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Charles Morton
Associate Research Scientist, Geography
Phone 
775-673-7620
E-Mail 
Charles.Morton@dri.edu
Campus 
Reno Campus
Division 
Hydrologic Sciences

Education

Degree Year Institution Area
M.S. 2011 University of Nevada, Reno Geography
B.S. 2004 University of Nevada, Reno Mechanical Engineering
Publications
2024
Comini de Andrade, B., Laipelt, L., Fleischmann, A., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., Erickson, T., Roberti, D., de Arruda Souza, V., Biudes, M., Gomes Machado, N., Antonio Costa dos Santos, C., Cosio, E., Ruhoff, A. (2024). geeSEBAL-MODIS: Continental-scale evapotranspiration based on the surface energy balance for South America, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 207, 141-163, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2023.12.001

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G. B., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., Johnson, L., Comini de Andrade, B., Carrara, W., Doherty, C. T., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Kang, Y., Knipper, K., Laipelt, L., Ortega-Salazar, S., Pearson, C., Parrish, G. E., Purdy, A., ReVelle, P., Wang, T., Yang, Y. (2024). Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications, Nature Water, 13 p. 10.1038/s44221-023-00181-7

Rohde, M., Albano, C. M., Huggins, X., Klausmeyer, K., Morton, C. G., Sharman, A., Zaveri, E., Saito, L., Freed, Z., Howard, J., Job, N., Richter, H., Toderich, K., Rodella, A., Gleeson, T., Huntington, J. L., Chandanpurkar, H., Purdy, A., Famiglietti, J., Singer, M., Roberts, D., Caylor, K., Stella, J. (2024). Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs, Nature, 10.1038/s41586-024-07702-8

2023
Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Smith, G. T., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2023). Baseline Assessment of Groundwater Dependent Vegetation in relation to Climate and Groundwater Levels in select Hydrographic Basins of Nevada: Oasis Valley, 41293. DRI Technical Report
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/webfiles.dri.edu/Projects/GroundwaterDependentEcosystems/BaselineAssessment/41293-Oasis_Valley_GDE_Final_Report.pdf

2022
Albano, C. M., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Dettinger, M. D., Ott, T. (2022). A multi-dataset assessment of climatic drivers and uncertainties of recent trends in evaporative demand across the continental US, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10.1175/JHM-D-21-0163.1

Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Smith, G. T. (2022). Groundwater Discharge from Phreatophyte Vegetation, Humboldt River Basin, Nevada. Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute
https://www.dri.edu/project/humboldt-etg/

Senay, G. B., Friedrichs, M., Morton, C. G., Parrish, G. E., Schauer, M., Khand, K., Kagone, S., Boiko, O., Huntington, J. L. (2022). Mapping actual evapotranspiration using Landsat for the conterminous United States: Google Earth Engine implementation and assessment of the SSEBop model, Remote Sensing of Environment, 275, Article No. 113011. 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113011

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F. S., Allen, R. (2022). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary, Technical Report prepared for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., Allen, R. (2022). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary

2021
Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., Hain, C., Johnson, L., Ruhoff, A., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Kang, Y., Ketchum, D., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Ozdogan, M., ReVelle, P., Schull, M., Wang, C., Yang, Y., Anderson, R. (2021). OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12956

Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G. (2021). Baseline Assessment of Groundwater Dependent Vegetation in Relation to Climate and Groundwater Levels in Select Hydrographic Basins of Nevada. Desert Research Institute: Reno, NV, Desert Research Institute Technical Report 41283.

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., Allen, R. (2021). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary. . Report submitted to United States Bureau of Reclamation

McCullum, A. J., McClellan, C., Daudert, B., Huntington, J. L., Green, R., Ly, V., Marley, A., Tulley, N., Morton, C. G., Hegewisch, K., McEvoy, D. J., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2021). Satellite-based Drought Reporting on the Navajo Nation, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 57 (5), 675-691, 10.1111/1752-1688.12909

2020
Albano, C. M., McGwire, K. C., Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2020). Drought Sensitivity and Trends in Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985-2018), Remote Sensing, 12, 1362, 10.3390/rs12091362

Pearson, C., Hausner, M. B., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2020). Development of Remote Sensing Analyses to Support Management of Mountain Meadows in the Lake Tahoe Basin

Allen, R. G., Dhungel, R., Dhungana, B., Huntington, J. L., Kilic, A., Morton, C. G. (2020). Conditioning point and gridded weather data under aridity conditions for calculation of reference evapotranspiration, Agricultural Water Management, Article No. 106531.

Albano, C. M., McGwire, K. C., Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2020). Drought Sensitivity and Trends in Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985-2018), Remote Sensing, 12, 1362, 10.3390/rs12091362

2019
Albano, C. M., McClure, M., Gross, S., Kitlasten, W., Soulard, C., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2019). Spatial patterns of meadow sensitivities to interannual climate variability in the Sierra Nevada, Ecohydrology, 0 (ja), e2128, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 10.1002/eco.2128

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Dunkerly, C. W. (2019). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2018 Model Result Summary

Snyder, K. A., Huntington, J. L., Wehan, B. L., Morton, C. G., Stringham, T. K. (2019). Comparison of Landsat and Land-Based Phenology Camera Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for Dominant Plant Communities in the Great Basin, Sensors, 19 (5), 1139

2018
Hausner, M. B., Huntington, J. L., Nash, C., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Pilliod, D. S., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Abatzoglou, J. T., Grant, G. (2018). Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org, Ecological Engineering, 120, 432-440, 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.06.024

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Morton, C. G., Dunkerly, C. W. (2018). Agricultural Evapotranspiration and Net Irrigation Water Requirements for the Upper Colorado River Basin, Summary report submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, September 2018

Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Morton, C. G., Minor, T. B. (2018). Remote Sensing Estimates of Evapotranspiration from Irrigated Agriculture, Northwestern Nevada and Northeastern California, 38, 41275
https://www.dri.edu/metric-et

2017
Carroll, R. W., Huntington, J. L., Snyder, K. A., Niswonger, R. G., Morton, C. G., Stringham, T. K. (2017). Evaluating mountain meadow groundwater response to Pinyon-Juniper and temperature in a Great Basin watershed, Ecohydrology, 10 (1), Article No. e1792, 10.1002/eco.1792

Huntington, J. L., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Erickson, T. (2017). Climate Engine: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98 (11), 2397-2410, 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00324.1

McGwire, K. C., Weltz, M., Snyder, K., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J. (2017). Satellite Assessment of Early Season Forecasts for Vegetation Conditions of Grazing Allotments in Nevada, U.S.A., Rangeland Ecology and Management, 70 (6), 730-739, 10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.005

2016
Liebert, R. M., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Sueki, S., Acharya, K. (2016). Estimating Water Salvage from Leaf Beetle Induced Tamarisk Defoliation in the Lower Virgin River Using Satellite Based Energy Balance, Journal of Ecohydrology, 10.1002/eco.1623

Hobbins, M., Wood, A., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Verdin, J., Anderson, M., Hain, C. (2016). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Part I – Linking Drought Evolution to Variations in Evaporative Demand, J. Hydrometeor., 17, 1745-1761, 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0121.1

McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Hobbins, M., Wood, A., Morton, C. G., Verdin, J., Anderson, M., Hain, C. (2016). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Part II — CONUS-wide Assessment Against Common Drought Indicators, J. Hydrometeor., 17, 1763-1799, 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0122.1

Heyvaert, A. C., Fitzgerald, B. C., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Susfalk, R. B. (2016). Pilot Implementation of the Lake Tahoe Nearshore Monitoring Framework for Clarity Metrics, DRI Report No. 41267

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Saftner, D. M., Acharya, K. (2016). Developing a rapid-response tool for detecting algae using Landsat imagery. National Park Service GBCESU, September 1, 2014-December 31, 2016, P11AC8R001/P14AC01522

Huntington, J. L., McGwire, K. C., Morton, C. G., Snyder, K., Peterson, S., Erickson, T., Niswonger, R., Carroll, R. W., Smith, G. T., Allen, R. (2016). Assessing the Role of Climate and Resource Management on Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Changes in Arid Environments with the Landsat Archive, Remote Sensing of Environment, 185, 186-197, 10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.004

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Bromley, M., Hedgewisch, K., Gangopadhyay, S. (2016). Historical and Future Irrigation Water Requirements for Select Reclamation Project Areas, Western U.S, Bureau of Reclamation, 10.13140/RG.2.2.23078.93761

Reeves, D. M., Smith, K. D., Parashar, R., Morton, C. G. (2016). Stress Field Inversions of Earthquake Focal Mechanisms and Influences of Regional Stress on Fault Permeability at Pahute Mesa, Nevada National Security Site

Brown, T. J., Simeral, D. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Redmond, K. T., McCurdy, G. D. (2016). An Assessment of Climate Monitoring for Land Management Applications in the Great Basin, 1-58, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative: Reno, NV, CESU Project L13AC00262

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M. (2016). Remote Sensing of Groundwater Discharge from Chicago Valley, Shoshone Area, and Tecopa/California Valley Area, California, 28. The Nature Conservancy

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M. (2016). Landsat Derived Phreatophyte Groundwater Evapotranspiration, Crescent Valley, Pine Valley, Carico Lake, and Grass Valley, Central Nevada, 28. Barrick Gold

2015
Carroll, R. W., Pohll, G. M., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2015). Calibrating a basin-scale model to remotely sensed estimates of groundwater evapotranspiration, Journal of American Water Resouces Association, 10.1111/jawr.12285

Rajagopal, S., Huntington, J. L., Niswonger, R., Pohll, G. M., Gardner, M. A., Morton, C. G., Zhang, Y., Reeves, D. M. (2015). Integrated Surface and Groundwater Modeling of Martis Valley, California, for Assessment of Potential Climate Change Impacts on Basin Scale Water Resources, 54. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, DRI Report No. 41261

Huntington, J. L., Gangopadhyay, S., Spears, M., Allen, R., King, D. L., Morton, C. G., Harrison, A., McEvoy, D. J., Joros, A. N. (2015). West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments: Irrigation Demand and Reservoir Evaporation Projections, Technical memorandum No. 68-68210-2014-01, 218 p, 754 appx. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M., Liebert, R. M., Paudel, K. (2015). Landsat Evapotranspiration from Phreatophyte and Irrigated Areas, Boulder Flat, Humboldt River Basin, Nevada, 49. Barrick Gold Corporation

Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R. G., Kilic, A., Joros, A. N. (2015). More Landsat Satellites Equates to More Reliable Monitoring of Water Consumption, Remote Sensing

2014
Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M., Liebert, R. M., Paudel, K. (2014). Landsat Evapotranspiration from Phreatophyte and Irrigated Areas, Boulder Flat, Humboldt River Basin, Nevada, prepared for Barrick Gold Corporation, 49p. Desert Research Institute Publication

Huntington, J. L., Liebert, R. M., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M. (2014). Landsat Surface Energy Balance Evapotranspiration from Agricultural Lands of the Muddy River Area, Nevada, prepared for Southern Nevada Water Authority, 38p. Desert Research Institute Publication

2013
Huntington, J. L., Pohll, G. M., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Bassett, S., Allen, R. (2013). Assessing Calibration Uncertainty and Automation for Estimating Evapotranspiration from Agricultural Areas Using METRIC, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 10.1111/jawr.12054

Beamer, J., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Pohll, G. M. (2013). Estimation of annual Groundwater Evapotranspiration from Phreatophyte Vegetation in the Great Basin using Remotely Sensed Vegetation Indices and Ground Based Flux Tower measurements, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 49 (3), 518-533, 10.1111/jawr.12058

Conference Proceedings
2023
Chambers, J. M., Landis, A., Walker, T. J., Ott, T., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J., Huntington, J. L. (2023). A Distributed Approach toward Developing Interactive and Scalable Maps for Climate Data-Driven Web Applications at the Western Regional Climate Center. AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2023-January 12, 2023

Albano, C. M., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., Dettinger, M. D. (2023). Trends of Increasing Evaporative Demand Across the Continental US Over the Past 40 Years. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA

Comini de Andrade, B. C., Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Morton, C. G., Albano, C. M. (2023). A novel application and intercomparison of the Complementary Relationship for operational global evapotranspiration monitoring. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA

Ansari, S., Huntington, J. L., Sheffield, A., Hegewisch, K. C., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Erickson, T. (2023). Cloud-Based Drought Monitoring Using Google Earth Engine. 103rd AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2023-January 12, 2023

Ansari, S., Huntington, J. L., Sheffield, A., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Abatzoglou, J., McEvoy, D. J., Erikson, T. (2023). Cloud-Based Drought Monitoring Using Google Earth Engine. AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, Colorado, January 9, 2023

2022
Bromley, M., Melton, F., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Erickson, T., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Morton, C. G., Malloy, M., McCullum, A., Minor, B. A., Patel, M., O’Connor, R., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., ReVelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., Yang, Y. (2022). OpenET: Cloud-based Evapotranspiration Data for Water Management, American Geophysical Union. AGU – Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting: San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 20, 2022-June 24, 2022
https://agu.confex.com/agu/hydrology22/meetingapp.cgi

Rohde, M., Albano, C. M., Huggins, X., Saito, L., Sharman, A., Klausmeyer, K., Freed, Z., Howard, J., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J., Rodella, A., Zaveri, E., Gleason, T. (2022). Mapping groundwater dependent ecosystems globally to build resilient communities, combat climate change, and mitigate biodiversity loss, American Geophysical Union: Chicago, IL, December 12, 2022-December 16, 2022

Comini, B., Ruhoff, A., Laipelt, L., Fleischmann, A. S., Morton, C. G., Melton, F. S., Huntington, J. L., Erickson, T. (2022). Long-term Monitoring of Evapotranspiration in South America Using geeSEBAL and Terra/Aqua MODIS Images, AGU Fall Meeting

Rohde, M. M., Albano, C. M., Huggins, X., Saito, L., Sharman, A., Klausmeyer, K., Howard, J. K., Freed, Z., Richter, H., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2022). Mapping groundwater dependent ecosystems globally to build resilient communities, combat climate change, and mitigate biodiversity loss, AGU Fall Meeting

2021
Hausner, M. B., Pearson, C., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2021). Analyzing trends in Tahoe Basin meadows using the Landsat archive and gridded meteorological data. Annual Meeting of the Nevada Water Resources Association, January 25, 2021-January 28, 2021

2020
Albano, C. M., McGwire, K. C., Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Minor, B. A., Huntington, J. L. (2020). Using satellite remote sensing and climate data to assess status and trends of groundwater dependent ecosystem vegetation in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association: Las Vegas, NV, February 11, 2020-February 13, 2020

Hausner, M. B., Pearson, C., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2020). Using the Landsat archive and gridded climate data to assess restoration of mountain meadows. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Online, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020, EP039-0013

Albano, C. M., Daudert, B., Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., McGwire, K. C., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L. (2020). Assessing the Effects of Climate and Management on Meadow and Riparian Vegetation Using the Landsat Archive and Cloud Computing – Tools and Applications. Society for Ecological Restoration – California Chapter, September 1, 2020-September 24, 2020

Melton, F., Grimm, R., Huntington, J. L., Herring, J., Erickson, T., Hall, M., Anderson, M., Bastiaanssen, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Harding, J., Hessels, T., Johnson, L., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M., Ozdogan, M., Schull, M., Senay, G., Van Opstal, J., Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Enabling Science-Based Water Management through Open Data Services and User-Driven Design, H53B-07. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2020, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

Rollison, D., Grimm, R., Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Herring, J., Hall, M., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Malloy, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Revelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Schull, M. A., Senay, G. B., Volk, J. M., Wang, T., Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Enabling Science-Based Water Management through Open Data Services and User-Driven Design. AGU: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

Kilic, A., Revelle, P., Blankenau, P., Allen, R., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Robison, C. W. (2020). Challenges and Successes in Automated Calibration and Operation of Extreme Condition Models such as the METRIC Model in OpenET. 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Boston, MA, January 12, 2020-January 16, 2020

Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Morton, C. G., Dunkerly, C. W. (2020). Using Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration Models to Estimate Historical Pumping in Diamond Valley. Annual Meeting of the Nevada Water Resources Association: Las Vegas, NV, February 10, 2020-February 13, 2020

2019
Bromley, M., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G. (2019). Remotely Sensed Estimates of Evapotranspiration for Cultivated Hemp in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Reno, NV, January 28, 2019-January 31, 2019

McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Daudert, B., Hegewisch, K., Morton, C. G., Abatzoglou, J. (2019). Climate Engine: On-Demand Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data. American Water Works Association Sustainable Water Management Conference: Tucson, AZ, April 3, 2019

Huntington, J. L., McGwire, K. C., Pearson, C., Hausner, M. B., Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G. (2019). Assessing the role of climate and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive and cloud computing. American Fisheries Society/The Wildlife Society Joint Meeting: Reno, NV, September 30, 2019-October 3, 2019, 8014-3

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Kuchnicki, J. (2019). Towards Operational Remote Sensing of Nearshore Water Quality, Lake Tahoe, USA. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, December 11, 2019-December 11, 2019

Huntington, J. L., Johnson, L., Morton, C. G., Guzman, A., Daudert, B., Hansen, J., Bromley, M., Pearson, C., Melton, F. (2019). Operational Remote Sensing of Agricultural Water Use in Cooperation with Western State Water Resource Agencies for Improved Water Management. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, December 10, 2019, 567701

McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Daudert, B., Hegewisch, K., Morton, C. G., Abatzoglou, J. (2019). Climate Engine: On-Demand Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data. Society for Range Management Winter Meeting – Emerging Technologies for both Ranchers and Agencies: Elko, NV, December 13, 2019-December 13, 2019

Pearson, C., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G. (2019). Remote Sensing to Support Lake Tahoe Nearshore Monitoring. DRI Lightning Lunch Series: DRI-Reno, NV, December 17, 2019

Huntington, J. L., Johnson, L., Morton, C. G., Guzman, A., Daudert, B., Hansen, J., Bromley, M., Pearson, C., Melton, F. (2019). Operational Remote Sensing of Agricultural Water Use in Cooperation with Western State Water Resource Agencies for Improved Water Management, H21C-07. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019: San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2019

2018
Huntington, J. L., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Carroll, R. W., Snyder, K., Niswonger, R. (2018). Evapotranspiration changes in mountain meadows: climate change, management and other factors to consider. Society of Range Management Annual Meeting: Sparks, Nevada, January 28, 2018-February 2, 2018

Bromley, M., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G. (2018). Quantifying Groundwater Evapotranspiration with Remote Sensing for the Humboldt River Basin, NV. National Groundwater Association – Groundwater Week 2018: Las Vegas, NV, December 3, 2018-December 6, 2018

Hobbins, M., Joe, B., Candida, D., Huntington, J. L., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Imtiaz, R., Andrea, R., Smith, C., Wood, A., Yocum, H. (2018). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): early warning and monitoring of drought from the demand side. American Water Works Association Sustainable Water Management Conference: Seattle, Washington, March 25, 2018

Bromley, M., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G. (2018). A Remote Sensing Perspective on Patterns of Agricultural Water Use in Northern Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV, February 26, 2018-March 1, 2018

McClure, M., Albano, C. M., Gross, S., Kitlasten, W., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2018). Assessing climate vulnerabilities of Sierra Nevada meadows. Sierra Nevada Meadows Partnership Annual Meeting: Tahoe City, CA

2017
Huntington, J. L., Allen, R., Morton, C. G., Johnson, L. (2017). ET Using Remote Sensing and Gridded Weather Data. Workshop for Eight Western States Water Agencies: Reno, NV, September 12, 2017-September 15, 2017, Oral presentation.

Hobbins, M. T., Barsugli, J., Dewes, C., Huntington, J. L., Lukas, J., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Rangwala, I., Ray, A., Yocum, H. (2017). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): An Emerging Drought-Monitoring and Early Warning Tool. US Drought Monitor Forum: Keystone, SD, April 3, 2017-April 5, 2017, Oral presentation.

Friedrichs, M., Morton, C. G., Senay, G., Huntington, J. L., Verdin, J. (2017). Using Google Earth Engine to Map Water Use and Availability. PECORA Remote Sensing Symposium: Sioux Falls, SD

Gardner, M., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Niswonger, R., Henson, W. (2017). Gsflow-Arcpy: An Integrated Hydrologic Model Development Tool. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA

Friedrichs, M., Morton, C. G., Senay, G., Huntington, J. L., Verdin, J. (2017). Towards Large-area Field-scale Operational Evapotranspiration for Water Use Mapping. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA

2016
Melton, F., Guzman, A., Johnson, L., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2016). Operational Mapping of Evapotranspiration over Agricultural Land in the California Central Valley. Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture, 2nd International Conference Linking Science and Policy: San Francisco, CA, June 28, 2016-June 30, 2016

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., Guzman, A., Allen, R. (2016). Towards Development of a Complete Landsat Evapotranspiration and Energy Balance Archive to Support Agricultural Consumptive Water Use Reporting and Prediction in the Central Valley, California. Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture, 2nd International Conference Linking Science and Policy: San Francisco, CA, June 28, 2016-June 30, 2016

Huntington, J. L., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Abatzoglou, J. T., Hegewisch, K., Vansant, D. S., Landsfeld, M., Husak, G., Verdin, J., Friedrichs, M. (2016). Monitoring Drought with Google Earth Engine: From Archives to Answers. Google Earth Engine User Summit: Mountain View, CA, June 14, 2016-June 16, 2016, Invited plenary presentation.
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Hobbins, M., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Wood, A., Morton, C. G., Verdin, J., Andrea, R. (2016). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: A New Drought Early Warning and Monitoring Index for Drought and Wildfire Prediction. 14th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop: Burlington, VT, March 22, 2016

Hobbins, M., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Wood, A., Morton, C. G., Verdin, J. (2016). EDDI Examines the Current California Drought: Early Warning and Monitoring of Agricultural and Hydrologic Drought with the New Evaporative Demand Drought Index. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 10, 2016-January 14, 2016

Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2016). Climate Engine? Monitoring Drought with Google Earth Engine. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016

Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Vansant, D. S., McEvoy, D. J. (2016). Nevada Drought Monitoring through Cloud Computing and Visualization of Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV, March 1, 2016

Landsfeld, M., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Husak, G., Friedrichs, M., Funk, C., Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Verdin, J. (2016). Generating Southern Africa Precipitation Forecast Using the FEWS Engine, a New Application for the Google Earth Engine. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016

Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Smith, G. T., Fesenmyer, K., Huntington, J. L. (2016). Evaluating the effect of restoration practices on riparian vegetation using remote sensing data. American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting: San Francisco, Calif., December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016, B43A-0562

Heyvaert, A. C., Fitzgerald, B. C., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Susfalk, R. B. (2016). Evaluating Nearshore Clarity Conditions and Linkages to Watershed Management Objectives at Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada. North American Lake Management Society (NALMS): Banff, Canada, November 1, 2016-November 4, 2016

2015
Huntington, J. L., Rajagopal, S., Niswonger, R. G., Gardner, M. A., Morton, C. G., Reeves, D. M., Pohll, G. M. (2015). The balancing act of surface-reservoir-groundwater for integrated water resources management. AGU: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Bromley, M., Peterson, S., Carroll, R. W., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., McEvoy, D. J., Allen, R., Abatzoglou, J. T., Melton, F., Vansant, D. S., Niswonger, R., Erickson, T., Snyder, K. (2015). Monitoring Perennial Yield, Groundwater Discharge, and ET from Irrigated Agriculture with the Landsat Archive. (Invited) International Workshop on Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security: World Bank, Washington D.C., September 15, 2015-September 15, 2015

Carroll, R. W., Huntington, J. L., Niswonger, R., Snyder, K., Morton, C. G., Stringham, T. (2015). Evaluating mountain meadow groundwater response to climate and vegetation using integrated modeling and remote sensing. MODFLOW and More: Golden, CO, June 1, 2015-June 3, 2015

Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2015). Cloud Computing of Remote Sensing and Climate Data. (Invited) Remote Sensing Workshop, Tahoe Science Conference, September 21, 2015-September 23, 2015

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., McEvoy, D. J., Niswonger, R., Peterson, S. (2015). Groundwater Appropriation, Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems, and 3M Plans in the Great Basin. (Invited) Great Basin Consortium: Boise, Idaho, February 17, 2015-February 19, 2015

Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Hegewisch, K. C., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Vansant, D. S. (2015). ClimateEngine.org: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data. (Invited) International Workshop on Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security, World Bank: Washington D.C., September 15, 2015-September 17, 2015

Hegewisch, K. C., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Vansant, D. S., Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2015). Climate Engine: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Datasets. GIS Day, University of Idaho: Moscow, ID, November 18, 2015

Huntington, J. L., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Joros, A. N., Abatzoglou, J. T., Hegewisch, K., Peterson, A., Vansant, D. S., Allen, R., Kilic, A., Hobbins, M., Verdin, J. (2015). Cloud Computing for Drought Monitoring with Google Earth Engine. (Invited) U.S. Drought Monitor Forum: Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, April 14, 2015-April 16, 2015

Vitale, A., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Guzman, A., McEvoy, D. J. (2015). Development of a complete Landsat evapotranspiration and energy balance archive to support agricultural consumptive water use reporting and prediction in the Central Valley, CA. 2015 Fall Conference American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Hobbins, M. T., McEvoy, D. J., Huntington, J. L., Wood, A. W., Morton, C. G., Verdin, J. P. (2015). The current California drought through EDDI’s eyes: early warning and monitoring of agricultural and hydrologic drought with the new Evaporative Demand Drought Index. 2015 Fall Conference American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Vansant, D. S., Niswonter, R., Peterson, S. (2015). Quantifying Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Changes Associated with Water Availability and Management in Arid Environments using the Landsat Archive. Landsat Science Team Meeting: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July 7, 2015-July 9, 2015

Vansant, D. S., Hegewisch, K. C., Abatzoglou, J. T., Huntington, J. L., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G. (2015). Climate Engine: Cloud computing for visualization and analysis of climate and remote sensing. 6th Annual Northwest Climate Science Conference: Coeur d’Alene, ID, November 3, 2015-November 5, 2015

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Guzman, A., Johnson, L., Morton, C. G., Nemani, R., Post, K., Rosevelt, C., Shupe, J., Spellenberg, R., Vitale, A. (2015). Mapping Evapotranspiration over Agricultural Lands in the California Central Valley. American Geophysical Union Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Rajagopal, S., Huntington, J. L., Niswonger, R., Morton, C. G., Gardner, M. A., Reeves, D. M. (2015). The Interplay of Snow, Surface water, and groundwater Reservoirs for Integrated Water Resources Management. American Geophysical Union Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Landsfeld, M., Daudert, B., Friedrich, M., Morton, C. G., Hegewisch, K., Husak, G., Funk, C., Peterson, P., Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Verdin, J. (2015). An Agro-Climatological Early Warning Tool Based on the Google Earth Engine to Support Regional Food Security Analysis. American Geophysical Union Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015

Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Guzman, A., Allen, R. G. (2015). Implementation of Automated METRIC Algorithms on the NASA Earth Exchange for Rapid Consumptive Water Use and Drought Impact Mapping in California’s Central Valley. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference: Irvine, CA, April 20, 2015-April 22, 2015

Hegewisch, K., Daudert, B., Morton, C. G., Peterson, A., Joros, A. N., McEvoy, D. J., Erickson, T., Huntington, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2015). Google Drought Monitoring Through Cloud Computing and Visualization of Remote Sensing and Meteorological Datasets: Examples for California. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference: Irvine, CA, April 20, 2015-April 22, 2015

McGwire, K. C., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Peterson, S., Schade, M. (2015). The BLM Riparian Toolbar: An ArcMap Plugin for Regional Analysis of Vegetation Response. Great Basin Consortium Conference, Boise State University: Boise, Idaho, February 17, 2015-February 19, 2015

2014
Rajagopal, S., Niswonger, R., Huntington, J. L., Gardner, M. A., Morton, C. G., Maples, S., Reeves, D. M., Pohll, G. M. (2014). High Resolution Integrated Hydrologic Modeling for Water Resource Management: Tahoe Basin Case Study. AGU: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014-December 19, 2014

Rajagopal, S., Huntington, J. L., Reeves, D. M., Morton, C. G., Pohll, G. M. (2014). Development and Calibration of Basin-Scale Watershed Models of the Upper Truckee for Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources, October 1, 2015

Rajagopal, S., Huntington, J. L., Niswonger, R., Reeves, D. M., Morton, C. G., Gardner, M. A., Pohll, G. M. (2014). The Value of Integrated Hydrologic Modeling for Water Resource Management: Tahoe Basin case study, February 3, 2014

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Bromley, M., Liebert, R. M., Minor, T. B., Allen, R. (2014). Landsat Water Use Mapping of Crop and Phreatophyte Areas in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Fall Symposium: Reno, NV, October 15, 2014-October 16, 2014

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Allen, R., Gorelick, N., Thau, D., Joros, A. N. (2014). Monitoring Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems in the Great Basin from Space and Clouds. American Water Resources Association Summer Specialty Conference: Reno, NV, May 31, 0014-July 2, 2014

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Joros, A. N., Peterson, S., Gorelick, N., Thau, D., Allen, R. (2014). Cloud Computing of Landsat Imagery and Gridded Weather Data for Evaluating Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV, February 2, 2014-February 2, 2014

2013
Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGraw, D. S., Pohll, G. M. (2013). Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Groundwater Recharge Estimation from Irrigated Lands. Annual Conference: Reno, NV

Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R. G., Melton, F., Minor, T. B., Bromley, M., Sullivan, A. (2013). Towards Rapid and Accurate Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration from Irrigated Lands with Lansat for Improved Hydrologic Modeling, Operations, and Procedures. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Reno, NV

Niswonger, R., Huntington, J. L., Dettinger, M. D., Morton, C. G., Rajagopal, S., Pohll, G. M., Gardner, M. A., Reeves, D. M. (2013). Multi-scale simulations of past and future projections of hydrology in Lake Tahoe Basin, California-Nevada. 2013 AGU Fall Meeting

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Rajagopal, S., Pohll, G. M., Reeves, D. M. (2013). Development and calibration of basin-scale watershed models of the upper Truckee for assessment of climate change impacts on water resources. NWRA 2013 Truckee River Symposium

Zhang, Y., Huntington, J. L., Niswonger, R., Morton, C. G., McGraw, D. S., Pohll, G. M., Rajagopoal, S., Gardner, M. A., Reeves, D. M. (2013). Integrated hydrologic modeling of Lake Tahoe and Martis Valley mountain block and alluvial systems, Nevada and California. Proceedings of MODFLOW and MORE 2013: Translating Science into Practice

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., McGwire, K. C., Joros, A. N., Peterson, S., Gorelick, N., Thau, D., Allen, R. (2013). Utilizing Cloud Computing of Landsat Imagery and Gridded Weather Data for Evaluating Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems in Nevada

Carroll, R. W., Pohll, G. M., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2013). Calibrating basin-scale groundwater models to remotely sensed estimates of groundwater evapotranspiration. Modflow and More: Golden, CO, June 3, 2013-June 6, 2013

2012
Gilbertson, L., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Pohll, G. M. (2012). Estimating Agricultural Water Use from Remote Sensing in Amargosa Valley: Will Solar Power Use More?. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Gilbertson, L., Minor, T. B., Pohll, G. M. (2012). Recent Applications Mapping Consumptive Use via Remote Sensing in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV

Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Minor, T. B., Allen, R., Melton, F. (2012). Improving the Efficiency of Operational ET Estimates using METRIC. Western States ET Workshop 2012: Boise, Idaho

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Allen, R. G., Minor, T. B., King, D., Harrison, A., Spears, M., Thomas, J. M. (2012). Recent DRI Applications for Estimating Crop Consumptive Use across the Western U.S. using Traditional and Remote Sensing Methods

Carroll, R. W., Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Pohll, G. M. (2012). Calibrating Basin-Scale Groundwater Models to Remotely Sensed Estimates of Groundwater Evapotranspiration. American Geophysical Union 2012 Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA.

2011
Sullivan, A., Gilbertson, L., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L. (2011). Quantifying Agricultural Consumptive Use Using Remote Sensing to Support Water Rights Changes in the Walker River Basin. Nevada Water Resources Association 2011 Annual Conference: Reno, NV

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Allen, R. A. (2011). Who Should Turn the Crank? Remote Sensing Example from Nevada. Western States Evapotranspiration Workshop: Boise, ID

Huntington, J. L., Sullivan, A., Allen, R. G., Minor, T. B., Morton, C. G., Pohll, G. M., Thomas, J. M. (2011). Water Transfers from Agriculture to Cities and Basin Management – ET Mapping Contributions in Nevada. First Annual Western States ET Workshop: Boise, ID

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Beamer, J., Sullivan, A., Lyles, B. F., Allen, R. G., Pohll, G. M. (2011). Estimating Evapotranspiration From Irrigated Agriculture and Groundwater Discharge Areas in Nevada using Remote Sensing and Weather Station Data. AWRA 2011 Annual Water Resources Conference: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Beamer, J. P., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Pohll, G. M. (2011). Annual Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Landsat and Flux Tower Data. Nevada Water Resources Association 2011 Annual Conference: Reno, NV

2010
Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Garcia, C. A., Allen, R. G. (2010). Comparing Remotely Sensed and Measured Energy Balance for Play and Phreatophyte Shrub Groundwater Discharge Areas, Dixie Valley, NV. Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2010 Symposium: Jackson Hole, WY

Beamer, J. P., Morton, C. G., Huntington, J. L., Pohll, G. M. (2010). Comparison of Methods for Estimating Evapotranspiration using Remote Sensing Data. American Geophysical Union Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA

Huntington, J. L., Morton, C. G., Beamer, J., Minor, T. B., Allen, R. G., Sullivan, A., Pohll, G. M., Lyles, B. F., Thomas, J. M. (2010). Western Nevada Water Resources Evaluation Program. The USBR-Alliance University Applied Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Conference: Las Vegas