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2026

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95
Citations
37253
World Ranking
181
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the evaluation of groundwater recharge and aquifer depletion.
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Bridget R. Scanlon is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on related subfields such as Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, GNSS positioning and interference, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Bridget R. Scanlon has contributed to numerous publications across several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing's groundwater levels, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle, 2024, Science
  • Can we beneficially reuse produced water from oil and gas extraction in the U.S.?, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Di Long, Ashraf Rateb, R. C. Reedy, Alexander Y. Sun, and Sarah Fakhreddine.

In addition to academic articles, Bridget R. Scanlon has contributed to book publications, with at least one book published by 5m Books Ltd titled The Profitable Farm - Balancing Business, Nature and Energy through MSO, scheduled for 2025.

The scientist's professional recognition includes being named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to the evaluation of groundwater recharge and aquifer depletion. In 2014, they were also named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Ground water and climate change

    Richard G. Taylor;Bridget R. Scanlon;Petra Döll;Matt Rodell

  • Choosing appropriate techniques for quantifying groundwater recharge

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Richard W. Healy;Peter G. Cook

  • Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Claudia C. Faunt;Laurent Longuevergne;Robert C. Reedy

  • Global synthesis of groundwater recharge in semiarid and arid regions

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Kelley E. Keese;Alan L. Flint;Lorraine E. Flint

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

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  • Global impacts of conversions from natural to agricultural ecosystems on water resources: Quantity versus quality

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Ian Jolly;Marios Sophocleous;Lu Zhang

  • Estimating groundwater recharge

    Richard W. Healy;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Impact of land use and land cover change on groundwater recharge and quality in the southwestern US

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Robert C. Reedy;David A. Stonestrom;David E. Prudic

  • Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations

    P. Döll;H. Hoffmann-Dobrev;F. T. Portmann;S. Siebert

  • Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Water Use for Shale-Gas Production in Texas, U.S.

    Jean-Philippe Nicot;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

    Brent D. Newman;Bradford P. Wilcox;Steven R. Archer;David D. Breshears

  • Daily gridded meteorological variables in Brazil (1980–2013)

    Alexandre Candido Xavier;Carey W King;Bridget R Scanlon

  • Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites

    Di Long;Laurent Longuevergne;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge

    P. Dillon;P. Dillon;P. Stuyfzand;T. Grischek;M. Lluria

  • Global Evaluation of New GRACE Mascon Products for Hydrologic Applications

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;David N. Wiese

  • Can we simulate regional groundwater flow in a karst system using equivalent porous media models? Case study, Barton Springs Edwards aquifer, USA

    Bridget R Scanlon;Robert E Mace;Michael E Barrett;Brian Smith

  • South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels

    Di Long;Wenting Yang;Bridget R. Scanlon;Jianshi Zhao

  • How can Big Data and machine learning benefit environment and water management: a survey of methods, applications, and future directions

    Alexander Y Sun;Bridget R Scanlon

  • Implications of projected climate change for groundwater recharge in the western United States

    Thomas Meixner;Andrew H. Manning;David A. Stonestrom;Diana M. Allen

  • A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005

    Stefan Siebert;Matti Kummu;Miina Porkka;Petra Döll

  • Ground referencing GRACE satellite estimates of groundwater storage changes in the California Central Valley, USA

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Laurent Longuevergne;Di Long

  • GRACE satellite monitoring of large depletion in water storage in response to the 2011 drought in Texas

    Di Long;Bridget R. Scanlon;Laurent Longuevergne;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam.

    P.S.J. Minderhoud;G. Erkens;H. van Pham;H. van Pham;Vuong Tran Bui

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Reedy
Robert C. Reedy The University of Texas at Austin
Di Long
Di Long Tsinghua University
Laurent Longuevergne
Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes
Clark R. Wilson
Clark R. Wilson The University of Texas at Austin
Jean-Philippe Nicot
Jean-Philippe Nicot The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Y. Sun
Alexander Y. Sun The University of Texas at Austin
Abhijit Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee Curtin University
Jianli Chen
Jianli Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael H. Young
Michael H. Young The University of Texas at Austin
James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan

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