Jay Famiglietti is a professor of hydrology and Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, where he holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing.  Before moving to Saskatchewan, Famiglietti served as the Senior Water Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he was a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and at the University of Texas at Austin. . His research group uses satellites and develops advanced computer models to track how freshwater availability is changing around the globe.  A fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America, Famiglietti is a regular advisor to state, provincial and federal government officials on water security issues.