Recent Publications
This list features recent Landslide Program publications, searchable by Landslide Program authors. Open File Reports and Non-USGS
publications are listed for recent years only, but the list includes all Landslide USGS Fact Sheets.
For a more comprehensive, searchable list of publications, please see the USGS Main Publication search page: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov
Open-File Reports
- (2011) Collins, B.D., Baum, R.L., Mrozek, Teresa, Nescieruk, Piotr, Perski, Zbigniew, Rączkowski, Wojciech, and Graniczny, Marek, 2011, Evaluation of landslide monitoring in the Polish Carpathians:, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2011-1001, 30 p.
- (2007) Collins, B. D., Kayen, Robert, Reiss, Thomas, and Sitar, Nicholas, 2007,Terrestrial LIDAR Investigation of the December 2003 and January 2007 activations of the Northridge Bluff Landslide, Daly City, California:, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1079, 37 p.
- (2012) Stock, G.M., Luco, N., Collins, B.D., Harp, E.L., Reichenbach, P., and Frankel, K.L., 2012, Quantitative rock-fall hazard and risk assessment for Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California: , National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, California, 96p.
- (2010) Storesund, R., Dengler, L., Mahin, S., Collins, B.D., Hanshaw, M., Welsh, K., 2010, Geotechnical engineering reconnaissance of the Mw 6.5 earthquake offshore Northern California, January 9, 2010--Field Reconnaissance Summary:, GEER Association Report No. GEER-020, 41 p.
- (2013) Lu, N., Kaya, M., Collins, B., and Godt, J., 2013, Hysteresis of unsaturated hydro-mechanical properties of a silty soil: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000786
- (2012) Stock, G.M., Martel, S.J., Collins, B.D., and Harp, E.L., 2012. Progressive failure of sheeted rock slopes: the 2009–2010 Rhombus Wall rock falls in Yosemite Valley, California, USA:, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., v. 37, pp. 546–561. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3192
- (2012) Collins, B.D., Stock, J., Foster, K., Whitman, M., and Knepprath, N., 2012, Monitoring subsurface hydrologic response for determining thresholds of precipitation-induced shallow landslides in the San Francisco Bay area, in Landslides and Engineered Slopes,, in Protecting Society through Improved Understanding, proc. of the 11th Int. Symp. on Landslides, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Eberhardt et al., eds., pp. 1249-1255.
- (2012) Collins, B.D., Kayen, R. and Tanaka, Y., 2012, Spatial distribution of landslides triggered from the 2007 Niigata Chuetsu-Oki Japan Earthquake:, Engineering Geology, 127, pp. 14-26.
- (2012) Stock, G.M., Luco, N., Harp, E.L., Collins, B.C., Reichenbach, P., Frankel, K., Matasci, B., Carrea, D., Jaboyedoff, M., and Oppikofer, T., 2012, Quantitative rock-fall hazard and risk assessment for Yosemite Valley, California, in Landslides and Engineered Slopes: Protecting Society through Improved Understanding, proc. of the 11th Int. Symp. on Landslides, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Eberhardt et al., eds., pp. 1119-1125.
- (2012) Collins, B.D. and Stock, G.M., 2012, Lidar based rock-fall hazard characterization of cliffs: ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 225, Geotechnical Engineering State of the Art and Practice, R.D. Hryciw, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, and N. Yesiller, eds., pp. 3021-3030.
- (2012) Stock, G.M., Sitar, N., Borchers, J.W., Harp, E.L., Snyder, J.B., Collins, B.D., Bales, R.C., Wieczorek, G.F., 2012, Evaluating hypothesized water system triggers for rock falls from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, in Landslides and Engineered Slopes: Protecting Society through Improved Understanding, proc. of the 11th Int. Symp. on Landslides, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Eberhardt et al., eds., pp. 1165-1171.
- (2012) Zimmer, V., Collins, B.D., Stock, G.M., and Sitar, N., 2012, Rock fall dynamics and deposition: an integrated analysis of the 2009 Ahwiyah Point rock fall: Yosemite National Park, USA., Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 37, no. 6, pp. 680-691.
- (2011) Collins, B.D. and Sitar, N., 2011. Stability of steep slopes in cemented sands:, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Vol. 137(1), pp. 43-51.
- (2011) Stock, G.M., Bawden, G.W., Green, J.K., Hanson, E., Downing, G., Collins, B.C., Bond, S., and Leslar, M., 2011, High-resolution three-dimensional imaging of rock falls in Yosemite Valley, California: Geosphere, GSA, vol. 7(2), pp. 573-581.
- (2009) Collins, B.D. and Sitar, N., 2009. Geotechnical properties of cemented sands in steep slopes:, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Vol. 135(10), pp. 1359-1366.
- (2008) Collins, B.D., and Sitar, N., 2008. Processes of Coastal Bluff Erosion in Weakly Lithified Sands, Pacifica, California, USA., Geomorphology, Elsevier, Vol. 97(3/4) pp. 483-501.
- (2007) Collins, B.D., Kayen, R., and Sitar, N., 2007. Process-based Empirical Prediction of Landslides in Weakly Lithified Coastal Cliffs, San Francisco, California, USA., Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Landslides and Climate Change, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, May 2007, R. McInnes, J. Jakeways, H. Fairbank, E. Mathie, eds., Taylor & Francis, pp 175-184.