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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

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Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model

1. Desertification negatively impacts a large proportion of the global human population and > 30% of the terrestrial land surface. Better methods are needed to detect areas that are at risk of desertification and to ameliorate desertified areas. Biological soil crusts are an important soil lichen-moss-microbial community that can be used toward these goals, as (i) bioindicators of...
Authors
M. A. Bowker, J. Belnap, D. W. Davidson, H. Goldstein

Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects

In a semi-arid, upland setting on the Colorado Plateau that is underlain by nutrient-poor Paleozoic eolian sandstone, alternating episodes of dune activity and soil formation during the late Pleistocene and Holocene have produced dominantly sandy deposits that support grass and shrub communities. These deposits also contain eolian dust, especially in paleosols. Eolian dust in these...
Authors
R. L. Reynolds, M.C. Reheis, J. C. Neff, H. Goldstein, J. Yount

Particle-Size, CaCO3, chemical, magnetic, and age data from surficial deposits in and around Canyonlands National Park, Utah Particle-Size, CaCO3, chemical, magnetic, and age data from surficial deposits in and around Canyonlands National Park, Utah

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Authors
Harland L. Goldstein, Richard T. Reynolds, Marith C. Reheis, James Yount, Paul Lamothe, Helen Roberts, John McGeehin

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

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Filter Total Items: 39

Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model

1. Desertification negatively impacts a large proportion of the global human population and > 30% of the terrestrial land surface. Better methods are needed to detect areas that are at risk of desertification and to ameliorate desertified areas. Biological soil crusts are an important soil lichen-moss-microbial community that can be used toward these goals, as (i) bioindicators of...
Authors
M. A. Bowker, J. Belnap, D. W. Davidson, H. Goldstein

Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects

In a semi-arid, upland setting on the Colorado Plateau that is underlain by nutrient-poor Paleozoic eolian sandstone, alternating episodes of dune activity and soil formation during the late Pleistocene and Holocene have produced dominantly sandy deposits that support grass and shrub communities. These deposits also contain eolian dust, especially in paleosols. Eolian dust in these...
Authors
R. L. Reynolds, M.C. Reheis, J. C. Neff, H. Goldstein, J. Yount

Particle-Size, CaCO3, chemical, magnetic, and age data from surficial deposits in and around Canyonlands National Park, Utah Particle-Size, CaCO3, chemical, magnetic, and age data from surficial deposits in and around Canyonlands National Park, Utah

No abstract available.
Authors
Harland L. Goldstein, Richard T. Reynolds, Marith C. Reheis, James Yount, Paul Lamothe, Helen Roberts, John McGeehin

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

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