USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington

Cascades Volcano Observatory
Projects and Research

Online Projects and Reports from CVO Personel, arranged alphabetically. This list does NOT represent every Project or Report online on this website. It does however contain projects and reports not necessarily related to one particular volcano.

For a more in-depth idea of projects and research being done at a particular volcano go directly to that volcano via our Volcanoes Menu.

For a list of online CVO Reports, FactSheets, and Abstracts click HERE.

Acoustic Flow Monitors
-- Lahusen
Active Landslides
-- Reid and Lahusen
Augustine Island Monitoring Project
-- 1988 - 1996
Basic Photography at Mount St. Helens and Other Cascades Volcanoes
-- Topinka, 1992, IN: USGS Bulletin 1966, 223 p.
Bedload Samplers in High-Energy Flow
-- Childers, 1999, USGS Water Resources Investigations Report 92-4068, 59p.
Castle Lake Wells Project
-- Roeloffs
China Debris Flows, Jiangjia Ravine, Yunnan
-- Scott, 2004, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1671
Conflow
-- Mastin, 2000, a program for steady-state flow of magma-gas mixtures through vertical eruptive conduits
Dam-break Flood near Centralia, Washington
-- Costa, 1994, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4026
Debris Flows -- Distinguishing between Debris Flows and Floods from Field Evidence in Small Watersheds
-- Pierson, 2005, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2004-3142
Debris-Flow Flume Project
-- Iverson
Deformation of Volcanoes Project
-- Endo
Detecting Debris Flows Using Ground Vibrations
-- Lahusen, 1997
Eject!
-- Mastin, 2001, a program for the calculation of ballistic trajectories of volcanic blocks
Flume - Experimental Debris-Flow Flume Project
-- Iverson
Geologic History of Mount Hood Volcano, Oregon -- A Field-Trip Guidebook
-- Scott, Gardner, Sherrod, Tilling, Lanphere, and Conrey, 1997, USGS Open-File Report 97-263
Geologic Mapping Projects
-- Mount St. Helens Mapping, Southwest Washington, Augustine Island
Geologic Mapping of Mount St. Helens
-- Wolfe, Hoblitt
Geologic Mapping in Southern Washington Cascades
-- Banks, Swanson, Ashley, Moore
Gravel Dunes - Summary of research observations at a gravel-bed river
-- Dinehart, 1997
Groundwater Interactions with Volcanoes Project
-- Mastin
Geology of Interactions of Volcanoes, Snow, and Water Project
-- Waitt
Hurricane Mitch Reports
-- Major, Vallance, Schilling, 2001; San Miguel, San Vicente, and San Salvador in El Salvador; Agua, Fuego, and Acatenango in Guatemala; Concepción and Mombacho in Nicaragua
Hydraulic Modeling for Lahar Hazards at Cascades Volcanoes
-- Costa, 1997, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v.III, no.1, p.21-30.
Hydrologic Consequences of Hot-Rock/Snowpack Interactions at Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington, 1982-1984
-- Pierson (ed.), 1997, USGS Open-File Report 96-179
LIDAR - Mount St. Helens
-- Linda Mark, 2004
Major (J.J. Major) Projects
-- Major
Marmot Dam Breach, Sandy River, Oregon, October 19, 2007
-- Major
Mass Movement Dynamics - Experimental Debris-Flow Flume Project
-- Iverson
Mastin (L.G. Mastin) Projects
-- Mastin, Conflow, Eject, Abstracts and Publications
McVCO Handbook 1999
-- McChesney, 1999, USGS OFR-99-361
Measuring Flood Discharge using Ground-Penetrating Radar
-- Spicer, Costa, Placzek, 1997. Geology, May 1997, v.25, no.5, p.423-426
Monitoring Active Landslides Projects Menu
-- LaHusen and Reid
Monitoring Volcanoes: Techniques and Strategies
-- Ewert and Swanson (eds.), 1992, USGS Bulletin 1966, 223p.
A Numerical Program for Steady-State Flow of Magma-Gas Mixtures Through Vertical Eruptive Conduits
-- Mastin and Ghiorso, 2000, USGS Open-File Report 00-209
Objective delineation of lahar-inundation hazard zones
-- Iverson, Schilling, and Vallance, 1998, GSA Bulletin v.110, no.8
"Plumeria" - A user-friendly one-dimensional model for wet volcanic plumes
-- Mastin, 2007, Published in: G³
Polallie Creek, Oregon, Debris Flow and Dam-break Flood
-- Gallino and Pierson, 1984, USGS Open-File Report 84-578, 37p.
Post-Glacial Lahars of the Sandy River Basin, Mount Hood, Oregon
-- Cameron and Pringle, 1986, Northwest Science, v.60, n.4, p.225-237
Provisional Geologic Map of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
-- Waitt and Begét, 1996, USGS Open-File Report 96-516, 42p.
"Real-Time" Monitoring of an Active Landslide above Highway 50, California
-- Lahusen and Reid
Road Guide to Volcanic Deposits of Mount St. Helens and Vicinity
-- Doukas, 1990, USGS Bulletin 1859, 53p.
Rockslide-Debris Avalanche of May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington
-- Glicken, 1996, USGS Open-File Report 96-677
Sedimentology, Behavior, and Hazards of Debris Flows at Mount Rainier, Washington
-- Scott, Pringle, and Vallance, 1992, USGS Open-File Report 90-385
Sediment Transport in Volcanic Regions Projects Menu
-- CVO
Sediment Transport at Gaging Stations near Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1980-1990, Data Collection and Analysis
-- Dinehart, 1997, USGS Professional Paper 1573, 111 p.
Sediment Yield from Mount St. Helens, Washington
-- Costa, 1994, USGS Open-File Report 94-313
CVO SedLab
-- Gooding
Solar Electric Power for Instruments at Remote Sites
-- McChesney, 2000, USGS Open-File Report 00-128, 71p.
Tree-Ring Dating of Volcanic Deposits
-- Brantley, Yamaguchi, Cameraon, and Pringle, 1986, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, v.18, n.5, p.184-194
Updated Numerical Simulation of the Ground-Water Flow System for the Castle Lake Debris Dam, Mount St. Helens, Washinton, and Implications for Dam Stability Against Heave
-- Roeloffs, 1994, WRI-94-4075
VDAP - The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program
-- Miller, Ewert
VHP - The USGS Volcano Hazards Program
-- Scott, Pierson
Video documentation of experiments at the USGS debris-flow flume 1992-2006
This link provides on-line access to video clips of 107 flume experiments.
-- Logan and Iverson, 2007, OFR2007-1315
Volcanic Emissions Project
-- McGee, Gerlach, Doukas
Volcanic studies at the U.S. Geological Survey's David A. Johnston Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington
-- Brantley and Topinka, 1984, Earthquake Information Bulletin, March-April 1984, v.16, no.2
Volcano Hazards Assessment Reports and Maps
-- CVO Project, Washington State, Oregon, and California
VolQuake Program
Walder (J.S. Walder) Projects
-- Walder
Watershed Disturbance Project
-- Major
Yellowstone Continuous GPS Network
-- Dzurisin

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Cascades Volcano Observatory Projects and Research

Cascades Volcano Observatory
Projects and Research