About

FullHydro is a research project conceived, designed, and carried out by Lulu Jiang: the algorithms, the code, the data processing, and the auditing behind every release are her work. The goal is the most complete and carefully checked picture of the world's rivers — every basin, every reach, every name, every station — assembled from more than a hundred national and global hydrographic sources, reconciled onto a single topological network, and validated against independent reference libraries before release.

The project is carried out in collaboration with Prof. Huan Wu at the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), Lulu's doctoral advisor and the corresponding author of the FullHydro papers. His long-standing support — from supervising the doctoral work this project grew out of, to covering the open-access publication costs — is what makes these datasets freely available; the papers carry NUIST as the first affiliation.

Lulu is currently an independent (self-employed) researcher, and is open to opportunities in both academia and industry in hydrology, global hydrography, and geospatial data science. Questions, corrections, and collaborations are welcome: [email protected].