The Future of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space

Bridget Scanlon heads the Sustainable Water Resources Program and is Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the impact of climate variability and land use change on groundwater recharge and on the quantity and quality of water resources. Scanlon's research group is using GRACE satellite, surface water, and groundwater data to evaluate approaches to coping with drought, with a focus on California, Colorado and Texas. She has a PhD in geology from the University of Kentucky and was the 2007 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer for the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America. Ronald Lecture Series in Environmental Conservation