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Ashley Zung

Ashley Zung

Office: 500 Lindley
Phone: 864-2473
Email: azung@ku.edu
Website: www.people.ku.edu/~azung

  • B.S., Journalism, University of Kansas, 1998
  • B.A., Communication Studies, University of Kansas, 1998
  • M.A., Geography (with honors), University of Kansas, 2008
    Thesis: "Landslide Soils and Geomorphology in Camp Davis Quadrangle, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming"
  • Ph.D. Candidate (with honors), tentative dissertation title: "Reconstructing climate on the Southern Rolling Plains from buried soils: A quantitative approach."

 

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Publications/Presentations

 

Research Interests

Johannes J. Feddema, Ashley Zung, and Wiebo Liu. “Houston Urban Land Use/Land Cover Data Set.” System for Integrated Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat Risk (SIMMER), 2nd Annual Project Workshop, October 10-11, 2011.

Ashley B. Zung and Johannes J. Feddema.A quantitative approach to reconstructing Great Plains climate from soils.” Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America, October 9-12, 2011.

Ashley B. Zung and Rolfe Mandel. “Geomorphology and soil stratigraphy of Farra Canyon, central Oklahoma,” Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America, October 31-November 4, 2010.

Zung, Ashley B.  2010. "Landslide" in Encyclopedia of Geography, editor Barney Warf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Zung, Ashley B., Sorenson, Curtis J. and Winthers, Eric. 2009. Landslide soils and geomorphology in Bridger-Teton National Forest, Northwest Wyoming. Physical Geography, 30(6): 501-516.

Ashley Brooke Zung, Curtis J. Sorenson and Eric Winthers. “Geomorphic character of landslides in Camp Davis Quadrangle, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 15-19, 2008.

 

 

 

Effect of climate and disturbance on soil genesis; late-Quaternary soil stratigraphy, climate change, and landscape evolution; quantifying soil processes related to climate; terrestrial climate modeling; data exploration and statistical analysis; field and laboratory methods for soil classification and paleoenvironmental reconstructions; soil conservation and soil appreciation.


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