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Water resources

Our research

The water resources research group investigates lakes, rivers and wetlands and their importance to human societies at catchment to ecosystem scales. We address questions of how water availability and water quality are affected by human activities and climate change. We apply geospatial tools, models and soft computing techniques to investigate, extract, monitor and model hydrological features and hydrodynamic phenomena. Our research aims to provide sustainable aquatic management solutions. We are active in the following areas

Hydrological and urban flash flood modeling
GIS & remote sensing in water resource management
Sediment transport and implications for geomorphology and flood management
Ecological impacts of flooding on wetland and shallow lake ecosystems
Assessment of ecological change in lake ecosystems using palaeolimnology

We have expertise in geospatial techniques, including GIS & remote sensing, water quality monitoring, sediment core analyses using a range of biological and geochemical proxies, sediment transport modeling and river geomorphology surveys. We are equipped with a GIS laboratory with licensed ArcGIS 10x, ERDAS Imagine10x, Open source GIS (OSGeo) capabilities, Mini UAVs and GPS facilities. The group has strong collaborative linkages with the Geoscience Research Group (School of Geography,UK) and the Geospatial Information Science Research Centre (GISRC) Faculty of Engineering , UPM among others.