Recent Publications
For a more comprehensive, searchable list of publications, please see the Landslide Bibliography.
Open-File Reports- (2006) 06-1032, Estimating Landslide Losses - Preliminary Results of a Seven-State Pilot Project, by Lynn M. Highland
- (2003) 03-211, An Account of Preliminary Landslide Damage and Losses Resulting from the February 28, 2001, Nisqually, Washington, Earthquake. By Lynn M. Highland.
- (2001) 01-0276, Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Landslides in the Western Hemisphere (posted 10 September 2001)
- (2000) 00-0450, National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy: A Framework for Loss Reduction (posted 5 February 2001)
- (2000) 00-0249, Probability Models for Estimation of Number and Costs of Landslides (posted 28 August 2000)
- (1997) 97-0289, Landslide Overview Map of the Conterminious United States – National Landslide Hazards Map (9/26/97). Special ordering information – UPDATED – Professional Paper 1183, "Landslide Overview Map of the Conterminous United States", published in 1983, is out of print, it has been re-formatted digitally for the internet. Its text and map is the primary source material for Open-file report 97-289
- (2005) FS 2005-3107, Southern California Landslides - An Overview
- (2005) FS 2005-3106, Southern California - Wildfires and Debris Flows
- (2005) FS 2005-3104, A NOAA-USGS Demonstration Flash-Flood and Debris-Flow Early-Warning System
- (2004) FS 2004-3072, Landslide Types and Processes
- (2008) Highland, Lynn M., and Paula Gori, 2008, Two Approaches to Landslide Awareness in the United States, in, Chen, Z. Zhang, J., Li, Z, Wu, F, Ho, K., eds., Landslides and Engineered Slopes, From the Past to the Future, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Landslides, Xian, China, June 30-July 4, 2008, Taylor and Francis Group, London.
- (2008) Geertsema, Marten, Lynn Highland and Laura Vaugeouis, 2008, Environmental impact of landslides, in, Sassa, D., and P. Canuti eds., Plenary Session Volume, First World Landslide Forum, November 18-21, Tokyo, Japan, p. 589. online: http://www.iclhq.org/WLFweb/WLF.htm
- (2008) Kjekstad, Oddvar and Lynn M Highlamd, 2008, Economic and Social Impacts of Landslides, in, Sassa, D., and P. Canuti eds., Plenary Session Volume, First World Landslide Forum, November 18-21, 2008, Tokyo, Japan, p. 573. online: http://www.iclhq.org/WLFweb/WLF.htm
- (2008) Highland, Lynn M., 2008, Geographical Overview of the Three Gorges Dam and Reservoir, China--Geologic and Environmental Hazards, First World Landslide Forum, November 18 - 21, Tokyo, Japan, Parallel Sessions Volume, International Program on Landslides, p. 269. online: http://www.iclhq.org/WLFweb/WLF.htm
- (2008) Highland, Lynn M., and Peter Bobrowsky, 2008, An Illustrated Handbook for developing nations, Proceedings, First World Landslide Forum, November 18 - 21, Tokyo, Japan, Parallel Sessions Volume, International Program on Landslides, p. 263. online: http://www.iclhq.org/WLFweb/WLF.htm
- (2007) Baum, Rex, Godt, Jonathan, and Lynn Highland, eds., 2007, Landslides and Engineering Geology of the Seattle, Washington, area,” Geological Society of America, Reviews in Engineering Geology Series, Vol. XX, 181 pp, 1 plate.
- (2007) "Riding the Storm", 2007, USGS-produced video, GIP - 48 (General Interest Publication)
- (2007) Schuster, R.L., and L.M. Highland, 2007, Impacts of mass wasting on the natural Environment, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, co-published by the Geolgoical Society of America (GSA) and the Association of Engineering Geologists, (AEG), Vol. XIII, No. 1, February, pp. 25-44.
- (2004) Paper (PDF) (2.2MB), Schuster, Robert L., and Highland, Lynn M., 2004, Impact of landslides and innovative landslide-mitigation measures on the natural environment: International Conference on Slope Engineering, Hong Kong, China, December 8–10, 2003, keynote address, Proceedings 29.
