Grace Carlson

Grace Carlson

Assistant Professor, Geography

Education

  • Ph.D., Virginia Tech
  • B.S., Indiana University

Research

  • Groundwater hydrology
  • Solid Earth response to changes in water storage
  • Remote sensing
  • Drought monitoring and modeling
  • Water-related hazards
  • Time series analysis
  • Inverse methods
  • Data fusion

Teaching

  • GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?

About Grace Carlson

Publications

  • Carlson, G., Massari, C., Rotiroti, M., Bonomi, T., Preziosi, E., Wilder, A., Whitaker, D., Girotto, M. (2025), Intensive Irrigation buffers groundwater declines in key European breadbasket, Nature Water, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00445-4.

  • Carlson, G., Werth, S., Shirzaei, M. (2024), A Novel Hybrid GNSS, GRACE, and InSAR Joint Inversion Approach to Constrain Water Loss During a Record-Setting Drought in California, Remote Sensing of Environment, 311, 114303, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114303.

  • Khorrami, M., Shirzaei, M., Ghobadi-Far, K., Werth, S., Carlson, G., & Zhai, G. (2023), Groundwater volume loss in Mexico City constrained by InSAR and GRACE observations and mechanical models, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101962. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101962.

  • Carlson, G., Werth, S., Shirzaei, M. (2022), Joint Inversion of GNSS and GRACE for Terrestrial Water Storage Change in California, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, http://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023135.

  • Shirzaei, M., Khoshmanesh, M., Ojha, C., Werth, S., Kerner, H., Carlson, G., Futi Sherpa, S., Zhai, G., Lee, J.C. (2021), Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest, Weather and Climate Extremes, Volume 34, 100392, ISSN 2212-0947, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100392.

  • Carlson, G., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C., & Werth, S. (2020), Subsidence‐derived volumetric strain models for mapping extensional fissures and constraining rock mechanical properties in the San Joaquin Valley, California, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019980.

  • Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C., Werth, S., Carlson, G., & Vivoni, E. (2019), Comment on “Short-lived pause in Central California subsidence after heavy winter precipitation of 2017” by K. D. Murray and R. B. Lohman, Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav8038.