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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Articles in Press

Kailiang, Y., P. D’Odorico, A. Bhattachan, G.S. Okin, A.T. Evan, Dust-rainfall feedbacks in West-African Sahel, Geophysical Research Letters, in press.

O’Donnell, F.C., K. K. Caylor, A. Bhattachan, K. Dintwe, P. D’Odorico, G.S. Okin, A quantitative description of the interspecies diversity of belowground structure in savanna woody plants, Ecosphere, v. 6, art 154.

Okin, G.S., J. Gu, 2015, The impact of atmospheric conditions and instrument noise on atmospheric correction and spectral mixture analysis of multispectral imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 164 pp. 130-141.

Meyer, T., G.S. Okin, 2015, Evaluation of spectral unmixing techniques using MODIS in a structurally complex savanna environment for retrieval of green vegetation, nonphotosynthetic vegetation, and soil fractional cover, Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 116, pp. 122-130.

De Sales, F., Y. Xue, G.S. Okin, 2015, Impact of burned areas on the northern African seasonal climate from the perspective of regional modeling, Climate Dynamics, in press.

Rachal, D.M., G.S. Okin, C. Alexander, J.E. Herrick, D.P. Peters, 2015, Modifying landscape connectivity by reducing wind driven sediment redistribution, Northern Chihuahuan Desert, USA. Aeolian Research, v. 17. 129-137.

Okin, G. S., M. Moreno-de las Heras, P. M. Saco, H. L. Throop, E. R. Vivoni, A. J. Parsons, J. Wainwright, and D. P. C. Peters. 2015. Connectivity in dryland landscapes: Shifting concepts of spatial interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:20-27.

Bestelmeyer, B. T., G. S. Okin, M. C. Duniway, S. R. Archer, N. F. Sayre, J. C. Williamson, and J. E. Herrick. 2015. Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:28-36.

Bhattachan, A., P. D’Odorico, G.S. Okin, 2015, Biogeochemistry of dust sources in Southern Africa, Journal of Arid Environments, in press.

Dintwe, K., G.S. Okin, P. D’Odorico, T. Hrast, N. Mladenov, A. Handorean, A. Bhattachan, K.K. Caylor, 2014, Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Pools in the Kalahari: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Carbon Sequestration, Plant and Soil, Online First, DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5.

Li, J., G.S. Okin, J. Tatarko, J.E. Herrick, 2014, Consistency of wind erosion assessments across land use and land cover types: a critical analysis, Journal of Aeolian Research, v. 15, pp. 253-260.

Webb, N.P., G.S. Okin, S. Brown, 2014, The effect of roughness elements on wind erosion: the importance of surface shear stress distribution, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, v. 119, pp. 6066-6084, doi:10.1002/2014JD021491.

Mishra, N.B., K.A. Crews, G.S. Okin, 2014, Relating Spatial Patterns of Fractional Land Cover to Savanna Vegetation Morphology using Multi-scale Remote Sensing in the Central Kalahari, International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 35(6), pp. 2082-2104. DOI:10.1080/01431161.2014.885666.

Stewart, J., A. J. Parsons, J. Wainwright, G. S. Okin, B. T. Bestelmeyer, E. L. Fredrickson, and W. H. Schlesinger, 2014, Modeling emergent patterns of dynamic desert ecosystems. Ecological Monographs, v. 84, pp. 373-410.

Li, J., G.S. Okin, S.M. Skiles, T.H. Painter, 2013, Relating variation of dust on snow to bare soil dynamics in the western United States, Environmental Research Letters, v. 8, 044054.

Vest, K.R., A.J. Elmore, J.M. Kaste, G.S. Okin, J. Li, 2013, Estimating total horizontal aeolian flux within shrub-invaded groundwater dependent meadows using empirical and mechanistic models. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, v.118, pp 1132-1146, DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20048.

Meyer, T., P. D’Odorico, G.S. Okin, H.H. Shugart, K.K. Caylor, F.C. O’Donnell, A. Bhattachan, K. Dintwe, 2013, An analysis of structure: Biomass structure relationships for characteristic species of the western Kalahari, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, doi: 10.1111/aje.12086.

Bhattachan, A., P. D’Odorico, K. Dintwe, G.S. Okin, 2013, Potential dust emissions from the southern Kalahari’s dunelands, JGR-ES, v. 119, pp 1-8, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20043.

Li, J., G.S. Okin, J.E. Herrick, J. Belnap, M.E. Miller, K. Vest, A.E. Draut, 2013, Evaluation of a new model of aeolian transport in the presence of vegetation. JGR-ES. v. 118, 288-306, doi: 10.1002/jgrf.20040.

Okin, G.S., K.D. Clarke, M.M. Lewis, 2013, Comparison of methods for estimation of absolute vegetation and soil fractional cover using MODIS Normalized BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 130, 266-279,10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.021.

Peters, D.P.C., S.A. Archer, B.T. Bestelmeyer, M.L. Brooks, J.R. Brown, A.C. Comrie, H.R. Gimblett, J.H. Goldstein, K.M. Havstad, L. López-Hoffman, H.C. Monger, G.S. Okin, A. Rango, O.E. Sala, C.E. Tweedie, E.R. Vivoni.  Desertification of rangelands. Pages 000-000 in T.R. Seastedt and K.N. Suding, eds. Ecosystem Functions and Services: Volume 5 in R.A. Pielke, Sr. Editor-in-Chief. Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources. Elsevier. Accepted.

Hewins, D.B., S.R. Archer, G.S. Okin, R.L. McCulley, H.L. Throop, 2012, Soil-litter mixing accelerates decomposition in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland, Ecosystems, In Press.

Kanakidou, M., R. Duce, J. Prospero, A.R. Baker, C. Benitez-Nelson, F.J. Dentener, K.A. Hunter, N. Kubilay, P.S. Liss, N. Mahowald, G.S. Okin,  M. Sarin, V. Surapipit, I. Tegen, K. Tsigaridis, M. Uematsu, J. van Aardenne, L. M. Zamora, T. Zhu, 2012, Atmospheric organic material and the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus it carries to the ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, v. 26, GB3026, DOI 10.1029/2011GB004277.

Wang, L., G.S. Okin, P. D’Odorico, K.K. Caylor, S.A. Macko, 2012 Large-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas, Landscape Ecology, v. 28, 685–698, DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9776-6.

Rachal, D.M., H.C. Monger, G.S. Okin, D.P.C. Peters, Landform influences on the resistance of grasslands to shrub invasion, Northern Chihuahuan Desert, USA.  Journal of Maps. Accepted.

Wang, L., M. Katjiua, P. D’Odorico, G.S. Okin. 2012. The interactive nutrient and water effects on vegetation biomass at two African savanna sites with different mean annual precipitation, African Journal of Ecology. V 50 (4) p 446 – 454. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2012.01339.x.

Bhattachan, A., K. Dintwe, Tathlego, M., K.K. Caylor, F.C. O’Donnell, G.S. Okin, D.O. Perrot, S. Ringrose, P. D’Odorico. 2012. Evaluating ecohydrological theories of woody root distribution in the Kalahari. PLoS One. V. 7(3) e33996. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033996.

D’Odorico, P., G.S. Okin. B.T. Bestelmeyer, In Press, A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands, Ecohydrology. DOI: 10.1002/eco.259.

Okin G.S. (2013) Linked Aeolian-Vegetation Systems. In: John F. Shroder (ed.) Treatise on Geomorphology, Volume 11, pp. 428-439. San Diego: Academic Press.

Bhattachan, A., P. D’Odorico, M.C. Baddock, T.M. Zobeck, G.S. Okin, N. Cassar. 2012. The Southern Kalahari: A potential new dust source in the southern hemisphere? Environmental Research Letters, v. 7(2), 024001, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024001.

Alvarez, L., H.E. Epstein, J. Li, G.S. Okin. 2012 Aeolian process effects on vegetation communities in an arid grassland ecosystem, Ecology and Evolution, v. 2(4), pp 809-821, doi: 10.1002/ece3.205.

Turnbull, L., B.P. Wilcox, J. Belnap, S. Ravi, P. D’Odorico, D. Childers, W. Gwenzi, G. Okin, J. Wainwright, K. Caylor, T. Sankey. 2012. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem-state change in drylands. Ecohydrology, v. 5, pp 174-183, doi:10.1002/eco.265.

Hunter, K. et al., 2011, Impacts of anthropogenic SOx, NOx and NH3 on acidification of coastal waters and shipping lanes, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 38, L13602, doi:10.1029/2011GL047720.

Kaste, J.M., A.J. Elmore, K. Vest, and G.S. Okin, 2011, 7Be in soils and vegetation along an arid precipitation gradient in Owens Valley, California, Geophysical Research Letters v.38, L09401, doi:10.1029/2011GL047242.

Alvarez, L. J., H. E. Epstein, J. Li, and G. S. Okin, 2011, Spatial patterns of grasses and shrubs in an arid grassland environment, Ecosphere, 2(9), art103.

Okin, G.S, J.E. Bullard, R.L. Reynolds, J.A.C. Ballantine, K. Schepanski, M.C. Todd, J. Belnap, M.C. Baddock, T.E. Gill, M.E. Miller. 2011. Dust: small-scale processes with global consequences. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 92(29) pp 241-242.

Ravi, S., P. D’Odorico, D. D. Breshears, J.P. Field, A.S. Goudie, T.E. Huxman, J. Li, G.S. Okin, R.J. Swap, A.D. Thomas, S. van Pelt, J.J. Whicker, T.M. Zobeck, 2011, Aeolian processes and the biosphere: Interactions and feedback loops, Reviews of Geophysics, v.49 R3001 doi:10.1029/2010RG000328.

Okin, G.S., A.R Baker, I. Tegen, N.M. Mahowald, F.J. Dentener, R.A. Duce, J.N. Galloway, K.A. Hunter, M. Kanakidou, N. Kubilay, J.M. Prospero, M.M. Sarin, V. Surapipith, M. Uematsu, T. Zhou, 2011, Impacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition on marine productivity: roles of nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron, Global Biogoechemical Cycles. v. 25, GB2022, doi: 10.1029/2010GB003858.

O’Connell, M., H.H. Shugart, G.S. Okin, In Press, Measurement and monitoring of barrier island forest sensitivity to ecohydrological change using lidar remote sensing, Journal of Coastal Research.

Munson, S.M., Belnap, J., Okin, G.S., 2011, The responses of wind erosion to climate induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 108, 3854-3859.

Pau, Stephanie, G.S. Okin, T.W. Gillespie, 2010, Asynchronous Response of Tropical Forest Leaf Phenology to Seasonal and El Niño-driven Drought, PLoS ONE. v.5, e11325.

Li, J., G.S. Okin, J.E. Herrick, J. Belnap, S.M. Munson, M.E. Miller, 2010 A simple method to estimate threshold friction velocity of wind erosion in the field, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 37, L10402.

Myint, S.W., A. Brazel,  G.S. Okin, A. Buyantuyev, In Press. Combined effects of impervious surface and vegetation cover on the urban heat island effect in a rapidly expanding desert city, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Okin, G.S., 2010. The contribution of brown vegetation to vegetation dynamics, Ecology, v. 91, pp. 743-755.

Estes, L.D., P.R. Reillo, A.G. Mwangi, G.S. Okin, H.H. Shugart, 2010, Remote sensing of forest structural complexity indices or habitat and species distribution modeling, Remote Sensing of Environment, 14, p. 792-804.

Field, J.P., J. Belnap, D.D. Breshears, J.C. Neff, G.S. Okin, J.J. Whicker, T.H Painter, S. Ravi, M.C. Reheis, R.L. Reynolds, 2010, The ecology of dust: local- to global-scale terrestrial perspectives, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 423–430.

Myint, S.W., A. Brazel,  G.S. Okin, A. Buyantuyev, 2010. Combined effects of impervious surface and vegetation cover on the urban heat island effect in a rapidly expanding desert city, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 47: 301-320.

Li, J.R., Okin, G.S., Alvarez, L.J. and Epstein, H.E., 2009. Sediment deposition and soil nutrient heterogeneity in two desert grassland ecosystems, southern New Mexico, southern New Mexico. Plant and Soil, 319(1-2): 67-84.

Shreve, C.M., Okin, G.S. and Painter, T.H., 2009. Indices for estimating fractional snow cover in the western Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Glaciology, 55(192): 737-745.

Li, J.R., Okin, G.S. and Epstein, H.E., 2009. Effects of enhanced wind erosion on surface soil texture and characteristics of windblown sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 114.

Wang, L., D’Odorico, P., Okin, G.S. and Macko, S.A., 2009. Isotope composition and anion chemistry of soil profiles along the Kalahari Transect. Journal of Arid Environments, 73(4-5): 480-486.

Wang, L., Okin, G.S., Macko, S.A., 2009, Satellite prediction of soil δ13C distributions in a southern African savanna, Journal of Geochemical Exploration 102: 137-141.

Ravi, Sujith, P. D’Odorico, L. Wang, C. White, G.S. Okin, S.A. Macko, S. Collins, 2009, Post-fire resource redistribution in desert grasslands: A possible negative feedback on land degradation, Ecosystems 12(3) 434-444. Wang, L., Okin, G.S., Macko, S.A., 2009, Satellite prediction of soil δ13C distributions in a southern African savanna, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 102, 137-141.

Gu, J., X. Li, C. Huang, G.S. Okin, 2009, A simplified data assimilation method for reconstructing time-series MODIS NDVI data, Advances in Space Research, 44, 501-509.

Wang, L., G.S. Okin, K. K. Caylor, S. Macko, 2009, Spatial heterogeneity and sources of soil carbon in southern African savannas, Geoderma, 149, 402-408.

Okin, G. S., P. D’Odorico, and S. R. Archer, 2009, Impact of feedbacks on Chihuahuan desert grasslands: Transience and metastability, Journal Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 114, G01004, doi:10.1029/2008JG000833

Okin, G.S. A.J. Parsons, J. Wainwright, J.E. Herrick, B.T. Bestelmeyer, D.P.C. Peters, and E.L. Fredrickson, 2009, Do changes in connectivity explain desertification?  BioScience, 59 (3): 237-244.

Mahowald, N., T.D. Jickells, A.R. Baker, P. Artaxo, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, G. Bergametti, T.C. Bond, Y. Chen, D.D. Cohen, B. Herut, N. Kubilay, R. Losno, C. Luo, W. Maenhaut, K.A. McGee, G.S. Okin, R.L. Siefert, S. Tsukuda, 2008. The global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus deposition and anthropogenic impacts, Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 22, GB4026, 10.1029/2008GB003240.

Myint, S., G.S. Okin, In Press, Modeling urban land covers using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis, International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Elmore, A.J., J.M. Kaste, G.S. Okin, M.S. Fantle, 2008. Groundwater influences on atmospheric dust generation in deserts, Journal of Arid Environments, 72(10), 1753-1756.

Marshall, J.D., J.M Blair, D.P.C. Peters, G.S. Okin, A. Rango, M. Williams, 2008, Predicting and understanding ecosystem responses to climate change at continental scales, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(5) pp 273-280. doi: 10.1890/070165

Li, J., G.S. Okin, L.J. Alvarez, and H.E. Epstein, 2008, Effects of wind erosion on the spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in two desert grassland communities, Biogeochemistry, 8(1) pp. 73-88, 10.1007/s10533-008-9195-6.

Okin, G.S., N. Mladenov, L. Wang, D. Cassel, K. K. Caylor, and S. Ringrose, 2008, Spatial patterns of soil nutrients in two southern African savannas, JGR-Biogeosciences, 113:G02011.

Estes, L.D., G.S. Okin, A.G. Mwangi, H.H. Shugart, 2008, Identifying a large forest herbivore’s habitat:  a multi-scale approach combining field data and imagery from four sensors, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112: 2033-2050.

Okin, G. S., 2008, A new model of wind erosion in the presence of vegetation, Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 113, F02S10, doi:10.1029/2007JF000758.

Ravi, S., D’Odorico, P., and G.S. Okin, 2007, Hydrologic and aeolian controls on vegetation patterns in arid landscapes, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L24S23, doi:10.1029/2007GL031023.

D’Odorico, P., K.K. Caylor, G.S. Okin, T.M. Scanlon, 2007, On soil moisture-vegetation feedbacks in dryland plant ecosystems, JGR-Biogeosciences, 112, G04010, DOI: 10.1029/2006JG000379

Li, J., G.S. Okin, L.J. Alvarez, and H.E. Epstein, 2007, Quantitative assessment of wind erosion and soil nutrient loss in desert grasslands of the southwestern United States, Biogeochemistry, 10.1007/s10533-007-9142-y, 85(3) 317-332.

Diekmann, L., D. Lawrence, and G.S. Okin, 2007. Changes in the spatial variation of soil properties following shifting cultivation in a Mexican dry tropical forest, Biogeochemistry, 10.1007/s10533-007-9107-1.

Okin, G.S., 2007, Relative Spectral Mixture Analysis – a multitemporal index of total vegetation cover, Remote Sensing of Environment, 106(4), 467-479.

Wang, L., G.S. Okin, J. Wang, H.E. Epstein, and S. Macko, 2007, Predicting 15N concentration from Reflectance Spectra (400-2500 nm) at Leaf and Canopy Scales, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L02401, doi:10.1029/2006GL028506

Scull, P. and G.S. Okin, 2007, Sampling challenges posed by continental scale soil landscape modeling, Science of the Total Environment, 372, 645-656.

McGlynn, I.O., and G.S. Okin, 2006, Characterization of shrub distribution using high spatial resolution remote sensing: ecosystem implication for a former Chihuahuan Desert grassland. Remote Sensing of Environment, 101, 554-566.

Ravi, S., T.M.  Zobeck, T.M. Over, G.S. Okin, and P. D’Odorico, 2006, On the effect of wet bonding forces in air-dry soils on threshold friction velocity of wind erosion, Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00775.x,

Okin, G.S., D.A. Gillettte, and J.E. Herrick, 2006, Multi-scale controls on and consequences of aeolian processes in landscape change in arid and semiarid environments, Journal of Arid Environments, 65, 253-275.

Mahowald N.M, P.E. Artaxo, A.R. Baker, D. Jickells, G.S. Okin, J.T. Randerson, and A.R. Townsend, 2005. Impacts of biomass burning emissions and land use on Amazonian atmospheric phosphorus cycling and deposition, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19, No. 4, GB4030, 10.1029/2005GB002541.

Scull, P., G. Okin, O.A. Chadwick, and J. Franklin, 2005. A comparison of methods to predict soil surface texture in an alluvial basin, Professional Geographer, 57(3), 423-437.

Ballantine, J.A.C., G. S. Okin, D.E. Prentiss, and D.A. Roberts, 2005. Mapping North African landforms using continental-scale unmixing of MODIS imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, 47(4) 470-483.

Okin, G.S., 2005. Dependence of wind erosion on surface heterogeneity, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D11208.

Okin, G.S., and T.H. Painter, 2004, Effect of grain size on spectral reflectance of sandy desert surfaces, Remote Sensing of Environment,  89(3) pp 272-280.

Okin, G.S., N. M. Mahowald, O.A. Chadwick, P.E. Artaxo, 2004, The impact of desert dust on the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18(2), 10.1029/2003GB002145.

Okin, G.S., and M.C. Reheis, 2002, An ENSO predictor of wind erosion and dust emission in the southwest United States: Geophysical Research Letters. V 29, no. 9. 10.1029/2001GL014494.

Okin, G.S., W.J. Okin, B. Murray, and D.A. Roberts, 2001, Practical limits on hyperspectral vegetation discrimination in arid and semiarid environments: Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 77, 212-225.

Okin, G.S., and D.A. Gillette, 2001, Distribution of vegetation in wind-dominated landscapes: Implications for wind erosion modeling and landscape processes: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, 9673-9683.

Okin, G.S., W.H. Schlesinger, and B. Murray, 2001, Degradation of Sandy Arid Shrubland Environments:  Observations, process modeling and management implications: Journal of Arid Environments, v. 47, 123-144.

Gilbert, J.V., and G.S. Okin, 1995, Laser-induced emission from NFCl radicals isolated in low-temperature argon matrices, Journal of Physical Chemistry, v. 99, p. 11365-11369.

Larrabee, J.A., C.M. Alessi, E.T. Asiedu, J.O. Cook, K.R. Hoerning, L.J. Klingler, G.S. Okin, S.G. Santee, and T.L. Volkert, 1997, Magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy as a probe of geometric and electronic structure of Cobalt(II)- substituted proteins: Ground-state zero-field splitting as a coordination number indicator, Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 119, p. 4182-4196.

Mulinax, R.L., G.S. Okin, and R.D. Coombe, 1995, Gas-Phase synthesis, structure, and dissociation of boron triazide, Journal of Physical Chemistry, v. 99, p. 6294-6300.

Refereed Book Chapters

Wang, L., G.S. Okin, S.A. Macko, In Press, Remote sensing of nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition in terrestrial ecosystems in Isoscapes, Springer Netherlands.

Okin, G.S., 2002, Toward a Unified View of Biophysical Land Degradation Processes in Arid and Semi-arid Lands, in Global Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts? J.F. Reynolds & D.M. Stafford Smith, eds. Dahlem  University Press, Berlin, pp. 95-109.

Robbins, P.F., N. Abel, H. Jiang, M. Mortimore, M. Mulligan, G.S. Okin, D.M. Stafford Smith, B.L. Turner II, 2002, Desertification at the community scale: sustaining dynamic human-environment systems in Global Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts? J.F. Reynolds & D.M. Stafford Smith, eds. Dahlem University Press, Berlin, pp. 326-355.

Okin, G.S., B. Murray, and W.H. Schlesinger, 2001, Desertification in an arid shrubland in the southwestern United States:  Process modeling and validation, in Land Degradation: Papers Selected from Contributions to the Sixth meeting of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification, Perth, Western Australia, 20-28 September 1999, pp. 53-70, edited by A. Conacher, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Unrefereed Book Chapters

Li, J. and G.S. Okin,  in press, Carbon and nitrogen dynamics with enhanced wind erosion-Model evaluation and prediction in Title TBD, Nova Publishers.

Hartley A.E., N. Barger, J. Belnap, G.S. Okin. 2007.  Nutrient Cycling in Dryland Ecosystems.  In: Marschner P, Rengel Z (eds) Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems.  Soil Biology Series. Springer Verlag.

Okin, G.S., and D.A. Gillette, 2004, Modelling wind erosion and dust emission on vegetated surfaces in Spatial Modelling of the Terrestrial Environment R. Kelly, N. Drake, and S. Barr, eds, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 137-156.

Okin, G.S. and D. A. Roberts, 2004, Remote Sensing in Arid Environments: Challenges and Opportunities, in Manual of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Monitoring, Volume 5, S. Ustin, ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Other Publications

Epstein, H.E., G.S. Okin, J. Li, L.J. Alvarez, 2009 Wind erosion and ecosystem consequences following vegetation removal in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland, Newsletter of the Global Land Project International Project Office, n. 5, June 2009, pp. 3 – 4.