Publications
53. Harris KD, Tierney JE, Muñoz SE, Anchukaitis KJ (2025) Climate variability in the Gulf of California over the last 1300 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi: 10.1029/2024PA004912.
52. Mustaphi C, Brugger S, Chellman N, Muñoz SE, Kariuki R, Ekblom A, Munishi L, Lane P, Marchant R, Heiri O (in review) Multiple paleofire proxy metrics from tropical lake sediment and soil. The Holocene.
51. O’Donnell*, Murphy K, Dee SG, Doss-Gollin J, Muñoz SE (in revision) Evaluation of hydroclimatic biases in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1) within the Mississippi River basin. Hydrology and Earth Science Science.
50. Heitmuller F, Costello JD, Hudson PF, Kuehn KA, Muñoz SE, Wallace DJ (in review) Floodplain inundation mechanisms and overbank water quality along the embanked Lower Mississippi River during the 2018, 2019, and 2020 floods. Hydrological Processes.
49. Murphy K, Dee SG, Muñoz SE, Doss-Gollin J, Dunne K, O’Donnell M (2024) Competing influences of Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Mississippi River Basin Hydroclimate simulated over the Last Millennium. Paleooceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi: 10.1029/2024PA004902.
48. Alemu J B, Ofsthun C, Medley G, Bowden A, Cammett A, Gildesgame E, Muñoz SE, Stubbins A, Hughes AR (2024). Evaluating ecosystem services in urban salt marshes: Assessing vulnerability to sea-level rise and implications for coastal management. Journal of Environmental Management, 371, 123065.
47. Tuttle E, Wiman C*, Muñoz SE, Lavender Law K, Stubbins A (2024) Sunlight-driven photochemical removal of polypropylene microplastics from surface waters follows linear kinetics and does not result in fragmentation. Environmental Science & Technology 58(12): 5461-5471.
46. Haider MR, Dee SG, Doss-Gollin J, Dunne KBJ, Muñoz SE (accepted) Impact of 21st Century Climate Change on Mississippi River Basin Discharge in CESM2 Large Ensemble Projections. Global and Planetary Change.
45. Shen Z, Conway N, Bao S, Muñoz SE, Lang A (2024) Land-use change as a major driver for mid-20th century flood intensity reduction in the Southeastern US. Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad6464.
44. O’Donnell K, Tomiczek T, Higgins A, Muñoz SE, Scyphers S (2024) Stakeholder Driven Sensor Deployments to Characterize Chronic Coastal Flooding in Key West Florida. Earth’s Future, doi: 10.1029/2023EF003631.
43. Muñoz SE, Dee SG, Luo X, Haider MR, O’Donnell M*, Parazin B*, Remo JWF (2023) Mississippi River low-flows: context, causes, and future projections. Environmental Research: Climate, doi: 10.1088/2752-5295/acd8e3.
42. Wiman C*, Harden T, Shen Z, Curry BB, Reinders JB*, Beighley RE, Muñoz SE (2023) Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits. Progress in Physical Geography, doi: 10.1177/03091333231208.
41. Luo X, Dee SG, Lavenhouse T, Muñoz SE, Steiger N (2023) El Niño events drive hydroclimate extremes in the Mississippi River Basin over the Last Millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2022GL100715.
40. Reinders J.* & Muñoz S.E. (in revision) The role of ocean-atmosphere dynamics on mediating spring flood hazard in southeast Texas. Journal of Climate.
39. Reinders J.* & Muñoz S.E. (2023). Accounting for hydroclimatic properties in flood frequency analysis procedures. Hydrology and Earth System Science, doi: 10.5194/hess-2022-292.
38. Muñoz SE, Hamilton B.*, Parazin, B.* (2022) Contrasting ocean-atmosphere dynamics mediate flood hazard across the Mississippi River basin. Earth Interactions, doi: 10.1175/EI-D-22-0015.1.
37. Reinders J.B.*, Sullivan R.M., Winkler T.S., van Hengstum P.J., Beighley R.E., Muñoz S.E. (2022). A hydraulic modelling approach to study flood sediment deposition in floodplain lakes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.5515.
36. Dunne, K., Dee, S.G., Reinders, J.*, Muñoz S.E., Nittrouer, J. (2022). Examining the impact of emissions scenario on lower Mississippi River flood hazard projections. Environmental Research Communications, doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ac8d53.
35. Schroeder, S., White, A. J., Stevens, L. R., & Muñoz, S. E. (2022). Regional migration and Cahokian population change in the context of climate change and hydrological events. In Following the Mississippian Spread (pp. 65-109). Springer.
34. Arcusa S.H., McCay N.P., Wiman C.*, Patterson S., Muñoz S.E., Aquino-Lopez M.A. (2022) New approaches to dating intermittently varved sediment, Columbine Lake, Colorado, USA. Geochronology.
33. Broadman E., Kaufman D.S., Anderson R.S., Bogle S., Ford M., Fortin D., Henderson A.C.G., Lacey J.H., Leng M.J., McKay N.P., Muñoz S.E. (2022) Reconstructing postglacial hydrologic and environmental change in the eastern Kenai Peninsula lowlands using proxy data and mass balance modeling. Quaternary Research, doi:10.1017/qua.2021.75.
32. Stubbins A, Lavender Law K, Muñoz SE, Bianchi TS, Zhu L (2021) Plastics in the Earth System. Science 373(6550): 51-55.
31. Reinders J.* & Muñoz S.E. (2021). Improvements to flood frequency analysis using paleoflood data from alluvial rivers. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2020WR028631.
30. Wiman, C.*, Hamilton, B.*, Dee, S.G., Muñoz, S.E. (2021). Reduced lower Mississippi River discharge during the Medieval era. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091182.
29. White, A.J., Muñoz, S.E., Schroeder, S., & Stevens, L.R. (2021). Reply to Skousen and Aiuvalasit: On the Primacy of Archaeological Data. American Antiquity 86(1): 203-205.
28. Muñoz, S. E., Porter, T. J., Bakkelund, A., Nusbaumer, J., Dee, S. G., Hamilton, B.*, Giosan, L. & Tierney, J. E. (2020). Lipid biomarker record documents hydroclimatic variability of the Mississippi River basin during the Common Era. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL087237.
27. Lombardi, R., Davis, L., Stinchomb, G. E., Munoz, S. E., Stewart, L., & Therrell, M. D. (2020). Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern United States during the Holocene. The Holocene, doi: 10.1177/0959683620919978.
26. Broadman, E., Kaufman, D. S., Henderson, A. C., Berg, E. E., Anderson, R. S., Leng, M. J., Stahnke, S.A. & Muñoz, S. E. (2020). Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241, 106420.
25. White A.J., Muñoz S.E., Schroeder S., Stevens L.R. (2020) After Cahokia: Indigenous repopulation and depopulation of the Horseshoe Lake watershed AD 1400 – 1900. American Antiquity, doi: 10.1017/aaq.2019.103
24. Arcusa S.H., McKay N.P., Routson C.C., Muñoz S.E. (2019) Dust-drought interactions over the last 15,000 years: A network of lake sediment records from the San Juan Mountains, Colorado. The Holocene, doi: 10.1177/0959683619875192.
23. Toonen W.H.J, Munoz S.E., Cohen K.M., Macklin M.G. (2019) High-Resolution Sedimentary Paleoflood Records in Alluvial River Environments: A Review of Recent Methodological Advances and Application to Flood Hazard Assessment, in Palaeohydrology: Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events (J. Herget & A. Fontana, eds.), Springer, pp. 213-228.
22. Munoz S.E., Giosan L., Blusztajn J., Rankin C., Stinchcomb G.E. (2019) Radiogenic fingerprinting reveals anthropogenic and buffering controls on sediment dynamics of the Mississippi River system. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G45194.1.
21. White A.J., Stevens L.R., Lorenzi V., Munoz S.E., Schroeder S., Cao A., Bogdanovich T. (2019) Fecal stanols show simultaneous flooding and seasonal precipitation change correlate with Cahokia’s population decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1809400116.
20. Walsh J.R., Corman J.R., Munoz S.E. (2019) Coupled long-term limnological data and sedimentary data reveal novel control on water quality in a eutrophic lake. Limnology & Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.11083.
19. Davis L., Harden T.M., Munoz S.E., Godaire J., O’Connor J.E. (2018) Preface to historic and paleoflood analyses: New perspectives on climate, extreme flood risk, and the geomorphic effects of large floods. Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.10.021.
18. Wilhelm B., Ballesteros Cánovas J.A., MaDonald N., Toonen W.H.J., Baker V., Barriendos M., Benito G., Brauer A., Corella J.P., Denniston R., Glaser R., Ionita M., Kahle M., Liu T., Luetscher M., Macklin M., Mudelsee M., Munoz S.E., Schulte L., St. George S., Stoffel M., Wetter O. (2018) Interpreting historical, botanical, and geological evidence to aid preparations for future floods. WIREs Water, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1318.
17. Giosan, L., Orsi, W.D., Coolen, M., Wuchter, C., Dunlea, A.G., Thirumalai, K., Munoz, S.E., Clift, P.D., Donnelly, J.P., Galy, V., Fuller, D.Q. (2018) Neoglacial climate anomalies and the Harappan metamorphosis. Climate of the Past, doi: 10.5194/cp-2018-37.
16. Munoz, S.E., Giosan, L., Therrell, M.D., Remo, J.W.F., Shen, Z., Sullivan, R.M., Wiman, C., O’Donnell, M. & Donnelly, J.P. (2018) Climatic control of Mississippi River flood hazard amplified by river engineering. Nature 556: 95-98.
15. Brugam, R.B. & Munoz, S.E. (2018) A 1600-year record of human impacts on a floodplain lake in the Mississippi River valley. Journal of Paleolimnology, doi: 10.1007/s10933-018-0033-0.
14. White, A.J., Stevens, L.R., Lorenzi, V., Munoz, S.E., Lipo, C.P. & Schroeder, S. (2018) An evaluation of fecal stanols as indicators of population change at Cahokia, Illinois. Journal of Archaeological Science, 93: 129-134.
13. Munoz S.E. & Dee S.G. (2017) El Niño increases the risk of lower Mississippi River flooding. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01919-6.
12. Walsh J.R., Munoz S.E. & Vander Zanden M.J. (2016) Outbreak of an undetected invasive species triggered by a climate anomaly. Ecosphere, doi:10.1002/ecs2.1628.
11. Beach T, Johnson K.M., McCusker Hill M., Munoz S.E. &Peros M. (2016) The view from the “Anthropocene”: New perspectives in human-induced environmental change. Anthropocene, doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2016.09.004.
10. Radeloff, V. C., Williams, J.W., Bateman, B.L., Burke, K.D., Carter, S.K., Childress, E.S., Cromwell, K.J., Gratton, C., Hasley, A.O., Kraemer, B.M., Latzka, A.W., Marin-Spiotta, E., Meine, C.D., Munoz, S.E., Neeson, T.M., Pidgeon, A.M., Rissman, A.R., Rivera, R.J., Szymanski, L.M. & Usinowicz, J. (2015) The rise of novelty in ecosystems. Ecological Applications 25(8): 2051-2068.
9. Munoz, S.E., Gruley, K., Fike, D.A., Schroeder, S. & Williams, J.W. (2015) Reply to Baires et al.: Shifts in Mississippi River flood regime remain a contributing factor to Cahokia’s emergence and decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509404112.
8. Munoz, S.E., Gruley, K.E., Massie, A., Fike, D.A., Schroeder, S.S. & Williams, J.W. (2015) Cahokia’s emergence and decline coincided with shifts of flood frequency on the Mississippi River. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 112(20): 6319-6324.
7. Munoz, S.E., Mladenoff, D.J., Schroeder, S. & Williams, J.W. (2014). Defining the spatial patterns of historical land use associated with the indigenous societies of eastern North America. Journal of Biogeography 41(12): 2195-2210.
6. Munoz S.E., Schroeder, S., Fike, D.A. & Williams, J.W. (2014). A record of sustained prehistoric and historic land use from the Cahokia region, Illinois, USA. Geology 42(6): 499-502.
5. Munoz, S.E. (2013). Review of: Surviving Sudden Environmental Change (J. Cooper & P. Sheets, eds.). Heritage & Society 6(2): 203-204.
4. Gajewski, K., Munoz, S.E., Peros, M.C., Viau, A.E., Morlan, R. & Betts, M. (2011). The Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD): archaeological radiocarbon dates in North America and their paleoenvironmental context. Radiocarbon 53(2): 371-394.
3. Munoz, S.E., Gajewski, K. & Peros, M.C. (2010). Synchronous environmental and cultural change in the prehistory of the northeastern United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 107(51): 22008-22013.
2. Munoz, S.E. & Gajewski, K. (2010). Distinguishing prehistoric human influence on late Holocene forests in southern Ontario, Canada. The Holocene 20(6): 967-981.
1. Peros, M.C., Munoz, S.E., Gajewski, K. & Viau, A.E. (2010). Prehistoric demography of North America inferred from radiocarbon data. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 656-664.