Publications

To request re-prints, [[ckharris,contact Dr. Courtney Harris]].

Yin, D., Z. Defne, N.K. Ganju, J.C. Warner, D.K. Ralston, C.K. Harris, B. Li. 2026. Spatial heterogeneity of salt marsh vulnerability to sea‐level rise: Dual controls of hydrological setting and salinity regime. Geophysical Research Letters; 53(8), e2025GL119461. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119461.

Abdul-Kareem, R., G-H Lee, J. Chang, C.K. Harris, J-H Lee. 2026. Rugosity as a metric for seabed morphodynamics: Insights from a sand mining site in Gyeonggi Bay, Macrotidal Yellow Sea, Korea. Estuarine, Coast and Shelf Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2026.109899.

Chang, J., G.-H. Lee, and C.K. Harris. 2026. Restoration-driven shifts in the Nakdong Estuary: Contrasting hydrodynamic and morphological response timescales. Marine Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2026.107754.

Yin, D., D.K. Ralston, J.C. Warner, N.K. Ganju, and C.K. Harris. 2025. Wind pumping induced salt transport in a weakly-tidal estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022683.

Flynn, E.R., S.A. Kuehl, C.K. Harris, J.J. Baronas, and E.T. Tipper, 2025. Investigating 210Pb boundary scavenging on a high-energy, river-dominated margin. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 326: 109552, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109552.

Bao, D., Z.G Xue, M. Hiatt, M. K. Xu, C.K. Harris, and J.C. Trepanier. 2025. A machine learning-based prediction-to-map framework for rapid and accurate spatial flood prediction. NPJ Natural Hazards 2, 71. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-025-00122-2

Yin, D., C.K. Harris, and J.C. Warner. 2025. Estuarine exchange flow in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans. doi.org: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021919.

Yin, D., L. Cui, C.K. Harris, J.M. Moriarty, H. Beck, and K. Maiti. 2024. The Role of benthic fluxes in acidifying the bottom waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone based on an updated water column biogeochemical-seabed diagenetic and sediment transport model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, e2023MS0040045, doi.org:10.1029/2023MS004045.

Chang, J., G.-H. Lee, C.K. Harris, S.M. Figueroa and N.W. Jung. 2023. Relative contribution of the presence of an estuarine dam and land reclamation to sediment dynamics of the Nakdong Estuary. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1101658. doi.org: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1101658

Wang, H., D. Gong, M.A. Friedrichs, C.K. Harris, T. Miles, H.C. Yu and Y. Zhang. 2022. A Cycle of wind-driven canyon upwelling and downwelling at Wilmington Canyon and the evolution of canyon-upwelled dense water on the MAB shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 866075. doi.org:10.3389/fmars.2022.866075.

Flynn, E.R., S.A. Kuehl, C.K. Harris, and M.J. Fair. 2022. Sediment and terrestrial organic carbon budgets for the offshore Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar: Establishing a baseline for future change. Marine Geology, 106782. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106782.

Harris, C.K., J.T. Wacht, M.J. Fair, and J.M. Cote. 2022. ADCP observations of currents and suspended sediment in the macrotidal Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar. Frontiers in Earth Science. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.820326.

Cui, L., C.K. Harris, and D.R. Tarpley. 2021. Formation of Oil – Particle – Aggregates: Numerical model formulation and calibration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:629476. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.629476.

Dukhovskoy, D.S., S.L. Morey, E.P. Chassignet, X. Chen, V.J. Coles, L. Cui, C.K. Harris, R. Hetland, T. Hsu, A. Manning, M. Stukel, K. Thyng, J. Wang. 2021. Overview of the CSOMIO coupled ocean-oil-sediment-biology model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:629299. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.629299.

Moriarty, J.M., M.A.M. Friedrichs, and C.K. Harris. 2021. Seabed resuspension in the Chesapeake Bay: Implications for biogeochemical cycling and hypoxia. Estuaries and Coasts 44, 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00763-8.

Chang, J., G-H. Lee, C.K. Harris, Y. Song, S. Figueroa, N. Schieder (now N. Jung), and K. Lagamayo. 2020. Sediment transport mechanisms in altered depositional environments of the Anthropocene Nakdong Estuary: A numerical modeling study. Marine Geology, 430, p.106364.

Harris, C.K., J. Syvitski, H.G. Arango, E.H. Meiburg, S. Cohen, C.J. Jenkins, J.J. Birchler, E.W.H. Hutton, T.A. Kniskern, S. Radhakrishnan, G. Auad. 2020. Data-driven, multi-model workflow suggests strong influence from hurricanes on the generation of turbidity currents in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE), 8: 586, https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8080586.

Wang, C., Z. Liu, C.K. Harris, X. Wu, H. Wang, C. Bian, N. Bi, H. Duan, J. Xu. 2020. The impact of winter storms on sediment transport through a narrow strait, Bohai, China, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2020JC016069.

Liu, J.P, S.A. Kuehl, A.C. Pierce, J. Williams, N.E. Blair, C.K. Harris, D. Wa Aung, Y.Y. Aye. 2020. Fate of Ayeyarwady and Thanlwin Rivers sediments in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. Marine Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.margeo.2020.106137.