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List of works by James P. M. Syvitski

A Community Approach to Earth Systems Modeling

article published in 2010

A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas

A novel technique to detect turbid water and mask clouds in Greenland fjords

A ~240 ka record of Ice Sheet and Ocean interactions on the Snorri Drift, SW of Iceland

scientific article published in 2021

Advances on our understanding of delta/prodelta environments: A focus on southern European margins

article

Anthropocene metamorphosis of the Indus Delta and lower floodplain

Anthropogenic impacts on the decreasing sediment loads of nine major rivers in China, 1954-2015

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Approaches to defining deltaic sustainability in the 21st century

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Assessing the effect of natural controls and land use change on sediment yield in a major Andean River: the Magdalena drainage basin, Colombia

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Author Correction: Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

correction of a scholarly article

Boosting riverine sediment by artificial flood in the Yellow River and the implication for delta restoration

scientific article published on 04 May 2022

CSDMS: A community platform for numerical modeling of Earth-surface processes

scientific article

CSDMS: a community platform for numerical modeling of Earth surface processes

scientific article

Calibration of satellite measurements of river discharge using a global hydrology model

article

Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch?

article published in 2015

Causation and avoidance of catastrophic flooding along the Indus River, Pakistan

article

Climate change: protect the world's deltas.

scientific article

Data-Driven, Multi-Model Workflow Suggests Strong Influence from Hurricanes on the Generation of Turbidity Currents in the Gulf of Mexico

scientific article published on 6 August 2020

Deltas at risk

scientific article

Distributary channels and their impact on sediment dispersal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world

scientific article

Earth’s sediment cycle during the Anthropocene

scientific article

Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia

scientific article

Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

scholarly article

Floods, floodplains, delta plains — A satellite imaging approach

scientific article

Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization

scientific article (publication date: 26 June 2012)

Geology, Geography, and Humans Battle for Dominance over the Delivery of Fluvial Sediment to the Coastal Ocean

scientific article published in January 2007

Geomorphic/Tectonic Control of Sediment Discharge to the Ocean: The Importance of Small Mountainous Rivers

scientific article

Glaciomarine environments in Canada: an overview

scientific article

Global N removal by freshwater aquatic systems using a spatially distributed, within-basin approach

High-Latitude Fjord Valley Fills: A Case Study of Clyde Fjordhead, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

scientific article

High-frequency sea level and sediment supply fluctuations during Termination I: An integrated sequence-stratigraphy and modeling approach from the Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean)

How important and different are tropical rivers? — An overview

article

Impact of Extreme River Events on the Coastal Ocean

scientific article published in 2000

Impact of humans on the flux of terrestrial sediment to the global coastal ocean

scientific article published in April 2005

Impacts of the dam-orientated water-sediment regulation scheme on the lower reaches and delta of the Yellow River (Huanghe): A review

scholarly article by Houjie Wang published in October 2017

InSAR measurements of compaction and subsidence in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 119 no. 8, August 2014

Influence of melting icebergs on distribution, characteristics and transport of marine particles in an East Greenland fjord

scientific article published in 1999

International Year of Deltas 2013: A proposal

article

Land subsidence at aquaculture facilities in the Yellow River delta, China

scientific article published in 2013

Large deltas versus small deltas: Two different beasts

scholarly article

Large deltas, small deltas: Toward a more rigorous understanding of coastal marine deltas

scientific article published in 2022

MODELLING EXTREME EVENTS (HURRICANES) AT THE SEAFLOOR IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO

Methods and approaches to modelling the Anthropocene

article

Modeling flood dynamics along the superelevated channel belt of the Yellow River over the last 3000 years

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 120 no. 7, July 2015

Morphodynamics of deltas under the influence of humans

scientific article

Morphological responses of the Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, to Hurricanes Rita

scientific article published in 2017

Numerical modeling of Earth's dynamic surface: a community approach

scientific article

Palaeoceanographic information derived from acoustic surveys of glaciated continental margins: examples from eastern Canada

Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future

article by Ruth S. DeFries et al published June 2012 in BioScience

Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

article

Quantifying sediment storage on the floodplains outside levees along the lower Yellow River during the years 1580–1849

scientific article

Quaternary sedimentation and marine placers along the North Shore, Gulf of St. Lawrence

scholarly article

River temperature and the thermal-dynamic transport of sediment

scientific article published in July 2019

Sediment character and provenance in a complex fjord; Howe Sound, British Columbia

scientific article

Sediment fill of Baffin Island fjords: Architecture and rates

scholarly article

Sediment flux and the Anthropocene ⬇️

scientific article published on March 13, 2011

Shifting discharge peaks in arctic rivers, 1977–2007

Sinking deltas due to human activities

article

Socio-economic impacts on flooding: a 4000-year history of the Yellow River, China

scientific article (publication date: November 2012)

Strategies for integrated modeling: The community surface dynamics modeling system example

Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2016

Stratigraphic variability due to uncertainty in model boundary conditions: A case-study of the New Jersey Shelf over the last 40,000 years

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

scientific article

The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines

scientific article

The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

Scholarly article, 2017

The flux and preservation of organic carbon in Baffin Island fjords

scientific article published in 1990

The impact of floods and storms on the acoustic reflectivity of the inner continental shelf: A modeling assessment

article by Lincoln F. Pratson et al published February 2007 in Continental Shelf Research

Turbidity Currents Generated at River Mouths during Exceptional Discharges to the World Oceans

scientific article published in May 1995

Understanding sediment transfer from land to ocean

scholarly article

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

scientific article (publication date: October 2015)

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