Research

My research interests are diverse but broadly center on mountain geomorphology and paleoclimate. The links below highlight some of my research directions, and a list of my publications can be found farther down this page.

Publications Through 2021 Grouped by Research Theme

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  1. Munroe, J.S., and Handwerger, A.L., 2023: Examining the Variability of Rock Glacier Meltwater in Space and Time in High-Elevation Environments of Utah, USA. Frontiers in Earth Science—Hydrosphere, https://doi.org/10. 3389/feart.2023.1129314.
  2. Munroe, J.S., and Handwerger, A.L., 2023: Contribution of rock glacier discharge to late summer and fall streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 27: 543-557, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-543-2023.
  3. Munroe, J.S., 2022: Testing the ‘Vineyard Geologic Identity’ concept in Marquette-producing vineyards in the Champlain Valley, Vermont, USA. Journal of Wine Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/09571264.2022.2151993.
  4. Peterson, A.T., Berthiaume, K., Klett, M., and Munroe, J.S., 2022: Linking repeat photography and remote sensing to assess treeline rise with climate warming: Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 51:1, 478-487, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2022.2121245.
  5. Munroe, J.S., 2022: Relation between regional drought and mountain dust deposition revealed by a 10-year record from an alpine critical zone. Science of the Total Environment, 844: 156999, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156999.
  6. Belanger, G.K.*, Amidon, W.H., Laabs, B.J., Munroe, J.S., and Quirk, B.J., 2021: Modelling climate constraints on the formation of pluvial Lake Bonneville in the Great Basin, United States. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(3): 478-488, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3394.
  7. Brencher, G., Handwerger, A.L., and Munroe, J.S., 2021: InSAR-based characterization of rock glacier movement in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. The Cryosphere, 15: 4823-4844, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4823-2021.
  8. Munroe, J. S., Ryan, Peter C., and Proctor, A., 2021: Pedogenic clay formation from allochthonous parent materials in a periglacial alpine critical zone. Catena, 203: 105324, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105324.
  9. Routson, C. C., Kaufman, D. S., McKay, N. P., Erb, M. P., Arcusa, S. H., Brown, K. J., Kirby, M. E., Marsicek, J. P., Anderson, R. S., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Rodysill, J. R., Lachniet, M. S., Fritz, S. C., Bennett, J. R., Goman, M. F., Metcalfe, S. E., Galloway, J. M., Schoups, G., Wahl, D. B., Morris, J. L., Staines-Urías, F., Dawson, A., Shuman, B. N., Gavin, D. G., Munroe, J. S., and Cumming, B. F., 2021: A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records, Earth System Science Data, 13: 1613–1632, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1613-2021.
  10. Munroe, J., Kimble, K.*, Spötl, C. et al., 2021: Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA. Scientific Reports 11, 6430, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85658-9.
  11. Munroe, J. S., 2021: First investigation of perennial ice in Winter Wonderland Cave, Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. The Cryosphere, 15, 863–881, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-863-2021.
  12. Munroe, J.S., McElroy, R.*, O’Keefe, S.*, Peters, A.*, and Wasson, L.*, 2020: Holocene Records of Eolian Dust Deposition from High-Elevation Lakes in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3250.
  13. Munroe, J.S., 2020: Late-Holocene Hydroclimate Inferences for the Northern Great Basin from Little Lake, Elko County, Nevada, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106497.
  14. Munroe, J.S., Norris, E.D.*, Olson, P.M.*, Ryan, P.C., Tappa, M.J., and Beard, B.L., 2020: Quantifying the Contribution of Dust to Alpine Soils in the Periglacial Zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Geoderma, 378, doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114631.
  15. Laabs, B.J.C., Licciardi, J.M., Leonard, E.M., Munroe, J.S., and Marchetti, D.W., 2020: Updated Cosmogenic Chronologies of Pleistocene Mountain Glaciation in the Western United States and Associated Paleoclimate Inferences. Quaternary Science Reviews, 242, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106427.
  16. Munroe, J.S.; Walcott, C.K.*; Amidon, W.H.; Landis, J.D., 2020: A Top-to-Bottom Luminescence-Based Chronology for the Post-LGM Regression of a Great Basin Pluvial Lake. Quaternary, 3, 11, doi.org/10.3390/quat3020011.
  17. Munroe, J.S., 2020; Ground Penetrating Radar Investigation of Late Pleistocene Shorelines of Pluvial Lake Clover, Elko County, Nevada, USA. Quaternary, 3, 9, doi.org/10.3390/quat3010009.
  18. Munroe, J.S. and Laabs, B.J.C., 2020: Multiproxy lacustrine records of post-glacial environmental change from the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132(1-2): 48-64, doi.org/10.1130/B35056.1.
  19.  Goodman, M.M., Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Rey, K.A., Hale, C.A., Bickmore, B.R., Nelson, S.T., and Munroe, J.S., 2019: Trace element chemistry of atmospheric deposition along the Wasatch Front (Utah, USA) reflects regional playa dust and local urban aerosols. Chemical Geology, 530: 119317.
  20. Munroe, J.S., Norris, E.D.*, Carling, G.T., Beard, B.L., Satkoski, A.M., and Liu, L., 2019: Isotope fingerprinting reveals western North America sources of modern dust in the Rocky Mountains. Aeolian Research, 38: 39-47.
  21. Munroe, J.S., Brencher, Q.*, 2019: Holocene carbon burial in lakes of the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Quaternary, 2(1), 13, doi.org/10.3390/quat2010013.
  22. Munroe, J.S., 2018: Hydrogeomorphic controls on Holocene lacustrine loss-on-ignition records. Journal of Paleolimnology, 61; 53-68.
  23. Munroe, J.S., 2018: Monitoring snowbank processes and cornice fall avalanches with time-lapse photography. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 154: 32-41.
  24. Munroe, J.S., 2018: Distribution, evidence for internal ice, and possible hydrologic significance of rock glaciers in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Quaternary Research, 90: 50-65.
  25. Munroe, J.S., Bigl, M.F.*, Silverman, A.E.*, and Laabs, B.J.C., 2018, Records of late Quaternary environmental change from high-elevation lakes in the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range, Nevada, in Starratt, S.W., and Rosen, M.R., eds., From Saline to Freshwater: The Diversity of Western Lakes in Space and Time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 536, p. 33–51.
  26. Munroe, J.S., O’Keefe, S.S.*, and Gorin, A.L.*, 2018: Chronology, stable isotopes, and glaciochemistry of perennial ice in Strickler Cavern, Idaho, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 130: 175-192.
  27. Munroe, J.S. and Laabs, B.J.C., 2017: Combining radiocarbon and cosmogenic ages to constrain the timing of the last glacial-interglacial transition in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Geology, 45: 171-174.
  28. Munroe, J.S., Gorin, A.L.*, Stone, N.N.*, and Amidon, W.H., 2017: Properties, age, and significance of dunes near Snow Water Lake, Elko County, Nevada. Quaternary Research, 87: 24-36.
  29. Munroe, J.S., Perzan, Z.M.*, and Amidon, W.H., 2016: Cave sediments constrain the latest Pleistocene advance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the Champlain Valley, Vermont, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(8): 893-904.
  30. Laabs, B.J.C., and Munroe, J.S., 2016: Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the Lake Bonneville Basin. In Oviatt, C.G. and Schroder, J.F., eds. Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update: Elsevier, Developments in Earth Surface Processes 20, p. 462-503.
  31. Munroe, J.S., Laabs, B.J.C., Oviatt, C.G., and Jewell, P.W., 2015: Trip 1— New Investigations of Pleistocene Pluvial and Glacial Records from the Northeastern Great Basin, in Rosen, M.R., compiler, Sixth International Limnogeology Congress—Field Trip Guidebook, Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1108, p. 89–100, doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151108.
  32. Schide, K.H.*, and Munroe, J.S., 2015: Alpine soil parent materials and pedogenesis in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 47: 481-494.
  33. Munroe, J.S., Attwood, E.C.*, O’Keefe, S.S.*, and Quackenbush, P.J.M.*, 2015: Eolian deposition in the alpine zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Catena, 124: 119-129.
  34. Bockheim, J.G., and Munroe, J.S., 2014: Organic carbon pools and genesis of alpine soils with permafrost: a review. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 46: 987-1006.
  35. Munroe, J.S., 2014: Properties of modern dust accumulating in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA, and implications for the regional dust system of the Rocky Mountains. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39: 1979-1988.
  36. Capers, R.S., Kimball, K.D., McFarland, K.P., Jones, M.T., Lloyd, A.H., Munroe, J.S., Fortin, F., Mattrick, C., Goren, J., Sperduto, D.D., and Paradis, R., 2013: Establishing alpine research priorities in northeastern North America. Northeastern Naturalist, 20(4): 559-577.
  37. Munroe, J.S., and Laabs, B.J.C., 2013: Latest Pleistocene history of pluvial Lake Franklin, northeastern Nevada, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 125: 322-342.
  38. Munroe, J.S., Klem, C.M.*, and Bigl, M.F.*, 2013: A lacustrine sedimentary record of Holocene periglacial activity from the Uinta Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Quaternary Research, 79: 101-109.
  39. Laabs, B.J.C., Munroe, J.S., Best, L.C., and Caffee, M.W., 2013: Timing of the last glaciation and subsequent deglaciation in the Ruby Mountains, Great Basin, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 361: 16-25.
  40. Munroe, J.S., and Laabs, B.J.C., 2013: Temporal correspondence between pluvial lake highstands in the southwestern US and Heinrich Event 1.  Journal of Quaternary Science, 28: 49-58.
  41. Munroe, J.S., Crocker, T.A.*, Giesche, A.M.*, Rahlson, L.E.*, Duran, L.T.*, Bigl, M.F.*, and Laabs, B.J.C., 2012: A lacustrine-based Neoglacial record for Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 53: 39-54.
  42. Munroe, J.S., 2012: Lacustrine records of post-glacial environmental change from the Nulhegan Basin, Vermont, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science, 27: 639-648.
  43. Munroe, J.S., 2012: Physical, Chemical and Thermal Properties of Soils Across a Forest-Meadow Ecotone in the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 44: 95-106.
  44. Laabs, B.J.C., Marchetti, D.W., Munroe, J.S., Refsnider, K.A., Gosse, J.C., Lips, E.W., Becker, R.A., Mickelson, D.M., and Singer, B.S., 2011: Chronology of latest Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the western Wasatch Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Quaternary Research, 76: 272-284.
  45. Carlson, B.Z.*, Munroe, J.S., and Hegman, B., 2011: Distribution of alpine tundra in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, USA. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 43(3): 331-342.
  46. Munroe, J.S., and Laabs, B.J.C., 2011: New investigations of Pleistocene glacial and pluvial records in northeastern Nevada, in Lee, J., and Evans, J.P., eds., Geologic Field Trips to the Basin and Range, Rocky Mountains, Snake River Plan, and Terranes of the U.S. Cordillera: Geological Society of America Field Guide 21, p. 1-25.
  47. Tingstad, A.H., Moser, K.A., MacDonald, G.M., and Munroe, J.S., 2011: A ~13,000-year paleolimnological record from the Uinta Mountains, Utah, inferred from diatoms and loss-on-ignition analysis. Quaternary International, 235: 48-56.
  48. Corbett, L.B.*, and Munroe, J.S., 2010: Investigating the influence of hydrogeomorphic setting on the response of lake sedimentation to climatic changes in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44(1): 311-325.
  49. Munroe, J.S. and Laabs, B.J.C., 2009: Glacial Geologic Map of the Uinta Mountains Area, Utah and Wyoming. Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publication 09-4DM.
  50. Laabs, B.J.C., Refsnider, K.A., Munroe, J.S., Mickelson, D.M., Applegate, P.J., Singer, B.S., and Caffee, M.W., 2009: Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology of the Uinta Mountains: Support for Moisture-Driven Asynchrony of the Last Deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 1171-1187.
  51. Munroe, J.S., 2008: Alpine Soils on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, USA: Pedology, History, and Intraregional Comparison. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 72(2): 524-533.
  52. Munroe, J.S., Doolittle, J.A., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Hinkel, K.M., Jones, B.M., Shur, Y., Nelson, F.E., Kimble, J.M., 2007: Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar Imagery for Three-Dimensional Visualization of Near-Surface Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 18(4): 309-321.
  53. Munroe, J.S., Ryan, P.C., Carlson, H.A.*, and Miller, E.K., 2007: Testing Latest Wisconsinan Ice Flow Directions in Vermont through Quantitative X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Soil Mineralogy. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 29(4): 263-275.
  54. Munroe, J.S., 2007: Properties of Alpine Soils Associated with Well-Developed Sorted Polygons in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39(4): 578-591.
  55. Munroe, J.S., 2007: Exploring Relationships Between Watershed Properties and Holocene Loss-On-Ignition Records in High-Elevation Lakes, Southern Uinta Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39(4): 556-565.
  56. Porinchu, D.F., Moser, K.M., and Munroe, J.S., 2007: Development of a Midge-Based Summer Surface Water Temperature Inference Model for the Great Basin of the Western United States. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39(4): 566-567.
  57. Laabs, B.J.C., Munroe, J.S., Rosenbaum, J.G., Refsnider, K.A., Mickelson, D.M., Singer, B.S., and Caffee, M.W., 2007: Chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum in the Upper Bear River Basin, Utah. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39(4): 537-548.
  58. Munroe, J.S., Laabs, B.J.C., Moser, K.A., and Gurrieri, J.T., 2007: UINTAS 2006: the Uinta Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium, Snowbird, Utah, May 2006—Introduction. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39(4): 517-520.
  59. Wang, J., Zhou, S., Tang, S., Colgan, P.M., and Munroe, J.S., 2007: The Sequence of Quaternary Glaciations Around Tanggula Pass. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 29(1): 149-155 (in Chinese).
  60. Munroe, J.S., 2007: In the Footsteps of Timothy O’Sullivan: Rephotographing the 1869 King Survey in the Headwaters of the Bear River, Uinta Mountains. Utah Historical Quarterly, 75: 238-257.
  61. Roush, W.*, Munroe, J.S., and Fagre, D.B., 2007: Development of a Spatial Analysis Method Using Ground-Based Repeat Photography to Detect Changes in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 39: 297-308.
  62. Munroe, J.S., Farrugia, G.*, and Ryan, P.C., 2007: Parent Material and Chemical Weathering in Alpine Soils on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, USA. Catena 70:39-48.
  63. Munroe, J.S., Laabs, B.J.C., Shakun, J.D.*, Singer, B.S., Mickelson, D.M., Refsnider, K., and Caffee, M. 2006: Latest Pleistocene Advance of Alpine Glaciers in the Southwestern Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA: Evidence for the Influence of Local Moisture Sources. Geology 34: 841-844.
  64. Colgan, P.M., Munroe, J.S., and Zhou, S., 2006: Cosmogenic Nuclide Evidence for the Limited Extent of Late Glacial Maximum Glaciers in the Tanggula Shan of the Central Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Research, 65: 336-339.
  65. Munroe, J.S., 2006: Investigating the Spatial Distribution of Summit Flats in the Uinta Mountains of Northeastern Utah, USA. Geomorphology, 75: 437-449.
  66. Munroe, J.S., 2005: Glacial Geology of the Northern Uinta Mountains. in Dehler et al., eds., Uinta Mountain Geology: Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah Geological Association Publication 33.
  67. Munroe, J.S., Laabs, B.J.C., Pederson, J.L., and Carson, E.C., 2005: From Cirques to Canyon Cutting: New Quaternary Research in the Uinta Mountains. in Pederson, J. L., and Dehler, C. M., eds., Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide 6, p. 53-78.
  68. Carson, E.C. and Munroe, J.S., 2005: Tree-ring Based Reconstruction of Streamflow for Ashley Creek, Northeastern Utah: Implications for Paleohydrology of the Southern Uinta Mountains. The Holocene, 14(4): 602-611.
  69. Munroe, J.S., 2003: Estimates of Little Ice Age Climate Inferred Through Historical Rephotography, Northern Uinta Mountains, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 35(4): 489-498.
  70. Bockheim, J.G., O’Brien, J.D., Munroe, J.S., and Hinkel, K.M., 2003: Factors Affecting the Distribution of Populus balsamifera on the North Slope of Alaska, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 35(3): 331-340.
  71. Munroe, J.S., 2003: Holocene Timberline and Palaeoclimate of the Northern Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah, U.S.A. The Holocene, 13(2): 175-185.
  72. Munroe, J.S. and Mickelson, D.M., 2002: Last Glacial Maximum Equilibrium-Line Altitudes and Paleoclimate, Northern Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah, U.S.A. Journal of Glaciology, 48(161): 257-266.
  73. Munroe, J.S., 2002: Timing of Post-Glacial Cirque Reoccupation in the Northern Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 34(1): 38-48.
  74. Munroe, J.S. and Bockheim, J.G., 2001:  Soil Development in Low-Arctic Tundra of the Northern Brooks Range, Alaska. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 33(1): 78-87.
  75. Bockheim, J.G., Munroe, J.S., Douglass, D.C., and Koerner, D., 2000: Soil Development along an Elevational Gradient in the Southeastern Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Catena, 39: 169-185.

*student co-author