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Hydrologic and Erosion Responses of Burned Watersheds

Selected Publications and Abstracts

(Updated October 2009)

Publications

• Moody, J. A., and Martin, D. A., 2009, Forest fire effects on geomorphic processes, in Cerdá, A., and Robichaud, P., eds., Fire Effects on Soils and Restoration Strategies: Science Publishers, Inc, Enfield,New Hampshire, USA, p. 41-79.
• Moody, J. A., and Martin, D. A., 2009, Synthesis of sediment yields after wildland fire in different rainfall regimes in the western United States: International Journal of Wildland Fire, v. 18 no. 1, p. 96-115.
• Moody, J. A., Martin, D. A., and Cannon, S.H., 2008, Post-wildfire erosion response in two geologic terrains in the western USA: Geomorphology, v. 95, p. 103-118. (on-line abstract of journal article)

• Moody, J. A., Martin, D. A., Haire, S.L., and Kinner, D. A., 2008, Linking runoff response to burn severity after wildfire: Hydrological Processes, v. 22, no. 13, p. 2063-2074. (on-line abstract or on-line article in pdf format, 640 KB, a US Government work in the public domain)

• Moody, J. A., Martin, D. A., Oakley, T.M., and Blanken, P. D., 2007, Temporal and spatial variability of soil temperature and soil moisture after a wildfire: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5015.

• Moody, J. 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, J. A., Smith, D. J., and Ragan, B. 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)

• Moody, J. 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, J. A., and Martin, D. 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)

• Martin, D. A., 2003, Post-wildfire hydrology - effects of wildfire in New Mexico ecosystems and hydrological response of burned watershed, in Johnson, P.S., Land, L.A., Price, L.G., and Titus, F., eds., Water Resources of the Lower Pecos Region, New Mexico, Science, Policy, and a Look to the Future, Decision-Makers Field Conference 2003, Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, p. 80-82. Available at: http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/publications/decisionmakers/2003/DM-2003-Chapter3.pdf

• Martin, D. A., and Moody, J. 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, D. A., and Moody, J. 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, J. 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, J. A., and Martin, D. 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, J. A., and Martin, D. 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, J. A., and Martin, D. 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)

• 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.

Collaborations

• Doerr, S.H., Woods, S.W., Martin, D. A., and Casimiro, M., 2009, 'Natural background' soil water repellency in conifer forests of the north-western USA: Its prediction and relationship to wildfire occurrence: Journal of Hydrology, v. 371, no. 1-4, p. 12-21. (on-line abstract of journal article)

• Hoefen, T.M., Kokaly, R.F., Martin, D. A., Rochester, C., Plumlee, G.S., Mendez, G., Reichard, E.G., and Fisher, R.N., 2009, Sample collection of ash and burned soils from the October 2007 southern California Wildfires: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1038, 64 p. Available at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1038/pdf/OF09-1038.pdf

• Hageman, Philip L., Plumlee, Geoffrey S., Martin, D. A., Hoefen, Todd M., Adams, Monique, Lamothe, Paul J., Todorov, Todor, and Anthony, Michael W., 2008, Leachate Geochemical Results for Ash Samples from the June 2007 Angora Wildfire near Lake Tahoe in Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1170. 14 p. Available at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1170/

• Plumlee, G.S., Martin, D. A., Hoefen, T., Kokaly, R., Hageman, P., Eckberg, A., Meeker, G.P., Adams, M., Anthony, M., and Lamothe, P.J., 2007, Preliminary analytical results for ash and burned soils from the October 2007 southern California wildfires: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1407, 13 p. (on-line overview or on-line report in pdf format, 2 MB)

• Kinner, D.A., and Moody, J. A., 2008, Infiltration and Runoff Measurements on Steep Burned Hillslopes Using a Rainfall Simulator with Variable Rain Intensities: U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5211, 64 p. Available at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5211/pdf/SIR07-5211.pdf

• Kinner, D.A., and Moody, J. A., 2005, Drainage networks after wildfire: International Journal of Sediment Research, v. 20, no. 3, p. 194-201.

• Robichaud, P., MacDonald, L., Freeouf, J., Neary, D., Martin, D. and L. Ashmun, L., 2003, Postfire Rehabilitation of the Hayman Fire, in Graham, R.T., technical editor, Hayman Fire Case Study, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-114, p. 293-313. Available at: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr114.html

• MacDonald, L. H., Sampson, R., Brady, D., Juarros, L., and Martin, D. A., 2000, Predicting post-fire erosion and sedimentation risk on a landscape scale: A case study from Colorado: Journal of Sustainable Forestry, v. 11, no. 1/2, p. 57-87.

Abstracts

• Moody, J. A., and Martin, D. 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, J. A. 2009, Predicting Runoff Response after Wildfire by Using the Hydraulic Functional Connectivity, 7th International Conference on Geomorphology, Melbourne, Australia.

• Moody, J. A. and Martin, D. A., 2009, Legacies of Fire and Water on Landscapes of the Western United States, 7th International Conference on Geomorphology, Melbourne, Australia.

• Martin, D. A. and Tindall, J., 2008, Prediction and Mitigation of the Effects of Catastrophic Fire on Water Supplies: Science for Risk Reduction and Planning for Future Scenarios, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calidornia.

• Moody, J. A., 2008, How do We begin to Predict Erosion, Floods, and Debris Flows after Wildfire?, Fire in the Southwest: Integrating Fire into Management of Changing Ecosystems, Regional Conference, The Association for Fire Ecology, Jan. 28-31, 2008, Tucson, Arizona.

• Moody, D. A. and Moody, J. A., 2008, Synthesis of Post-Wildland Fire Sediment Yields in Different Rainfall Regimes in the Western United States, Fire in the Southwest: Integrating Fire into Management of Changing Ecosystems, Regional Conference, The Association for Fire Ecology, Jan. 28-31, 2008, Tucson, Arizona.

• Kinner, D. A. and Moody, J. A., 2007, Infiltration and Connectivity at Multiple Scales in Burned Watersheds, GSA, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

• Martin, D. A. and Moody, J. A., 2007, Changes in soil moisture and temperatures after wildfire in Colorado, International Meeting of Fire Effects on Soil Properties, Barcelona, Spain.

• Moody, J. A. and Kinner, D. A. 2007, Runoff response at three spatial scales from a burned watershed, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, H51 M-02

• Martin, D. A., 2005, Wildfire and Post-burn Effects on Water Quality and Wildlife, Colorado Chapter of the Wildlife Society, 33rd Annual Winter Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO.

• Martin, D. A., 2005, Fire Effects on Hydrologic Processes, Runoff, and Water Quality, 4th USGS Wildland Fire Workshop, December 6-9, 2005, Tucson, Arizona.

• Martin, D. A., J.A. Moody, S.L. Haire, and D.A. Kinner, 2005, Poster: Linking Runoff Response to burn Severity after Wildfire, 4th USGS Wildland Fire Workshop, December 6-9, 2005, Tucson, Arizona.

• Moody, J. A., Martin, D. A., and Williams, A. G., 2005, Predicting Rainfall for Modeling Runoff from Burned Watersheds, 4th USGS Wildland Fire Science Workshop, Dec. 6-9, 2005, Tucson, Arizona.

• Moody, J. A., and Martin, D. A., 2005, Post-fire Predictions of Peak Discharge, ASCE Watershed 2005, Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering, Ecological, and Economic Challenges, Williamsburg, Virginia.

• Moody, J. A., 2003, Characterizing Convective Rainfall: Driver of Runoff and Erosion in Burned Landscapes, GSA Wildland Fire Impacts on Watersheds, October 2003.

• Moody, J. A., Martin, D. A., and Cannon, S.H., 2003, Comparison of the Erosional Response after Wildfire in two Geological Terrains, GSA Wildland Fire Impacts on Watersheds, October 2003.

• 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., 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.