selected publications

• journal article

  • A First Look at River Discharge Estimation From SWOT Satellite Observations.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2025
  • Measuring river slope using spaceborne GNSS reflectometry: Methodology and first performance assessment.  Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal. 2025
  • Engaging the Earth Science and Engineering Communities in Developing A River Morphology Information System (RIMORPHIS).  Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 2025
  • River morphology information system: A web cyberinfrastructure for advancing river morphology research.  Environmental Modelling and Software. 2025
  • Towards an open and integrated cyberinfrastructure for river morphology research in the big data era.  Environmental Modelling and Software. 2025
  • HyG: A hydraulic geometry dataset derived from historical stream gage measurements across the conterminous US.  Scientific Data. 2024
  • Leveraging ICESat, ICESat-2, and Landsat for Global-Scale, Multi-Decadal Reconstruction of Lake Water Levels.  Water Resources Research. 2024
  • Estimating Reservoir Sedimentation Rates and Storage Capacity Losses Using High-Resolution Sentinel-2 Satellite and Water Level Data.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2023
  • A Framework for Estimating Global River Discharge From the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Satellite Mission.  Water Resources Research. 2023
  • Evaluation of a new observationally based channel parameterization for the National Water Model.  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 6121-6136. 2022
  • A review of simulation experiment techniques used to analyze wildfire effects on water quality and supply.  Environmental Science Processes and Impacts. 1110-1132. 2022
  • Sustaining United States reservoir storage capacity: Need for a new paradigm.  Journal of Hydrology. 2021
  • A multi-sensor evaluation of precipitation uncertainty for landslide-triggering storm events.  Hydrological Processes. 2021
  • Discharge Estimation From Dense Arrays of Pressure Transducers.  Water Resources Research. 2021
  • Advancing Field-Based GNSS Surveying for Validation of Remotely Sensed Water Surface Elevation Products.  Frontiers in Earth Science. 2020
  • Fundamental Hydraulics of Cross Sections in Natural Rivers: Preliminary Analysis of a Large Data Set of Acoustic Doppler Flow Measurements.  Water Resources Research. 2020
  • Dam effects on bedload transport on the upper Santa Ana River, California, and implications for native fish habitat.  River Research and Applications: an international journal devoted to river research and management. 632-645. 2019
  • Wavelet-Based River Segmentation Using Hydraulic Control-Preserving Water Surface Elevation Profile Properties.  Geophysical Research Letters. 6534-6543. 2019
  • Anticipated Improvements to River Surface Elevation Profiles From the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission.  Frontiers in Earth Science. 2019
  • How Much Land Surface Is Under Water at Any Given Time?.  Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2018
  • Fine-scale habitat selection of green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) within three spawning locations in the Sacramento River, California.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 779-791. 2018
  • A Multialgorithm Approach to Land Surface Modeling of Suspended Sediment in the Colorado Front Range.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2526-2544. 2017
  • Automated River Reach Definition Strategies: Applications for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission.  Water Resources Research. 8164-8186. 2017
  • Characterizing Changes in Streamflow and Sediment Supply in the Sacramento River Basin, California, Using Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF).  Water: an open access journal. 2016
  • An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope.  Water Resources Research. 4527-4549. 2016
  • Trends in publications in fluvial geomorphology over two decades: A truly new era in the discipline owing to recent technological revolution?.  Geomorphology. 489-500. 2015
  • Reprint of: Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River channel and floodplain geomorphic change.  Geomorphology. 687-708. 2015
  • Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River channel and floodplain geomorphic change.  Geomorphology. 765-786. 2015
  • Dams on the Mekong: Cumulative sediment starvation.  Water Resources Research. 5158-5169. 2014
  • Alternate bar response to sediment supply termination.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2012
  • Estimating reservoir sedimentation rates at large spatial and temporal scales: A case study of California.  Water Resources Research. 2009
  • Ecosystem responses to nitrogen deposition in the Colorado Front Range.  Ecosystems. 352-368. 2000