Publications

Sattar A, Cook KL, Rai SK, Berthier E, Allen S, et al, 2025, The Sikkim flood of October 2023: drivers, causes and impacts of a multi-hazard cascade, Science, 387, p.eads2659.

Kashyap A, Cook KL and Behera MD, 2025, Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas. Earth Surface Dynamics, 13(1), pp.147-166.

Svennevig K, Hicks SP, Forbrige, T, Lecocq T, Widmer-Schnidrig R, Mangeney A, Hibert C, Korsgaard NJ, Lucas A, Satriano C, Anthony RE, Mordet A, Schippkus S, Rysgaard S, Boone W, Gibbons S, Cook KL, et al., 2024. A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days. Science, 385(6714), pp.1196-1205.

Kashyap A, Cook KL and Behera MD, 2024. Geomorphic evolution of Sutlej valley catchment in Western Himalayas: Imprint of surface processes in modulating fluvial erosion. Geomorphology, 465, p.109411.

Repasch M, Scheingross JS, Cook KL, Sachse D, Dosch S, Orfeo O and Hovius N, 2023. Lithospheric flexure controls on geomorphology, hydrology, and river chemistry in the Andean foreland basin. AGU Advances, 4(5), p.e2023AV000924.

Lee Y-H, Cook KL, Tan X, Chu M-F, Chiu H-Y, Li Q, Shellnutt JG, Xu X, 2023, U-Pb ages of Gongga Shan Granite, western Sichuan and its implication to the tectonic evolutions of eastern Tibet, Front. Earth Sci., 11, doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1176937.

Walter F, Hodel E, Mannerfelt E, Cook KL, Dietze M, Estermann L, Wenner, M, Farinotti D, Fengler M, Hammerschmidt L, Hänsli F, Hirschberg J, McArdell B, and Molnar P, 2022, Brief communication: An autonomous UAV for catchment-wide monitoring of a debris flow torrent, NHESS, 22(12), p. 4011-4018. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4011-2022

Bufe A, Cook, KL, Galy A, Wittmann H, Hovius N, 2022, The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways, Earth Surface Dynamics, 10(3), p. 513-530.

Dietze M, Bell R, Ozturk U, Cook KL, Andermann C, Beer AR, Damm B, Lucia A, Fauer FS, Nissen KM, Sieg T, Thieken AH, 2022, More than heavy rain turning into fast-flowing water – a landscape perspective on the 2021 Eifel floods, NHESS, 22(6), p. 1845-1856.

Illien L, Sens‐Schönfelder C, Andermann C, Marc O, Cook KL, Adhikari LB, Hovius N, 2022, Seismic velocity recovery in the subsurface: transient damage and groundwater drainage following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, p.e2021JB023402.

Cook KL and Dietze M, 2022, Seismic advances in process geomorphology, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences vol. 50.

Cook KL, Rekapalli R, Dietze M, Pilz M, Cesca S, Rao NP, Srinagesh D, Paul H, Metz M, Mandal P, Suresh G, Cotton F, Tiwari VM, Hovius N, 2021, Detection and Potential Early Warning of Catastrophic Flow Events With Regional Seismic Networks, Science, 374(6563), p. 87-92.

Rao NP, Rekapalli R, Srinagesh D, Tiwari VM, Hovius N, Cook KL, Dietze M, Seismological rockslide warnings in the Himalaya, Science, 372(6539), p.247-247.

Illien L, Andermann C, Sens‐Schönfelder C, Cook KL, Baidya KP, Adhikari LB, Hovius N, 2021, Subsurface moisture regulates Himalayan groundwater storage and discharge. AGU Advances, 2(2), p.e2021AV000398.

Dini B, Bennett GL, Franco AM, Whitworth MRZ, Senn A, Cook KL, Reynolds J, 2021, Development of smart boulders to monitor mass movements via the Internet of Things: A pilot study in Nepal, in press, Earth Surface Dynamics, 9(2), p. 295-315.

Cook KL, Turowski JM, Hovius N, 2020, Width control on event scale deposition and evacuation of sediment in bedrock-confined channels, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45, p. 3702-3713, doi: 10.1002/esp.4993.

Dietze, M, Cook KL, Illien L, Rach O, Puffpaff S, Stodian I, Hovius, N, 2020, Cliff coast collapses driven by nested biological, astronomical and meteorological activity cycles, JGR Earth Surface, 7(8), e2019JF005487, doi: 10.1029/2019JF005487.

Zhang H, Kirby E, Li H, Cook K, Zhang P, 2020, Ten years after the Wenchuan earthquake: New insights into the geodynamics of the eastern Tibet. Tectonics, 39, e2020TC006215, doi:10.1029/2020TC006215.

Menges J, Hovius N, Andermann C, Dietze M, Swoboda C, Cook KL, Adhikari BR, Vieth‐Hillebrand A, Bonnet S, Reimann T, Koutsodendris A, 2019, Late Holocene landscape collapse of a trans‐Himalayan dryland: Human impact and aridification. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(23), pp.13814-13824.

Cook, KL and Dietze M, 2019, Short Communication: A simple workflow for robust low-cost UAV-derived change detection without ground control points, Earth Surface Dynamics, 7, 1009–1017, doi:10.5194/esurf-7-1009-2019.

Cook KL, Andermann C, Gimbert F, Adhikari BR, Hovius N, 2018, Glacial lake outburst floods as drivers of fluvial erosion in the Himalaya, Science, 362(6410), p. 53-57.

Zekkos D, Greenwood W, Lynch J, Manousakis J, Athanasopoulos-Zekkos A, Clark M, Cook KL, Saroglou C, 2018, Lessons Learned from The Application of UAV-Enabled Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry in Geotechnical Engineering, ISSMGE Int. J. Geoengineering Case Histories, v. 4(4), p. 254-274.

Cook KL, Hovius N, Wittmann H, Heimsath AM, Lee Y-H, 2018, Causes of rapid uplift and exceptional topography of Gongga Shan on the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, p. 328-337.

Dietze M, Turowski JM, Cook KL, Hovius N, 2017, Spatiotemporal patterns, triggers and anatomies of seismically detected rockfalls. Earth Surface Dynamics, 5, p. 757-779.

Tan XB, Lee YH, Xu XW, Cook KL, 2017, Cenozoic exhumation of the Danba antiform, eastern Tibet: Evidence from low-temperature thermochronology. Lithosphere, 9(3), p. L613-1.

Cook KL, 2017, An evaluation of the effectiveness of low-cost UAVs and structure from motion for geomorphic change detection, Geomorphology, 278, p. 195-208.

Turowski JM, Cook KL, 2017, Field techniques for measuring bedrock erosion and denudation, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42(1), doi: 10.1002/esp.4007.

Searle MP, Roberts NMW, Chung S-L, Lee Y-H, Cook KL, Elliott JR, Weller OM, St-Onge MR, Xu X, Tan X, Li K, 2016, Age and Anatomy of the Gongga Shan batholith, Eastern Tibet and its relationship to the active Xianshui-he fault, Geosphere, 12(3), p. 948-970.

Cook KL, Turowski JM, Hovius N, 2014, River gorge eradication by downstream sweep erosion, Nature Geoscience, 7, 682–686, doi:10.1038/ngeo2224.

Roth, DL, Finnegan, NJ, Brodsky, EE, Cook, KL, Wang, H-W, Stark, CP, 2014, Migration of a fluvial sediment pulse detected by hysteresis in seismic waves, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 44, p. 144-153, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.019.

Tan X, Lee Y-H, Chen W-Y, Cook KL, Xu X, 2014, Exhumation History and Faulting Activity of the Southern Segment of the Longmen Shan, eastern Tibet, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 81, p. 91-104.

Cook KL, Burchfiel BC, Royden LH, Lee YH, Tan X, 2013, Constraints on Cenozoic tectonics in the southwestern Longmen Shan from low-temperature thermochronology, Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L263.1.

Cook KL, Turowski JM, Hovius N, 2013, A demonstration of the importance of bedload transport for fluvial bedrock erosion and knickpoint propagation, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 38: 683–695. doi: 10.1002/esp.3313.

Ouimet WB and Cook KL, 2010, Building the central Andes through axial lower crustal flow, Tectonics, 29, TC3010, doi:10.1029/2009TC002460.

Cook KL, Whipple KX, Hanks TC, Heimsath AM, 2009, Rapid incision of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon – insights from channel profiles, local incision rates, and modeling of lithologic controls, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 34(7), doi:10.1002/esp.1790.

Cook KL and Royden LH, 2008, The role of crustal strength variations in shaping orogenic plateaus, with application to Tibet, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B08407, doi:10.1029/2007JB005457.

Rodgers KA, Browne PRL, Buddle TF, Cook KL, Greatrex RA, Hampton WA, Herdianita NR, Holland GR, Lynne BY, Martin R, Newton Z, Pastars D, Sannazarro KL, Teece CIA, 2004, Silica phases in sinters and residues from geothermal fields of New Zealand, Earth-Science Reviews, 66, p. 1-61.

Rodgers KA, Cook KL, Browne PRL, Campbell KA, 2002, The mineralogy, texture and significance of silica derived from alteration by steam condensate in three New Zealand geothermal fields, Clay Minerals 37, p. 299-322.