Brandon T Overstreet
Brandon Overstreet is a hydrologist at the Oregon Water Science Center.
As a member of the Geomorphology team at the Oregon Water Science Center, Brandon incorporates remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and field surveys to characterize river attributes including water depth, streamflow, temperature, and riparian vegetation. His work focuses on linking river observations at a range of scales to physical habitats, fluvial hazards, and management.
Brandon joined the USGS as a student employee in 2016 and became a permanent employee in 2020 following completion of his doctoral degree. He has over 10 years of experience planning and conducting remote sensing missions and incorporating data into hydrologic studies. Brandon is a FAA and DOI certified UAS pilot and developed the UAS program at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center.
Education and Certifications
B.S. in Geology, University of Idaho, 2008
M.S. in Geology, University of Wyoming, 2011
Ph.D. in Hydrology, University of Wyoming, 2020
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 29
Airborne Thermal Infrared and High-resolution True-color Imagery and Longitudinal Profiles of Stream Temperatures, Upper Donner und Blitzen River Basin, Oregon, August 2020 Airborne Thermal Infrared and High-resolution True-color Imagery and Longitudinal Profiles of Stream Temperatures, Upper Donner und Blitzen River Basin, Oregon, August 2020
This dataset includes georeferenced, high-resolution, airborne thermal infrared (TIR) and high-resolution true-color imagery, a polyline shapefile of the channel centerline, a polyline shapefile with TIR sample points for longitudinal stream temperature profiles, and a tabular file with longitudinal stream temperature profiles for the Donner und Blitzen River and its tributaries, Oregon...
2021 McKenzie River Topobathymetric Lidar Validation - USGS Field Survey Data 2021 McKenzie River Topobathymetric Lidar Validation - USGS Field Survey Data
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts between July 19th and 31st, 2021 over a large stretch of the McKenzie River in Oregon using high accuracy surveying technologies. The work was initiated as an effort to validate commercially acquired topobathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) data that was collected coincidentally between July 26th...
Digital elevation model and single beam sonar data from the McKenzie River, Oregon, 2021 Digital elevation model and single beam sonar data from the McKenzie River, Oregon, 2021
In 2021, the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) funded the collection of topo-bathymetric lidar (sometimes referred to as "green lidar") on the McKenzie River, Oregon. As part of this acquisition, lidar data were collected starting on the McKenzie River below Trail Bridge Reservoir and extending downstream roughly 125 km to its confluence with the Willamette River. Bathymetric lidar...
Simulated streamflow and stream temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, southeastern Oregon, using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) Simulated streamflow and stream temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, southeastern Oregon, using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS)
Streamflow and stream temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin for water years 1980 through 2021 were simulated using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) with the "stream_temp" module. The model domain was discretized into 175 stream segments and calibrated to observed streamflow and stream temperature at points distributed throughout the basin. Model input files...
Single-beam Echosounder Bathymetry of the Willamette River, Oregon 2015-2018 Single-beam Echosounder Bathymetry of the Willamette River, Oregon 2015-2018
River bathymetry measurements were collected in 2017 and 2018 along the Willamette River, Oregon, between Eugene and Newberg. These data were collected to complement a bathymetric lidar dataset collected in 2017 for the same section of river. In many deeper segments of the river channel, bathymetric lidar did not produce measurements of river bathymetry. To fill gaps in the bathymetric...
Supplemental Data: Hydrologic Budget of the Harney Basin Groundwater System, Southeastern Oregon, 1982-2016 Supplemental Data: Hydrologic Budget of the Harney Basin Groundwater System, Southeastern Oregon, 1982-2016
This USGS data release presents data used to estimate and summarize hydrologic budget components of the Harney Basin groundwater system, Southeastern Oregon, 1982-2016. The supplemental data consist of five child items. The child items are: (1) Harney Basin Boundaries: Hydrographic Area, Groundwater Evapotranspiration Area, Regions, Lowlands, Uplands, and Selected Watersheds in Harney...
Below are publications that Brandon Overstreet has authored.
Filter Total Items: 18
Non-USGS Publications**
Smith, L. C., Andrews, L. C., Pitcher, L. H, Overstreet, B. T., Rennermalm, Å. K., Cooper, M. G., et al. 2021. Supraglacial river forcing of subglacial water storage and diurnal ice sheet motion. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091418. doi: 10.1029/2020GL091418
Gleason, C. J. and Yang, K. and Feng, D. and Smith, L. C. and Liu, K. and Pitcher, L. H. and Chu, V. W. and Cooper, M. G. and Overstreet, B. T. and Rennermalm, A. K. and Ryan, J. C. 2021. Hourly surface meltwater routing for a Greenlandic supraglacial catchment across hillslopes and through a dense topological channel network. The Cryosphere, 15, 2315-2331. doi: 10.5194/tc-15-2315-2021
Smith, L.C., Yang, K., Pitcher, L.H, Overstreet, B.T., Chu, V.W., Rennermalm, Å.K., Ryan, J.C., Cooper, M.G., Gleason, C.J., Tedesco, M., Jeyaratnam, J., van As, D. van den Broeke, M.R., van de Berg, W.J., Noël, B., Langen, P.I, Cullather, R.I., Zhao, B., Willis, M.J., Hubbard, A., Box, J.E., Jenner, B.A., Behar, A.E. 2017. Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 114 (50) E10622-E10631. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707743114
Overstreet B.T., Riebe C.S., Wooster, J.K., Sklar, L.S., Bellugi D. 2016. Tools for gauging the capacity of salmon spawning substrates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41, 130– 142. doi: 10.1002/esp.3831
Legleiter C.J., Overstreet B.T., Glennie C.L., Pan Z, Fernandez-Diaz J.C., Singhania A. 2015. Evaluating the capabilities of the CASI hyperspectral imaging system and Aquarius bathymetric LiDAR for measuring channel morphology in two distinct river environments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(3), 344-363. doi: 10.1002/esp.3794
Smith, L.C., Chu, V.W., Yang, K., Gleason, C.J., Pitcher, L.H., Rennermalm, A.K., Legleiter, C.J., Behar, A.E., Overstreet, B.T., Moustafa, S.E., Tedesco, M., Forster, R.R., LeWinter, A.L., Finnegan, D.C., Sheng, W., and Balog, J. 2015. Efficient meltwater drainage through supraglacial streams and rivers on the southwest Greenland Ice Sheet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(4): 1001-1006. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1413024112
Pan, Z., Glennie, C. L., Hartzell, P. J., Fernandez-Diaz, J. C., Legleiter, C. J., and Overstreet, B. T. 2015. Performance Assessment of High Resolution Airborne Full Waveform LiDAR for Shallow River Bathymetry. Remote Sensing, 7(5): 5133-5159. doi: 10.3390/rs70505133
Legleiter, C.J., and Overstreet, B.T. 2014. Retrieving river attributes from remotely sensed data: an experimental evaluation based on field spectroscopy at the Outdoor Stream Lab. River Research and Applications, 30(6): 671-684. doi: 10.1002/rra.2674
Riebe C.S., Sklar L.S., Overstreet B.T., and Wooster J.K. 2014. Optimal reproduction in salmon spawning substrates linked to grain size and fish length. Water Resources Research 50 : 1–21. doi: 10.1002/2013WR014231
Legleiter, C.J., Tedesco, M., Smith, L.C., Behar, A., and Overstreet, B.T. 2014. Mapping the bathymetry of supraglacial lakes and streams on the Greenland Ice Sheet using field measurements and high resolution satellite images. The Cryosphere, 8: 215-228. doi: 10.5194/tc-8-215-2014
Fernandez-Diaz, J.C., Glennie, C.L., Carter, W.E., Shrestha, R.L, Sartori, M.P., Singhania, A., Legleiter, C.J., and Overstreet, B.T. 2014. Early Results from a Simultaneous Airborne Terrain and Shallow Water Bathymetry Mapping LiDAR Sensor. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 7(2): 623-635. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2265255
Legleiter, C.J., and Overstreet, B.T. 2012. Mapping gravel-bed river bathymetry from space. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 117, F04024, doi:10.1029/2012JF002539.
Non-USGS Scientific Datasets:
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., et al. (2021) Greenland Ice Sheet Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurements of supraglacial river discharge and Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of ice surface motion, 2016. Arctic Data Center. doi: 10.18739/A22F7JS1
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., Cooley, S.W., Ryan, J.C., Miege, C., Kershner, C., Simpson, C.E. (2021) Greenland ice sheet surface position near a major supraglacial river moulin 2016, The GAGE Facility operated by UNAVCO, Inc., GPS/GNSS Observations Dataset. doi: 10.7283/GT6K-B184
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., et al. (2021) Greenland Ice Sheet Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurements of supraglacial river discharge and Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of ice surface motion, 2016. Arctic Data Center. doi: 10.18739/A22F7JS1
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., Cooley, S.W., Ryan, J.C., Miege, C., Kershner, C., Simpson, C.E. (2021) Greenland ice sheet surface position near a major supraglacial river moulin 2016, The GAGE Facility operated by UNAVCO, Inc., GPS/GNSS Observations Dataset. doi: 10.7283/GT6K-B184
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 29
Airborne Thermal Infrared and High-resolution True-color Imagery and Longitudinal Profiles of Stream Temperatures, Upper Donner und Blitzen River Basin, Oregon, August 2020 Airborne Thermal Infrared and High-resolution True-color Imagery and Longitudinal Profiles of Stream Temperatures, Upper Donner und Blitzen River Basin, Oregon, August 2020
This dataset includes georeferenced, high-resolution, airborne thermal infrared (TIR) and high-resolution true-color imagery, a polyline shapefile of the channel centerline, a polyline shapefile with TIR sample points for longitudinal stream temperature profiles, and a tabular file with longitudinal stream temperature profiles for the Donner und Blitzen River and its tributaries, Oregon...
2021 McKenzie River Topobathymetric Lidar Validation - USGS Field Survey Data 2021 McKenzie River Topobathymetric Lidar Validation - USGS Field Survey Data
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists conducted field data collection efforts between July 19th and 31st, 2021 over a large stretch of the McKenzie River in Oregon using high accuracy surveying technologies. The work was initiated as an effort to validate commercially acquired topobathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) data that was collected coincidentally between July 26th...
Digital elevation model and single beam sonar data from the McKenzie River, Oregon, 2021 Digital elevation model and single beam sonar data from the McKenzie River, Oregon, 2021
In 2021, the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) funded the collection of topo-bathymetric lidar (sometimes referred to as "green lidar") on the McKenzie River, Oregon. As part of this acquisition, lidar data were collected starting on the McKenzie River below Trail Bridge Reservoir and extending downstream roughly 125 km to its confluence with the Willamette River. Bathymetric lidar...
Simulated streamflow and stream temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, southeastern Oregon, using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) Simulated streamflow and stream temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin, southeastern Oregon, using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS)
Streamflow and stream temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River Basin for water years 1980 through 2021 were simulated using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) with the "stream_temp" module. The model domain was discretized into 175 stream segments and calibrated to observed streamflow and stream temperature at points distributed throughout the basin. Model input files...
Single-beam Echosounder Bathymetry of the Willamette River, Oregon 2015-2018 Single-beam Echosounder Bathymetry of the Willamette River, Oregon 2015-2018
River bathymetry measurements were collected in 2017 and 2018 along the Willamette River, Oregon, between Eugene and Newberg. These data were collected to complement a bathymetric lidar dataset collected in 2017 for the same section of river. In many deeper segments of the river channel, bathymetric lidar did not produce measurements of river bathymetry. To fill gaps in the bathymetric...
Supplemental Data: Hydrologic Budget of the Harney Basin Groundwater System, Southeastern Oregon, 1982-2016 Supplemental Data: Hydrologic Budget of the Harney Basin Groundwater System, Southeastern Oregon, 1982-2016
This USGS data release presents data used to estimate and summarize hydrologic budget components of the Harney Basin groundwater system, Southeastern Oregon, 1982-2016. The supplemental data consist of five child items. The child items are: (1) Harney Basin Boundaries: Hydrographic Area, Groundwater Evapotranspiration Area, Regions, Lowlands, Uplands, and Selected Watersheds in Harney...
Below are publications that Brandon Overstreet has authored.
Filter Total Items: 18
Non-USGS Publications**
Smith, L. C., Andrews, L. C., Pitcher, L. H, Overstreet, B. T., Rennermalm, Å. K., Cooper, M. G., et al. 2021. Supraglacial river forcing of subglacial water storage and diurnal ice sheet motion. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091418. doi: 10.1029/2020GL091418
Gleason, C. J. and Yang, K. and Feng, D. and Smith, L. C. and Liu, K. and Pitcher, L. H. and Chu, V. W. and Cooper, M. G. and Overstreet, B. T. and Rennermalm, A. K. and Ryan, J. C. 2021. Hourly surface meltwater routing for a Greenlandic supraglacial catchment across hillslopes and through a dense topological channel network. The Cryosphere, 15, 2315-2331. doi: 10.5194/tc-15-2315-2021
Smith, L.C., Yang, K., Pitcher, L.H, Overstreet, B.T., Chu, V.W., Rennermalm, Å.K., Ryan, J.C., Cooper, M.G., Gleason, C.J., Tedesco, M., Jeyaratnam, J., van As, D. van den Broeke, M.R., van de Berg, W.J., Noël, B., Langen, P.I, Cullather, R.I., Zhao, B., Willis, M.J., Hubbard, A., Box, J.E., Jenner, B.A., Behar, A.E. 2017. Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 114 (50) E10622-E10631. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707743114
Overstreet B.T., Riebe C.S., Wooster, J.K., Sklar, L.S., Bellugi D. 2016. Tools for gauging the capacity of salmon spawning substrates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41, 130– 142. doi: 10.1002/esp.3831
Legleiter C.J., Overstreet B.T., Glennie C.L., Pan Z, Fernandez-Diaz J.C., Singhania A. 2015. Evaluating the capabilities of the CASI hyperspectral imaging system and Aquarius bathymetric LiDAR for measuring channel morphology in two distinct river environments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(3), 344-363. doi: 10.1002/esp.3794
Smith, L.C., Chu, V.W., Yang, K., Gleason, C.J., Pitcher, L.H., Rennermalm, A.K., Legleiter, C.J., Behar, A.E., Overstreet, B.T., Moustafa, S.E., Tedesco, M., Forster, R.R., LeWinter, A.L., Finnegan, D.C., Sheng, W., and Balog, J. 2015. Efficient meltwater drainage through supraglacial streams and rivers on the southwest Greenland Ice Sheet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(4): 1001-1006. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1413024112
Pan, Z., Glennie, C. L., Hartzell, P. J., Fernandez-Diaz, J. C., Legleiter, C. J., and Overstreet, B. T. 2015. Performance Assessment of High Resolution Airborne Full Waveform LiDAR for Shallow River Bathymetry. Remote Sensing, 7(5): 5133-5159. doi: 10.3390/rs70505133
Legleiter, C.J., and Overstreet, B.T. 2014. Retrieving river attributes from remotely sensed data: an experimental evaluation based on field spectroscopy at the Outdoor Stream Lab. River Research and Applications, 30(6): 671-684. doi: 10.1002/rra.2674
Riebe C.S., Sklar L.S., Overstreet B.T., and Wooster J.K. 2014. Optimal reproduction in salmon spawning substrates linked to grain size and fish length. Water Resources Research 50 : 1–21. doi: 10.1002/2013WR014231
Legleiter, C.J., Tedesco, M., Smith, L.C., Behar, A., and Overstreet, B.T. 2014. Mapping the bathymetry of supraglacial lakes and streams on the Greenland Ice Sheet using field measurements and high resolution satellite images. The Cryosphere, 8: 215-228. doi: 10.5194/tc-8-215-2014
Fernandez-Diaz, J.C., Glennie, C.L., Carter, W.E., Shrestha, R.L, Sartori, M.P., Singhania, A., Legleiter, C.J., and Overstreet, B.T. 2014. Early Results from a Simultaneous Airborne Terrain and Shallow Water Bathymetry Mapping LiDAR Sensor. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 7(2): 623-635. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2265255
Legleiter, C.J., and Overstreet, B.T. 2012. Mapping gravel-bed river bathymetry from space. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 117, F04024, doi:10.1029/2012JF002539.
Non-USGS Scientific Datasets:
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., et al. (2021) Greenland Ice Sheet Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurements of supraglacial river discharge and Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of ice surface motion, 2016. Arctic Data Center. doi: 10.18739/A22F7JS1
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., Cooley, S.W., Ryan, J.C., Miege, C., Kershner, C., Simpson, C.E. (2021) Greenland ice sheet surface position near a major supraglacial river moulin 2016, The GAGE Facility operated by UNAVCO, Inc., GPS/GNSS Observations Dataset. doi: 10.7283/GT6K-B184
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., et al. (2021) Greenland Ice Sheet Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurements of supraglacial river discharge and Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of ice surface motion, 2016. Arctic Data Center. doi: 10.18739/A22F7JS1
Smith, L.C., Cooper, M.G., Andrews, L.C., Pitcher, L.H., Overstreet, B.T., Rennermalm, A.K., Cooley, S.W., Ryan, J.C., Miege, C., Kershner, C., Simpson, C.E. (2021) Greenland ice sheet surface position near a major supraglacial river moulin 2016, The GAGE Facility operated by UNAVCO, Inc., GPS/GNSS Observations Dataset. doi: 10.7283/GT6K-B184
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.