Publications

Below are the papers, chapters, and reports published by members of the waterSHED Lab. See here for Dr Shugar's Google Scholar page.

Ωstudent author; *postdoc

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. *Fathian, A., Koyi, H.A., Back, S., Nazari, H., Shugar, D.H., Shokri, M.A., and Reicherter, K. 2026. Onshore-offshore evidence for active tectonics and the propagation of the Zagros deformation front into the Persian Gulf. Quaternary Science Reviews. 375: 109752. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109752
  2. Das, G., Sharma, P., Vijay, S., Haritashya, U.K., Kargel, J., Singh, S., Osmanoglu, B. and Shugar, D.H. 2025. Mapping glacierized regions with quad-pol dual frequency LS-ASAR: insights for the NISAR mission. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18: 26,338-26,354. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3618572
  3. Harrison, S., Racoviteanu, A., Jones, D., Anderson, K., Glasser, N., Knight, J., Ranger, A., Shannon, S., Kargel, J., Shugar, D., Haritashya, U., Mandal, A., Vishwakarma, B.D., Li, D., Koutroulis, A., Wyser, K., and Inglis, S. 2025. Landscape responses will reduce glacier sensitivity to climate change in High Mountain Asia. The Cryosphere (invited perspective article). 19: 4113-4124. doi: 10.5194/tc-19-4113-2025
  4. *Bailey, L.P., Shugar, D.H., *Tilston, M., Hubard, S.M., Giesbrecht, I., Del Bel Belluz, J., Jackson, J.M., Clare, M.A., Cartigny, M.J.B., Açikalin, S., Hage, S., Talling, P.J., ΩBasiuk, H., Menounos, B., and Geertsema, M. 2025. Land-to-sea sediment fluxes from a major Glacial Lake Outburst Flood were stepped rather than instantaneous. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 130, e2024JF008126. doi: 10.1029/2024JF008126
  5. Sattar, A.,…Shugar, D.H., and 32 others. 2025. The Sikkim flood of October 2023: drivers, causes, and impacts of a multi-hazard cascade. Science, 387:6740. doi: 10.1126/science.ads2659
  6. Dunham, A. Kiser, E.D., Kargel, J., Haritashya, U.H., Watson, S., and Shugar, D.H. 2024. The influence of ground shaking on the distribution and size of coseismic landslides from the Mw 7.6 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Seismica. 3(2). doi: 10.26443/seismica.v3i2.1203
  7. Byers, A., Somos-Valenzuela, M., Shugar, D.H., McGrath, D., Chand, M.B., and Avtar, R. 2024. Brief Communications: An ice-debris avalanche in the Nupchu Valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Eastern Nepal. The Cryosphere, 18(2): 711-717. doi: 10.5194/tc-18-711-2024.
  8. Wood, J., Harrison, S., Wilson, R., Emmer, A., Kargel, J., Cook, S., Glasser, N., Reynolds, J., Shugar, D.H., and Yarleque, C. 2024. Shaking up assumptions: Earthquakes generally do not trigger Glacier Lake Outburst Floods. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(7): e2023GL105578. doi: 10.1029/2023GL105578
  9. Zhang, G., Carrivick, J.L., Emmer, A., Shugar, D.H., Veh, G., Wang, X., *Labedz, C., Mergili, M., Mölg, N., Huss, M., Allen, S., Sugiyama, S., and Lützow, N. 2024. Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 5: 447-462. doi: 10.1038/s43017-024-00554-w
  10. Agarwal, V., Van Wyk de Vries, M., Haritashya, U.K., Garg, S., Kargel, J.S., Chen, Y-J., and Shugar, D.H. 2023. Long-term analysis of glaciers and glacier lakes in the central and eastern Himalaya. Science of the Total Environment, 898: 165598. doi: j.scitotenv.2023.165598
  11. Clague, J.J., and Shugar D.H. 2023. Impacts of loss of cryosphere in the high mountains of Northwest North America. Quaternary. 6:1. doi: 10.3390/quat6010001
  12. Cooke, S.J., Galassi, D.M.P., Gillanders, B.M., Landsman, S.J., Hammerschlag, N., Gallagher, A., Eliason, EJ., Kraft, C., Taylor, M., Crisafulli, C.M., Shugar, D.H., and Lennox, R.J. 2023. Consequences of “natural” disasters on aquatic life and habitats. Environmental Reviews. 31:122-140. doi: 10.1139/er-2022-0050
  13. Nouri, M., Rashidi, A., Namin, M.M., and Shugar, D.H. 2023. Submarine landslide tsunami hazard assessment for the Western Makran based on a deterministic approach. Natural Hazards, 118:1117-1136. Doi: 10.1007/s11069-023-06040-8
  14. Smith, W., Dunning, S.A., Ross, N., Telling, J., Bessette-Kirton, E.K., Shugar, D.H., Coe, J.A., Geertsema, M. 2023. Revising rock avalanche magnitudes and frequencies in glacial environments. Geomorphology. 425: 108591. Doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108591
  15. Westoby, M., Dunning, S., Carrivick, J., Coulthard, T., Sain, K., Kumar, A., Berthier, E., Haritashya, U., Shean, D., Azam, M.F., Koppes, M., McCourt, H., Upadhyay, K., and Shugar, D.H. 2023. Rapid fluvial remobilization of sediment deposited by the Chamoli disaster mass movement process chain. Geology, 51(10):924-928. doi: 10.1130/G51225.1
  16. Lesi, M., Nie, Y., Shugar, D.H., Wang, J., Deng, Q., Chen, H., Fan, J. 2022. Landsat and Sentinel-derived glacial lake dataset in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor from 1990 to 2020. Earth System Science Data. 14: 5489-5512. doi: 10.5194/essd-14-5489-2022
  17. Byers, A.C., Shugar, D.H., Chand, M.B., Portocarrero, C., Shrestha, M., Rounce, D., and Watanabe, T. 2022. Three recent and lesser-known glacier-related flood mechanisms in high mountain environments. Mountain Research and Development, 42(2):A12-22. doi: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00045.1.
  18. Dunham, A.M., Kiser, E., Kargel, J.S., Haritashya, U.K., Watson, C.S., Shugar, D.H., Hughes, A., and DeCelles, P.G. 2022. Topographic control of ground motions and landslides from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098582. doi: 10.1029/2022GL098582
  19. Geertsema, M…Shugar, D.H., ΩSharp, M., and 29 others. 2022. A deglacial hazard cascade exemplified by the landslide, tsunami and outburst flood at Elliot Creek, Southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters, 49: e2021GL096716. doi: 10.1029/2021GL096716
  20. Li, D., Lu, X., Walling, D.E., Zhang, T., Steiner, J.F., Wasson, R.J., Harrison, S., Nepal, S., Nie, Y., Immerzeel, W.W., Shugar, D.H., Koppes, M., Lane, S.N., Zeng, Z., Sun, X., Yegorov, A., and Bolch, T. 2022. Climate-driven landscape instability threatens hydropower dams and reservoirs in High Mountain Asia. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00953-y
  21. Van Wyk de Vries, M., Bhushan, S., Jacquemart, M., Deschamps-Berger, C., Berthier, E., Gascoin, S., Shean, D.E., Shugar, D.H., and Kääb, A. 2022. Pre-collapse motion of the February 2021 Chamoli rock-ice avalanche, Indian Himalaya. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 22, 3309-3327. Doi: 10.5194/nhess-22-3309-2022
  22. Kargel, J.S., Upadhyay, K., Maxwell, A., Ramos, A.G.M., Harrison, S., Shugar, D.H., and Haritashya, U.K. 2021. Climate change, land use change, and mountain disasters. Georgetown J. of International Affairs (online only).
    1. https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/08/23/part-i-climate-change-land-use-change-and-mountain-disasters/
    2. https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/09/01/part-ii-climate-change-land-use-change-and-mountain-disasters/
  23. Sattar, A., Haritashya, U.K., Kargel, J.S., Leonard, G.J., Shugar, D.H., and Chase, D.V. 2021. Lake outburst process chain modeling and downstream hazard assessment. J. Hydrology, 598: 126208. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126208
  24. Shugar, D.H., and 52 others. 2021. A massive rock-ice avalanche caused the 2021 hazard cascade at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya. Science, 373:300-306. doi: 10.1126.science.abh4455
  25. Bloom, C.K., MacInnes, B., Higman, B., Shugar, D.H., Venditti, J.G., Richmond, B., Bilderback, E.L., Stark,C.P. 2020. Catastrophic landscape modification from a massive landslide tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska. Geomorphology, 353: 107029. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.107029
  26. Shugar, D.H., ΩBurr, A., Haritashya, A.K., Kargel, J.S., Watson, C.S., Kennedy, M.C., Bevington, A.R., Betts, R.A., Harrison, S., and Strattman, K. 2020. Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990. Nature Climate Change, 10: 939-945. doi: 10.1038/s41558-020-0855-4
  27. Watson, C.S., Kargel, J.S., Shugar, D.H., Haritashya, U.K., and Schiassi, E. 2020. Mass loss from calving and melting of icebergs in Himalayan proglacial lakes. Frontiers Earth Science, 7: 342. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00342
  28. Brideau, M.A., Shugar, D.H., Bevington, A., Willis, M., and Wong, C. 2019. Evolution of the 2014 Vulcan Creek landslide-dammed lake, Yukon, Canada, using field and remote survey techniques. Landslides, 16: 1823-1840. doi: 10.1007/s10346-019-01199-3
  29. Byers, A., Rounce, D., Shugar, D.H., Lala, J.M., Byers, E.A., and Regmi, D. 2019. A rockfall-induced glacial lake outburst flood, upper Barun valley, Nepal. Landslides, 16: 533-549. doi: 10.1007/s10346-018-1079-9
  30. Kirschbaum, D.L., Watson, C.S., Rounce, D.R., Shugar, D.H., Kargel, J.S., Haritashya, U.K., Amatya, P., Shean, D., Anderson, E.R., and Jo, M. 2019. Remote sensing of cascading hazards over High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7: 197. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00197
  31. Schiassi, E., Furfaro, R., Kargel, J.S., Watson, C.S., Shugar, D.H., and Haritashya, U.K. 2019. GLAM BioLith-RT for GMELT Toolbox: A semi-analytical tool for remote sensing of lake water characterization. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7: 267. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00267
  32. Dufresne, A., Geertsema, M., Shugar, D.H.,...ΩBonno, D., and 10 other authors. 2018. Sedimentology and geomorphology of a large tsunamigenic landslide, Taan Fiord, Alaska. Sedimentary Geology, 364: 302-318. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.10.004
  33. ΩEamer, J.B.R., Shugar, D.H., Walker, I.J., Neudorf, C., Lian, O. Eamer, J., Bryce, J., Biln, L. 2018. Late Quaternary landscape evolution in a region of stable postglacial relative sea-levels, British Columbia central coast. Boreas, 47:738-753. doi: 10.1111/bor.12297
  34. Haeussler, P.J.,...Shugar, D.H., and 8 other authors. 2018. Submarine deposition of a subaerial landslide in Taan Fiord, Alaska. J. Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 123:2443-2463. doi: 10.1029/2018JF004608
  35. Haritashya, U.K., Kargel, J.S., Shugar, D.H., & 7 others. 2018. Evolution and controls of large glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya. Remote Sensing, 10: 798. doi: 10.3390/rs10050798
  36. Harrison, S., Kargel, J., Huggel, C., Reynolds, J., Shugar, D., & 10 other authors. 2018. Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods. The Cryosphere, 12: 1195-1209. doi: 10.5194/tc-12-1195-2018
  37. Higman, B., Shugar, D.H.,...ΩBonno, D., and 29 other authors. 2018. Glacier retreat and the largest landslide-triggered marine tsunami since 1958. Scientific Reports, 8: 12993 doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30475-w
  38. Shugar, D.H., Clague, J.J., and McSaveney, M.J. 2018. Late Holocene activity of Sherman and Sheridan glaciers, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194: 116-127. Doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.016
  39. Shugar, D.H., Colorado, K.A., Clague, J.J., Willis, M., and Best, J.L. 2018. Boundary - Mapping and visualizing climatically changed landscapes at Kaskawulsh Glacier and Kluane Lake, Yukon. J. Maps, 15:19-30. doi: 10.1080/17445647.2018.1467349
  40. ΩEamer, J.B., Shugar, D.H., Walker, I.J., Lian, O.B., and Neudorf, C.M. 2017. Distinguishing depositional setting for sandy deposits in coastal landscapes using grain shape. J. Sedimentary Reearch, 87: 1-11.
  41. ΩEamer, J.B., Shugar, D.H., Walker, I.J., Lian, O.B., Neudorf, C.M., and Telka, A.M. 2017. A unique late Pleistocene glacial re-advance during retreat of Cordilleran Ice Sheet. Quaternary Research, 87: 468-481
  42. Shugar, D.H., Clague, J.J., Best, J.L., Schoof, C., Willis, M.J., Copland, L., and Roe, G.H. 2017. River piracy and drainage basin reorganization driven by climate-led glacier retreat. Nature Geoscience, 10: 370-375. doi: 10.1038/ngeo2932
  43. Kargel, J.S. Leonard, G.J., Shugar, D.H., Haritashya, U.K., & 60 others. 2016. Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Science, 351: 140. Doi: 10.1126/science.aac8353
  44. Neudorf, C., Lian, O.B., Walker, I.J., Shugar, D.H., ΩEamer, J.B.R., and Griffin, L.C. 2015. Toward a luminescence chronology for coastal dune and beach deposits on Calvert Island, British Columbia central coast, Canada. Quaternary Geochronology, 30: 275-281.
  45. McLaren, D., Fedje, D., Hay, M., Mackie, Q., Walker, I.J., Shugar, D.H., ΩEamer, J.B.R., Lian, O.B., and Neudorf, C. 2014. A postglacial sea-level hinge on the central Pacific coast of Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews, 97: 148-169.
  46. Shugar, D.H., Walker, I.J., Lian, O.B., ΩEamer, J.B., Neudorf, C., McLaren, D., and Fedje, D. 2014. Post-glacial sea-level change along the Pacific coast of North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 97: 170-192.
  47. Walker, I.J., and Shugar, D.H., 2013. Secondary flow deflection in the lee of transverse dunes with implications for dune morphodynamics and migration. Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, 38: 1642-1654.
  48. Shugar, D.H., Rabus, B.T., Clague, J.J., and Capps, D.M. 2012. The response of Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska, to the Denali earthquake rock avalanches. J. Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. 117, F01006.
  49. Shugar, D.H., and Clague, J.J. 2011. The geomorphology and sedimentology of rock avalanches on glaciers. Sedimentology, 58: 1762-1783.
  50. Capps, D.L., Rabus, B.T., Clague, J.J. and Shugar, D.H. 2010. Identification and characterization of alpine subglacial lakes using interferometric synthetic aperture Radar (InSAR), Brady Glacier, Alaska, USA. J. Glaciology, 56: 861-870.
  51. Shugar, D.H., Rabus, B.T., and Clague, J.J. 2010. Elevation changes (1949-1995) of Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska, derived from a multi-baseline InSAR DEM and historical maps. J. Glaciology, 56: 625-634.
  52. Shugar, D.H., Kostaschuk, R., Best, J.L., Lane, S.N., Parsons, D.R., Orfeo, O., and Hardy, R.J. 2010. On the relationship between flow and suspended sediment transport over the crest of a sand dune, Rio Paraná, Argentina. Sedimentology, 57: 252-272.
  53. Kostaschuk, R., Shugar, D.H., Best, J.L., Parsons, D.R., Lane, S.N. Hardy, R.J., and Orfeo, O. 2009. Suspended sediment transport and deposition over a dune: Rio Parana, Argentina. Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, 34: 1605-1611.
  54. Shugar, D.H., Kostaschuk, R., Ashmore, P., Desloges, J., and Burge, L. 2007. In-situ jet testing of the erosional resistance of cohesive streambeds. Canadian J. Civil Engineering, 34: 1192-1195. 

Book Chapters, Proceedings, Reports, etc 

  1. ΩRichardson, A., Shugar, D.H., Oulett, S., Dettmer, J., Mikesell, T.D., Savard, G., Crickmore, R., Dashwood, B. Accepted. Landslide monitoring with distributed acoustic sensing: integrating strain and seismic monitoring capabilities. Geohazards 9. Edmonton, AB.
  2. Shugar, D.H., and Clague, J.J. 2025. Changing glaciers, changing rivers. In: Parrott, L., Robinson, Z., and Hik, D. (Eds) State of the Mountains Report. Alpine Club of Canada. pp. 15-22.
  3. ΩBodtker, J., Cronmiller, D., Bond, J.D., and Shugar, D.H. 2023. The Sunnydale landslide, current understanding and research, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada (Dawson map area NTS116B/3). In: MacFarlane, K.E., (Ed) Yukon Exploration and Geology 2022. Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, pp 19-34.
  4. *Fathian, A., Atzori, S., Svigkas, N., Tolomei, C., Shugar, D.H., and Reicherter, K. 2022. Source characteristics of the Fin doublet earthquake of 14 November 2021 (Mw 6.2 and Mw 6.3) utilizing InSAR. IEEE IGARSS. 4pp.
  5. Deline, P., Hewitt, K., Shugar, D.H., and Reznichenko, N. 2021. Rock avalanches onto glaciers. In: Davies, T.R. & Rosser, N. (Eds) Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. pp 269-333.
  6. Emmer, A., Cook, S.J., Frey, H., and Shugar, D.H. 2021. Editorial: Geohazards and risks in high mountain regions. Frontiers Earth Sci., 9. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.754260
  7. Higman, B., Geertsema, M., Shugar, D.H., Lynett, P., and Dufresne, A. 2019. The 2015 Taan Fiord landslide and tsunami. Alaska Park Science, 18, 7-16
  8. Shugar, D.H., Kane, I. 2019. An adventure in predatory publishing: the contents of two medicine cabinets. Nature, 568: 316. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01207-5
  9. Kargel, J.S., Haritashya, U.K., Shugar, D.H., Bishop, M., and Furfaro, R. 2018. High mountain hazard hotspots in seismically and volcanically active cryosphere regions. NASA White Paper.
  10. Shugar, D.H., and Clague, J.J. 2018. Changing glaciers, changing rivers. In: Parrott, L., Robinson, Z., and Hik, D. (Eds) State of the Mountains Report. Alpine Club of Canada. pp. 4-11.
  11. Shrestha, A.B., Bajracharya, S.R., Kargel, J.S., Khanal, N.R., Karki, A., Collins, B.D., Shugar, D.H., & 16 others. 2016. The Impact of Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha Earthquake-Induced Geohazards. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, 36pp.
  12. Shugar, D.H. 2016. Book review: Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 107: 38-39.
  13. Brideau, M.-A., Shugar, D.H., and Wong, C., 2016. Preliminary investigation of the 2014 Vulcan Creek landslide dam, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon. Paper 3902, 69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Vancouver, BC, 8 p.
  14. Phillips, M.R., Burn, C.R., Wolfe, S.A., Morse, P.D., Gaanderse, A.J., O'Neill, H.B., Shugar, D.H., and Gruber, S. 2015. Improving water content description of ice-rich permafrost soils. Proceedings, GeoQuebec 2015. Quebec City, QC, 7p.
  15. Shugar, D.H. 2014. Bathymetric and geophysical surveys of the southern end of Kluane Lake. In: MacFarlane, K.E., Nordling, M.G., and Sack, P.J. (Eds) Yukon Exploration and Geology 2013. Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, pp. 221-231.
  16. Deline, P., Hewitt, K., Reznichenko, N., and Shugar, D.H. 2014. Rock avalanches onto glaciers. In: Davies, T.R. (Ed) Landslide Hazards and Disasters. Elsevier, pp. 263-319.
  17. Shugar, D.H., Clague, J.J., and Giardino, M., 2013. A quantitative assessment of the sedimentology and geomorphology of rock avalanche deposits. In: Catani, F., Margottini, C., Trigila, A., and Iadanza, C. (Eds) Landslide Science and Practice, Vol 4: Global Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, pp. 321-326.
  18. Shugar, D., Kostaschuk, R., Best, J., Parsons, D., Lane, S., Hardy, R., and Orfeo, O., 2007. Sediment dynamics over a dune in the Rio Paraná. In: Paola, C., Parker, G., and García, M.H. (Eds) Workshop on Morphodynamic Processes in Large Lowland Rivers. Santa Fe, Argentina, 3p.
  19. Parsons, D.R., Best, J.L., Lane, S.N., Hardy, R.J., Kostaschuk, R.A., Shugar, D.H., and Orfeo, O., 2006. Morphology, flow and sediment transport over a natural 3D dune field: Rio Paraná, Argentina. In: Ferreria, R.M., Alves, E.C., Leal, J.G., and Cardos, A.H. (Eds) RiverFlow 2006: Intl. Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics. Lisbon. Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 997-1004.