Purdue Hydrologic Impacts Group (PHIG)
Quantifying environmental change impacts to water resources using data analysis, sensors, remote sensing, statistics, modeling, and machine learning.
About PHIG
Our research group consists of two faculty members and their graduate and undergraduate research assistants, post-doctoral researchers, and staff focusing primarily on the hydrologic impacts of environmental change at a range of scales, through the use of in-situ data collection, remote sensing and hydrologic models.
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PHIG Team just returned from Minneapolis, MN where they attended the 2025 Annual Conference for UCOWR and NIWR. Next on the agenda is several team members presenting at the annual meeting of the Indiana Water Resources Association (IWRA) at Brown County State Park June 25 and 26.
Second year of operations using our subsurface drip irrigation system at the Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE) is getting started. Had the system connected back to the water supply and fixed the early leaks! The wetland is full, with more rain the forecast. Southern Indiana and Tippecanoe County are finally out of any US Drought Monitor warnings. Of course now we need things to start warming up and drying out so that we can irrigate.
Speaking of the wetland, our own Ronnie Bernard Jr. is out there regularly in the evenings to count frogs and tadpoles. Perhaps we can get him to provide a photo for the web page.
The HAB team will be a little quieter this year as the project winds down and we work on analysis and papers, but there will be some sampling trips and maybe even a bloom to sample (no such luck last year).
Ayomide Adepeju will be in northern Wisconsin the week of June 16th to meet with tribal members and talk about her research. While up there, she will also collect data with a colleague from the CoPe project and help out with a weekend workshop. It will be a busy, but hopefully productive week.
Links to PHIG Information, Activities, Outputs, & Tools
Publications
List of PHIG journal publications, thesis, dissertations, and book chapters.
Research
Descriptions of major PHIG research projects and activities.
Presentations
List of PHIG member presentations at conferences and workshops.
Data Publications
List of PHIG data publications.
Dissertations & Thesis
Dissertations and Theses of PHIG members.
Other Products
Book chapters and other PHIG products.
PHIG TEAMS ACCOUNT
Link to the PHIG Microsoft Teams account for sharing project information and training materials relevant to PHIG members. New members of PHIG should make sure they have been added as Team members.
Environmental Informatics Wiki
Wiki for sharing training and reference materials related to ABE 65100 Environmental Informatics.
Purdue VIC Users Wiki
Wiki for training materials and documentation on PHIG VIC model development and applications.
PHig Hub Repository
PHIG GitHub organization for the development and distribution of project source code.
PHIG Computer Resources
Information related to PHIG resources on the Purdue cluster computers and data depot.
Indiana Waters Webpage
Maps and analysis of the state of Indiana Water Resources at the end of the last water year.
Arequipa Water ResourceS
Decision support tools developed for Arequipa, Peru by the Arequipa-Nexus Sustainable Water Management team.
Real-Time Wetland MOnitoring
LoRa dashboard for monitoring wetland water depth and soil moisture.