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D-Index
65
Citations
14995
World Ranking
2208
National Ranking
896

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gregory S. Okin is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on a range of topics such as Aeolian processes and effects, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Fire effects on ecosystems, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Soil erosion and sediment transport, and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology.

Gregory S. Okin has published extensively in several venues, including Ecosphere, Remote Sensing of Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, and Ecology. Their frequent co-authors include Michael C. Duniway, Debra P. C. Peters, Abinash Bhattachan, David D. Breshears, and Osvaldo E. Sala.

Representative recent papers include:

  • Effects of precipitation, heat, and drought on incidence and expansion of coccidioidomycosis in western USA: a longitudinal surveillance study, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Characterizing spatial variability in coastal wetland biomass across multiple scales using UAV and satellite imagery, 2021, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
  • Quantifying uncertainty for remote spectroscopy of surface composition, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • On-orbit calibration and performance of the EMIT imaging spectrometer, 2024, Remote Sensing of Environment

Gregory S. Okin was awarded the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

    Natalie Mahowald;Timothy D. Jickells;Alex R. Baker;Paulo Artaxo

  • Impact of desert dust on the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

    Gregory S. Okin;Natalie Mahowald;Oliver A. Chadwick;Paulo Artaxo

  • Practical limits on hyperspectral vegetation discrimination in arid and semiarid environments

    Gregory S Okin;Dar A Roberts;Bruce Murray;William J Okin

  • A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

    Paolo D'Odorico;Paolo D'Odorico;Gregory S. Okin;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • On soil moisture–vegetation feedbacks and their possible effects on the dynamics of dryland ecosystems

    Paolo D'Odorico;Kelly Caylor;Gregory S. Okin;Todd M. Scanlon

  • Quantitative effects of vegetation cover on wind erosion and soil nutrient loss in a desert grassland of southern New Mexico, USA

    Junran Li;Gregory S. Okin;Lorelei Alvarez;Howard Epstein

  • Multi-scale controls on and consequences of aeolian processes in landscape change in arid and semi-arid environments

    G.S. Okin;D.A. Gillette;J.E. Herrick

  • Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

    Brandon T Bestelmeyer;Gregory S Okin;Michael C Duniway;Steven R Archer

  • The ecology of dust

    Jason P Field;Jayne Belnap;David D Breshears;Jason C Neff

  • A new model of wind erosion in the presence of vegetation

    Gregory S. Okin

  • Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau.

    Seth M. Munson;Jayne Belnap;Gregory S. Okin

  • AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE

    Sujith Ravi;Paolo D'Odorico;David D. Breshears;Jason P. Field

  • Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification

    Gregory S. Okin;Anthony J. Parsons;John Wainwright;Jeffrey E. Herrick

  • Impacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition on marine productivity: Roles of nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron

    Gregory S. Okin;Alex R. Baker;Ina Tegen;Natalie M. Mahowald

  • A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

    T. D. Jickells;E. Buitenhuis;K. Altieri;A. R. Baker

  • Degradation of sandy arid shrubland environments: observations, process modelling, and management implications

    Gregory S Okin;Bruce Murray;William H Schlesinger

  • Atmospheric fluxes of organic N and P to the global ocean

    Maria Kanakidou;Robert A. Duce;Joseph M. Prospero;Alex R. Baker

  • Distribution of vegetation in wind‐dominated landscapes: Implications for wind erosion modeling and landscape processes

    Gregory Stewart Okin;Dale A. Gillette

  • Connectivity in dryland landscapes: shifting concepts of spatial interactions

    Gregory S. Okin;Mariano Moreno De Las Heras;Patricia M. Saco;Heather L. Throop

  • Impacts of biomass burning emissions and land use change on Amazonian atmospheric phosphorus cycling and deposition

    Natalie M. Mahowald;Paulo Artaxo;Alex R. Baker;Timothy D. Jickells

  • Effects of wind erosion on the spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in two desert grassland communities

    Junran Li;Gregory S. Okin;Lorelei Alvarez;Howard Epstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Debra P. C. Peters
Debra P. C. Peters United States Department of Agriculture
Jeffrey E. Herrick
Jeffrey E. Herrick New Mexico State University
Lixin Wang
Lixin Wang Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Thomas H. Painter
Thomas H. Painter University of California, Los Angeles
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer Agricultural Research Service
Jayne Belnap
Jayne Belnap United States Geological Survey
Stephen A. Macko
Stephen A. Macko University of Virginia
Nicholas P. Webb
Nicholas P. Webb New Mexico State University
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University

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