Hydrology, geochemistry, geology, engineering, planet
Hydrology, the movement of water, plays a crucial role in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Both are fundamental and interconnected processes that affect the availability of Earth’s resources and influence the overall health and stability of ecosystems.

Ariel Anbar
President’s Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- 480-965-0767
- PSF – F526 PHYSICAL SCIENCE CENTER
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.
Ronald Dorn
Professor
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
- 480-965-7533
- COOR 5580
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
Professor
School of Sustainability
- Walton Center for Planetary Health 777 E University Drive, 592F
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.
Arjun Heimsath
Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- 480-965-5585
- ISTB4 rm. 795 781 E Tyler Mall
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.
Saurav Kumar
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 602-496-5719
- Rm 422 Rob & Melani Walton Center For Planetary Health 765 E University Dr
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.
Upmanu Lall
Director and Professor
School of Complex Adaptive Systems
Lall is the director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.
Giuseppe Mascaro
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480-727-2474
- WCPH Room 416 777 East University Dr.
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.
Rebecca Muenich
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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.
Ted Pavlic
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
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.
Peter Schlosser
Vice President, Vice Provost and Professor
Global Futures Laboratory
Schlosser, a renowned Earth scientist, leads the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU.
Everett Shock
Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- 480-965-0631
- PSC -C306A PHYSICAL SCIENCE CENTER
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
Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
Assistant Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- 480-727-2631
- ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration ISTB4
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.
Leon van Paassen
Research Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Van Paassen’s research interests are engineering geology, geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, soil mechanics and ground improvement.
Enrique Vivoni
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- WCPH Room 418 777 E. University Dr. Building 79
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.
Meenakshi Wadhwa
Director and Regents’ Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- 480-965-0796
- ISTB4 791
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
Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- 480-965-9508
- ISTB4 777
Kelin Whipple is a geomorphologist interested in the interactions among climate, topography, and tectonics. His research integrates field, experimental, remote sensing, and numerical approaches.
Tianfang Xu
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480-965-7666
- WCPH 412 777 E. University Dr.
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.
Ruijie Zeng
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480-727-2944
- 777 East University Dr. Room 423
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
Research Professor
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
- Physical Science Building PSF514
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.