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PREPRINTS (supervised students or postdocs  are underlined)





Ruzzante, S. W., Knoben, W. J. M., Wagener, T., Gleeson, T., and Schnorbus, M.: Technical Note: High Nash Sutcliffe Efficiencies conceal poor simulations of interannual variance in tropical, alpine, and polar catchments, EGUsphere , preprint

 Gleeson, T. Groundwater connected art: practicing arts-based research to enrich how hydrogeology engages people, place and other disciplines
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Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Moore, M.-L. Famiglietti, J.S. Global groundwaterscape risks comprehensively map groundwater sustainability challenges.
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2025

Gleeson, T., Takahiro Endo, Makoto Taniguchi and Giuliano Di Baldassarre. (2025) Reduced natural hazard susceptibilities and inequities by short-term groundwater use. In press with Nature Geoscience.
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Curran, D., Gleeson, T. and Marsden, T. Aligning place-based research with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In press with FACETS

124) Gleeson, T., Martindale, E., Shepherd, J., Serrano, D., Disney, K., Kulchyski, T. (Q'utxulenuhw), Elliott, T. (Tuwuxuwul't-hw), campbell, e (2025) Situating Place-Based, Community-Engaged Watershed Research at Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo'. Community Science. 4:4 e2024CSJ000120 doi: 10.1029/2024CSJ000120
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123) Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Famiglietti, J. S., et al. (2025). A review of open data for studying global groundwater in social-ecological systems. Environmental Research Letters. 20 093002DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/adf127
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122) Madrigal, R., Gleeson, T., Mariaclara Lopez Ruiz and Aaron Benhur Castillo Cruz. (2025) Bright but flickering lights of sustainable, community-based groundwater supply and management: ASADAS in Costa Rica.  Environmental Research Letters 20 051002 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc58d
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121) Zamrsky, D., S. Ruzzante, K. Compare, D. Kretschmer, S. Zipper, K.M. Befus, R. Reinecke, T.Gleeson, et al. (2025) Current trends and biases in groundwater modelling using the community-driven groundwater model portal (GroMoPo), Hydrogeology Journal. doi: 10.1007/s10040-025-02882-7
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120) Ruzzante, S. and Gleeson, T. (2025) Rising temperatures drive lower summer minimum flows across hydrologically diverse catchments in British Columbia. Water Resources Research, 61, e2024WR038057
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119) Gnann, S., Baldwin, J. W., Cuthbert, M.O., Gleeson, T., Schwanghart, W., & Wagener, T. (2025). The influence of topography on the global terrestrial water cycle. Reviews of Geophysics, 63, e2023RG000810. doi: 10.1029/2023RG000810
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2024

118) Marinelli, B. P. P., Mohan, C., Gleeson, T., Ludwig, F., de Graaf, I. E. M. (2024) Comparing global violations of environmentally critical groundwater discharge thresholds. Water Resources Research, 60, e2024WR037519. doi: 10.1029/2024WR037519
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117) Cuthbert, M.O. Gleeson, T., Bierkens, M.F.P., Ferguson, G. and Taylor, R.G. (2024) Matters Arising: Concerns regarding proposed groundwater Earth system boundary. Nature. 635, E4–E5, doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08082-9

116) Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Villholth, K.G., Rocha, J.C. & J.S. Famiglietti. (2024) Groundwaterscapes: A global classification and mapping of groundwater's large-scale socioeconomic, ecological, and Earth system functions. Water Resources Research, 60, e2023WR036287. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036287
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115) Reinecke et al. (2024). Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth. Environmental Research Letters. 19 114066 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad8587.
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114) Zhan, Y., Guo, Z., Ruzzante, S., Gleeson, T., Babovic, V., Zheng, C. (2024). Assessment of spatiotemporal risks for nationwide groundwater nitrate contamination.  Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174508.  
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113) Rohde, M.M., Albano, C.M., Huggins, X., et al. Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07702-8

112)    Curran, D., Gleeson, T., & Huggins, X. (2024). Reply to Comment on “Applying a science-forward approach to groundwater regulatory design”: Hydrogeology Journal, 32(3), 931–933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-024-02780-4
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111) Zipper, S., et al. (2024). Streamflow Depletion Caused by Groundwater Pumping: Fundamental Research Priorities for Management‐Relevant Science. Water Resources Research, 60(5), e2023WR035727.
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110) Kuang, X., et al. (2024). The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle. Science, 383(6686), eadf0630.
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109) Porkka, M., Virkki, V., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Gerten, D., Gleeson, T., Mohan, C., et al. (2024). Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change. Nature Water, 1–12.
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2023
108) Zipper, S., Befus,K.M., Reinecke, R., Zamrsky, D., Gleeson, T., Ruzzante, S. et al. (2023) GroMoPo: A Groundwater Model Portal to promote Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) practices for groundwater modeling. Groundwater. 61: 764-767  doi: 10.1111/gwat.13343
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107) Richardson et al. (2023) Earth beyond six of nine Planetary Boundaries. Science Advances. 9: 37 doi : 10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
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106) Cuthbert, M.O., Gleeson, T., Bierkens, M.F.P., Ferguson, G. and Taylor, R.G. (2023) Defining renewable groundwater use to improve groundwater  management. Water Resources Research. 59:9 2022WR032831 doi: 10.1029/2022WR032831
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105) Allen, D.M. and Gleeson, T. (2023) Groundwater resource allocation in British Columbia: challenges and ways forward.  Confluence. doi: 10.22230/jwsm.2023v6n1a49 
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104) Mohan, C., Gleeson, T., Forstner, T., Famiglietti, J.S., de Graaf, I. (2023) Quantifying groundwater’s contribution to regional environmental flows in diverse hydrologic landscapes. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2022WR033153
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103) Curran, D., Gleeson, T., and Huggins, X.  (2023) Applying a science-forward approach to groundwater regulatory design. Hydrogeology Journal. doi: 10.1007/s10040-023-02625-6 
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102) Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Castilla-Rho, J., Holley, C., Re, V., Famiglietti, J.S. (2023) Groundwater connections and sustainability in social-ecological systems. Groundwater. doi: 10.1111/gwat.13305
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101) Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Serrano, D., Zipper, S., Jehn, F., Rohde, M.M., Abell, R., Vigerstol, K., Hartmann, A. (2023) Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas. Nature Sustainability.
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100) Scanlon, B.R., Fakhreddine, S., Rateb, A., de Graaf, I., Famiglietti, J., Gleeson, T. et al. (2023) Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00378-6
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UN World Water  Development Report
Gleeson, T., Huggins, X., Vázquez Suñé, E.. Arrojo-Agudo, P., Connor, R. (2022) Groundwater and Ecosystems. Chapter 6 of Groundwater: Making the invisible visible, UNESCO World Water Development Report.
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2022

Van Acken, A., Gleeson, T., Peters, D., and Curran, D. (2022) Conceptualizing the hydrogeothermal setting of Sloquet Hot Springs in the Canadian Cordillera on unceded St'at'imc Territory: an example of a reconciliation-based approach to field geoscience. 
Preprint was reviewed by FACETS. Similar information available in Geoscience BC report or M.Sc. thesis.

99) Mohan, C., Gleeson, T., Famiglietti, J.S., Virkki, V., Kummu, M., Porkka, M., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Huggins, X., Gerten, D. Jähnig, S.C. (2022) Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary. Hydrology and Earth System Science, , 26, 6247–6262, doi: 10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022
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98) Olarinoye, T., Gleeson, T., and Hartmann, A. (2022). Karst spring recession curve analysis: efficient, accurate methods for both fast and slow flow components. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 26, 5431–5447 doi: 10.5194/hess-26-5431-2022
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97) Virkki, V., Alanärä, E., Porkka, M., Ahopelto, L., Gleeson, T., Mohan, C. et al. (2022) Environmental flow envelopes: quantifying global, ecosystem–threatening streamflow alterations. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 26, 3315–3336, 2022, doi: 10.5194/hess-26-3315-2022
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96) Sun, S., Tang, Q., Konar, M., Huang, Z., Gleeson, T., Ma, T., Fang, C., Ximing, C. (2022) Domestic groundwater depletion supports China's national and international supply chain. Water Resources Research 58, 5 e2021WR030695
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95) Wang-Erlandsson, L. et al. (2022) Towards a green water planetary boundary. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00287-8
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94) Van Loon, A.F., et al. (2022) Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management. Environmental Research Letters. 17 044059. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5def
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93) Zipper, S.C., Farmer,W.H., Brookfield,A., Ajami,H., Reeves,H.W., Wardropper,C., Hammond,J.C., Gleeson, T., and Deines,J.M. . (2022) Quantifying streamflow depletion from groundwater pumping: a practical review of past and emerging approaches for water management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1–24. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12998.
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92) Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Kummu, M., Zipper, S.C., Troy, T., Wada, Y., Famiglietti, J.S. (2022) Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss. Nature Communications 13:439. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28029-w
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2021

91) Gleeson, T., Wagener, T., Doell, P., Bierkens, M., Wada, Y., Lo, M.-H., et al. (2021). GMD Perspectives: Improving the evaluation of groundwater representation in continental to global scale models. Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 1–27, doi: 10.5194/gmd-14-7545-2021
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90) Wagener, T., Gleeson, T., et al. (2021) On doing hydrology with dragons: Realizing the value of perceptual models and knowledge accumulation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, e1550. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1550
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89)  Li, Q., , Gleeson, T., Zipper, S. C. , & Kerr, B. (2021) Too many streams and not enough time or money? New analytical depletion functions for rapid and accurate streamflow depletion estimates. Groundwater. doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13124
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88) Hartmann, A., Jasechko, S., Gleeson, T., et al. (2021) Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (20) e2024492118; 10.1073/pnas.2024492118.
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87) Zipper, S. C., Gleeson, T., Li, Q., and Kerr, B. (2021) Comparing streamflow depletion estimation approaches
in a heavily stressed, conjunctively managed aquifer. Water Resources Research doi: 10.1029/2020WR027591
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2020

86) Li, Q., Gleeson, T., & Zipper, S. C. (2020) Streamflow depletion from groundwater pumping in contrasting hydrogeological landscapes: evaluation and sensitivity of a new management tool.  Journal of Hydrology: 590: 125568 doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125568
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85) Ferguson, G., Cuthbert, M.O., Befus, K., Gleeson, T., and McIntosh, J.C. (2020) Rethinking groundwater age Nature Geoscience. 13 (9), 592-594 doi:10.1038/s41561-020-0629-7
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84) Gleeson, T. (2020) Global groundwater sustainability. Groundwater. 58: 484-485 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12991
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83) Gleeson, T., Mark Cuthbert, Grant Ferguson, and Deb Perrone (2020) Global groundwater sustainability, systems and resources in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 48:431-463 doi.org: 10.1146/annurev-earth-071719-055251
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82) Gleeson, T., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Porkka, M., Zipper, S. C., et al. (2020). Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth System resilience in the Anthropocene. Water Resources Research. doi:  10.1029/2019WR024957  
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81) Gleeson, T., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Zipper, S. C., Porkka, M., et al. (2020) The water planetary boundary: interrogation and revision. One Earth.  2: 223-234. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.009
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80) Luijendijk, E., Gleeson, T. and Moosdorf, N. (2020) Fresh groundwater discharge insignificant for the world's oceans but important for coastal ecosystems Nature Communications, 11, 1260 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15064-8
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79) Zipper, S. C., Jaramillo, F., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Cornell, S.E., Gleeson, T.,...  Gordon, L. (2020) Integrating local to global water management with the water planetary boundary. Earth’s Future, e2019EF001377. doi: 10.1029/2019EF001377
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78) Olarinoye. T., Gleeson, T.,…. Hartmann, A. (2020) Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world’s fastest-flowing groundwater. Nature Scientific Data 7, 59. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0346-5
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2019

77) Gleeson, T.., Villholth, K., Taylor, R., Perrone, D., Hyndman, D. (2019) Groundwater: a call to action. Nature 576: 213 doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03711-0
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76) Zipper, S. C., Carah,J.K., Dillis, C., Gleeson, T., Kerr, B., Rohde, M.M., Howard, J.K., Zimmerman, J.K. H. (2019) Cannabis and residential groundwater pumping impacts on streamflow and ecosystems in Northern California. Environmental Research Communications 1: 125005 doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/ab534d
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75) Keys, P., Porkka, M., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Fetzer, I., Gleeson, T., Gordon, L.J. (2019). Invisible water security: moisture recycling and water resilience. Water Security doi: 10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100046
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74) de Graaf, I.E.M., Gleeson, T., van Beek, L.P.H., Sutanudjaja, E.H. and Bierkens, M.F.P. (2019) Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping. Nature 574: 90-94 doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1594-4
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73) Forstner, T. and Gleeson, T. (2019) Unseen and overlooked: methods for quantifying groundwater abstraction from different sectors in a data-scarce region, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2019.1652116
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72) Zipper, S., Gleeson, T.., Kerr, B., Howard, J.K., Rohde, M.M., Carah, J. and Zimmerman, J. (2019) Rapid and accurate estimates of streamflow depletion caused by groundwater pumping using analytical depletion functions. Water Resources Research 55: 5807-5929 doi: 10.1029/2018WR024403
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71) Blöschl, G. et al. (2019) Twenty-three Unsolved Problems in Hydrology – a community perspective. Hydrologic Processes 64: 10, 1141-1158 doi: 10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507.
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70) Zipper, S. Whitney, K.S., Deines, J.M., Befus, K.M., Bhatia, U., Albers, S.J., Beecher, J., Brelsford, C., Garcia, M., Gleeson, T., O’Donnell, F.,Resnik, D., Schlager, E., (2019) Balancing open science and data privacy in the water sciences. Water Resources Research 55: 5202-5211 doi: 10.1029/2019WR025080
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69) Cuthbert, M.O., Gleeson, T., Moosdorf, N., Schneider, A., Hartmann, J., Befus, K.M. and Lehner, B. (2019) Global interactions between climate and groundwater, Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0386-4
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68) Smilovic, M., Gleeson, T.., Adamowski, J. and Langhorn, C. (2019)  More food with less water – optimizing agricultural water use. Advances of Water Resources 123: 256-261 doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.09.016
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2018

67) Zipper, S. C., Dallemagne, T., Gleeson, T., Boerman, T., & Hartmann, A. (2018). Groundwater pumping impacts on real stream networks: testing the performance of simple management tools. Water Resources Research
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66) Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Eckstrand, H. and Kerr, B. (2018) Streamflow Depletion Modeling: Methods for an Adaptable and Conjunctive Water Management Decision Support Tool. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12659
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65) Lutz, S.R., Popp, A., van Emmerik, T., Gleeson, T., Kalaugher, L., Möbius, K., Mudde, T., Walton, B., Hut, R., Savenije,H., Slater, L.J., Solcerova, A., Stoof, C.R., and Zink, M. (2018) Science in today’s media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3589–3599, 2018 doi: 10.5194/hess-22-3589-2018
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64) Huscroft, J., Gleeson, T., Hartmann, J., Börker, J. (2018) Compiling and mapping global permeability of the unconsolidated and consolidated Earth: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS 2.0 (GLHYMPS 2.0). Geophysical Research Letters 45, 1897–1904. doi: 10.1002/2017GL075860
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63) Gleeson, T., Manning, A.H., Popp, A., Zane, J. and Clark, J.F. (2018) The suitability of using dissolved gases to determine groundwater discharge to high gradient rivers. Journal of Hydrology 557: 561-572  doi: j.jhydrol.2017.12.022
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2017

62) Gleeson, T. and Richter, B. (2017) How much groundwater can we pump and protect environmental flows through time? Presumptive standards for conjunctive management of aquifers and rivers. River Research and Applications 34:83–92 doi: 10.1002/rra.3185
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61) Ingebritsen, S. and Gleeson, T., (2017) Crustal permeability. Hydrogeology Journal. 25: 2221-222415: 1-10 doi: 10.1007/s10040-017-1663-4
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60) Befus, K., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E., Gleeson, T., Cardenas, M.B. (2017) The rapid yet uneven turnover of Earth's groundwater. (2017) Geophysical Research Letters 11: 5511-5520 doi: 10.1002/2017GL073322
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59) Jasechko, S., Perrone, D., Befus, K., Cardenas, M.B., Ferguson,G., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk,E., McDonnell, J., Taylor, R., Wada, Y., Kirchner, J. (2017) Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination. Nature Geoscience: 10: 425-429 doi:10.1038/ngeo2943
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58) Cuthbert, M. O., Gleeson, T., Reynolds, S. C., Bennett, M. R., Newton, A. C., McCormack, C. J. and Ashley, G.M. (2017) Modelling the role of groundwater hydro-refugia in East African hominin evolution and dispersal.  Nature Communications 8: 15696 doi:10.1038/ncomms15696
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57) de Graaf, I.E.M., van Beek, L.P.H., Gleeson, T., Moosdorf, N., Schmitz, O, and Bierkens, M.F.P. (2017) A global-scale two-layered transient groundwater model: development and application to groundwater depletion. Advances in Water Resources 102: 53-67 doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.01.011
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56) Hartmann, A., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Wagener, T. (2017)  Enhanced groundwater recharge rates and altered recharge sensitivity to climate variability through subsurface heterogeneity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 115: 2842-2847. doi:10.1073/pnas.1614941114. Highlighted in Nature Climate Change.
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55) Asoka, A., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., and Mishra, V. (2017) Relative contribution of monsoon precipitation and pumping in groundwater storage in India. Nature Geoscience 10: 109-117 doi:10.1038/ngeo2869
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54) Mundy, E., Gleeson, T., Roberts, M., Baraer, M. and McKenzie, J. M. (2017) Thermal imagery of groundwater seeps: possibilities and limitations. Groundwater 55: 160-170 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12451.
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Book
Gleeson, T. and Ingebritsen, S. (2016)
​Crustal permeability
co-published by ​Wiley-Blackwell & AGU
472 page
see review in Groundwater
2016

53)    Scibek, J., Gleeson, T. and McKenzie, J.M. (2016) The biases and trends in fault zone hydrogeology conceptual models: global compilation and categorical data analysis. Geofluids 6: 782–798 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12188
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52)    Mundy, E., Dascher-Cousineau, K., Gleeson, T., Rowe, C., Allen, D.M. (2016) Complexity of hydrogeologic regime around an ancient low-angle thrust fault revealed by multi-disciplinary field study. Geofluids 6: 673–687 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12200
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51)    Beebe, B., Ferguson, G., Gleeson, T., Morgan, L., and Werner, A. (2016) Application of an analytical solution as a screening tool for seawater intrusion. Groundwater. 54: 709–718 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12411
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50) Smilovic, M., Gleeson, T., and Adamowski, J. (2016) Crop kites: determining crop-water production functions using crop coefficients and sensitivity indices. Advances in Water Resources 97: 193-204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.09.010
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49) Van Loon, A.F., Stahl, K., Di Baldassarre, G., Clark, J., Rangecroft, S., Gleeson, T., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Tallaksen, L.M., Hannaford, J., Teuling, A.J.,  Uijlenhoet, R., Hannah, Wanders, N., D.M., Sheffield, J., Svoboda, M., Verbeiren, B., Wagener,T., Van Lanen, H.A.J.  (2016) Drought in a human-modified world: reframing drought definitions, understanding and analysis approaches. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 3631-3650, 2016 doi: 10.5194/hess-20-3631-2016
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48) Bresciani,E., Gleeson, T., Goderniaux, P., de Dreuzy, J.-R., Werner, A. D., Wörman, A., Zijl, W., and Batelaan, B. (2016) Groundwater flow systems theory: research challenges beyond the specified-head top boundary condition. Hydrogeology Journal. 24: 1087. doi: 10.1007/s10040-016-1397-8
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47) Currell, M., Gleeson, T., Dahlhaus, P. (2016) A framework for assessing the importance of transience in groundwater management. Groundwater 54: 4-14 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12300.
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2015

46) Gleeson, T., Befus, K., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E. Cardenas, M.B. (2015) The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater. Nature Geoscience 9: 161-167 doi:10.1038/ngeo2590. Recommended by the editors as an article that could help ‘change the world, one article at a time’
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45) Van Loon, A.F., Gleeson, T., Clark, J., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Stahl, K., Hannaford, J., Di Baldassarre, G., Teuling, A.J.,  Tallaksen, L.M., Uijlenhoet, R., Hannah, D.M., Sheffield, J., Svoboda, M., Verbeiren, B., Wagener,T., Rangecroft, S., Wanders, N., Van Lanen, H.A.J. Drought in the Anthropocene. Nature Geoscience 9: 89-91 doi: 10.1038/ngeo2646.
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44) Doyle, J.M., Gleeson, T., Manning, A.H. and Mayer, U. (2015) Using noble gas tracers to constrain a groundwater flow model with recharge elevations: a novel approach for mountainous terrain. Water Resources Research 51: 8094- 8113 doi: 10.1002/2015WR017274.
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43) Jasechko, S., Lechler, A., Pausata, F.S.R., Fawcett, P.J., Gleeson, T., Cendón, D.I., Galewsky, J., LeGrande, A.N., Risi, C., Sharp, Z.D., Welker, J.M., Werner, M., Yoshimura, K. (2015) Late-glacial to late-Holocene shifts in global precipitation δ18O, Climate of the Past. 11, 1375-1393,doi:10.5194/cp-11-1375-2015.
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42) Smilovic, M., Gleeson, T., and Siebert, S. (2015) The limits of increasing food production on non-irrigated fields in India. Food Security, 7, 4: 835-856.
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41) Hartmann, A., Gleeson, T., Rosolem,R., Prianosi,F., Wagener, T. (2015) A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean. Geoscientific Model Development, 8: 1729-1746, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1729-2015
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40) Lefebvre, R., Gleeson, T., McKenzie, J., and Gassiat, C. (2015) Reply to comment by Flewelling and Sharma on “Hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: Numerical simulation of potential contamination of shallow aquifers over long time scales”. Water Resources Research 51: 1877-1882 doi: 10.1002/2014wr016698
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39) Ingebritsen, S. and Gleeson, T., (2015) Crustal permeability: Introduction to the special issue. Geofluids. 15: 1-10 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12118
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38) Ranjram, M., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk, E. (2015) Is the permeability of crystalline rock in the shallow crust related to depth, lithology, or tectonic setting? Geofluids. 15: 106-119 doi 10.1111/gfl.12098 
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37) Luijendijk, E. and Gleeson, T. (2015) How well can we predict permeability in sedimentary basins? Deriving and evaluating porosity-permeability algorithms for noncemented sand and clay mixtures.Geofluids.15: 67-83 doi:10.1111/gfl.12115
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36) Fan, Y., Richard, S., Bristol, S., Peters, S., Ingebritsen, S., Moosdorf, N., Packman, A., Gleeson, T., Zaslavsky, I., Peckham, S., Murdoch, L., Fienen, M., Cardiff, M., Tarboton, D., Jones, N., Hooper, R., Arrigo, J., Gochis, D., Olson, J., Wolock, D. (2015) DigitalCrust - A 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow. Geofluids. 15: 372-379 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12114
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2014

35) Jasechko, S., Birks, S.J., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Sharp, Z.D., Fawcett, P.J., McDonnell, J.J., Welker, J.M. (2014) Pronounced seasonality in the global groundwater recharge. Water Resources Research. 50, 8845–8867 doi: 10.1002/2014WR015809
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34) Milly, P. C. D., Malyshev, S.L., Shevliakova, E., Dunne, K.A., Findell, K.L., Gleeson, T., Liang, Z., Phillips, P., Stouffer, R.J. and Swenson, S. (2014) An enhanced model of land water and energy for global hydrologic and earth-system studies. Journal of Hydrometerology, 15, 1739–1761. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0162.1
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33) Wada, Y., Gleeson, T. and Esnault, L. (2014) Wedge approach to water stress. Nature Geoscience, 7: 615-617 doi:10.1038/ngeo2241
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32) Niazi, A., Prasher, S.O, Adamowski, J. and Gleeson, T. (2014) A system dynamics model to conserve arid region water resources through aquifer storage and recovery in conjunction with a dam, Water, 6: 2300-2321 doi:10.3390/w6082300
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31) Kim, J., Ryan, R., Klepeis, K., Gleeson, T., North. K., Bean, J., Davis, L. and Filoon, J. (2014) Tectonic evolution of a Paleozoic thrust fault influences the hydrogeology of a fractured rock aquifer, northeastern Appalachian foreland. Geofluids, 14: 266-290 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12076.
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30) Esnault, L., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Flanary, E., Bierkens, M.F.P. and van Beek, L.P.H. Heinke, J. and Gerten, D. (2014)  Linking groundwater use and stress to specific crops using the groundwater footprint in the Central Valley and High Plains aquifer systems, USA. Water Resources Research, 50: 4953-4973 doi: 10.1002/2013wr014792
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29) Gleeson, T., Moosdorf ,N., Hartmann,J. and van Beek, L.P.H.(2014) A glimpse beneath earth’s surface: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS (GLHYMPS) of permeability and porosity. Geophyscial Research Letters, 41: 2014GL059856 doi: 10.1002/2014gl059856
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28) McDonald, R.I., Weber, K., Padowski, J., Flörke, M., Schneider, C., Green, P.A., Gleeson, T., Eckman, S., Lehner, B., Balk, D., Boucher, T., Grill, G., Montgomery, M. (2014) Water on an urban planet: urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure. Global Environmental Change, 27(0), 96-105 doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.022.
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27) Voss, C., Currell, M. and Gleeson, T. (2014), Editors’ Message: The 2013 Editors’ Choice articles, a new editor, and the 2013 ‘Coolest Paper’ award, Hydrogeology Journal, 22(2), 293-294. doi:10.1007/s10040-014-1111-7.
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26) Malgrange, J. and Gleeson, T. (2014) Shallow, old and hydrologically insignificant fault zones in the Appalachian orogeny. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119 (1), 346-359 doi:10.1002/2013JB01035.
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25) Gleeson, T. and Paskowski, D. (2014) Perceptions of scale in hydrology: what do you mean by regional scale? Hydrological Sciences Journal. doi:10.1080/02626667.2013.797581.
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2013

24) Gassiat, C., Gleeson, T., Lefebvre, R. and McKenzie, J. (2013) Hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: numerical simulation of potential long term contamination of shallow aquifers. Water Resources Research , 49, 8310–8327, doi:10.1002/2013WR014287.
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23) Sharpe, D.R., Russell, H.A.J., Dyke, L., T., Grasby, S., Gleeson, T., Michaud, Y., Savard, M.M., Wei, M., and Wozniak, P. (2013) Hydrogeological Regions of Canada in Canada's Groundwater Resources, A.Riveria, ed. Fitzhenry &Whiteside Ltd, Markham, p. 265-299

22) Bense, V.F., Gleeson, T., Loveless, S.E., Bour, O., and Scibek, J. (2013) Fault zone hydrogeology. Earth-Science Reviews 127 (2013) 171–192.doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.09.008.
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21) Gleeson,T., Wada, Y., (2013) Assessing regional groundwater stress for nations using multiple data sources with the groundwater footprint. Environmental Research Letters. 8 044010 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044010 .
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20) Gleeson,T. and Cardiff, M., (2013) The return of groundwater quantity: a mega-scale and interdisciplinary “future of hydrogeology”? Hydrogeology Journal. 21: 1169-1171 doi 10.1007/s10040-013-0998-8
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19) Ferguson, G. and Gleeson, T. (2013) Reply to 'Threats to coastal aquifers', Nature Climate Change, 3(7): 605-606, doi:10.1038/nclimate1930.
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18) Gassiat, C., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk, E. (2013) The location of old groundwater in hydrogeologic basins and layered aquifer systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 40: 1–6, doi:10.1002/grl.50599.
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17) Priyanka, P., Gleeson, T. and Baraer, M. (2013) Towards quantifying discrete groundwater discharge from frozen seepage faces using thermal infrared images. Geophysical Research Letters, 40: 123–127, doi:10.1029/2012GL054315.
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2012

16) Aeschbach-Hertig, W. and Gleeson, T., (2012) Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion. Nature Geoscience, 5: 853-861. doi:10.1038/ngeo1617.
see editorial in Nature Geoscience or web focus Nature Geoscience & Climate Change
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15) Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Bierkens, M.F.P. and van Beek, L.P.H. (2012) Sustainable water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint. Nature, 488: 197–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11295.
pdf or see highlight in Nature Geoscience

14) Gleeson, T., Allen, D.M. and Ferguson, G. (2012) Teaching hydrogeology: a review of current practice. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 16: 2159-2168. doi:10.5194/hess-16-2159-2012.
pdf or overview on science education website

13) Dugan, H., Gleeson, T., Lamoureux,S. and Novakowski, K., (2012) Radon-222 as a groundwater tracer in a high arctic lake. Environmental Earth Sciences, 66:1385-1392 .
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12) Ferguson, G. and Gleeson, T. (2012) Vulnerability of coastal aquifers to climate change and groundwater use, Nature Climate Change, 2: 342-345. doi:10.1038/nclimate1413 .
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11) Gleeson, T., Alley, W.M., Allen, D.M., Sophocleous, M.A., Taniguchi, T., VanderSteen, J. and Zhou,Y. (2012) Towards sustainable groundwater use: setting long-term goals, backcasting and managing adaptively. Ground Water, 50: 19-26. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00825.x
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2011 and before

10) Gleeson, T., Marklund, L., Smith. L. and Manning, A.H., (2011) Classifying the water table at regional to continental scales. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L05401, doi:10.1029/2010GL046427
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9) Gleeson, T., Smith. L., Jansen, N., Hartmann, J., Dürr, H., Manning, A.H.,van Beek, R. and A.M. Jellinek (2011) Mapping permeability over the surface of the earth. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L02401, doi:10.1029/2010GL045565.
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8) Gleeson, T., VanderSteen, J., Sophocleous, M.A., Taniguchi, T., Alley, W.M., Allen, D.M., and Zhou,Y. (2010) Groundwater sustainability strategies. Nature Geoscience, 3:378-379.
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7) Gleeson, T., Novakowski, K., Cook, P.G. and Kyser, T.K. (2009a) Constraining groundwater discharge in a large watershed: integrated isotopic, hydraulic and thermal data. Water Resources Research, 45, W08402, doi:10.1029/2008WR007622.
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6) Gleeson, T., Novakowski, K. and Kyser, T.K. (2009b) Extremely rapid and localized recharge to a bedrock aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, 396: 496-509.
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5) Gleeson, T., and Novakowski, K. (2009) Identifying watershed-scale barriers to groundwater flow: lineaments in the Canadian Shield. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, no. 3/4, p. 333-347; doi: 10.1130/B26241.1
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4) Gleeson, T. & Manning, A.H. (2008) Regional groundwater flow in mountainous terrain: simulating topographic and hydrogeologic controls. Water Resources Research, 44, W10403, doi:10.1029/2008WR006848.
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3) Gleeson, T. and Godin, L. (2006) The Chako Antiform: a folded segment of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Nar valley, central Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 27: 717-734, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.06.011
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2) Godin, L., Gleeson, T., Searle, M.S., Ullrich, T.D. and Parrish, R.R. (2006) Locking of southward extrusion in favor of rapid crustal-scale buckling of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Nar Valley, Central Nepal, in "Continental Collision Zones: Extrusion, Channel Flow and Exhumation" edited by R. Law, M.S. Searle, and L. Godin, Geological Society of London, Special Volume 268, 268-292.
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1) Gillis, K.M., Muehlenbachs, K., Stewart, M., Gleeson, T. and Karson, J.(2001). Fluid flow patterns in fast-spreading East Pacific Rise crust exposed at Hess Deep. Journal of Geophysical Research 106: 26,311-26,329.
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