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2024

Bierman, P. R., Hazlett, R., and Trent, D., 2024, Geology and the Environment: Living with a Dynamic Planet, 8th Edition, Cengage; ISBN: 9780357851654 (link to publisher)

2019

Bierman, P. R. and Montgomery, D. (2019). Key Concepts in Geomorphology, 2nd edition. W. H. Freeman. 544 p. ISBN:9781319059804 (link to publisher)

Davis, P.T., Halsted, C.T., Rogers, J.N., Arcone, S.A., Shakun, J.D., Bierman, P.R., Corbett, L.B., and Koester, A.J. 2019. Glacial, deglacial, and postglacial history of Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, from constructing a cosmogenic nuclide dipstick to determining a landscape history from lake sediment cores and ground penetrating radar images. New England Intercollegiate Geology Conference, Lake George, NY, p. 235-286.

2018

Bierman, P.R., Corbett, L., Wright, S., Davis,PT, Halstead, C., and Shakun, J. (2018). New views on the deglaciation of Mt Mansfield, NEIGC Fall 2018 Guidebook. Trip A4.

Halstead,C., Shakun, J., Bierman, P.R., Davis,PT, Koester, A. S., and Corbett, L.(2018). Mt. Greylock as a Cosmogenic Nuclide Dipstick to Determine the Timing and Rate of Southeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet Thinning, NEIGC Fall 2018 Guidebook. Trip C4.

2017

Davis, P. T., Koester, A. J., Shakun, J., Bierman, P. R. and Corbett, L. B. (2017) Testing the cosmogenic nuclide dipstick model for deglaciation of Mount Washington. NEIGC Fall 2017 Guidebook, Bates College. p. 247-272. doi:10.26780/2017.001.0014

2015

Bierman, P. R., Amidon, W., Balco, G., Briner, J., Fifield, L. K., Hall, B., Larsen, I., Rood, D., Schaefer, J., Southon, J., Steig, E. and Stone, J. (2015) Optimizing the next generation of AMS for measuring 10Be and 26Al. NSF-sponsored workshop report, University of California, Irvine. (download pdf)

2013

Bierman, P. R. and Montgomery, D. (2013). Key Concepts in Geomorphology, 1st edition. W. H. Freeman. 544 p. ISBN-10: 1429238607 (link to publisher)

Bierman, P. R. (2013) Sandy: The Superstorm of 2012. Cengage Learning. 29 p. ISBN-13: 978-1-285-77578-4 (link to publisher)

Pipkin, B., Trent, D. D., Hazlett, R. and Bierman, P. R. (2013) Geology and the Environment, 7th edition. Brookes Cole, Belmont, CA. 624 p. ISBN-13: 978-1-133-60398-6 (link to publisher)

2011

Pipkin, B., Trent, D., Hazlett, R. and Bierman, P. R. (2011) Geology and the Environment, 6th edition. Thompson, Belmont, CA. 592 p. (link to publisher)

Bierman, P. R. (2011) Geomorphology, Linking Past and Present in Challenges and Perspectives section. Gregory, K. J. and Goudie, A. S. eds. The Sage Handbook of Geomorphology. Sage Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore. p. 571-572. (link to publisher)

2010

Bierman, P. R. (2010) Clearcutting, Reforestation, and the coming of the Interstate: Vermont's Photographic Record of Landscape Use and Response in Repeat Photography: Methods and Applications in the Geological and Ecological Sciences. Webb, R. H., Boyer, D. E., and Turner, R. M. eds. Cambridge University Press. (link to publisher)

2008

Pipkin, B., Trent, D. D., Hazlett, R. and Bierman, P. R. (2008) Geology and the Environment, 5th edition. Thompson, Belmont, CA. 505 p. (link to publisher)

2006

Pazzaglia, F. J., Braun, D. D., Pavich, M., Bierman, P. R., Potter Jr., N., Merritts, D., Walter, R. and Germanoski, D. (2006) Rivers, glaciers, landscape evolution, and active tectonics of the central Appalachians, Pennsylvania and Maryland. in Pazzaglia, F.J., eds. Excursions in Geology and History: Field Trips in the Middle Atlantic States. Geological Society of America Field Guide 8. p. 169-197. doi:10.1130/2006.fld008(09)

2005

Nichols, K., Bierman, P. R., Finkel, R. and Larsen, J. (2005) Long-Term (10 to 20 kyr) Sediment Generation Rates for the Upper Rio Chagres Basin Based on Cosmogenic 10Be. in Harmon, R. S., eds. The Rio Chagres: A Multidisciplinary Profile of a Tropical Watershed, Kluwer Academic Publishers. (download pdf)

2004

Bierman, P. R., Zen, E.-a., Pavich, M. and Reusser, L. (2004) The incision history of a passive margin river, the Potomac near Great Falls, Geology of the National Capital Region - Field Trip Guidebook. (download pdf)

2003

Davis, P. T., Bierman, P. R., Brigham-Grette, J., Fitzgerald, D. M., Fowler, B. K., Retelle, M. J., Ridge, J. C., Thompson, W. B. and Weddle, T. K. (2003) Quaternary and geomorphic processes and landforms along a traverse across northern New England. in Easterbrook, D. J., eds. Quaternary Geology of the United States. INQUA 1002 Field Guide, Reno, Nevada, Desert Research Institute. p. 365-398. (download pdf)

Reusser, L., Bierman, P. R., Pavich, M., Butler, E., Larsen, J. and Finkel, R. (2003) Late Pleistocene bedrock channel incision of the lower Susquehanna River: Holtwood Gorge, Pennsylvania, in "Channeling through time: landscape evolution, land use change, and stream restoration in the lower Susquehanna Basin", in Merritts, D., Walter, P., and de Wet, A., eds. Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene Fall 2003 Guidebook. p. 48-55. (download pdf)

Reuter, J., Bierman, P. R., Pavich, M., Gellis, A., Larsen, J. and Finkel, R. (2003) Long-term sediment generation rates derived from 10Be in river sediment of the Susquehanna River Basin, in "Channeling through time: Landscape evolution, land use change, and stream restoration in the lower Susquehanna Basin", in Merritts, D., Walter, R., and de Wet, A., eds. Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene Fall 2003 Guidebook. p. 48-55. (download pdf)

2002

Bierman, P. R. (2002) Burlington's diminishing green space. The Sentinel: Preservation Burlington Inc., v. 4, p. 4-5. (download pdf)

2001

Bierman, P. R., Clapp, E. M., Nichols, K. K., Gillespie, A. R. and Caffee, M. (2001) Using cosmogenic nuclide measurements in sediments to understand background rates of erosion and sediment transport in Harmon, R. S. and Doe, W. M. eds. Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modelling, New York. Kluwer. p. 89-116. (link to publisher)

Gellis, A., Pavich, M., Bierman, P. R., Ellwein, A., Aby, S. and Clapp, E. (2001) Comparison of geomorphic and isotopic measurements for erosion in the Rio Puerco, New Mexico in Cole, J. C. ed. U. S. Geological Survey Middle Rio Grande basin study; proceedings Open-File Report (2001) U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. p. 46-47. (download pdf)

2000

Bierman, P. R. and Robison, J. (2000) Henry's Land, in Schneiderman, J. ed. Geology's Gaze. Freeman. p. 47-56. (link to publisher)

1999

Bierman, P. R., Wright, S. and Nichols, K. K. (1999) Slope stability and late Pleistocene/Holocene history, Northwestern Vermont. New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference Guidebook. (download pdf)

Noren, A., Jennings, K., Bierman, P. R., Galster, J. C., Fredriksen, G. and Janukajtis, F. A. (1999) A regional record of Holocene hillslope erosion from lake and alluvial fan sediment, Vermont. New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference Guidebook. (download pdf)

1998

Bierman, P. R., Albrecht, A., Bothner, M., Brown, E., Bullen, T., Gray, L. and Turpin, L. (1998) Weathering, erosion and sedimentation, in Kendall, C., and McDonnell, J. J., eds. Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier. p. 647-678. (link to publisher)

1997

Wright, S. F., Whalen, T. N., Zehfuss, P. H. and Bierman, P. R. (1997) Late Pleistocene-Holocene history: Huntington River and Miller Brook valleys, northern Vermont, New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference Guidebook. v. C4, p. 1-30. (download pdf)

1996

Bierman, P. R. (1996) Cosmogenic clues to the tempo of environmental change. AMSIE '96: American Association or the Advancement of Science. p. A-146. (download pdf)

1992

Bierman, P. R. and Harry, K. (1992) Rock varnish cation-ratios may not be a reliable method for dating lithic artifacts, in Vandiver. P. D. J., Wheeler. G. and Freestone, I. ed. Materials Issues in Art and Archeology III, Pittsburg, Materials Research Society Proceedings. v. 267, p. 165-178. (download pdf)

1991

Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. R., Whipple, K. X. and Clark, D. H. (1991) Quaternary geomorphology and geochronology of Owens Valley, California, in Walawender, M. J. and Hanan, B. B. eds. Geological excursions in southern California and Mexico, Guidebook (1991) GSA Annual meeting, San Diego, CA. p. 199-223. (download pdf)

1988

Bierman, P. R. (1988) Layer-Cake Glacial Geology, Letter to Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 36, p. 329. (link to publisher)