NIDIS: GPS for drought monitoring: leveraging the power of satellites to quantify regional water deficits NIDIS Planning and management October 9, 2024By Zachary M. Young, Hilary R. Martens, Zachary H. Hoylman, and W. Payton Gardner, University of Montana This article provides...
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: Planning for resilience: Understanding the connections between forests, fire, water, and drought National Park Service Planning and managementWildfires and watersheds September 4, 2024By the National Park Service You may know Yosemite National Park for its spectacular scenery, waterfalls, granite rock faces, or...
NASA: ‘Current’ Events: NASA and USGS Find a New Way to Measure River Flows NASA/JPL Hydrology August 7, 2024From NASA: A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if...
NASA JPL: NASA-Led Study Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers NASA/JPL Planning and management April 27, 2024By NASA JPL The novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by ‘fingerprints’ of...
UCSB CURRENT: New Study in Nature Water Puts Spotlight on Importance of Groundwater UC Santa Barbara Groundwater News April 3, 2024By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Groundwater is a critical resource around the globe, especially in dry regions, but it’s...
AG ALERT: Better data key to informed water policy decisions Ag Alert Planning and management March 6, 2024By Christine Souza, from Ag Alert To adapt to climate extremes and become more water resilient in California, modernizing the...
DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: A new, rigorous assessment of OpenET accuracy for supporting satellite-based water management Desert Research Institute Agriculture January 17, 2024A new study offers a comprehensive multi-model, large-scale accuracy assessment of an operational satellite-based data system to compute evapotranspiration. By...
NASA Tech Lets Scientists See Snow-Water Through the Trees NASA/JPL Hydrology September 21, 2023From NASA: NASA scientists are testing a technology that could more accurately measure water stored in snow as seen from a...
NASA/JPL: US-German satellites show California water gains after record winter NASA/JPL Groundwater News June 7, 2023By NASA/JPL Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the...
AG ALERT: Researchers turn to drones, satellites to track water use Ag Alert Agriculture October 5, 2022Like many other researchers, environmental engineering professors Erin Hestir and Joshua Viers of the University of California, Merced, are trying...
DWR NEWS: Challenges of Forecasting Water Supply in a Hotter Climate Department of Water Resources (DWR) Climate changePlanning and management April 11, 2022From DWR News On April 8, DWR published the Bulletin 120 and Water Supply Index (WSI) forecast update. The Bulletin...
EYES ON EARTH: Aquatic Ecosystems, ECOSTRESS, and the Delta smelt Maven Science Podcasts March 27, 2022From the USGS: The Earth observation data archived here have plenty of value to the study of aquatic ecosystems. Landsat...
CCST BRIEFING: Remote Sensing Technologies and Water Resilience Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and Features January 26, 2022Can we look to the sky to address California’s water challenges? As California continues to grapple with frequent drought and...
AG ALERT: Measuring the future for aquifers Ag Alert Groundwater News November 24, 2021By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert It has become a well-worn cliché in the world of irrigation: “If you want to...
AG ALERT: Satellites track water use to aid crop efficiency Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News October 27, 2021By Kevin Hecteman, Ag Alert As California weathers another drought, tools that can help farmers and ranchers maximize the water...
