Journal articles
* Denotes student author
*Cho, J and PA Nelson, 2024, Patterns of Alluviation in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channels: 2. Controls on the Formation of Alluvial Patches, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(1), e2023JF007293, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007293
- Received Editor’s Highlight in EOS: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/having-a-rough-time-modeling-sediment-grains-moving-in-rivers
*Cho, J and PA Nelson, 2024, Patterns of Alluviation in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channels: 1. Numerical Model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(1), e2023JF007292, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007292
- Received Editor’s Highlight in EOS: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/having-a-rough-time-modeling-sediment-grains-moving-in-rivers
*White, DC, RR Morrison, and PA Nelson, 2023, Experimental observations of floodplain vegetation, bedforms, and sediment transport interactions in a meandering channel, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 128, e2023JF007136. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007136
*Gieschen, M and PA Nelson, 2023, Untangling the Effects of Seasonality and Post-Fire Stream Channel Erosion on the Hydrologic Response of a Burned Mountain Catchment, Hydrological Processes 37:e14968, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14968
*White, DC and PA Nelson, 2023, Flume investigation into mechanisms responsible for particle sorting in gravel-bed meandering channels, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2022JF006821, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006821
- One of the top-downloaded articles among work published in an issue of Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface between 1st January 2022-31st December 2022, up to 12 months after publication.
*Scamardo, J, PA Nelson, M Nichols, and E Wohl, 2022, Modeling the relative morphodynamic influence of vegetation and large wood in a dryland ephemeral stream, Arizona, USA, Geomorphology, 417, 108444, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108444.
*Murphy, BM, KL Russell, S Mould, G Vietz, and PA Nelson, 2022, Managing urban riverscapes: An assessment framework to integrate social-ecological values and physical processes, Journal of Environmental Management, 322, 115862, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115862.
*Li, T, JG Venditti, CD Rennie, and PA Nelson, 2022, Bed and bank stress partitioning in bedrock rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006360.
*Morgan, JA and PA Nelson, 2021, Experimental investigation of flow and sediment supply effects on riffle-pool sequences, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46(4), 869-886, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5072.
Tullos, D, RH Hotchkiss, PA Nelson, and D Wegner, 2021, Sediment mismanagement puts reservoirs and ecosystems at risk, Eos, 14 April 2021, https://eos.org/opinions/sediment-mismanagement-puts-reservoirs-and-ecosystems-at-risk
*Timilsina, S, JD Niemann, SL Rathburn, FK Rengers, and PA Nelson, 2021, Modeling hydrologic processes and debris flow initiation during the September 2013 storm, Colorado Front Range, Landslides, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-04582-5.
Kampf, SK, BM Gannon, *C Wilson, *F Saavedra, ME Miller, A Heldmyer, B Livneh, P Nelson, and L MacDonald, 2020, PEMIP: Post-fire erosion model inter-comparison project, Journal of Environmental Management, 268, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110704.
*Morgan, JA and PA Nelson, Morphodynamic modeling of sediment pulse dynamics, 2019, Water Resources Research, 55, 8691-8707, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025407
*Brogan, DJ, PA Nelson, and LH MacDonald, 2019, Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment storage and erosion following a wildfire and extreme flood, Earth Surface Dynamics 7, 563-590, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-563-2019.
*Brogan, DJ, LH MacDonald, PA Nelson, and JA Morgan, 2019, Geomorphic complexity and sensitivity in channels to fire and floods in mountain catchments, Geomorphology 337, 53-68, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.03.031.
Annandale, GW, TJ Randle, EJ Langendoen, RH Hotchkiss, and the United States National Reservoir Sedimentation and Sustainability Team (NRSST), 2018, Reservoir sedimentation management: A sustainable development challenge, Hydrolink, Number 3, 72-75.
Nelson, PA and *JA Morgan, 2018, Flume experiments on flow and sediment supply controls on gravel bedform dynamics, Geomorphology, 323, 98-105, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.011.
*Bankert, A and PA Nelson, 2017, Alternate bar dynamics in response to increases and decreases of sediment supply, Sedimentology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12399.
*Brogan DJ, PA Nelson, and LH MacDonald, 2017, Reconstructing extreme post-wildfire floods: a comparison of convective and mesoscale events, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4194.
*Stroth, TR, BP Bledsoe, and PA Nelson, 2017, Full spectrum analytical channel design with the Capacity/Supply Ratio (CSR), Water, 9(4), 271, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w9040271.
*Rosburg TT, PA Nelson, and BP Bledsoe, 2017, Effects of urbanization on flow-duration and stream flashiness: A case study of Puget Sound streams, Western Washington, USA, JAWRA: Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 53(2), 493-507, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12511.
*Morgan JA, *DJ Brogan, and PA Nelson, 2017, Application of structure-from-motion in laboratory flumes, Geomorphology, 276, 125-143, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.10.021.
Cotrufo, MF, CM Boot, S Kampf, PA Nelson, *DJ Brogan, T Covino, ML Haddix, LH MacDonald, S Rathburn, S Ryan-Burkett, *S Schmeer, and E Hall, 2016, Redistribution of pyrogenic carbon from hillslopes to stream corridors following a large montane wildfire, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, 1348-1355, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005467.
Kampf, SK, *DJ Brogan, *S Schmeer, LH MacDonald, and PA Nelson, 2016, How do geomorphic effects of rainfall vary with storm type and spatial scale in a post-fire landscape? Geomorphology, 273, 39-51, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.08.001.
*Rosburg, TT, PA Nelson, *JS Sholtes, and BP Bledsoe, 2016, The effect of flow data resolution on sediment yield and channel design, Journal of Hydrology, 538, 429-439, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.04.040.
Fuller, TK, JG Venditti, PA Nelson, and WJ Palen, 2016, Modeling grain size adjustments in the downstream reach following run-of-river development, Water Resources Research, 52, 2770-2788, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017992.
Nelson, PA, RR McDonald, JM Nelson, and WE Dietrich, 2015, Coevolution of bed surface patchiness and channel morphology: 2. Numerical experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003429.
Nelson, PA, RR McDonald, JM Nelson, and WE Dietrich, 2015, Coevolution of bed surface patchiness and channel morphology: 1. Mechanisms of forced patch formation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003428.
Nelson, PA, *AK Brew, and *JA Morgan, 2015, Morphodynamic response of a variable-width channel to changes in sediment supply, Water Resources Research, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016806.
Nelson, PA, M Bolla Pittaluga, and G Seminara, 2014, Finite amplitude bars in mixed bedrock-alluvial channels, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JF002957.
Nelson, PA, D Bellugi, and WE Dietrich, 2014, Delineation of river bed-surface patches by clustering high-resolution spatial grain size data, Geomorphology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.06.008.
Venditti, JG, PA Nelson, JT Minear, J Wooster, and WE Dietrich, 2012, Alternate bar response to sediment supply termination, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, F02039, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF002254.
Nelson, PA and G Seminara, 2012, A theoretical framework for the morphodynamics of bedrock channels, Geophysical Research Letters, L06408, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050806.
Nelson, PA and G Seminara, 2011, Modeling the evolution of bedrock channel shape with erosion from saltating bed load, Geophysical Research Letters, L17406, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048628.
Nelson, PA, WE Dietrich, and JG Venditti, 2010, Bed topography and the development of forced bed surface patches, Journal of Geophysical Research, F04024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JF001747.
Venditti, JG, WE Dietrich, PA Nelson, MA Wydzga, J Fadde, and L Sklar, 2010, Effect of sediment pulse grain size on sediment transport rates and bed mobility in gravel bed rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research, F03039, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JF001418.
Venditti, JG, WE Dietrich, PA Nelson, MA Wydzga, J Fadde, and L Sklar, 2010, Mobilization of coarse surface layers in gravel-bedded rivers by finer gravel bedload, Water Resources Research, W07506, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008329.
Sklar, LS, J Fadde, JG Venditti, P Nelson, MA Wydzga, Y Cui, and WE Dietrich, 2009, Translation and dispersion of sediment pulses in flume experiments simulating gravel augmentation below dams, Water Resources Research, W08439, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008WR007346.
Nelson, PA, JG Venditti, WE Dietrich, JW Kirchner, H Ikeda, F Iseya, and LS Sklar, 2009, Response of bed surface patchiness to reductions in sediment supply, Journal of Geophysical Research, F02005, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JF001144.
Nelson, PA, JA Smith, and AJ Miller, 2006, Evolution of channel morphology and hydrologic response in an urbanizing drainage basin, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31: 1063-1079, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.1308.
Smith, JA, ML Baeck, KL Meierdiercks, PA Nelson, AJ Miller, and EJ Holland, 2005, Field studies of the storm event hydrologic response in an urbanizing watershed, Water Resources Research 41, W10413, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004WR003712.
Smith, JA, AJ Miller, ML Baeck, PA Nelson, GT Fisher, and KL Meierdiercks, 2005, Extraordinary flood response of a small urban watershed to short-duration convective rainfall, Journal of Hydrometeorology 6: 599-617, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM426.1.
Hicks, NS, JA Smith, AJ Miller, and PA Nelson, 2005, Catastrophic flooding from an orographic thunderstorm in the central Appalachians, Water Resources Research 41, W12428, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2005WR004129.