Principal Investigator: Jack Eggleston
Project description: This primary goal of this project is to develop the workflow for operational space-based streamflow (discharge) measurement. The Alaska DOT and National Weather Service Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center are long-term partners of the USGS… Read More
Principal Investigator: Katie Lange
Western Sonoran Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Anne Britton (Project Lead), Deirdre An, Seamus Geraty, Charles Nixon
Summary: Ephemeral freshwater rock pools, known as tinajas, have great biologic and cultural… Read More
Principal Investigator: Charon Birkett
The Global Reservoir and Lake Monitor (G-REALM) is a NASA/USDA funded operational program that delivers water level products for the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs. It utilizes both NASA and European Space Agency satellite data sets to monitor the seasonal and inter-annual… Read More
Principal Investigator: Charon Birkett
Description: This project provides a range of surface water products related to lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands in a near real time framework. It also offers a longer-term set of observations via… Read More
Principal Investigator: Michael Pazmino
WET Water Resources (2023 Spring)
Team: Lori Berberian (Project Lead), Kaely Harris, Mitch Porter, Emma Waugh
Summary: Wetland ecosystems are annually or seasonally wet transition zones between land and water. They… Read More
Principal Investigator: Ann Marie Wolf
Team Members: Theresa Foley (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Palmira Henriquez (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Flor Sandoval (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Rachel Spitz (Sonora Environmental Research Institute), Ann Marie Wolf (… Read More
Principal Investigator: Wade T Crow
Description: This project seeks to provide high-resolution (i.e., daily, 30-m) soil moisture information to guide in-season irrigation decision support for vineyards equipped with variable-rate drip irrigation (VRDI) systems in the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Matthew Rodell
The goal of this project is expand our suite of weekly drought/wetness indicators to include 1-3 month forecasts for the continental U.S., which will then be utilized by our partners at the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), the NOAA North Central River Forecast Center (… Read More
Principal Investigator: Rosemary Knight
Project Description: The goal of this work is to improve the quality and usefulness of groundwater models by incorporating information derived from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data and airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data.… Read More
Principal Investigator: Yu Zhang
Project description: Summary: Improve reservoir inflow forecasts by Texas river authorities and the Army Corps of Engineers by integrating NASA satellite precipitation estimates and soil moisture products. The goal is to improve precipitation estimates in areas… Read More
Principal Investigator: Kathleen Lange
Western Tennessee Water Resources (Fall 2022)
Team: Lauren Webster (Project Lead), Elena Pilch, Michael Pazmino, Katera Lee
Summary: The Memphis Aquifer (MA) is located in the Mississippi Embayment that extends 250,000… Read More
Principal Investigator: Tyler Pantle
Great Slave Lake Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Yuhe Chang (Project Lead), Virgil Alfred, Ethan McIntosh, Catherine Shea
Summary: Indigenous communities around the Great Slave Lake (GSL) in Canada’s Northwest… Read More
Principal Investigator: Christine Lee
Water quality is a critical element of freshwater supply, particularly in times and areas of drought, in part due to less dilution of point contaminant sources. Limited water resources can be further strained if water quality is not managed properly.While there are measures in… Read More
Principal Investigator: Lisa Tanh
San Diego Water Resources (FALL 2022)
Team: Ethan Gates (Project Lead), Stefanie Mendoza, Jonathan Szeto, Max VanArnam
Summary: Stormwater and wastewater runoff are a large source of pollutant discharge along the… Read More
Principal Investigator: Caroline Williams
Kankakee Water Resources (Summer 2023)
Team: Marisa Smedsrud (Project Lead); Hayden Hoffmeister; Oluwatosin Orimolade; Barira Rashid
Summary: In recent years, unpredictable grassing events have occurred at the Dresden… Read More
Principal Investigator: Carli Merrick
Bryce Canyon Water Resources (Fall 2022)
Team: Aaron Carr (Project Lead), Mel Frost, Alissa Stark, Ashley Grinstead
Summary: Bryce Canyon National Park is home to groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) that are… Read More
Principal Investigator: Sarah Hettema
Yampa Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Samrin Sauda (Project Lead), Ethan Gates, Erin Weitzel, Morgan Guttman
Summary: The Upper Yampa River Watershed (UYRW), located in northwestern Colorado, plays a key role in… Read More
Principal Investigator: Nazmus Sazib
Project description: The project aims at improving the accuracy and resolution of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) root-zone soil moisture (RZSM) information by utilizing alternative… Read More
Principal Investigator: Justin Huntington
Project description: Reporting of evapotranspiration (ET) from irrigated agriculture in the western U.S. is increasingly being required for surface and groundwater-use inventories, estimating historical pumpage, as well as supporting water rights, transfers, and… Read More
Principal Investigator: Christa D Peters-Lidard
The main objective is to develop a seasonal water deficit forecasting system that is relevant for USAID and USACE activities in the Middle East and Africa based on existing NASA and NOAA Earth science capabilities. Our primary goals include: (1) supporting USAID’s Famine Early… Read More
