2026 Brian P. Bledsoe: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	43	6991	6718	2493	2318	149	8937

Overview

Brian P. Bledsoe is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to global and planetary change, water science and technology, ecology, environmental engineering, and soil science.

Their scholarly work centers on several key topics including:

Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
Soil erosion and sediment transport
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Brian P. Bledsoe has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Roderick W. Lammers, Matt Chambers, Donald R. Nelson, Charles B. van Rees, and Seth J. Wenger.

Their work has been published in various academic venues, with notable recurrent publications in:

Anthropocene
River Research and Applications
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Environmental Modelling & Software
SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent papers are:

Challenges to realizing the potential of nature-based solutions, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Autonomous Scheduling of Agile Spacecraft Constellations with Delay Tolerant Networking for Reactive Imaging, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Infrastructure investment must incorporate Nature's lessons in a rapidly changing world, 2021, One Earth
Low-Flow Trends at Southeast United States Streamflow Gauges, 2020, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies, 2023, Anthropocene

Best Publications

The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards

N. Leroy Poff;Brian D. Richter;Angela H. Arthington;Stuart E. Bunn

1937
Citations
River restoration: OPINION

Ellen Wohl;Paul L. Angermeier;Brian Bledsoe;G. Mathias Kondolf

729
Citations
The Natural Sediment Regime in Rivers: Broadening the Foundation for Ecosystem Management

Ellen E. Wohl;Brian P. Bledsoe;Robert B. Jacobson;N. LeRoy Poff

542
Citations
Hydrologic variation with land use across the contiguous United States: Geomorphic and ecological consequences for stream ecosystems

N. LeRoy Poff;Brian P. Bledsoe;Christopher O. Cuhaciyan

525
Citations
Stream restoration strategies for reducing river nitrogen loads

Laura S Craig;Margaret A Palmer;Margaret A Palmer;David C Richardson;Solange Filoso

381
Citations
EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON CHANNEL INSTABILITY

Brian P. Bledsoe;Chester C. Watson

360
Citations
Placing global stream flow variability in geographic and geomorphic contexts

N. LeRoy Poff;Julian D. Olden;David M. Pepin;Brian P. Bledsoe

250
Citations
Are Best-Management-Practice Criteria Really Environmentally Friendly?

Larry A. Roesner;Brian P. Bledsoe;Robert W. Brashear

223
Citations
Predicting streamflow regime metrics for ungauged streamsin Colorado, Washington, and Oregon

Stephen C. Sanborn;Brian P. Bledsoe

184
Citations
Challenges to realizing the potential of nature-based solutions

Donald R Nelson;Brian P Bledsoe;Susana Ferreira;Nathan P Nibbelink

162
Citations
Management of Large Wood in Streams: An Overview and Proposed Framework for Hazard Evaluation†

Ellen Wohl;Brian P. Bledsoe;Kurt D. Fausch;Natalie Kramer

155
Citations
Developing linkages between species traits and multiscaled environmental variation to explore vulnerability of stream benthic communities to climate change.

N. LeRoy Poff;Matthew I. Pyne;Brian P. Bledsoe;Christopher C. Cuhaciyan

145
Citations
Logistic analysis of channel pattern thresholds: meandering, braiding, and incising

Brian P Bledsoe;Chester C Watson

143
Citations
Width of Streams and Rivers in Response to Vegetation, Bank Material, and Other Factors

Russell J. Anderson;Brian P. Bledsoe;W. Cully Hession

132
Citations
How do flow peaks and durations change in suburbanizing semi-arid watersheds? A southern California case study

Robert J. Hawley;Brian P. Bledsoe

131
Citations
Vegetation along hydrologic and edaphic gradients in a North Carolina coastal plain creek bottom and implications for restoration.

Brian P. Bledsoe;Theodore H. Shear

124
Citations
Downstream effects of diversion dams on sediment and hydraulic conditions of Rocky Mountain streams

D. W. Baker;B. P. Bledsoe;C. M. Albano;N. L. Poff

116
Citations
Stream Erosion Potential and Stormwater Management Strategies

Brian P. Bledsoe

107
Citations
Channel Evolution Model of Semiarid Stream Response to Urban-Induced Hydromodification1

Robert J. Hawley;Brian P. Bledsoe;Eric D. Stein;Brian E. Haines

99
Citations
Velocity prediction in high-gradient channels

Steven E. Yochum;Brian P. Bledsoe;Gabrielle C.L. David;Ellen Wohl

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University

Ellen Wohl Colorado State University

David M. Merritt US Forest Service

Margaret A. Palmer University of Maryland, College Park

Julian D. Olden University of Washington

Heather E. Golden Environmental Protection Agency

Derek B. Booth University of California, Santa Barbara

David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture

G. Mathias Kondolf University of California, Berkeley

Peter M. Groffman City University of New York

External Links

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