Hydrologist Jay Famiglietti is a Global Futures Professor at ASU and Ex. Dir. Emeritus of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. Famiglietti was Senior Water Scientist at NASA JPL; he was appointed to the California Water Boards by Gov. Jerry Brown; and he held faculty positions at UC Irvine and UT Austin. His team uses satellites to track changing freshwater availability around the globe. They pioneered the methods to detect groundwater depletion from space.