PUBLICATIONS

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Groom, K.M., G. Bevan, M.D. Al-Zalabieh, S.M. Al-Noaimat, C.D. Allen (2020, Under Review). “Community Engagement in Geologic Assessments of Thamudic Inscritpion and Petroglyphs in the Wadi Rum Protected Area, Jordan” in Global Perspecitives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites, A.B. Fernandes and M. Marshall, eds. Routledge.

Allen, C.D., C.D. Kennedy, K.M. Groom, N.V. Cerveny, R.I. Dorn, and D.S. Whitley (2020, Under Review). “The Rock Art Stability Index: A Non-Invasive Rapid Field Assessment for Condition Evaluation” in Global Perspecitives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites, A.B. Fernandes and M. Marshall, eds. Routledge. pp. forthcoming.

Groom, K.M. and C.D. Allen (2019). Cultural Stone Stability Index Reference Manual. Utah, USA: Stone Heritage Research Alliance, LLC. 112 pages.

Allen, C.D., S. Ester, K.M. Groom, R. Schubert, C. Hagele, M. James, and D. Olof. (2018). “A Geologic Assessment of Historic St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church Using the Cultural Stone Stability Index, Denver, Colorado” in Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities, M.J. Thornbush and C.D. Allen, eds. Elsevier. pp. 277-302.
Groom, K.M. and C.D. Allen (2018). Rock Art Rangers Handbook for the Wadi Rum Protected Area. Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority. Aqaba, Jordan.
Groom, K.M. (2017). English/Arabic Rock Art Stability Index (RASI) Reference Manual. American Center for Oriental Research and the Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through the Engagement of Local Communities Project (SCHEP). Amman, Jordan.
Groom, K.M., R. Sincavage, and F. Chambers (2017). “The Virgin Islands” in Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles, C.D. Allen, ed. Springer. pp. 17-30.
Garmon, W.T., C.D. Allen, and K.M. Groom. (2017). “Lesser Antilles Geomorphologic and Climatic Overview” in Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles, C.D. Allen, ed. Springer. pp. 7-16.

Groom, K.M., N.V. Cerveny, C.D. Allen, R.I. Dorn, J. Theuer (2019). Protecting Stone Heritage in the Painted Desert: Employing the Rock Art Stability Index in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Heritage. 2(3): 2111-2123. Invited.

Mol, L., C. Brassey, L. Clarke, K.M. Groom, R. King (2019). In The Crosshairs: Ancient Rock Art Under Fire. Eos: Earth and Space Science News, pp. Online.

Groom, K.M. (2016). The Applicability of Repeat Photography in Rock Art Conservation: A Case Study of Mixed Methods in the Arkansan Ozarks. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 60(3): 11-28.

Groom, K.M. (2016) Fading Imagery: a Mixed Method Analysis of Rock Art Deterioration in the Arkansan Ozarks. International Newsletter of Rock Art 74: 14-20.

Groom, K.M., C.D. Allen, L. Mol, T.R. Paradise, and K. Hall (2015). Defining Tafoni: Re-Examining Terminological Ambiguity for Cavernous Rock Decay Phenomena. Progress in Physical Geography 39(6): 775-793.

Groom, K.M. and C.D. Allen (2014). Denver’s Forgotten Flood: The Geomorphologic Impacts of the 1933 Castlewood Dam Failure. The Journal of the West 53(2): 54-65.

Allen, C.D. and K.M. Groom (2013). Evaluation of Grenada’s “Carib Stones” via the Rock Art Stability Index. Applied Geography Special Issue: Cultural Geomorphology. 42: 165-175.

Allen, C.D. and K.M. Groom (2013). A Geologic Assessment of Grenada’s Carib Stones. International Newsletter on Rock Art 65: 19-24.

Dorn, R.I., S.J. Gordon, C.D. Allen, N.V. Cerveny, J.C. Dixon, K.M. Groom, K. Hall, E. Harrison, L. Mol, T.R. Paradise, G. Pope, P. Sumner, T.J. Thompson, and A.V. Turkington. (2013). The role of fieldwork in rock decay research: Case studies from the fringe. Geomorphology 200: 59-74. Invited.

Dorn, R. I., J. Dorn, E. Harrison, E. Gutbord, S. Gibson, P. Larson, N. Cerveny, N. Lopat, K.M. Groom, and C.D. Allen (2012). Case Hardening Vignettes from the Western USA: Convergence of Form from a Divergence of Hardening Processes. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 74: 1-12.

Groom, K.M. (2017). Visually Assessing Tourism-Based Landscape Change in Petra. The First Conference on the Archaeology and Tourism of the Ma’an Governorate Official Report. Wadi Mousa, Jordan.
Groom, K.M. (2017). Assessment and Preservation of Rock Art: Analysis and Technologies for Petroglyphic Conservation in Wadi Rum. Man and the Deserts: 2nd International Conference in Wadi Rum Official Report. Amman, Jordan.

Groom, K.M. (2011). Historical Assessment of Rock Decay on Dry Wash Bridge, Petrified Forest National Park. Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit Project Summary Report. National Park Service, with annotated illustrations.

Groom, K.M. and T.J. Thompson (2011). RASI Survey of Sites in Petrified Forest National Park 2011. Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit Project Summary Report, with annotated illustrations.

Groom, K. and R. Poole. (2010). RASI Survey of Sites in Petrified Forest National Park 2010. Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit Project Summary Report. National Park Service, with annotated illustrations.