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Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

Dr. Meenu Ramadas Associate Professor
School of Infrastructure

Research Interests

Watershed Hydrology; Water Resources Engineering; Hydrological Modeling; Hydrologic Extremes: Droughts and Floods; Climate Change Impact Assessment; Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus; Machine Learning; Remote Sensing and GIS

Brief Resume

Contact Details

  • 117, School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar
  • meenu@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Civil Engineering 2015 Purdue University
  M.E. Water Resources and Environmental Engineering 2011 IISc Bangalore
 

Biosketch

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
~Lao Tzu

As a hydrologist, I believe there are more than a million things to do before we can call ourselves successful at tapping the enormous potential of water. It is a life-saver as well as life-taker. I wish the posterity learn to respect this resource better than we do. To study water, to teach water, and to be a softer, more flexible but tougher fellow human being. That will be precisely the goal of my life.
I am working as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar, since 2016. After obtaining Masters degree in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore in 2011, I pursued PhD in Civil Engineering (Hydrology & Hydraulics) at Purdue University (USA) during 2011-2015. Thereafter, I taught at Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut (Kerala) for a semester. I joined IIT Bhubaneswar in January 2016, and teaches subjects related to water resources engineering as well as foundation subjects of Civil Engineering at undergraduate and graduate level.

My research focuses on watershed hydrological modeling, hydro-meteorological drought monitoring, food-energy-water nexus, urban floods, climate change impact assessment, and applications of probabilistic models in water resources engineering. I am also a lead-investigator in few research projects sponsored by the World Bank-DSC&WD (Govt. of Odisha), DST, SERB-IMPRINT and SPARC (Ministry of Education). I have presented research work in conferences organized by the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH), Soil Water Conservation Society (SWCS), American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geophysical Union (EGU) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 2016, I received the ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award for the papers in the “Current and Future Challenges in Groundwater” series. As a resource person, I have delivered lectures in few Faculty Development Programs, Training Workshops, GIAN Short-term Courses on different topics that draw upon my research expertise.
 
Through collaborative research, I have published in reputed scientific journals in the domain of water resources modeling, drought analysis and climate change impacts. These collaborations have enabled connections with few international/national experts from IISc Bangalore, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, Leibniz University Hannover (Germany), Purdue University (USA), Oregon State University (USA), Texas A&M University (USA) and Indiana University (USA) on topics related to droughts, climate change impacts on hydro-meteorological extremes, urban flood modeling, and food-energy-water (FEW) nexus, and we have organized scientific outreach programmes (workshops and short-term courses) and worked on relevant sponsored research projects.

Teaching

CE6L502 Surface Hydrology;
CE6L504 Groundwater Hydrology;
CE6L518 Integrated Watershed Management;
CE6L008 Hydraulics of Sediment Transport;
CE2L005 Hydraulics;
CE3L003 Water Resources Engineering;
CE6P503 Advanced Water Resources Engineering Laboratory;
CE3P003 Water Resources Engineering Laboratory;
CE3P004 Civil Engineering Drawing & Estimation;
CE2L011 Building Materials and Construction;
CE2L003 Introduction to Civil Engineering and Construction Materials;
CE1P001 Engineering Drawing & Computer Graphics;
CE4P001 CAD Laboratory

Projects

  • Principal Investigator of “Comprehensive hydrologic assessment and monitoring for science-based watershed planning and management in selected districts of Odisha with additional emphasis on groundwater recharge and extraction” –under REWARD project scheme sponsored by World Bank and DSC&WD, Govt. of Odisha (Sanctioned budget: 7.274 crores INR, Duration: 2021-2026; 5 years; ongoing)
  • Principal Investigator of "Stakeholder-driven Decision Support Cyber Infrastructure for Empowering Rural Communities to Plan Water-Agro-Energy-Climate Resiliency" – under SPARC scheme of MoE (Sanctioned Budget 91.62 lakhs INR, Duration: 2019-2023; 3.5 years; ongoing)
  • Principal Investigator of “Cost Effective ICT‐Data Analytics System for Efficient Management of Water and Fertilizer in Precision Agriculture” –under SERB-IMRINT IIC-1, in collaboration with Centurion University of Technology and Management and Gram Tarang (Sanctioned budget: 83.66 lakhs INR, Duration: 2019-2023; 3.5 years; completed)
  • Principal Investigator (IIT Bhubaneswar) of "Urban Flood Modelling – A Web Based Decision Tool Integrating UAV Based Information" - under NMSKCC of DST-SPLICE, with team from IIT Hyderabad (Sanctioned Budget: 34 lakhs INR, 2019-2022; Duration: 3.5 years; completed)
  • Co-Principal Investigator of "Study of the Effects of Climate Change on Hydro-meteorological Processes: Droughts and Floods at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales in Eastern India" - under major R&D project in DST-SPLICE Climate Change Programme (Sanctioned Budget:1.6 crores INR, Duration: 2017-2021; 4.5 years; completed)

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Parwin, R., Ramadas, M., Agrawal, A., & Atnurkar, A. (2023). "Impacts of climate change on future crop water demand in an agricultural watershed in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India." Journal of Agrometeorology, 25(2), 326-329.
2Gautam, S., A. Samantaray, M. Babbar-Sebens, and Ramadas, M. (2023). “Characterization and propagation of historical and projected droughts in the Umatilla River Basin, Oregon, USA.” Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-2302-8.
3Samantaray, A. K., Ramadas, M., Panda, R. K. (2022). “Changes in drought characteristics based on rainfall pattern drought index and the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble.” Agricultural Water Management, 266, 107568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107568
4Khan, Z., Abraham, E., Aggarwal, S., Ahmad Khan, M., Arguello, R., Babbar-Sebens, M., ... Yue, Q. (2022). “Emerging themes and future directions of multi-sector nexus research and implementation.” Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.918085
5Jena, S., Mohanty, B. P., Panda, R. K., Ramadas, M. (2021). “Toward Developing a Generalizable Pedotransfer Function for Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Transfer Learning and Predictor Selector Algorithm.” Water Resources Research, 57(7), e2020WR028862. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028862
6Jena, S., Panda, R. K., Ramadas, M., Mohanty, B. P., Samantaray, A. K., Pattanaik, S. K. (2021). “Characterization of groundwater variability using hydrological, geological, and climatic factors in data-scarce tropical savanna region of India.” Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 37, 100887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100887
7Samantaray, A. K., Mitra, A., Ramadas, M., Panda, R. K. (2021). “Regionalization of hydroclimatic variables using Markov random field model for climate change impact assessment.” Journal of Hydrology, 596, 126071 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126071
8Barde, V., Nageswararao, M. M., Mohanty, U. C., Panda, R. K., Ramadas, M. (2020). “Characteristics of southwest summer monsoon rainfall events over East India.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 141(3), 1511-1528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03251-y
9Jena, S., Panda, R. K., Ramadas, M., Mohanty, B. P., Pattanaik, S. K. (2020). “Delineation of groundwater storage and recharge potential zones using RS-GIS-AHP: Application in arable land expansion.” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 19,100354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100354
10Samantaray, A. K., Ramadas, M., Panda, R. K. (2021). “Assessment of impacts of potential climate change on meteorological drought characteristics at regional scales.” International Journal of Climatology, 41, E319-E341 DOI: 10.1002/joc.6687
11Samantaray, A. K., Singh, G., Ramadas, M., & Panda, R. K. (2019). "Drought hotspot analysis and risk assessment using probabilistic drought monitoring and severity-duration-frequency analysis." Hydrological processes, 33(3), 432-449.
12Ramadas, M., Ojha, C. S. P., and Govindaraju, R. S. (2016) "Analytical models of infiltration and redistribution for unsaturated flow in soils with vertically non-uniform saturated hydraulic conductivity." ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 22:2, 181-192, doi: 10.1080/09715010.2015.1132640
13Ramadas, M., and Govindaraju, R. S. (2015) "Choice of hydrologic variables for probabilistic drought classification." Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 05015013, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000981.
14Ojha, R., Ramadas, M., and Govindaraju, R. (2015). "Current and future challenges in groundwater I. Modeling and management of resources." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Special Issue: Grand Challenges in Hydrology, A4014007. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000928.
15Ramadas, M., Ojha, R., and Govindaraju, R. (2015). "Current and future challenges in groundwater II. Water quality modeling." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Special Issue: Grand Challenges in Hydrology, A4014008. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000936.
16Ramadas, M., and Govindaraju, R. S. (2015). "Probabilistic assessment of agricultural droughts using graphical models." Journal of Hydrology, 526, 151-163. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.026.
17Ramadas, M., Maity, R., Ojha, R., and Govindaraju, R. S. (2015). "Predictor selection for streamflows using a graphical modeling approach." Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 29(6), 1583-1599. doi: 10.1007/s00477-014-0977-1.
18Maity, R., Ramadas, M., and R. S. Govindaraju (2013). "Identification of hydrologic drought triggers from hydroclimatic predictor variables." Water Resources Research, 49, 4476-4492, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20346.
19Ramadas Meenu, Rehana, S., and Mujumdar, P. P. (2012). "Assessment of hydrologic impacts of climate change in Tunga-Bhadra River Basin, India with HEC-HMS and SDSM." Hydrological Processes, 27(11), 1572-1589. doi: 10.1002/hyp.9220.

Conferences (International)

1Manekar, A., Ramadas, M.* (2023). Assessing the impacts of potential climate change on watershed hydrologic response using FDCs. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (EWRA 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 28, 2023.
2Barbhuiya, S., Ramadas, M.*, Kartick, G. M., Biswal, S. S. (2023). Runoff prediction in a tropical agricultural watershed: a comparison between machine learning-based and conceptual hydrological models. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (EWRA 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece. June 30, 2023.
3Sourya, D. A.* & Ramadas, M. (2023). Development of gridded monthly reference evapotranspiration dataset for Germany for long term trend analysis In EGU General Assembly Conference 2023, Session HS7.10 - Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change, Poster presentation. April 2023 (virtual). https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11681
4Barbhuiya, S.*, Ramadas, M., Jena, S., Biswal, S. S. (2023). Trend Analysis and Forecasting of Streamflow in the Upper Narmada Basin using Random Forest (RF) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Models In EGU General Assembly Conference 2023, Session HS7.10 - Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change, April 2023 (virtual). https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10952
5Majhi, T.* & Ramadas, M. (2023). Evaluation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) For WES Conservation in an Agricultural Watershed In EGU General Assembly Conference 2023, Session HS5.9 - Impacts of land use and land cover changes on water resources and water-related ecosystem services: from assessments to solutions. Poster presentation, April 2023 (virtual). https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12098
6Ramadas, M.*, Samantaray, A. K. (2022). Applications of Probabilistic Models in Hydro-Meteorological Drought Monitoring & Frequency Analysis, in IISA 2022 Conference organized by International Indian Statistical Association, at IISc Bangalore, India, December 26-30, 2022.
7Ramadas, M.*, Manekar, A., Babbar-Sebens, M., Landu, K. (2022). Regional Hydro-meteorological Drought Characteristics using High Resolution Indian Monsoon Data Assimilation and Analysis (IMDAA) Datasets, in the 19th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) in virtual mode, Aug. 03, 2022 (virtual)
8Gautam, S.*, Samantaray, A. K., Babbar-Sebens, M., Ramadas, M. R. (2022) Assessment of historical and projected hydrological drought in the Umatilla River Basin, OR, USA. Paper ID: ID# 1104028, In 2022 World EWRI Congress, Atlanta, USA. June 5-8, 2022.
9Manekar, A.*, Ramadas, M. (2022). Comparison of state-of-the-art regionalization techniques coupled with SWAT for predicting streamflow in ungauged watersheds in Eastern India, in Roorkee Water Conclave 2022 jointly organized by IIT Roorkee and National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee, March 03, 2022 (virtual)
10Satapathy, T.*, Ramadas, M., & Dietrich, J. (2021). A novel agricultural drought monitoring framework using remote sensing products. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU21-10228), April 2021 (virtual)
11Samantaray, A. K.*, Mitra, A. & Ramadas, M. (2020). A Probabilistic Graphical Model Approach to Identifying Spatial Changes in Monthly Precipitation under Climate Change, In First AI for Earth Sciences Workshop, The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020 (virtual).
12Ramadas, M.* & Das, A. (2019). Climate change impact and uncertainty analysis of IDF curves for the city of Bhubaneswar. In Water and Climate Change Assessment I, Water Future Conference-2019, Bangalore, India. August 2019.
13Samantaray, A.*, Singh, G., and Ramadas, M. (2017) Application of the Relevance Vector Machine to Drought Monitoring. Id: 105, 7th International conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2017) by Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS), Odisha, India. Dec. 23-24, 2017
14Singh, G.*, Ramadas, M., & Panda, R. K. (2018) Development of Soil Moisture-Vegetation Stress-based Agricultural Drought Index (SVADI) through Integration of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Vegetation Indices. Poster ID: H43G-2529, AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington D.C. USA. December 2018.
15Ramadas, M.*, Singh, G., Samantaray, A., and Panda, R. K. (2017) Agricultural Drought Monitoring Framework for an Eastern India River Basin using Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Data. Id: 245655, 2017 World EWRI Congress, Sacramento, CA. May 21-25, 2017.
16Ramadas, M.* (2016) Probabilistic drought monitoring using crop water stress-based agricultural drought index. In Floods, Drought and Climate Change, Id: 275, TROPMET 2016 - National Symposium on Tropical Meteorology: Climate Change and Coastal Vulnerability, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dec. 18-21, 2016
17Ramadas, M.*, Chaubey, I., Niyogi, D., Song, C. X., and Govindaraju, R. S. (2014) Probabilistic assessment of agricultural droughts using graphical models. In 69th SWCS International Annual Conference, Lombard, IL. July 27-29, 2014.
18Ramadas, M.*, and Govindaraju, R. S. (2014) Probabilistic assessment of agricultural droughts using graphical models. In 2014 Hydro-Climate Symposium on Modeling Climate Change, Id: 478, 2014 World EWRI Congress, Portland, OR. June 1-5, 2014.
19Ramadas, M.*, Maity, R., Chaubey, I., Niyogi, D., Song, C. X., Nendunuri, K. V., Govindaraju, R. S. (2013) Identification of hydrologic drought triggers from hydro-climatic predictor variables. Poster presented at the 2013 SWCS International Annual Conference, Reno, NV. July 21-24, 2013.
20Ramadas, M.* Govindaraju, R.S. (2013) Unsaturated flow in vertically non-uniform soils: derivation of sharp front models for infiltration and redistribution. In 11th Symposium on Groundwater Hydrology, Quality and Management, Abstract Id: 382, 2013 World EWRI Congress, Cincinnati, OH. May 19-23, 2013.
21Ramadas, M., Maity, R., Govindaraju, R. S. (2012) Dimensionality reduction in hydro-climatic variables for probabilistic streamflow prediction using a hybrid approach. In Hydro-climate Symposium, Abstract Id: 632, World EWRI Congress, Albuquerque, NM. May 20-24, 2012.
22Ramadas, M.*, Mujumdar, P. P. (2012) Assessment of hydrologic impacts of climate change in Tunga-Bhadra River Basin, India with HEC-HMS and SDSM. Poster presented at the 2012 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Albuquerque, NM. May 20-24, 2012.
23Chaubey, I.*, Ramadas, M., Mallya, G., Ojha, R., Govindaraju, R. S., Niyogi, D., Song, C. X., Nendunuri, K.V. (2012) Development of drought triggers for agricultural applications. Poster presented at the 2012 Land Grant and Sea Grant National Water Conference, Portland, OR. May 20-24, 2012.

Conferences (National)

1Parwin, R.*, Atnurkar, A., Ramadas, M. (2023). Assessing the Future Irrigation Water Demands at Watershed-scale for Maize Crop using Climate Change Projections in the National Conference on Advances in Agrometeorological Interventions for Climate Resilience Agriculture (AGMET2022) organized by Association of Agrometeorologists (AAM), at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Feb. 15-17, 2023
2Atnurkar, A.*, Parwin, R., Ramadas, M. and Mishra, N. (2023). Estimation of Soil Moisture using Satellite-based Vegetation Indices from Sentinel-2 in the National Conference on Advances in Agrometeorological Interventions for Climate Resilience Agriculture (AGMET2022) organized by Association of Agrometeorologists (AAM), at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Feb. 15-17, 2023
3Sourya, D. A.*, Ramadas, M., Panda, R. K. (2023) Estimating Reference Evapotranspiration based on Limited Hydrometeorological Data using Neural Network Models in the National Conference LAI-2023 organized by NIT Rourkela, Jan. 09-12, 2023.
4Srinivasan, D*, Altafuddin, Md., Ramadas, M. & Panda, R. K. (2019). Impacts of climate change on streamflows using HEC-HMS model: Case study of Kesinga watershed, Odisha. In Technical Session : Climate Issues, International Conference on Coastal and Inland water Systems (CIS 2019), Bhubaneswar, India, December 2019.
5Ramadas, M.*, and Govindaraju, R. S. (2014) A new index for agricultural droughts based on crop needs and available soil moisture. In HYDRO 2014 International, Paper Id: HYDRO2014_194, MANIT, Bhopal, India. Dec. 18-20, 2014.
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • Award for Excellence in Teaching 2023 by IIT Bhubaneswar
  • Roorkee Water Conclave 2022 Best Paper Awards (Third Prize) for the paper "Comparison of state-of-the-art regionalization techniques coupled with SWAT for predicting streamflow in ungauged watersheds in Eastern India" submitted by Ankita Manekar and Dr. Meenu Ramadas
  • 2016 ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award for the papers in the “Current and Future Challenges in Groundwater” series
  • G. M. Nawathe Puraskar 2015 Award for the best paper presented at HYDRO 2014: 19th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and River Engineering conducted by the Indian Society for Hydraulics.
  • Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2015 recipient from Lyles School of Civil Engineering, awarded by the College of Engineering, Purdue University to honor outstanding teaching assistants and instructors
  • Jacques W. Delleur Award in 2012 & 2014 awarded to graduate students in the environmental area doing research on a topic related to hydraulics, hydromechanics, surface or ground water hydrology or water resources engineering, in Purdue University
 

Research Scholar

PhD Scholars: Alok Kumar Samantaray (2016-2021); Ankita Manekar (2019-current), Bandu Himajwala (2022-current); Siddik Barbhuiya (2023-current); Kartick G M (2023-current)
 

Professional Experience

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES   2023 – current : Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (JWRPM); 2022 – current : Life member of Association of Agrometeorologists (AAM); 2021 - current : Member of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS); 2020 – current : Guest Editor, Special Issue of ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 2019 – 2020 : Member, ASCE-EWRI Special Task Committee on "Civil Engineering Perspectives on Food-Energy-Water Nexus"; 2016 – current : Member of reputed scientific bodies in water resources engineering domain (American Society of Civil Engineers, Indian Water Works Association); 2015 – current : Reviewer of reputed scientific journals in water resources engineering domain.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Oct 2023 - current: Associate Professor, School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Jan 2016 - Oct 2023: Assistant Professor, School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015: Faculty Member, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut, Kerala

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY HELD


  • 2017 – 2019 : Coordinator, Second Phase Construction Masterplan Committee, IIT Bhubaneswar;
  • 2021 – current : Faculty Advisor, M. Tech. (Water Resources Engineering);
  • 2018 – 2019 : Chairperson, Wissenaire 2019, the annual techno-management festival of IIT Bhubaneswar;
  • 2017 – current : Member, Womens’ Welfare Committee, IIT Bhubaneswar;
  • 2017 – 2019 : Assistant Warden, Ganga & Subarnarekha Halls of Residence, IIT Bhubaneswar;

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 
  • 2023 – current : Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (JWRPM);
  • 2022 – current : Life member of Association of Agrometeorologists (AAM);
  • 2021 - current : Member of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS);
  • 2020 – current : Guest Editor, Special Issue of ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • 2019 – 2020 : Member, ASCE-EWRI Special Task Committee on "Civil Engineering Perspectives on Food-Energy-Water Nexus";
  • 2016 – current : Member of reputed scientific bodies in water resources engineering domain (American Society of Civil Engineers, Indian Water Works Association);
  • 2015 – current : Reviewer of reputed scientific journals in water resources engineering domain;  

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Barbhuiya, S., Ramadas, M., Biswal, S. S. (2023) Nonstationary Flood Frequency Analysis: Review of Methods and Models. Submitted as a book chapter to “River, Sediment and Hydrological Extremes: Causes, Impacts, and Management" (Under review)
  • Samantaray A.K., Singh G., Ramadas M. (2019) Application of the Relevance Vector Machine to Drought Monitoring. In: Bansal J., Das K., Nagar A., Deep K., Ojha A. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 816. Springer, Singapore.
  • Ramadas M., Samantaray A.K. (2018) Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Quality Monitoring and Remediation: A State-of-the-Art Review. In: Bhattacharya S., et al. (eds) Water Remediation. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore.

INVITED TALKS IN SEMINARS/FDP/SHORT-TERM COURSES

  • “FEW Nexus Approach for Building Resilience in Rural Agricultural Watersheds” in the Krushi Odisha 2023 Krushak Sikhya Sibir session “Natural Resources Management for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development” organized by the Dept. of Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment, Govt. of Odisha at Bhubaneswar, on Feb. 18, 2023.
  • “Role of IIT Bhubaneswar in REWARD-Hydrology: Methods and Modelling Approach” in Orientation Workshop of REWARD-Hydrology, organized by OUAT Bhubaneswar during October 26-27, 2022.
  • “Understanding Climate Change and its Impacts on Water Resources” in Training on Roof Top Rainwater Harvesting Structure (RTRWHS) and WASH in Schools, for engineers of the School and Mass Education Dept, Govt. of Odisha, organized by Regional Resource Center (RRC) with support from UNICEF, at Bhubaneswar, during Sept. 26-30, 2022.
  • “Droughts and Climate Change” in the SPARC-Ministry of Education (Govt. of India)-sponsored online training workshop on “Data-driven and stakeholder centered adaptive management of food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus” organized at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar during Feb. 28, 2022 – Mar. 04, 2022.
  • “Future Changes in Hydroclimatic Drought Characteristics based on the CMIP6 Multi-model Ensemble” in DST-GATI sponsored webinar series in Advances in Water Resources Engineering (AWRE-2022), organized by NIT-Rourkela during February 15-19, 2022.
  • “Urban Hydrologic Modeling using HEC-HMS & SWMM: Simulating Storm Water Runoff under Pre- and Post-development Conditions” in AICTE Training and Learning Academy (ATAL) Sponsored 5-Days online FDP on “Urban Hydrology”, organized by College of Technology, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, during August 02–06, 2021.
  • “Impacts of Climate Change on Hydro-Meteorological Extremes Through Case Studies” in Faculty Development Training Sessions for Civil Engineers online FDP organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Govt. College of Engineering, Kannur (Kerala), during October 04-09, 2021.
  • “Climate Change & Application of Software” in National Workshop on “Climate Change & Sustainable Livelihood” conducted by Indian Geotechnical Society, Bhubaneswar Chapter at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar on Jan. 2, 2018.
  • "Uncertainty in Climate Change Impact Assessment Studies" and "Climate Change Impact Assessment using HEC-HMS for Hydrologic Modeling and SDSM for Statistical Modeling" in Workshop on Climate Change Assessment: Hydrological Modeling & Perspective conducted by Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Silchar, on Oct. 22-23, 2016.
  • "Uncertainty Analysis of Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources" at FDP on Assessment of Climate and Land-use Change Impacts on Water Resources organized by Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut, on Sep. 3, 2016.
  • "Understanding Uncertainty in Climate Change Impact Assessment Studies" at IDP Climate Studies, IIT Bombay on Aug. 17, 2016.

WORKSHOPS/SHORT-TERM COURSES ORGANIZED

  • SERB-IMPRINT 2 sponsored one day brainstorming workshop “Climate Resilient Agricultural Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges” conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar mentored by Prof. Rao S Govindaraju (Purdue University, USA), Prof. R K Panda (Director, CCSA, SOA University), Prof. Shivam Tripathi (IIT Kanpur), Prof. Sujata Chakravarty (CUTM, Bhubaneswar), Dr. Richa Ojha (IIT Kanpur), Dr. Ashutosh Sharma (IIT Roorkee), Dr. Saket Dubey (IIT Bhubaneswar) and Dr. Annie Poonam (ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack), on April 8, 2023.
  • World Bank & DSC&WD, Govt. of Odisha sponsored “REWARD-Hydrology Training Workshop” conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar with expert lectures from Prof. Binayak Mohanty (TAMU, USA), Prof. A Sarangi (IIWM Bhubaneswar), Prof. R K Panda (Director, CCSA, SOA University) and mentored by Principal Investigators of REWARD project from OUAT Bhubaneswar, IIWM Bhubaneswar, IISWC Dehradun, ORSAC and IIT Bhubaneswar, during March 20- March 21, 2023.
  • SPARC (MoE) sponsored workshop “Data-driven and stakeholder centered adaptive management of food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus” conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar in virtual mode during Feb 28- Mar 04, 2022, mentored by Dr. Meghna Babbar-Sebens & Dr. Jenna Tilt (Oregon State University), Mr. Suresh Marru (Indiana University) and Dr. Nagesh Kolagani (Centurion University).
  • SPARC (MoE) sponsored workshop “From Knowledge to Action: A Vision for Resilient Rural India” conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar during January 7-9, 2020, mentored by Prof. R Srinivasan (Texas A&M University, USA), Dr. Meghna Babbar-Sebens (Oregon State University), Dr. V Sridhar (Virginia Tech) and faculty experts from NIT Warangal and Centurion University.
  • DST sponsored brainstorming workshop "Climate Change Impacts on Hydro-meteorological Extremes: Research Gaps and Challenges" conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar on December 13, 2019, mentored by faculty experts from IIT Kharagpur, IIT Hyderabad and IIIT Hyderabad.
  • GIAN short-term course "Land Surface Processes in the Tropics in context of High Impact Weather Systems and Climate Resiliency" during July 03-10, 2018, mentored by Prof. Dev Niyogi (Purdue University).
  • ITRA (MEITY) sponsored one-day brainstorming workshop on "IT-based Real Time Monitoring of Soil, Water and Atmospheric Variables for Sustainable Surface and Groundwater Management", conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar, on March 25, 2017.
  • GIAN short-term course: "Soil Moisture and Soil Hydraulic Properties at Micro- and Macro-Scales for Water Resources Management", by foreign expert Prof. Binayak Mohanty, Texas A & M University, USA, under the MHRD’s GIAN programme conducted at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar, during Dec. 26-30, 2016.

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