agriculture
New algae system helps Arizona farmers grow better crops with less water
Congratulations to the team from the Center for Hydrologic Innovations that was recently featured by ASU News for their collaborative work with the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems and MyLand! Center Director Enrique Vivoni commented that: “This is a carbon story and a water story because atmospheric carbon is being converted into food, using…
Agricultural Water Management Publication
A new publication in Agricultural Water Management (Wei and Xu, 2025) describes a new method to detect irrigation events by applying explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) to groundwater well records, remotely-sensed indices, and precipitation, with applications in the High Plains aquifer. Congratulations to the authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!
Eddy Covariance Workshop
The Center for Hydrologic Innovations hosted a full-day workshop on January 14, 2025, with scientists from LICOR (Lincoln, Nebraska) that took a diving deep into the eddy covariance method, including its theory, the instrumentation involved and the processing of data workflows. A special thanks to Dr. Jiahong Li for sharing his expertise! We had over…
Center efforts with Planet featured in Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
The Arizona Water Innovation Initiative (AWII) featured our efforts with the satellite imaging company Planet with respect to water supply and demand estimates in Arizona. See blog at the link below
Prof. Ruijie Zeng wins NSF CAREER award
Prof. Ruijie Zeng, assistant professor and faculty member in the Center for Hydrologic Innovations, won the 2023 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to map and study agricultural drainage systems using drones, simulation models and machine learning algorithms. This prestigious early-career award will help his research group develop new innovations for agricultural systems, with…
AFM publication
A new publication in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (Guan and Mascaro, 2023) explores the implications of climate change on crop production in central Arizona. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!
Hydrosystems Seminar Series
Please join us for the following seminars in Spring 2023 to be held in the Walton Center for Planetary Health, Conference Room 360 (CEE 591, led by Profs. Tianfang Xu and Ruijie Zeng):