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* photo of Hume Dam in Australia courtesy of Goulburn-Murray Water
Our home planet has been described by NASA as a "blue marble" , characterized by its strong cycling and replenishing of water. However, with increasing population pressure and water usage, coupled with climate variability and change, water management is one of the most critical environmental problems facing us in the 21st century.
The NASA Applied Sciences Program (ASP) has the primary responsibility to apply data from NASA satellite missions to models in order to help solve problems important to society and the economy. The NASA Water Resources theme in the ASP addresses concerns and decision processes that are related to water availability, water forecast, and water quality. The goal of the Water Resources theme is to apply NASA satellite data to improve the Decision Support Tools (DSTs) of user groups that manage water resources. The Water Resources theme partners with Federal agencies, academia, private firms, and international organizations.
The goal of this website is to provide a summary of the Water Resources activities. The program has organized its project activities into the following functional categories:
Investigators: Philip A. Townsend (PI, U. Wisconsin), Angelica L. Gutierrez-Magness (U. Maryland), Keith N. Eshleman (U. Maryland), Brenden E. McNeil (West Virginia University)
Investigators: Molly Macauley (PI, 1), Anne Nolin (2), Qingyuan Zhang (3), Richard Smith (4), Jhih-Shyang Shih (1)
1- Resources for the Future
2- Dept of Geosciences, Oregon State University
3- Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST), U. Maryland
4- US Geological Survey
Investigators: John Lehrter (PI, EPA), Bruce Spiering (NASA/Stennis), Slawomir Blonski (SSAI), Kenton Ross (SSAI), Blake Schaeffer (EPA), James Hagey (EPA), William Fisher (EPA), Marc Russell (EPA)
Investigators: Soroosh Sorooshian, (U. California - Irvine)
Investigators: PI Brian Cosgrove (NOAA/NWS/OHD).
Investigators: B. Zaitchik (PI, 1), S. Habib (2), V. Koren (3), M. Anderson (4), M. Ozdogan (5),
E. Viala (6), B. Attia (7), A. Seid (8), A. Salzberg (9), S. Abdel Dayem (10), F. Policelli (2),
M. Rodell (2), N. Harshadeep (11)
1- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
2- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
3- NOAA Office of Hydrologic Development, Silver Spring, MD, USA
4- USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, USA
5- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
6- USAID Office of Middle East Programs, Cairo, Egypt
7- Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt
8- Water Resource Planning and Management Project, The Nile Basin Initiative, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
9- Office of Environment and Conservation, US Department of State, Washington DC, USA
10- Arab Water Council, Cairo, Egypt
11- The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Charon Birkett (U. Maryland) ROSES 2011 project
Jeff Dozier (U. California) ROSES 2011 project
Christopher Hain (U. Maryland) ROSES 2011 project
Jasmeet Judge (U. Florida) ROSES 2011 project
Chris Justice (U. Maryland) ROSES 2011 project
Nir Krakauer (CUNY) ROSES 2011 project
Steven Margulis (UCLA) ROSES 2011 project
Forrest Melton (NASA Ames) ROSES 2011 project
Thomas Painter (JPL) ROSES 2011 project
Cynthia Rosenzweig (GISS) ROSES 2011 project
James Verdin (USGS) ROSES 2011 project
Enrique Vivoni (Arizona State University) ROSES 2011 project
Investigators: Kristi Arsenault (UMBC/GEST/NASA/GSFC), David Toll (NASA/GSFC), Edwin. T. Engman (NASA/GSFC/SAIC), Bowser (BoR), R. Stodt (BoR/TSC), S. Hunter (BoR), A. Brower, and A. Pinheiro (ORAU/NASA/GSFC)
Investigators: Ximing Cai (PI,1); Jae Ryu (3), Xin-Zhong Liang (2), Praveen Kumar(1), Mark Svoboda (3), Cody Knutson (3),
Meghan Sittler (3), Donald A. Wilhite (3), James Angel (2), and Michael Palecki (2)
1- Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
2- Illinois State Water Survey, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
3- National Drought Mitigation Center, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Investigators: Brian A. Cosgrove (PI, NASA/GSFC/SAIC), Charles Alonge (PI, NASA/GSFC/SAIC), Paul Houser (CREW), Ken Mitchell (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Michael Ek (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Keith Brill (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Eric Rogers (NOAA/NCEP/EMC), Matt Pyle (NOAA/NCEP/EMC).
Investigators: Lydia Gates (PI, 1) Jagadish Shukla (2), D. Cline (3), L. Rundquist (4), P. Houser (5)
1- GMU, Center for Research on Environment and Water (CREW)
2- George Mason University (GMU)
3- NOAA's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
4- NOAA's NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center
5- Consultant
Investigators: PI, Jan Hendrickx (New Mexico Tech University).
Investigators: R. Koster (PI, NASA/GSFC).....
Investigators: Dennis Lettenmaier (PI, U. Washington), S. Soorooshian (U. Cal. Irvine), A. Wood (U. Washington), A. Steinmann (U. Washington), B. Imam (U. Cal. Irvine)
Investigators: PI Timothy Martin, (Riverside Technology, Inc.)
Investigators: S. V. Nghiem (PI, JPL), J. P. Verdin (Lead Co-I, USGS), D. A. Wilhite (National Drought Mitigation Center or NDMC), R. Dole (NOAA Physical Science Division), D. LeComte (NOAA Climate Prediction Center), G. R. Brakenridge (Dartmouth College), E. G. Njoku (JPL)
Investigators: Mutlu Ozdogan (PI, U. Wisconsin), Curt Reynolds (USDA FAS), Brad Doorn (USDA FAS)
Investigators: P. Restrepo (PI, NOAA/NWS/OHD), A. Limaye (PI, MSFC GHCC) Christa Peters-Lidard (PI, NASA GSFC), C. Laymon (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), W. Crosson (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), M. Estes (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), Z. Al-Hamden (MSFC/USRA/GHCC), D.L. Rickman (NASA/MSFC), F. Cosgrove (SAIC/NASA/GSFC), M. Garcia (UMC/GEST/NASA/GSFC), V. Koren (NOAA/NWS/OHD), D.J. Seo (UCAR/NOAA/NWS/OHD), M. Smith (NOAA/NWS/OHD), D. Toll (NASA/GSFC), and P. Houser (GMU/IGES/CREW)
Investigators: M. Rodell (PI, NASA/GSFC), J. Lawrimore, J.S. Famiglietti, R. Heim, R. Reichle, M. Svoboda, B. Wardlow, B.F. Zaitchik, A. Pinheiro
Investigators: D. Toll (NASA/GSFC), E.T. Engman (SAIC/NASA/GSFC), Ed Partington (EPA/OW), James Carleton (EPA/OW), G. Shenk (EPA/CBP), Angelica Magness (USGS/CBP), J. Nigro (SSAI/NASA/GSFC), W. Ni-Meister (Hunter College), Shih Yan Lee (Hunter College), and Phil Townsend (Univ. Wisc.)
Investigators: James Verdin (co-PI,1); Chris Funk (co-PI,1),
Christa Peters-Lidard (2), Molly Brown (2), Dennis Lettenmaier (3)
1- U.S. Geological Survey / Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
2- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
3- U. Washington
Investigators: Fritz Policelli (NASA/GSFC)
Investigators: Bruce Spiering (NASA/Stennis)
Investigators: Xiaodong Zhang (U. North Dakota)
Investigators: Brandon Moore (Aniuk Consulting LLC)
Investigators: Robert Shuchman (Michigan Tech. U.)
Date Last Modified: 08/16/12