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Hydrologic and Erosion Responses of Burned Watersheds

Selected Publications and Abstracts

(Updated March 2007)

Publications

• Martin, D.A., 2000, Studies of post-fire erosion in the Colorado Front Range benefit the Upper South Platte Watershed Protection and Restoration Project: Watershed Management Council Networker, v. Winter, p. 5-8.

• Martin, D.A., and Moody, J.A., 2000, Effects of Wildfire on Water Supplies: A Case Study from Denver, Colorado, in Watershed Management 2000, Science and Engineering Technology for the New Millennium, American Society of Civil Engineers Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado.

• Martin, Deborah A., and Moody, John A., 2001, Comparison of soil infiltration rates in burned and unburned mountainous watersheds: Hydrological Processes, v. 15, p. 2893-2903. Electronic file: HyPrDAM1.pdf (249Kb)

• Martin, Deborah A., and Moody, John A., 2001, The flux and particle size distribution of sediment collected in hillslope traps after a Colorado wildfire, in Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Reno, Nevada, III-40 to III-47. Electronic file: Martin_Moody_FISC7_2001.pdf (534Kb)

• Moody, John A., 2001, Sediment transport regimes after a wildfire in steep mountainous terrain, in Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Reno, Nevada, X-41 to X-48. Electronic file: Moody_FISC7_2001.pdf (551Kb)

• Moody, John A., and Kinner, David A., 2004, Gully erosion after wildfire, in Proceedings Third International Symposium on Gully Erosion, National Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, Mississippi. Electronic file: GullyConf.pdf (135Kb)

• Moody, John A., and Kinner, David A., 2006, Spatial structures of stream and hillslope drainage networks following gully erosion after wildfire: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 31, no. 3, p. 319-337. Electronic file: Spatial_structure_stream_hillslopes.pdf (509Kb)

• Moody, John A., and Martin Deborah A., 2001, Post-fire, rainfall intensity - peak discharge relations for three mountainous watersheds in the western USA: Hydrological Processes, v. 15, no. 15, p. 2981-2993. Electronic file: HyPrJAM1.pdf (187Kb)

• Moody, John A., and Martin, Deborah A., 2001, Hydrological and Sedimentologic Response of Two Burned Watersheds in Colorado: Denver, Colorado, U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4122, 142 pages. Electronic file: WRIR_01-4122.pdf (4,767Kb)

• Moody, John A., and Martin, Deborah A., 2001, Initial hydrologic and geomorphic response following a wildfire in the Colorado Front Range: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 26, p. 1049-1070. Electronic file: InitialResponseESP&L.pdf (1,884Kb)

• Moody, John A., and Martin, Deborah A., 2004, Wildfire impacts on reservoir sedimentation in the western United States, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on River Sedimentation, Yichang, China, p. 1095-1102. Electronic file: fire_reservoir_sedimentation.pdf (77Kb)

• Moody, John A., Smith, Dungan J., and Ragan, Brian W., 2005, Critical shear stress for erosion of cohesive soils subjected to temperature typical of wildfires: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 110, p. 1-13. Electronic file: TempShearStress.pdf (232Kb)

Abstracts

• Martin, D.A., and Moody, J.A., 1998, Hillslope response of a burned watershed--AGU Meeting Abstract, December 1998, San Francisco, California: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, no. 45, p. F303.

• Martin, D.A., and Moody, J.A., 1999, Hillslope erosion in steep terrain after a forest fire, in 25th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union, Program and Abstracts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

• Martin, D.A., and Moody, J.A., 2000, Soil infiltration rates in burned mountainous watersheds--AGU Meeting Abstract, December 2000, San Francisco, California: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 81, no. 48, p. F497.

• Moody, J.A., Kinner, D.A., and Ariowitsch, T.M., 1999, Predictive model of erosion after a forest fire based on a watershed topographic index--GSA Meeting Abstract, October 1999, Denver, Colorado: GSA Abstracts With Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-440.

• Moody, J.A., and Martin, D.A., 1998, Unsteady sediment transport after a forest fire--AGU Meeting Abstract, December 1998, San Francisco, California: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, no. 45, p. F303.

• Moody, J.A., and Martin Deborah A., 1999, Sediment transport in a steep channel after a forest fire, 25th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union, Program and Abstracts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

• Moody, J.A., and Martin Deborah A., 2000, Runoff, erosion, and depositional response of a burned mountainous watershed--AGU Meeting Abstract, December 2000, San Francisco, California: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 81, no. 48, p. F497.

• Pine, E.J., and Moody, J.A., 1999, Characteristics and evolution of rills on steep terrain after a forest fire--GSA Meeting Abstract, October 1999, Denver, Colorado: GSA Abstracts With Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-441.