water resources

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…

Lab and field efforts featured in ASU Thrive Magazine

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:

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…

WRR Publication

A new publication in Water Resources Research (Longyang and Zeng, 2023) describes a temporal analysis framework that is useful to quantify the decisions and trade-offs made by reservoir operators when managing for multiple outcomes. Congratulations to authors associated with the Center for Hydrologic Innovations!

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…

Swastik Ghimire awarded AHS scholarship

Graduate student Swastik Ghimire (MS) in the Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering program at ASU was recently awarded a 2023-2024 academic scholarship from the Arizona Hydrological Society. Swastik’s future goals and career aspirations are to become a hydrologist who can employ practical solutions to support equitable management of water resources, especially on issues like the…