Publications
Publications (peer-reviewed). Updated December 2023
ResearcherID B-8842-2012, ORCID iD 0000-0001-6286-9949
“*” Denotes student advisee
Shin H, W Kim, H Lee, JPL Johnson, C Paola, in press, Fossilized autogenic responses of grain-size transition to sediment supply and water discharge: Alluvial fan experiments, Accepted 12/3/2023, Sedimentology.
Anderson S, N Gasparini, JPL Johnson (2023), Building a bimodal landscape: bedrock lithology and bed thickness controls on the morphology of Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico, USA, Earth Surf. Dynam., 11, 995–1011, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-995-2023
Li W; M Saletti; MA Hassan, JPL Johnson; J Carr; C Chui; K Yang, (2023), The influence of coarse particle abundance and spatial distribution on sediment transport and cluster evolution in steep channels under sediment-starved conditions, Catena, 229, 107199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107199
Halfi, E., Thappeta, S. K., Johnson, J. P. L., Reid, I., & Laronne, J. B. (2023). Transient bedload transport during flashflood bores in a desert gravel-bed channel. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR033754. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033754
Thappeta SK, JPL Johnson, E Halfi, Y Storz-Peretz, JB Laronne (2023), Bed Shear Stress in Experimental Flash Flood Bores over Dry Beds and Over Flowing Water: A Comparison of Methods. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1061/JHEND8.HYENG-13029
*Southard, PJ, JPL Johnson, DM Rempe, AM Matheny (2022), Impacts of vegetation on dryland river morphology: Insights from spring-fed channel reaches, Henry Mountains, Utah. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR031701. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031701
Whipple, K. X., DiBiase, R. A., Crosby, B., & Johnson, JPL (2021). Bedrock Rivers. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00101-2
*Pretzlav, K. L. G., Johnson, JPL, & Bradley, D. N. (2021). Smartrock transport from seconds to seasons: Shear stress controls on gravel diffusion inferred from hop and rest scaling. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091991. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091991
*Pretzlav, K. L. G., Johnson, JPL, & Bradley, D. N. (2020). Smartrock transport in a mountain stream: Bedload hysteresis and changing thresholds of motion. Water Resources Research, 56, e2020WR028150. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028150
Hassan, M. A., Saletti, M., Johnson, JPL, Ferrer‐Boix, C., Venditti, J. G., & Church, M. (2020). Experimental insights into the threshold of motion in alluvial channels: Sediment supply and streambed state. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF005736. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005736
Hassan MA, M Saletti, C Zhang, C Ferrer-Boix, JPL Johnson, T Muller, C vanFlotow (2019), Co-evolution of coarse grain structuring and bed roughness in response to episodic sediment supply in an experimental aggrading channel, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi:10.1002/esp.4788
Gimbert F, BM Fuller, MP Lamb, VC Tsai, JPL Johnson (2018), Particle transport mechanisms and induced seismic noise in steep flume experiments with accelerometer-embedded tracers, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi:10.1002/esp.4495
*Murphy BP, JPL Johnson, NM Gasparini,GS Hancock, EE Small (2018), Weathering and abrasion of bedrock streambed topography, Geology, 46 (5): 459-462, doi:10.1130/G40186.1
Johnson, JPL (2017), Clustering statistics, roughness feedbacks and randomness in experimental step-pool morphodynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072246
Johnson, JPL, K. Delbecq, and W. Kim (2017), Predicting paleohydraulics from storm surge and tsunami deposits: Using experiments to improve inverse model accuracy, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 122, doi:10.1002/2015JF003816
Johnson, JPL (2016), Gravel threshold of motion: A state function of sediment transport disequilibrium?, Earth Surface Dynamics. 4, 685-703, doi:10.5194/esurf-4-685-2016
*Murphy BP, JPL Johnson, NM Gasparini, LS Sklar (2016), A mechanism for the climatic control of bedrock river incision, Nature , 532, 223-227, doi:10.1038/nature17449
Johnson, JPL, K Delbecq, W Kim, D Mohrig, (2016), Experimental tsunami deposits: linking hydrodynamics to sediment entrainment, advection lengths and downstream fining, Geomorphology, 253, 478-490, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.11.004
Johnson, JPL., *AC Aronovitz, W Kim (2015), Coarser and rougher: Effects of fine gravel pulses on experimental step-pool channel morphodynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 8432–8440, doi:10.1002/2015GL066097
*Olinde LJ, JPL Johnson (2015), Using RFID and accelerometer-embedded tracers to measure probabilities of bed load transport, step lengths, and rest times in a mountain stream, Water Resources Research, 51, 7572-7589, doi:10.1002/2014WR016120
Han J, NM Gasparini, JPL Johnson (2015), Measuring the imprint of orographic rainfall gradients on the morphology of steady-state numerical fluvial landscapes, Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 40, 1334-1350. doi:10.1002/esp.3723
Johnson, JPL (2014), A surface roughness model for predicting alluvial cover and bed load transport rate in bedrock channels, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 119, 2147-2173, doi:10.1002/2013JF003000
Han J, NM Gasparini, JPL Johnson, *BP Murphy (2014), Modeling the influence of rainfall gradients on discharge, bedrock erodibility, and river profile evolution, with application to the Big Island, Hawai’i, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 119, 1418-1440, doi:10.1002/2013JF002961
Delong SB, JPL Johnson, KX Whipple (2014), Arroyo channel head evolution in a flash-flood-dominated discontinuous ephemeral stream system, GSA Bulletin, v. 126 no. 11-12, p. 1683-1701, doi:10.1130/B31064.1
Menking JA, J Han, NM Gasparini, JPL Johnson (2013), Quantifying the effects of orographic precipitation gradients on river profile evolution in the Kohala peninsula of the Big Island, Hawai’i. GSA Bulletin, 125 no. 3-4, 594-608, doi:10.1130/B30625.1
*Sanguinito, S, JPL Johnson (2012), Quantifying gravel overlap and dislodgement forces on natural river bars: implications for particle entrainment, Earth Surf. Process Landforms 37, 134-141, doi:10.1002/esp.2237
Johnson, JPL, KX Whipple, LS Sklar (2010), Contrasting bedrock incision rates from snowmelt and flash floods in the Henry Mountains, Utah, GSA Bulletin; September/October 2010; v. 122; no. 9/10; p. 1600–1615; doi:10.1130/B30126.1
Johnson, JPL, KX Whipple (2010), Evaluating the controls of shear stress, sediment supply, alluvial cover and channel morphology on experimental bedrock incision rate, J. Geophys. Res., 115, F02018, doi:10.1029/2009JF001335
Johnson JPL, KX Whipple, LS Sklar, TC Hanks (2009), Transport slopes, sediment cover, and bedrock channel incision in the Henry Mountains, Utah, J. Geophys. Res., 114, F02014, doi:10.1029/2007JF000862
Ouimet WB, KX Whipple, BT Crosby, JP Johnson and TF Schildgen (2008), Epigenetic Gorges in Fluvial Landscapes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33, 1993-2009, doi:10.1002/esp.1650
Johnson JP, KX Whipple (2007). Feedbacks between erosion and sediment transport in experimental bedrock channels. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32 (7), p. 1048-1062, doi:10.1002/esp.1471
Johnson JP, JP Grotzinger (2006). Affect of Sedimentation on Stromatolite Reef Growth and Morphology, Ediacaran Omkyk Member (Nama Group), Namibia. South African Journal of Geology, 109: 87-96. doi:10.2113/gssajg.109.1-2.87
Johnson, JP., S Brown, H Stockman (2006), Fluid flow and mixing in rough-walled fracture intersections, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B12206, doi:10.1029/2005JB004087
Lamb MP, AD Howard, JP Johnson, KX Whipple, WE Dietrich, JT Perron (2006), Can springs cut canyons into rock?, J. Geophys. Res., 111, E07002, doi:10.1029/2005JE002663
Wobus C, KX Whipple, E Kirby, N Snyder, JP Johnson, K Spyropolou, B Crosby, D Sheehan (2006). Tectonics from topography: Procedures, promise and pitfalls. in GSA Special Paper 398: Tectonics, Climate and Landscape Evolution. 398, 55-74. doi:10.1130/2006.2398(04)
Johnson JP, SR Brown (2001). Experimental mixing variability in intersecting natural fractures, Geophysical Research Letters 28(22): 4303-4306. doi:10.1029/2001GL013446
Stockman HW, JP Johnson, SR Brown (2001), Mixing at fracture intersections: influence of channel geometry and the Reynolds and Peclet numbers. Geophysical Research Letters 28(22): 4299-4302. doi:10.1029/2001GL013287
Manuscripts in review
Hodge RA, HE Voepel, EM Yager, J Leyland, JPL Johnson, DA Sear, S. Ahmed, in review, Improving predictions of critical shear stress in gravel bed rivers: identifying the onset of sediment transport and quantifying sediment structure, submitted to ESPL 5/30/2023, manuscript ID ESP-23-0233.
Yager EM, J Shim, R Hodge, A Monsalve, D Tonina, JPL Johnson, in review, Pro+: Automated protrusion and critical shear stress estimates from 3D point clouds of gravel beds, submitted to ESPL 5/30/2023, manuscript ID ESP-23-0235.
Guryan, G., JPL Johnson, N Gasparini, in review. Sediment cover modulates landscape erosion patterns and channel steepness in layered rocks: insights from the SPACE Model. Manuscript submitted 10/28/2023 to Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
Book Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Loope DB, RJ Goble, JPL Johnson (2014), Prelude to seven slots—filling and subsequent modification of seven broad canyons in the Navajo Sandstone, south-central Utah, in MacLean, J.S., Biek, R.F., and Huntoon, J.E., editors, Geology of Utah’s Far South: Utah Geological Association Publication 43, p. 11–24.
Published data set (not peer reviewed)
Hsu L, WE Dietrich, LS Sklar, JPL Johnson (2014), Debris-flow flume video clips. Figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.978686