Recent Publications and Reports

Benda, L. (accepted) Spatial and temporal organization of confluence environments in branching river networks. Chapter X in River Networks and the Fluvial Environment, Wiley and Sons.

Miller, D., Burnett, K., and Benda, L. (accepted) Factors controlling the availability of spawning habitat for salmonids at the basin scale. American Fisheries Society.

Benda, L., Miller, D., Andras, K., Bigelow, P., Reeves, G., and Michael, D. (2007). NetMap: A new tool in support of watershed analysis and resource management. Forest Science 53(2):206-219.

Bigelow, P., Benda, L., Miller, D., Reeves, G., and Burnett, K. (2007) On debris flows, river networks, and the spatial structure of channel morphology. Forest Science 53(2):220-238.

Burnett, K., and Miller, D., (2007) Streamside Policies for Headwater Channels: An Example Considering Debris Flows in the Oregon Coastal Province. Forest Science 53(2):239-253.

Miller, D.J., Burnett, K.M. A probabilistic model of debris-flow delivery to stream channels, demonstrated for the Coast Range of Oregon, USA, Geomorphology (2007), doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.05.009

B Miller, D. J., and K. M. Burnett (2007), Effects of forest cover, topography, and sampling extent on the measured density of shallow, translational landslides, Water Resour. Res., 43, W03433, doi:10.1029/2005WR004807.

Benda, Lee, Marwan A. Hassan, Michael Church, and Christine L. May, 2005. Geomorphology of Steepland Headwaters: The transition From Hillslopes to Channels. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 41(4):835-851.

Miller, D. and Burnett, B. in review. An empirical model to characterize debris flow delivery to stream channels, Geomorphology
(Forthcoming)

Benda, L., Hassan, M., Church, M, and May, C. in review. Geomorphology of headwater streams: transition from hillslopes to channels. Water Resources Association
(Forthcoming)

Bigelow, P.,2005. Testing and improving predictions of scour and fill depths in a northern california coastal stream, River Research And Applications 21: p. 909-923.


Benda, L., Poff, N.L., Miller, D., Dunne, T., Reeves, G., Pollock, M., and Pess, G., 2004. Network dynamics hypothesis how river networks structure riverine habitats. BioScience

Benda, L., Andras, K., Miller, D., and Bigelow, P. 2004. Confluence effects in rivers: interactions of basin scale, network geometry, and disturbance regimes. Water Resources Research


Burnett, K., Reeves, G., Miller, D., Clarke, S., Christiansen, K., and Vance-Borland, K. A first step toward a broad-scale identification of freshwater protected areas for Pacific Salmon and Trout in Oregon, USA. In: JP Beumer, A Grant, and DC Smith (eds.) Protected Areas: what works best and how do we know. Proceedings of the World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas, Cairns, Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology, North Beach, WA, Australia.**

Miller, D., Luce, C., and Benda, L. 2003. Time, space, and episodicity of disturbance in streams. Forest Ecology and Management, V.178:121-140 **

Hofmeister, R. J. and Miller, D. 2003. GIS-based modeling of debris-flow initiation, transport, and deposition zones for regional hazard assessments in western Oregon, USA, in Rickenmann & Chen (eds.), Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment, Millpress, Rotterdam, p. 1141-1149 **

Benda, L., Miller, D., Bigelow, P., and Andras, K. 2003. Effects of post-fire erosion on channel environments, Idaho Journal of Forest Ecology and Management, V.178:105-119 **

Benda, L., Veldhuisen, C., and Black, J. 2003. Debris flows as agents of morphological heterogeneity, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Geological Society of America Bulletin V.115:1110-1121 **

Benda, L., Miller, D., Sias, J., Bilby, R., Veldhuisen, C., and Dunne, T. 2003. Wood recruitment processes and wood budgeting. The Ecology and Management of Wood in World Rivers, American Fisheries Society Symposium 37, p. 49-73

Benda, L. and Sias, J. 2003. A quantitative framework for evaluating the mass balance of in-stream organic debris. Forest Ecology and Management, V.172:1-6 **

Benda, L., Bigelow, P., and Worsley, T. 2002. Recruitment of wood to streams in old growth and second growth redwood forests in northern California. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, V.32:1460-1477 **

Hofmeister, R. J., Miller, D., Mills, K.A., and Beier, A.E. 2002. GIS Overview Map of Potential Rapidly Moving Landslide Hazards in Western Oregon, Interpretive Map Series IMS-22, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, 1 CD

U. S. Forest Service and Earth Systems Institute. 2002. Landscape Dynamics and Forest Management. Rocky Mountain Station General Technical Report 101-CD, (an educational CD), screenplay and modeling by L. Benda & D. Miller

Benda, L., Poff, N.L., Tague, C., Palmer, M.A., Pizutto, J., Copper, S., Stanley, E., and Moglen, G. 2002. How to avoid trainwrecks in the use of science in environmental problem solving. BioScience, 52:1127-1136 **

Martin, D. and Benda, L. 2001. Patterns of in-stream wood recruitment and transport at the watershed scale. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 130: 940-958 **

Miller, D. and Benda, L. 2000. Effects of punctuated sediment supply on valley-floor landforms and sediment transport, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112:1814-1824 **

Earth Systems Institute, 1998. Landscape Controls on Wood Abundance in Streams.

Benda, L., Miller, D., Dunne, T., Agee, J., and Reeves, G. 1998. Dynamic landscape systems, Chap. 12 in: R. Niaman and R. Bilby (eds.) River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion, p. 261-288

Miller, D. and Sias, J. 1998. Deciphering large landslides: coupling hydrology, groundwater, and slope stability models through GIS, Hydrologic Processes, V.12:923-941

Benda, L., Veldhuisen, C., Miller, D., and Miller, L. 1997/8. Slope Instability and Forest Land Managers: A Primer and Field Guide, Earth Systems Insitute, 98p **

Benda, L. and Dunne, T. 1997. Stochastic forcing of sediment supply to the channel network from landsliding and debris flow. Water Resources Research, V.33:2849-2863 **

Benda, L. and Dunne, T. 1997. Stochastic forcing of sediment routing and storage in channel networks. Water Resources Research, V.33: 2865-2880. **

Reeves, G., Benda, L., Burnett, K., Bisson, P., and Sedell, J. 1996. A disturbance-based ecosystem approach to maintaining and restoring freshwater habitats of evolutionarily significant units of anadromous salmonids in the Pacific Northwest. Evolution and the Aquatic System: Defining Unique Units in Population Conservation. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 17.

Miller, D.J., 1995. Coupling GIS with physical models to assess deep-seated landslide hazards. Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, 1: 263-276.