Papers
Shulmeister, J., Rittenour, T., Patton, N. R.,  Ellerton, D., Gontz, A., Hesp, P., Santini, T., Miot da Silva, G., Forman, S., Bowyer, H., Kelly, J., McCallum, A.,  & Welsh, K. (2023) Chronology and evolution of the world's largest sand island: K'gari (Fraser Island) South East Queensland, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 328, 108529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108529
Patton, N. R., Shulmeister, J.,  Hua, Q., Almond, P., Rittenour, T., Hanson, J. M., Grealy, A., Gilroy, J., & Ellerton, D. (2023) Reconstructing Holocene fire records using dune foot-slope deposits at the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. Quaternary Research, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2023.14
​Lohse, K. A., Patton, N. R., Godsey, S. E., & Crosby, B. T. (2023). Soil depth measurement system and method. United States Patent, US 11567055.
​Lohse, K.A., Pierson, D., Patton, N.R., Sanderman, J., Huber, D.P., Finney, B., Facer, J., Meyers, J. & Seyfried, M.S., (2022). Multiscale responses and recovery of soils to wildfire in a sagebrush steppe ecosystem. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26849-w
Ellerton, D., Rittenour, T., Shulmeister, J., Roberts, A.P., Miot da Silva, G., Gontz, A., Hesp, P., Moss, P., Patton, N. R., Santini, T., Welsh, K., & Zhao, X. (2022). Fraser Island (K'gari) and initiation of the Great Barrier Reef linked by Middle Pleistocene sea-level change. Nature Geoscience, 1752-0894.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01062-6
Patton, N. R. (2022). Landscape evolution of the Southeast Queensland Dune Fields, Australia. PhD Thesis - University of Canterbury.
Pierson, D., Lohse, K., Wieder, W., Facer, J., Patton, N. R. & Seyfried, M.S. (2022). Optimizing process-based models to predict current and future soil organic carbon stocks at high-resolution. Scientific Reports, 12, 10824 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14224-8
Patton, N. R., Shulmeister, J., Rittenour, T. M., Almond, P., Ellerton, D., & Santini, T. (2022). Using calibrated surface roughness dating to estimate coastal dune ages at K’gari (Fraser Island) and the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47(10), 2455-2470.
https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5387 
Patton, N. R., Shulmeister, J., Ellerton, D., & Seropian, G. (2022). Measuring landscape evolution from inception to maturity: Insights from a coastal dune system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, 117448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117448
Ya-na, J., Zhang, Y., Huang, C. C., Wang, N., Qiu, H., Wang, H., Xiao, Q., Chen, D., Lin, X., Zhu, Y., Fu, L., Gu, K., & Patton, N. R. (2022) Late Pleistocene-Holocene aeolian loess-paleosol sections in the Yellow River source area on the northeast Tibetan Plateau: chronostratigraphy, sediment provenance, and implications for paleoclimate reconstruction. Catena, 208, 105777.
​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105777
O'Bryan, C. J., N. R. Patton, J. Hone, J. S. Lewis, V. Berdejo-Espinola, D. R. Risch, M. H. Holden, and E. McDonald-Madden. (2021). Invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) as a human‐mediated source of soil carbon emissions: Uncertainties and future directions. Global change biology, 28: e1-e3.
​https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15992
O'Bryan, C. J., N. R. Patton, J. Hone, J. S. Lewis, V. Berdejo-Espinola, D. R. Risch, M. H. Holden,  and E. McDonald-Madden. (2021). Unrecognized threat to global soil carbon by a widespread invasive species. Global change biology, 28(3), 877-882. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15769
Kohler, M., J. Shulmeister, N.R. Patton, T.M. Rittenour, S. McSweeney, D.T. Ellerton, J.C. Stout, and H. Huneke. (2021). Holocene evolution of a barrier-spit complex and the interaction of tidal and wave processes, Inskip Peninsula, SE Queensland, Australia. The Holocene, 31(9), 1476-1488
​http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836211019092
Florin, S. A., P. Roberts, B. Marwick, N. R. Patton, J. Shulmeister, C. E. Lovelock, L. A. Barry, Q. Hua, M. Nango, D. Djandjomerr, R. Fullagar, L. A. Wallis, A. S. Fairbairn, and C. Clarkson. (2021) Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(3), 295-303. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01379-8
Jia, Y., Y. Zhang, N. Wang, C. C. Huang, H. Qui, H. Wang, Y. Yu, A. Seilbike, M. Zou, X. Lin, Z. Tan, W. Liu, S. Hu, and  N. R. Patton. (2021) Chronostratigraphic framework and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Holocene loess-paleosol sequence in the Luoyang Basin, Central China. Aeolian Research, 48.
​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2020.100657
Gontz, A., A. McCallum, D. Ellerton, N.R. Patton and J. Shulmeister. (2020). The Teewah Transect: GPR-Derived Insights into the Younger Dune Morphosequences on the Great Sandy Coast, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Coastal Research, 95 (SI). https://doi.org/10.2112/SI95-097.1
Ellerton, D., T. Rittenour, J. Shulmeister, A. Gontz, K. Welsh, and N.R. Patton. (2020).  An 800 kyr record of dune emplacement in relationship to high sea level forcing, Cooloola Sand Mass, Queensland, Australia. Geomorphology, 351, 106999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106999
Patton, N. R., D. Ellerton, and J. Shulmeister. (2019). High-resolution remapping of the coastal dune fields of south east Queensland, Australia: a morphometric approach. Journal of Maps, 15(2), 578-589. 
​https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1642246​
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, S.E Godsey, and S.B Parsons. (2019). Topographic controls of soil organic carbon on soil-mantled landscapes. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-15.
​https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42556-5
Zhang, Y., Q. Zhou, N. Wang, Y. Cuan, C.C. Huang, N.R. Patton, T. Liu, L. Liu, J. Kemp, H. Zhao, J. Shulmeister, G. Yongqiang, and Y. Chen. (2019). Formation and evolution of the massive landslide-dammed lakes in the Jishixia Gorges along the upper Yellow River: No relation to China’s Great Flood and the Xia Dynasty​. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 267-280.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.011
Zhang, Y., Y. Zhu, Y. Chen, N.R. Patton, C.C. Huang, N. Wang, J. Shulmeister, Y. Li, H. Qui, Z. Tan, X. Li, Y. Zhang, and L. Liu. (2019). Prehistoric and historic overbank floods in the Luoyang Basin along the Luohe River, middle Yellow River basin, China. Quaternary International, 521, 118-128.
​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.06.023
Shulmeister, J., G.D. Thackray, T.M. Rittenour, D. Fink, and N.R. Patton. (2019). The timing and nature of the last glacial cycle in New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, 206, 1-20.
​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.020
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, R. M. Will, and S. Benner. (2019). Lithology and coarse fraction adjusted bulk density estimates for determining total organic carbon stocks in dryland soils. Geoderma, 337, 844-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.10.036
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, B.T. Crosby, and S.E. Godsey. (2018). Predicting soil thickness on soil mantled hillslopes. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-10.
​https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05743-y
Fellows, A. Flerchinger, G.N., M. S. Seyfried, K.A. Lohse, and N. R Patton. (2018). Controls on gross production in an aspen-sagebrush vegetation mosaic. Ecohydrology, 12(1) E2046).
​https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2046
​Patton, N. R. (2016). Topographic controls on total mobile regolith and total soil organic carbon in complex terrain. MSc Thesis - Idaho State University.

Datasets
​Lohse, K. A., Patton, N. R., Forshee, C., Pierson, D., Unruh, M., Billings, S., Aronson, E., Hart, S., McDowell, W., Chorover, J., Gallery, R., Silver, W., Yang, Y., 2026. Mineral associated 'heavy fraction' and microbial associated 'light fraction' of organic matter across landscapes and soil profiles, V1.0. Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA). https://doi.org/10.60520/IEDA/113369. 
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. S. Seyfried, and M. D. Murdock. (2018). Dataset for Soil Properties Determined at the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed (RCEW), Idaho [Idaho State University Collections 2010-2016] (Boise State University Scholar Works) 
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, S. E. Godsey, S. B. Parsons, and M. Seyfried. (2018). Dataset for topographic controls on total soil carbon in semi-arid environments (Boise State University Scholar Works) 
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, S. Benner and R. Will. (2018). Dataset for lithology and coarse fraction adjusted bulk density estimates for determining total organic carbon stocks in dryland soils (Boise State University Scholar Works)
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, and M. D. Murdock. (2018). Dataset: Soil properties of Johnston Draw a subcatchment of Reynolds Creek, Idaho. (Boise State University Scholar Works) 
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, A. G. Radke, and S. E. Godsey. (2018). Dataset: Soil properties of Reynolds Mountain East a subcatchment of Reynolds Creek, Idaho. (Boise State University Scholar Works)  
Murdock, M. D., D. P. Huber, M. S. Seyfried, N. R. Patton, and K. A. Lohse. (2018). Dataset for soil hydraulic parameter estimates along an elevation gradient in dryland soils (Boise State University Scholar Works)
Will, R. M., S. Benner, N. F. Glenn, J. Pierce, K. A. Lohse, N. R. Patton, L. P. Spaete, and C. Stanbery. (2017) Reynolds Creek - A Collection of Near-Surface Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Maps, GIS/Map Data (Boise State University Scholar Works)
Patton, N. R., K. A. Lohse, M. Seyfried, B.T. Crosby and S.E. Godsey. (2017). Dataset for predicting soil thickness on soil mantled hillslopes (Boise State University Scholar Works)

Posters/Talks

 ​2023 
     • Patton, N. R. Digging into past, present, and future landscape and clime change. University of St. Andrews, Scotland (Invited Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Reconstructing Holocene fire records using dune foot-slope deposits at the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress in Rome (Invited Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Using surface roughness to determine Holocene coastal dune ages at K’gari and Cooloola, Australia. International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress in Rome (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R. Reconstructing fire histories using dune depositional wedges. Friends of the Pleistocene (Invited Online Presentation).
     • Sutherland, J., Patton, N. R., Shulmeister, J., Rittenour, T. M., Nelson, M., and Carrivick, J. Glacial Lake Speight: A tale of two hypotheses. International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress in Rome (Poster).
     • Shulmeister, J., Patton, N. R., Rittenour, T. M., Ellerton, D. T., Silva, G., Gontz, A., Hesp, P. and Welsh, K. Coastal dune timing, migration and formation on K’gari (Fraser Island) through the Quaternary. International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress in Rome (Poster).
     • Gontz, A., Shulmeister, J., Patton, N. R., Rittenour, T. M., McCallum, A., Moss, P., Hofmann, H., Kemp, J., Marshal, J., Schulz, C., Ellerton, D. T., Welsh, K., and Negus, P. Stratigraphy of the World’s Largest Coastal Sand System as Revealed by Ground Penetrating Radar, Great Sandy Coast, Queensland, Australia. International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress in Rome (Poster).

2022
     • Patton, N. R. Career development: pursuing your masters and/or doctorates degree. Pennsylvania Western University. California, PA (Invited Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R., Shulmeister, J., Hua, Q., Almond, P., Rittenour, T. M., Hanson, J. M., Ellerton, D. T., and Seropian, G. The geomorphic influence of wildfire on stabilized dune fields, an example from the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. Geological Society of America (GSA) Denver, Colorado, USA (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R., Shulmeister, J., Rittenour, T. M., Almond, P., Ellerton, D., & Santini, T. Using surface-roughness dating to estimate coastal dune ages at Fraser Island and the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. New World Luminescence Dating Workshop. Grand Junction, Colorado, USA (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Overview of research and experience. Desert Research Institute. Online (Presentation).
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2021
     • Patton, N. R. Evaluating seasonal variability from carbon and oxygen stable isotope measurements of a modern Biggenden Banded snail (Figuladra bayensis). 15th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-15). Online (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Utilizing meteoric 10Be to define the mobile-stable regolith boundary within unconsolidated sediment. 15th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-15). Online (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Validating seasonal variability from carbon and oxygen stable isotope measurements of a modern Biggenden Banded snail (Figuladra bayensis). Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference (AEIC). Online (Invited Talk).
     • Patton, N. R. Using surface roughness to determine ages of coastal dunes at K'gari (Fraser Island) and the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA) Pop-Up E Conference. Online (Presentation).
     • Gontz, A., McCallum, A., Ellerton, D., Patton, N. R., & Shulmeister, J. The Teewah Transect – GPR-derived insights into the aeolian-soils relationships of the Southern Cooloola Sand Mass, Queensland, Australia. International Coastal Symposium Online from Seville (Spain) (Poster).

2020
     • Patton, N. R. Measuring landscape evolution from inception to senescence; an example from the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. Geoscience Society of New Zealand (GSNZ) Annual Conference. Christchurch, NZ (Presentation).

2019
     • Patton, N. R. Spatial Distribution and Prediction of Hillslope Soil Organic Carbon. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, USA (Invited Speaker).
     • Patton, N. R. Systematic relaxation of geomorphic features: Application on the southeast Queensland dune fields, Australia. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, USA (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R. Landscape evolution of the southeast Queensland dune field, Australia. Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO). Sydney, New South Wales, AUS (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Evaluation of steady-state topography of the Cooloola Sand Mass, Australia. University of Utah Luminescence Laboratory. Logan, UT, USA. (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R., D. Ellerton, J. Shulmeister, V. Bianchi, & K. Welsh. Creeping towards a steady-state topography: landscape evolution of the Cooloola Sand Mass, QLD. The Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group (ANZGG). Inverloch, VIC, AUS. (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R. Creeping towards a steady-state topography: landscape evolution of the Cooloola Sand Mass, QLD. The Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group (ANZGG). Inverloch, VIC, AUS. (Presentation).

2018
     • Patton, N. R. Remapping the coastal dune fields of South-east Queensland: a morphometric approach. University of Queensland. St. Lucia, QLD, AUS. (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Predicting soil thickness on soil-mantled hillslopes. University of Queensland. St. Lucia, QLD, AUS. (Presentation).
     • Patton, N. R. Predicting soil thickness and its potential applications in Quaternary science. University of Nottingham. Beeston, UK. (Invited Speaker).
     • Lohse, K. A., N. R. Patton, C. Renner, A. Commendador, J. Thomas, B. Finney, R. Macneille, K. Gossner, Z. V. Orsdel, A. Millard, S. Hill, C. Durfee, K. Hawkes, J. Facer, K. Ferguson, A. Rozin, K. Aho, M. Seyfried, & F. Pierson. Temporal variation in soil carbon cycling in response to wildfire in the Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory, Idaho, USA. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, USA. (Poster).
     • Zellman, M. S., C. B. DuRoss, G. D. Thackray, R. W. Briggs, N. Cholewinski, T. Reyes, N. R. Patton, and S. A. Mahan. A paleoseismic investigation of the northern Teton fault at the Steamboat Mountain trench site, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Seismological Society of America. Miami, FL. (Poster).

2017
     • Radke, A. G., S. E. Godsey, K. A. Lohse, M. S. Seyfried, D. P. Huber, N. R. Patton, & W. S. Holbrook. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of dissolved organic carbon in waters and soils of a snow-dominated headwater catchment. American Geophysical Union. New Orleans, LA, USA. (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R. Continuing your education in graduate school. California University of Pennsylvania. California, PA, USA (Invited Speaker).
     • Patton, N. R., K. Lohse, M. Seyfried, B. Crosby, & S. Godsey. Predicting soil thickness and total organic carbon on soil mantled hillslopes. Critical Zone All Hands Meeting. Washington, DC, USA. (Poster).
     • Ripley, K., N. R. Patton, & K. Lohse. Examining and comparing unique soil profiles in Reynolds Creek, Idaho. Idaho State University Research Symposium. Pocatello, ID, USA. (Poster).

2016
     • Patton, N. R., K. Lohse, R. Will, S. Benner, & M. Seyfried. Coarse fraction adjusted bulk density estimates using soil organic carbon and matter in a complex terrain. Critical Zone All Hands Meeting. Boise, ID, USA (Poster).
     • Commendador, A., B. Finney, N. R. Patton, & K. Lohse. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in soils and plants along a climatic gradient. Critical Zone All Hands Meeting. Boise, ID, USA. (Poster).
     • Radke, A., N. R.  Patton, K. Lohse, & S. Godsey. Hydrologic-geophysical impacts on soil carbon export in a snow-dominated headwater catchment. Critical Zone All Hands Meeting. Boise, ID, USA. (Poster).
     • Lohse, K. A., N. R. Patton, A. Fellows, P. Kormos, G. Flerchinger, M. Seyfried, E. McCorkle, & R. MacNeill. Taking the pulse of the skin of the earth: quantifying the spatial and temporal variability in soil biogeochemical cycling. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, USA. (Poster).

2015
     • Patton, N. R., K. Lohse, M. Seyfried, B. Crosby, & S. Godsey. Determining total soil carbon storage in the critical zone using topography and lithology. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, USA. (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R., K. Lohse, M. Seyfried, B. Crosby, & S. Godsey. Determining soil thickness and carbon storage in the critical zone, Idaho State University Research Symposium. Pocatello, ID, USA (Poster).
     • Will, R., Stanbery, C., Seyfried, M., Pierce, J., Lohse, K., Flores, A., Glenn, N., Spaete, L., Patton, N. R., Black, C., Good, A., & S. Benner. Mapping the organic carbon content of soils (SOC) in the Reynolds Creek Watershed. Great Basin Consortium. Boise, ID, USA. (Poster).
2014
     • Patton, N. R., M. Seyfried, T. Link, & K.A. Lohse. Controls of parent material and topography on soil carbon storage in the critical zone. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, USA. (Poster).
     • Seyfried, M., T. Link, Z. Klos, N. R. Patton, & K.A. Lohse. Ecohydrological implications of contrasting slope and aspect in complex terrain. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA. USA. (Poster).
     • Will, R., Stanbery, C., Seyfried, M., Pierce, J., Lohse, K., Flores, A., Glenn, N., Spaete, L., Patton, N. R., Black, C., Good, A., & S. Benner. Mapping the organic carbon content of soils (SOC) in the Reynolds Creek Watershed. CZO All Hands Meeting. (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R., M. Seyfried, T. Link, & K.A. Lohse. Controls of parent material and topography on soil carbon storage. Critical Zone All Hands Meeting. Yosemite National Park, CA (Poster).
     • Jurkowski, C., D. Harris, & N. R.  Patton. Geochemical analysis and classification of the Gates-Adah kimberlite dike. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2014. San Francisco, CA, USA. (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R., C. Killian, C. Jurkowski, & K. Fredrick. Inorganic ions contributing to elevated conductivity in Oregon Hollow wetland: A headwater tributary of Pike Run Watershed, Washington County, PA, USA. Pittsburgh Geological Society (Poster).
2013
     • Patton, N. R., C. Killian, C. Jurkowski, & K. Fredrick. Water quality indicators of Oregon Hollow wetland: A headwater tributary of Pike Run Watershed, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America. Denver, CO, USA. (Poster).
     • Patton, N. R., C. Killian, C. Jurkowski, M. Li & K. Fredrick. Investigation of inorganic species in Oregon Hollow wetland: Washington County, Pennsylvania. PASSHE Undergraduate Research Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Slippery Rock University, PA, USA. (Poster).
2012
     • Patton, N. R. Identifying demographics surrounding parks: Frick, Schenley, Riverview and Highland Parks. Pittsburgh Park Conservancy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (Poster).