A new publication in City and Environment Interactions (Su et al., 2025) describes a new method for estimating the amount of urban runoff that can be captured through stormwater management infrastructure, with applications in Phoenix. Congratulations to the authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!

A new publication in Frontiers in Water (Lawless et al., 2024) examines how water management strategies have evolved in the Colorado River basin by incorporating institutional, temporal, and network structure analysis methods over the period of 1922 to 2022. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations! Abstract: The 1922 Colorado River Compact…

Prof. Enrique Vivoni, Director of the Center for Hydrologic Innovations, was featured in a video from American Institute of Architects (AIA) – Arizona chapter discussing the importance of water in the design professions. See video at the link below:

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 new water year. This annual event, held at the Salt River Project’s PERA Club this year, is an exciting opportunity for students and researchers to engage with practitioners from the private sector, government…

Prof. Margaret Garcia, a faculty member in the Center for Hydrologic Innovations, has been recently promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. Her research is focused on studying the impacts of design and policy choices on the performance of water infrastructure systems…

ASU Thrive Magazine features the laboratory and field efforts of students and staff from the Center for Hydrologic Innovations in their March 2024 issue to illustrate water research in Phoenix for an article entitled “Don’t Flee the Southwest Just Yet” by Tom Zoellner:

A new publication in Water Resources Research (Wiechman et al., 2024) present a modeling approach to trace the flow of water, information, and investment in a general urban water system and apply it for three cities in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!

A new publication in Journal of Hydrology (Ansh Srivastava and Mascaro, 2023) describes the use of weather radar products of precipitation to obtain intensity-duration-frequency characteristics in central Arizona. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!

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…

A new publication in the Journal of Sustainable Engineering in the Built Environment (Shrestha and Garcia, 2023) entitled Influence of Precipitation Uncertainty and Land Use Change on the Optimal Catchment Scale Configuration of Green Stormwater Infrastructure was selected as an Editor’s Choice. Congratulations to the authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!