Publications

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2015

*Kolden, E., *B.D. Fox, B.P. Bledsoe and M.C. Kondratieff. In Press. Modeling Whitewater Park Hydraulics and Fish Habitat in Colorado. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.2931.

*Stephens, T.A., B.P. Bledsoe, *B.D. Fox, *E. Kolden, M.C. Kondratieff. 2015.Effects of Whitewater Parks on Fish Passage: A Spatially Explicit Hydraulic Analysis. Ecological Engineering 83:305–318, doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.06.032.

*Mueller-Price, J.M., B.P. Bledsoe, and *D.W. Baker. 2015. Influences of Sudden Changes in Physical Stream Characteristics on Transient Storage and Nitrate Uptake in an Urban Stream. Hydrological Processes 29:1466-1479, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10275.

Wohl, E.E., B.P. Bledsoe, R.B. Jacobson, N.L. Poff, S.L. Rathburn, D.M. Walters, and A.C. Wilcox. 2015. The Natural Sediment Regime in Rivers: Broadening the Foundation for Ecosystem Management. BioScience 5(4): 358-371, DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv002

2014

*Sholtes, J., *K. Wyberlo, B. Bledsoe. 2014. Physical Context for Theoretical Approaches to Sediment Transport Magnitude-Frequency Analysis in Alluvial Channels. Water Resources Research 50(10): 7900–791, DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015639.

*Yochum, S.E., B.P. Bledsoe, E.E. Wohl, G.C.L. David. 2014. Spatial Characterization of Roughness Elements in High-gradient Channels of the Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, USA. Water Resources Research, 50(7): 6015–6029, DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015587.

*Wilding, T.K., B. Bledsoe, N.L. Poff, and J. Sanderson. 2014. Predicting Habitat Response to Flow Using Generalized Habitat Models for Trout in Rocky Mountain Streams. River Research and Applications, DOI: 10.1002/rra.2678.

2013

*Hawley, R.J., and B.P. Bledsoe. 2013. Channel Enlargement in Semiarid Suburbanizing Watersheds: A Southern California Case Study. Journal of Hydrology, 496: 17–30. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.05.010

2012

*Baker, D.W., B.P. Bledsoe, and *J. Mueller Price. 2012. Nitrate Uptake and Transient Storage over a Gradient of Geomorphic Complexity, North-central Colorado, USA. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.8385.

Bledsoe, B.P., E.D. Stein, *R.J. Hawley, and D.B. Booth. 2012. Framework and Tool for Rapid Assessment of Stream Susceptibility to Hydromodification. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 48(4): 788-808; doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012. 00653.x.

*Hawley, R.J., B.P. Bledsoe, E.D. Stein, and *B.E. Haines. 2012. Channel Evolution Model of Response to Urbanization in Southern California. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 48(4): 722-744; doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012.00645.x.

*Laub, B.G., *D.W. Baker, B.P. Bledsoe, and M.A. Palmer. 2012. Range of Variability of Channel Complexity in Urban, Restored and Forested Reference Streams. Freshwater Biology, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02763.x.

*Yochum, S.E., B.P. Bledsoe, *G.C.L. David, and E.E. Wohl. 2012. Velocity Prediction in High-gradient Channels. Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.031.

2011

*Baker, D.W., B.P. Bledsoe, *C.M. Albano, and N.L. Poff. 2011. Downstream Effects of Diversion Dams on the Sediment and Hydraulic Conditions of Rocky Mountain Streams. River Research and Applications, doi: 10.1002/rra.1376.

*David, G.C.L., E. Wohl, *S.E. Yochum, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2011. Comparative Analysis of Bed Resistance Partitioning in High-gradient Streams. Water Resources Research 47, W07507, doi:10.1029/2010WR009540.

*Hawley, R.J. and B.P. Bledsoe. 2011. How Do Flow Peaks and Durations Change in Suburbanizing Semi-arid Watersheds? A Southern California Case Study. Journal of Hydrology 405:69-82, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.05.011.

Sanderson, J.S., N. Rowan, *T. Wilding, B.P. Bledsoe, W.J. Miller, N.L. Poff. 2011. Getting to Scale with Environmental Flow Assessment: The Watershed Flow Evaluation Tool. River Research and Applications, doi:10.1002/rra.1542.

2010

*David, G.C.L., E. Wohl, *S.E. Yochum, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2010. Controls on Spatial Variations in Flow Resistance Along Steep Mountain Streams. Water Resources Research 46, W03513, doi:10.1029/2009WR008134.

*David, G.C. L., E.E. Wohl, *S.E. Yochum, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2010. At-a-station Hydraulic Geometry of Steep Mountain Streams. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35(15):1820–1837, doi:10.1002/esp.2023

*Matter, M.A., L.A. Garcia, D.G. Fontane, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2010. Characterizing Hydroclimatic Variability in Tributaries of the Upper Colorado River Basin – WY1911-2001. Journal of Hydrology 380(3-4):260-276.

Poff, N.L., *M.I. Pyne, B.P. Bledsoe, *C.O. Cuhaciyan, and D.M. Carlisle. 2010. Developing Linkages Between Species Traits and Multiscaled Environmental Variation to Explore Vulnerability of Stream Benthic Communities to Climate Change. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29(4):1441–1458, doi:10.1899/10-030.1.

Poff, N.L., B.D. Richter, A.H. Arthington, S.E. Bunn, R.J. Naiman, E. Kendy, M. Acreman, C. Apse, B. P. Bledsoe, M.C. Freeman, J. Henriksen, R.B. Jacobson, J.G. Kennen, D.M. Merritt, J.H. O'Keeffe, J.D. Olden, K. Rogers, R.E. Tharme, and A. Warner. 2010. The Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA): A New Framework for Developing Regional Environmental Flow Standards. Freshwater Biology 55:147-170.

2008

Craig, L.S., M.A. Palmer, D.C. Richardson, S. Filoso, E.S. Bernhardt, B.P. Bledsoe, M.W. Doyle, P.M. Groffman, B. Hassett, S.S. Kaushal, P.M. Mayer, S.M. Smith, and P.R. Wilcock. 2008. Stream Restoration Strategies for Reducing River Nitrogen Loads. Frontiers in Ecology & Environment 6, doi:10.1890/070080.

*David, G.C., B.P. Bledsoe, D.M. Merritt, and E.E. Wohl. 2008. Impacts of Ski Slope Development on Stream Channel Morphology in the White River National Forest, CO. Geomorphology 103:375-388, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.07.003.

2007

Bledsoe, B.P., *M.C. Brown, and D.A. Raff. 2007. GeoTools: A Toolkit for Fluvial System Analysis. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 43(3):757-772, doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00060.x.

2006

*Carney, S.K., B.P. Bledsoe, and D. Gessler. 2006. Representing the Bed Roughness of Coarse-Grained Streams in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31:736-749.

*Flores, A.N., B.P. Bledsoe, *C.O. Cuhaciyan, E.E. Wohl. 2006. Channel-reach Morphology Dependence on Energy, Scale, and Hydroclimatic Processes with Implications for Prediction Using Geospatial Data. Water Resources Research 42, W06412, doi:10.1029/2005WR004226.

*Sanborn, S.C. and B.P. Bledsoe. 2006. Predicting Streamflow Regime Metrics for Ungauged Streams in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. Journal of Hydrology 325:241-261.

*Olden, J.D., N.L. Poff, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2006. Incorporating Ecological Knowledge Into Ecoinformatics: An Example of Modeling Hierarchically-Structured Aquatic Communities With Neural Networks. Ecological Informatics 1:33-42.

Poff, N.L., B.P. Bledsoe, and *C.O. Cuhaciyan. 2006. Hydrologic Alterations Due to Differential Land Use Across the Contiguous United States: Geomorphic and Ecological Consequences for Stream Ecosystems. Geomorphology 79:264-285.

Poff, N.L., *J.D. Olden, *D.M. Pepin, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2006. Placing Global Streamflow Variability in Geographic and Geomorphic Contexts. River Research and Applications 22:149-166.

2005

Wohl, E.E., P. L. Angermeier, B.P. Bledsoe, G.M. Kondolf, L. MacDonnell, D.M. Merritt, M.A. Palmer, N.L. Poff, and D. Tarboton. 2005. River Restoration. Water Resources Research 41, W10301, doi:10.1029/2005WR003985.

2004

*Anderson, R.J., B.P. Bledsoe, and W.C. Hession. 2004. Stream and River Width Response to Vegetation, Bank Material, and Other Factors. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 40:1159-1172.

2003

Van den Berg, J.H. and B.P. Bledsoe. 2003. Comment on Lewin and Brewer (2001): Predicting Channel Patterns, Geomorphology 40, 329-339. Geomorphology 53:333-337.

2002

Bledsoe, B.P. 2002. Stream Erosion Potential Associated with Stormwater Management Strategies. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 128:451-455.

Bledsoe, B.P., C.C. Watson, and D.S. Biedenharn. 2002. Quantification of Incised Channel Evolution and Equilibrium. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:861-870.

Watson, C.C., D.S. Biedenharn, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2002. Use of Incised Channel Evolution Models in Understanding Rehabilitation Alternatives. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:151-160.

2001

Bledsoe, B.P. and C.C. Watson. 2001. Effects of Urbanization on Channel Instability. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37(2):255-270.

Bledsoe, B.P. and C.C. Watson. 2001. Logistic Analysis of Channel Pattern Thresholds: Meandering, Braiding and Incising. Geomorphology 38:281-300.

Roesner, L.A., B.P. Bledsoe, and R.W. Brashear. 2001. Are BMP Criteria Really Environmentally Friendly? Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 127:150-154.

2000

Book Chapters:

Bledsoe, B.P., *S.K. Carney, and *R.J. Anderson. 2011. Scale-dependent Effects of Bank Vegetation on Channel Processes: Field Data, CFD Modeling, and Restoration Design. In S. Bennett, J. Castro, C. Thorne, and A. Simon, The Scientific Basis for Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems: Deterministic Approaches, Analyses and Tools, American Geophysical Union.

Booth, D.B. and B.P. Bledsoe. 2009. Streams and Urbanization. In L.A. Baker (Ed.), The Water Environment of Cities, ISBN: 978-0-387-84890-7, Springer-Verlag.

Bledsoe, B.P. 2007. Framework for Risk-based Assessment of Stream Response to Urbanization. Pages 141-156 In V. Novotny and P. Brown (Eds.), Cities of the Future: Towards Integrated Sustainable Water and Landscape Management, IWA Publishing, London, UK.

Bledsoe, B.P. 2002. Relationships of Stream Responses to Hydrologic Changes. Pages 127-144 In B.R. Urbonas (Ed.), Linking Stormwater BMP Designs and Performance to Receiving Water Impacts Mitigation, American Society of Civil Engineers, 572 pp.

Proceedings Paper:

*Yochum, S.E. and B.P. Bledsoe. 2010. Flow Resistance Estimation in High-gradient Streams. Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling (JFIC2010: 9thFISC & 4thFIHMC), Las Vegas, NV, June 27 - July 1.

Report

Bledsoe, B., *J. Meyer, *E. Holburn, *C. Cuhaciyan, *S. Earsom, and *B. Snyder. 2005. Eagle River Inventory and Assessment. Final Report to the Eagle River Watershed Council, Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment, and Great Outdoors Colorado, 550 pp. + app.