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 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!