Selected Research Reports, Proceedings, Book Chapters and Technical Manuals

Stofleth, J., Shields, D., Gavin, D., Stegman, T., and Bowles, C. 2023. An assessment of  changes to physical habitat resulting from the 2017 Oroville Dam spillway incident: An application of 2D sediment transport model to characterize potential effects, in SEDHYD 2023 Proceedings, May 2023, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

  Shields, F.D., Rossell, W.B., and Ochs, C.A. Simple model of Lower Mississippi River backwater ecological function, in SEDHYD 2023 Proceedings, May 2023, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Shields, D., Stofleth, J., Downs, G., Stegman, T. and Bowles, C. 2021. A Summary Of Opinions Regarding Alleged Damages to JEM Farms and Chandon Ranch Properties during the 2017 High Flow Event. Prepared for California Department of Water Resources. cbec Project #: 18‐1022. cbec, inc. West Sacramento, CA. 


Stofleth, J., Shields, F.D., Stegman, T., Campbell. C., and Bowles, C. 2021. Summary of Opinions Regarding Hydraulic Simulation of Selected Reaches of the Feather River, the Sacramento River and adjacent bypasses, California. Prepared for California Department of Water Resources. cbec Project #: 18‐1022. cbec, inc. West Sacramento, CA. 


Stofleth, J., Shields, F.D., Bowles, C., Stegman, T., and Larson, L. 2021. Summary of Opinions regarding development of a Computer Model of Surface Water Movements for the Tom Miller Jr. Property Yuba City, California. Prepared for California Department of Water Resources. cbec Project #: 18‐1022. cbec, inc. West Sacramento, CA. 


Shields, D., Stofleth, J., Downs, G., Stegman, T., and Bowles, C. 2021. A Summary  of Opinions Regarding  Alleged Damages to the RD 1600 Unit 2 Levee during the 2017 High Flow Event. Prepared for California Department of Water Resources.  cbec Project #: 18‐1022. cbec, inc. West Sacramento, CA.  

Shields, F.D.2019. Addendum 2019-Synthesis of Levee Vegetation Research Results (2007-2014). Prepared for California Levee Vegetation Research Program. State of California. California Department of Water Resources. Sacramento, CA 

Yafei J., Shirmeen, T., Locke, M.A., Lizotte, R.E. and Shields, F.D. 2018. Simulation of Surface Runoffand Channel Flows Using a 2D Numerical Model , 35-55 in Soil Erosion: Rainfall Erosivity and Risk Assessment. Vlassios Hrissathou and Konstantions Kaffas(eds). IntechOpen, London, United Kingdom. 

Shields, F.D. 2016. Synthesis of Levee Vegetation Research Results (2007-2014). Prepared for California Levee Vegetation Research Program. California Department of Water Resources Contract No. 4600008761. Sacramento. 

Shields, F.D. and others. 2016. National Large Wood Manual: Assessment, Planning, Design, and Maintenance of Large Wood in Fluvial Ecosystems: Restoring Process, Function, and Structure. 628 pages + Appendix. Prepared for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lagasse, P.F., Clopper, P.E., Thornton, C.I., Shields, F.D., McCullah, J. and Spitz, W.J. 2016. Final Report NCHRP Project No.24-39 Evaluation and assessment of environmentally sensitive stream bank protection measures. Prepared for National Cooperative High Research Board, Transportation Research Board and Nation Research Council. Washington, D.C.