Anbar is an ASU President’s Professor, expert in Earth’s evolution as an inhabited world. He pioneers digital learning innovation as Director of ASU’s Center for Education Through Exploration.

Dorn, professor of geography, is also co-coordinator of the Arizona Geographic Alliance, a K-12 outreach program to promote geographic education in Arizona.

Jay Famiglietti is a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability. His research group uses satellites and develops advanced computer models to track how freshwater availability is changing around the world.

Heimsath researches how the earth’s surface changes under the influence of climate, tectonic and human forcing. He runs a geochemistry lab to quantify surface processes and teaches undergraduate and graduate students.

Kumar creates digital twin models that replicate complex water systems with natural and human components using AI and remote sensing to simulate and predict water-agricultural-urban-human system behaviors.

Lall is the director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.

Mascaro integrates hydrology, climate and atmospheric science techniques to support sustainable infrastructure design by combining advanced statistical techniques and numerical models of Earth’s climate and hydrologic cycle.

Muenich is a watershed modeler focused on surface hydrology and water quality, especially in agricultural ecosystems. She focuses on evaluating the impact of land management decisions within the food-energy-water nexus.

Pavlic (electrical eng., computer sci., & behavioral ecology) uses ecological thinking to enhance design of engineered complex adaptive systems and engineering tools to find new perspectives on biological form and function.

Schlosser, a renowned Earth scientist, leads the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU.

Shock studies how geologic processes have geochemical consequences that enable biological responses through fieldwork in extreme ecosystems, hydrothermal experiments on organic transformations, and modeling of water-organic-rock-microbe systems

Trembath-Reichert is a geobiologist studying microbial life in the most extreme regions of our planet to understand its limits, origins, and extensibility beyond Earth.

Van Paassen’s research interests are engineering geology, geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, soil mechanics and ground improvement.

Vivoni uses hydrologic science and engineering principles to solve water resources issues in urban and natural environments in arid regions using watershed modeling, remote sensing and environmental sensor networks.

Wadhwa is an isotope cosmochemist interested in the time scales and processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Solar System. She serves as Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Kelin Whipple is a geomorphologist interested in the interactions among climate, topography, and tectonics. His research integrates field, experimental, remote sensing, and numerical approaches.

Xu focuses on enhancing water resources systems and groundwater flow, transport and interaction predictions with process-based models, machine and deep-learning and satellite remote sensing.

Zeng studies feedback between human activities and the land surface hydrologic cycle using modeling, remote sensing and data-driven methods in complex systems with multiple interactions.

Mikhail Zolotov is a planetary geochemist. He uses physical-chemical methods to understand chemical processes and mineralogical changes in solar system environments that involve rocks, gases, and fluids.