hydrology
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
World Water Week at CHI
The Center for Hydrologic Innovations celebrated World Water Week 2024 with two events: (1) A joint seminar with the Arizona Hydrological Society, Phoenix Chapter with Prof. Jay Famiglietti on March 20, 2024, who spoke on “How Climate Change and Human Activities are Shaping Global Freshwater Availability”, and (2) The ASU Water Institute launch event on March…
ASU-Planet Seed Grant Awards
Congratulations to the faculty and postdoctoral associates of the Center for Hydrologic Innovations (Dr. Zhaocheng Wang, Dr. Jay Famiglietti and Dr. Enrique Vivoni) for being award three inaugural ASU-Planet Seed Grants! These efforts will provide Arizona with detailed descriptions of snow cover changes, crop type and biomass responses to drought, and downscaled groundwater storage variations…
Hydrologic monitoring efforts featured in ASU End of Year video
“A Brighter Future For All” includes footage from Center graduate students Ruby Hurtado, Jose Becerra and Zachary Keller (MS 2021) on efforts for monitoring Arizona’s water for stewardship, conservation and sustainability goals. See video at the link below:
Mapping our water reserves for the future
Congratulations to Center professor Jay Famiglietti who was recently interviewed by ASU News on his work and thoughts regarding the state of Arizona water and tracking it from space: “We are having a moment here in Arizona in which I feel the stars and the planets are aligned so that we can make great progress…
ASU Flow 2023
A Water Year Event for Researchers and Practitioners. The Arizona Hydrological Society, Phoenix Chapter, and ASU’s Center for Hydrologic Innovations have partnered to bring the water community together to celebrate the start of the water year at ASU’s Walton Center for Planetary Health. This will be a unique opportunity for ASU students and researchers to meet practitioners from…
Burcu Tezcan and Krista Lawless awarded CAP Water Research Awards
Two graduate students affiliated with the Hydrosystems Engineering program and the Center for Hydrologic Innovations at ASU were recently awarded a 2023 CAP Award for Water Research from the Central Arizona Project. First place went to Burcu Tezcan for her paper: Training a Non-Homogenous Hidden Markov Model with PMDI and Temperature to Create Climate Informed…
Center highlighted in ASU Thrive magazine
ASU Thrive Magazine documents the Center for Hydrologic Innovations in the May issue (volume 26, number 3) with the following text under the headings of Create Change: Built for Impact, Engineering Water Solutions.
Center wins Governor’s Award for Arizona’s Future
Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from the Center for Hydrologic Innovations won the 2023 Governor’s Award for Arizona’s Future from the Arizona Forward Environmental Excellence Awards. This award was in collaboration with the Central Arizona Project and recognized the project: “Long-Range, Data-Infused Scenario Modeling to Operations of the Central Arizona Project” funded by NASA’s Applied…
Journal of Hydrology publication
A new publication in the Journal of Hydrology (Tyson et al. 2023) combines climate and hydrology modeling with a deep learning model to predict streamflow in complex watershed settings. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!