Booming Sand Dunes: Publications

Papers

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton, "Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in booming sand dunes"", In preparation .

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton, "Geophysical field evidence supporting the waveguide theory for booming sand dunes", In preparation .

• M.L. Hunt, N.M. Vriend (2010), "Booming Sand Dunes", Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 38, to appear.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton, C.E. Brennen, K.S. Brantley, A. Ruiz-Angulo (2008), "Reply to Comment on Solving the Mystery of Booming Sand Dunes"", Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08307, doi:10.1029/2008GL033202. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton, C.E. Brennen, K.S. Brantley, A. Ruiz-Angulo (2007), "Solving the Mystery of Booming Sand Dunes"", Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L16306, doi:10.1029/2007GL030276. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted.

Conference Presentations & Proceedings

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Booming Sand Dunes" 2009 IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium on “Mathematical Modeling and Physical Instances of Granular Flows, Reggio Calabria, Italy, September 14-18, 2009.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Mapping the Stratigraphy of Booming Sand Dunes" 2008 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 15-19, 2008.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Non-linear and Linear Wave Propagation in Booming Sand Dunes" 2008 Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, TX, USA, November 23-25, 2008.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton and C.E. Brennen, "Booming Sand Dunes" 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-fluid flow, Colby College, ME, USA, June 22-27, 2008.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "A Mystery Unraveled: Booming Sand Dunes" 2007 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 10-14, 2007.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Seismic Evidence for Resonance Layer in Booming Sand Dunes" 2006 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 11-15, 2006.

• M.L. Hunt, "Booming Sand Dunes", 2006 Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-fluid Flow, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 23-28, 2006.

• N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and C.E. Brennen, "Acoustic emission of booming sand", 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, CO, USA, June 25-30, 2006.

Recent Media attention

• "America’s Wild Spaces, Death Valley", National Geographic TV , July 20, 2009.

• Ute Kehse, "Die Stimme der Wüste (in German)", Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2007.

• Larry O'Hanlon, "When Sand Dunes Go Boom", Discovery Channel News , September 19, 2007.

• Karel Knip, "Bulderzand (in Dutch)", NRC Handelsblad, September 15, 2007.

• Sid Perkins, "Sonic Sands, uncovering the secret of the booming dunes", Science News 171, 149 - 150, September 8, 2007.

• Philip Ball, "The Dune Chorus", Nature 449, 10 - 11, September 6, 2007, doi:10.1038/449010a.

• David Cohen, "The Music of the Dunes", NewScientist, Short Sharp Science, August 24, 2007.

• Richard A. Kerr, "Looking Inside a Dune for its Boom", ScienceNow, daily news, June 19, 2007.

• Peter Monaghan, "The Dunes that Roar", The Chronicle of Higher Education, notes from academe, November 4, 2005.

• Nova ScienceNOW, "Booming Sands", 7-minute broadcast segment from PBS, January 25, 2005.