news archive
news archive
The HIRS lab got funding to study vertical land motions in Alaska and we will investigate their interactions with the water cycle in permafrost regions from local to regional scales. Read the story at VT News: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/03/science-radar-satellite-based-observatory.html
Read Esther's Research Story at VT News: https://communicatingscience.isce.vt.edu/research-stories/Esther_Oyedele.html
Dr. Werth was interviewed by NASA's press office to comment on a revealing and interesting study revealing abrupt drop in terrestrial water storage during the last decade
Welcome our new lab member: Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Shubham Awasthi!
See our new publication on integration of InSAR, GNSS and GRACE observations to quantify total and groundwater storage in California at unprecedented accuracy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114303. Congratulation Grace Carlson on the important and novel work.
Congratulations to Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam for receiving the first place in the "Student GIS/Remote Sensing Poster Competition and Showcase" at the "The Virginia Tech Office for GIS and Remote Sensing Research 2024 Symposium" on April 5, 2024 https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/ogis/2024-ogis-symposium
Read this excellent EGU blog entry by Khosro Ghobadi-Far about our recent publication on "High resolution terrestrial water storage changes from combination of GRACE and models" https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/g/2024/02/07/high-resolution-terrestrial-water-storage-changes-from-combination-of-grace-and-models
The lab was highlighted in VT news: “Geosciences faculty receive $1.3 million to quantify the impact of freshwater demand and flooding in the Chesapeake Bay”, Lindsey Byars, Jan 29, 2024, https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/cm-geosciencegrant.html
Our team will present several works at the 2023 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Congratulations to Esther Oyedele for receiving the 2023 UCAR/NCAR Science Fellowship
PhD student Esther Oyedele received the USGIF 2023 doctoral award, which is announced here, and Esther was interviewed for it here. Congratulations Esther!
Our proposal to NASA ROSES IDS got funded with $1.3Mio. We are looking forward to working on predicting the risks of hazards due to groundwater pumping, sea level rise and land use change along Virginia's east coast and addressing related issues of climate justice. Details will follow soon.
Sonia Zehsaz defended her Master thesis at VT Geosciences, Sept 5, 2023.
Follow the recent works of lab member Khosro Ghobadi-Far via publications in Journal of Hydrology, GRL and JGR.
See what EOS reported about our work on Mexico City: https://eos.org/articles/groundwater-pumping-is-causing-mexico-city-to-sink
See our new publication in collaboration with EOI lab from Mohammad Khorrami: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101962
HIRS lab was honorably mentioned in a Virginia Tech news report on April 11, 2023.
Welcome to our new lab members Esther and Nithesh, who are joining us this spring 2023!
The lab is active in organizing and will be presenting at the 2nd international Workshop of the IAG ICCC - Geodesy for Climate Research on May 28-29, 2023 https://iccc.iag-aig.org/iccc-workshops/ws23
At the AGU Fall Meeting 2022 in Chicago the group presented eight oral and poster presentations.
See our new publication from Grace Carlson: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023135.
In February 2022, Dr. Werth gave an invited talk at the colloquium of the Geophysics Department at Stanford University.
The lab presented several works in person at the Fall Meeting of the AGU.
Dr. Werth was invited to talk at this year's annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geoscience Society.
Works of the HydroGeodesy Lab were presented in several oral presentations at the virtual fall meeting 2020 of the American Geophysical Union.
The HydroGeodesy Lab moved to Virginia Tech on July 1st, 2020.
We were awarded by NASA's GRACE Science Team Program and will be conduct research on "Improved Resolution and Sampling of Total Water Storage Changes Through Data Fusion" during the coming four years (January 2020).
The lab engages in the Joint Working Group (JWG) C.5: Understanding the monsoon phenomenon from a geodetic perspective of the IAG Inter-Commission Committee on "Geodesy for Climate Research".
Press Release: "Measuring impact of drought on groundwater resources from space" (ASU Now, March 19, 2019)
"GRACE-FO Resumes Data Collection" (NASA, November 1, 2018)
Press Release: "ASU scientists use satellites to measure vital underground water resources" (ASU Now, July 19, 2018)
"First light for GRACE Follow-On Laser Interferometer" (Albert Einstein Institute, July 2, 2018)
Press Release: "NASA satellites to aid ASU researchers in California drought study" (ASU Now, January 18, 2017)
"Prolific Earth Gravity Satellites End Science Mission" (NASA, October 30, 2017)