Rudy Slingerland 
EESI Associate
Rudy Slingerland
Ph.D., Penn State University, 1977
Contact Information:
Department of Geosciences
513A Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6892
email: rxs15@psu.edu
Dept. website:http://www.geosc.psu.edu/
Current Research Interests:
Sedimentology, deterministic models
Selected Publications:
Slingerland, R.L., and Kump, L.R. 2011. Mathematical Modeling of Earth's Dynamical Systems: A Primer. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 240 pp.
Edmonds, D.A., Slingerland, R.L., Best, J., Parsons, D., and Smith, N. 2010. Response of river-dominated delta channel networks to permanent changes in river discharge. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L12404, doi: 10.1029/2010GL043269.
Barton, J.S.R., Slingerland, R.L., Pittman, S., Gabrielson, T.B. 2010. Monitoring coarse bedload transport with passive acoustic instrumentation: A field study, in Bedload surrogate monitoring technologies: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010, 5091, edited by J.R. Gray, et al., pp. 38-51. U.S. Geological Survey. Available online at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5091/papers/Barton.pdf
Syvitski, J., Hutton, E.W., Peckham, S., and Slingerland, R.L. 2010. "CSDMS - A modeling system to aid sedimentary research." The Sedimentary Record, 9(10): 4-9.
Edmonds, D.A., Hoyal, D.C.J., Sheets, B.A., and Slingerland, R.L. 2009, Predicting delta avulsions: Implications for coastal wetland restoration. Geology, 37; 8; p. 759–762; doi: 10.1130/G25743A.
Smith, N., Perez-Arlucea, M., Edmonds, D., Slingerland, Rudy. 2009. Elevation adjustments of paired natural levees during flooding of the Saskatchewan River, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 34(8), 1060-1068.
Edmonds, D. A., Rudy Slingerland, Published online: 20 December 2009 | Corrected online: 20 January 2010, Significant effect of sediment cohesion on delta morphology, Nature Geoscience 3, 105 - 109| doi:10.1038/ngeo730.
Keen, T.R., Slingerland, R.L., Bentley, S.J., Furukawa, Y., Teague, W.J. Dykes, in press, Sediment Transport on Continental Shelves: Storm Bed Formation and Preservation in Heterogeneous Sediments. Special Publication of the IAS.
Walter L. Cressler III, Edward B. Daeschler, Rudy Slingerland and Daniel A. Peterson, in press, Terrestrialization in the Late Devonian: A palaeoecological overview of the Red Hill site, Pennsylvania, USA. Geological Society of London, Special Publication.
Edmonds, D. A., and R. L. Slingerland. 2008, Stability of delta distributary networks and their bifurcations, Water Resour. Res., 44, W09426, doi:10.1029/2008WR006992.
Slingerland, R., N. W. Driscoll, J. D. Milliman, S. R. Miller, and E. A. Johnstone (2008), Anatomy and growth of a Holocene clinothem in the Gulf of Papua, J. Geophys. Res., 113, F01S13, doi:101029/2006JF000628.
Slingerland, R., R. W. Selover, A. S. Ogston, T. R. Keen, N. W. Driscoll, and J. D. Milliman (2008), Building the Holocene clinothem in the Gulf of Papua: An ocean
circulation study, J. Geophys Res., 113, F01S14, doi:10.1029/2006JF000680.

