ASU Flow 2023 was held this past November 16 at the Walton Center for Planetary Health. This is the first time AHS and ASU’s Center for Hydrologic Innovations (CHI) have partnered to bring the water community together to celebrate the start of the water year.
During the event, ASU students and researchers had the opportunity to meet practitioners from the private sector and government agencies. Dr. Enrique Vivoni, CHI’s Director and the Fulton Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, along with Mike Hulst, president of the Phoenix chapter, welcomed participants during an opening speech accompanied by the pitter-patter of light rainfall. A poster session, followed by five nicely executed lighting talks, informed around 80 participants about Arizona Water Innovation Initiative (AWII) projects and other efforts addressing water resilience and cutting-edge research.
According to Dr. Vivoni, “It was a memorable event, with clouds, rain, and hydrology research and practice.” ASU Flow is here to stay, and AHS and CHI look forward to working with partners in 2024.
Award Winners
The best presenters received awards during an exquisite networking dinner with water practitioners joining from over 20 companies and agencies, along with ASU students and postdocs.
Posters
Nehal Ansh Srivastava — Improving the Utility of Weather Radar for the Spatial Frequency Analysis of Extreme Precipitation
Shiqi Wei — Retrieving Irrigation Information from Satellite-based Observations Using Machine Learning
Lightning Talks
Abdul Moiz — Can We Improve Process-based Snow Hydrological Modeling by Using Reanalysis Vertical Temperature Profiles?)
Howen Yue — Can the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) Forecasts Improve Streamflow Forecasting in the Colorado River Basin?
Photos!
Thanks to Zhaocheng Wang for capturing this event with these incredible photos!
And finally, many thanks to Vivian Hobbins, Project Manager, Research, Center for Hydrologic Innovation / Arizona Water Innovation Initiative / Advance Water Observatory and Decision Support System for contributing this article.