Publications

Wieczorek, G.F., Larsen, M.C., Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A. and Blair, J. L., 2001, Debris-flow and flooding hazards associated with the December 1999 storm in coastal Venezuela and strategies for mitigation: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-144, 40p., 3 tables, 2 appendices, 3 plates, 1 CD. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0144/

Larsen, M.C., 2000, Analysis of 20th century rainfall and streamflow to characterize drought and water resources in Puerto Rico: Physical Geography, v. 21, p. 494-521.

Larsen, M.C. and Stallard, R.F., 2000, Water, Energy,and Biogeochemical Budgets Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, FS 163-99, 4 p.

Larsen, M.C., Torres-Sánchez, A.J., and Concepción, I.M., 1999, Slopewash, surface runoff, and fine litter transport in forest and landslide scars in humid tropical steeplands, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 24, p. 481-506.

Larsen, M.C., and Torres Sanchez, A.J., 1998, The frequency and distribution of recent landslides in three montane tropical regions of Puerto Rico: Geomorphology, v. 24, p. 309-331.

White, A.F, Blum, A.E., Schulz, M.S., Vivit, D.V., Stonestrom, D.A., Larsen, Matthew, Murphy, S.F., and Eberl, D., 1998, Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: I. Long term versus short term weathering fluxes: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 62, no. 2. p. 209 226.

Larsen, M.C., and Concepción, I.M., 1998, Water budgets of small forested and agriculturally-developed montane watershed in eastern Puerto Rico: Proceedings, Tropical Hydrology and Caribbean Water Resources, R.I. Segarra-García, ed., American Water Resources Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 13-16, 1998, p. 199-204.

Larsen, M.C., and Parks, J.E., 1998, Map showing landslide hazards in the municipality of Comerio, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 98-566, 1 sheet.

Brown, E.T., Stallard, R.F., Larsen, M.C., Bour, D.L., Raiseck, G.M., and Yiou, F., 1998, Pre-anthropogenic denudation rates of a perturbed watershed (Cayaguás River, Puerto Rico) estimated from in situ produced 10Be in river borne quartz: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 160, p. 723 728.

Larsen, Matthew C., 1997, Tropical geomorphology and geomorphic work: A study of geomorphic processes and sediment and water budgets in montane humid-tropical forested and developed watersheds, Puerto Rico: unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado Geography Department, 341 p.

Myster, R.W., Thomlinson, J.R., and Larsen, M.C., 1997, Predicting landslide vegetation using landscape characteristics of the Puerto Rican rain forest: Landscape Ecology, v. 12 p. 299 307.

Larsen, M.C. and Parks, J.E., 1997, How wide is a road? The association of roads and mass-wasting disturbance in a forested montane environment: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 22, p. 835 848.

Larsen, M.C. and Torres Sánchez, A.J., 1996, Geographic relations of landslide distribution and assessment of landslide hazards in the Blanco, Cibuco, and Coamo river basins, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 95-4029, 56 p.

Brown, E.T., Stallard, R.F., Larsen, M.C., Raiseck, G.M., and Yiou, F. 1995, Denudation rates determined from the accumulation of in situ produced 10Be in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 129, p. 193-202.

Larsen, M.C., 1995, Use of seismic refraction techniques for investigating recent landslides in a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico in Miller, R.L., Escalante, J.A., Reinemund, J.A., and Bergin, M.J., eds., Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American Caribbean Regions, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 411-414.

Zack, Allen, and Larsen, M.C., 1994. Island hydrology: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. National Geographic Research & Exploration: Water Issue, p. 126-134.

Larsen, M.C., and Simon, Andrew, 1993, Rainfall-threshold conditions for landslides in a humid-tropical system, Puerto Rico: Geografiska Annaler, v. 75A (1-2), p. 13-23.

Larsen, M.C., Collar, P.D., and Stallard, R.F., 1993, Research plan for the investigation of water, energy, and biogeochemical budgets in the Luquillo mountains, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 92-150, 19 p.

Larsen, M. C., and Torres-Sanchez, A. J., 1992, Landslides triggered by Hurricane Hugo in eastern Puerto Rico, September 1989: Caribbean Journal of Science, vol. 28, no. 3-4, p. 113-125.

Scatena, F. N., and Larsen, M. C., 1991, Physical aspects of Hurricane Hugo in Puerto Rico: Biotropica, v. 23, no. 4A, p. 317-323.

Larsen, M. C., and Simon, A., 1990, Landslide Processes in Saprolitic Soils of a Tropical Rain Forest, Puerto Rico, in Larue, D.K., and Draper, G., eds., Transactions of the 12th Caribbean Geological Conference, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands: Miami Geological Society, p. 217-222.

Larsen, M. C., and Torres-Sanchez, A. J., 1990, Rainfall-soil moisture relations in landslide-prone areas of a tropical rain forest, Puerto Rico, in Krishna, J. H., Quiñones-Aponte, Vicente, Gómez-Gómez, Fernando, and Morris, G. L., eds., Tropical Hydrology and Caribbean Water Resources: Proceedings of the AWRA International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology and Fourth Caribbean Islands Water Resources Congress, p. 121-130.

Larsen, M. C., and Veve, T. D., 1990, Field Guide, International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology and Fourth Caribbean Islands Water Resources Congress. American Water Resources Association, Technical Publication TPS-90-2, 40 p.

Scatena F.N., Larsen M.C., 1990. Field Guide to the Luquillo Experimental Forest, International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology and Fourth Caribbean Islands Water Resources Congress. American Water Resources Association Technical Publication TPS-90-2 pp. 20-26

Simon, Andrew, Larsen, M. C., and Hupp, C. R., 1990, The role of soil processes in determining mechanisms of slope failure and hillslope development in a humid-tropical forest: eastern Puerto Rico, in Kneuper, P.L.K., and McFadden, L. D., eds., Soils and Landscape evolution: Geomorphology, v. 3, p. 263-286.

Nelson, C.H., Meyer, A.W., Thor, D.R., and Larsen, Matthew, 1986, Crater Lake, Oregon: A restricted basin with base of slope aprons of non-channelized turbidites: Geology, v. 14, p. 238 241.

Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1981, Sedimentary processes and potential geologic hazards on the sea floor of northern Bering Sea, in Hood, D.W., and Calder, J.A., eds., The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: It's Oceanography and Resources: NOAA OCSEAP Juneau Regional Office, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, v. 1, p. 411 424.

Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1980, Sedimentary processes and potential geologic hazards on the sea floor of the Northern Bering Sea. “The eastern Bering Sea shelf: Oceanography and resources 1 U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 80 979, 247.

Nelson, C.H, Thor, D.R., and Larsen, M.C., 1980, Sediment instability, erosion, and deposition hazards of the Norton Basin seafloor, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports: Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending 1980, 311 p.

Larsen, M.C., Nelson, Hans, and Thor, D.R., 1980, Geologic implications and potential hazards of scour depressions on the Bering Shelf, Alaska: Environmental Geology, v. 3, no. 1, p. 39 47.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Larsen, M.C., Redden, G.D., and Rapp, J.B., 1980, Biogenic and thermogenic gas in gas charged sediment of Norton Sound, Alaska, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports: Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Chamberlain, C.F., Larsen, M.C., and Oertel, G.F., 1980, A computer program for the graphic display and quantitative evaluation of beach profile data: Georgia Marine Science Center, Technical Report Series no. 80 4, 9 p.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Larsen, M.C., Redden, G.D., and Rapp, J.B., 1979, Biogenic and thermogenic gas in gas charged sediment of Norton Sound, Alaska: Proceedings Offshore Technical Conference, Houston, Texas, Paper no. 3412, p. 479 483.

Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1979, Continuous seismic reflection data Sea 9 78 BS cruise, northern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 79 1673, 8 p.

Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1979, Geologic implications and potential hazards of scour depressions on Bering shelf, Alaska, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports: Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, v. 10, p. 53 154.

Nelson, Hans, Thor, D.R., and Larsen, M.C., 1979, Faulting, sediment instability, erosion, and deposition hazards of the Norton Basin sea floor: Annual Reports of Principal Investigators, OCSEAP, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, v. 10.

Nelson, Hans, Thor, D.R., Larsen, M.C., and Larsen, B.R., 1979, Norton Basin environmental assessment report for tract selection, for Outer Continental Shelf Proposed Lease Sale 57, Internal Report for Bureau of Land Management, Anchorage, AK, 526 p.

Oertel, G.F., Larsen, M.C., and Chamberlain, C.F., 1979, The shor J method for rapid beach profiling: Old Dominion University Technical Report no. 40, Norfolk, VA, 12 p.

Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H.,and Thor, D.R., 1978, Potential hazard of scour depressions in Yukon silt, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports: Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Year ending March 1978, v. 12, p. 274 290.

Oertel, G.F., Larsen, M.C., Chamberlain, C.F., and Schaaf, Walter, 1977, Monitoring the Tybee Beach nourishment project: Coastal Sediments 1977 Symposium, American Society of Civil Engineers, p. 1049 1056.

Oertel, G.F., Larsen, M.C., 1976, Developmental sequences in Georgia coastal dunes and distribution of dune plants: Bulletin of Georgia Academy of Science, v. 34, p. 35 48.