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Patrick Belmont publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Belmont sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 162 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Patrick Belmont D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Belmont sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrick Belmont is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their research expertise lies primarily in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their work spans several key topics within these fields, including fire effects on ecosystems, soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and sediment transport processes, rangeland and wildlife management, hydrology and watershed management studies, landslides and related hazards, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Belmont has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Integrated assessment modeling reveals near-channel management as cost-effective to improve water quality in agricultural watersheds (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Evaluating the Relationship Between Meander-Bend Curvature, Sediment Supply, and Migration Rates (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • Human-induced pollution and toxicity of river sediment by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and accumulation in a paddy soil-rice system: A comprehensive watershed-scale assessment (2022, Chemosphere)
  • Impacts of climate change on multiple use management of Bureau of Land Management land in the Intermountain West, USA (2020, Ecosphere)
  • Predicting post-fire debris flow grain sizes and depositional volumes in the Intermountain West, United States (2022, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • HydroShare Resources
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Ecosphere

Patrick Belmont collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Brendan P. Murphy, Scott N. Zimmer, Peter B. Adler, S. R. David, and Domenico Capolongo. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research in their fields of study and support an interdisciplinary approach to environmental and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • Analyzing High Resolution Topography for Advancing the Understanding of Mass and Energy Transfer Through Landscapes: A Review

    Paola Passalacqua;Patrick Belmont;Dennis M. Staley;Jeffrey D. Simley

  • Large shift in source of fine sediment in the upper Mississippi River

    Patrick Belmont;Patrick Belmont;Karen B. Gran;Karen B. Gran;Shawn P. Schottler;Peter R. Wilcock;Peter R. Wilcock

  • Twentieth century agricultural drainage creates more erosive rivers

    Shawn P. Schottler;Jason Ulrich;Patrick Belmont;Richard Moore

  • Automatic geomorphic feature extraction from lidar in flat and engineered landscapes

    Paola Passalacqua;Patrick Belmont;Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

  • Landscape evolution, valley excavation, and terrace development following abrupt postglacial base-level fall

    Karen B. Gran;Karen B. Gran;Noah Finnegan;Noah Finnegan;Andrea L. Johnson;Patrick Belmont;Patrick Belmont

  • Modeling the impact of land use changes on runoff and sediment yield in the Le Sueur watershed, Minnesota using GeoWEPP

    Fukhrudin K. Maalim;Assefa M. Melesse;Patrick Belmont;Karen B. Gran

  • Toward generalizable sediment fingerprinting with tracers that are conservative and nonconservative over sediment routing timescales

    Patrick Belmont;Patrick Belmont;Jane K. Willenbring;Shawn P. Schottler;Julia Marquard

  • Geomorphic Evolution of the Le Sueur River, Minnesota, USA, and Implications for Current Sediment Loading

    Karen B Gran;Patrick Belmont;Stephanie S Day;Carrie Jennings

  • Human amplified changes in precipitation–runoff patterns in large river basins of the Midwestern United States

    Sara A. Kelly;Zeinab Takbiri;Patrick Belmont;Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

  • Measuring bluff erosion part 1: terrestrial laser scanning methods for change detection

    Stephanie S. Day;Karen B. Gran;Patrick Belmont;Tim Wawrzyniec

  • Floodplain width adjustments in response to rapid base level fall and knickpoint migration

    Patrick Belmont;Patrick Belmont

  • Measuring bluff erosion part 2: pairing aerial photographs and terrestrial laser scanning to create a watershed scale sediment budget

    Stephanie S. Day;Karen B. Gran;Patrick Belmont;Tim Wawrzyniec

  • Cosmogenic 10Be as a tracer for hillslope and channel sediment dynamics in the Clearwater River, western Washington State

    Patrick Belmont;F. J. Pazzaglia;J. C. Gosse

  • Post‐wildfire sediment cascades: A modeling framework linking debris flow generation and network‐scale sediment routing

    Brendan P. Murphy;Jonathan A. Czuba;Patrick Belmont

  • TerEx Toolbox for semi-automated selection of fluvial terrace and floodplain features from lidar

    Justin C. Stout;Justin C. Stout;Patrick Belmont

  • Closing the Gap Between Watershed Modeling, Sediment Budgeting, and Stream Restoration

    Sean M. C. Smith;Patrick Belmont;Peter R. Wilcock

  • Beyond the 1984 Perspective: Narrow Focus on Modern Wildfire Trends Underestimates Future Risks to Water Security

    Brendan P. Murphy;Larissa L. Yocom;Patrick Belmont

  • Accounting for uncertainty in remotely-sensed measurements of river planform change

    Mitchell Donovan;Patrick Belmont;Bastiaan Notebaert;Tyrel Coombs

  • A numerical model to develop long-term sediment budgets using isotopic sediment fingerprints

    Enrica Viparelli;J. Wesley Lauer;Patrick Belmont;Gary Parker

  • Landscape-scale geomorphic change detection: Quantifying spatially variable uncertainty and circumventing legacy data issues

    Keelin R. Schaffrath;Patrick Belmont;Joseph M. Wheaton

  • Identifying Sediment Sources and Sinks in the Root River, Southeastern Minnesota

    Justin C. Stout;Patrick Belmont;Shawn P. Schottler;Jane K. Willenbring

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Richard Wilcock
Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine
Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacques C. Finlay
Jacques C. Finlay University of Minnesota
Assefa M. Melesse
Assefa M. Melesse Florida International University
Lee H. MacDonald
Lee H. MacDonald Colorado State University
Joseph M. Wheaton
Joseph M. Wheaton Utah State University
Frank J. Pazzaglia
Frank J. Pazzaglia Lehigh University
Catherine L. Kling
Catherine L. Kling Cornell University
Tammy M. Rittenour
Tammy M. Rittenour Utah State University

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