Member Since 1986
Jay Famiglietti
Global Futures Professor, Arizona State University
Member, Bowie Medal Committee; President-Elect, Hydrology Executive Committee; Section President-Elect, Council
Hydrologist Jay Famiglietti is a Global Futures Professor at ASU and Ex. Dir. Emeritus of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. Famiglietti was Senior Water Scientist at NASA JPL; he was appointed to the California Water Boards by Gov. Jerry Brown; and he held faculty positions at UC Irvine and UT Austin. His team uses satellites to track changing freshwater availability around the globe. They pioneered the methods to detect groundwater depletion from space.
Professional Experience
Arizona State University
Global Futures Professor
2023 - Present
Global Institute for Water Security
Executive Director and Professor
2018 - 2022
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Senior Water Scientist
2014 - 2018
University of California Irvine
Professor and Director
2001 - 2016
University of Texas at Austin
Professor
1994 - 2001
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Education
Princeton University
Doctorate
1992
Princeton University
Masters
1988
University of Arizona
Masters
1986
Tufts University
Bachelors
1982
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Honors & Awards
Peter S. Eagleson Award
Received December 2020
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Union Fellow
Received January 2012
Citation
For research on continental scale remote sensing of hydrologic properties, and for integration of remotely sensed data with hydrologic models.
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Publications
A New GRACE Downscaling Approach for Deriving High‐Resolution Groundwater Storage Changes Using Grou...

To compensate for the coarse resolution of groundwater storage (GWS) estimation by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites a...

November 06, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Continental Drying, Changing Freshwater Availability, and Sea Level Rise
AGU 2024
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Hrishikesh Chandanpurkar, James Famiglietti, David...
Changes in Terrestrial Water Storage which includes all of the ice, snow, surface water, canopy, soil moisture and groundwater stored on land are a ...
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Monitoring Seepage from the GERD and Implications for Sustainable Water Management
AGU 2024
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Karem Abdelmohsen, Mohamed Sultan, Eugene Yan, Him...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the largest hydropower project in Africa, has been the focal point of intensive hydrological studies due t...
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Groundwater Droughts in the Colorado River Basin: Identifying Key Drivers and Impacts on Water Resources
AGU 2024
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Karem Abdelmohsen, James Famiglietti, Behshad Moha...
Climate change is causing more frequent and intense droughts around the world. The Colorado River Basin (CRB), which provides water sources to seven U...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
President-Elect
Hydrology Executive Committee
2025 - 2026
Section President-Elect
Council
2022 - 2025
Member
Bowie Medal Committee
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