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Arpita Mondal joins the Editorial Board of AGU journal Earth's Future as Associate Editor (Link). (2022)

Chingka Kalai successfully defends his thesis (Apr 1, 2022). Both examiners (from IISc Bangalore and NITK Surathkal) has lots of praises for his work, with one examiner recommending him for best thesis award!

Mariam Zachariah joins Imperial College London as a postdoctoral research associate. (Mar 2022)

Our work (led by PhD student Pushkar Sharma) gets published in Journal of Hydrology. This study proposes a new method for quantification of catchment and climate change contributions to streamflow based on the Budyko framework.

Arpita Mondal gets featured in 'She Is: 75 Indian Women in STEAM' second edition by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt of India and the Red Dot Foundation. (Link)

Mariam Zachariah successfully defends her thesis (Jan 12, 2022). Both examiners (from IIT Kgp and IISc Bangalore) has lots of praises for her work!

Shivansh Tiwary joins our group as PhD student.

Arpita Mondal gets invited as a panel member to Panel Discussion on Climate Change Impact and Adaptation, A Spotlight on India, Water Security & Sustainable Development Hub and IIT Delhi, 23 Sept, 2021, Virtual.

Arpita Mondal gets invited to join Brainstorming Meeting on Earth, Ecology, Environment, Ocean and Water (E3OW) theme of Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), March 5, 2021.

Mariam Zachariah (PhD Student) receives AGU's travel grant to attend the virtual Fall Meeting, 2020.

Our work, in collaboration with Structural Engineering colleagues (Prof. Swagata Basu and her PhD student) at IIT Bombay, gets published in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (ASCE). Here we show, for the first time, how climate change can make bridges more vulnerable to earthquakes.

Arpita Mondal gets selected as an Associate Editor, as part of the Editorial Board of the international journal Regional Environmental Change (REEC), Springer (IF 3.481).

Two PhD positions open for joint Indo-Aus PhD degree in the IITB-Monash Research Academy. Drop an email to arpita567@gmail.com for more!

Our work (led by PhD student Sahana V, and initiated by MTech student Parvathi S) gets selected as 'Hydrology Paper of the Day' (2302 followers) in Twitter.

Our work (led by PhD student Sahana V, and initiated by MTech student Parvathi S) gets published in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. We develop a multivariate severity-duration-frequency curve-based drought atlas for India. The atlas shows that the 2015 drought was rarer than a hundred-year event at many places.

Arpita Mondal's public lecture on Statistical extreme value theory to analyse floods, droughts and heat waves, as part of e-school in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay, now available in YouTube.

Arpita Mondal gets invited to join the editorial board of FrontiersIn's Water and Climate as a Review Editor.

Our work (led by PhD student Mariam Zachariah) published in ERL features in Hindustan Times.

Roshan Jha (MTech student) gets the prestigious DAAD Regional Fellowship for doing his PhD at the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies at IIT Bombay.

Our paper (coauthored by MTech student Neeraj Sah) gets published in International Journal of Climatology.

Arpita Mondal receives the Asian Universities' Alliance Scholars' Award, 2020 for a brief academic visit to HKUST, Hong Kong.

Our paper (led by PhD student Mariam Zachariah) gets published in Environmental Research Letters.

Our paper (led by PhD student Chingka Kalai) gets published in ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. This paper is selected as 'Hydrology Paper of the Day' (2302 followers) in Twitter.

A part of my course CE 228 Applied Hydraulic Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, is now available online as free video lectures.

What is hydraulic engineering and why should civil engineers learn it? Here is a simple explanation in layman(ish) terms.

Sahana V (PhD Student) attends a three-day workshop on From Knowledge to Action: A Vision for Resilient Rural India, Jan 7-9, 2020 at IIT Bhubaneshwar.

Roshan Jha (MTech Student) attend The Climate Modeling Workshop, 16-20 Dec, 2019 at IISc, Bangalore. His visit is supported by the Divecha Center for Climate Change at IISc, Bangalore.

We cohost the second SUNRISE Stakeholder Workshop on Estimating Flood and Drought Risk in India: from Research to Practice organized by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK during Nov 25-27, 2019 at Mumbai.

Roshan Jha (MTech Student) attends the four-week DAAD GeoTraining 2019 Summer School at Frankfurt, Germany. His visit is fully funded by DAAD.

Chingka Kalai (PhD Student) visits the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK (again!). His visit is fully supported by CEH's SUNRISE project.

Mujeeb Ul Haq (MTech Student) successfully defends his MTech thesis. His examiner praised the novelty of his work!

Arpita Mondal has a baby boy now! Advait is what he is called, after the philosophy based on 'non-dualness'.

Our paper (coauthored by PhD student Denzil Daniel) gets published in ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. The paper appraises the true need to update infrastructure design strategies under hydrologic non-stationarity and associated uncertainties.

A commentary on extreme event attribution gets published by Mongabay-India. The article explains, in simple language, what attribution studies are, and why they are important.

What is event attribution of climate change? The science and policy implications. Here's a take in simple language.

We host the Stakeholder Workshop: Improving flood and drought risk estimation and prediction in data sparse regions, organized by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK, at IIT Bombay.

The second project meeting between IIT Bombay, Oxford University and IIT Delhi held at ECI, Oxford University, during 4-6 July, 2018. This Indo-UK project is jointly funded by DST and UKIERI, and aims at understanding recent extreme events in India in the context of climate change.

Sahana V (PhD Student) gets selected for India-UK Water Centre's (IUKWC) workshop in Lancaster, UK September 18-20th 2018 on Advancing Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Management Capabilities. Her visit is fully supported by the IUKWC.

Neeraj Sah (Lab Alumnus, MTech 2015-17) officially starts his PhD with Dr. Wouter Buytaert at Imperial College, London, UK.

Arpita Mondal gets the Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing for Journal of Hydrology (June, 2017).

Arpita Mondal goes west. To the AGU Fall Meeting (Dec, 2017) to present her poster, as well as that of her student Mariam.

Neeraj Sah (Lab Alumnus, MTech 2015-17) gets selected for the prestigious DAAD-funded summer school on 'Enhancing Academic Qualification in Teaching and Research in Public Health' during Aug 2-29, 2017 at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. His visit is fully supported by DAAD.

Parvathi S (Lab Alumnus, MTech 2015-17) joins MWH Global at their Pune location (July, 2017).

Chingka Kalai (PhD Student) visits the NERC and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK (24 June - 5 July, 2017). His visit is fully supported by the NERC and CEH.

Mariam Zachariah (PhD Student) attends training (25-27 May, 2017) on extreme weather attribution at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Her visit is fully supported by the Raising Risk Awareness project led by Red Cross Red Crescent, Climate Central, University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, KNMI Netherlands.

Mariam Zachariah (PhD Student) attends Raising Risk Awareness project final learning event in Nairobi, Kenya (March 21-23, 2017). Her visit is fully supported by the Raising Risk Awareness project led by Red Cross Red Crescent, Climate Central, University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, KNMI Netherlands.

Research project on Understanding Recent Extreme Events in India gets selected for funding by DST-UKIERI. This is a collaboration between IIT Bombay (lead), IIT Delhi and Oxford University (April 2017).

Arpita Mondal gets the Early Career Research Award by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India (Feb, 2017).