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Overview

Francis K. Rengers is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, atmospheric science, and mechanical engineering as key subfields.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Tree root and stability studies
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Francis K. Rengers has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in the following frequent publication venues:

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

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • "Landslides after wildfire: initiation, magnitude, and mobility" (2020) published in Landslides
  • "Movement of Sediment Through a Burned Landscape: Sediment Volume Observations and Model Comparisons in the San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA" (2021) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Frequent co-authors of Francis K. Rengers are:

  • Jason W. Kean
  • Luke A. McGuire
  • Katherine R. Barnhart
  • A. Youberg
  • Dennis M. Staley

Best Publications

  • Inundation, flow dynamics, and damage in the 9 January 2018 Montecito debris-flow event, California, USA: Opportunities and challenges for post-wildfire risk assessment

    Jason W. Kean;Dennis M. Staley;Jeremy T. Lancaster;Francis K. Rengers

  • Landslides Triggered by the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand

    C. Massey;D. Townsend;Ellen M. Rathje;Kate E. Allstadt

  • Landslides after wildfire: initiation, magnitude, and mobility

    Francis K. Rengers;Luke A. McGuire;Nina S. Oakley;Jason W. Kean

  • Model simulations of flood and debris flow timing in steep catchments after wildfire

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

  • Debris flow initiation by runoff in a recently burned basin: Is grain-by-grain sediment bulking or en masse failure to blame?

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

  • 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

  • Evolution of Debris-Flow Initiation Mechanisms and Sediment Sources During a Sequence of Postwildfire Rainstorms

    Hui Tang;Luke A. McGuire;Francis K. Rengers;Jason W. Kean

  • Multi-model comparison of computed debris flow runout for the 9 January 2018 Montecito, California post-wildfire event

    K. R. Barnhart;R. P. Jones;D. L. George;B. W. McArdell

  • Hydrogeomorphic Recovery and Temporal Changes in Rainfall Thresholds for Debris Flows Following Wildfire

    Olivia J. Hoch;Luke A. McGuire;Ann M. Youberg;Francis K. Rengers

  • Movement of Sediment Through a Burned Landscape: Sediment Volume Observations and Model Comparisons in the San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA

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

  • Postwildfire Soil-Hydraulic Recovery and the Persistence of Debris Flow Hazards

    Matthew A. Thomas;Francis K. Rengers;Jason W. Kean;Luke A. McGuire

  • The recurrence interval of post-fire debris-flow generating rainfall in the southwestern United States

    Dennis M. Staley;Jason W. Kean;Francis K. Rengers

  • The evolution of gully headcut morphology: a case study using terrestrial laser scanning and hydrological monitoring

    Francis K. Rengers;Greg E. Tucker

  • Improving Near-Real-Time Coseismic Landslide Models: Lessons Learned from the 2016 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake

    Kate E. Allstadt;Randall W. Jibson;Eric M. Thompson;Chris I. Massey

  • The influence of vegetation on debris-flow initiation during extreme rainfall in the northern Colorado Front Range

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

  • Developing and testing physically based triggering thresholds for runoff‐generated debris flows

    Hui Tang;Luke A. McGuire;Francis K. Rengers;Jason W. Kean

  • Analysis and modeling of gully headcut dynamics, North American high plains

    Francis K. Rengers;G. E. Tucker

  • Illuminating wildfire erosion and deposition patterns with repeat terrestrial lidar

    Francis K. Rengers;Francis K. Rengers;G.E. Tucker;J.A. Moody;Brian Ebel

  • Progress in simplifying hydrologic model parameterization for broad applications to post‐wildfire flooding and debris‐flow hazards

    F. K. Rengers;L. A. McGuire;J. W. Kean;D. M. Staley

  • Constraining the relative importance of raindrop- and flow-driven sediment transport mechanisms in postwildfire environments and implications for recovery time scales

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

  • Trends of grain sizes on gravel bars in the Rio Chagres, Panama

    Francis Rengers;Ellen Wohl

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason W. Kean
Jason W. Kean United States Geological Survey
Dennis M. Staley
Dennis M. Staley United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey A. Coe
Jeffrey A. Coe United States Geological Survey
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan W. Godt
Jonathan W. Godt United States Geological Survey
Randall W. Jibson
Randall W. Jibson United States Geological Survey
Brian A. Ebel
Brian A. Ebel United States Geological Survey
Richard M. Iverson
Richard M. Iverson United States Geological Survey
Joseph Wartman
Joseph Wartman University of Washington
Shannon A. Mahan
Shannon A. Mahan United States Geological Survey

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