Manuscripts in revision/review
Gauvain, S., J. Anderson, E.M. Yager, and J. McNamara, (in review), Effects of Discharge and Morphology on Fluvial Sound
White*, D.C., E.M. Yager, C.J. Legleiter, G.E. Grant, L. Hempel, C.M. Leonard, K.E. Adler*, M. Harlan, B. Fasth, (in review), Estimating discharge from undular hydraulic jumps: Feasibility assessment based on flume experiments
Refereed Publications (*denotes student/postdoc from research group)
48) Bae, I.*, C. J. Legleiter, and E.M. Yager, (in press), Sundial: A Method for Inferring Image Acquisition Time from Shadow Orientation. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 10.1002/esp.70157.
47) Adler, K.E.*, A.D. Monsalve*, W.J. Reeder, E.M. Yager, D.M. Tartakovsky, G. Blois, and D. Tonina (2025), Impact of boulders and boulder-induced morphology on oxic volume of the hyporheic zone of plane-bed rivers, Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039214
46) Whitfield, D., E., Baynes, R.A. Hodge, S. Rice and E.M. Yager, (2025), The Influence of Gravel-Bed Structure on Grain Mobility Thresholds: Comparison of Force-Balance Approaches, JGR-Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JF008333
45) Legleiter, C.J., G.E. Grant, I. Bae*, B. Fasth, E.M. Yager, D.C. White*, L. Hempel, M. Harlan, C.M. Leonard, R.W. Dudley, (2025), Remote sensing of river discharge based on critical flow theory, Geophysical Research Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025GL114851
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44) Houseago, R., R.A. Hodge, B. Asher, R.I., Ferguson, C. Hackney, R.J. Hardy, T. Hoey, J. Johnson, S. Rice, E.M. Yager, and T. Yamasaki (2025), Quantifying bed surface roughness in bedrock and boulder-bed rivers, JGR-Earth Surface, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007996
43) Monsalve, A.D.*, S.R. Anderson, N.M. Gasparini, and E.M. Yager, (2025), RiverBedDynamics v1.0: A Landlab component for computing two-dimensional sediment transport and river bed evolution, EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3390.
42) Ferguson, R.I., R. J. Hardy, R.A. Hodge, R. Houseago, E.M. Yager, and T. N. Yamasaki, (2025), Predicting flow resistance in rough-bed rivers from topographic roughness: review and open questions, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.6016.
41) Hodge, R.A., H. E. Voepel, E. M. Yager, J. Leyland, J. P. L. Johnson, D. A. Sear, and S. Ahmed (2024), Improving predictions of critical shear stress in gravel bed rivers: identifying the onset of sediment transport and quantifying sediment structure, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5842
40) Yager, E.M., J. Shim*, R. A. Hodge, A. Monsalve*, D. Tonina, J. P. L. Johnson, and L. Telfer* (2024), Pro+: Automated protrusion and critical shear stress estimates from 3D point clouds of gravel beds, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5822 Pro+ code: https://github.com/eyager/ProPlus
39) Tranmer, A.W., U. Ji, M. Ahn, S. Jung, and E.M. Yager (2024), Flow hydraulics, sediment supply, and bed morphodynamics as controls on erosion and deposition in and around riparian vegetation patches, Water Resources Research, http://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034859
38) Yager, E.M., A. Monsalve*, J. Shim*, D. Tonina, C. Keady*, C. Borden, and S. Borden for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023), Determining Scour Depth Around Structures in Gravel-Bed Rivers, NCHRP Research Report 1031, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27027.
37) Smith, H.E.J.*, A.D., Monsalve*, J.M. Turowski, D. Rickenmann, and E.M. Yager (2023), Controls of local grain size distribution, bed structure, and flow conditions on sediment mobility, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/esp.5599
36) Monsalve, A.*, E.M. Yager, and D. Tonina (2023), Evaluating Apple iPhone LiDAR measurements of topography and roughness elements in coarse ccexcbedded streams, Journal of Ecohydraulics, https://doi.org/10.1080/24705357.2023.2204087
35) Duffin, J.*, E.M. Yager, C. Borden, J. Buffington, R. Benjankar, and D. Tonina, (2023), Impact of flow regulation on stream morphology and habitat quality distribution, Science of the Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163016
34) Larimer, J.*, E.M. Yager, B. Yanites, and A. Witsil (2021), Flume Experiments on the Erosive Energy of Bed Load Impacts on Rough and Planar Beds, JGR Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005834
33) Duffin, J.*, R.A. Carmichael*, E.M. Yager, R. Benjankar, and D. Tonina (2021), Detecting multi-scale riverine topographic variability and its influence on Chinook salmon habitat selection, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5077
32) Ockelford, A., E.M. Yager, and H.J. Smith (2020), The Initiation of Motion and Formation of Armour Layers, Treatise on Geomorphology, 2nd edition
31) Tonina, D., J.A. McKean, R.M Benjankar, E.M. Yager, R.A. Carmichael*, Q. Chen, A. Carpenter*, L.G. Kelsey*, M.R. Edmondson, Topobathymetric LiDAR to support multi-dimensional flow modeling in fluvial systems (2020), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4934
30) Roehner, C., J. Pierce, E.M. Yager, (2020), Spatial and temporal changes in aeolian redistribution of sediments and nutrients following fire, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4913
29)Masteller, C.C., N.J. Finnegan , J.M Turowski, E.M. Yager, D. Rickenmann, (2019), History‐dependent threshold for motion revealed by continuous bedload transport measurements in a steep mountain stream, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081325
28) Yager, E.M., M.W. Schmeeckle, and A. Badoux (2018), Resistance is not futile: Grain resistance controls on observed critical Shields stress variations, JGR-Earth Surface, 123 (12), https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004817
27) Yager, E.M., J.G. Venditti, H.J. Smith*, and M.W. Schmeeckle, (2018), The trouble with shear stress, Geomorphology, 323, 41-50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.008
26) Fremier, A., B. Yanites and E.M. Yager, (2018), Sex that moves mountains: the influence of spawning fish on river profiles over geologic timescales, Geomorphology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.09.033
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25) Monsalve, A.* and E.M. Yager, (2017), Bed surface adjustments to spatially variable flow in low relative submergence regimes, Water Resources Research, 53, 9350–9367, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020845.
24) Monsalve, A.*, E.M. Yager and M.W. Schmeeckle, (2017), Effects of bedforms and large protruding grains on near-bed flow hydraulics in low relative submergence conditions, JGR-Earth Surface, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF004152
23) Perreault, L.M.*, E.M. Yager, and R. Aalto, (2017), Effects of gradient, distance, curvature and aspect on steep burned and unburned hillslope soil erosion and deposition, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42, 1033-1048, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4067 .
22) Monsalve A.*, E.M. Yager, J. Turowski, and D. Rickenmann, (2016) A probabilistic formulation of bed load transport to include spatial variability of flow and surface grain size distributions, Water Resources Research, 52, 3579-3598, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017694 .
21) Benjankar, R.*, E.M. Yager, D. Tonina, and N. Merz (2016), REI: Riparian Ecosystem Index to assess the impact of hydrologic regime changes on riparian ecosystems, Ecohydrology, 9, 153-166 https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1621
20) Buxton, T.H.*, J.M. Buffington, E.M. Yager, M.A. Hassan and A.K. Fremier, (2015), The Relative Stability of Salmon Redds and Unspawned Stream Beds, Water Resources Research, 51, 6074–6092, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR016908
19) J. D. Pelletier, A.B. Murray, J.L. Pierce, P.R. Bierman, D.D.Breshears, B.T. Crosby, M. Ellis, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A.M. Heimsath, C. Houser, N. Lancaster, M. Marani, D.J. Merritts, L.J. Moore, J.L. Pederson, M.J. Poulos, T.M. Rittenour, J.C. Rowland, P. Ruggiero, D.J. Ward, K.X. Whipple, A.D. Wickert, and E.M. Yager, (2015), Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land-use changes: A review of methods and research needs, Earth's Future, 3(7), 220-251, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EF000290 .
18 )Buxton, T.H.*, J.M. Buffington, D. Tonina, A.K. Fremier, and E.M. Yager (2015), The influence of salmon spawning on hyporheic exchange and residence times of marine-derived nutrients in gravel streambeds, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 72, 1146-1158, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2014-0413
17) Yager, E.M., M. Kenworthy*, and A. Monsalve* (2015), Taking the river inside: Fundamental advances from laboratory experiments in measuring and understanding bedload transport processes, Geomorphology, 244, 21-32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.04.002 .