Given increasing water scarcity and the associated deterioration of the quantity and quality of water sources in many parts of the world, many “tools” have been developed to map water scarcity risk or ...

An excess or shortage of water can result in losses in potato yield and quality. As part of PepsiCo Inc.’s continuous effort to maintain a reliable supply of potatoes for the Frito Lay business, this ...

The surface soil moisture state can be inferred by using remote sensing data from Multi-Wavelength Satellite Observations in a process known as retrieval. Neural Network Soil Moisture Retrieval is ...

Located in the northeastern part of Brazil, the State of Ceará is known for its long, sandy coastline--one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Despite the beautiful ocean views, Ceará ...

Communities of color across the nation face increasing challenges with affordable access to safe drinking water. Using data science to explore why, where and how this is happening, and what is being ...

The Columbia Water Center was engaged in a multi-year research project on interstate agreements for managing transboundary rivers in the western United States (funded by the National Science ...

Method: A non-homogeneous hidden Markov model is used with monthly SST data (Rojo Hernández et al., 2020) to objectively classify spatial patterns of SST and their temporal dynamics, for the Tropical ...

The second entry of our blog series has been written by Christopher Slaughter, special education teacher and published author. This work has been produced within the context of our NSF grant on the ...

Candace Agonafir has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from NYU, and a B.S. in Physical Science with a concentration in Physics and a ...

Voices. This Blog Series is meant to share ideas, experiences, and observations regarding the Water Center’s 3-year NSF ITEST Project[1] entitled America’s Water Education: Teaching Data Science to ...

Prof. Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center, speaks with the Wall Street Journal about America's water infrastructure. "As the nation’s pipes and treatment plants age, water-main breaks ...

Water is a critical resource for mining operations, yet, often the risks associated with its temporal and spatial variability and the shared nature of water, are not adequately incorporated in ...