Publications:
Fisher, A. T., R.N. Harris, accepted 2009, Using seafloor heat flow as a tracer to map subseafloor fluid flow in the ocean crust, Geofluids.
Davis, M. G., R.N. Harris, D. S. Chapman, accepted 2009, Repeat temperature measurements in boreholes from northwestern Utah link ground and air temperature changes at the decadal time scale, J. Geophys. Res.
Chapman, D.S., R.N. Harris, and M. Bartlett, 2009, Surface warming inferred from borehole temperatures: results from Utah and comparisons with Northern Hemisphere, in Climate Warming in Western North America: Evidence and Environmental Effects, F. Wagner (ed.), pp. 19-34, Univ. of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hutnak, M., A. T. Fisher, R. Harris, C. Stein, K. Wang, G. Spinelli, M. Schindler, H. Villinger, and E. Silver, (2008), Surprisingly large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust, Nature Geoscience, 1, 611-614, doi:10.1038/ngeo264.
Selker, J.S. J. Gabrielli, C. Gregory, C. Saydec, N. Tufillaro, R. Haggerty, A. Kennedy, R. Harris, E. Hester, S. Tyler, M. Hausner, F. Day-Lewis, J. Lane, R. Henderson, R. Tanner, S. Senften, C. Soto, A. Sawyer, A. Marzadri, P. Gerla, B. Gungle, (2008), Taking the temperature of ecological systems with fiber optics, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(20).
Harris, R. N., A. Fisher, F. Martinez, C. Ruppel, 2008, The future of marine heat flow: defining scientific goals and experimental needs for the 21st century, Workshop Report, Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Sept. 6-7, 2007.
Harris, R. N., A. Fisher, C. Ruppel, F. Martinez, 2008, Modern perspectives on measuring and interpreting seafloor heat flux, EOS, 89, 24-25.
Harris, R. N., and S. M. Higgins, 2008, A permeability estimate in 56 Ma crust at ODP Hole 642E, Vøring Plateau Norwegian Sea, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 267, 378-385.
Harris, R. N., 2007, Variations in air and ground temperature and the POM-SAT model: results from the Northern Hemisphere, Climate of the Past, 611-621.
Harris, R. N., and D. S. Chapman, 2007, Stop-go temperature logging for precision applications, Geophysics, 72, 119-123.
Harris, R. N., and M. K. McNutt, 2007, Heat flow on hot spot swells: Evidence for fluid flow, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B03407, doi:10.1029/2006JB004299.
Hutnak, M., A. T. Fisher, C.A. Stein, R. Harris, K. Wang, E. Silver, G. Spinelli, M. Pfender, H. Villinger, R. MacKnight, P. Costa Pisani, H. DeShon, and C. Diamente, The thermal state of 18-24 Ma upper lithosphere subducting below the Nicoya Peninsula, northern Costa Rica margin, in The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults, edited by T. Dixon, C. Moore, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, 42-85.
Stein, R., T. Kanamatsu, C. Alvarez-Zarikian, S.M. Higgins, J.E.T. Channell, E. Aboudeshish, M. Ohno, G.D. Acton, K. Akimoto, I. Bailey, K.R. Bjørklund, H. Evans, S.H.H. Nielsen, N. Fang, P. Ferretti, J. Gruetzner, Y.J.B. Guyodo, K. Hagino, R. Harris K. Hatakeda, J. Hefter, S.A. Judge, D.K. Kulhanek, F. Nanayama, H. Rashid, F.J. Sierro Sanchez, A. Voelker, and Q. Zhai, 2006, North Atlantic Paleoceanography: The Last Five Million Years, EOS, 87, 91-93.
R. Harris, and IODP Exp. 306 Scientists, 2006, Borehole Observatory Installations on IODP Expedition 306 Reconstruct Bottom-Water Temperature Changes in the Norwegian Sea, Scientific Drilling, 2, 28-31.
Bartlett, M. G., D. S. Chapman, and R. N. Harris, 2006, A decade of ground-air temperature tracking at Emigrant Pass Observatory, Utah, J. Climate, 19, 3722-3731.
Harris, R. N., and D. S. Chapman, 2005, Borehole temperatures and tree-rings: Seasonality and estimates of extratropical Northern Hemispheric warming, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2005JF000303.
Beltrami, H., G. Ferguson,and R. N. Harris, 2005, Long-term tracking of climate change by underground temperatures, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023714.
Bartlett M. G., D. S. Chapman, and R. N. Harris, 2005, Snow effect on North American ground temperatures, 1950–2002, J. Geophys. Res. 110, doi:10.1029/2005JF000293.
Harris, R. N., and D. S. Chapman, 2005, Borehole Temperatures and Climate Change: A Global Perspective, J. Ehleringer and T. Cerling (eds.), A History of CO2 and its effects on plants, animals, and ecosystems, Springer-Verlag, 487-508.
Harris, R. N., and D. S. Chapman, 2004, Deep-seated oceanic heat flow, heat deficits, and hydrothermal circulation, E.E. Davis, H. Elderfield (eds). in Hydrogeology of the Oceanic Lithosphere, Cambridge Univ. Press, 311-336.
Bartlett M. G., D. S. Chapman, and R. N. Harris, 2004, Snow and the ground temperature record of climate change, J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2004JF000224.
Harris R. N., A. T. Fisher, and D. S. Chapman, 2004, Fluid flow through seamounts and implications for global mass fluxes, Geology, 725-728. doi:110.1130/G20387.1.
Harris, R. N., D. S. Chapman, K. P. Furlong, and D. M. Saffer, 2004, Thermal processes in the context of EarthScope, EOS, 85, 292.
Fulton, P. M., D. M. Saffer, R. N. Harris, and B. A. Bekins, 2004, Re-evaluation of heat flow data near Parkfield, CA: Evidence for a weak San Andreas Fault, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L15S15, doi:10.1029/2003GL019378.
Chapman, D. S., M. G. Bartlett and R. N. Harris, 2004, Comment on “Ground vs. surface air temperature trends: Implications for borehole surface temperature reconstructions” by Mann and Schmidt, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2003GL019054.
Fisher, A. T., C. A. Stein, R. N. Harris, K. Wang, E. A. Silver, M. Pfender, M. Hutnak, A. Cherkaoui, R. Bodzin, and H. Villinger, 2003, Abrupt thermal transition reveals hydrothermal boundary and role of seamounts within the Cocos Plate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, doi:10.1029/2002GL016766.
Von Huene, R., G. Alvarado, K. Brown, R. Harris, et al., 2003, Discussion of ODP Leg 205 and Drilling the Middle America Seismic Zone, Eos, 84, p. 91-92.
Harris, R. N., and K. Wang, 2002, Thermal models of the middle America trench at the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2002GL015406.
Fisher, A. T., H. Villinger, M. Pfender, M. Müller, I. Grevemeyer, N. Kaul, R. N. Harris, R. P. Von Herzen, 2002, Comment on “Deep-penetration heat flow probes raise questions about interpretations from shorter probes”, EOS, 83 (18), pp.196-197, 199, 30 Apr 2002
Harris, R. N., and D. S. Chapman, 2002, Response to Comments by T.J. Osborn and K.R. Briffa on "Mid-Latitude (30°-60° N) climatic warming inferred by combining borehole temperatures with surface air temperatures", Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2001GL013769.
Roy, S., R. N. Harris, R. U. M. Rao, and D. S. Chapman, 2002, Climate change in India inferred from geothermal observations, J. Geophys. Res., 107,10,1029-10,1043
Beltrami, H., and R. N. Harris, (eds.) 2001, Inference of climate change from geothermal data, Global and Planet. Change, 29, 149-348.
Golovanova, I. V., R. N. Harris, G. V. Selezniova, and P. Stulc, 2001, Evidence of climatic Warming in the southern Urals region derived from borehole temperatures and meteorological data, accepted, Global and Planet. Change, 29, 167-188.
Becker, K., M. Malone and Shipboard Scientific Party, 2001, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, scientific results, CORK Hole 395A; covering Leg 174B of the cruises of the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution; New York, New York, to Las Palmas, Canary Islands; sites 395 and 1074, 19 July-9 August 1997, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, vol.174B.
Harris, R. N., and D. S. Chapman, 2001, Mid-Latitude (30° - 60° N) climatic warming inferred by combining borehole temperatures with surface air temperatures, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 747-750.
Harris, R. N., R. P. Von Herzen, M. K. McNutt, G. Garven, and K. Jordahl, 2000, Submarine hydrogeology of the Hawaiian archipelagic apron, Part 1, Heat flow patterns north of Oahu and Maro Reef, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 21,353-21,369.
Harris, R. N., G. Garven, J. Georgen, M. K. McNutt, and R. P. Von Herzen, 2000, Submarine hydrogeology of the Hawaiian archipelagic apron, Part 2, Numerical simulations of coupled heat transport and fluid flow, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 21,371-21,385.
Harris, R. N., and W. D. Gosnold, 1999, Comparisons of borehole temperature-depth profiles and surface air temperatures in the northern plains of the U.S., Geophys. J. Int., 138, 541-548.
Majorowicz, J. A., J. Safanda, R. N. Harris, and W. Skinner, 1999, Large ground surface temperature changes of the last three centuries inferred from borehole temperatures in the Southern Canadian Prairies, Saskatchewan, Global and Planet. Change, 20, 227-241.
Harris, R. N., 1998, Documenting temperature variations in oceanic bottom water with CORKs, in K. Becker, and E. E. Davis, eds., Advanced CORKS for the 21st century, Report of a workshop sponsored by JOI/USSP, 15-16 December, 1997, p. 48-50 (extended abstract).
Becker, K, M. Malone, and Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. CORK Hole 395A, Proceedings ODP, Init. Repts., v.174B, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 46 pp.
Harris, R. N., and D.S. Chapman, 1998, Geothermics and climate change: Part 1, Analysis of borehole temperatures with emphasis on resolving power, J. Geophys. Res, 103, 7363-7370.
Harris, R. N., and D.S. Chapman, 1998, Geothermics and climate change: Part 2, Joint analysis of borehole temperatures and meteorological data, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 7371-7383.
Harris, R. N., and D.S. Chapman, 1997, Borehole temperatures provide baseline for 20th Century global warming estimates, Science, 275, 1618-1621.
Harris, R. N., 1996, Climate change inferred from comparisons of borehole temperature data and meteorological data in Utah, Doctoral thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 136 p.
Harris, R. N., and Chapman, D. S., 1995, Inferring surface ground temperature histories from borehole temperature measurements in the Colorado Plateau of Eastern Utah, J. Geophys. Res, 100, 6367-6381.
Harris, R. N., and Chapman, D. S., 1994, A comparison of mechanical thickness estimates from trough and seamount loading in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska, J. Geophys. Res, 99, 9297-9317.
Chapman, D. S., and Harris, R. N., 1993, Repeat temperature measurements in borehole GC-1, northwestern Utah: Towards isolating a climate-change signal in borehole temperature profiles, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1891-1894.
Chapman, D. S., Chisolm, T. J., and Harris, R. N., 1992, Combining borehole temperature and meteorological data to constrain past climate change, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. (Global and Planet. Change Sect.), 98, 269-281.
Harris, R. N., 1992, Lithospheric Flexure along the southern portion of the Kodiak-Bowie seamount chain, southeastern Gulf of Alaska, MS. thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 58 p.
Davis, E. E., Chapman, D. S., Mottl, M. J., Bentkowski, W. J., Dadey, K., Forster, C., Harris, R., Nagihara, S., Rohr, K., Wheat, G., and Whiticar, M., 1991, FlankFlux: An experiment to study the nature of hydrothermal circulation on young oceanic crust, Can. Jour. of Earth Sci., 29, 925-952.
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