Recent Publications

Carlin J, Addison J, Wagner A, Schwartz V, Hayward J and Severin V, 2019 Variability in Shelf Sedimentation in Response to Fluvial Sediment Supply and Coastal Erosion Over the Past 1,000 Years in Monterey Bay, CA, United States. Front. Earth Sci. 7:113. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00113 

Reynolds, L.C., Simms, A.R., Ejarque, A., King, B., Anderson, R.S., Carlin, J.A., Bentz, J.M., Rockwell, T.K., Peters, R., 2018. Coastal flooding and the 1861–2 California storm season. Marine Geology, 400, 49-59.

Leeper, R., Rhodes, B., Kirby, M., Scharer, K., Carlin, J., Hemphill-Haley, E., Avnaim- Katav, S., MacDonald, G., Starratt, S., Aranda, A., 2017. Evidence for coseismic subsidence events in a southern California coastal saltmarsh. Scientific Reports 7, 44615. http://doi.org/10.1038/srep44615

Carlin, J.A., Lee, G., Dellapenna, T., Laverty, P., 2016. Sediment resuspension by wind, waves, and currents during meteorological frontal passages in a micro-tidal lagoon. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 172, 24-33. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2016.01.029

Carlin, J.A, Dellapenna, T.M., 2015. The evolution of a subaqueous delta in the Anthropocene: A stratigraphic investigation of the Brazos River delta, TX USA. Continental Shelf Research 111B, 139-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2015.08.008i

Carlin, J.A., Dellapenna, T.M., Strom, K., Noll, C.J., 2015. The influence of a salt wedge intrusion on fluvial suspended sediment and the implications for sediment transport to the adjacent coastal ocean: A study of the lower Brazos River TX,  USA. Marine Geology 359, 134 - 147

Carlin, J.A., Dellapenna, T.M., 2014. Event-driven deltaic sedimentation on a low-gradient, low-energy shelf: The Brazos River subaqueous delta, northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology 353, 21-30.

Strauss, J., Grossman, E.L., Carlin, J.A., Dellapenna, T.M., 2012. 100 Years of benthic foraminiferal history on the inner Texas shelf inferred from fauna and stable isotopes: Preliminary results from two cores. Continental Shelf Research.

 Conference Pr0ceedings

Carlin, J., Dellapenna, T., 2015. Shoreface Sedimentation along a Transgressive Barrier Island: Understanding the Interplay between Short-Term Events and Long-Term Sea Level Rise in Shaping These Dynamic Coastal Environments: in Levine, S., ed., Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, vol. 65.

Carlin, J., Dellapenna, T., Figlus, J., Harter, C., 2015. Investigating morphological and stratigraphic changes to the submarine shoreface of a transgressive barrier island: Follets Island, northern Gulf of Mexico: in Wang, P., J. D. Rosati, and J. Cheng, eds., Coastal Sediments: The Preceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015, World Scientific, Singapore, 14 p.

Recent Presentations

Avila, J., M. Kirby, G.M. MacDonald, J. Carlin, A. Woodward, J. Han, B. Nauman, J. Leidelmeijer. Using Holocene sediments from North Yolla Bolly Lake in the Northern Coast Range (CA) to investigate the California precipitation dipole. 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Carlin, J., Addison, J., Wagner, A., Schwartz, V., Hayward, J., Severin, V., Utilizing mid continental shelf event deposits enriched in littoral sand to characterize storminess during the late Holocene. 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Hayward, J., Carlin, J., Addison, J., Schwartz, V. Wagner, A., Using physical and chemical sediment characteristics to distinguish fluvial and oceanic event deposits within mid-shelf depocenters. 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Kirby, M., G.M. MacDonald, J. Carlin, J. Leidelmeijer, J. Avila, A. Rueckert, J. Han, B. Nauman, A. Woodward. The Late Holocene dry period identified in the Northern Coast Range of California (Barley Lake): evidence for a mean state change in the average position of the California precipitation dipole? 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Leidelmeijer, J., M. Kirby, G.M. MacDonald, J. Carlin, S.J. Loyd, J. Han, B. Nauman, A. Woodward, J. Avila. Late Glacial to early Holocene paleolimnology inferred from Barley Lake sediments (Northern Coastal Ranges, California). 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Gibson, K., N. Bursztyn, J.A. Carlin. The implementation and use of next generation science standards-based tactile models in the k-12 educational system. 2018 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 2018, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Carlin, J., Schreiner, K., Dellapenna, T., Sayers, L., Swenson, J., McGuffin, A., Identifying Recent Flood Deposits within a Mid-Shelf Mud Blanket along a Low- Gradient Passive Margin. 2018 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2018, Portland, OR, USA.

Cortez, D., Carlin, J., Van Orman, D., Measuring Sediment Accumulation within an Urban Estuary Over Seasonal and Decadal Time-Scales. 2018 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2018, Portland, OR, USA.

Balmaki, B., Wigand, P., Leeper, R., Frontalini, F., Carlin, J., Using Saltmarsh Foraminifera and Diatoms in the Seal Beach Wetlands, Southern California, as Proxies of Sea Level Changes. 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA

Owen, P., Wagner, A., Addison, J., Schwartz, V., Barron, J., Carlin, J., Reconstructing Holocene Upwelling Conditions in Monterey Bay, California. 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA

Schreiner, K., Carlin, J., Sayers, L., Swenson, J., The Impacts of Episodic Storm and Flood Events on Carbon and Sediment Delivery to Gulf of Mexico Sediments. 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA

Schwartz, V., Addison, J., Carlin, J., Wagner, A., Barron, J., The Last 1000 Years of Ocean Change in Monterey Bay, California: Insights from the Marine Sedimentary Record. 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, December 2017, New Orleans, LA, USA

Adler, M., Carlin, J., Leeper, R., Aranda, A., Avnaim-Katav, S., Kirby, M., Rhodes, B., Utilizing Wetland Stratigraphy to Reconstruct the Paleoseismic History of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone. 24th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference, November 2017, Providence, RI, USA

Carlin, J., Cortez, D., Van Orman, D., Investigating sediment accumulation within an urban estuary over seasonal and decadal time-scales. 24th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference, November 2017, Providence, RI, USA

Dickson, S., Carlin, J., Bonuso, N., Southern California Wetland Evolution in the Holocene: Understanding the Shift from Oysters to Salt Marsh. 24th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference, November 2017, Providence, RI, USA

Carlin, J., Cortez, D., Van Orman, D., Investigating sediment accumulation within an urban estuary over seasonal and decadal time-scales. 2017 Headwaters 2 Ocean Conference, May 2017, Irvine, CA, USA.

Dellapenna, T., Carlin, J., Williams, J., +Breedlove, L., Harb, M. April 2017. Ravinement has yet to erode the back barrier island deposits seaward of the transgressive Follets Island, northern Gulf of Mexico: implications are bleak for the fate of the island. 2017 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention and Expo, Houston, TX, USA.

Addison, J., Schwartz, V., Carlin, J., Wagner, A., Barron, J. March 2017. A 1000-year record of ocean productivity from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Preliminary results, 28th Pacific Climate Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.