The School of Sustainability at Arizona State University is an academic unit of the College of Global Futures, which is based in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

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School of Sustainability students, diverse in their backgrounds and interests, work with faculty and researchers toward a common goal: to foster innovative research, impactful education and engaged communities to achieve environmental integrity, social equity and well-being. Sustainability integrates social, economic and environmental dimensions to develop enduring and equitable solutions to global challenges.

Learning tracks within the school include energy and technology, international development, ecosystems management, urban dynamics, food systems, policy and governance, and sustainability leadership. Our curriculum is grounded in experiential learning and practical faculty-led research, equipping graduates of the School of Sustainability with the skills and tools to make positive impacts in a rapidly changing world

Jay Famiglietti
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Jay Famiglietti is a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. He is Professor Emeritus from the University of Saskatchewan, where he was Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security, and where he held the Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing. He was the founding Chief Scientist of the Silicon Valley Y-Combinator tech startup, Waterplan. Before moving to USask, he served as the Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. From 2013 through 2018, he was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California State Water Boards in the Santa Ana and Los Angeles regions.

From 2001 to 2016, Famiglietti was a professor of Earth System Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Founding Director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling. Before joining UCI in 2001, he was on the faculty of the Geological Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he helped launch the program in climate and the UT Environmental Science Institute.
Famiglietti and his research team use satellites to track changing water availability around the world. They pioneered the methods to detect groundwater depletion from space using the NASA GRACE mission. They have been working for many years towards improving hydrological prediction in climate models like those used in the IPCC. This work has driven Famiglietti's interest in global groundwater sustainability, the food-water nexus, corporate water sustainability and stewardship, innovations in financial tools and data-driven reporting platforms, and international water diplomacy.

He is a former Chair of the Board of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), a former Editor-in-Chief of Geophysical Research Letters, and he has been a Visiting Professor at in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and UCLA. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and of the Geological Society of America, a recipient of AGU's Hydrological Sciences Award, and a Distinguished Alumni of Tufts University.

Prof. Famiglietti is committed to science communication. He is regular advisor to state, provincial, U. S., Canadian and world leaders on regional and global water issues, he appears as a featured expert in television and film, and he hosts the podcast "What About Water?" He and his research group have published numerous papers and reports, and their work has been featured in major international news media.