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Member Since 1989
Venkat Lakshmi
John L Newcomb Professor, University of Virginia
Venkat graduated from University of Roorkee in 1987 with a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and a Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1996 from Princeton. He worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is currently Professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and the Environment at the University of Virginia. He has served as Cox Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Program Director of Hydrologic Sciences at NSF
Professional Experience
University of Virginia
John L Newcomb Professor
2019 - Present
Education
Princeton University
Doctorate
Current Roles
President-Elect
Hydrology Executive Committee
Section President-Elect
Council
Publications
Intensification in the Wettest Days to 50 Percent of Annual Precipitation (WD50) Across Europe
Due to global warming, precipitation extremes are becoming more frequent and more severe, further exacerbating the uneven distribution of daily pre...
January 31, 2024
Temporal Gap‐Filling of 12‐Hourly SMAP Soil Moisture Over th...
December 12, 2023
Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry
February 18, 2022
A Novel Method for Gaining New Insight on Flows Over Inundat...
October 19, 2021
Groundwater Withdrawal Prediction Using Integrated Multitemp...
November 13, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Effects of Sea-Level Rise and River Flow Variation on Estuarine Salinity in a Changing Climate: Insights from the Pamlico River Estuary, USA
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment processes | 22 february 2024
Dongxiao Yin, Courtney Harris, Thanh Nhan Duc Tran...
Understanding the spatial distribution of estuarine salinity and its interaction with climate change is important for managing ecosystem health and wa...
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Estimation of river discharge using satellite data
ONLINE POSTER SESSION FOR HYDROLOGY XVIII
hydrology | 25 january 2024
Mehdi Fereydooni, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi
Rivers link atmospheric, terrestrial, and oceanic processes and return approximately two-fifths of all global precipitation from land to the ocean. Th...
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Deep Learning Interpretability for Transfer Learning in Drought Prediction
ONLINE POSTER SESSION FOR INFORMATICS II
informatics | 23 january 2024
Daniel Sobien, Stephen Adams, Peter A. Beling, Hyu...
Droughts are devastating natural disasters that are becoming more extreme and spreading to new locations as climate change is progressing. Catchment s...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Chair
Hydrology Fellows Committee
2023 - 2024
President-Elect
Hydrology Executive Committee
2023 - 2024
Section President-Elect
Council
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