Harland Goldstein
Harland Goldstein is the Deputy Center Director of the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center in Denver, Colorado.
Current Research and Activities:
- Climatic, geologic, biologic, and human controls on dust generation
- Effects of dust emission and transport: Ecologic, geomorphic, and human health
- Soil-geomorphic controls on ecosystems including distributions of threatened and endangered plants
- Environmental magnetism
- Dust on snow: Composition and effects on snow melt rates and timing
Professional Experience
2000-present: Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
Education and Certifications
1997: B.S., Geology, Humboldt State University
2000: M.S., Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Affiliations and Memberships*
Geological Society of America
International Society for Aeolian Research
Science and Products
Distribution of major anions and trace elements in the unsaturated zone at Franklin Lake Playa, California, USA
Physical, Chemical, Ecological, and Age Data and Trench Logs from Surficial Deposits at Hatch Point, Southeastern Utah
Sediment losses and gains across a gradient of livestock grazing and plant invasion in a cool, semi-arid grassland, Colorado Plateau, USA
Dust emission at Franklin Lake Playa, Mojave Desert (USA): Response to meteorological and hydrologic changes 2005-2008
Preliminary analytical results for a mud sample collected from the LUSI Mud Volcano, Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia
Compositional trends in aeolian dust along a transect across the southwestern United States
Sedimentary properties of shallow marine cores collected in June and September 2006, Hanalei Bay, Kaua'i, Hawai'i
Physical and Chemical Data from Eolian Sediment Collected Along a Transect from the Mojave Desert to the Colorado Plateau
Ecological Investigations of the Federally Endangered Shivwits Milk-Vetch (Astragalus ampullarioides)--2006 Annual Report
Dust emission from wet and dry playas in the Mojave Desert, USA
Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects
Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Distribution of major anions and trace elements in the unsaturated zone at Franklin Lake Playa, California, USA
Physical, Chemical, Ecological, and Age Data and Trench Logs from Surficial Deposits at Hatch Point, Southeastern Utah
Sediment losses and gains across a gradient of livestock grazing and plant invasion in a cool, semi-arid grassland, Colorado Plateau, USA
Dust emission at Franklin Lake Playa, Mojave Desert (USA): Response to meteorological and hydrologic changes 2005-2008
Preliminary analytical results for a mud sample collected from the LUSI Mud Volcano, Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia
Compositional trends in aeolian dust along a transect across the southwestern United States
Sedimentary properties of shallow marine cores collected in June and September 2006, Hanalei Bay, Kaua'i, Hawai'i
Physical and Chemical Data from Eolian Sediment Collected Along a Transect from the Mojave Desert to the Colorado Plateau
Ecological Investigations of the Federally Endangered Shivwits Milk-Vetch (Astragalus ampullarioides)--2006 Annual Report
Dust emission from wet and dry playas in the Mojave Desert, USA
Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects
Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government