G. Robert Brakenridge

Research Associate Professor

Depts. of Geography and Earth Sciences

Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH 03755 USA

 

Phone: 603-646-2870

Fax: 603-646-1601

Email: Robert.Brakenridge@Dartmouth.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1982, Geosciences; M. S., University of Arizona, 1979, Geosciences; B.S., Beloit College, 1975, Environmental Geology; Postdoctoral Research, 1982, German Academic Exchange Service Award, University of Düsseldorf , Geographical Institute

RECENT ACTIVITIES

  • Director, Dartmouth Flood Observatory, 1995-present
  • Consultant, The World Bank, global flood risk, agricultural flood insurance, 2007-2008
  • Director, NATO Science for Peace Project, 2003-2007, "Monitoring of Flood Events in Romania and Hungary using Earth Observation Data"
  • Invited Speaker: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy, 2006; India-United States Conference on Space Science, Applications, and Commerce”, Bangalore, India, 2004; many other national and international workshops and meetings
  • Member, Federal Science Advisory Panel, Land Processes Distributed Active Archive, 2003-2006
  • Peer Reviewer for GSA Bulletin, Geology, Jour. of Geophys. Res., Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Res., Quaternary Res., Nature, Geomorphology, Geoarchaeology, Jour. of Hydrometeorology, Remote sensing of Environment, Physical Geography, Hydrological Sciences, Jour. of Geophys-Planets, and other journals, book manuscripts, and publishers. Also, NASA Earth Sciences proposal reviewer and panel member, 1991-2007.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • Fellow, Geological Society o f America
  • Member, American Geophysical Union, Association of American Geographers

RESEARCH

  • Surficial Processes, Geomorphology
  • Fluvial Hydrology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Planetary Geology
  • Archaeological Geology
  • Clastic Sedimentology

 

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE TEACHNG EXPERIENCE

  • Introductory Physical Geology
  • Historical Geology
  • Introductory Physical Geography
  • Clastic Sedimentology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Planetary Geology
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • Remote Sensing
  • Ph..D. and M..S. thesis advising: fluvial hydrology, floodplain sedimentation, and hydrological remote sensing
  • Clastic Sedimentology

 

SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS

  • Brakenridge, G.R., Nghiem, S.V., Anderson, E., and Mic, R., 2007, Orbital Microwave Measurement of River Discharge and Ice Status. Water Resources Research, 43, W04405, doi: 10:1029/2006WR005238, p.1-16.
  • DeGroeve, T., Kugler,  Z, and Brakenridge, G. R., 2007, Near real time flood alerting for the global disaster alert and coordination system. In Proceedings of the 4th International ISCRAM Cnoference (B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt, and C. Nieuwenhuis, eds., Delft, the Netherlands, May, 2007).
  • Caquard, S., and G. R. Brakenridge, 2007, Floods.  Glimpses of a Changing World: Views of Planet Earth from Space, M. D. King, C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 84-87.
  • Kugler, Z. and T. De Groeve, G. R. Brakenridge, T. Benoist, 2007, Towards Near-real Time Global Flood Detection System, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10th Intl. Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, ISPMSRS'07, Davos
  • Brakenridge, G. R., Anderson, E., Nghiem, S.V., and Gubbels, T., 2007. Mesoamerican flood detection and near-real time flood mapping. SERVIR summit*, NY.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., Anderson, E., MODIS-based flood detection, mapping, and measurement: the potential for operational hydrological applications. In: Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability, Mitigation Measures, Proc. of NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Ostrov u Tise, Czech Republic Oct. 6-10 (2004), Springer-Verlag.
  • Ip, F., Dohm, J.M., Baker V.R., Brakenridge, R., Davies, A.G. and Chien, S., Autonomous Flood Sensorweb: Multi-Sensor Rapid Response and Early Flood Detection.  Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Burlington, Vermont, July 9-13, 2006.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., Nghiem, S.V., Anderson, E., and Chien, S., 2005, Space-based measurement of river runoff. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 86, no. 19, p. 185-188.
  • Brakenridge, G.R. and Nghiem, S.V. 2004. Satellite-based flood detection, mapping, and river  monitoring in near real time. Natural Hazards and Disaster Management Support Symposium, India-United States Conference on Space Science, Applications, and Commerce, Bangalore, India, p. 150.
  • Caquard, S, and Brakenridge, G.R., 2004. Large floods on the Kenyan Side of Lake Victoria. Report and large-scale map for the Associated Programme on Flood Management, UN-World Meteorological Organization, Geneva.7p.
  • Caquard S., Brakenridge G. R. and Anderson E., 2004, Change in Extreme Floods since 1985: A Global Perspective, 100th AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 14-19, 2004*.
  • Brakenridge R., Caquard S., Anderson E, The role of flood remote sensing in flood hazard assessment. 99th AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2003*
  • Dohm, J.M, Chien, S., Brakenridge, G., Baker, V. and 13 other co-authors, 2003. Streamlining spacecraft observation response to flood detection with a ground and space-based sensor web system. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco*
  • Caquard, S. and Brakenridge, G.R., 2003, Mapping the limits of information: A prototype for diffusing large flood events data on the internet. Proceedings of the 6th AGILE, April 24-26, Lyon, France. 4p.
  • Nghiem, S.V., Barber, D.G., Brakenridge, G.R., and 8 co-authors. 2003. Surface water applications of satellite scatterometry. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
  • Mertes, L.A.K., Dekker, A.G., Brakenridge, G.R., Birkett, C.M., Le Toueneau. G. 2004. Rivers and Lakes, in “Manual of Remote Sensing, vol. 5, Natural Resources and Environment”, Susan Ustin, editor and Andy Rencz, general editor, John Wiley and Sons, NY, (2004) p. 345-400.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., Anderson, E., Nghiem, S.V., Caquard, S., and Shabaneh, T., 2002. Flood warnings, flood disaster assessments, and flood hazard reduction: the roles of orbital remote sensing. Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 10-14, 4 p
  • Brakenridge R., Caquard S., Anderson E., and Carlos H., Potential Uses of space-base flood mapping for disaster management in Asia and the Pacific, UN Regional Workshop on Space Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 11-15, 2002
  • Mertes, L.A.K. and Brakenridge, G.R., 2002, Remote discharge measurements and connectivity mapping for rivers and floodplains. Report for CUAHSI, Science-based Infrastructure for the Hydrologic Sciences.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., Carlos, H., and Anderson, E., 2003. Satellite gaging reaches: a strategy for MODIS-based river monitoring.  9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Crete, Greece, and Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4886, p. 479-485.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1999, River flooding and Global Climate Change: A Multisensor Approach, in “Earth Science Enterprise Reference Handbook”, R. Greenstone, Ed., EOS Project Science Office, Code 900, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, p. 163-165.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1998. Flood remote sensing in the 21rst century. Proceedings of International Workshop on the utilization of remote sensing technology to natural disaster reduction, Japan-United States Science and Technology Agreement (JUST). Oct 26-28, 1998, Tskuba, Japan, p. 236-238
  • Brakenridge, G. R, Tracy, B. T., and Knox, J. C., 1998, Orbital remote sensing of a river flood wave.  International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 19, p. 1439-1445.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1996, Relative age determination from 1:1.5 million geological mapping, Sapas Mons FMAP, Venus. 26th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston*.
  • Brakenridge, G. R. and Oswald, W., 1995, Geomorphological framework for satellite radar-based imaging of storm runoff, northeastern Syria. GERTEC Symposium, Jerusalem*.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., Knox, J. C., Magilligan, F. J., and Paylor, E., 1994.  Radar remote sensing aids study of the Great Flood of 1993.  EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 75(45), p. 521.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1994, A Mars Pathfinder landing on a recently drained ephemeral sea: Cerberus Plains, 6°north, 188 west: NASA/LPI Pathfinder Landing Site Selection Workshop*
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1993, Ancient Martian valley genesis and paleoclimatic inference: the present as a key to the past.  NASA/LPI Workshop on Early Mars: How Warm and How Wet? (July 26-28, 1993).
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1993, Modern shelf ice, equatorial Aeolis Quadrangle, Mars.  Abstracts of the 24th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1992, Geology and Global Change.  Geotimes, June, p. 5.
  • Wyckoff, D.G., Carter, B.J., Dort, W., Brakenridge, G.R., Martin, L., Theler, J.L., and Todd, L.C., 1991, Northwestern Oklahoma's Burnham Site: glimpses beyond Clovis.  Current Research in the Pleistocene.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1990, The origin of fluvial valleys and early geological evolution, Aeolis Quadrangle, Mars: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, p. 17289-17308.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1990, Quaternary geomorphology of northwestern Oklahoma County: implications for geoarchaeology.  In:  "A survey of archaeological resources and an evaluation of buried site potential in northwestern Oklahoma County, Oklahoma" (J. L. Hofman and R.P. Drass, Eds.), Oklahoma Archaeological Survey Report No. 36, p. 45-57.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., Hofman, J.L., Carter, B.J., and Drass, R.R., 1989, Quaternary geomorphology of northwestern Oklahoma County: implications for soil geography and geoarchaeology: Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, Association of American Geographers, p. 22.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., Thomas, P.A., Conkey, L.E, and Schiferle, J., 1988, Fluvial sedimentation in response to postglacial uplift and environmental change, Missisquoi river, Vermont: Quaternary Research, v. 30, p. 190-203.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1988, Floodplain stratigraphy and flood regime, in "Flood Geomorphology" (V.R Baker, C. Kochel, and P.C. Patton, Eds.).  John Wiley and Sons, New York.
  • Schumm, S.A., and Brakenridge, G.R., 1988, The river response, in  "North America and Adjacent Oceans During The Last Deglaciation" (W.F.  Ruddiman and H.E.Wright, Eds.). Geological Society of America Centennial Special Volume K-3, Boulder, Colorado.
  • Mills, H.H., Brakenridge, G.R., Jacobson, R.B., Newell, W.L., Pavich, M.J., and Pomeroy, J.S., 1987, Appalachian mountains and plateaus, in "Geomorphic Systems of North America" (W. L. Graf, Ed.). Geol. Soc. of Amer. Centennial Special Volume 2, Boulder, Colorado, p. 5-50.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., and Schuster, J., 1986, Quaternary geology and geomorphology in relation to archeological site locations, southern Arizona: Journal of Arid Environments, v. 10, p. 225-239.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1986, Small valley networks and the past and present distribution of subsurface volatiles, Aeolis Quadrangle, Mars: 17th Lunar and Planetary Science, Part 1, p. 82-83*.
  • Schuster, J. H. and Brakenridge, G. R., 1986, Late Quaternary geology and geomorphology along the Phase B corridor. Chapter 2, in “A class III archaeological survey of the phase B corridor, Tucson Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project, (Downum, C.E., Rankin, A.G., and Czaplicki, J.S., Eds.), Cultural Resources Management Division, Arizona State Museum., Archaeological Series 168, p. 12-28.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1985, Rate estimates for lateral bedrock erosion based on radiocarbon ages, Duck River, Tennessee: Geology, v. 13, p. 111-114.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1985, Quaternary stratigraphy and fault hazard evaluation (Discussion): Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, v. 22, p. 101-103.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., Newsom, H.E., and Baker, V.R., 1985, Ancient hot springs on Mars: Origins and paleoenvironmental significance of Martian valleys: Geology, v. 13, p. 859-862.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1985, Discussion of: Gradational thresholds and landform singularity: Quaternary Research, v. 23, p. 417-419.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1984, Alluvial stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating along the Duck River, Tennessee: implications regarding floodplain origin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 95, p. 9-25.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1984, Sediment storage changes in the floodplain subsystem as inferred from terraces, fluvial stratigraphy, and radiometric dates: EOS, American Geophysical Union, v. 65 (16), p. 217.*
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1983, Late Quaternary floodplain sedimentation along the Pomme de Terre River, southern Missouri: Part II, notes on sedimentology and pedogenesis: Geologisches Jahrbuch, Series A, v. 71, p. 265-283.
  • Dickinson, et al., 1983, Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 222-235.
  • Brakenridge, G. R., 1981, Late Quaternary floodplain sedimentation along the Pomme de Terre River, southern Missouri: Quaternary Research, v. 15, p. 62-76.
  • Turner, W.B., Brakenridge, G.R., and Hofman, J.L., 1981, A technique to aid in the recording and field interpretation of stratigraphic sections in archeological deposits: Journal of Field Archeology, v. 9, p. 133-136.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1981, Terrestrial paleoenvironmental effects of a late Quaternary-age supernova: Icarus, v. 46, p. 81-93.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1980, Widespread episodes of stream erosion during the Holocene and their climatic cause: Nature, v. 283, p. 655-656.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1978, Evidence for a cold, dry, full-glacial climate in the American Southwest: Quaternary Research, v. 9, p. 22-40.
  • Brakenridge, G.R., 1976. Present water supply in the Cochiti study area, noerthcentral New Mexico. In “Archareological investigations in Cochiti Reservoir, New Mexico, V. 1, A survey of regional variability”, J.V. Biella and R.C. Chapman, editors, University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, Office of  Contract Archeology, Albuquerque. P. 89-95.