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Present	Associate Professor, Utah State University ‐ Geosciences
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Present	Director, Utah State University ‐ Luminescence Lab
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Articles (90)

Fire Suppression Impacts on Fuels and Fire Intensity in the ...

Christopher I. Roos, Tammy M. Rittenour, Thomas W. Swetnam, Rachel A. Loehman, et al.

Here, we show that the last century of fire suppression in the western U.S. has resulted in fire intensities that ...

Prehistoric Irrigation in Central Utah: Chronology, Agricultural Economics, and Implications

American Antiquity (2020)

Steven R. Simms, Tammy M. Rittenour, Chimalis Kuehn and Molly Boeka Cannon

In 1928, Noel Morss was shown “irrigation ditches” along Pleasant Creek on the Dixie National Forest near Capitol Reef National ...

Sampling Methods for Luminescence Dating of Subsurface Deposits from Cores

Methods and Protocols (2019)

Michelle Nelson, Tammy M. Rittenour and Harriet Cornachione

Study of subsurface deposits often requires coring or drilling to obtain samples for sedimentologic and geochemical analysis. Geochronology is a ...

Collaborative Research: TESPRESSO, Tectonic Encoding, Shredding, and PRopagation of Environmental ...

Funded Research Records (2019)

Tammy M. Rittenour

Corrigendum to "Evidence for Slow Late-Glacial Ice Retreat in the ...

Quaternary Science Reviews (2019)

James Shulmeister, David Fink, Stefan Winkler, Glenn D. Thackray, et al.

It has been brought to our attention, following a recent publication by Barrell et al. (2019), that the elevations for ...

Erosion Rates in a Transient Landscape, Grand Staircase, Southern Utah

Kerry E. Riley, Tammy M. Rittenour, Joel L. Pederson and Patrick Belmont

Cosmogenic 10Be concentrations in alluvial sediment are widely used to infer long-term, catchment-averaged erosion rates based on the assumption that ...

Comment on Barrell et al. “Reconciling the Onset of Deglaciation ...

Quaternary Science Reviews (2019)

James Shulmeister, David Fink, Stefan Winkler, Glenn D. Thackray, et al.

Recently, Barrell et al. (2019) published an article that responded to our article (Shulmeister et al., 2018a) on gradual evacuation ...

Anatomy and Evolution of a Dynamic Arroyo System, Kanab Creek ...

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (2019)

Kirk F. Townsend, Michelle C. Summa-Nelson, Tammy M. Rittenour and Joel L. Pederson

Many alluvial valleys in the American Southwest are entrenched within continuous arroyos, and stratigraphic evidence indicates that these fluvial systems ...

Pace and Process of Active Folding and Fluvial Incision Across ...

Geophysical Research Letters (2019)

A. M. Bender, R. O. Lease, P. J. Haeussler, Tammy M. Rittenour, et al.

Rates of northern Alaska Range thrust system deformation are poorly constrained. Shortening at the system's west end is focused on ...

Quaternary evolution of the Ploučnice River system (Bohemian Massif) based ...

Geomorphology (2019)

Tomás Štor, Mirjam Schaller, Silke Merchel, Karel Martínek, et al.

The Ploučnice River system, located in the central Bohemian Massif, is draining an area almost not covered by continental ice ...

The Timing and Nature of the Last Glacial Cycle in ...

Quaternary Science Reviews (2018)

James Shulmeister, Glenn D. Thackray, Tammy M. Rittenour, David Fink, et al.

This paper constitutes a review of the last (Otiran) glaciation in New Zealand, spanning marine isotope stages (MIS) 4-2. We ...

The AGeS2 (Awards for Geochronology Student research 2) Program: Supporting ...

GSA Today (2018)

Rebecca M. Flowers, J. Ramón Arrowsmith, Vicki McConnell, James R. Metcalf, et al.

Geochronology is essential in the geosciences. It is used to resolve the durations and rates of earth processes, as well ...

Late-Holocene Cliff-Top Blowout Activation and Evolution in the Cooloola Sand ...

The Holocene (2018)

Daniel Ellerton, Tammy M. Rittenour, Graziela Miot da Silva, Allen Gontz, et al.

Cliff-top dunes are a locally important geomorphic features of sedimentary coasts. They are traditionally interpreted as being sourced by (or ...

Alaskan Marine Transgressions Record Out-of-Phase Arctic Ocean Glaciation During the ...

Louise Farquharson, Daniel Mann, Tammy M. Rittenour, Pamela Groves, et al.

Ongoing climate change focuses attention on the Arctic cryosphere’s responses to past and future climate states. Although it is now ...

Multiple Glacial Advances in the Rangitata Valley, South Island, New ...

Quaternary Research (2018)

James Shulmeister, Glenn D. Thackray, Tammy M. Rittenour and Olivia M. Hyatt

Stratigraphic evidence and extensive optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) geochronology from an 18-km-long reach of the middle Rangitata Valley, South Island, ...

Evidence for Slow Late-Glacial Ice Retreat in the Upper Rangitata ...

Quaternary Science Reviews (2018)

James Shulmeister, David Fink, Stefan Winkler, Glenn D. Thackray, et al.

A suite of cosmogenic radionuclide ages taken from boulders on lateral and latero-terminal moraines in the Rangitata Valley, eastern South ...

Dates and Rates of Earth-Surface Processes Revealed using Luminescence Dating

Elements (2018)

Tammy M. Rittenour

Understanding rates and variability of Earth-surface processes is vital to assessing natural hazards, landscape response to climate change and addressing ...

Monthly Paleostreamflow Reconstruction from Annual Tree-Ring Chronologies

Journal of Hydrology (2018)

James H. Stagge, David E. Rosenberg, R. J. DeRose and Tammy M. Rittenour

Paleoclimate reconstructions are increasingly used to characterize annual climate variability prior to the instrumental record, to improve estimates of climate ...

Influence of the megathrust earthquake cycle on upper-plate deformation in ...

Jaime E. Delano, Colin B. Amos, John P Loveless, Tammy M. Rittenour, et al.

The influence of subduction zone earthquake cycle processes on permanent forearc deformation is poorly understood. In the Cascadia subduction zone ...

Eolian Sand and Loess Deposits Indicate West-Northwest Paleowinds During the ...

Quaternary Research (2017)

Randall J. Schaetzl, Phillip H. Larson, Douglas J. Faulkner, Garry L. Running, et al.

Our study adds to the Quaternary history of eolian systems and deposits in western Wisconsin, USA, primarily within the lower ...

Influence of the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle on Upper-Plate Deformation in ...

Jaime E. Delano, Colin B. Amos, John P. Loveless, Tammy M. Rittenour, et al.

The influence of subduction zone earthquake cycle processes on permanent forearc deformation is poorly understood. In the Cascadia subduction zone ...

Collaborative Research: FACET: Quantifying the Topographic Response to Tectonic Processes ...

Funded Research Records (2017)

Tammy M. Rittenour

Luminescence Dating of Paleolake Deltas and Glacial Deposits in Garwood ...

GSA Bulletin (2017)

Joseph S. Levy, Tammy M. Rittenour, Andrew G. Fountain and Jim E. O'Connor

The formation of perched deltas and other lacustrine deposits in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica is widely considered to ...

Controls on Erosion in the Western Tarin Basin: Implications for ...

Geosphere (2017)

Peter D. Clift, Hongbo Zheng, Andrew Carter, Philipp Böning, et al.

We present here bulk sediment major element chemistry, Nd and Sr isotope ratios, and detrital apatite fission-track (AFT) and U-Pb ...

Single-Grain Optically Stimulated Luminescence Ages of Brownware Pottery in the ...

American Antiquity (2017)

Judson Byrd Finley, Carlie J. Ideker and Tammy M. Rittenour

This study presents the results of a single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (SG-OSL) analysis of brownware pottery from four Late Prehistoric-period ...