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Enrique Vivoni

Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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.

Recent stories

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Enrique Vivoni earns three prestigious fellowships for advancing research in water systems and climate resilience.

A group of award recipients and leadership from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) posing together at an awards ceremony. Among the group are ASU SSEBE faculty members being honored for their foundational impact on civil engineering, including Director Ram Pendyala (middle right) and Associate Professor Claudia Zapata (third from right). They are standing indoors in front of a professional event backdrop.

The American Society of Civil Engineers is honoring Ram Pendyala, Enrique Vivoni and Claudia Zapata for their contributions to the field of civil engineering.

Lake Pleasant

Fulton Schools Professor Enrique Vivoni is leading ASU research to overcome the climate change threat to a vital source of water in the U.S. Southwest.

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An ASU team won Arizona Forward’s Governor’s Award for Arizona’s Future for developing an online tool to simulate Colorado River Basin climate change scenarios.

Additional stories

ASU researcher Enrique Vivoni works with a sensor and container of sand in the Hydrology Research Lab.

New ASU center to help make better water decisions faster

The Center for Hydrologic Innovations enables collaborative partnerships between stakeholders and researchers to generate solutions for immediate impact.
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Monitoring the impacts of Arizona’s drought

Doctoral student Zhaocheng Wang has earned a Babbitt Dissertation Fellowship for his proposed research tracking the effects of water usage on farmers.
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Seeking solid scientific ground for engineering soil sustainability

A field research station at ASU’s Polytechnic campus designed to probe water and soil interactions could help solve big soil erosion problems.
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ASU researchers develop new hydrologic forecasting model from the ground up

A first-of-its-kind hydrologic model increases understanding of soil moisture conditions that affect monsoons, agriculture, flooding and land-use in the desert.

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