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SUBMITTED:
PUBLISHED (Chronological order with most recent first):
Zocco*, E., Witharana, C., Ortega, I.M. and Ouimet, W., 2025. Automated Detection of Beaver-Influenced Floodplain Inundations in Multi-Temporal Aerial Imagery Using Deep Learning Algorithms. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 14(10), p.383.
Aslan, A., Heizler, M., Karlstrom, K., Flann, L., Granger, D., Ouimet, W. and Mahan, S., 2025. A 2 my record of bedrock incision and drainage integration of the upper Green River, western United States. Geosphere, 21 (4), pp.637-662.
Dow*, S., Ouimet, W.B. and Hren, M.T., 2024. Legacy Impacts and Recovery of δ15N, δ13C and C/N Storage in Soils Due to Historic Land Use. Anthropocene, p.100435.
Shoreman-Ouimet, E., DiCairano, J., Lachlan, K., Burton, C., Walters, A., Ouimet, W. and Barrett, J., 2024. On the brink: Examining preemptive indicators of preparedness inequity and social vulnerability to climate change hazards in Connecticut, USA. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, p.104276
Butler, M.J., Yellen, B.C., Oyewumi, O., Ouimet, W. and Richardson, J.B., 2023. Accumulation and transport of nutrient and pollutant elements in riparian soils, sediments, and river waters across the Thames River Watershed, Connecticut, USA. Science of The Total Environment, 899, p.165630.
Suh*, J.W., Ouimet, W.B. and Dow*, S., 2023. Reconstructing and identifying historic land use in northeastern United States using anthropogenic landforms and deep learning. Applied Geography, 161, p.103121.
Bonhage, A., Raab, T., Schneider, A., Raab, A., Ouimet, W., Völkel, J. and Ramezany, S., 2023. From site to state–Quantifying multi-scale legacy effects of historic landforms from charcoal production on soils in Connecticut, USA. Catena, 232, p.107426.
Suh*, J.W. and Ouimet, W., 2023. Mapping stone walls in Northeastern USA using deep learning and LiDAR data. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 60(1), p.2196117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2023.2196117
Suh*, J.W. and Ouimet, W., 2023. Generation of High-Resolution Orthomosaics from Historical Aerial Photographs Using Structure-from-Motion and Lidar Data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 89(1), pp.37-46.
der Vaart, W.V.V., Bonhage, A., Schneider, A., Ouimet, W. and Raab, T., 2022. Automated large‐scale mapping and analysis of relict charcoal hearths in Connecticut (USA) using a Deep Learning YOLOv4 framework. Archaeological Prospection, 30(3), pp.251-266.
Bonhage, A., Raab, T., Schneider, A., Fischer, T., Ramezany, S., Ouimet, W., Raab, A. and Hirsch, F., 2022. Vertical SOC distribution and aromatic carbon in centuries old charcoal‐rich Technosols. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(4), p.e13293.
Dow*, S. and Ouimet, W.B., 2022. An Anthropocene chronosequence study on upland soils in the northeastern USA. Geomorphology, 412, p.108304.
Suh*, J.W., Anderson*, E., Ouimet, W., Johnson, K.M. and Witharana, C., 2021, Mapping Relict Charcoal Hearths in New England Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and LiDAR Data. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(22):4630.
Johnson, K.M., Ives, T.H., Ouimet, W. and Sportman, S.P., 2021. High‐resolution airborne Light Detection and Ranging data, ethics and archaeology: Considerations from the northeastern United States, Archaeological Prospection, 2v. 28, pp. 293–303,
Johnson, K.M., Ouimet, W., Dow*, S., Haverfield^, C., 2021, Estimating Historically Cleared and Forested Land in Massachusetts, USA, Using Airborne LiDAR and Archival Records. Remote Sens., 13, 4318.
Hren, M.T. and Ouimet, W., 2021. Organic Molecular Paleohypsometry: A New Approach to Quantifying Paleotopography and Paleorelief. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, p.665324.
Leslie, D., Singer, Z., Ouimet, W. and Leach, P., 2022, Deeply Buried Pleistocene Landscapes and the Search for Paleoindian Sites in the Northeast, Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, Issue No. 23
Johnson, K.M. and Ouimet, W.B., 2021. Reconstructing historical forest cover and land use dynamics in the northeastern United States using geospatial analysis and airborne Lidar. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6), pp.1656-1678.
Bonhage, A., Hirsch, F., Raab, T., Schneider, A., Raab, A. and Ouimet, W., 2020. Characteristics of small anthropogenic landforms resulting from historical charcoal production in western Connecticut, USA. Catena, 195.
Donovan*, S., Ignatiadis, M., Ouimet, W., Dethier, D. and Hren, M., 2021. Gradients of geochemical change in relic charcoal hearth soils, Northwestern Connecticut, USA. Catena, 197.
Anderson, S.P., Kelly, P.J., Hoffman, N., Barnhart, K., Befus, K. and Ouimet, W., 2021. Is this steady state? Weathering and critical zone architecture in Gordon Gulch, Colorado Front Range. Hydrogeology, chemical weathering, and soil formation, pp.231-252.
Dow*, S., Snyder, N.P., Ouimet, W.B., Martini, A.M., Yellen, B., Woodruff, J.D., Newton, R.M., Merritts, D.J. and Walter, R.C., 2020. Estimating the timescale of fluvial response to anthropogenic disturbance using two generations of dams on the South River, Massachusetts, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(10), pp.2380-2393.
Abrahams^, E., Kaste, J., Ouimet, W. and Dethier, D., 2018, Asymmetric hillslope erosion following wildfire in Fourmile Canyon, Colorado; Earth Surface Processes Landforms, 43(9), pp.2009-2021.
Witharana, C., Ouimet, W. and Johnson, K., 2018, Using LiDAR and GEOBIA for automated extraction of 18th-late 19th century relict charcoal hearths in southern New England, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 55(2), pp.183-204.
Dethier, D., Ouimet, W., Murphy, S, Kotikian^, M., Wicherski^, W. and Samuels^, R., 2018, Investigating Holocene and Anthropocene landscape change and the legacy of 19th and 20th century mining using geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence in Fourmile Canyon, Colorado, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(4), pp.917-937.
Johnson*, K and Ouimet, W., 2018, An observational and theoretical framework for interpreting the landscape palimpsest through airborne LiDAR, Applied Geography, 91; 32-44, doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.12.018
Val, P., Venerdini, A.L., Ouimet, W., Alvarado, P. and Hoke, G., 2018, Tectonic control of erosion in the southern Central Andes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 482; 160–170; doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.004
Hirsch, F., Raab, T., Ouimet, W., Dethier, D, Schneider A., and Raab, A., 2017, Soils on historic charcoal hearths – terminology and chemical properties, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 81; 1427-1435; doi:10.2136/sssaj2017.02.0067
Wicherski^, W., Dethier, D., and Ouimet, W., 2017, Erosion and channel changes due to extreme flooding in a mountain stream, Fourmile Canyon, Colorado, Geomorphology, 294: 87-98. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.03.030
Whipple, K., Forte, A., DiBiase, R., Gasparini, N. and Ouimet, W., 2016, Timescales of landscape response to divide migration and drainage capture: Implications for the role of divide mobility in landscape evolution, JGR-Earth Surface, DOI: 10.1002/2016JF003973
Raab, T., Hirsch, F., Ouimet, W., Johnson, K., Dethier, D. and Raab, A., 2016, Architecture of Relict Charcoal Hearths (RCHs) in Northwestern Connecticut, USA, GeoArchaeology
Whipple, K., DiBiase, R., Ouimet, W. and Forte, A., 2016, Preservation or Piracy: Diagnosing low-relief, high-elevation surface formation mechanisms, Geology, DOI:10.1130/G38490.1
Schmidt, A. H., Neilson, T. B., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. H., Ouimet, W. B., and Sosa Gonzalez, V., 2016, Influence of topography and human activity on apparent in situ 10Be-derived erosion rates in Yunnan, SW China, Earth Surface Dynamics, 4, 819-830, doi:10.5194/esurf-4-819-2016
Johnson*, K and Ouimet, W., 2016, Physical properties and spatial controls of stone walls in the northeastern USA: implications for Anthropocene studies of 17th to early 20th century agriculture, Anthropocene, DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2016.07.001
Hsu*, W.H., Byrne, T. Ouimet, W., Lee, Y.H, Chen, Y.G., Van Soest, M. and Hodges, K., 2016, Pleistocene onset of rapid, punctuated exhumation in the eastern Central Range of the Taiwan orogenic belt, Geology, doi:10.1130/G37914.1
Huang*, C., Byrne, T., Ouimet, W., Fei, L.Y., Lin, C.W., Hu, J.C., and Wang, Y.B., 2016, Tectonic foliations and the distribution of landslides in the southern Central Range, Taiwan, Tectonophysics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.06.004
Hellmer^, M.C., Rios^, B.A., Ouimet, W.B., and Sibley^, T.R., 2015, Ice storms, tree throw, and hillslope sediment transport in northern hardwood forests. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3690
Foster*, M.A., Anderson, R.S., Wyshnytzky^, C.E., Ouimet, W.B., and Dethier, D.P., 2015, Hillslope lowering rates and mobile-regolith residence times from in situ and meteoric 10Be analysis, Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, Colorado. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127; no. 5/6; p. 862–878; doi: 10.1130/B31115.1
Ouimet, W., Dethier, D., Bierman, P., Wyshnytzky^, C., Shea*, N., and Rood, D.H., 2015, Spatial and temporal variations in meteoric 10 Be inventories and long-term deposition rates, Colorado Front Range. Quaternary Science Reviews, 109, 1-12.
Wyshnytzky^, C.E., Ouimet, W.B., McCarthy^, J., Dethier, D.P., Shroba, R.R., Bierman, P.R., and Rood, D.H., 2015, Meteoric 10 Be, clay, and extractable iron depth profiles in the Colorado Front Range: Implications for understanding soil mixing and erosion. CATENA, 127, 32-45.
Rosenberg^, R., Kirby, E., Aslan, A., Karlstrom, K., Heizler, M. and Ouimet, W. 2014, Late Miocene erosion and evolution of topography along the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, GeoSphere; v. 10; no. 4, doi:10.1130/GES00989.1
Johnson*, K. and Ouimet, W., 2014, Rediscovering the lost archaeological landscape of southern New England using airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), Journal of Archaeological Science v. 43, pg. 9-20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.12.004
Dethier, D.P., Ouimet, W., Bierman, P.R., Rood, D.H., and Balco, G., 2014, Basins and Bedrock: spatial variation in 10Be erosion rates and increasing relief in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA, Geology, v. 42; no. 2; p. 167–170, doi:10.1130/G34922.
Darling, A.L.*, Karlstrom, K.E., Granger, D.E., Aslan, A., Kirby, E., Ouimet, W., Lazear, G.D., Coblentz, D.D., Cole, R.D., 2012, New incision rates along the Colorado River system based on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces: implications for regional controls on Quaternary incision: Geosphere; October 2012; v. 8; no. 5; p. 1020–1041, doi:10.1130/GES00724.1
Mirakian, D.*, Crespi, J., Byrne, T., Huang, C.*, Ouimet, W. and Lewis, J., 2012, Tectonic implications of non-parallel topographic and structural curvature in the higher elevations of an active collision zone, Taiwan, Lithosphere, L232.1, doi:10.1130/L232.1
Karlstrom, K.E., Coblentz, D., Dueker, K., Ouimet, W., Kirby, E., Van Wijk, J., Schmandt, B.*, Kelley, S., Lazear, G., Crossey, L. J., Crow, R., Aslan, A., Darling, A.*, Aster, R., MacCarthy, J., Hansen, S.M., Stachnik, J., Stockli, D.F., Hoffman, M., McKeon, R.*, Feldman, J., Heizler, M., Donahue, M.S., and the CREST working group, 2012, Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis, Lithosphere, v.4, p. 3-22, doi: 10.1130/L150.1
Ouimet, W., 2011, The Hills came Tumbling Down, Nature Geoscience, v. 4, pp. 424–425, doi:10.1038/ngeo1199
Kirby, E. and Ouimet, W., 2011, Tectonic geomorphology along the eastern margin of Tibet: Insights into the pattern and processes of active deformation adjacent to the Sichuan Basin; in: Growth and Collapse of the Tibetan Plateau, edited by R. Gloaguen & L. Ratschbacher, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2011; v. 353; p. 165-188 doi: 10.1144/SP353.9
Ouimet, W., and K. Cook, 2010, Building the central Andes through axial lower crustal flow, Tectonics, 29, v. 29, TC3010, doi:10.1029/2009TC002460
Ouimet, W., Whipple, K., Royden, L., Reiners, P., Hodges, K., and Pringle, M., 2010, Regional Incision of the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Lithosphere, v. 2, no. 1, p. 50-63, doi: 10.1130/L57.1
DiBiase, R., Whipple, K., Heimsath, A. and Ouimet, W., 2010, Landscape form and millennial erosion rates in the San Gabriel Mountains, CA, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 289 (1-2), p. 134-144, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.036
Ouimet, W., 2010, Landslides associated with the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake: Implications for the erosion and tectonic evolution of the Longmen Shan, Tectonophysics, v. 491 (1-4), pg. 244-252, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.09.012
Ouimet, W., Whipple, K., and Granger, D., 2009, Beyond threshold hillslopes: Channel adjustment to base-level fall in tectonically active mountain ranges: Geology, v. 37, p. 579-582, doi: 10.1130/G30013A.1
Ouimet, W., Whipple, K.X., Crosby, B.T., Johnson, J.P., and Schildgen, T.F., 2008, Epigenetic Gorges in Fluvial Landscapes: Earth Surface Processes Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/ESP1650
Ouimet, W., Whipple, K., Royden, L., Sun, Z. and Chen, Z., 2007, The Influence of Large Landslides on River Incision in a Transient Landscape: Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau (Sichuan, China), Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 119 (11), pp. 1462-1476; DOI: 10.1130/B26136.1
** This paper was featured at Nature-Geoscience.com (www.nature.com/ngeo) – Nov. 2007
Ouimet, W. and Dethier, D., 2002, Modeling Sediment Flux from Birch Brook, an Undisturbed Catchment in Northwestern Massachusetts, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 24, no. 3
Conference/Symposium Proceedings (PUBLISHED):
Ouimet, W. and Hren, M., 2016, Keck Connecticut Project: Holocene Environmental Change and Human Impacts in southern New England, in ‘Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology’, April 2016
Ouimet, W. and Johnson*, K., 2016, Quantifying Early Anthropocene Landscape Change and its Effects on Watershed Processes in southern New England, Proceedings of the 2016 Mohawk Watershed Symposium, Union College, Schenectady, NY, March 18, 2016
Ouimet, W., Dethier, D. and Kaste, J., 2015, Keck Colorado Project: Fire and Catastrophic Flooding, Fourmile Catchment, Front Range, Colorado, in ‘Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology’, April 2015.
Dethier, D. and Ouimet, W., 2013, Keck Colorado Project: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Critical Zone, Boulder Creek Catchment, Front Range, Colorado, in ‘Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology’, April 2013.
Dethier, D. and Ouimet, W., 2012, Keck Colorado Project: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Critical Zone, Boulder Creek Catchment, Front Range, Colorado, in ‘Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology’, April 2012.
Dethier, D. and Ouimet, W., 2011, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Critical Zone, Boulder Creek Catchment, Front Range, Colorado, in ‘Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology’, April 2011.
Fieldtrip Guidebooks (non-published):
Ouimet, W., Dow*, S., Thorson, R., and Fallon*, A., 2023, ‘Stone Wall, Charcoal Hearth, Mill Dam and Beaver Legacies in Northeastern Connecticut’, Geological Society of Connecticut Fieldtrip Guidebook, June 2023
Ouimet, W., 2017, ‘Waterfalls, Beavers, Dams and Human Impacts: New Perspectives on Holocene and Anthropocene Landscape Change in southern New England’, Fieldtrip Guide for the 30th Keck Geology Research Symposium at Wesleyan University, April 2017
Ouimet, W., Hajek, L. and Draut, A., 2012, Fieldtrip Guidebook for 2012 MYRES Meeting, held August 11-12, 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Theses:
Ouimet, W., 2007, Dissecting the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A Study of Landslides, Erosion and River Incision in a Transient Landscape, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD Thesis, 197 pages
Ouimet, W., 2001, Sediment budgets and stream terraces: reconstructing the effects of historic land-use changes on sediment transport in the Birch Brook Catchment, Massachusetts, Williams College BA Thesis, 120 pages