2020. Oral. **Meeting held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic**
  • Masteller, C.C., Hovius, N., Thompson, C., Vann Jones, E.C., Woo, H., Adams, P., Dickson, M., Rosser, N.J., Young, A., Characterizing sea cliff response to wave action and identifying potential rock damage conditions using seismic methods, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December 2019. Oral.
  • Johnson, J.P., Gasparini, N.M., Masteller, C.C., Saletti, M., Hassan, M., Anderson, S., How sediment connectivity influences gravel transportability and bedrock erodibility, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December 2019. Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Hovius, N., Thompson, C., Woo, H., Adams, P., Dickson, M., Young, A., Rosser, N.J., Brain, M.J., Vann Jones, E.C., Towards understanding the effects of variable wave forcing on sea cliff erosion and stability using seismic methods, Rivers, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand, 16-21 November 2019. Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., Johnson, J.P., Yager, E., Turowski, J.M., Rickenmann, D., The causes and consequences of a time-varying threshold for motion for fluvial bedload transport, GSA Penrose conference, Juneau, Alaska, 4-10 August 2019. Poster.
  • Masteller, C.C., Dietze, M., Cook, K.L., Hovius, N., Towards understanding the effects of variable wave forcing on sea cliff erosion and stability using seismic methods, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2019. Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Dietze, M., Cook, K.L., Hovius, N. (Invited) Towards understanding the effect of variable wave forcing on sea cliff erosion and stability using seismic methods, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C. 10-14 December 2018, Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., Johnson, J.P., Yager, E., Turowski, J.M., Rickenmann,D., (Invited), The causes and consequences of a time-varying threshold for motion for fluvial bedload transport. AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 December 2018, Oral.
  • Barcheck, C.G., Beganskas, S., Masteller, C.C., Pfeiffer, A.M., Roth, D.L., Taylor, S.E., Begeman, C., Killam, D., White, S.M., Maxwell, R., Gyalay, S., Kaufman, Z., Serrano, A., Schnorr, E., GEODES: A model for graduate-student led initiatives in diversity, equity, and inclusion, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 December 2018, Poster.
  • Johnson, J.P., Pretzlav, K., Olinde, L., Masteller, C.C., Bradley, N., Turowski, J.M., Rickenmann, D., Measuring and modeling disequilibrium gravel transport and threshold evolution during natural floods, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 December 2018, Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., Turowski, J.M., Johnson, J.P., Rickenmann, D., Order and disorder in gravel bed rivers: History-dependent variation to the onset of motion revealed by continuous bedload transport measurements, EGU Fall Meeting, Vienna, Austria 8-13 April 2018. Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Turowski, J.M., Finnegan, N.J., Rickenmann, D., The formation and destruction of fluvial memory: Discharge-dependent variation to the onset of motion revealed by continuous bedload transport measurements in a steep mountain stream: AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA 11-15 December 2017, Oral.
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., How rivers remember: The impacts of prior stress history on grain scale topography and bedload transport: Abstract EP23D-03, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 December 2016, Oral.
  • Gürer, M.*, Sullivan, S.*, Masteller, C.C., Bed structure and bedload transport: Sediment grain reorientation in response to high and low flows in an experimental flume: Abstract ED41A-0765, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 December 2016, Poster.
  • Masteller, C.C., Finnegan, N.J., Quantifying the impact of low flow periods on bed topography and bedload transport rates: Abstract EP21B-0895, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December 2015, Poster. 
  • Masteller, C., Finnegan, N.J., Warrick, J., Miller, I., Kelp, Cobbles, and Currents: Biologic reduction of coarse grain entrainment: Abstract EP44B-06, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December 2013, Oral.
  • Masteller, C., Jerolmack, D.J., Bhattachan, A., Response of vegetation stability and groundwater depth to spatial variability in sediment transport; White Sands National Monument, New Mexico: Abstract EP31B-0813, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2-7 December 2012, Poster. [link
  • Jerolmack, D.J., Ewing, R.C., Falcini, F., Martin, R.L., Masteller, C., Phillips, C.B., Reitz, M.D., Feedbacks between roughness and boundary-layer aerodynamics control desert dune field evolution: Abstract EP31E-01, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2-7 December 2012, Oral.
  • Ewing, R.C., Jerolmack, D.J., Martin, R.L, Reitz, M.D., Phillips, C.B., Falcini, F., Masteller, C., Morphology and formation of the upwind margin at White Sands Dune Field: Abstract EP31E-03, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2-7 December 2012, Oral.
  • Bentley, A., Buynevich, I.L., Jerolmack, D.J., Ewing, R., Masteller, C., Boles, A., Bustos, D., Kerber, L.E., McNutt, B., Characterizing subsurface complexity of aeolian landforms with georadar: Abstract 200414, GSA Northeastern Section Meeting, Hartford, CT, 18-20 March 2012, Poster.
  • Masteller, C., Thieler, E.R., Horton, B.P., Quantifying the marine radiocarbon reservoir effect for U.S. mid-Atlantic coastal waters: Abstract GC43D-0974, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2011, Poster. [link]
  • Piliouras, A., Falcini, F., Masteller, C., Jerolmack, D.J., Effects of potential vorticity on sediment transport and deposition at river mouths: Abstract EP33A-0909, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2011, Poster.
  • Jerolmack, D.J., Ewing, R.C., Falcini, F., Martin, R.L., Masteller, C., Phillips, C.B., Reitz, M.D., Roughness controls patterns of sediment transport, vegetation and groundwater in a desert dune field: Abstract NG31B-03, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2011, Oral.