Publications

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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

(*) denotes student author

Lazarus ED, Williams HE, Goldstein EB (2022) Volume estimation from planform characteristics of washover morphology, Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL100098 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100098

Lazarus ED (2022) A conceptual beachhead: “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl F. Nordstrom (1994), Progress in Physical Geography 46(3), 481–490 https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333211054679

Lazarus ED (2022) The disaster trap: Cyclones, tourism, colonial legacies, and the systemic feedbacks exacerbating disaster risk, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47, 577–588 https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12516 (preprint)

*Aldabet S, Goldstein EB, Lazarus ED (2022) Thresholds in road network functioning on US Atlantic and Gulf barrier islands, Earth’s Future, 10, e2021EF002581 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002581

Goldstein EB, Buscombe D, Lazarus ED, Mohanty SD, Rafique SN, Anarde KA, et al. (2021) Labeling poststorm coastal imagery for machine learning: Measurement of interrater agreement, Earth and Space Science 8(9), e2021EA001896 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001896

Limaye AB, Lazarus ED, Li Y, Schwenk J (2021) River sinuosity describes a continuum between randomness and ordered growth, Geology 49(12), 1506–1510 https://doi.org/10.1130/G49153.1

Lazarus ED, *Ziros LA (2021) Yachts and marinas as hotspots of coastal risk, Anthropocene Coasts 4(1), 61–76 https://doi.org/10.1139/anc-2020-0012

Lazarus ED, *Aldabet S, Thompson CE, Hill CT, Nicholls RJ, French JR, Brown S, Tompkins EL, Haigh ID, Townend IH, Penning-Rowsell EC (2021) The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience, Anthropocene Coasts 4(1), 137–146 https://doi.org/10.1139/anc-2020-0023

Townend IH, French JR, Nicholls RJ, Brown S, Carpenter S, Haigh ID, Hill CT, Lazarus E, Penning-Rowsell EC, Thompson CE, Tompkins EL (2021) Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England, Science of the Total Environment 783, 146880 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146880

Lazarus ED, Goldstein EB, *Taylor LA, Williams HE (2021) Comparing patterns of hurricane washover into built and unbuilt environments, Earth’s Future 9(3) e2020EF001818 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001818

Lazarus ED (2020) Money beats the ocean, Nature Sustainability 3, 7–8 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0463-3 (postprint)

Lazarus ED, *Davenport KL, Matias A (2020) Dynamic allometry in coastal overwash morphology, Earth Surface Dynamics 8, 37–50 https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-37-2020

Masselink G, Lazarus ED (2019) Defining coastal resilience, Water 11, 2587 https://doi.org/10.3390/w11122587

Lauzon R, Murray AB, Cheng S, Liu J, Ells K, Lazarus ED (2019) Correlation between shoreline change and planform curvature on wave‐dominated, sandy coasts, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface 124(12), 3090–3106 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005043

Armstrong SB, Lazarus ED (2019) Reconstructing patterns of coastal risk in space and time along the US Atlantic Coast, 1970–2016, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19, 2497–2511 https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2497-2019

Finotello A, D’Alpaos A, Lazarus ED, Lanzoni S (2019) High curvatures drive river meandering: COMMENT, Geology 47(10), e485 https://doi.org/10.1130/G46761C.1

Lazarus ED, Goldstein EB (2019) Is there a bulldozer in your model? Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface 124, 696–699 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004957

Related press:
- one of the “most downloaded” articles in JGR-ES for 2019

*Armstrong SB, Lazarus ED (2019) Masked shoreline erosion at large spatial scales as a collective effect of beach nourishment, Earth’s Future 7, 74–84 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF001070

Related press:
- Research Highlight: “Beach building is keeping the Atlantic Coast from going under” (AGU GeoSpace blog)

Lazarus ED, Harley MD, Blenkinsopp CE, Turner IL (2019) Environmental signal shredding on sandy coastlines, Earth Surface Dynamics 7, 77–86 https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-77-2019

Related press:
- Invited post: “Back for the first time: measuring change at Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach” (EGU GeoLog blog)

Lazarus ED, Limber PW, Goldstein EB, *Dodd R, *Armstrong SB (2018) Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones, Nature Sustainability 1, 759–762 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0185-y (postprint)

Related press:
- Invited post: “Slow burn” (Nature Research Sustainability Community blog)
- Invited post: “Intensifying risk where risk is already high” (Nature Research Sustainability Community blog)
- EARTH Magazine: “After hurricanes, US beach homes are rebuilt bigger” (MC Morton)
- see Altmetric aggregator of coverage types and outlets here

*Horton AJ, Lazarus ED, Hales TC, Constantine JA, Bruford MW, Goossens B (2018) Can riparian forest buffers increase yields from oil palm plantations? Earth’s Future 6, 1082–1096 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF000874

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- Research Spotlight in Eos: Sidder A (2018) Conserving riverside habitat could bolster bottom lines, Eos 99: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO106559
- Coverage in Mongabay

*Horton AJ, Constantine JA, Hales TC, Goossens B, Bruford MW, Lazarus ED (2017) Modification of river meandering by tropical deforestation, Geology 45, 511–514 https://doi.org/10.1130/G38740.1

Lazarus ED (2017) Toward a global classification of coastal anthromes, Land 6, 13 https://doi.org/10.3390/land6010013

Lazarus ED (2016) Scaling laws for coastal overwash morphology, Geophysical Research Letters 43, 12113–12119 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071213

*Armstrong SB, Lazarus ED, Limber PW, Goldstein EB, *Thorpe C, Ballinger RC (2016) Indications of a positive feedback between coastal development and beach nourishment, Earth’s Future 4, 626–635 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000425

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- Earth’s Future Editor’s Highlight
- Covered by Vox.com: “The problem with beach nourishment“
- Coverage in Hakai Magazine: Platt JR, “Reinforce and Build,” Hakai Magazine, 20 December 2016, http://bit.ly/2hBn1tL.

Lazarus ED, Ellis MA, Murray AB, Hall DM (2016) An evolving research agenda for human–coastal systems, Geomorphology 256, 81–90 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.07.043

Hall DM, Swannack TM, Lazarus ED, Peterson MJ, Gilbertz SJ, Horton CC, Peterson TR (2015) Integrating social power and political influence into models of social–ecological systems, European Journal of Sustainable Development 4(2), 61–76 http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2015.v4n2p61

Hall DM, Lazarus ED (2015) Deep waters: Lessons from community meetings about offshore wind resource development in the US, Marine Policy 57, 9–17 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.03.004

Lazarus ED, *Armstrong S (2015) Self-organized pattern formation in coastal barrier washover deposits, Geology 43(4), 363–366 https://doi.org/10.1130/G36329.1

Constantine JA, Dunne T, *Ahmed J, Legleiter C, Lazarus ED (2014) Sediment supply as a driver of river meandering and floodplain evolution in the Amazon Basin, Nature Geoscience 7, 899–903 https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2282

Lazarus ED, McGill BJ (2014) Pushing the pace of tree species migration, PLoS ONE 9(8): e105380 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105380

Lazarus ED (2014) Land grabbing as a driver of environmental change, Area 46, 74–82 https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12072

Related press:
- Invited companion post in Royal Geographical Society (RGS) blog Geography Directions: “Rapid land-use changes are creating the geology of the Anthropocene“
- Guest point-of-view column in Geographical Magazine (see “Other Writing” below)

Hall DM, Lazarus ED, Swannack TM (2014) Strategies for communicating systems models, Environmental Modelling & Software 55, 70–76 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.01.007

Lazarus ED (2014) Threshold effects of hazard mitigation in coastal human–environmental systems, Earth Surface Dynamics 2, 35–45 https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2-35-2014

Lazarus ED, Constantine JA (2013) Generic theory for channel sinuosity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110(21), 8447–8452 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214074110

Related press:
- Featured on PNAS First Look blog – “Meandering curves: a new understanding of channel sinuosity“
- Companion commentary – Baker, V.R. (2013) Sinuous rivers, PNAS 110(21), 8321–8322 (open access: PDF)
- Highlighted as a From the Cover article: “Winding patterns of rivers”

Lazarus ED, McNamara DE, Smith MD, Gopalakrishnan S, Murray AB (2011) Emergent behavior in a coupled and economic coastline model for beach nourishment, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 18, 989–999 https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-18-989-2011

Lazarus ED, Ashton A, Murray AB, Tebbens S, Burroughs S (2011) Cumulative versus transient shoreline change: Dependencies on temporal and spatial scale, Journal of Geophysical Research–Earth Surface 116, F02014 https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JF001835

Lazarus ED, Murray AB (2011) An integrated hypothesis for regional patterns of shoreline change along the Northern North Carolina Outer Banks, USA, Marine Geology 281, 85–90 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2011.02.002

Murray AB, Lazarus E, Ashton A, Baas A, Coco G, Coulthard T, Fonstad M, Haff P, McNamara D, Paola C, Pelletier J, Reinhardt L (2009) Geomorphology, complexity, and the emerging science of the Earth’s surface, Geomorphology 103, 496–505 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.013

Lazarus ED, Murray AB (2007) Process signatures in regional patterns of shoreline change on annual to decadal time scales, Geophysical Research Letters 34, L19402 https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031047

Dethier DP, Lazarus ED (2006) Geomorphic inferences from regolith thickness near the glacial limit, Boulder Creek catchment, Colorado, Geomorphology 75, 384–399 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.07.029

DATASETS & CODE

Williams HE, Lazarus ED, Goldstein EB (2022) Data and morphometric results from a physical experiment simulating washover deposition [Data set] Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7075282

Lazarus ED, Williams HE, Goldstein EB (2022) Washover morphometry: lidar-derived and reported in literature [Data set] Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/z enodo.7075323

Lazarus ED, Williams HE, Goldstein EB (2022) Code for “Volume estimation from planform characteristics of washover morphology” Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6641396

*Aldabet S, Goldstein EB, Lazarus ED (2022) Dataset for "Thresholds in road network functioning on US Atlantic and Gulf barrier islands" [Data Set] Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6354814

*Aldabet S, Goldstein EB, Lazarus ED (2022) Code for "Thresholds in road network functioning on US Atlantic and Gulf barrier islands" (v1.0.0) Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6354835

*Taylor L, Williams H, Goldstein E, Lazarus E (2021) Data for "Comparing patterns of hurricane washover into built and unbuilt environments" [Data Set] figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12608828.v1

Goldstein E, Lazarus E, Beuzen T, Williams H, Limber P, Cohn N, et al. (2020) Labels for Hurricane Florence (2018) Emergency Response Imagery from NOAA [Data Set] figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11604192.v1

Matias A, Lazarus ED (2020) Data (Part 2) for "Dynamic allometry in coastal overwash morphology" [Data Set] figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.10281902.v1

Lazarus ED, Davenport KL, Matias A (2019) Data (Part I) for "Dynamic allometry in coastal overwash morphology" [Data Set] figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.10259846

Lazarus ED, Limber PW, Goldstein EB (2018) Data for "Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones" [Data Set] figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7108763.v1

Dethier DP, Lazarus ED (2018) Data for "Geomorphic inferences from regolith thickness, chemical denudation and CRN erosion rates near the glacial limit, Boulder Creek catchment and vicinity, Colorado" [Data Set] figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7211759.v1

MONOGRAPH CHAPTERS & SUPPLEMENTS

Hall DM, Lazarus ED, Thompson JL (2019) Mediated modeling and participatory modeling, in Fath B (Ed) Encyclopedia of Ecology (2nd ed), 2, 129–135 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.10574-3

McNamara DE, Lazarus ED (2018) Barrier islands as coupled human–landscape systems, in: Moore L, Murray A (Eds) Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate, Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68086-6_12 (preprint)

Two "vignettes" – online supplemental material that accompanies Bierman P, Montgomery D (2014) Key Concepts in Geomorphology, WH Freeman Ltd: New York.

"Beach replenishment on developed shorelines: a coupled human–landscape system" (http://serc.carleton.edu/vignettes/collection/69555.html)
"Adding up the change: capturing the cumulative effects of dynamic shorelines" (http://serc.carleton.edu/vignettes/collection/69554.html)

Lazarus ED, Ashton A, Murray AB (2012) Large-scale patterns in hurricane-driven shoreline change, in Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective, AS Sharma, A Bunde, D Baker, VP Dimri (Eds), AGU Geophysical Monograph series #196, 127–138 https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GM001074 (PDF)

REPORTS & WHITE PAPERS

Whitmarsh L, Reis J, Lazarus E, Egan P, Thomas R, Nash N (2013) "The 'Strong Roots' project: the potential for community and town councils to lead action on climate change adaptation" for the Support for Sustainable Living Grant Scheme, Welsh Assembly Government, report.

Murray AB, Lazarus E, Ashton A, Baas A, Coco G, Coulthard T, Fonstad M, Haff P, McNamara D, Paola C, Pelletier J, Reinhardt L (2008) "Geomorphology, complexity, and the emerging science of the Earth's surface" for the Committee on Challenges and Opportunities in Earth Surface Processes, US National Research Council (NRC), white paper.

PRE-PRINTS

Lazarus ED, Schaible D (2015) A hidden scale dependency in conserving working woodlands, PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1641, https://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1333v1

OTHER WRITING

Lazarus ED, "Slow burn" Nature Research Sustainability Community blog ["After the Paper" guest post], 10 November 2020.

Lazarus ED, "Back for the first time: measuring change at Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach" EGU GeoLog blog [guest post], 8 May 2019.

Lazarus ED, Limber PW, Goldstein EB, *Dodd R, *Armstrong SB, "Intensifying risk where risk is already high" Nature Research Sustainability Community blog ["Behind the Paper" guest post], 10 December 2018.

Lazarus ED (2017) Writing takes work, Nature 550, 291 https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7675-291a (PDF)

Lazarus ED, "Ghost research: taking stock of work that disappears" Naturejobs blog [guest post], 13 February 2017. (link)

Lazarus ED (2016) Tracked changes, Nature 529, 429 https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7586-429a (PDF)

Lazarus ED (2014) Grabbed landscapes, Geographical Magazine 86 (7), 77. (PDF by request)

Lazarus E, "Maine Voices [opinion]: Bad decisions about shorefront property are no longer excusable" Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine, USA), 30 July 2010. (link)

PODCAST INTERVIEWS

Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste: The Writers' Podcast E5 (interviewed by Dr Stephanie Jones; aired 4 November 2022) –

Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste – E5

Coast2Cast E34 (interviewed by Prof Giovanni Coco; aired 10 March 2022): https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-v9y58-11c99f3