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Francis K. Rengers
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Exploring controls on landslide occurrence across a patchwork of burned areas in southern California (USA)
FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS AFTER WILDFIRE: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING TO HAZARD ASSESSMENT II POSTER
natural hazards | 12 december 2023
Matthew A. Thomas, Donald Lindsay, Rebecca Rossi, ...
A parade of drought-busting atmospheric river storms pummeled the West Coast (USA) during the 2022-2023 winter rainy season. Although these storms rep...
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Practical and fundamental lessons from forecasting building damage by postfire debris-flow runout using a series of linked models
CASCADING HAZARDS: LINKING PROCESSES ACROSS EARTH’S SURFACE I ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2023
Katherine R. Barnhart, Christopher R. Miller, Fran...
Postfire debris flows are typically initiated by intense precipitation and pose a substantial threat to structures and people. Debris-flow deposits ar...
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Guidance for parameterizing post-fire hydrologic models within situ infiltration measurements
FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS AFTER WILDFIRE: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING TO HAZARD ASSESSMENT II POSTER
natural hazards | 12 december 2023
Tao Liu, Luke McGuire, Ann M. Youberg, Alexander G...
Wildfire can alter soil-hydraulic properties, often resulting in an increased prevalence of infiltration-excess overland flow and greater potential fo...
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Towards improved postfire debris-flow hazard assessments using region-specific parameterization: Western Oregon case study
FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS AFTER WILDFIRE: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING TO HAZARD ASSESSMENT II POSTER
natural hazards | 12 december 2023
Brittany Selander, Jason W. Kean, Matthew A. Thoma...
Steep and burned terrain is known to be susceptible to debris flows caused by high-intensity rainfall. The U.S. Geological Survey M1 debris-flow likel...
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Two decades of erosion and deposition research in the emerging field of Pyrogeomorphology
DRIVERS OF EARTH'S SURFACE CHANGE IN AN ERA OF RAPID CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGE II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 11 december 2023
Francis K. Rengers, Luke McGuire
Geomorphology has many major sub-disciplines (e.g., fluvial, desert, glacial) that have provided foci for understanding sediment transport processes a...
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Sediment transport analysis of debris flows using lidar in the Grizzly Creek Fire, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, USA
BREAKING BARRIERS IN SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RESEARCH ACROSS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING III ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 11 december 2023
Francis K. Rengers, Samuel Bower, Jason W. Kean, A...
Tracking the source-to-sink of postfire debris flow (PFDF) material can yield insight into sources of sediment recruitment, locations of debris flow i...
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Effectiveness of Mulch Treatments on Catchment Runoff, Erosion, and Stream Sedimentation after a Wildfire in New Mexico
FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS AFTER WILDFIRE: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING TO HAZARD ASSESSMENT I ORAL
natural hazards | 11 december 2023
Peter R. Robichaud, Jason W. Kean, Brian S. Sheppa...
High and moderate severity wildfires in western U.S. forests can increase the vulnerability of watersheds to runoff, erosion, and debris flows during ...
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Evaluating the Evolving Controls on Post-Fire Debris Flows in Western Oregon
FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS AFTER WILDFIRE: PROCESS UNDERSTANDING TO HAZARD ASSESSMENT I ORAL
natural hazards | 11 december 2023
Ben A. Leshchinsky, David Sousa, Peyton Presler, M...
Wildfire is known to amplify the likelihood and magnitude of debris flows in steep terrain. In arid climates (e.g. US Mountain West and Southwest), po...
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