Current and future climate extremes and demands are and will stress the global water supply, leaving many nations scrambling to implement water sustainability goals and practices to ensure a water resilient future. For instance, California is facing a continual loss of snowpack storage that is being replaced by large intense rain events, which requires a new capture strategy to account for the dwindling snowpack. These new strategies will need to reach across physical and temporal scales, and require more predictive hydrological models and a better understanding of  underground processes that impact aquifers. Our scientists are actively working to better understand new strategies to recharge aquifers, short and long-term climate scenarios, wildfire impacts on water supplies, future storm intensities, and more. Learn more about groundwater management here.

Craig Ulrich Bhavna Arora Dipankar Dwivedi Michelle Newcomer Peter Nico Donald Vasco Erica Woodburn

Recent Publications

While it is no secret that groundwater is an essential freshwater supply, its exact location, volume, and availability often is unclear. CESD scientists are cracking the code by leveraging Earth observation tools and advanced computer modeling to see in the dark, and in three dimensions (3D), of where groundwater lives.