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Publications
 

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Peer-reviewed Publication

Ohenhen, L. O., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C. & Kirwan, M. L. (2023). Hidden Vulnerability of US Atlantic Coast to Sea-level Rise due to Vertical Land Motion. Nature communications (In press)

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Barnard, P. L., Befus, K. M., Danielson, J. J., Engelstad, A. C., Erikson, L. H., Foxgrover, A. C., Hardy, M. W., Hoover, D. J., Leijnse, T., Massey, C., McCall, R., Nadal-Caraballo, N., Nederhoff, K. M., Ohenhen, L. O., O'Neill, A., Parker, K. A., Shirzaei, M., Su, X., Thomas, J. A., van Ormondt, M., Vitousek, S. F., Vox, K., and Yawn, M. C. (2023). Future coastal hazards along the U.S. North and South Carolina coasts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W91314

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Ohenhen, L. O., & Shirzaei, M. (2022). Land subsidence hazard and building collapse risk in the coastal city of Lagos, West Africa. Earth's Future, 10, e2022EF003219. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003219

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Ojo, O. O., Ohenhen, L. O., Kolawole, F., Johnson, S. G., Chindandali, P. R., Atekwana E. A., & Laó-Dávila D. A. (2022). Under-Displaced Normal Faults: Strain Accommodation Along an Early-Stage Rift-Bounding Fault in the Southern Malawi Rift. Front. Earth Sci. 10, 846389. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.846389

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Ohenhen, L. O., Feinberg, J. M., Slater, L. D., Ntarlagiannis, D., Cozzarelli, I. M., Rios-Sanchez, M., et al. (2022). Microbially induced anaerobic oxidation of magnetite to maghemite in a hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006560. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006560

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Khan, M. Y., Turab, S. A., Riaz, M. S., Atekwana, E. A., Muhammad, S., Butt, N. A., Abbas, S. M., Zafar, W. A., & Ohenhen, L. O. (2021). Investigation of coseismic liquefaction-induced ground deformation associated with the 2019 mw 5.8 mirpur, pakistan, earthquake using near-surface electrical resistivity tomography and geological data. Near Surface Geophysics, 19(2), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12148

In Review

Ohenhen, L. O., Shirzaei, M., Sherpa, S., Nicholls, R. (202?). Disappearing cities on the U.S. coasts. Submitted to Science

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Ohenhen, L. O., Shirzaei, M., Barnard, P. (202?). Slowly but Surely: Widespread Exposure of Infrastructure and Communities to Land Subsidence on the US East Coast. Submitted to Communications Earth & Environment

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Ohenhen, L. O., Mayle, M., Kolawole, F., Ismail, A., Atekwana, E. A. (202?). Exploring for Groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Integrated Geophysical Characterization of Weathered Basement Aquifer System, Central Malawi. Submitted to Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

Papers in Preparation

Zhai, G., Ohenhen, L. O., Ghobadi-Far, K., Carlson, G. Sherpa, S. F. Jui-Chi Lee, J-C. Khorrami, M., Zehsaz, S., Werth, S., & Shirzaei, M. Quantifying subsidence damage risk to infrastructures in 25 most populous US cities from the space. 

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Ohenhen, L. O., Shirzaei, M., Ghobadi-Far, K., Carlson, G. Sherpa, S. F. Jui-Chi Lee, J-C. Khorrami, M., Zehsaz, S., Werth, S., & Lucy, J.  Global Sinking Deltas. 

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