* co-first author   † advised undergraduate student

Peer-reviewed and published

1. Robinson, M.J., Scheingross, J.S., McCoy, S.W., and Struble, W.T., 2026, Equilibrium ridge-crest morphology records external forcing: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 131, e2025JF008670. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JF008670

2. Robinson, M.J., and Scheingross, J.S., 2024, The length and spacing of river tributaries: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 121, no. 15, e2313899121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313899121

3. Jones, C.J.R., Robinson, M.J., and Macy, J.P., 2022, Characterization of the Sevier/Toroweap Fault Zone in Kane County, Utah, using controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT) surveys: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022–5071, 14 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225071

4. Jones, C.J.R., and Robinson, M.J., 2021, Groundwater and surface-water data from the C-aquifer monitoring program, northeastern Arizona, 2012–2019: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1051, 34 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211051

In review and in preparation

1. Albarran Ayala, A.J.†*, Robinson, M.J.*, Takase, M., Inoue, T., and Scheingross, J.S., Cover in bedrock step-pool channels counter-intuitively increases with increasing water discharge. In review, JGR: Earth Surface.

2. Robinson, M.J., Scheingross, J.S., McCoy, S.W., Struble, W.T., Lague, D., Bonnet, S., Turowski, J., and Sweeney, K.E., Ridgelines record erosion rate up to the debris-flow threshold slope. In preparation; manuscript available on request.

Published datasets

• Robinson, M.J., and Macy, J.P., 2022, Controlled source audio-frequency magnetotellurics (CSAMT) data from the Sevier fault near Red Knoll, Kane County, Utah (ver. 2.0, July 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF9PFR

Selected invited talks

• AGU Earth and Planetary Surface Processes (EPSP) Virtual Seminar Series, October 2026

• Idaho State University; Arizona Geological Survey; California Geological Survey, 2026

• California Institute of Technology (Geoclub Seminar); UC Berkeley (EPS Lunchtime Seminar); University of Houston (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar); AGU Fall Meeting, 2025

Awards and funding

• William J. "Hoot" Newman Hydro Endowed Scholarship, 2026

• AGU EPSP Early Career Spotlight, 2025

• National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) Student Seed Project, 2025

• Outstanding Student Researcher, UNR Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences

• Best Talk, Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists, Great Basin Chapter Student Night

• Contributor, NSF EAR-2344250, "Controls on ridgeline profile morphology" (PI: J. Scheingross), 2024

• Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant, 2024

• Community Engagement Award, UNR Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, 2023

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention