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Irina Overeem is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Overeem's work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Overeem has published in various scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • HydroShare Resources
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Water Resources Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Overeem demonstrate involvement in topics related to sediment cycles, erosion, and Arctic environments. These include:

  • "Earth's sediment cycle during the Anthropocene" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia" (2021), published in Science
  • "Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Air Temperature Regulates Erodible Landscape, Water, and Sediment Fluxes in the Permafrost-Dominated Catchment on the Tibetan Plateau" (2021), published in Water Resources Research
  • "Ice-dominated Arctic deltas" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Overeem has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Gregory E. Tucker
  • Benjamin Campforts
  • Tian Gan
  • James P. M. Syvitski
  • Albert J. Kettner

Best Publications

  • Sinking deltas due to human activities

    James P. M. Syvitski;Albert J. Kettner;Irina Overeem;Eric W. H. Hutton

  • Earth’s sediment cycle during the Anthropocene

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  • Sea ice loss enhances wave action at the Arctic coast

    Irina Overeem;Robert S. Anderson;Cameron W. Wobus;Gary D. Clow

  • Socio-economic Impacts on Flooding: A 4000-Year History of the Yellow River, China

    Yunzhen Chen;James P. M. Syvitski;Shu Gao;Irina Overeem

  • Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia.

    Dongfeng Li;Xixi Lu;Irina Overeem;Desmond E. Walling

  • The Late Cenozoic Eridanos delta system in the Southern North Sea Basin: a climate signal in sediment supply?

    I Overeem;Gert Jan Weltje;C Bishop-Kay;SB Kroonenberg

  • Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

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  • Mapping the future expansion of Arctic open water

    Katherine R. Barnhart;Katherine R. Barnhart;Christopher R. Miller;Irina Overeem;Jennifer E. Kay;Jennifer E. Kay

  • The effect of changing sea ice on the physical vulnerability of Arctic coasts

    K. R. Barnhart;K. R. Barnhart;I. Overeem;R. S. Anderson;R. S. Anderson

  • Land subsidence at aquaculture facilities in the Yellow River delta, China

    Stephanie Higgins;Stephanie Higgins;Irina Overeem;Irina Overeem;Akiko Tanaka;James P. M. Syvitski;James P. M. Syvitski

  • Substantial export of suspended sediment to the global oceans from glacial erosion in Greenland

    I. Overeem;Brian D Hudson;Brian D Hudson;James P. M. Syvitski;Andreas B. Mikkelsen

  • InSAR measurements of compaction and subsidence in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh

    Stephanie A. Higgins;Stephanie A. Higgins;Irina Overeem;Irina Overeem;Michael S. Steckler;James P. M. Syvitski;James P. M. Syvitski

  • Connectivity of fluvial point-bar deposits: An example from the Miocene Huesca fluvial fan, Ebro Basin, Spain

    Marinus E. Donselaar;Irina Overeem

  • Modeling erosion of ice-rich permafrost bluffs along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast

    Katherine R. Barnhart;Katherine R. Barnhart;Robert S. Anderson;Robert S. Anderson;Irina Overeem;Cameron Wobus

  • Floods, floodplains, delta plains — A satellite imaging approach

    James P.M. Syvitski;Irina Overeem;G. Robert Brakenridge;Mark Hannon

  • Small-scale stratigraphy in a large ramp delta: recent and Holocene sedimentation in the Volga delta, Caspian Sea

    I. Overeem;S.B. Kroonenberg;A. Veldkamp;K. Groenesteijn

  • A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas

    Zachary D. Tessler;Charles J. Vörösmarty;Charles J. Vörösmarty;Irina Overeem;James P.M. Syvitski

  • SHIFTING DISCHARGE PEAKS IN ARCTIC RIVERS, 1977–2007

    Irina Overeem;James P. M. Syvitski

  • Models of Deltaic and Inner Continental Shelf Landform Evolution

    Sergio Fagherazzi;Irina Overeem

  • Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss

    Mette Bendixen;Lars Lønsmann Iversen;Anders Anker Bjørk;Anders Anker Bjørk;Anders Anker Bjørk;Bo Elberling

  • Global mapping of storm surges and the assessment of coastal vulnerability

    G. R. Brakenridge;J. P. M. Syvitski;I. Overeem;S. A. Higgins

  • Sea Ice: An Introduction to Its Physics

    Irina Overeem

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. M. Syvitski
James P. M. Syvitski University of Colorado Boulder
Albert J. Kettner
Albert J. Kettner University of Colorado Boulder
Robert S. Anderson
Robert S. Anderson University of Colorado Boulder
Gary D. Clow
Gary D. Clow Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Bent Hasholt
Bent Hasholt University of Copenhagen
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Anders A. Bjørk
Anders A. Bjørk University of Copenhagen
Thomas L. Mote
Thomas L. Mote University of Georgia
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Aart Kroon
Aart Kroon University of Copenhagen

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