Located in western Massachusetts, UMass Amherst is the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Amherst is a nationally recognized teaching and research institution with a current enrollment of about 28,500 students.

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Extending global river gauge records using satellite observations

Inversion of river discharge from remotely sensed river widths: A critical assessment at three-thousand global river gauges

Athabasca River Avulsion Underway in the Peace‐Athabasca Delta, Canada

Mapping and characterizing Arctic beaded streams through high resolution satellite imagery

Remote sensing of broad-scale controls on large river anabranching

Colin Gleason engages in a wide array of research and education activities, with a focus on translating process-based hydrology and geochemistry to global scales through Arctic fieldwork, satellite data processing and geomorphically informed modeling and data assimilation. 

He leads Fluvial@UMass, which he says calls, "a research group that cares about rivers, climate change, and the Arctic.”

Global Water Budget

Ungauged Basins

Fluvial Geomorphology

Fluvial Hydrology

Remote Sensing

Arctic Hydrology

UMass Amherst Faculty Profile

Personal Academic Website

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Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes

“Ephemeral Streams” Are Critical—and a Supreme Court Decision Puts Them at Risk

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