Recent Publications
This list features recent Landslide Program publications, searchable by Landslide Program authors. Open File Reports and Non-USGS
publications are listed for recent years only, but the list includes all Landslide USGS Fact Sheets.
For a more comprehensive, searchable list of publications, please see the USGS Main Publication search page: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov
Open-File Reports
- (2010) Cannon, Susan H., Boldt, Eric M., Kean, Jason W., Laber, Jayme, Staley, Dennis M., 2010, Relations Between Rainfall and Postfire Debris-Flow and Flood Magnitudes for Emergency-Response Planning, San Gabriel Mountains, Southern U.S.: , U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1039, 31 p.
- (2009) Cannon,S. H. , Gartner, J. E., Rupert, M. G. , Michael, J. A., Staley, D. R. and Worstell, B. B., 2009, Emergency asssessment of postfire debris-flow hazards for the 2009 Station Fire, San Gabriel Mountains, Southern California: , U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1227, 24 p.
- (2012) Kean, Jason W., Staley, Dennis M., Leeper, Robert J., Schmidt, Kevin M., and Gartner, Joseph E., 2012, A low-cost method to measure the timing of postfire flash floods and debris flows relative to rainfall:, Water Resource Research v. 48, W05516, doi:10.1029/2011WR011460, 2012
- (2012) McCoy, S.W., Kean, J.W., Coe, J.A., Tucker, G.E., Staley, D.M., Wasklewicz, T.A., 2012, Sediment entrainment by debris flows: In situ measurements from the headwaters of a steep catchment: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v. 117, F03016, doi:10.1029/2011JF002278.
- (2012) Staley, D.M., and Wasklewicz, T.A., 2012, The use of airborne laser swath mapping on fans and cones: an example from the Colorado Front Range, in Bollschweiler. M., Stoffel M., Rudolf-Miklau, F. (eds) Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones: Methods and their Application for Hazard and Risk Assessment, Advances in Global Change Research 47. Springer: Berlin.pp 147 – 164. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4336-6
- (2012) Staley, D.M., Kean, J.W., and Cannon, S.H., 2012, Objectively Defined Thresholds for the Prediction of Post-Fire Debris Flows in Southern California: Landslides, DOI 10.1007/s10346-012-0341-9
- (2011) Staley, D.M., Wasklewicz, T.A., Coe, J.A., Kean, J.W., McCoy, S.W., and Tucker, G.E., 2011, Observations of debris flows at Chalk Cliffs, Colorado, USA: Part 2, Changes in surface morphometry from terrestrial laser scanning in the summer of 2009:, in Genevois, R., Hamilton, D.L., and Prestininzi, A., eds., Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation/Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment, Padua, Italy, June 7-11, 2011, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment--Book: Casa Editrice Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, p. 759-768. DOI: 10.4408/IJEGE.2011-03.B-083
- (2011) McCoy, S. W. , Coe, J. A. , Kean, J. W. , Tucker, G. E. , Staley, D. M. , and Wasklewicz, T. A., 2011, Observations of debris flows at Chalk Cliffs, Colorado, U.S.A.: Part 1, in situ measurements of flow dynamics, tracer particle movement and video imagery from the summer of 2009: , in Genevois, R., Hamilton, D.L., and Prestininzi, A., eds., Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation, Mechanics, Prediction and Assessment, Padua, Italy, June 14-17, 2011, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment and Casa Editrice Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, p. 715-724. DOI: 10.4408/IJEGE.2011-03.B-078
- (2011) Kean, J.W. and D.M. Staley, 2011, Direct measurements of the hydrologic conditions leading up to and during post-fire debris flow in southern California, U.S.A.:, in R. Genevois, D. L. Hamilton, A. Prestininzi, eds., Debris-flow Hazards Mitigation, Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment, Casa Editrice Universita La Sapienza, Rome, p. 685-694, doi:10.4408/IJEGE.2011-03.B-075.
- (2011) Kean, J. W., Staley, D.M., and Cannon, S. H., 2011, In situ measurements of post-fire debris flows in southern California:, Comparisons of the timing and magnitude of 24 debris-flow events with rainfall and soil moisture conditions: Journal of Geophysical Research, American Geophysical Union, v. 116, 21 P. doi:10.1029/2011JF002005
- (2011) Cannon, S.H., Boldt, E.M., Laber, J.L., Kean, J.W., and Staley, D.M., 2011, Rainfall intensity-duration thresholds for postfire debris-flow emergency-response planning:, Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9747-2.
- (2011) Jorgensen, D.P., Hanshaw, M.N.,Schmidt, K.M., Laber, D.M., Staley, D.M., Kean, J.W. and Restrepo, P.J., 2011, Value of a dual-polarized gap-filling radar in support of southern California post-fire debris-flow warnings: Journal of Hydrometeorology, p. 1581-1595, doi:10:.1175/JHM-D-11-05.1.
- (2010) McCoy, S.W., Kean, J.W., Coe, J.A., Staley, D.M., Wasklewicz, T.A., Tucker, G.E., 2010, Evolution of a natural debris flow: In situ measurements of flow dynamics, video imagery, and terrestrial laser scanning:, Geology. v. 38, no. 8, p. 735-738.
- (2010) Coe, J.A., Kean, J., McCoy, S.W., Staley, D., and Wasklewicz, T., 2010, Chalk Creek Valley: Colorado's Natural Debris Flow Laboratory: , in, Morgan, L.A., and Quane, S., eds., Through the Generations: Geologic and Anthropogenic Field Excursions in the Rocky Mountains from Modern to Ancient: Geological Society of America Field Guide 18, p. 95-117.
- (2008) Staley, D.M., Schmidt, K.M., Hanshaw, M.N., Kean, J.W., Stock, J.D., 2008, Assessing the influence of multiple rainfall pulses on soil moisture dynamics during long duration frontal storms [abs.]:, EOS Trans. AGU, 2008 Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H51D-0849
