NASA takes to the air to study wildflowers NASA/JPL Hydrology March 26, 2025For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms to understand our ever-changing planet....
NASA Uses Advanced Radar to Track Groundwater in California NASA/JPL Groundwater News March 20, 2025By Emily DeMarco, NASA Where California’s towering Sierra Nevada surrender to the sprawling San Joaquin Valley, a high-stakes detective story...
NASA study: Crops, forests responding to changing rainfall patterns NASA/JPL Hydrology January 3, 2025By Sally Younger, NASA’s Earth Science News Team A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year...
NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels NASA/JPL Groundwater News November 16, 2024By James Riordon, NASA’s Earth Science News Team An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence...
NASA: New NASA Instrument for Studying Snowpack Completes Airborne Testing NASA/JPL Hydrology October 30, 2024By NASA Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from...
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...
