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Overview

Ryan C. Ewing is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy. The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, and Geophysics.

Ewing's research emphasizes topics such as Planetary Science and Exploration, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Aeolian processes and effects, Astro and Planetary Science, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Geological formations and processes, and Space Exploration and Technology.

Frequent publication venues for Ewing include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth and Space Science

Among the scientist's recent papers are:

  • A Rock Record of Complex Aeolian Bedforms in a Hesperian Desert Landscape: The Stimson Formation as Exposed in the Murray Buttes, Gale Crater, Mars (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets)
  • Complementary classifications of aeolian dunes based on morphology, dynamics, and fluid mechanics (2024, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • An Evolving Understanding of Enigmatic Large Ripples on Mars (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets)
  • A distinct ripple-formation regime on Mars revealed by the morphometrics of barchan dunes (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Macroscopic Flow Disequilibrium Over Aeolian Dune Fields (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Ewing has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including M. G. A. Lapôtre, Andrew Gunn, M. Nachon, K. Mason, and D. R. Hood, with collaboration counts ranging from 5 to 13 joint works.

Best Publications

  • Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars.

    J.P. Grotzinger;S. Gupta;M. C. Malin;D.M. Rubin

  • Aeolian dune field self-organization – implications for the formation of simple versus complex dune-field patterns

    Gary A Kocurek;Ryan C. Ewing

  • Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars

    Steven G. Banham;Sanjeev Gupta;David M. Rubin;Jessica A. Watkins

  • Pattern analysis of dune-field parameters

    Ryan C. Ewing;Gary Kocurek;Larry W. Lake

  • White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico: Age, dune dynamics and recent accumulations

    Gary Kocurek;Mary Carr;Ryan Ewing;Karen G. Havholm

  • How do bedform patterns arise? New views on the role of bedform interactions within a set of boundary conditions

    Gary A Kocurek;Ryan C. Ewing;David Mohrig

  • Large wind ripples on Mars: A record of atmospheric evolution

    M. G. A. Lapotre;R. C. Ewing;M. P. Lamb;W. W. Fischer

  • Aeolian dune-field pattern boundary conditions

    R. C. Ewing;Gary A Kocurek

  • Pervasive Aeolian Activity Along Rover Curiosity's Traverse in Gale Crater, Mars

    Simone Silvestro;D.A. Vaz;D.A. Vaz;R.C. Ewing;A.P. Rossi

  • Aeolian dune interactions and dune‐field pattern formation: White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico

    Ryan C. Ewing;Gary A. Kocurek

  • Mineralogy of an active eolian sediment from the Namib dune, Gale crater, Mars

    C. N. Achilles;R. T. Downs;D. W. Ming;E. B. Rampe

  • Internal boundary layer model for the evolution of desert dune fields

    Douglas J. Jerolmack;Ryan C. Ewing;Federico Falcini;Raleigh L. Martin

  • Sedimentary processes of the Bagnold Dunes: Implications for the eolian rock record of Mars

    R. C. Ewing;M. G. A. Lapotre;K. W. Lewis;M. Day

  • Development of spatially diverse and complex dune‐field patterns: Gran Desierto Dune Field, Sonora, Mexico

    Carrie Beveridge;Gary A Kocurek;Ryan C. Ewing;Nicholas Lancaster

  • Barchan‐parabolic dune pattern transition from vegetation stability threshold

    Meredith D. Reitz;Douglas J. Jerolmack;Ryan C. Ewing;Raleigh L. Martin

  • Wind‐blown sandstones cemented by sulfate and clay minerals in Gale Crater, Mars

    R. E. Milliken;Ryan C. Ewing;W. W. Fischer;J. Hurowitz

  • Sand dune movement in the Victoria Valley, Antarctica

    Mary C. Bourke;Mary C. Bourke;Ryan C. Ewing;David Finnegan;Hamish A. McGowan

  • Martian Aeolian Activity at the Bagnold Dunes, Gale Crater: The View from the Surface and Orbit

    N. T. Bridges;N. T. Bridges;R. Sullivan;C. E. Newman;S. Navarro

  • Dune field pattern formation and recent transporting winds in the Olympia Undae Dune Field, north polar region of Mars

    Ryan C. Ewing;Ryan C. Ewing;Aymeric Pierre B. Peyret;Gary A Kocurek;Mary Bourke;Mary Bourke

  • Origin of a complex and spatially diverse dune-field pattern, Algodones, southeastern California

    Dana Derickson;Gary Kocurek;Ryan C. Ewing;Charlie Bristow

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Lamb
Michael P. Lamb California Institute of Technology
Kevin W. Lewis
Kevin W. Lewis Johns Hopkins University
Gary Kocurek
Gary Kocurek The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas J. Jerolmack
Douglas J. Jerolmack University of Pennsylvania
Nathan T. Bridges
Nathan T. Bridges Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
David M. Rubin
David M. Rubin University of California, Santa Cruz
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger California Institute of Technology
Claire E. Newman
Claire E. Newman University of Oxford

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