Jay Famiglietti
Professor, Arizona State UniversityProfessor 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
Research Supervision
- Li Xu
- Sara Sadri
- Chinchu Mohan
- David Ferris
- Jeff Wong
- Xander Huggins
- Kerstin Bluhm
Recent Work
The Seasonality of Global Land and Ocean Mass and the Changing Water Cycle
Chandanpurkar et al.,
Geophysical Research Letters,
2021
Chandanpurkar et al.,
Geophysical Research Letters,
2021
Media
A 'hidden crisis': Millions of groundwater wells are at risk of running dry, scientists find
azcentral
April 28, 2021
azcentral
April 28, 2021
'The continents are drying out:' New USask research shows troubling water trends
USask News
April 15, 2021
USask News
April 15, 2021
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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