Space-based monitoring of surface water changes for humanitarian, research, and water management applications; includes changes related to floods, droughts, wetlands, shorelines, lakes, and reservoirs.
I founded the Dartmouth Flood Observatory in 1993, which moved to the University of Colorado in 2010. The Observatory conducts space-based monitoring of surface water changes for humanitarian, research, and water management applications. It has acquired and is preserving for public use a digital map record of the Earth鈥檚 changing surface water, including changes related to floods, droughts, wetlands, shorelines, lakes, and reservoir. Surface water changes dramatically on a seasonal basis in areas such as monsoonal Asia and Africa and across the Arctic, and from year to year elsewhere during major floods and droughts. We monitor such changes in near real time, so that the resulting information has maximum utility to the disaster response community.
The future of flood mapping: Dartmouth Flood Observatory (4 min)
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Education
- PhD: University of Arizona, 1982
- MS: University of Arizona, 1979
- BS: Beloit College, 1975
Awards
- Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Best Earth Science Book, Association of American Publishers, 2019
- Certificate of Appreciation, NASA, 2010
- Group Achievement Award, NASA, 2007
Example publications
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Tellman, B., Sullivan, J. A., Kuhn, C., Albert J. Kettner, Doyle, C. S., Robert Brakenridge, Erickson, T. A., Slayback, D. A. 2021: . Nature, 596: 80-86. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03695-w
Restrepo, J. D., Albert J. Kettner, Robert Brakenridge 2020: . Journal of Hydrology, 586: 124887. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124887
Robert Brakenridge 2020: . International Journal of Astrobiology, 20(1): 48-61. DOI: 10.1017/S1473550420000348
Zeng, Z., Gan, Y., Albert J. Kettner, Yang, Q., Zeng, C., Robert Brakenridge, Hong, Y. 2020: . Journal of Hydrology, 582: 124377. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124377
Guy Schumann, Robert Brakenridge, Albert J. Kettner (he/his), Kashif, R., Niebuhr, E. 2018: . Remote Sensing, 10(8): article 1230. DOI: 10.3390/rs10081230
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