The Center for Hydrologic Innovations and the Arizona Hydrological Society, Phoenix Chapter hosted the 4rd annual ASU Flow event at ASU SkySong in Scottsdale, Arizona, on October 14, 2026. A special thank you to our sponsors: Salt River Project, Central Arizona Project, Matrix New World Engineering, CDM Smith, Southwest Exploration Co, GHD, Ck Blueshift, HDR,…

The Center for Hydrologic Innovations presented the Arizona Water Observatory and the Arizona Hydroclimate Network as part of the Celebrating Arizona Water Innovation: Solutions in Action event with Gov. Katie Hobbs on October 14, 2026. This event highlighted the recent innovations in measuring and visualization water data in the State of Arizona, from local farms…

A new publication in Agricultural Water Management (Sharma et al., 2026) uses CubeSat imagery and OpenET data to track changes in crop types and water use in two irrigation districts with contrasting priority for deliveries. The authors quantified the changes in cropping type and water use, including estimates of groundwater reliance. Congratulations to the authors…

The Arizona Hydrological Society will host speakers from the ASU Center for Hydrologic Innovations during their annual symposium in Flagstaff who will present a workshop: Distributed Watershed Modeling for Flood Simulation: Bringing Research Tools to Practice. This workshop introduces participants to a new generation of watershed modeling tools by comparing HEC-HMS with tRIBS (TIN-based Real-time…

The Center for Hydrologic Innovations is hosting the 4rd annual ASU Flow event at ASU SkySong in Scottsdale, Arizona, on October 14, 2026, in collaboration with the Phoenix Chapter of the Arizona Hydrological Society.

In this tutorial, you’ll explore groundwater conditions in the Santa Cruz Active Management Area (AMA) using data available through the Arizona Water Observatory (AWO). We begin by retrieving the Santa Cruz AMA boundary, then identify groundwater wells within the AMA and retrieve depth-to-water observations for each well. Finally, we compare annual median groundwater levels with those…

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how the Arizona Water Observatory (AWO) can be used to follow the movement of water through a watershed in Arizona. We begin with snowpack observations from a SNOTEL station in the San Francisco Peaks, then identify the watershed that receives the snowmelt. Next, we retrieve watershed-averaged soil moisture data from NASAʼs Soil Moisture…

A new publication in the journal Atmosphere (Huang et al., 2026) used the Aurora AI weather forecasting model to provide reliable deterministic guidance within 7 days for a series of different types of extreme events. These findings are importance for numerical weather prediction at short-to-medium range. Congratulations to the authors associated with the Center for…

At ASU’s Center for Hydrologic Innovations, the city itself is the laboratory. The center’s work takes researchers into parks, neighborhoods and other urban spaces, where lawns, trees and the built environment become part of an experiment unfolding across one of the hottest metropolitan regions in the country. Congratulations to the researchers from the Center for Hydrologic…

With the Arizona Water Observatory (AWO), ASU’s Center for Hydrologic Innovations and the Center for Geospatial Solutions at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy have teamed up to develop a new open-source clearinghouse, visualization and analysis platform for Arizona’s water data. Through a series of quick start blogs, you can also learn how to use…