Peer-reviewed Papers

See also Google Scholar or ORCID. Bold indicates student/postdoc with significant mentorship from Shobe.

  1. Colaianne, N.J., Shobe, C.M., Moler, J., Benison, K.C., and Chilton, K.D. (2024) Beyond boundaries: Depositional environment controls on erodibility, process, and form in rivers incising sedimentary bedrock. Geosphere. doi:10.1130/GES02791.1. [PDF]
  2. Ryan, S.E., Shobe, C.M., Rathburn, S.L., and Dixon, M.K. (2024) Suspended-sediment response to wildfire and a major post-fire flood on the Colorado Front Range. River Research and Applications. doi:10.1002/rra.4286. [PDF]
  3. Morey, S.M., Shobe, C.M., Huntington, K.W., Lang, K.A., Johnson, A.G., and Duvall, A.R. (2024) The lasting legacy of megaflood boulder deposition in mountain rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 51, no. 1. doi:10.1029/2023GL105066. [PDF]
  4. Bower, S.J., Shobe, C.M., Maxwell, A.E., and Campforts, B. (2024) The uncertain future of mountaintop-removal-mined landscapes 2: Modeling the influence of topography and vegetation. Geomorphology, v. 446, 108985. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108985. Invited research article.
  5. Shobe, C.M., Bower, S.J., Maxwell, A.E., Glade, R.C., and Samassi, N.M. (2024) The uncertain future of mountaintop-removal-mined landscapes 1: How mining changes erosion processes and variables. Geomorphology, v. 445, 108984. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108984. Invited research article.
  6. Maxwell, A.E., Odom, W.E., Shobe, C.M., Doctor, D.H., Bester, M.S., and Ore, T. (2023) Exploring the influence of input feature space on CNN-based geomorphic feature extraction from digital terrain data. Earth and Space Science, v. 10, no. 5. doi:10.1029/2023EA002845. [PDF]
  7. Shobe, C.M. (2022) How impervious are solar arrays? On the need for geomorphic assessment of energy transition technologies, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 47, no. 14. doi:10.1002/esp.5489. [PDF]
  8. Campforts, B., Shobe, C.M., Overeem, I., and Tucker, G.E. (2022) The art of landslides: How stochastic mass wasting shapes topography and influences landscape dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 127, no. 8, e2022JF006745. doi:10.1029/2022JF006745. [PDF]
  9. Shobe, C.M., Braun, J., Yuan, X.P., Campforts, B., Gailleton, B., Baby, G., Guillocheau, F., and Robin, C. (2022) Inverting passive margin stratigraphy for marine sediment transport dynamics over geologic time, Basin Research, v. 34, no. 6, doi:10.1111/bre.12698. [PDF]
  10. Yuan, X.P., Guerit, L., Braun, J., Rouby, D., and Shobe, C.M. (2022) Thickness of fluvial deposits records climate oscillations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 127, no. 4, e2021JB023510. doi:10.1029/2021JB023510. [PDF]
  11. Maxwell, A.E. and Shobe, C.M. (2022) Land-surface parameters for spatial predictive mapping and modeling, Earth-Science Reviews, v. 226, 103944. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103944. [PDF]
  12. Shobe, C.M., Turowski, J.M., Nativ, R., Glade, R.C., Bennett, G.L., and Dini, B. (2021) The role of infrequently mobile boulders in modulating landscape evolution and geomorphic hazards, Earth-Science Reviews, v. 220, 103717. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103717. Invited review. [PDF]
  13. Shobe, C.M., Bennett, G.L., Tucker, G.E., Roback, K., Miller, S.R., and Roering, J.J. (2021) Boulders as a lithologic control on river and landscape response to tectonic forcing at the Mendocino triple junction, Geological Society of America Bulletin. doi:10.1130/B35385.1. [PDF]
  14. Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Glade, R.C., Shobe, C.M., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Projections of landscape evolution on a 10,000 year timescale with assessment and partitioning of uncertainty sources, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. doi:10.1029/2020JF005795. [PDF]
  15. Campforts, B., Shobe, C.M., Steer, P., Vanmaercke, M., Lague, D., and Braun, J. (2020) HyLands 1.0: a hybrid landscape evolution model to simulate the impact of landslides and landslide-derived sediment on landscape evolution. Geoscientific Model Development., v. 13, p. 1863-1886. doi:10.5194/gmd-13-3863-2020. [PDF]
  16. Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Inverting topography for landscape evolution model process representation: Part 3, determining parameter ranges for select mature geomorphic transport laws and connecting changes in fluvial erodibility to changes in climate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface., v. 125, no. 7, e2019JF005287. doi:10.1029/2019JF005287. [PDF]
  17. Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Inverting topography for landscape evolution model process representation: Part 2, calibration and validation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface., v. 125, no. 7, e2018JF004963. doi:10.1029/2018JF004963. [PDF]
  18. Barnhart, K.R., Tucker, G.E., Doty, S., Shobe, C.M., Glade, R.C., Rossi, M.W., and Hill, M.C. (2020) Inverting topography for landscape evolution model process representation: Part 1, conceptualization and sensitivity analysis, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface., v. 125, no. 7, e2018JF004961. doi:10.1029/2018JF004961. [PDF]
  19. Glade, R.C.*, Shobe, C.M.*, Anderson, R.S., and Tucker, G.E. (2019) Canyon form and erosion dynamics governed by channel-hillslope feedbacks, Geology, v. 47, no. 7, p. 650-654. doi:10.1130/G46219.1. *Equal author contributions. [PDF]

    20. Find the story in CU Arts and Sciences Magazine (also syndicated at phys.org).
    Figure data and scripts are permanently available on Figshare.

  20. Barnhart, K.R., Glade, R.C., Shobe, C.M., and Tucker, G.E. (2019) Terrainbento 1.0: a Python package for multi-model analysis in long-term drainage basin evolution, Geoscientific Model Development, v. 12, no. 4, p. 1,267-1,297. doi:10.5194/gmd-12-1267-2019. [PDF]

    21. Check out Terrainbento here.

  21. Shobe, C.M., Tucker, G.E., and Rossi, M.W. (2018) Variable-threshold behavior in rivers arising from hillslope-derived blocks, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 123, no. 8, p. 1,931-1,957. doi:10.1029/2017JF004575. [PDF]

    22. See the issue cover image here.
    Figure data and scripts are permanently available on Figshare.

  22. Gray, H.J., Shobe, C.M., Hobley, D.E.J., Tucker, G.E., Duvall, A.R., Harbert, S.A., and Owen, L.A. (2017) Off-fault deformation rate along the southern San Andreas fault at Mecca Hills, southern California, inferred from landscape modeling of curved drainages, Geology, v. 43, no. 1, p. 59-62. doi:10.1130/G39820.1. [PDF]
  23. Shobe, C.M., Tucker, G.E., and Barnhart, K.R. (2017) The SPACE 1.0 model: a Landlab component for 2-D calculation of sediment transport, bedrock erosion, and landscape evolution, Geoscientific Model Development, v. 10, no. 12, p. 4,577-4,604. doi:10.5194/gmd-10-4577-2017. [PDF]

    24. The latest version of the SPACE model is available on GitHub.

  24. Shobe, C.M., Hancock, G.S., Eppes, M.C., and Small, E.E. (2017) Field evidence for the influence of weathering on rock erodibility and channel form in bedrock rivers, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 42, no. 13, p. 1997-2012. doi:10.1002/esp.4163. [PDF]
  25. Shobe, C.M., Tucker, G.E., and Anderson, R.S. (2016) Hillslope-derived blocks retard river incision, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, no. 10, p. 5070-5078. doi:10.1002/2016GL069262. [PDF]