Dr. Yang Hong was recently featured in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Professional Member Spotlight for his transdisciplinary contributions to global precipitation measurement, remote sensing hydrology, and hydrologic hazard prediction.
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan "JJ" Gourley on his induction into the University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Academy!
Abbey Snooks, a junior majoring in Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma, has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Provost’s Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (UReCA) Fellowship. Her proposal was chosen from 127 high-quality submissions through a highly competitive selection process.
NORMAN, OK — OU News recently highlighted a HyDROS study, A Review of the Past Half Century of Geostationary Satellite Thermal Observations for Global Precipitation Estimation: Developments, achievements, and future prospects, in a press release.
NORMAN, OK — The University of Oklahoma has named Professor Yang Hong a recipient of the prestigious George Lynn Cross Research Professorship, the university’s highest honor for research and creative activity. The distinguished professorship recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional and sustained excellence in scholarship, placing them among the institution’s most accomplished researchers.
NORMAN, OK — Professor Yang Hong, Gallogly Chair Professor at the University of Oklahoma and Director of the Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (HyDROS) Laboratory, is currently among the most-cited scientist worldwide in Flood, Hydrometeorology, Hydrology & Water Resources, and Civil Engineering, based on 2025 Google Scholar metrics.
The HyDROS Lab is proud to share that Professor Yang Hong has again been named among the world’s top-cited global researchers in the latest Stanford–Elsevier global citation database, as highlighted in the University of Oklahoma’s recent news release (https://www.ou.edu/news/articles/2025/october/dozens-of-ou-experts-included-in-latest-list-of-top-cited-global.html). The 2025 release analyzes citation data through 2024 and identifies researchers based on a composite citation score and those ranked in the top 2% of their subfield.
AQUAH (Automatic Quantification and Unified Agent in Hydrology) is an AI-driven system that transforms how we model floods and river basins. What once took experts days of manual setup — collecting data, tuning parameters, and scripting models — now happens automatically in minutes. scenario.
Dr. Yixin Wen recently received tenure and promotion at the University of Florida. Dr. Zhi "Allen" Li recently started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
One recent study, entitled “The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario” led by the HyDROS group was just published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. As results indicate, US floods are becoming 7.9% flashier by the end of the century assuming a high-emissions scenario.
