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Colin J. Gleason

University of Massachusetts Amherst · US
Area of research
Water Science and Technology · Atmospheric Science
Research interest
Research interests include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, and Cryospheric studies and observations.
h-index
38
citations
5,169
works
203
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Accelerating River Discharge in High Mountain Asia
AGU Advances 2025cited by 6position: middledoi
A Framework for Estimating Global River Discharge From the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Satellite Mission
Water Resources Research 2023cited by 127position: middledoi
Inversion of river discharge from remotely sensed river widths: A critical assessment at three-thousand global river gauges
Remote Sensing of Environment 2023cited by 38position: middledoi
Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six steps to more ethical remote sensing
Global Environmental Change Advances 2023cited by 27position: middledoi
Quantification of wetland vegetation communities features with airborne AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR, and UAV LiDAR data in Peace-Athabasca Delta
Remote Sensing of Environment 2023cited by 23position: middledoi
The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022cited by 255position: middledoi
Recent changes to Arctic river discharge
Nature Communications 2021cited by 227position: middledoi
Direct Observation of Winter Meltwater Drainage From the Greenland Ice Sheet
Geophysical Research Letters 2020cited by 34position: middledoi
Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland ice sheet surface
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017cited by 132position: middledoi
A Hybrid of Optical Remote Sensing and Hydrological Modeling Improves Water Balance Estimation
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2017cited by 43position: firstdoi
An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope
Water Resources Research 2016cited by 233position: middledoi
Benchmarking wide swath altimetry‐based river discharge estimation algorithms for the Ganges river system
Water Resources Research 2016cited by 64position: middledoi
Characterizing supraglacial meltwater channel hydraulics on the Greenland Ice Sheet from <i>in situ</i> observations
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2016cited by 39position: firstdoi
Efficient meltwater drainage through supraglacial streams and rivers on the southwest Greenland ice sheet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015cited by 251position: middledoi
Hydraulic geometry of natural rivers
Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment 2015cited by 122position: firstdoi
Theoretical basis for at‐many‐stations hydraulic geometry
Geophysical Research Letters 2015cited by 85position: firstdoi
Crossing the (watershed) divide: satellite data and the changing politics of international river basins
Geographical Journal 2015cited by 67position: firstdoi
Toward global mapping of river discharge using satellite images and at-many-stations hydraulic geometry
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014cited by 339position: firstdoi
Retrieval of river discharge solely from satellite imagery and at‐many‐stations hydraulic geometry: Sensitivity to river form and optimization parameters
Water Resources Research 2014cited by 148position: firstdoi
Downstream Yangtze River levels impacted by Three Gorges Dam
Environmental Research Letters 2013cited by 169position: middledoi
Forest biomass estimation from airborne LiDAR data using machine learning approaches
Remote Sensing of Environment 2012cited by 324position: firstdoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: Plumbing watershed CO2 evasion
NSF2404576$385,4002024–2027PIRePORTER
CAREER: Integrating field geomorphology, remote sensing, undergraduate education, and modelling to improve understanding of Arctic hydrology
NSF1748653$542,3832018–2024PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

L. C. Smith · Planetary Science Institute8 papers (2014–2023)Jida Wang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign4 papers (2013–2025)L. H. Pitcher · University of California, Los Angeles4 papers (2015–2020)Craig Brinkerhoff · University of Massachusetts Amherst3 papers (2022–2025)R. R. Forster · University of Utah3 papers (2015–2020)Dongmei Feng · University of Massachusetts Amherst3 papers (2021–2025) · 3 papers (2015–2017)Xiao Yang · University of Edinburgh3 papers (2021–2023)Ming Pan · Western University3 papers (2021–2023)B. T. Overstreet · United States Geological Survey3 papers (2015–2017)Peirong Lin · Princeton University3 papers (2021–2023)Kang Yang · Kunming Medical University3 papers (2015–2017)Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson · California Institute of Technology2 papers (2016–2023)D. van As · Utrecht University2 papers (2017–2020)Jonathan C. Ryan · Duke University2 papers (2017–2020)A. Behar · California Institute of Technology2 papers (2015–2017)Carl J. Legleiter · United States Geological Survey2 papers (2015–2016)Faisal Hossain · Seattle University2 papers (2016–2016)Yoshihide Wada · Politecnico di Milano2 papers (2013–2017)Tamlin M. Pavelsky · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2 papers (2016–2023)