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…

A new publication in the journal Water Resources Research (Kimsal et al., 2026) describes the flooding characteristics (depth, duration, frequency) and their geological controls for a large set of ephemeral playas in the Chihuahuan Desert as part of the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research program. Congratulations to the authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic…