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.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Recent Publications
Han, X., Zhang, G., Crétaux, J. F., Wang, J., Schwatke, C., Peng, M., Wang, X., Shum, C. K., Woolway, R. I., Ke, Y., Wang, Y., Zhou, T., & Xu, F. (2026). SWOT performance in monitoring water level of high-mountain lakes on the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 148, Article 105236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2026.105236
Li, F., Zhu, Q., Yuan, K., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Zhang, X., Wang, J., Knox, S. H., You, H., Chen, M., Li, M., Stern, R., Hoyt, A. M., McNicol, G., Riley, W. J., Peng, S., Poulter, B., Malhotra, A., Cooley, S., Zhang, Z., ... Jackson, R. B. (2026). The underappreciated importance of small wetlands in global methane emissions. Nature Climate Change. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02609-w
Ma, X., Wang, J., Gharari, S., Mizukami, N., & Lettenmaier, D. P. (2026). Monitoring Reservoir Storage Using SWOT Satellite Observations and a Reservoir Operation Model. Water Resources Research, 62(3), Article e2025WR041223. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR041223
Meem, T. H., Rhoads, B. L., Wang, J., & Frasson, R. P. D. M. (2026). Detecting Water-Surface Superelevation in Meandering Rivers Using Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite Data. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(4), Article e2025GL119167. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119167
Zhan, P., Wang, J., Chen, T., Luo, S., Liu, K., Ke, L., Fan, C., Lin, Y., & Song, C. (2026). Integrating SWOT With Multi-Source Satellite Observations for Near-Daily Reservoir Water Level Monitoring. Water Resources Research, 62(2), Article e2024WR039711. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039711