Research

Publications

Bold denotes DRIP lab members. *Postdoc **Graduate Student ***Undergraduate

In Progress

**JohnPaul Sleiman, Susan Conway, Andreas Johnsson, James Wray, Rachel C. Glade. Viewing lobate patterns on Mars and Earth as climate-modulated fluid-like instabilities. Submitted.
***Div Patel and Rachel C. Glade. When ice meets bedrock: Variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes. In revision.

Peer-Reviewed

**Siyu Xue, *Benjamin A. Storer, Rachel C. Glade, and Hussein Aluie. Mapping and Analyzing the Topographic Roughness of the Moon Using A Coarse-Graining Decomposition (2024). JGR Planets.
Anne Voigtländer, Morgane Houssais, Karol A. Bacik, Ian C. Bourg, Justin C. Burton, Karen E. Daniels, Sujit S. Datta, Emanuela Del Gado, Nakul S. Deshpande, Olivier Devauchelle, Behrooz Ferdowsi, Rachel C. Glade, Lucas Goehring, Ian J. Hewitt, Douglas Jerolmack, Ruben Juanes, Arshad Kudrolli, Ching-Yao Lai, Wei Li, Claire Masteller, Kavinda Nissanka, Allan M. Rubin, Howard A. Stone, Jenny Suckale, Nathalie M. Vriend, John S. Wettlaufer, Judy Q. Yang (2024) Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet. Soft Matter.
**J. O. Albrigtsen, B. A. Wing, R. C. Glade and R. S. Anderson (2024) Stable Isotopes Constrain Water Seepage from Gnammas into Bare Granitic Bedrock. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI:10.1029/2023GL107428
*David Cúñez, ***Div Patel, Rachel C. Glade (2024) How particle shape affects granular segregation in industrial and geophysical flows. PNAS 121 (6) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307061121. Featured in Nautilus, UR News Center.
A. C. Quillen, **Stephen Luniewski, Adam E. Rubinstein, *Jeremy Couturier, Rachel C. Glade, Miki Nakajima (2024) Wind erosion and transport on planetesimals. Icarus.
Charles Merritt Shobe, **Samuel J Bower, Aaron E Maxwell, Rachel C. Glade, **Nacere Mohamed Samassi (2023) The uncertain future of mountaintop-removal-mined landscapes 1: How mining changes erosion processes and variables. Geomorphology.
Mehdi Pouragha, ***Mohammadreza Jebeli, Rachel C. Glade (2023) Failure of partially saturated frozen soils: A micromechanical analysis. Cold Regions Science and Technology.
*Joanmarie Del Vecchio, **Emma Lathrop, **Julian B. Dann, Christian G. Andresen, Adam D. Collins, **Michael M. Fratkin, Simon Zwieback, Rachel C. Glade, and Joel C. Rowland (2023) Patterns and rates of soil movement and shallow failures across several small watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Earth Surface Dynamics.
Shobe, C.M., Turowski, J.M., **Nativ, R., Glade, R.C., Bennett, G.L., and Dini, B. The role of large, infrequently mobile boulders in modulating landscape evolution and geomorphic hazards (2021) Earth Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103717.
Glade, R.C., **Fratkin, M., Pouragha, M., Seiphoori, A., and Rowland, J. Arctic soil patterns analogous to fluid instabilities (2021) PNAS. 118 (21) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101255118.
Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Glade, R.C., Shobe, C.M., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Projections of landscape evolution on a 10,000 year timescale with assessment and partitioning of uncertainty sources. JGR Earth Surface. DOI: 10.1029/2020JF005795.
Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Inverting topography for landscape evolution model process representation: Part 3, calibration and validation. JGR Earth Surface. DOI: 10.1029/2019JF005287.
Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Inverting topography for landscape evolution model process representation: Part 2, a review of parameter ranges. JGR Earth Surface. DOI: 10.1029/2018JF004963.
Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020)Inverting topography for landscape evolution model process representation: Part 1, conceptualization and sensitivity analysis. JGR Earth Surface. DOI: 10.1029/2018JF004961
⁺Glade, R.C., ⁺Shobe, C.M., Anderson, R.S., and Tucker, G.E. (2019) Canyon shape and erosion dynamics governed by channel-hillslope feedbacks. Geology, 47.7: 650-654. ⁺Equal author contributions.
Barnhart, K.R., Glade, R.C., Shobe, C.M., and Tucker, G.E. (2019) terrainbento 1.0: a Python package for multi-model analysis in long-term drainage basin evolution. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(4), 1267-1297.
Glade, R.C., and Anderson, R.S. (2018) Quasi-steady evolution of hillslopes in layered landscapes: An analytic approach: JGR Earth Surface. DOI: 10.1002/2017JF004466.
Glade, R.C., Anderson, R.S., and Tucker, G.E. (2017) Block-controlled hillslope form and persistence of topography in rocky landscapes: Geology, v. 45, p. 311-314, DOI:10.1130/G38665.1.

Technical Reports and Theses

Glade, R.C. (2019) Hillslope evolution in block-controlled landscapes. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder.
West Valley Erosion Working Group Modeling Team including Glade, R.C. (2018) Modeling long-term erosion at the West Valley Demonstration Project and Western New York Nuclear Services Center. Report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Foster, M.A., Anderson, R.S., Rindﬂeisch, P.R., Birkeland, P.W., Redwine, J.R., Pitlick, J., and Glade, R.C., (2016) The 2016 Kirk Bryan ﬁeld trip: Quaternary landslides, ﬂuvial terraces, and recent geomorphic events along the Colorado Front Range, in Keller, S.M., and Morgan, M.L., eds., Unfolding the Geology of the West: Geological Society of America Field Guide 44, p. 267–289, doi:10.1130/2016.0044(12).
Glade, R.C. (2014) Formation and morphology of aeolian coarse-grained ripples at White Sands, New Mexico. University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Thesis.

Science Writing and Commentary

Furbish, D.J., Jerolmack, D.J., and Glade, R.C. The Brickyard in 2020. Vanderbilt University Institutional Repository. *see companion piece, The Young Brickmakers.

Conferences

Sessions Convened:

Centennial Session: Leopoldian, Bagnoldian, and Einsteinian Geomorphology Today: Historical Reflections and New Approaches (AGU Fall Meeting)
Heterogeneity in Geomorphic Systems: Driving Forces and Landscape Response: Geological Society of America Meeting (GSA).

Selected Presentations:

Glade, R.C., Fratkin, M., Pouragha, M., Seiphoori, A., and Rowland, J. Soil drip and droplets: Solifluction patterns analogous to fluid instabilities (2020) Oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
Tucker, G.E., Barnhart, K. R., Doty, S., Glade, R.C., Shobe, C.M., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Ensemble forecasting of long-term erosion at a hazardous waste site. Oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
Rowland, J., Del Vecchio, J, Glade, R.C., Fratkin, M., Lathrop, E., and Zwieback, S. (2020) Patterns and rates of soil movement and shallow failures across several small watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Poster presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
Glade, R.C., Fratkin, M., Rowland, J. and Nutt, M. (2020) Solifluction patterns arising from competition between gravity and cohesion. Presentation at EGU Virtual Meeting.
Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S.G., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M., and Hill, M.C. (2019) The importance and challenge of thresholds in calibrating landscape evolution models. Oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
Voigtlander, A., Glade, R.C., and Turowski, J.M. (2019) Three failure limits to relief. Poster presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
Glade, R.C., and Anderson, R.S. (2018) From scallops to flatirons: Planview patterns in layered landscapes. Oral Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
Glade, R.C., Anderson, R.S. (2017) Steady evolution of hillslopes in layered landscapes: self-organization of a numerical hogback: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU). Oral Presentation.
Glade, R.C., Anderson, R.S. (2017) Legion of lobes: Self-organization of solifluction features at Niwot Ridge LTER: GSA annual meeting. Oral Presentation.
Glade, R.C., Anderson, R.S. (2016) Hillslope evolution in landscapes dominated by layered rocks: AGU Fall meeting. Oral Presentation.