Dr. Patrick Belmont

Publications | Books

• Smith, S., Belmont, P., Wilcock, P.R, (2011). Closing the gap between watershed modeling, sediment budgeting, and stream restoration: Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems: Scientific Approaches, Analyses, and Tools. AGU Monograph Series

Publications | Book Chapters

• Gran, K.B, Belmont, P., Day, S.S, Jennings, C., Johnson, A., Perg, L., Wilcock, P.R, (2009). Geomorphic evolution of the Le Sueur River, Minnesota, USA, and implications for current sediment loading: Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts. Geological Society of America Special Paper

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Fact Sheets

• James, C., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., Chandrasekaran, A., Walsworth, T., Belmont, P., (2025). Post-wildfire erosion and sedimentation: An escalating threat of Utah’s fisheries. USU Extension
• Olpin, Q., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., Chandrasekaran, A., Belmont, P., (2025). Wildfire and water security: Post-fire erosion and sedimentation threaten Utah’s reservoirs. USU Extension

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Klimas, K., Yocom, L., Belmont, P., Lutz, J., Wall, S., DeRose, J., (2025). A machine learning model to predict wildfire burn severity for pre-fire risk assessments, Utah, USA. . Fire Ecology, 21:8, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00346-z
• Ridgway, P., Lane, B., Canham, H., Murphy, B.P, Belmont, P., Rengers, F.K, (2024). Wildfire, extreme precipitation and debris flows, oh my! Channel response to compounding disturbances in a mountain stream in the Upper Colorado Basin, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49:12, 3855-3872.
• Lachapelle, P., Belmont, P., Grasso, M., McCann, R.B, Gouge, D., Husch, J., de Boer, C., Molzbichler, D., Klain, S., (2024). Academic capture in the Anthropocene: A framework to assess climate action in higher education. Climate Change, 177:40, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03696-4
• Xu, Z., Belmont, P., Brahney, J., Gellis, A.C, (2022). Sediment source fingerprinting as an aid to large-scale landscape conservation and restoration: A review for the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management, 324
• Brice, E.M, Miller, B.A, Zhang, H., Goldstein, K., Zimmer, S., Grosklos, G., Belmont, P., Flint, C., Givens, J., Adler, P., Brunson, M.W, Smith, J., (2020). Impacts of climate change on the management of multiple uses of BLM land in the Intermountain West (USA). Ecosphere, 11:11, e03286. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3286
• Passalacqua, P., Belmont, P., Staley, D.M, Simley, J.D, Arrowsmith, J.R, Bode, C.A, Crosby, C., DeLong, S.B, Glenn, N.F, S.A, Lague, D., Sangireddy, H., Schaffrath, K., Tarboton, D.G, Wasklewicz, T., Wheaton, J.M, (2015). Analyzing high resolution topography for advancing the understanding of mass and energy transfer through landscapes: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 148, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.05.012
• Stout, J.C, Belmont, P., Schottler, S.P, Willenbring, J.K, (2014). Identifying sediment sources and sinks in the Root River, Southeastern Minnesota. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104:1, 20–39.
• Gangodagamage, C., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Belmont, P., (2014). River basin organization around the main stem: Scale invariance in tributary branching and the incremental area function. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119:10, 2174–2193.
• Stout, J.C, Belmont, P., (2014). TerEx Toolbox for semi-automated selection of fluvial terrace and floodplain features from lidar. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39:5, 569–580.
• Belmont, P., Willenbring, J.K, Schottler, S.P, Marquard, J., Kumarasamy, K., Hemmis, J.M, (2014). Toward generalizable sediment fingerprinting with tracers that are conservative and nonconservative over sediment routing timescales. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 14:8, 1479–1492.
• Viparelli, E., Lauer, J.W, Belmont, P., Parker, G., (2013). A numerical model to develop long-term sediment budgets using isotopic sediment fingerprints. Computers & Geosciences, 53, 114–122.
• Gran, K.B, Finnegan, N., Johnson, A.L, Belmont, P., Wittkop, C., Rittenour, T.M, (2013). Landscape evolution, valley excavation, and terrace development following abrupt postglacial base level fall. Geological Society of America Bulletin
• Maalim, F.K, Melesse, A.M, Belmont, P., Gran, K.B, (2013). Modeling the impact of land use changes on runoff and sediment yield in the Le Sueur watershed, Minnesota using GeoWEPP. Catena, 107, 35–45.
• Gran, K.B, Belmont, P., Day, S.S, Finnegan, N., Jennings, C., Lauer, J.W, Wilcock, P.R, (2011). Landscape evolution in south-central Minnesota and the role of geomorphic history on modern erosional processes. Geological Society of America, 21:9, 7-9.
• Gangodagamage, C., Belmont, P., Foufoula-Georgiou, C., (2011). Revisiting scaling laws in river basins: New considerations across hillslope and fluvial regimes. Water Resources Research, 47, W07508.
• Belmont, P., Gran, K.B, Schottler, S., Wilcock, P.R, Day, S.S, Jennings, C.E, Lauer, J.W, Viparelli, E., Willenbring, J.K, Engstrom, D.R, Parker, G., (2011). Large shift in source of fine sediment in the Upper Mississippi River. Environmental Science and Technology, 45, 8804–8810.
• Belmont, P., (2011). Floodplain width adjustments in response to rapid base level fall and knickpoint migration. Geomorphology, 128 : 1-2 , 92-102.
• Belmont, P., Morris, D.P, Pazzaglia, F.J, Peters, S.C, (2009). Penetration of ultraviolet radiation in streams of eastern Pennsylvania: environmental controls and the role of suspended particulates. Aquatic Sciences, March, 189-201.
• Belmont, P., Pazzaglia, F.J, Gosse, J.C, (2007). Cosmogenic 10-Be as a Tracer for Hillslope and Channel Sediment Dynamics in the Clearwater River Basin, Western Washington State. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 264, 1232-135.
• Belmont, P., Hargreaves, B.R, Morris, D.P, Williamson, C.E, (2007). Estimating attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in streams: field and laboratory methods. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 83:6, 1339-1347.
• Hartman, P., Belmont, P., Zuber, S., Ishii, N., Anderson, J., (2003). Relationship between catalase and life span in recombinant inbred strains of Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Nematology, 35:3, 314-319.
• Schottler, S.P, Ulrich, J., Belmont, P., Moore, R., Lauer, J.W, Engstrom, D.R, Twentieth century agricultural drainage creates more erosive rivers. . Hydrologic Processes
• Day, S.S, Gran, K., Belmont, P., Measuring Bluff Erosion Part 2: Pairing Aerial Photographs and Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Create a Watershed Scale Sediment Budget. . Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Day, S.S, Gran, K., Belmont, P., Wawrzyniec, T., Terrestrial laser scanning methods for change detection. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Belmont, P., Willenbring, J.K, Schottler, S., Radiogenic tracers for sediment fingerprinting of fine sediment in an agricultural landscape. Geology
• Viparelli, E., Lauer, J.W, Belmont, P., Parker, G., A Numerical Model to Develop Long- term Sediment Budgets Using Isotopic Sediment Fingerprints. Computers and Geosciences Special issue on Modeling for Environmental Change
• Passalacqua, P., Belmont, P., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Automatic geomorphic feature extraction from lidar in flat and engineered landscapes. Water Resources Research, 48, W03528.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | MultiMedia

Software

• Brice, E., Miller, B.A, Zhang, H., Goldstein, K., Zimmer, S., Grosklos, G., Belmont, P., Flint, C., Givens, J., Brunson, M.W, Adler, P., Smith, J., (2020). Impacts of climate change on the management of multiple uses of BLM land in the IMW. Hydroshare *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Other Reports

• Belmont, P., Wilcock, P.R, Viparelli, E., (2010). Sediment Budget for Source Analysis: Le Sueur River, Minnesota. 9th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference
• Wilcock, P.R, Belmont, P., (2009). Identifying sediment sources in the Minnesota River Basin. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Bulletins

Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.