Conference Presentations

# = interdisciplinary work; * = student author

Vaughan, N. (2023). Hillslope Soil and Hillslope Sediment Development and Mobilization in Two Low-Order Watersheds in the SE Piedmont, NC USA. Presented at 2023 Fall meeting, GSA Connects, 15-18 Oct.

Invited – Vaughan, N. (2023). Hillslope and soil evolution in two watersheds at Redlair Observatory. Presented at the 2023 Friends of Plant Conservation Meeting, 7 October.

Invited – Vaughan, N. (2023). Holocene evolution of low-order watershed hillslopes and soils in the SE Piedmont, NC USA. Presented at 2023 Soil Science Society of North Carolina Meeting, 17-18 April.

Vaughan, N., Eppes, M.C., Ferguson, T., Nelson, M., Richter, D., Fall, P., Wells, A. (2022). Holocene Evolution of Low-Order Watershed Hillslopes and Soils in the SE Piedmont, NC USA. Presented at 2022 Spring Meeting, Southeastern & Northeastern Section Meeting, 17-19 March.

Nelson, M., Eppes, M., Rittenour, T., *Vaughan, N, (2022). Luminescence sensitivity of quartz sand and corresponding geochemistry of soil derived from residuum and transported sediments, SE U.S. New World Luminescence Dating Workshop. Grand Junction, CO, Oct 1 2022.

*VAUGHAN, Nora, EPPES, Martha Cary, *WELLS, Alec, *BOUZIGARD, Mac, *GRIFFIN, Robert, FERGUSON, Terry, RICHTER, Daniel, *RINEHART, Morgan and *YANKECH, Matthew (2022). QGG PETER BIRKELAND AWARD IN SOIL GEOMORPHOLOGY: SOIL AND HILLSLOPE PROCESSES IN THE SE PIEDMONT, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. GSA Annual Meeting, Vol 54, No. 5. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-379222.

Nelson, M., Eppes, M., Rittenour, T., (2022). QUARTZ LUMINESCENCE FROM SOIL AND SAPROLITE: A TEST CASE FROM THE WESTERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Rocky Mountain Sectional Meeting. Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022CD-374212

#Invited – Eppes, M.C., and Keanini, R., (2020). 2020 KIRK BRYAN AWARD LECTURE: A NEW CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ALL MECHANICAL WEATHERING ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS – CLIMATE-DEPENDENT SUBCRITICAL CRACKING. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 52, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-358104.

#Eppes, M., Magi, B., Scheff, J., (2020). It’s more than stress – field evidence for climate’s influence on rates of rock fracture. MR017-0003 Presented at 2020 Fall Meeting, AGU, 1-17 Dec.

*Horgan, J., Vinson, D., Eppes, M., (2020). SEASONAL HYDROGEOCHEMICAL LINKS AMONG BASEFLOW, SAPROLITE-HOSTED GROUNDWATER, AND WEATHERING DEPTH IN SMALL WATERSHEDS AT A CRITICAL ZONE RESEARCH SITE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 52, No. 6, 2020, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-359184.

Invited – Eppes, M.C., Magi, B., Scheff, J. (2019). WARMER AND WETTER CLIMATES ACCELERATE MECHANICAL WEATHERING, CA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5.

Invited – NELSON, Michelle, EPPES, Martha Cary, and RITTENOUR, Tammy M., (2019). LUMINESCENCE SIGNALS FROM SOIL AND SAPROLITE IN DEEPLY WEATHERED PROFILES- INTRIGUING NEW RESULTS FROM THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-338563

#Eppes, M., Hancock, G., Chen, X., Magi, B., Scheff, J., (2019). Testing the role of climate-dependent subcritical cracking in rock weathering and erosion. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-10364, 2019, EGU General Assembly 2019.

*HORGAN, Julianna S.1, *MHATRE, Kaustubh2, *KAKDE, Omkar1, *DIPIETRO, Joseph M.1, *BATIANIS, Elizabeth1, EPPES, Martha Cary and VINSON, David. (2019). GROUNDWATER FLUCTUATIONS, STREAM BASEFLOW, AND ION CONCENTRATIONS IN FIRST-ORDER WATERSHEDS ALONG A GRADIENT OF LANDSCAPE POSITION IN THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT, CA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-337308

MARSHALL, Jill A., EPPES, Martha Cary (2019). LISTENING FOR HOW TREES, WIND, WATER, AND TEMPERATURE PROPAGATE AND AMPLIFY NEAR-SURFACE FRACTURING, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-333064

  1. Invited – Eppes, M. (2015, January). How insolation drives mechanical weathering in humid mid-latitudes: new insights from field data, instrumentation and numerical modeling. In 2015 Soil Science Society of North Carolina Annual Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
  2. #Eppes, M., Warren, K., *Hinson, E., *Dash, L. (2012), Long term monitoring of rock surface temperature and rock cracking in temperate and desert climates., Abstract presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
  3. Tibbs, Jessica & Carrie DeJaco. 2012. Correlation between the endangered Helianthus schweinitzii and neighboring plant species. Annual Conference, The Collegiate Academy, NC Academy of Sciences (Poster).
  4. Phippen, Britney. 2011. Pollinator limitation in the endangered sunflower, Helianthus sachweinitzii. Undergradutate research project. Queens University.