Publications
ORCID ID for J. Shaw: 0000-0003-0581-0857
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Shaw, J. B., Sanks, K. M., & Piliouras, A. (2025). Basin confinement influences river delta elevation profiles. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B38386.1
Hughes, C. M., Shaw, J. B., Fernandes, A. M., & Swanson, T. E. (2025). Stratigraphic Evidence of Backwater Morphodynamics and Lowland River Deltas in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(12), e2024GL112957. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112957
Mahon, R. C., Hughes, C. M., Chen, H., & Shaw, J. B. (2024). Ancient Channel-Mouth Bifurcation Angles on Earth and Mars. The Sedimentary Record, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.2110/001c.124824
Waszkiewicz, R., Shaw, J. B., Lisicki, M., & Szymczak, P. (2024). Goldilocks Fluctuations: Dynamic Constraints on Loop Formation in Scale-Free Transport Networks. Physical Review Letters, 132(13), 137401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.137401 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03958 Press: https://phys.org/news/2024-07-physicists-explore-fluctuations-networks.html
Zapp, S. M., Sanks, K. M., Silvestre, J., Shaw, J. B., Dutt, R., & Straub, K. M. (2023). Sediment Compaction in Experimental Deltas: Toward a Meso-Scale Understanding of Coastal Subsidence Patterns. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(11), e2023JF007238. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007238
Sanks, K. M., Shaw, J. B., Zapp, S. M., Silvestre, J., Dutt, R., & Straub, K. M. (2023). Marsh-induced backwater: the influence of non-fluvial sedimentation on a delta’s channel morphology and kinematics. Earth Surface Dynamics, 11(6), 1035–1060. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-1035-2023
Sharman, G. R., Covault, J. A., Flaig, P. P., Dunn, R., Fussee-Durham, P., Larson, T. E., T.M.Shanahan, K. Dubois, J.B. Shaw, J.K. Crowley, B. Shaulis (2023). Coastal response to global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 111664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111664
Chen, H., Shaw, J. B., Sharman, G. R., & Marshall, J. A. (2022). Significant Human Modification of the Lower Arkansas River Sediment Budget. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18), e2022GL099441. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099441
Sanks, K. M., Zapp, S. M., Silvestre, J. R., Shaw, J. B., Dutt, R., & Straub, K. M. (2022). Marsh Sedimentation Controls Delta Top Morphology, Slope, and Mass Balance. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(12), e2022GL098513. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098513 Preprint at https://doi.org/ 10.1002/essoar.10510385.1 Press: https://news.uark.edu/articles/60281/paper-explores-how-marsh-sediment-shapes-and-impacts-river-deltas
Konkol, A., Schwenk, J., Katifori, E., & Shaw, J. B. (2022). Interplay of river and tidal forcings promotes loops in coastal channel networks. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(10), e2022GL098284. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098284 arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04151 Repository: https://zenodo.org/record/6079076#.YqmSHnbMJPY; https://zenodo.org/record/5883656#.YqmSNnbMJPY Press: https://news.uark.edu/articles/60221/study-seeks-to-explain-stability-of-loops-in-coastal-channel-networks
Edmonds, D. A., Chadwick, A. J., Lamb, M. P., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., Murray, A. B., Nardin, W., Salter, G., Shaw, J. B. (2021). Morphodynamic Modeling of River-Dominated Deltas: A Review and Future Perspectives. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00076-6
Shaw, J. B., Mason, K. G., Ma, H., & McCain, G. W. (2021). Influences on Discharge Partitioning on a Large River Delta: Case Study of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Diversion, 1926-1950. Water Resources Research, e2020WR028090. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028090 EarthArxiv: https://osf.io/w3rxp Figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13645601.v1, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12440279.v3 Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2021-06-historic-mississippi-impacts-river.htm
Sanks, K. M., Shaw, J. B., & Naithani, K. (2020). Field-based Estimate of the Sediment Deficit in Coastal Louisiana. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2019JF005389. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005389 EarthArxiv: https://osf.io/vp5j7/ Editor’s Highlight: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/coastal-sediment-deficit-appears-smaller-than-previously-thought
Whaling, A., & Shaw, J. B. (2020). Changes to Subaqueous Delta Bathymetry Following a High River Flow Event, Wax Lake Delta, USA. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00727-y EarthArxiv: https://osf.io/urcyv/
Hoitink, A. J. F., Nittrouer, J. A., Passalacqua, P., Shaw, J. B., Langendoen, E. J., Huismans, Y., & van Maren, D. S. (2020). Resilience of river deltas in the Anthropocene. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2019JF005201. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005201
Olliver, E. A., Edmonds, D. A., & Shaw, J. B. (2020). Influence of floods, tides, and vegetation on sediment retention in Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2019JF005316. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005316 EarthArxiv: https://eartharxiv.org/zx9hs/
Cathcart, C., Shaw, J. B., & Amos, M. (2020). Validation of Streaklines as Recorders of Synoptic Flow Direction in a Deltaic Setting. Remote Sensing, 12(1), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010148
Ke, W.-T., Shaw, J. B., Mahon, R. C., & Cathcart, C. A. (2019). Distributary Channel Networks as Moving Boundaries: Causes and Morphodynamic Effects. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2019JF005084. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005084, EarthArxiv: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NGXF3
Shaw, J. B., Estep, J. D., Whaling, A. R., Sanks, K. M., & Edmonds, D. A. (2018). Measuring subaqueous progradation of the Wax Lake Delta with a model of flow direction divergence. Earth Surface Dynamics, 6(4), 1155–1168. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-1155-2018
Ayoub, F., Jones, C. E., Lamb, M. P., Holt, B., Shaw, J. B., Mohrig, D., & Wagner, W. (2018). Inferring surface currents within submerged, vegetated deltaic islands and wetlands from multi-pass airborne SAR. Remote Sensing of Environment, 212, 148–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.035
Shaw, J. B., Miller, K. and McElroy, B. (2018). Island Formation Resulting from Radially Symmetric Flow Expansion, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 2017JF004464, doi:10.1002/2017JF004464.
Coffey, T. S., & Shaw, J. B. (2017). Congruent Bifurcation Angles in River Delta and Tributary Channel Networks. Geophysical Research Letters, 2017GL074873. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074873
Wagner, R. W., D. Lague, D. Mohrig, P. Passalacqua, J. Shaw, and K. Moffett (2017), Elevation Change and Stability on a Prograding Delta, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2016GL072070, doi:10.1002/2016GL072070.
Shaw, J. B., B. McElroy (2016), Backwater number scaling of alluvial bed forms, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 2016JF003861, doi:10.1002/2016JF003861.
Shaw, J. B., F. Ayoub, C. E. Jones, M. P. Lamb, B. Holt, R. W. Wagner, T.S. Coffey, J. A. Chadwick, and D. Mohrig (2016), Airborne Radar Imaging of Subaqueous Channel Evolution in Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2016GL068770, doi:10.1002/2016GL068770.
Shaw, J. B., D. Mohrig, and R. W. Wagner (2016), Flow patterns and morphology of a prograding river delta, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 2015JF003570, doi:10.1002/2015JF003570.
Mahon, R. C., J. B. Shaw, K. R. Barnhart, D. E. J. Hobley, and B. McElroy (2015), Quantifying the stratigraphic completeness of delta shoreline trajectories, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 2014JF003298, doi:10.1002/2014JF003298.
Shaw, J. B., Y. You, D. Mohrig, and G. Kocurek (2015), Tracking hurricane-generated storm surge with washover fan stratigraphy, Geology, 43(2), 127–130, doi:10.1130/G36460.1.
Shaw, J.B., D. Mohrig, (2014), The importance of erosion in distributary channel network growth, Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA, Geology, 42, 31-34, doi: 10.1130/G34751.1
Shaw, J. B., D. Mohrig, and S. K. Whitman (2013), The Morphology and Evolution of Channels on the Wax Lake Delta, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1–22, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20123.
Nittrouer, J. A., J. Shaw, M. P. Lamb, and D. Mohrig (2012), Spatial and temporal trends for water-flow velocity and bed-material transport in the lower Mississippi River, Geol Soc Am Bull, 124, 400–414, doi:10.1130/B30497.1.
Lamb, M. P., J. A. Nittrouer, D. Mohrig, and J. Shaw (2012), Backwater and river plume controls on scour upstream of river mouths: Implications for fluvio-deltaic morphodynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 117(F1), F01002, doi:10.1029/2011JF002079.
Edmonds, D. A., J. B. Shaw, and D. Mohrig (2011), Topset-dominated deltas: A new model for river delta stratigraphy, Geology, 39(12), 1175–1178, doi:10.1130/G32358.1.
Viparelli, E., J. Shaw, A. Bevington, E. Meselhe, G. Holm, D. Mohrig, R. Twilley, and G. Parker (2011), Inundation Model As an Aid for Predicting Ecological Succession on Newly-Created Deltaic Land Associated with Mississippi River Diversions: Application to the Wax Lake Delta, in World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011, pp. 2340–2349, American Society of Civil Engineers.
Lamb, M. P., B. McElroy, B. Kopriva, J. Shaw, and D. Mohrig (2010), Linking river-flood dynamics to hyperpycnal-plume deposits: Experiments, theory, and geological implications, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 122(9-10), 1389–1400.
Shaw, J. B., M. A. Wolinsky, C. Paola, and V. R. Voller (2008), An image-based method for shoreline mapping on complex coasts, Geophys Res Lett, 35, L12405.