Taking the Pulse of the Planet Sensors to Solutions A research and teaching initiative.

Taking the Pulse of the Watershed

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Description of the Project  

The transformative contribution that we will make, to support sustainable water management, is the development of a sensor-informed analytical framework that will allow us to accurately quantify connected changes in human-ecological-hydrologic systems across scales and varying climatic, topographic, geologic, and landcover settings.

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People

Leading the Watershed Project

Rosemary Knight, George L. Harrington Professor, Geophysics
Olav Solgaard, Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor in the School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering 
Daniel Tartakovsky, Professor of Energy Science & Engineering
Greg Beroza, Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Science, Geophysics
Ettore Biondi, Assistant Professor of Geophysics
Bill Ellsworth, Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus
Scott Fendorf, Terry Huffington Professor, Earth System Science
Zerina Kapetanovic, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ching-Yao Lai, Assistant Professor of Geophysics
Sasha McLarty, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Washington State University)
William Tarpeh, Assistant Professor,Chemical Engineering
Howard Zebker, Kwoh Ting Li Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Geophysics, Electrical Engineering

Founding Project Partners in Water Agencies, Consulting, NGOs

Monica Bobra, State of California, Office of Data and Innovation

Louise Conrad, Tim Godwin, Steven Springhorn, State of California, Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) in the Kaweah Subbasin

  • Aaron Fukuda - General Manager Tulare Irrigation District, Interim General Manager Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency
  • Mark Larsen - General Manager, Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency
  • Michael Hagman – Executive Director, East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency

Consultants to Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) in the Kaweah Subbasin

  • Ben Lewis, Associate Hydrogeologist, Thomas Harder and Co., Groundwater Consulting
  • Kaitlin Palys, Water Resources Scientist, INTERA Incorporated
  • Abhishek Singh, President – Water Resources and Supply, INTERA Incorporated
  • Matt Klinchuch, Engineer, Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group
  • Jim Van de Water, Principal Hydrogeologist, Thomas Harder and Co., Groundwater Consulting
     

Madera Irrigation District

  • Thomas Greci, General Manager
  • Dina Nolan, Assistant General Manager
     

River Partners

  • Julie Rentner, President


Other Partners