Publications

Luhmann, A., Covington, M., Peters, A., Alexander, S., Cale, A., Green, J., and Alexander, E., "Thermal Patterns of Karst Springs and Cave Streams in Southeastern Minnesota", submitted, Groundwater.

Covington, M.D., Wicks, C.M., and Saar, M.O., "A Dimensionless Number Describing the Effects of Recharge and Geometry on Discharge from Simple Karstic Aquifers" , Water Resources Research, 45, W11410, doi:10.1029/2009WR008004, 2009.

Covington, M., Dekel, A., Primack, J., Cox, T.J., Somerville, R. and Croton, D., "A semi-analytic model for the evolution of galaxy scaling relations via merging," in preparation.

Covington, M., Kassin, S., Dutton, A., Weiner, B., Cox, T. J., Primack, J., Faber, S., and Koo, D., "Evolution of the Stellar-Mass Tully-Fisher Relation in Disk Galaxy Merger Simulations," 2010, Astrophysical Journal, 710, 1, 279-288.

Covington, M. "The Production and Evolution of Scaling Laws via Galaxy Merging," PhD Dissertation, Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz, 2008.

Covington, M., Cox, T. J., Jonsson, P., Primack, J., & Dekel, A. "Predicting the Properties of the Remnants of Dissipative Galaxy Mergers," 2007, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 384, 1, 94-106.



Posters

Covington, M.D., Wicks, C., and Saar, M., "What's in a spring hydrograph?", Portland GSA Annual Meeting, 2009.

M.D. Covington, S.D.C. Walsh, C.M. Wicks, and M.O. Saar, "Modeling the Effects of Variable Recharge and Conduit Geometry on Flow Through Karstic Aquifers," Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 2008.

"Predicting the Properties of the Remnants of Galaxy Merger Simulations," May 2007, Chamonix 2007 conference: Structure Formation in the Universe.

Presentations

"Thermal signals as a means of characterizing karst aquifers," Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 2009

"Arduous exploration in one of the worlds deepest cave systems," Outdoor Adventure Expo, Minneapolis, November, 2009.

Department Seminar, Louisiana State University, September, 2009

Department Seminar, University of Arkansas, October, 2009

"A Semi-Analytic Model for Predicting the Properties of Merger Remnants," June 2007, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik

"Stellar-Mass Tully-Fisher Relation Evolution in Galaxy Merger Simulations," August 2007, Santa Cruz Galaxy Formation Workshop

"Predicting Sizes of Merger Remnants," August 2006, Santa Cruz Galaxy Formation Workshop

Matt Covington
NSF Earth Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow

Dept of Geology
and Geophysics
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities
310 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-3928
covin039 at umn.edu
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