Columbia Environmental Research Center Staff
Research Hydrologist
River Studies Branch
Develop predictive understanding of sediment routing through watersheds
Elliottt, C.M., Jacobson, R.B., and Chojnacki, K.A., 2006, Hydroacoustic mapping to define sedimentation rates and characterize lentic habitats in DeSoto Lake, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2006-1254, 28 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1254/
Jacobson, R.B., editor, 2006, Science to support adaptive habitat management, Overton Bottoms North Unit, Big Muddy Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Missouri: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5086, 116 p.
http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/MoRiver/SIR_2006_5086/Gaeuman, D., and Jacobson, R.B., 2006, Acoustic bed velocity and bed load dynamics in a large sand bed river: J. Geophys. Res., v. 111, F02005, doi:10.1029/2005JF000411, 14 p.
Johnson, H.E., Jacobson, R.B., and Delonay, A.J., 2006, Hydroecological modeling of the Lower Missouri River: in Proceedings of the Third Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Reno, Nevada, April 2-6, 2006: Subcommittee on Hydrology of the Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Information, ISBN 0-9779007-0-3.
Jacobson, R.B., and Galat, D. L, 2006, Flow and form in rehabilitation of large-river ecosystems – an example from the Lower Missouri River : Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.014,
Doyle, M.W., Stanley, E.H., Strayer, D.L., Jacobson, R.B., and Schmidt, J.C., 2005, Effective discharge analysis of ecological processes in streams: Water Resources Research, v. 41, W11411, doi:10.1029/2005WR004222, 16 p.
Gaeuman, D. and Jacobson, R.B., 2005, Aquatic habitat mapping with an acoustic Doppler current profiler: considerations for data quality: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1163, 20 p. Online at: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/center/pdfDocs/ADCPmapping.pdf
Palmer, M., Bernhardt, E., Chornesky, E., Collins, S., Dobson, A., Duke, C. Gold, B., Jacobson, R., Kingsland, S., Kranz, R., Mappin, M., Martinez, M. L., Micheli, F., Morse, J., Pace, M., Pascual, M., Palumbi, S., Reichman, O.J., Simons, A., Townsend, A., and Turner, M.,, 2005, Ecological science and sustainability for the 21st century: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, v. 3, p. 4-11.
Jacobson, R.B., Elliott, C.M., and Johnson, H.E., 2004, Assessment of shallow-water habitat availability in modified dike structures, Lower Missouri River, 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1409, 62 p. On CD-ROM or online at: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/center/pdfDocs/OFR-2004-1409.pdf
Jacobson, R.B.,2004, Watershed Sustainability: Downstream Effects of Timber Harvest in the Ozarks of Missouri, in, Flader, S.J., ed., Toward Sustainability for Missouri Forests, USDA Forest Service North Central Research Station, General Technical Publication NC-239, p. 106-128.
Jacobson, R.B. and Kelly, B.P., 2004, Hydrology, in, Chapman, D. C., Ehrhardt, E.A., Fairchild, J.F., Jacobson, R. B., Kelly, B.P., Mabee, W.R., Poulton, B.C., and Sappington, L.C., Ecological Dynamics of Wetlands at Lisbon Bottom, Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Missouri: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1036, p. 13-36. Online at: http://infolink.cr.usgs.gov/Science/Lisbon/index.htm
Jacobson, R.B., Johnson, H.E., Reuter, J.M., and Wright, M. P., 2004, Physical aquatic habitat assessment data, Ozark Plateaus, Missouri and Arkansas: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report DS-94, available online at http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/ozarks/DSR-2004-0094.htm
Palmer, M., Bernhardt, E., Chornesky, E., Collins, S., Dobson, A., Duke, C. Gold, B., Jacobson, R., Kingsland, S., Kranz, R., Mappin, M., Martinez, M. L., Micheli, F., Morse, J., Pace, M., Pascual, M., Palumbi, S., Reichman, O.J., Simons, A., Townsend, A., and Turner, M., 2004, Ecology for a crowded Planet: Science, v. 304, p. 1251-1252.
Jacobson, R.B., in press, Watershed Sustainability: Downstream Effects of Timber Harvest in the Ozarks of Missouri, in Flader, S.J., ed., Toward Sustainability for Missouri Forests, USDA Forest Service North Central Experiment Station General Technical Publications.
Jacobson, R.B., Johnson, H.E., Laustrup, M.S., D'Urso, G.J., and Reuter, J.M. 2004. Physical habitat dynamics in four side-channel chutes, Lower Missouri River: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1071.
Elliott, C.M., Jacobson, R.B., and DeLonay, A.J. 2004. Physical aquatic habitat assessment, Fort Randall segment of the Missouri River, Nebraska and South Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1060.
Jacobson, R.B., O'Connor, J.E., Oguchi, T. 2003. Surficial geologic tools in fluvial geomorphology, in, Kondolf, G.M. and Piegay, H., eds., Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology: New York, Wiley Interscience.
Jacobson, R.B., 2003, Geomorphic effects in levee-break complexes and implications for flood damage assessment, in Wilson, D. A., and Criss, R. E., eds., Rivers, floods, and water quality in the St. Louis region: Missouri Botanical Gardens Press, p. 135-148.
Jacobson, R.B., Laustrup, M.L., and Reuter, J.M., 2002, Habitat assessment, Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 02-32, 22 p., 181 oversize maps. On CD-ROM or online at: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/Moriver/herm_hab.htm.
Jacobson, R.B., and Heuser, J.L., 2002, Visualization of flow alternatives, Lower Missouri River, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 02-122, Online at: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/rss/visualize/visualize.htm.
Jacobson, R.B., Laustrup, M.L., and Reuter, J.M., 2002, Habitat assessment, Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 02-32, 22 p., 181 oversize maps. On CD-ROM or online at: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/Moriver/herm_hab.htm.
Jacobson, R.B. and Laustrup, M.L. 2002. Habitat assessment for pallid sturgeon overwintering surveys, Lower Missouri River
Panfil, M.S., and Jacobson, R.B., 2001, Relations among geology, physiography, land use, and stream habitat conditions in the Buffalo and Current River systems, Missouri and Arkansas: U.S. Geological Survey Biological Sciences Report, USGS/BRD/BSR-2001-0005.
Jacobson, R.B. Laustrup, M.L., and Chapman, M.D., 2001, Fluvial processes and passive rehabilitation of the Lisbon Bottom side-channel chute, Lower Missouri River, in, Dorava, J.M., Montgomery, D.L., Fitzpatrick, F.A., and Palcsak, B.B., eds., Fluvial Processes and Physical Habitat, American Geophysical Union Water Science and Application Series, v. 4, p. 199-216.
Jacobson, R.B., Femmer, S. R., and McKenney, R.A., 2001, Land-use Changes and the Physical Habitat of Streams: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1175.
Panfil, M.S. and Jacobson, R.B. 2000. Hydraulic modeling of in-channel habitats in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Assessment of physical habitat sensitivity to environmental change.
Jacobson, R. B., Laustrup, M.S., Ehrhardt, E., Niebur, C, Arvidson, R., 1999, Physical setting of Lisbon Bottom in the Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, in, Humburg, D.D. and Burke, V.J., eds., Initial biotic survey of Lisbon Bottoms, Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, U.S.G.S. Biological Sciences Report USGS/BRD/BSR-2000-0001.
Jacobson, R.B. and Gran, K.B., 1999, Gravel routing from widespread, low-intensity landscape disturbance, Current River Basin, Missouri: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 24, 897-917.
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