Recent Publications

This list features recent Landslide Program publications, searchable by Landslide Program authors. Open File Reports and and Non-USGS publications are listed for the last 5 years only.
For a more comprehensive, searchable list of publications, please see theLandslide Bibliographic Search. (please note, this page is under construction)

• Open-File Reports
• Fact Sheets
• Non-USGS Publications
• USGS Circulars

• (2009) Cannon,S. H. , Gartner, J. E., Rupert, M. G. , Michael, J. A., Staley, D. R. and Worstell, B. B., 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.
• (2007) Jones, L., Bernknopf, R. Cannon, S. , Cox, D. A., Gaydos, L., Keeley, J. , Kohler, M., Lee, H., Ponti, D., Ross, S. , Schwarzbach, S., Shulters, M. A., Ward, W. andWein, A., Increasing Resiliency to Natural Hazards - A strategic plan for the Multi-Haza, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 1007-1255, 27 p.
• (2007) Coe, J.A. (editor), Bigio, E. R., Blair, R.W., Jr., Burke, M., Cannon, S.H., deWolfe, V.G., Ey, J., Gartner, J.E., Gillam, M.L., Knowlton, N.D., Santi, P.M., and Schulz, W.H., Mass wasting following the 2002 Missionary Ridge fire near Durango, Colorado, a, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2007-1289, 54 p.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Slide and Grass Valley Fires, San Bernardino County, sou, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1416, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Santiago Fire, Orange County, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1419, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Rice Fire, San Diego County, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1417, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Ranch Fire, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, southern C, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1418, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Poomacha Fire, San Diego County, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1411, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Canyon Fire, Los Angeles County, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1415, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Buckweed Fire, Los Angeles County, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1414, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Michael, J.A., Bauer, M.A., Stitt, S.C., Knifong, D.L., McNamara, B.J., and Roque, Y.M., 2007, Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Ammo Fire, San Diego County, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1413, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., and Michael, J.A., Methods for the emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the fires of 2007, southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2007–1384, 10 p.
• (2007) Cannon, S. H. , Gartner, J. E., Michael, J. A. , Bauer, M. A. , Stitt, S. C. , Knifong, D. L. , McNamara, B. J. , and Roque, Y. M., Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Witch Fire, San Diego County, Southern Califor, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1420, 1 sheet.
• (2007) Cannon, S. H. , Gartner, J. E., Michael, J. A. , Bauer, M. A. , Stitt, S. C. , Knifong, D. L. , McNamara B. J. , and Roque, Y. M., Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the 2007 Harris Fire, San Diego County, Southern Californ, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1421, 1 sheet.
• (2005) Gartner, J. E. , Cannon, S. H. , Bigio, E. R. , Davis, N. K. , Parrett, C. Pierce, K.L. , Rupert, M. G. , Thurston, B. L. , Trebish, M. J. , Garcia, S. P., and Rea, A. H., Compilation of data relating to the erosive response of 606 recently burned basin, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1218.
• (2004) Gartner, J. E. , Bigio, E. R. and Cannon, S. H. , Compilation of post wildfire runoff-event data from the Western United States, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1085.
• (2004) Cannon, S. H. , Gartner, J. E. , Rupert, M. G. , and Michael, J. A., Emergency asessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the Cedar and Paradise Fires of 2003, Southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1011, 1 sheet. Prepared in Cooperation with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• (2004) Cannon, S. H. , Gartner, J. E. , Rupert, M. G. , and Michael, J. A., Emergency assessment of debris-flow hazards from basins burned by the Padua Fire of 2003, Southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1072, 14 p.

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• (2005) Southern California - Wildfires and Debris Flows, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005-3106.

• (2009) Cannon, S. H., Gartner, J. E., Rupert, M. G., Michael, J. A., Rea, A. H. , and Parrett, C., Predicting the probability and volume of postwildfire debris flows in the intermountain western United States
• (2008) Paper (PDF) (734 KB), Coe, J. A., Cannon, S.H., and Santi, P.M., 2008, Introduction to the special issue on debris flows initiated by runoff, erosion, and sediment entrainment in western North America: Geomorphology, v. 96, 247-249p.
• (2008) Moody, J.A., Martin, D.A., Cannon, S.H.,Post-wildfire erosion response in two geologic terrains in the western USA, Geomorphology, v. 95, p. 103-118.
• (2008) Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Wilson, R.C., and Laber, J.L., Storm rainfall conditions for floods and debris flows from recently burned areas in southwestern Colorado and southern California, Geomorphology, v. 96, pp. 250-269.
• (2008) Santi, P.M., DeWolfe, V.G., Higgins, J.D., Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Sources of Debris Flow Material in Burned Areas, Geomorphology, v. 96, no. 3-4, pp. 366-377
• (2008) Gartner, J.E., Cannon, S.H., Santi, P.M., and DeWolfe, V.G., Empirical modesl to predict debris-flow volumes generated from recently burned basins in the western U.S., Geomorphology, v. 96, pp. 339-354

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• (2005) NOAA-USGS Debris Flow Task ForceNOAA-USGS Debris-Flow Warning System - Final Report, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1283, 60 p.