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
• Other
• Non-USGS Publications

• (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., 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.
• (2005) 05-1218, Compilation of data relating to the erosive response of 606 recently burned basins in the Western U.S., by Joseph E. Gartner, Susan H. Cannon, Erica R. Bigio, Nicole K. Davis, Charles Parrett, Kenneth L. Pierce, Michael G. Rupert, Brandon L. Thurston, Mathew J. Trebish, Steve P. Garcia and Alan H. Rea, 2005.
• (2004) 04-1085, Compilation of Post Wildfire Runoff-Event Data from the Western United States, by Joseph E. Gartner, Erica R. Bigio and Susan H. Cannon, 2004.

• (2005) FS 2005-3106, Southern California - Wildfires and Debris Flows

• (2008) 08-1370, Rupert, M.A., Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., Helsel, D.R., 2008, Using logistic regression to predict the probability of in areas burned by wildfires, southern California, 2003-2006: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2008-1370, 20 p.

• (2008) Paper (PDF) 5.4 MB, Cannon, S.H., and DeGraff, J., 2008, The increasing wildfire and post-fire debris-flow threat in western USA, and implications for consequences of climate change, Keynote address. In Sassa, K., and Canuti, P., (eds)., Landslides – Disaster Risk Reduction: Proceedings of 1st World Landslide Forum, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin p. 177-190.
• (2008) Paper (PDF) 1.9 MB, Santi, P.M., deWolf, V.G., Higgins, J.E., Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E., 2008, Sources of debris flow material in burned areas: Geomorphology, v. 96, p. 310-321.
• (2007) Paper (PDF) 3.4 MB, DeGraff, J.V., Cannon, S.H., Gartner, J.E. and Gallegos, A.J, 2007, Reducing post-wildfire debris flow risk through the burned area emergency response (BAER) process: Proceedings of the 1st North America Landslide Conference, AEG Special Publication no 23.
• (2007) Paper (PDF) 0.5MB, Santi, P.M., deWolfe, V.G., Higgins, J.D., Cannon, S.H., and Gartner, J.E., 2007, Effectiveness of Debris Flow Mitigation Methods in Burned Areas: Proceedings of the 1st North American Landslide Conference, AEG Special Publication no. 23
• (2005) Paper (PDF) 7.4 MB, Cannon, S.H. and Gartner, J.E., 2005, Wildfire-related debris flow from a hazards perspective: Chapter 15 in: Hungr, O. and Jacob, M. eds., Debris-Flow Hazards and Related Phenomena, Springer-Praxis Books in Geophysical Sciences, p. 321-344.