Greg Carling

Research Disciplines

Education

2012 Ph.D., Geology, University of Utah, advisor: W.P. Johnson

2007 M.S., Geology, Brigham Young University, advisor: A.L. Mayo

2005 B.S., Geology, Brigham Young University

2001 A.S., Adams State College

Teaching

Introduction to Geology (Geol 101)

Geological Communications (Geol 230)

Geological Field Methods (Geol 420)

Groundwater (Geol 435)

Contaminant Hydrogeology (Geol 535)

Advanced Hydrogeology (Geol 635)

Hydrogeochemistry (Geol 636)

Research

My research seeks to understand the processes that affect trace element and nutrient cycling in the hydrologic system. Current projects include:

1) water chemistry in alpine watersheds

2) phosphorus fluxes from sediments in shallow lakes

3) mercury and other trace metals in glacial meltwater

4) mineral dust emissions and deposition

Articles

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External Research Funding

Carling, G.T., 7/2020-25, NSF Critical Zone Thematic Cluster: $888,941 (5.2M total including other universities). “Collaborative Research: Network Cluster: Dust in the Critical Zone from the Great Basin to the Rocky Mountains”

Carling, G.T., 7/2019-21, State of Utah DAQ: $150,000. “Characterizing air quality impacts from exceptional events along the Wasatch Front”

Carling, G.T., 8/2019-20, Tintic Consolidated Metals: $49,562. “Water chemistry of springs and seeps in the Tintic mining area”

Carling, G.T., 8/2019-20, State of Utah DWQ: $21,000 ($75,735 including Univ. of Utah). “Utah Lake sediment—water nutrient interactions” (PI Ramesh Goel, Univ. of Utah)

Carling, G.T., Aanderud, Z.T., Nelson, S.T., Fernandez, D.P., 7/2015-19, NSF Hydrologic Sciences: $269,796. "Collaborative Research: Investigation of the fate and transport of dust-borne trace metals and solutes during snowmelt"

Carling, G.T., 5/2018-19, South Davis Sewer District: $30,300. "Characterizing nutrient fluxes and Fe-P dynamics in Utah Lake sediment"

Carling, G.T., 7/2017-18, State of Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands: $29,770. "Understanding environmental impacts of Great Salt Lake dust: Using isotopic “fingerprints” to determine dust sources and quantifying changes in trace metal concentrations from source to deposition"

Carling, G.T., 8/2015-17, South Davis Sewer District: $56,638. "Characterizing phosphorus mineralogy, chemistry, and speciation in Utah Lake sediments"

Carling, G.T., 7/2015-16, State of Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands: $39,717. "Characterizing harmful effects of dust emissions from the dry lakebed of Great Salt Lake relative to other regional dust sources"

Carling, G.T., 9/2014-15, Utah Geological Survey: $24,472. "Groundwater resources in Goshen Valley, Utah: Assessing water quality impacts from agriculture, legacy mining, playa soils, septic tanks, and geothermal waters"

Awards

2020 BYU Department of Geological Sciences J. Keith Rigby Outstanding Research Award

2019 BYU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences Young Scholar Award

2016 BYU Department of Geological Sciences J. Keith Rigby Outstanding Research Award

2015 BYU Department of Geological Sciences Myron G. Best Outstanding Teaching Award

Publications

2022

Heiner, M., Grimm, T., Smith, H., Leavitt, S.D., Christensen, W.F., Carling, G.T., St. Clair, L.L., 2022. Multivariate receptor modeling with widely dispersed Lichens as bioindicators of air quality. Environmetrics e2785.

Godwin, S.B., Nelson, S.T., McBride, J.H., Rey, K.A., Tingey, D.G., Tingey, E., Carling, G.T., 2022. Thermal spring system plumbing across a major normal fault: Pah Tempe, Utah, USA. Lithosphere 2021:3364591.

Gunnell, N., Nelson, S.T., Rushforth, S., Rey, K.A., Hudson, S.H., Carling, G.T., Miller, T., Meyers, L., Engstrom, D., 2022. From hypersaline to fresh-brackish: documenting the impacts of human intervention on a natural water body from cores, Farmington Bay, UT, USA. Water Air & Soil Pollution 233:35.

Hale, C.A., Carling, G.T., Nelson, S.T., Fernandez, D.P., Brooks, P.D., Rey, K.A., Tingey, D.G., Packer, B.N., Aanderud, Z.T., 2022. Strontium isotope dynamics reveal streamflow contributions from shallow flow paths during snowmelt in a montane watershed, Provo River, Utah, USA. Hydrological Processes 36:e14458.

2021

Barkdull, N.S., Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Nelson, S.T., Bickmore, B.R.,Tingey, D.G., Checketts, H.N., Packer, B.N., ⁺Hale, C.A., 2021. Glaciers control the hydrogeochemistry of proglacial streams during late summer in the Wind River Range, Wyoming, United States. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 9:727575.

Crandall, T., Jones, E., Greenhalgh, M., Frei, R.J., Thompson, C., Groenwald, S., Aanderud, Z.T., Carling, G.T., Frei, R.J., Griffin, N., Severe, E., Maxwell, J., Patch, L., St. Clair, S.I., Bratsman, S., Merritt, M., Norris, A.J., Carling, G.T., Hansen, N., St. Clair, S.B., Abbott, B.W., 2021. Megafire affects stream sediment flux and dissolved organic matter reactivity, but land use dominates nutrient dynamics in semiarid watersheds. Plos One 794:148665.

Webber, Z.R., Webber, K.G.I., Rock, T., St. Clair, I., Thompson, C., Groenwald, S., Aanderud, Z.T., Carling, G.T., Frei, R.J., Abbott, B.W., 2021. Diné citizen science: Phytoremediation of uranium and arsenic in the Navajo Nation. Science of the Total Environment 794:148665.

Quispe, N., Zanabria, D., Chavez, E., Cuadros, F., Carling, G.T., Paredes, B., 2021. Health risk assessment of heavy metals (Hg, Pb, Cd, Cr and As) via consumption of vegetables cultured in agricultural sites in Arequipa, Peru. Chemical Data Collections 33:100723.

Hawkings, J., Linhoff, B., Wadham, J., Stibal, M., Lamborg, C., Carling, G.T., Lamarche-Gagnon, G., Kohler, T., Ward, R., Hendry, K., Falteisek., L., Kellerman, A., Cameron, K., Hatton, J., Tingey, S., Holt, A., Vinsova, P., Hofer, S., Bulinova, M., Vetrovsky, T., Meire, L., Spencer, R., 2021. Large subglacial source of mercury from the southwestern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Nature Geoscience 14:496-502.

Barker, J., Nelson, S., McBride, J., Carling, G.T., Hudson, S., Rey, K., Tingey, E., Tingey, D., 2021. Moving beyond the direction of climate change to estimating its magnitude: A water budget approach for wetland systems. Quaternary International 592:22-36.

Abbott, B.W., Rocha, A.V., Shogren, A., Zarnetske, J.P., Iannucci, F., Bowden, W.B., Bratsman, S.P., Patch, L., Watts, R., Fulweber, R., Frei, R.J., Huebner, A.M., Ludwig, S.M., Carling, G.T., O’Donnell, J.A., 2021. Tundra wildfire triggers sustained lateral nutrient loss in Alaskan Arctic. Global Change Biology 27:1408-1430.

Rackliffe, D.R., Schaalje, G.B., Carling, G.T., Rader, R.B., 2021. Spatial and seasonal variation in ecosystem metabolism are associated with aquatic macrophyte traits, shading, and water temperature in a shallow riparian pond. Freshwater Science 40:39-52.

Barker, J., Nelson, S.T., Carling, G.T., 2021. Moving beyond the direction of climate change to estimating its magnitude: A water budget approach for wetland systems. Quaternary International, in press.

2020

Jones, E.F., Griffin, N.A., Kelso, J.E., Carling, G.T., Baker, M.A., Aanderud, Z.T., 2020. Stream microbial community structured by trace elements, headwater dispersal, and large reservoirs in sub-alpine and urban ecosystems. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:491425.

Checketts, H.N., Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Nelson, S.T., Rey, K.A., Tingey, D.G., *Hale, C.A., *Packer, B.N., *Cordner, C.P., *Dastrup, D.B., Aanderud, Z.T., 2020. Trace element export from the Critical Zone triggered by snowmelt runoff in a montane watershed, Provo River, Utah, USA. Frontiers in Water 2:578677.

Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Rey, K.A., *Hale, C.A., *Goodman, M.M., Nelson, S.T., 2020. Using strontium isotopes to trace dust from a drying Great Salt Lake to adjacent urban areas and mountain snowpack. Environmental Research Letters 15:114035.

Mayo, A.L., Tingey, D.G., Rey, K.A., Winkel, T.D., McBride, J.H., Nelson, S.T., Carling, G.T., Bruthans, J., Petersen, E.C., 2020. Shallow groundwater flow and inverted fresh/saline-water interface in a hypersaline endorheic basin (Great Basin, USA). Hydrogeology Journal 28:2877-2902.

Packer, B.N., Carling, G.T., Veverica, T., *Russell, K.A., Nelson, S.T., Aanderud, Z.T., 2020. Mercury and dissolved organic matter dynamics during snowmelt runoff in a montane watershed, Provo River, Utah, USA. Science of the Total Environment 704:135297.

2019

Goodman, M.M., Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Rey, K.A., *Hale, C.A., Bickmore, B.R., Nelson, S.T., Munroe, J.S., 2019. Atmospheric deposition along the Wasatch Front (Utah, USA) reflects regional playa dust and local urban aerosols. Chemical Geology 530:119317.

Barkdull, N.M., Carling, G.T., Rey, K., Yudiantoro, D.F., 2019. Comparison of mercury contamination in four Indonesian watersheds affected by artisanal and small-scale gold mining of varying scale. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 230:214.

Carling, G.T., Romanowicz, E., Jin, L., Fernandez, D.P., Tingey, D.G., *Goodsell, T.G., 2019. Redox conditions and pH control trace element concentrations in a meandering stream and shallow groundwater of a semiarid mountain watershed, Red Canyon, Wyoming, USA. Environmental Earth Sciences 78:510.

Munroe, J.S., Norris, E.D., Carling, G.T., Beard, B.L., Satkoski, A.M., Liu, L., 2019. Isotope fingerprinting reveals western North American sources of modern dust in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Aeolian Research 38:39-47.

Randall, M.C., Carling, G.T., Dastrup, D.B., Miller, T., Nelson, S.T., Rey, K., Hansen, N., Bickmore, B.R., Aanderud, Z.T., 2019. Sediment potentially controls in-lake phosphorus cycling and harmful cyanobacteria in shallow, eutrophic Utah Lake. PLOS ONE 14:e0212238.

Smith, K. M., McBride, J. H., Nelson, S. T., Keach, R. W., II, Hudson, S., Tingey, D. G., Key, K., Carling, G.T., 2019. An Integrated High-Resolution Geophysical and Geological Visualization of a Lake Bonneville Shoreline Deposit (Utah, USA), Interpretation 7:T265-T282.

2018

Dastrup, D.B., Carling, G.T., Collins, S.A., Nelson, S.T., Fernandez, D.P., Tingey, D.G., Hahnenberger, M., Aanderud, Z.T., 2018. Aeolian dust chemistry and bacterial communities in snow are unique to airshed locations across northern Utah, USA. Atmospheric Environment 193:251-261.

Selck, B.J., Carling, G.T., Kirby, S.M., Hansen, N.C., Bickmore, B.R., Tingey, D.G., Rey, K., Wallace, J., Jordan, J.L., 2018. Investigating anthropogenic and geogenic sources of groundwater contamination in a semi-arid alluvial basin, Goshen Valley, Utah, USA. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 229:186.

2017

Carling, G.T., Rupper, S.B., Fernandez, D.P., Tingey D.G., *Harrison, C.B., 2017. Effect of atmospheric deposition and weathering on trace element concentrations in glacial meltwater at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA. Antarctic, and Alpine Research 49:427-440.

Spackman Jones, A., Aanderud, Z.T., Horsburgh, J.S., Eiriksson, D.E., Dastrup, D., Cox, C., Jones, S.B., Bowling, D.R., Carlisle, J., Carling, G.T., Baker, M.A., 2017. Designing and implementing a network for sensing water quality and hydrology across mountain to urban transitions. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 53:1095-1120.

Goodsell, T.H., Carling, G.T., Aanderud, Z.T., Nelson, S.T., Fernandez, D.P., Tingey, D.G., 2017. Thermal groundwater contributions of arsenic and other trace elements to the middle Provo River, Utah, USA. Environmental Earth Sciences 76:268.

2016

South, J.V., McBride, J.H., Carling, G.T., Mayo, A.L., Tingey, D.G., Rey, K.A., Nelson, S.T., 2016. Imaging the margins of Pleistocene lake deposits with high-resolution seismic reflection in the eastern Basin and Range: Pilot Valley, Utah (USA), p. 526-548, in Lake Bonneville: A scientific update, J. Oviatt, J.F. Schoder, Jr. (eds).

Rihosek, J., Bruthans, J., Masin, D., Filippi, M., Carling, G.T., Schweigstillova, J., 2016. Gravity-induced stress as a factor reducing decay of sandstone monuments in Petra, Jordan. Journal of Cultural Heritage 19: 415-425.

2015

Carling, G.T., Tingey, D.G., Fernandez, D.P., Nelson, S.T., Aanderud, Z.T., Goodsell, T.H., Chapman, T.R., 2015. Evaluating natural and anthropogenic trace element inputs along an alpine to urban gradient in the Provo River, Utah, USA. Applied Geochemistry 63: 398-412.

Carling, G.T., Radebaugh, J., Saito, T., Lorenz, R., Dangerfield, A., Tingey, D.G., Keith, J.D., South, J.V., Lopes, R.M., Diniega, S., 2015. Temperatures, thermal structure, and behavior of eruptions at Kilauea and Erta Ale volcanoes using a consumer digital camcorder. GeoResJ 5: 47-56.

Johnson, W.P., Swanson, N., Black, B., Rudd, A., Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Luft, J., van Leeuwen, J., and Marvin-DiPasquale, M., 2015. Total- and methyl-mercury concentrations and methylation rates across the freshwater to hypersaline continuum of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Science of the Total Environment 511: 489-500.

2014

Naftz, D.L., Carling, G.T., Angeroth, C., Freeman, M., Rowland, R., Pazmiño, E., 2014. Density-stratified flow events in Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA: Implications for mercury and salinity cycling. Aquatic Geochemistry 20: 547-571.

2013

Naftz, D.L., Angeroth, C., Freeman, M., Rowland, R., Carling, G.T., 2013. Monitoring change in Great Salt Lake. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 94: 289-290.

Carling, G.T., Diaz, X., Ponce, M., Perez, L., Nasimba, L., Pazmino, E., Rudd, A., Fernandez, D.P., W.P. Johnson, 2013. Particulate and dissolved trace element concentrations in three southern Ecuador rivers impacted by artisanal gold mining. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 224: 1415.

Carling, G.T., Richards, D., Hoven, H., Miller, T., Fernandez, D.P., Rudd, A., Pazmino, E., W.P. Johnson, 2013. Relationships of surface water, pore water, and sediment chemistry in wetlands adjacent to Great Salt Lake, Utah, and potential impacts on plant community health. Science of the Total Environment 443: 798-811.

2012

Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., W.P. Johnson, 2012. Dust-mediated loading of trace and major elements to Wasatch Mountain snowpack. Science of the Total Environment 432: 65-77.

Carling, G.T., Mayo, A.L., Tingey, D.G., J. Bruthans, 2012. Mechanisms, timing, and rates of arid region mountain front recharge. Journal of Hydrology 428-429: 15-31.

2011

Carling, G.T., Fernandez, D.P., Rudd, A., Pazmino, E., W.P. Johnson, 2011. Trace element diel variations and particulate pulses in perimeter freshwater wetlands of Great Salt Lake, Utah. Chemical Geology 283: 87-98.

Greg Carling

Research Disciplines

Geochemistry

Hydrogeology & Environmental Geology