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Overview

Rex L. Baum is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on landslides and related hazards within the broader field of Environmental Science, with secondary contributions to Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Several subfields of their work include Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's recent publications address various aspects of landslide susceptibility, monitoring, and modeling. Notable papers include:

  • Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations (2020, Landslides)
  • Incorporating the Effects of Complex Soil Layering and Thickness Local Variability into Distributed Landslide Susceptibility Assessments (2021, Water)
  • HydroMet: A New Code for Automated Objective Optimization of Hydrometeorological Thresholds for Landslide Initiation (2021, Water)
  • When hazard avoidance is not an option: lessons learned from monitoring the postdisaster Oso landslide, USA (2021, Landslides)
  • Assessing locations susceptible to shallow landslide initiation during prolonged intense rainfall in the Lares, Utuado, and Naranjito municipalities of Puerto Rico (2024, Natural hazards and earth system sciences)

Frequent coauthors contributing alongside Rex L. Baum include Mark E. Reid, Jeffrey A. Coe, Benjamin B. Mirus, Jonathan W. Godt, and Stephen L. Slaughter. Coauthorship patterns indicate collaboration primarily in landslide hazard monitoring and related environmental assessments.

The scientist's publications are regularly featured in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Landslides
  • Water
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Data report

Research topics span:

  • 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
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Overall, Rex L. Baum's expertise integrates multidisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental hazards, particularly landslide risks, through observational studies, data analysis, and modeling efforts. The work contributes to hazard management policies, monitoring protocols, and engineering applications addressing natural disaster impacts on various landscapes.

Best Publications

  • Early warning of rainfall-induced shallow landslides and debris flows in the USA

    Rex L. Baum;Jonathan W. Godt

  • TRIGRS - A Fortran Program for Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-Based Regional Slope-Stability Analysis, Version 2.0

    Rex L. Baum;William Z. Savage;Jonathan W. Godt

  • Estimating the timing and location of shallow rainfall‐induced landslides using a model for transient, unsaturated infiltration

    Rex L. Baum;Jonathan W. Godt;William Z. Savage

  • Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster

    R.M. Iverson;D.L. George;K. Allstadt;M.E. Reid

  • Transient deterministic shallow landslide modeling: Requirements for susceptibility and hazard assessments in a GIS framework

    J.W. Godt;R.L. Baum;W.Z. Savage;D. Salciarini

  • Rainfall characteristics for shallow landsliding in Seattle, Washington, USA

    Jonathan W. Godt;Rex L. Baum;Alan F. Chleborad

  • Landsliding in partially saturated materials

    Jonathan W. Godt;Rex L. Baum;Ning Lu

  • Modeling regional initiation of rainfall-induced shallow landslides in the eastern Umbria Region of central Italy

    Diana Salciarini;Jonathan W. Godt;William Z. Savage;Pietro Conversini

  • Improving predictive power of physically based rainfall-induced shallow landslide models: a probabilistic approach

    S. Raia;M. Alvioli;M. Rossi;R. L. Baum

  • Parallelization of the TRIGRS model for rainfall-induced landslides using the message passing interface

    M. Alvioli;R.L. Baum

  • Regional landslide-hazard assessment for Seattle, Washington, USA

    Rex L. Baum;Jeffery A. Coe;Jonathan W. Godt;Edwin L. Harp

  • 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

  • Modeling landslide recurrence in Seattle, Washington, USA

    Diana Salciarini;Jonathan W. Godt;William Z. Savage;Rex L. Baum

  • New insights into debris-flow hazards from an extraordinary event in the Colorado Front Range

    Jeffrey A. Coe;Jason W. Kean;Jonathan W. Godt;Rex L. Baum

  • Deterministic estimation of hydrological thresholds for shallow landslide initiation and slope stability models: case study from the Somma-Vesuvius area of southern Italy

    P. De Vita;E. Napolitano;J. W. Godt;R. L. Baum

  • Stability of infinite slopes under transient partially saturated seepage conditions

    Jonathan W. Godt;Başak Şener-Kaya;Ning Lu;Rex L. Baum

  • Landslide susceptibility from topography in Guatemala

    J.A. Coe;J.W. Godt;R.L. Baum;R.C. Bucknam

  • Modeling time-dependent areal slope stability

    W. Z Savage;J. W Godt;R. L Baum

  • Effect of antecedent-hydrological conditions on rainfall triggering of debris flows in ash-fall pyroclastic mantled slopes of Campania (southern Italy)

    E. Napolitano;F Fusco;Rex L. Baum;Jonathan W. Godt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan W. Godt
Jonathan W. Godt United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey A. Coe
Jeffrey A. Coe United States Geological Survey
Benjamin B. Mirus
Benjamin B. Mirus United States Geological Survey
Jason W. Kean
Jason W. Kean United States Geological Survey
Edwin L. Harp
Edwin L. Harp United States Geological Survey
Brian D. Collins
Brian D. Collins United States Geological Survey
Arvid M. Johnson
Arvid M. Johnson Purdue University West Lafayette
Dalia Kirschbaum
Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center
Dennis M. Staley
Dennis M. Staley United States Geological Survey
Randall W. Jibson
Randall W. Jibson United States Geological Survey

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