Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)

Biography

Dr. Jida Wang is a broadly-trained physical geographer and hydrologist. His work focuses on surface water abundance and dynamics, particularly in lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. He studies how these water stores function as sentinels, regulators, and integrators of climate change, and how lakes of different types interact with the river systems, the cryosphere, the carbon cycle, and human water managements. He conducts such studies through applications and innovations of integrated methods, which combine multi-sensor satellite remote sensing, in situ measurements, hydrological modeling, and AI/ML.

Research Interests

Dr. Jida Wang is a broadly-trained physical geographer and hydrologist. His work focuses on surface water abundance and dynamics, particularly in lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. He studies how these water stores function as sentinels, regulators, and integrators of climate change, and how lakes of different types interact with the river systems, the cryosphere, the carbon cycle, and human water managements. He conducts such studies through applications and innovations of integrated methods, which combine multi-sensor satellite remote sensing, in situ measurements, hydrological modeling, and AI/ML.

Education

Ph.D., Geography, 2013, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

M.S., Environmental Resources Engineering, 2008, State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Associate Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change

Recent Publications

Andreadis, K. M., Coss, S. P., Durand, M., Gleason, C. J., Simmons, T. T., Tebaldi, N., Bjerklie, D. M., Brinkerhoff, C., Dudley, R. W., Gejadze, I., Larnier, K., Malaterre, P. O., Oubanas, H., Allen, G. H., Bates, P. D., David, C. H., Domeneghetti, A., Elmi, O., Marc, L. F., ... Yadav, B. (2025). A First Look at River Discharge Estimation From SWOT Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(9), Article e2024GL114185. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114185

Chenyu, F., Ke, L., Wang, J., Best, J., Zhang, Y., Sheng, Y., Liu, K., Chen, T., Zeng, F., Zhan, P., Zhu, J., Cheng, J., & Song, C. (2025). Exacerbating dam-induced fragmentation in China’s river systems. Communications Earth and Environment, 6(1), Article 428. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02416-9

Cooley, S. W., Wang, J., Gao, H., Yao, F., Livneh, B., Li, Y., Hou, J., Hao, Z., Cai, X., & Ling, F. (2025). Global intercomparison of satellite-derived variability in reservoir storage. Environmental Research Letters, 20(8), Article 084035. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ade903

Deng, X., Ke, L., Jiang, L., Nielsen, K., Fan, X., Wang, J., & Song, C. (2025). A review of altimetry waveform retracking for inland water levels. Geodesy and Geodynamics, 16(4), 488-508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geog.2025.02.001

Lehner, B., Anand, M., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Tan, F., Aires, F., Allen, G. H., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J. G., Davidson, N., Ding, M., Max Finlayson, C., Gumbricht, T., Hilarides, L., Hugelius, G., Jackson, R. B., Korver, M. C., Liu, L., McIntyre, P. B., Nagy, S., ... Thieme, M. (2025). Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2). Earth System Science Data, 17(6), 2277-2329. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2277-2025

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