Joe's Publications & Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Wheaton JM, Gibbins C, Wainwright J, Larsen L and McElroy B. 2011. Preface: Multiscale Feedbacks in Ecogeomorphology☆. Geomorphology. 126(3-4): 265-268. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.01.002.
2. Wheaton JM, Brasington J, Darby SE and Sear D. 2010. Accounting for Uncertainty in DEMs from Repeat Topographic Surveys: Improved Sediment Budgets. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 35 (2): 136-156. DOI: 10.1002/esp.1886
3. Wheaton JM, Brasington J, Darby SE, Merz JE, Pasternack GB, Sear DA and Vericat D‡. 2010. Linking Geomorphic Changes to Salmonid Habitat at a Scale Relevant to Fish. River Research and Applications.26: 469-486. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1305.
4. Vericat, D‡, Brasington, J, Wheaton, JM and Cowie, M. 2008. Accuracy Assessment of Aerial Photographs Acquired using Lighter-Than-Air Blimps: Low-Cost Tools for Monitoring Fluvial Systems. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1198.
5. Wheaton, JM, Darby, SE and Sear, DA, 2008. The Scope of Uncertainties in River Restoration. In: S.E. Darby and D. Sear (Editors), River Restoration: Managing the Uncertainty in Restoring Physical Habitat. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, U.K., pp. 21-39. DOI:  10.1002/9780470867082.ch3.
6. Sear, DA, Wheaton, JM, and Darby, SE, 2008. Uncertain restoration of gravel-bed rivers and the role of geomorphology. In: H. Habersack, H. Piegay and M. Rinaldi (Editors), Gravel-Bed Rivers VI: From Process Understanding to River Restoration. Elseiver, pp. 739-760. 
7. MacWilliams, ML, Wheaton, JM, Pasternack, GB, Street, RL and Kitanidis, PK.  2006. Flow convergence and routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance in alluvial rivers, Water Resources Research, 42, W10427. DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004391.
8. Pasternack, G.B., Gilbert, A.T., Wheaton, J.M. and Buckland, E.M., 2006. Error Propagation for Velocity and Shear Stress Prediction: Using 2D Models For Environmental Management. Journal of Hydrology. 328 (1-2): 227-241. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.12.003.
9. Wheaton, JM, Darby, SE, Sear, DA, and Milne, JA. 2006. Does scientific conjecture accurately describe restoration practice? Insight from an International River Restoration Survey. Area. 38(2): 128-142. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00685.x.
10. Merz, JE, Pasternack, GB, and Wheaton, JM, 2006. Sediment budget for salmonid spawning habitat rehabilitation in a regulated river. Geomorphology. 76(1-2): 207-228. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.11.004.
11. Wheaton, JM, Pasternack, GB, & Merz, JE. 2004. Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation - I. Conceptual Approach and Methods, International Journal of River Basin Management, 2(1): 3-20.
12. Wheaton, JM, Pasternack, GB, & Merz, JE. 2004. Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation - II. Using Hypothesis Testing and Development in Design, Mokelumne River, California, U.S.A., International Journal of River Basin Management, 2(1): 21-37.
13. Merz JE, Setka JD, Pasternack GB and Wheaton JM. 2004. Predicting benefits of spawning-habitat rehabilitation to salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) fry production in a regulated California river. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 61(8): 1433-1446. DOI: 10.1139/f04-077. 

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In Press or Accepted 

1. Wheaton JM, Garrard C, Volk C, Whitehead K and Bouwes N. In Press. A Simple, Interactive GIS Tool for Transforming Assumed Total Station Surveys to Real World Coordinates - The CHaMP Transformation Tool. Submitted to Computers & Geosciences.DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.02.003.

In Review or Revision

1. Erwin SO**, Wheaton JM and Schmidt JC. Accepted/Revisions in Review. Closure of sediment budgets: tractable task or elusive goal?  submitted to Water Resources Research. 
2. Manners RB**, Schmidt J and Wheaton JM. Accepted/Revisions in Review. Multi-scalar model for the determination of spatially explicit riparian vegetation roughness. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. 
3. Pollock M, Wheaton JM, Bouwes N and Jordan CE. In Revision. Working with Beaver to Restore Salmon Habitat in the Bridge Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed: Design Rationale and Hypotheses. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, 108 pp. 
4. Wheaton JM, Brasington J, Darby SE, Sear DA, Vericat D‡., and Kasprak A*. In Revision. The role of bar development in the evolution of channel morphology in a braided gravel-bed river. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research- Earth Surface.
   

Selected Presentations and Posters

1. Invited Talk: Wheaton JM and Bangen SG*. 2011. Crew Variability in Topographic Data. Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program Post Pilot Season Workshop. NOAA: Portland, OR.
2. Invited Talk: Wheaton JM, Bangen SG*, and Portugal E. 2011. Topographic Survey Comparisons. Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program Post Pilot Season Workshop. NOAA: Portland, OR.
3. Talk: Bouwes N, Wheaton JM, Weber N, Polino M, Bennett S, Camp R and Jordan C. 2011. Hierarchical Assessments of Fish and Their Habitat. American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, 119-16. 
4. Poster: Wheaton JM, Welsh S*, Bouwes N, Pollock M. 2010. Beaver Dam Failure and Abandonment: Complexity Lost? Gravel Bed Rivers VII. Tadoussac, Quebec, Canada.
5. Poster: Wheaton JM, Tonina D, McKean J and Garrard C. 2009. Implications of geomorphic change on salmonid habitat using a narrow beam terrestrial-aquatic LiDaR & DEM Uncertainty Accounting, EOS Transactions. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, Abstract EP23A-0625.
6. Invited Talk: Wheaton, JM.  2009. Coming to Grips With Uncertainty in Restoration Science and Practice, USU Spring Runoff Conference. Logan, UT.
7. Presentation: Wheaton JM, Brasington J, Darby SE, Sear D and Vericat D. 2008. Beyond the gross reach-scale sediment budget – using repeat topographic surveys for mechanistic geomorphic interpretation, British Society for Geomorphology Annual Meeting, Exeter, UK. 
8. Talk: Wheaton, JM, Vericat D‡, Brasington J, Darby S, Sear D, Pasternack GB. 2008. Linking Morphological Sediment Budgeting to Salmonid Ecohydraulics, BHS Meeting: Ecohydraulics at Scales Relevant to Organisms, Loughborough. 
9. Poster: Wheaton JM. 2008. Do Geomorphic Dynamics Matter to Fish?, MYRES 2008: Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape. New Orleans.
10. Invited Presentation: Brasington J, Vericat D‡, Wheaton JM and Hodge R. 2008. Reach-scale retrieval of alluvial bed roughness, Geophysical Research Abstracts: EGU General Assembly. European Geophysical Union: Vienna, Austria, pp. EGU2008-A-01295. (See here for details on Remote Sensing of Rivers Session).
11. Wheaton JM, Brasington J, Brewer PA, Darby SE, Pasternack GB, Sear D, Vericat D‡, and Williams RD. 2007. Improved Fluvial Geomorphic Interpretation from DEM Differencing. Eos Trans. AGU. 88(52): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H43E-1672.
12. Brasington J, Wheaton JM, Vericat D‡, and Hodge R. 2007. Modelling Braided River Morphodynamics With Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Eos Trans. AGU. 88(52): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H51L-02.
13. Brewer PA et al. 2007. Suspended and bedload dynamics in a tidally influenced river: the river Dyfi, Wales, UK. Eos Trans. AGU. 88(52): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H51l-0895.
14. Wheaton JM, Brasington J and Williams RD. 2004. Modelling Fluvial Sediment Budgets Under Uncertainty. Eos Trans. AGU. 85(47): Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H53C-1264.
15. Brasington J, Wheaton JM and Williams RD. 2004. Sub-Reach Scale Morphological Interpretations from DEM Differencing: Accounting for DEM Uncertainty. Eos Trans. AGU. 85(47): Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H43A-0352.
16. Presentation and Paper: Wheaton, J.M., Pasternack, G.B. and Merz, J.E., 2004. Use of habitat heterogeneity in salmonid spawning habitat rehabilitation design. In: D. Garcia and P.V. Martinez (Editors), Fifth International Symposium on Ecohydraulics: Aquatic Habitats: Analysis and Restoration. IAHR-AIRH, Madrid, Spain, pp. 791-796.
17. Presentation: Wheaton JM, Sear D and Darby SE. 2004. Uncertain Notions of `Natural' Targets in River Restoration. Joint International Geomorphology Conference: Abstract Volume. British Geomorphological Research Group: Glasgow, UK.
18. Poster: Wheaton, J.M., Sear, D.A. and Darby, S.E., 2004. Preliminary Results of an International River Restoration Survey, River Restoration Centre Annual Network Conference, Durham, UK.
19. Presentation: Wheaton, J.M., Pasternack, G.B. and Merz, J.E., 2003. Salmonid Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation in Regulated Rivers, The Restoration Toolbox: Joint Regional Conference of Society for Ecological Restoration and Society of Wetland Scientists, Portland, OR.
20. Poster: Wheaton, J.M., Pasternack, G.B. and Merz, J.E., 2002. The Use of Spatial Complexity in a Spawning Gravel Rehabilitation Project, Eos Trans. AGU Fall Meeting Supplement, San Francisco, CA, pp. Abstract H72B-0855.
21. Poster: Wheaton, J.M., Pasternack, G.B. and Merz, J.E., 2002. Integrated Approach to Designing Salmon Spawning Gravel Habitat Enhancement Alternatives, Salmon Restoration Federation Annual Conference, Ukiah, California.
22. Poster: Wheaton, J. M., Pasternack, G. B., and Merz, J. E. "Integrating Empirical Geomorphology, CAD and 2-D Hydraulic Models as Design Tools for Salmonid Spawning Gravel Rehabilitation Projects", Eos Trans. AGU Fall Meeting Supplement, (2001), pp. Abstract H52B-0399.
23. Invited Presentation: Wheaton, J.M., Pasternack, G.B. and Merz, J.E., 2001. Utilizing 2-D Hydrodynamic Models as Design Tools for Salmonid Spawning Gravel Enhancement Projects, U.C. Davis Extension- Instream Habitat Improvement for Regulated Rivers Course, Davis, California. 

Presentations and Posters by Students & Post-Docs

1. Poster: Kasprak A* and Wheaton J. 2011. Morphodynamic Modeling of Gravel Bed Rivers: a Step-Length Based Approach, AGU Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA. EP23C-0778.
2. Poster: Bangen SG*, Wheaton J and Bouwes N. 2011. A Methodological Intercomparison of Topographic and Aerial Photographic Habitat Survey Techniques, AGU Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, pp. EP41A-0573.
3. Poster: Czarnomski N‡, Wheaton J, Grams PE, Hazel JE, Kaplinski M and Schmidt J. 2011. Untangling Geomorphic Processes in the Grand Canyon with Topographic Time Series from Hybrid Surveys, AGU Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, pp. H51I-1322.
4. Talk: Manners RB**, Schmidt J and Wheaton J. 2011. Hydraulic and Vegetative Models of Historic Environmental Conditions Isolate the Role of Riparian Vegetation in Inducing Channel Change, AGU Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, pp. H54E-05.
5. Poster: Portugal E, Bangen SG* and Wheaton J. 2011. The Relative Importance of Inserting TIN Topographic Breaklines in DEM Creation, AGU Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, pp. H51I-1312.
   
6. Talk: Lokteff R*, Roper BB and Wheaton JM. 2011. Ground Based Lidar and PIT Tags: Does High Resolution Data Improve Our Understanding of a Fish's Utilization of Habitat?  American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA.  Abstract: 119-14.
   
7. Poster: Lokteff R*, Wheaton JM and Roper BB. 2011. Spatial Distribution and Species Segregation of Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, Brown Trout, and Brook Trout. American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, Abstract: P-96. - Winner of Best Student Poster Award.
   
8. Poster: Bangen SG*, Wheaton JM and Bouwes N. 2011. A Methodological Intercomparison of Topographic and Aerial Photographic Habitat Survey Techniques. American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, P-158.
9. Poster: Wall EC**, Bouwes N, Bennett S, Wheaton J and Camp R. 2011. Giving Fish More Energy without Giving Them More Food: Can Streambed Topography Influence a Fish's Net Rate of Energy Intake? American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, P-154.
   
10. Poster: Manners, R**, Wheaton JM, Schmidt, JA. 2010. The Geomorphic Effectiveness of Tamarisk: When in the life history of an invasive species does it begin to induce deposition? Summer Institute on Earth-surface Dynamics: St. Anthony Falls, MN.
11. Poster: Erwin, SO**, Schmidt, JA., Wilcock, PR, Wheaton JM,2009. Investigation of Bar Formation on a Reconfigured Gravel Bed River. EOS Transactions. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, Abstract EP33A-0610.
12. Vericat D‡, Brasington J, Wheaton JM and Rychov I. 2008. Determinación de la rugosidad de lechos de grava mediante láser terrestre de alta resolución. In: Benavente J and Gracia FJ (Eds), Trabajos de Geomorfología en España. Martínez Encuadernaciones A.G., S.L.: Cádiz, pp. 167-170.
13. Vericat D‡, Brasington J, Wheaton JM and Hodge R. 2007. Reach-Scale Retrieval of Alluvial Bed Roughness. Eos Trans. AGU. 88(52): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H51E-0799.

KEY:  *Wheaton Graduate Student;  **Wheaton Graduate advisee;    ‡ Wheaton Post-Doc

Selected Grey Literature Reports

1. Bennett S, Wheaton J and Bouwes N. 2012. Asotin Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed: Restoration Plan for North Fork Asotin, South Fork Asotin and Charlie Creeks, Eco Logical Research, Inc., Logan, UT, 108 pp.
   
2. Bangen SG* and Wheaton JM. 2012. CHaMP Crew Variability: Influence on Topographic Surfaces & Derived Metrics, Report to Eco Logical Research, Inc. and the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program, Logan, Utah, 79 pp.
   
3. Scott ML, Perkins DL and Wheaton J. 2012. Final Report: Big River Protocol Development – A Prototype Warranty Project, USGS, Fort Colins, CO, 198 pp.
   
4. Manners RB**, Schmidt JC, Grams P, Ralston B, Davis P and Wheaton J. 2012. Predicting and detecting changes to riparian vegetation communities along the large rivers of the Colorado Plateau as a result of climate change, Final Report Prepared for Grand Canyon Research and Monitoring Center, Flagstaff, Arizona by Utah State University Geomorphology Lab, Logan, UT, 55 pp.
   
5. DeMeurichy K, Wheaton J, Welsh S* and Consolati F*. 2011. Bridge Creek IMW Topographic and Aerial Photography Surveys: 2010-2011 Deliverables. Ecogeomorphology and Topographic Analysis Lab, Utah State University, Prepared for Eco Logical Research and NOAA, Logan, Utah, 59 pp. 
6. Pollock M, Wheaton JM, Bouwes N and Jordan CE. 2011. Working with Beaver to Restore Salmon Habitat in the Bridge Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed: Design Rationale and Hypotheses, Interim Report, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, 63 pp.
   
7. Kilham N, Schmidt JC and Wheaton JM. 2011. Analysis of Historical Longitudinal Profiles of the Colorado River Downstream From Glen Canyon Dam, 1965-2009: Draft Final Report, Intermountain Center for River Restoration and Rehabilitation, Logan, Utah. 
8. Lokteff RL*, DeMeurichy KD, and Wheaton JM. 2011. High Resolution Mapping of Instream Habitat: Pilot Study using Ground-based LiDaR in Logan River Watershed. Ecogeomorphology and Topographic Analysis Lab, Utah State University, Prepared for US Forest Service, Logan, Utah, 28 pp.
9. Bangen S*, Wheaton JM and DeMeurichy KD. 2011. Methodological Intercomparison of Topographic & Aerial Photographic Habitat Survey Techniques.  Ecogeomorphology and Topographic Analysis Lab, Utah State University, Prepared for Eco Logical Research and NOAA, Logan, Utah, 33 pp.
10. Gee JHR, Keirle I, Wheaton JM and Wootton RJ. 2007. A Monitoring Strategy for the Afon Teifi Restoration Project. CCW Contract Science Report No: 773, Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor, 45 pp.  
11. Wheaton JM. 2002. Physical Habitats of Salmonids in a Glacial Watershed, Copper River, Alaska. Roy Shlemon Course in Applied Watershed Science,University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 22 pp. 
12. Koenig M, Jeffres C and Wheaton JM. 2002. Fishes of the Copper River Watershed: Results of Sampling, June 28 to July 8, 2002. Roy Shlemon Course in Applied Watershed Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA . 
13. Wheaton, JM, and Pasternack, GB. (2002). The Integrated Design Approach to Designing In-Stream Spawning Habitat Enhancement Projects: A Case Study on the Mokelumne River (Draft Final Report Presented to East Bay Municipal Utility District). University of California at Davis Watershed Hydrology & Geomorphology Laboratory, Davis, CA, pp. 111. 

Theses

• Wheaton JM. 2008. Uncertainty in Morphological Sediment Budgeting of Rivers. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Southampton, Southampton, 412 pp. 
• Wheaton, JM., 2004. The Significance of Ecohydraulic and Geomorphic Uncertainties in River Restoration. Mini-thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the transfer from Master of Philosophy (MPhil) to Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., 80 pp. 
• Wheaton, JM. (2003). Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation , M.S. Thesis, University of California at at Davis, Davis, CA, 223 pp.(WARNING! Over 222 MB.)