Jay Famiglietti Professor, Arizona State University
Professor Emeritus, School of Environment and Sustainability
Former Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security
Former Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing

Areas of Interest

Remote sensing of terrestrial and global hydrology
Climate change impacts on hydrology and water resources
Regional and global groundwater depletion
Large-scale hydrological modeling
Science communication and water diplomacy

Curriculum Vitae

Research Supervision

Li Xu
Sara Sadri
Chinchu Mohan
David Ferris
Jeff Wong
Xander Huggins
Kerstin Bluhm

Recent Work

The hidden crisis beneath our feet
Science,
2021

The Seasonality of Global Land and Ocean Mass and the Changing Water Cycle
Chandanpurkar et al.,
Geophysical Research Letters,
2021

A Map of the Future of Water
Trend Magazine,
Spring 2019

Emerging Trends in Global Freshwater Availability
Rodell et al.,
Nature,
2018

Media

A 'hidden crisis': Millions of groundwater wells are at risk of running dry, scientists find
azcentral
April 28, 2021

'The continents are drying out:' New USask research shows troubling water trends
USask News
April 15, 2021

A $4B irrigation plan could boost Sask.’s crop diversity. But an expert wonders if farmers will buy in.
CTV News
July 30, 2020

Biography

Jay Famiglietti is a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability, in the College of Global Futures. He is Professor Emeritus from the University of Saskatchewan, where he was Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security, and where he held the Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing. He was the founding Chief Scientist of the Silicon Valley Y-Combinator tech startup, Waterplan, which he continues to advise. Before moving to USask, he served as the Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

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