Joe Wagenbrenner

Arcata, CA 95521-6013
United States
Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; MacDonald, Lee H.; Coats, Robert N.; Robichaud, Peter R.; Brown, Robert E. 2015. Effects of post-fire salvage logging and a skid trail treatment on ground cover, soils, and sediment production in the interior western United States. Forest Ecology and Management. 335: 176-193.
Wagenbrenner, J.W., P.R. Robichaud, R.E. Brown. 2016. Rill erosion in burned and salvage logged western montane forests: Effects of logging equipment type, traffic level, and slash treatment. Journal of Hydrology 541: 889–901
Van Grinsven, M.J., J.P. Shannon, J.C. Davis, N.W. Bolton, J.W. Wagenbrenner, R.K. Kolka, T.G. Pypker, 2017. Source water contributions and hydrologic responses to simulated emerald ash borer infestations in depressional black ash wetlands. Ecohydrology, doi: 10.1002/eco.1862
Measuring the effectiveness of post-fire response treatments at mitigating runoff and erosion in the western U.S. Comparing the relative rill erosion rates of fire and logging skid trails to undisturbed forests. Developing rill erosion modeling parameters for disturbed and undisturbed forests. Quantifying post-fire erosion rates in western Montana.
Robichaud, Peter R.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Pierson, Fredrick B.; Spaeth, Kenneth E.; Ashmun, Louise E.; Moffet, Corey A. 2016. Infiltration and interrill erosion rates after a wildfire in western Montana, USA. Catena. 142: 77-88.
Robichaud, P. R.; Elliot, W. J.; Wagenbrenner, J. W. 2011. Probabilistic soil erosion modeling using the Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMIT) after wildfires. ISELE Paper Number 11039. Paper presented at the international symposium on erosion and landscape evolution; September 18-21, 2011; Anchorage, AK. ASABE Publication Number 711P0311cd. 8 p.
Robichaud, Peter R.; Pierson, Frederick B.; Brown, Robert E.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W. 2008. Measuring effectiveness of three postfire hillslope erosion barrier treatments, western Montana, USA. Hydrological Processes. 22: 159-170.
Robichaud, P. R.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Brown, R. E.; Wohlgemuth, P. M.; Beyers, J. L. 2008. Evaluating the effectiveness of contour-felled log erosion barriers as a post-fire runoff and erosion mitigation treatment in the western United States. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 17: 255-273.
Robichaud, Peter R.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Lewis, Sarah A.; Ashmun, Louise E.; Brown, Robert E.; Wohlgemuth, Peter M. 2013. Post-fire mulching for runoff and erosion mitigation; Part II: Effectiveness in reducing runoff and sediment yields from small catchments. Catena. 105: 93-111.
Robichaud, Peter R.; Lewis, Sarah A.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Ashmun, Louise E.; Brown, Robert E. 2013. Post-fire mulching for runoff and erosion mitigation; Part I: Effectiveness at reducing hillslope erosion rates. Catena. 105: 75-92.
Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Robichaud, Peter R. 2011. Rill erosion rates in burned forests. In: Goncalves, Antonio Bento; Vieira, Antonio A. B., eds. Proceedings of the 3rd International Meeting of Fire Effects on Soil Properties; 15-19 March 2011; University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal. Guimaraes, Portugal: Universidade do Minho, NIGP e CEGOT. p. 156-159.
Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Robichaud, P. R.; Elliot, W. J. 2010. Rill erosion in natural and disturbed forests: 2. Modeling approaches. Water Resources Research. 46: W10507.
Robichaud, P. R.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Brown, R. E. 2010. Rill erosion in natural and disturbed forests: 1. Measurements. Water Resources Research. 46: W10506.
This work will help provide an understanding of the resiliency, function, and health of natural and human-impacted environments. Among many other aspects, land managers and policy makers need to understand the effects of various management decisions on watersheds to make informed management decisions. Fires and other disturbances may cause dramatic impacts to hydrologic processes, resulting in risks to safety, health, wildlife habitat, and other human values. Quantifying and developing means to mitigate these impacts will improve our management of the risks these disturbances might have and improve our ability to predict ecosystem responses. Knowing the effectiveness of various post-disturbance management practices will allow land managers to select the most suitable mitigation techniques when mitigation is needed.
- Washington State University, Pullman, Ph.D., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, 2013
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, M.S., Watershed Science, 2003
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, B.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, 1993
- Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; MacDonald, Lee H.; Coats, Robert N.; Robichaud, Peter R.; Brown, Robert E.. 2015. Effects of post-fire salvage logging and a skid trail treatment on ground cover, soils, and sediment production in the interior western United States
- Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Robichaud, P. R.; Brown, R. E.. 2016. Rill erosion in burned and salvage logged western montane forests: Effects of logging equipment type, traffic level, and slash treatment
- Robichaud, Pete; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Pierson, Fredrick B.; Spaeth, Kenneth E.; Ashmun, Louise E.; Moffet, Corey A.. 2016. Infiltration and interrill erosion rates after a wildfire in western Montana, USA
- Robichaud, Peter R.; Lewis, Sarah A.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Ashmun, Louise E.; Brown, Robert E.. 2013. Post-fire mulching for runoff and erosion mitigation; Part I: Effectiveness at reducing hillslope erosion rates
- Robichaud, Peter R.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Lewis, Sarah A.; Ashmun, Louise E.; Brown, Robert E.; Wohlgemuth, Peter M.. 2013. Post-fire mulching for runoff and erosion mitigation; Part II: Effectiveness in reducing runoff and sediment yields from small catchments
- Robichaud, P. R.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Brown, R. E.. 2010. Rill erosion in natural and disturbed forests: 1. Measurements
- Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Robichaud, P. R.; Elliot, W. J.. 2010. Rill erosion in natural and disturbed forests: 2. Modeling approaches
- Robichaud, Peter R.; Pierson, Frederick B.; Brown, Robert E.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2008. Measuring effectiveness of three postfire hillslope erosion barrier treatments, western Montana, USA
- Robichaud, P. R.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Brown, R. E.; Wohlgemuth, P. M.; Beyers, J. L.. 2008. Evaluating the effectiveness of contour-felled log erosion barriers as a post-fire runoff and erosion mitigation treatment in the western United States
- Van Grinsven, Matthew J.; Shannon, Joseph P.; Davis, Joshua C.; Bolton, Nicholas W.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Kolka, Randall K.; Grant Pypker, Thomas. 2017. Source water contributions and hydrologic responses to simulated emerald ash borer infestations in depressional black ash wetlands
- Kassuelke, Shelby R.; Dymond, Salli F.; Feng, Xue ; Savage, Jessica A.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2022. Understory evapotranspiration rates in a coast redwood forest
- Safeeq, Mohammad ; Bart, Ryan R.; Pelak, Norman F.; Singh, Chandan K.; Dralle, David N.; Hartsough, Peter ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2021. How realistic are water‐balance closure assumptions? A demonstration from the southern sierra critical zone observatory and kings river experimental watersheds
- Richardson, Paul W.; Seehafer, Jayme E.; Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Sutherland, Diane G.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Bladon, Kevin D.; Dymond, Salli F.; Cole, Ryan P.. 2021. Fifty‐eight years and counting of watershed science at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds in northern California
- Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Ebel, Brian A.; Bladon, Kevin D.; Kinoshita, Alicia M.. 2021. Post-wildfire hydrologic recovery in Mediterranean climates: A systematic review and case study to identify current knowledge and opportunities
- Dymond, Salli F.; Richardson, Paul W.; Webb, Lynn A.; Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Arismendi, Ivan ; Bladon, Kevin D.; Cafferata, Peter H.; Dahlke, Helen E.; Longstreth, David L.; Brand, Patrick K.; Ode, Peter R.; Surfleet, Christopher G.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2021. A field-based experiment on the influence of stand density reduction on watershed processes at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds in Northern California
- Dymond, Salli F.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Bladon, Kevin D.. 2021. Dynamic hillslope soil moisture in a Mediterranean montane watershed
- Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Dralle, David N.; Safeeq, Mohammad ; Hunsaker, Carolyn T.. 2021. The Kings River Experimental Watersheds: Infrastructure and data
- Prats, Sergio A.; Malvar, Maruxa C.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2021. Compaction and cover effects on runoff and erosion in post‐fire salvage logged areas in the Valley Fire, California
- Olsen, Will H.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Robichaud, Peter R.. 2021. Factors affecting connectivity and sediment yields following wildfire and post‐fire salvage logging in California's Sierra Nevada
- Wilson, Codie ; Kampf, Stephanie K.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; MacDonald, Lee H.; Gleason, Hunter. 2021. Hillslope sediment fence catch efficiencies and particle sorting for post‐fire rain storms
- Leverkus, Alexandro B.; Buma, Brian ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph ; Burton, Philip J.; Lingua, Emanuele ; Marzano, Raffaella ; Thorn, Simon. 2021. Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances?
- Robichaud, Peter R.; Lewis, Sarah A.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Brown, Robert E.; Pierson, Fredrick B.. 2020. Quantifying long-term post-fire sediment delivery and erosion mitigation effectiveness
- Lucas-Borja, Manuel E.; Ortega, R. ; Miralles, I. ; Plaza-Álvarez, P. A.; González-Romero, J. ; Peña-Molina, E. ; Moya, D. ; Zema, D. A.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.; de las Heras, J.. 2020. Effects of wildfire and logging on soil functionality in the short-term in <em>Pinus halepensis</em> M. forests
- Richardson, P. W.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.; Sutherland, D. G.; Lisle, T. E.. 2020. Measuring and modeling gravel transport at Caspar Creek, CA, to detect changes in sediment supply, storage, and transport efficiency
- Coble, Ashley A.; Barnard, Holly ; Du, Enhao ; Johnson, Sherri ; Jones, Julia ; Keppeler, Elizabeth ; Kwon, Hyojung ; Link, Timothy E.; Penaluna, Brooke E.; Reiter, Maryanne ; River, Mark ; Puettmann, Klaus ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2020. Long-term hydrological response to forest harvest during seasonal low flow: Potential implications for current forest practices
- Cole, Ryan P.; Bladon, Kevin D.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Coe, Drew B. R.. 2020. Hillslope sediment production after wildfire and post‐fire forest management in northern California
- Bart, Ryan R.; Safeeq, Mohammad ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Hunsaker, Carolyn T.. 2020. Do fuel treatments decrease forest mortality or increase streamflow? A case study from the Sierra Nevada (USA)
- Keppeler, Elizabeth; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2019. A tale of two droughts: the role of drought in the hydrologic response of a managed coast redwood watershed
- Richardson, Paul; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2019. Assessing the applicability of the Wilcock 2-fraction bedload transport model at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds, CA
- MacDonald, Lee ; Brogan, Daniel ; Nelson, Peter ; Kampf, Stephanie; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2019. Scaling post-fire effects from hillslopes to watersheds: processes, problems, and implications
- Robichaud, Peter R.; Storrar, Keenan A.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2019. Effectiveness of straw bale check dams at reducing post-fire sediment yields from steep ephemeral channels
- Davis, Joshua C.; Shannon, Joseph P.; Van Grinsven, Matthew J.; Bolton, Nicholas W.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Kolka, Randall K.; Pypker, Thomas G.. 2019. Nitrogen cycling responses to simulated emerald ash borer infestation in <em>Fraxinus nigra</em>-dominated wetlands
- Noh, Nam Jin; Shannon, Joseph P.; Bolton, Nicholas W.; Davis, Joshua C.; Van Grinsven, Matthew J.; Pypker, Thomas G.; Kolka, Randall K.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.. 2019. Temperature responses of carbon dioxide fluxes from coarse dead wood in a black ash wetland
- Prats, S.A. ; Malvar, M.C. ; Coelho, C.O.A ; Wagenbrenner, J.W.. 2019. Hydrologic and erosion responses to compaction and added surface cover in post-fire logged areas: Isolating splash, interrill and rill erosion
- Leverkus, Alexandro B.; Rey Benayas, José María; Castro, Jorge ; Boucher, Dominique ; Brewer, Stephen ; Collins, Brandon M.; Donato, Daniel ; Fraver, Shawn ; Kishchuk, Barbara E.; Lee, Eun-Jae ; Lindenmayer, David B.; Lingua, Emanuele ; Macdonald, Ellen ; Marzano, Raffaella ; Rhoades, Charles C.; Royo, Alejandro ; Thorn, Simon ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Waldron, Kaysandra ; Wohlgemuth, Thomas ; Gustafsson, Lena. 2018. Salvage logging effects on regulating and supporting ecosystem services — a systematic map
- Kampf, Stephanie K.; Faulconer, Joshua ; Shaw, Jeremy R.; Lefsky, Michael ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Cooper, David J.. 2018. Rainfall thresholds for flow generation in desert ephemeral streams
- O’Geen, Anthony (Toby); Safeeq, Mohammad ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph ; Stacy, Erin ; Hartsough, Peter ; Devine, Scott ; Tian, Zhiyaun ; Ferrell, Ryan ; Goulden, Mike ; Hopmans, Jan W.; Bales, Roger. 2018. Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory and Kings River Experimental Watersheds: a synthesis of measurements, new insights, and future directions
- Bales, Roger ; Stacy, Erin ; Safeeq, Mohammad ; Meng, Xiande ; Meadows, Matthew ; Oroza, Carlos ; Conklin, Martha ; Glaser, Steven ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2018. Spatially distributed water-balance and meteorological data from the rain–snow transition, southern Sierra Nevada, California
- Wilson, Codie ; Kampf, Stephanie K.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; MacDonald, Lee H.. 2018. Rainfall thresholds for post-fire runoff and sediment delivery from plot to watershed scales
- Van Grinsven, Matthew ; Shannon, Joseph ; Bolton, Nicholas ; Davis, Joshua ; Noh, Nam ; Wagenbrenner, Joseph ; Kolka, Randall ; Pypker, Thomas. 2018. Response of black ash wetland gaseous soil carbon fluxes to a simulated emerald ash borer infestation
- Kolka, Randall K.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Slesak, Robert A.; Pypker, Thomas G.; Youngquist, Melissa B.; Grinde, Alexis R.; Palik, Brian J.. 2018. Review of ecosystem level impacts of emerald ash borer on black ash wetlands: What does the future hold?
- Bolton, Nicholas; Shannon, Joseph; Davis, Joshua; Grinsven, Matthew; Noh, Nam; Schooler, Shon; Kolka, Randall; Pypker, Thomas; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2018. Methods to Improve Survival and Growth of Planted Alternative Species Seedlings in Black Ash Ecosystems Threatened by Emerald Ash Borer
- Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Robichaud, Peter R.. 2014. Post-fire bedload sediment delivery across spatial scales in the interior western United States
- Robichaud, P. R.; Elliot, W. J.; Wagenbrenner, J. W.. 2011. Probabilistic soil erosion modeling using the Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMIT) after wildfires
- Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Robichaud, Peter R.. 2011. Rill erosion rates in burned forests
- Robichaud, Peter R.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Brown, Robert E.; Spigel, Kevin M.. 2009. Three years of hillslope sediment yields following the Valley Complex fires, western Montana
- Robichaud, Pete; Lillybridge, T.R.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph. 2006. Effects of postfire seeding and fertilizing on hillslope erosion in north-central Washington, USA
- Wagenbrenner, J. W.; MacDonald, L. H.; Rough, D.. 2006. Effectiveness of three post-fire rehabilitation treatments in the Colorado Front Range
- Prats, S.A., J.W. Wagenbrenner, M.M.A. Martins, M.M. Malvar, and J.J. Keizer. 2016. Hydrologic implications of post-fire mulching across different spatial scales. Land Degradation and Development 27: 1440–1452
- Prats, S.A., J.W. Wagenbrenner, M.M.A. Martins, M.M. Malvar, and J.J. Keizer. 2016. Mid-term and scaling effects of forest residue mulching on post-fire runoff and soil erosion. Science of the Total Environment 573: 1242–1254
