Dr. Boustead at the Herbert Hover presidential library researching the long winter.
Dr. Boustead has authored or co-authored over a dozen academic papers, book chapters, and assessments.
These are not for the faint of heart! Being academic publications, many are chock full of jargon,
abbreviations, and math equations. They also have been peer reviewed and approved by editors for
publication, which is how the science community validates research. Some of these are behind paywalls,
which Dr. Boustead cannot control or ethically sidestep. If you are interested in one of those
publications, you can contact her for more information.
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Publications
The publications are listed in academic format, following the American Meteorological Society’s style
guide.
Mayes Boustead, B., M.D. Shulski, and S.D. Hilberg, 2020: The Long Winter of 1880/81. Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc., 101, E797-E813. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0014.1
Mayes Boustead, B., M.D. Shulski, and S.D. Hilberg, 2020: The Long Winter: Verifying Laura Ingalls
Wilder’s Account of 1880/1881. Bull. Amer, Meteor. Soc., 101, 583-589. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0014.A
(Note: This article is a summary of the longer and more technical article above.)
USGCRP, 2018: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate
Assessment, Volume II: Report-in-Brief. Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel,
K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.). U.S. Global Change Research Program,
Washington, DC, USA, 186 pp. DOI: 10.7930/NCA4.2018.RiB. (Note: Dr. Boustead was a contributing author
for Ch. 21. Midwest and Ch. 22. Northern Great Plains.) Available online at:
//https://nca2018.globalchange.gov
Boustead, B.E. M., 2016: Extreme Winter: Weaving Weather and Climate into a Narrative Through Laura
Ingalls Wilder. Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities, S.L. Steinberg and W.A. Sprigg, Eds.,
Springer, 271-292.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-30626-1
Stamm, J.F., K. Grode, B. Doan, K. Stamm, D. Todey, B. Mayes Boustead, S. Rossi, P.A. Norton, and
J.M. Carter, 2016: Modern (1992–2011) and projected (2012–99) peak snowpack and May–July runoff for
the Fort Peck Lake and Lake Sakakawea watersheds in the Upper Missouri River Basin. U.S. Geological
Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2015–5135, 44 pp.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2015/5135/sir20155135.pdf
Mayes Boustead, B.E., S.D. Hilberg, M.D. Shulski, and K.G. Hubbard, 2015: The Accumulated Winter
Season Severity Index (AWSSI). J. Appled Meteor. Climatology, 54, 1693-1712. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0217.1
Boustead, B.E., 2014: The Hard Winter of 1880-1881: Climatological context and communication via a
Laura Ingalls Wilder Narrative. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 196 pp.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/natresdiss/98/
Grode, K.R., W.P. Doan, K.D. Stamm, B. Mayes Boustead, S. Rossi, T. Perkins, and D.P. Todey, 2013:
Climate change evaluation of the Missouri River Basin mountain snowpack accumulation and runoff. U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers report, 23 pp.
https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p266001coll1/id/6719/
Boustead, J.M., B.E. Mayes, W. Gargan, J.L. Leighton, G. Phillips, and P.N. Schumacher, 2013:
Discriminating environmental conditions for significant warm sector and boundary tornadoes in parts
of the Great Plains. Wea. Forecasting, 28, 1498-1523. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-12-00102.1
Prater, B.E., 2002: Representing the extratropical transition of Hurricane Irene (1999) in MM5
simulations. M.S. Thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 153 pp.
Prater, B.E., and J.L. Evans, 2001: Sensitivity of modeled tropical cyclone track and structure of
Hurricane Irene (1999) to the convective parameterization scheme. Meteor. Atmos. Physics, 80, 103-115.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s007030200018
