Geospatial and Hydrological Modelling for Sustainable Land and Water Management

Deepak Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology (GBPUA&T), Pantnagar, India. His specific research interests focus on surface and groundwater remediation methods, soil and water conservation technologies, Artificial Intelligence and remote sensing technologies in agriculture and allied sectors. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis on Water Resource Engineering from IIT Delhi; M. Tech in Agricultural Systems and Management from IIT Kharagpur, India. He also has Post-Doctoral research and teaching experiences at Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee. He is also reviewer for several research articles such asTaylor & Francis, and several other internationally acclaimed publishing houses. He has delivered invited lectures in various engineering, research institutions, and technical associations like Western Sydney University, Australia; IIT Roorkee; Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Uttarakhand; Assam University, Silchar etc. He has also conducted several workshops, training program, international programs. He is also an active Coordinated of IIRS, ISRO programs.

Anil Kumar is a professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering with G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. He has been head of the department for six years. He is an active member of various national and international professional societies. He has conducted various filed studies on the design and construction of cost-effective harvesting of surface runoff; rejuvenation of natural water springs using biological and mechanical measures; vegetative measures to check landslides along hill roads; and use of soil amendments to check the loss of runoff, sediment and nutrients from sloped lands in Himalayan region. He has taught various courses to under-graduate, post-graduate and PhD students. He has more than 140 publications to his credit, including over 90 research articles in peer-reviewed international and national journals, 19 book chapters, and 45 conference proceedings.

Shekhar Singh holds a Ph.D. in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering from the Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, GBPUAT Pantnagar, India. His core research areas include climate change, climate extremes, hydrological modeling, and land & water management. Dr. Singh has worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, where he was actively involved in research related to water policy research. His work at IIT Indore focused on addressing pressing issues related to water governance in the Indian context. He has authored and co-authored various research papers and book chapters published in reputed SCI, ESCI, and Scopus-indexed journals. In addition to academic publishing, He has presented his research at a wide range of national and international conferences, receiving recognition and awards for his scholarly excellence. He also serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Discover Water, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Water Resources Management,among others.