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Albert J. Kettner

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Associate Professor, Research • Associate Director, INSTAAR • Director, DFO Flood Observatory •
• Hydrology • Sediment transport • Flooding • Numerical modeling

albert.kettner@gmail.com

Office: SEEC N154
Pronouns: he/his

Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)

Bio

My current research focuses on modeling sediment flux responses within river basins to human impact and climate change on a global scale.

This includes developing methodology to simulate sediment properties based on provenance. I’m also interested in influences of rapid climate change (deglaciation) during the late Quaternary on sediment fluxes to the ocean.

Education

PhD: Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 2007
MS: Wageningen University, the Netherlands, 1997
BS: Wageningen University, the Netherlands, 1993

Awards

PROSE Award for Best Earth Science Book, Association of American Publishers, 2019

Research

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Publications

Recent publications

Reply to: Concerns about data linking delta land gain to human action

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Nienhuis JH; Ashton AD; Edmonds DA; Hoitink AJF; Kettner AJ; Rowland JC; Tornqvist TE

Published in: Nature
Publication Date: 2023-02-09
Type: Journal Article

Assessing the Relative Performance of GNSS-R Flood Extent Observations: Case Study in South Sudan

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Downs B; Kettner AJ; Chapman BD; Brakenridge GR; O'Brien AJ; Zuffada C

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Type: Journal Article

A new academic impact metric for evaluating geographic simulation models

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Xu K; Chen M; Kettner AJ; Barton CM; Croke BFW; Jakeman AJ; Ames DP; Wang H-H; Cuddy SM; Yue S

Published in: International Journal of Digital Earth: a new journal for a new vision
Publication Date: 2022-12-31
Type: Journal Article

The NASA GSFC Near Real Time Flood Mapping System

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Policelli FS; Brakenridge GR; Kettner A; Tellman B

Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Type: Conference Proceeding

Warmer and muddier rivers in High Mountain Asia

CU Boulder Authors: Overeem, Irina; Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Li D; Li X; Overeem I; Walling DE; SYVITSKI JAI; Kettner A; Bookhagen B; Zhang T

Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Type: Conference Proceeding

We won’t be fooled again

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Schumann G; Kettner A; Brakenridge GR; Kahn ME

Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Type: Conference Proceeding

Validating surface water detection methods using a hand-labeled PlanetScope dataset

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Wang R; Mukherjee R; Sharma P; Policelli FS; Tellman B; Kettner A; Gangodagmage C

Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Type: Conference Proceeding

OpenEarthscape and CSDMS: Modeling Resources by and for the Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Community

CU Boulder Authors: Tucker, Greg; Kettner, Albert; Overeem, Irina

All Authors: Tucker GE; Hutton E; Piper M; Kettner A; Overeem I; Gan T; Campforts B

Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Type: Conference Proceeding

Overcoming challenges in adopting FAIR principals for community open-source software

CU Boulder Authors: Overeem, Irina; Tucker, Greg; Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Kettner A; Tucker GE; Overeem I; Gan T; Hutton E; Piper M

Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Type: Conference Proceeding

Development of an Open-Source Platform to Observe Flooding Using CYGNSS and Sentinel-1

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Wilson-Downs B; Chapman B; Kettner A; O'Brien A; Zuffada C

Publication Date: 2022-12-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

Author Correction: Global-scale human impact on delta morphology has led to net land area gain

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Nienhuis JH; Ashton AD; Edmonds DA; Hoitink AJF; Kettner AJ; Rowland JC; Törnqvist TE

Published in: Nature
Publication Date: 2022-08-04
Type: Journal Article

CYGNSS Flood Applications to Support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Wilson-Downs B; Kettner AJ; Brakenridge GR; O'Brien A; Zuffada C

Publication Date: 2022-07-17
Type: Conference Proceeding

Toward Integrated Global to Local Flood monitoring

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Policelli FS; Kettner A; Brakenridge GR; Schumann G; Gangodagamage C; Jones JW; Meyer FJ

Publication Date: 2022-06-19
Type: Conference Proceeding

Basin-scale sediment transport and sediment concentration-discharge relationship modeling in a permafrost-dominated basin

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Zhang T; Li D; Kettner A; Lu X

Publication Date: 2022-05-23
Type: Conference Proceeding

Substantial increases in riverine sediment loads in a warmer and wetter Third Pole

CU Boulder Authors: Overeem, Irina; Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Li D; Lu X; Overeem I; Walling DE; SYVITSKI J; Kettner A; Bookhagen B; Zhou Y; Zhang T

Publication Date: 2022-05-23
Type: Conference Proceeding

Exploring the Benefits of CYGNSS to Enhance Existing Flood Products

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Zuffada C; Wilson-Downs B; O'Brien A; Kettner A; Brakenridge GR

Publication Date: 2022-03-08
Type: Conference Proceeding

Predicting Flood Property Insurance Claims over CONUS, Fusing Big Earth Observation Data

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Yang Q; Shen X; Yang F; Anagnostou EN; He K; Mo C; Seyyedi H; Kettner AJ; Zhang Q

Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
Type: Journal Article

CSDMS: a community platform for numerical modeling of Earth surface processes

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D; Piper, Mark; Kettner, Albert; Tucker, Greg; Overeem, Irina

All Authors:

Tucker GE; Hutton EWH; Piper MD; Campforts B; Gan T; Barnhart KR; Kettner AJ; Overeem I; Peckham SD; McCready L...

Tucker GE
Hutton EWH
Piper MD
Campforts B
Gan T
Barnhart KR
Kettner AJ
Overeem I
Peckham SD
McCready L

Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
Publication Date: 2022-02-17
Type: Journal Article

MODIS Global Flood Mapping and Flood Alerts.

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Policelli F; Slayback D; Kettner A; Brakenridge G; Davies D; Gangodagamage C

Publication Date: 2021-12-13
Type: Conference Proceeding

INVITED: Analyzing flood frequency using multi-sensor satellite data: a global approach.

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Kettner A; Brakenridge G; Cohen S

Publication Date: 2021-12-13
Type: Conference Proceeding

Making Earth Surface community software more FAIR

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert; Tucker, Greg; Overeem, Irina

All Authors: Kettner A; Tucker G; Overeem I; Hutton E; Piper M; Gan T; Campforts B

Publication Date: 2021-12-13
Type: Conference Proceeding

Reproducing dynamic sediment-discharge relationships driven by time-varying sediment availability in cold basins: the sediment-availability-transport model.

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Zang T; Li D; Kettner A; Lu X

Publication Date: 2021-12-13
Type: Conference Proceeding

Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia

CU Boulder Authors: Overeem, Irina; Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Li D; Lu X; Overeem I; Walling DE; Syvitski J; Kettner AJ; Bookhagen B; Zhou Y; Zhang T

Published in: Science
Publication Date: 2021-10-29
Type: Journal Article

Constraining Dynamic Sediment-Discharge Relationships in Cold Environments: The Sediment-Availability-Transport (SAT) Model

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Zhang T; Li D; Kettner AJ; Zhou Y; Lu X

Published in: Water Resources Research
Publication Date: 2021-10-01
Type: Journal Article

Integrating Remote Sensed and Modeling data for Local Flood Prediction and Risk Assessment.

CU Boulder Authors: Kettner, Albert

All Authors: Kettner A

Publication Date: 2021-09-27
Type: Conference Proceeding

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Outreach

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News

Brightly colored topography model

CU Boulder team granted $2.56M to transform Earth surface science (CIRES)

Dec. 7, 2021

The National Science Foundation has awarded a highly competitive grant to a team of scientists building OpenEarthScape, a set of models and simulations to help anticipate changes in river flow, beach erosion, landslides and more. The $2.56M grant will support five years of work by earth surface scientists, including modelers, who are determined to better understand the forces that re-shape our landscapes over hours to epochs. Eric Hutton, Albert Kettner, Irina Overeem, Mark Piper are co-PIs on the grant.

People in a boat and wading in floodwaters

Study finds global surge of flood exposure is from population shifts far more than climate change (Sustain What)

Aug. 6, 2021

Too often, rising climate risk is conflated with rising CO2. That takes the heat off national and local leaders who can cut drivers of risk on the ground now. Andy Revkin collects in-depth perspective from scientists and others on the global risk of flooding, the inequities and policies that are driving up that risk, and what we can do to manage it. Revkin cites work that involved Albert Kettner and Bob Brakenridge of the DFO Flood Observatory.

Map of global flooding on a particular day

New global map shows populations are growing faster in flood-prone areas (MIT Technology Review)

Aug. 5, 2021

Satellite imagery reveals how floods are changing and who’s most at risk. A new global floods database involved Bob Brakenridge and Albert Kettner of the DFO Flood Observatory.

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