Blake Minor

Assistant Research Scientist Hydrology

Phone

775-673-7688

E-Mail

Blake.Minor@www-dev.dri.edu

Campus

Reno Campus

Division

Hydrologic Sciences

Publications

2025

Albano, C. M., Soulard, C., Minor, B. A., Walker, J., Smith, B., Waller, E., Bartles, M., Corringham, T., O’Geen, A., Rohde, M., & Wein, A. (2025). Assessing Causes and Consequences of Winter Surface Water Dynamics in California’s Central Valley Using Satellite Remote Sensing. J Flood Risk Management, 18(2), e70080. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70080

2024

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F. S., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J. B., Kilic, A., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G. B., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ott, T., Johnson, L., Comini de Andrade, B., Carrara, W., Doherty, C. T., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Kang, Y., Knipper, K., Laipelt, L., Ortega-Salazar, S., Pearson, C., Parrish, G. E., Purdy, A., ReVelle, P., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2024). Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications. Nature Water, 13 p. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00181-7

Ott, T., Majumdar, S., Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., ReVelle, P., Morton, C. G., Sueki, S., Beamer, J. P., & Jasoni, R. L. (2024). Toward field-scale groundwater pumping and improved groundwater management using remote sensing and climate data. Agricultural Water Management, 302, Article No. 109000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109000

Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Smith, G. T., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Assessment of Potential Drivers of Surface and Groundwater Declines at Fish Slough, Owens Valley, CA. Desert Research Institute
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/webfiles.dri.edu/Projects/GroundwaterDependentEcosystems/FishSlough/DRI_2024_FishSlough_Final_Report.pdf

Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Smith, G. T., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). A Remote Sensing Investigation of Surprise Canyon Creek Wild and Scenic River
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/webfiles.dri.edu/Projects/GroundwaterDependentEcosystems/SupriseCanyon/Surprise_Canyon_Final_Report_DRI_2024.pdf

Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Volk, J. M., Dunkerly, C. W., Jensen, E., ReVelle, P., Kilic, A., Allen, R., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Historical Evapotranspiration and Consumptive Use of Irrigated Areas of the Upper Colorado River Basin. Desert Research Institute: Las Vegas, NV, DRI Report No. 41304. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31069.63206

2023

Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Smith, G. T., Morton, C. G., & Huntington, J. L. (2023). Baseline Assessment of Groundwater Dependent Vegetation in relation to Climate and Groundwater Levels in select Hydrographic Basins of Nevada: Oasis Valley, 41293. DRI Technical Report
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/webfiles.dri.edu/Projects/GroundwaterDependentEcosystems/BaselineAssessment/41293-Oasis_Valley_GDE_Final_Report.pdf

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Halverson, G., Knipper, K., Minor, B. A., Pearson, C., Wang, T., Yang, Y., Evett, S., French, A. N., Jasoni, R. L., & Kustas, W. (2023). Development of a benchmark Eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset for evaluation of satellite-driven evapotranspiration models over the CONUS. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 331, 109307. Elsevier

Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Pearson, C., Beamer, J., Dunkerly, C. W., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., & Hoskinson, M. (2023). Evapotranspiration, Net Irrigation Water Requirements, and Reservoir Evaporation Estimates for Oregon

Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Russell, C. E., Huntington, J. L., & Carrara, K. O. (2023). Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration at the Nevada Environmental Response Trust Site and Nearby Properties. Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 41296

Volk, J. M., Huntington, J. L., Melton, F., Minor, B. A., Wang, T., Anapalli, S., Anderson, R. G., Evett, S., French, A., Jasoni, R. L., Bambach, N., Kustas, W. P., Alfieri, J., Prueger, J., Hipps, L., McKee, L., Castro, S. J., Alsina, M. M., McElrone, A. J., Reba, M., Runkle, B., Saber, M., Sanchez, C., Tajfar, E., Allen, R., & Anderson, M. (2023). Post-processed data and graphical tools for a CONUS-wide eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset. Data in Brief, 48, Article No. 109274.

2022

Huntington, J. L., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., & Smith, G. T. (2022). Groundwater Discharge from Phreatophyte Vegetation, Humboldt River Basin, Nevada. Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute
https://www-dev.dri.edu/project/humboldt-etg/

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F. S., & Allen, R. (2022). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary, Technical Report prepared for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., & Allen, R. (2022). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary

2021

Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., Hain, C., Johnson, L., Ruhoff, A., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Kang, Y., Ketchum, D., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Ozdogan, M., ReVelle, P., Schull, M., Wang, C., Yang, Y., & Anderson, R. (2021). OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12956

Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Huntington, J. L., & Morton, C. G. (2021). Baseline Assessment of Groundwater Dependent Vegetation in Relation to Climate and Groundwater Levels in Select Hydrographic Basins of Nevada. Desert Research Institute: Reno, NV, Desert Research Institute Technical Report 41283.

Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., Volk, J. M., Morton, C. G., Melton, F., & Allen, R. (2021). Appendix G: Upper Colorado River Basin OpenET Intercomparison Summary. . Report submitted to United States Bureau of Reclamation

2020

Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., Freed, Z., & Huntington, J. L. (2020). Status and Trends of Groundwater Dependent Vegetation in Relation to Climate and Shallow Groundwater in the Harney Basin, Oregon. Desert Research Institute: Reno, NV, DRI Technical Report 41280.

Conference Proceedings

2024

ReVelle, P., Minor, B. A., Bromley, M., Pearson, C., Majumdar, S., Morton, C. G., & Huntington, J. L. (2024). Enhancing Hydrographic Basin Water Resource Management with OpenET: Quantifying Consumptive Use Volumes and Evaluating Variability across Models and Irrigation Status Datasets. AGU WaterSciCon24: St. Paul, MN

Majumdar, S., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Smith, R. G., Pearson, C., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., ReVelle, P., Hasan, M. F., Beamer, J. P., & Conway, B. D. (2024). Tracking groundwater pumping, consumptive use, and irrigation efficiencies in the Western U.S. through OpenET. AGU WaterSciCon24: St. Paul, MN, Oral presentation.

Majumdar, S., Ott, T., Huntington, J. L., Pearson, C., Bromley, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Sueki, S., Beamer, J. P., & Jasoni, R. L. (2024). Assessing statistical and machine learning approaches to estimate field-scale groundwater pumping using Landsat-based evapotranspiration, irrigation, and climate data. AGU Chapman Conference: Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Honolulu, HI

Melton, F., Grimm, R., Volk, J. M., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Harding, J., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Johnson, L., Kilic, A., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., O’Connor, R., Amidi-Abraham, G., Parrish, G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Purdy, A., Ruhoff, A., ReVelle, P., Senay, G., Solymar, R., Yang, Y., & Biedebach, M. (2024). OpenET: Applications of Evapotranspiration Data for Water Resources Management in the Western United States, 2023, H13D-07
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AGUFM.H13D..07M

2023

Bromley, M., Beamer, J., Blankenau, P., Marti, J., Salwasser, J., Huntington, J. L., Minor, B. A., Melton, F., Zamora Re, M., Tomasek, A., LovellFord, R., Hoskinson, R., Lauden, A., Rempel, M., Vincent, A., Schoepflin, T., & Godwin, D. (2023). Toward Consistent, Accepted, and Readily Available Watershed Scale Summaries of Evapotranspiration and Irrigated Lands Data for Improved Water Management in the Columbia River Basin . AGU Annual Meeting 2023: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023

2022

Bromley, M., Melton, F., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Huntington, J. L., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Erickson, T., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Hall, M., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Morton, C. G., Malloy, M., McCullum, A., Minor, B. A., Patel, M., O’Connor, R., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., ReVelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Senay, G., Volk, J. M., & Yang, Y. (2022). OpenET: Cloud-based Evapotranspiration Data for Water Management . AGU – Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting: San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 20, 2022-June 24, 2022
https://agu.confex.com/agu/hydrology22/meetingapp.cgi

Bromley, M., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., & Huntington, J. L. (2022). Evapotranspiration Analysis for Klamath River Basin. Klamath River Basin Natural Flow Study Stakeholder Workshop: Medford, OR, November 2, 2022-November 3, 2022

Albano, C. M., Soulard, C., Walker, J., Waller, E., & Minor, B. A. (2022). Quantifying the role of atmospheric rivers as drivers of wintertime flood extents in the Central Valley of California. International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC): Santiago, Chile, October 11, 2022-October 14, 2022

2021

Reitz, M., Huntington, J. L., Volk, J. M., Ott, T., Melton, F., Pearson, C., Minor, B. A., & Carrara, W. (2021). A machine learning approach to weighting the remotely sensed ET ensemble members of OpenET. AGU Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA

2020

Albano, C. M., McGwire, K. C., Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Minor, B. A., & Huntington, J. L. (2020). Using satellite remote sensing and climate data to assess status and trends of groundwater dependent ecosystem vegetation in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association: Las Vegas, NV, February 11, 2020-February 13, 2020

Albano, C. M., Daudert, B., Hausner, M. B., McEvoy, D. J., McGwire, K. C., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Pearson, C., & Huntington, J. L. (2020). Assessing the Effects of Climate and Management on Meadow and Riparian Vegetation Using the Landsat Archive and Cloud Computing – Tools and Applications. Society for Ecological Restoration – California Chapter, September 1, 2020-September 24, 2020

Rollison, D., Grimm, R., Melton, F., Huntington, J. L., Herring, J., Hall, M., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Blankenau, P., Bromley, M., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C. W., Fisher, J., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Hain, C., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Johnson, L., Kang, Y., Kilic, A., Malloy, M., Minor, B. A., Morton, C. G., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Revelle, P., Ruhoff, A., Schull, M. A., Senay, G. B., Volk, J. M., Wang, T., & Yang, Y. (2020). OpenET: Enabling Science-Based Water Management through Open Data Services and User-Driven Design. AGU: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020

2019

Huntington, J. L., McGwire, K. C., Pearson, C., Hausner, M. B., Albano, C. M., Minor, B. A., McEvoy, D. J., & Morton, C. G. (2019). Assessing the role of climate and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive and cloud computing. American Fisheries Society/The Wildlife Society Joint Meeting: Reno, NV, September 30, 2019-October 3, 2019, 8014-3