Posts by Elyse DeFranco

Meet Bea Gordon, Ph.D.

Meet Bea Gordon, Ph.D.

Beatrice, who also goes by “Bea,” is an interdisciplinary hydrologist with a deeply embedded concern for water availability born from her childhood on a Wyoming ranch. She is focused on working with communities in rural Nevada to understand their needs for effective climate adaptation.

A New, Rigorous Assessment of OpenET Accuracy for Supporting Satellite-Based Water Management 

A New, Rigorous Assessment of OpenET Accuracy for Supporting Satellite-Based Water Management 

A new study offers a comprehensive multi-model, large-scale accuracy assessment of an operational satellite-based data system to compute evapotranspiration. The researchers found that OpenET data has high accuracy for assessing evapotranspiration in agricultural settings, particularly for annual crops like wheat, corn, soy, and rice.