Aquatic and Land Interactions Program

Publications by R.D. Woodsmith

Woodsmith, R. D., Vache, K. B., McDonnell, J. J., Seibert, J., and Helvey, J. D. In press. The Entiat Experimental Forest: A unique opportunity to examine hydrologic response to wildfire. In: Proceedings, Fundamental Sciences Meeting, October 18-22, USDA, Forest Service, San Diego.

Woodsmith, R.D. and Hassan, M.A. In press. Maintenance of an obstruction-forced pool in a gravel-bed channel: streamflow, channel morphology, and sediment transport. In: Garcia, C. and Batalla, R., Eds., Catchment Dynamics and River Processes: Latest Research with Examples from Mediterranean Climate Regions, Elsevier.

Woodsmith, RD, JR Noel, and ML. Dilger. 2005. An approach to effectiveness monitoring of floodplain channel aquatic habitat: channel condition assessment. Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning 72: 177–204.

Bryant, M.D., Edwards, R.T., and Woodsmith. R.D. 2005. An approach to effectiveness monitoring of floodplain channel aquatic habitat: salmonid relationships. Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, 72:157–176.

Woodsmith, RD, KB Vache, JJ McDonnell and JD Helvey. 2004. Entiat Experimental Forest: Catchment-scale runoff data before and after a 1970 wildfire. Water Resources Research 40: 1-5.

Seibert, J., McDonnell, J.J., Woodsmith, R.D., and Vache, K.B. 2004. Quantification of fire impacts on catchment hydrology using a model approach. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 6, 06596. SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU04-A-06596.

Hassan, MA, and RD Woodsmith. 2004. Bed load transport in an obstruction-formed pool in a forest, gravel-bed stream. Geomorphology 58: 203–221.

Gomi, T, RC Sidle, RD Woodsmith, and MD Bryant. 2003. Characteristics of channel steps and reach morphology in headwater streams, southeast Alaska. Geomorphology 51: 225–242.

Buffington, JM, RD Woodsmith, DB Booth, and DR Montgomery. 2002. Fluvial Processes in Puget Sound Rivers and the Pacific Northwest. In: Montgomery, D.R., Bolton, S., Booth, D.B. (Eds.). Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, pp. 46–78.

Buffington, JM, TE Lisle, RD Woodsmith, S Hilton. 2002. Controls on the size and occurrence of pools in coarse-grained forest rivers. River Research and Applications 18: 507–531.

Gomi, T, RC Sidle, MD Bryant, and RD Woodsmith. 2001. Characteristics of woody debris and sediment distribution in headwater streams, southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 1386–1399.

Woodsmith, RD and FJ Swanson. 1997. The influence of large woody debris on forest stream geomorphology. In: Wang, S.S.Y., Langedoen, E.J., Douglas Shields Jr., F. (Eds.), Proceedings of Management of Landscape Disturbed by Channel Incision, Oxford Campus in the University of Mississippi, May 1997, pp. 133–138.

Woodsmith, RD, and JM Buffington. 1996. Multivariate geomorphic analysis of forest streams: implications for assessment of land use impacts on channel condition. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21: 377– 393.
Smith, R.D. 1996. Geomorphic effects of large woody debris in streams. In: Proceedings, Watersheds in the Nineties, National Hydrology Workshop, Phoenix, AZ, 27 April-01 May 1992, General Technical Report, RM-GTR-279, Fort Collins, CO, USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, p. 113-127.

Montgomery, D.R., Buffington, J.M., Smith, R.D., Schmidt, K.M., and Pess, G.R. 1995. Pool spacing in forest channels, Water Resources Research, 31: 1097-1105.

Smith, R.D. and Beschta, R.L. 1994. A mechanism of pool formation and maintenance in forest streams. In: Cotroneo, G.V. and Rumer, R.R., Eds., Hydraulic Engineering '94, Proceedings, 1994 National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering, New York, NY, Am. Soc. of Civil Eng., Hydraulics Division, p. 824-828.

Smith, R.D., Sidle, R.C., and Porter, P.E. 1993. Effects on bedload transport of experimental removal of woody debris from a forest, gravel-bed stream. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 18: 455-468.

Smith, R.D., Sidle, R.C., Porter, P.E., and Noel, J.R. 1993. Effects of experimental removal of woody debris on the channel morphology of a forest, gravel-bed stream. Journal of Hydrology, 152: 153-178.

Smith, R.D. and Buffington, J.M. 1993. Effects of large woody debris on channel unit distribution in southeast Alaska: preliminary results. In: Proceedings of Watershed '91, A Conference on the Stewardship of Soil, Air, and Water Resources, April 16-17, 1991, R10-MB-217, Juneau, AK, USDA, Forest Service, Region 10, p.43-44.

Smith, R.D. 1989. Current research investigating channel unit distribution in streams of southeast Alaska. In: Alexander, E.B., Ed., Proceedings of Watershed '89, A Conference on the Stewardship of Soil, Air, and Water Resources, March 22, 1989, R10-MB-77, Juneau, AK, USDA, Forest Service, Region 10, p. 91-92.

Smith, R.D. and Swanson, F.J. 1987. Sediment routing in a small drainage basin in the blast zone at Mount St. Helens, Washington, U.S.A. Geomorphology, 1: 1-13.

Swanson, F.J. and Smith, R.D. 1987. Hillslope erosion in the blast zone – processes and links with revegetation. In: Field Trip Guide, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, XIX General Assembly, August 8-9, 1987, Mount St. Helens, WA, p. 100-104.

Smith, G.A. and Smith, R.D. 1985. Specific gravity characteristics of recent volcaniclastic sediment: implications for sorting and grain size analysis. Journal of Geology, 93: 619 622.

Lisle, T.E., Lehre, A.K., Martinson, H.A., Meyer, D.R., Nolan, K.M., and Smith, R.D. 1983. Stream channel adjustments after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, p. 31 72. In: Proceedings of a Symposium on Erosion Control in Volcanic Areas, Seattle, Mount St. Helens, and Vancouver, Washington, July 6 9, 1982. Public Works Research Inst., Japan, Tech. Memo. No. 1908, 377 p.

Smith, R.D. and Hicks, B.G. 1982. Ashland Creek drainage basin sediment budgets and routing studies. In: Swanson, F.J., Janda, R.J., Dunne, T., and Swanston, D.N., Eds., Sediment Budgets and Routing in Forested Drainage Basins, General Technical Report, PNW 41, USDA, Forest Service, p. 112 113.

Hicks, B.G. and Smith, R.D. 1981. Management of steepland impacts by landslide hazard zonation and risk evaluation. Journal of Hydrology, New Zealand, 20: 63 70.

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