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11824
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5126
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1916

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Michael D. Blum is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Sociology and Political Science, Atmospheric Science, Statistics and Probability, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass a variety of areas:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical Studies and Practices

Michael D. Blum has contributed to several recent publications. These include:

  • "Real-world evidence to support regulatory decision-making for medicines: Considerations for external control arms," 2020, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
  • "Real-World Evidence for Assessing Treatment Effectiveness and Safety in Pediatric Populations," 2021, The Journal of Pediatrics
  • "The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Drug Safety Surveillance During the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2022, Drug Safety
  • "Early Pennsylvanian sediment routing to the Ouachita Basin (southeastern United States) and barriers to transcontinental sediment transport sourced from the Appalachian orogen based on detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf analysis," 2021, Geosphere
  • "Large River Systems and Climate Change," 2022, Large Rivers

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated multiple times with Michael D. Blum include:

  • Isaac Allred
  • Xiaolin Han
  • Mehmet Burcu
  • Kurt E. Sundell
  • Jon Smith

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
  • The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Drug Safety
  • Geosphere

Michael D. Blum has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Fluvial responses to climate and sea‐level change: a review and look forward

    Michael D. Blum;Torbjörn E. Törnqvist

  • Reply to the comments of W. Helland-Hansen on "Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy" by Catuneanu et al. (Earth-Sciences Review 92(2009)1-33)

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise

    Michael D. Blum;Harry H. Roberts

  • Paleovalley systems: Insights from Quaternary analogs and experiments

    M. Blum;J. Martin;K. Milliken;M. Garvin

  • Causes of River Avulsion: Insights from the Late Holocene Avulsion History of the Mississippi River, U.S.A.

    Andres Aslan;Whitney J. Autin;Michael D. Blum

  • Mid-Cretaceous to Paleocene North American drainage reorganization from detrital zircons

    M. Blum;M. Pecha

  • Fluvial evolution of the lower Mississippi River valley during the last 100 k.y. glacial cycle: Response to glaciation and sea-level change

    Tammy M. Rittenour;Michael D. Blum;Ronald J. Goble

  • The Mississippi Delta Region: Past, Present, and Future

    Michael D. Blum;Harry H. Roberts

  • Late Quaternary climates and environments of the Edwards Plateau, Texas

    Rickard S. Toomey;Michael D. Blum;Salvatore Valastro

  • Signatures of climate vs. sea-level change within incised valley-fill successions: Quaternary examples from the Texas GULF Coast

    Michael D. Blum;Andres Aslan

  • Quaternary Alluvial Plain Construction in Response to Glacio-Eustatic and Climatic Controls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

    Michael D. Blum;David M. Price

  • The Mississippi River source-to-sink system: Perspectives on tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic influences, Miocene to Anthropocene

    S.J. Bentley;M.D. Blum;J. Maloney;J. Maloney;L. Pond

  • Optical resetting in large drainage basins: tests of zeroing assumptions using single-aliquot procedures

    S Stokes;H.E Bray;M.D Blum

  • Climate Change, Sea-Level Change, and Fluvial Sediment Supply to Deepwater Depositional Systems

    Michael D. Blum;Jill Hattier-Womack

  • Fluvial response to Late Quaternary climatic and environmental change, Edwards Plateau, Texas

    Michael D Blum;Rickard S Toomey;Salvatore Valastro

  • Thematic Set: Sequence stratigraphy: common ground after three decades of development

    O. Catuneanu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum;R. W. Dalrymple

  • Late Pleistocene evolution of the lower Mississippi River valley, southern Missouri to Arkansas

    M. D. Blum;M. J. Guccione;D. A. Wysocki;P. C. Robnett

  • Late Quaternary sedimentation, lower Colorado River, Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas

    Michael D. Blum;Salvatore Valastro

  • Responses of Stable Bay-Margin and Barrier-Island Systems to Holocene Sea-Level Highstands, Western Gulf of Mexico

    Robert A. Morton;Jeffrey G. Paine;Michael D. Blum

  • Connections Between Fluvial To Shallow Marine Environments and Submarine Canyons: Implications For Sediment Transfer To Deep Water

    Michael L. Sweet;Michael D. Blum

Frequent Co-Authors

William E. Galloway
William E. Galloway The University of Texas at Austin
Martin R. Gibling
Martin R. Gibling Dalhousie University
Tammy M. Rittenour
Tammy M. Rittenour Utah State University
James D. Gleason
James D. Gleason University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ronald J. Steel
Ronald J. Steel The University of Texas at Austin
Henry W. Posamentier
Henry W. Posamentier Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Andrew D. Miall
Andrew D. Miall University of Toronto
Brian R. Pratt
Brian R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Janok P. Bhattacharya
Janok P. Bhattacharya McMaster University
André Strasser
André Strasser University of Fribourg

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