Publications, Posters and Fact Sheets

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Publications:

Kepner, W. G., D. J. Semmens, M. Hernandez, and D. C. Goodrich. Evaluating Hydrological Response to Forecasted Land-Use Change. Chapter 15, The North American Land Cover Summit, Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, 275-292, (2008). Published 12/9/2008.

Levick, L., J. Fonseca, D. Goodrich, M. Hernandez, D. Semmens, J. Stromberg, R. Leidy, M. Scianni, D. P. Guertin, M. Tluczek, and W. Kepner. 2008. The Ecological and Hydrological Significance of Ephemeral and Intermittent Streams in the Arid and Semi-arid American Southwest (PDF)(116 pp., 2.6MB). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and USDA/ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, EPA/600/R-08/134, ARS/233046. Published 11/2008.
Levick, L., Semmens, D., Goodrich, D., Kepner, B., Brush, J., Leidy, R., Godmann, E. Simulated Changes in Runoff and Sediment in Developing Areas Near Benson, Arizona, EPA/600/R-06/158. Published 11/30/2006.

Susan M. Skirvin, William G. Kepner, Stuart E. Marsh, Samuel E. Drake, John K. Maingi, Curtis M. Edmonds, Christopher J. Watts, and David R. Williams. Assessing the Accuracy of Satellite-Derived Land-Cover Classification Using Historical Aerial Photography, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, and Airborne Video Data [PDF, 18 pp., 545 KB] Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment, 2004, 9:115-131. Posted with permission of CRC Press.

Kepner, W.G., D.J. Semmens, S.D. Bassett, D.A. Mouat, and D.C. Goodrich. Scenario Analysis for the San Pedro River, Analyzing Hydrological Consequences of a Future Environment [PDF, 13 pp., 2.6 MB]. Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2004 94: 115-127. Kluwer Academic Publishers. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:EMAS.0000016883.10110.15

William G. Kepner, C.M. Edmonds and Christopher J. Watts, 2002. Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Decision Analysis in Public Resource Administration: A Case Study of 25 Years of Landscape Change in a Southwestern Watershed. [PDF, 31 pp., 4.2 MB] EPA/600/R-02/039

William G. Kepner, Curtis M. Edmonds, John K. Maingi and Stuart E. Marsh, 2002. An Accuracy Assessment of 1992 Landsat-MSS Derived Land Cover for the Upper San Pedro Watershed (U.S./Mexico). [PDF, 28 pp., 3.5 MB] EPA/600/R-02/040

William G. Kepner, Susan M. Skirvin, Samuel E. Drake, John K. Maingi, Stuart E. Marsh, 2000. An Accuracy Assessment of 1997 Landsat Thematic Mapper Derived Land Cover for the Upper San Pedro Watershed (U.S./Mexico). [PDF, 22 pp., 8.6 MB] EPA/600/R-00/097

Hernandez, M., S.N. Miller, D.C. Goodrich, B.F. Goff, W.G. Kepner, C.M. Edmonds, and K.B. Jones. 2000. Modeling Runoff Response to Land Cover and Rainfall Spatial Variability in Semi-arid Watersheds. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (PDF), (14 pp, 130KB) 64: 285-298. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Goodrich, D.C. et al. 2000. Preface paper to the Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) Program special issue 25 Years of Landscape Change in. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Special Issue on Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) Program (M.S. Moran and P. Heilman eds.). Vol. 105, Nos. 1-3. Pp. 3-20.

Chehbouni, A., D.C. Goodrich, M.S. Moran, C.J. Watts, Y.H. Kerr, G. Dedieu, W.G. Kepner, W.J. Shuttleworth, and S. Sorooshian, 2000. A preliminary synthesis of major scientific results during the SALSA program. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Special Issue on Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) Program (M.S. Moran and P. Heilman eds.). Vol. 105, Nos. 1-3. Pp. 311-323.

Kepner, W.G., C. J. Watts, C.M. Edmonds, J. K. Maingi, S.E. Marsh, and G. Luna, 2000. A Landscape Approach for Detecting and Evaluating Change in a Semi-arid Environment. (PDF). (18 pp, 216 KB) Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Vol. 64, No. 1., pp. 179-195.

Hernandez, M., S.N. Miller, D.C. Goodrich, B.F. Goff, W.G. Kepner, C.M. Edmonds, and K.B. Jones, 2000. Modeling Runoff Response to Land Cover and Rainfall Spatial Variability in Semi-Arid Watersheds (PDF).(14 pp, 130KB), Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Vol. 64, pp. 285-298.

Posters:

Scenario Analysis for the San Pedro River: Analyzing Hydrological Consequences of a Future Environment. 2006. Kepner, W.G., D.J. Semmens, S.D. Bassett, D.A. Mouat, and D.C. Goodrich (expanded version). [PDF, 1pp., 483 Kb]

Scenario Analysis for the San Pedro River, Analyzing Hydrological Consequences of a Future Environment. Kepner, W.G., D.J. Semmens, S.D. Bassett, D.A. Mouat, and D.C. Goodrich. Presented at the EPA Science Forum: Your Health, Your Environment, Your Future, Washington, D.C., May 16-18, 2006. [PDF, 1pp., 458 kb]

The San Pedro River Spatial Data Archive ... A Database Browser for Community-based Environmental Protection. Presented at the First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, Benson, Arizona, October 27-30, 2003. [PDF, 1 pp., 265 KB]

Accessing the Accuracy of Satellite-derived Land Cover Classification Using Historical Aerial Photography, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles and Airborne Video Data. Presented at the Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 11-13, 2001. [PDF, 1 pp., 2.9 MB]

The Changing Watershed: A 25-Year History of Land Cover Change in the San Pedro River, an American Semi-arid Bioregion. Presented at the Landscape Futures Symposium, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, September 22-25, 1999. [PDF, 1 pp., 2.2 MB]

A Landscape Approach to Monitoring and Assessing Environmental Condition in the Upper San Pedro River Basin. Presented at the San Pedro Bi-national Conference on Cooperative Research and Management, Cananea, Sonora and Bisbee, Arizona, November 7-10, 1999. [PDF, 1 pp., 4.9 MB]

A Data Browser for the San Pedro River Watershed. Presented at the San Pedro Bi-national Conference on Cooperative Research and Management, Cananea, Sonora and Bisbee, Arizona, November 7-10, 1999. [PDF, 1 pp., 4 MB]

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