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Benjamin B. Mirus is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to related subfields such as management, monitoring, policy, and law; global and planetary change; atmospheric science; civil and structural engineering; and mechanical engineering.

The primary topics in their work include landslides and related hazards, cryospheric studies and observations, fire effects on ecosystems, flood risk assessment and management, soil and unsaturated flow, tree root and stability studies, and geotechnical engineering and analysis.

Benjamin B. Mirus has co-authored frequently with researchers including Jacob Woodard, Nathan Wood, Kate E. Allstadt, Ben Leshchinsky, and Stephen L. Slaughter.

The scientist has published in various venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Landslides
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Benjamin B. Mirus include:

  • Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations, 2020, Landslides

Best Publications

  • An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

    Simone Fatichi;Enrique R. Vivoni;Fred L. Ogden;Valeriy Y. Ivanov

  • Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations

    Benjamin B. Mirus;Eric S. Jones;Rex L. Baum;Jonathan W. Godt

  • Integrating real-time subsurface hydrologic monitoring with empirical rainfall thresholds to improve landslide early warning

    Benjamin B. Mirus;Rachel E. Becker;Rex L. Baum;Joel B. Smith

  • First-order exchange coefficient coupling for simulating surface water-groundwater interactions: parameter sensitivity and consistency with a physics-based approach.

    Brian A. Ebel;Benjamin B. Mirus;Christopher S. Heppner;Joel E. VanderKwaak

  • How runoff begins (and ends): Characterizing hydrologic response at the catchment scale

    Benjamin Bernhard Manson Mirus;Keith Loague

  • Physics-based hydrologic-response simulation: foundation for hydroecology and hydrogeomorphology

    Keith Loague;Christopher S. Heppner;Benjamin B. Mirus;Brian A. Ebel

  • Elucidating the role of vegetation in the initiation of rainfall-induced shallow landslides: Insights from an extreme rainfall event in the Colorado Front Range

    Luke A. McGuire;Luke A. McGuire;Francis K. Rengers;Jason W. Kean;Jeffrey A. Coe

  • Developing Hydro-Meteorological Thresholds for Shallow Landslide Initiation and Early Warning

    Benjamin B. Mirus;Michael D. Morphew;Joel B. Smith

  • Disturbance hydrology: challenges and opportunities

    Brian A. Ebel;Benjamin B. Mirus

  • Simulated effect of a forest road on near‐surface hydrologic response: redux

    Benjamin B. Mirus;Brian A. Ebel;Keith Loague;Beverley C. Wemple

  • Assessing the Feasibility of Satellite-Based Thresholds for Hydrologically Driven Landsliding

    Matthew A. Thomas;Brian D. Collins;Benjamin B. Mirus

  • Identifying Physics‐Based Thresholds for Rainfall‐Induced Landsliding

    Matthew A. Thomas;Benjamin Bernhard Manson Mirus;Brian D. Collins

  • Assessing the detail needed to capture rainfall‐runoff dynamics with physics‐based hydrologic response simulation

    Benjamin B. Mirus;Benjamin B. Mirus;Brian A. Ebel;Brian A. Ebel;Christopher S. Heppner;Keith Loague

  • Identifying long-term empirical relationships between storm characteristics and episodic groundwater recharge

    Arik M. Tashie;Benjamin B. Mirus;Tamlin M. Pavelsky

  • Clays Are Not Created Equal: How Clay Mineral Type Affects Soil Parameterization

    Peter Lehmann;Ben Leshchinsky;Surya Gupta;Benjamin B. Mirus

  • Hydrologic Impacts of Landslide Disturbances: Implications for Remobilization and Hazard Persistence

    Benjamin Bernhard Manson Mirus;Joel B. Smith;Rex L. Baum

  • Incorporating spatially heterogeneous infiltration capacity into hydrologic models with applications for simulating post-wildfire debris flow initiation

    Luke A. McGuire;Francis K. Rengers;Jason W. Kean;Dennis M. Staley

  • Disturbance Hydrology: Preparing for an Increasingly Disturbed Future

    Benjamin B. Mirus;Brian A. Ebel;Christian H. Mohr;Nicolas Zegre

  • Effect of Hydraulic Hysteresis on Stability of Infinite Slopes under Steady Infiltration

    Pan Chen;Benjamin Bernhard Manson Mirus;Ning Lu;Jonathan W. Godt

  • Physically Based Estimation of Rainfall Thresholds Triggering Shallow Landslides in Volcanic Slopes of Southern Italy

    Francesco Fusco;Pantaleone De Vita;Benjamin B. Mirus;Rex L. Baum

  • The future of landslides’ past—a framework for assessing consecutive landsliding systems

    Arnaud Temme;Fausto Guzzetti;Jalal Samia;Jalal Samia;Benjamin B. Mirus

  • Simulated Effect of a Forest Road on Near-Surface Hydrologic Response

    B. B. Mirus;B. A. Ebel;K. Loague

Frequent Co-Authors

Rex L. Baum
Rex L. Baum United States Geological Survey
Keith Loague
Keith Loague Stanford University
Brian A. Ebel
Brian A. Ebel United States Geological Survey
Jonathan W. Godt
Jonathan W. Godt United States Geological Survey
John R. Nimmo
John R. Nimmo United States Geological Survey
Brian D. Collins
Brian D. Collins United States Geological Survey
Stephanie K. Kampf
Stephanie K. Kampf Colorado State University
Kamini Singha
Kamini Singha Colorado School of Mines
Jason W. Kean
Jason W. Kean United States Geological Survey
Dalia Kirschbaum
Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center

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