Caltech scientists and engineers on campus and at JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA, use satellites and seismic monitors to track the planet's most important resource—water—and build miniature river systems in the lab to expand society's understanding of the water cycle amid climate change, droughts, and wildfires. [Caltech Magazine Story]
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Benjamin Peltz

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Graduate student Nathan Jones (left) and Ruby Fu, assistant professor of mechanical and civil engineering (right), use dye to analyze the fluid dynamics of water as it flows through lab-created snow. Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech
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