Quantifying sources of fine sediment supplied to post-fire debris flows using fallout radionuclide tracers

Hugh G Smith; Gary J Sheridan; Petter Nyman; David P Child; Patrick NJ Lane; Michael AC Hotchkis; Geraldine E Jacobsen

Journal article

Quantifying sources of fine sediment supplied to post-fire debris flows using fallout radionuclide tracers

Hugh G Smith, Gary J Sheridan, Petter Nyman, David P Child, Patrick NJ Lane, Michael AC Hotchkis, Geraldine E Jacobsen

Geomorphology | ELSEVIER | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.11.005

University of Melbourne Researchers

Petter Nyman Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Gary Sheridan Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Hugh Smith Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Patrick Lane Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Grants

Awarded by Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)

Funding Acknowledgements

This project was supported by a University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant (2010) awarded to the first author and Melbourne Water. An Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Award (ALNGRA10094P), also held by the first author, provided funding for AMS analysis. The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of Gabrielle Josling for field support, Gabi Szegedy for sample preparation, and Chris Leslie from the CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratory for gamma spectrometry analysis. The authors would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers whose comments helped improve the manuscript.