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DEPARTMENT OF HYDROLOGY

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE AND THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Hydrology is one of the 23 academic departments of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The Department came into existence with the inception of the International Post Graduate Course in Hydrology in 1972, being the first such a program in a developing country. The courses, offered by the Department are presently sponsored by the Government of India and UNESCO. The Department has nine dedicated full-time faculty members having specializations in surface water hydrology (Floods, Droughts), water resources systems, watershed management, Geo-hydrology, groundwater geophysics, stochastic hydrology, hydro-informatics, environmental hydrology, atmospheric physics, climate change, etc.

NOTICEBOARD

Schedule of Mid Term Exams (Autumn Semester)2023-24

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Teaching Schedule M.Tech. Ist Year (Autumn Semester) 2023-24

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Candidates Selected for Admission to Ph.D. Programmes Autumn Semester 2023-24

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Shortlisted candidates for the Interview (Autumn Semester) 2023-24

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Syllabus for Ph.D Interview (Autumn Semester) 2023-24

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P.G.Diploma / M.Tech Admission Brochure 2023-24

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Hydrology Course Contents

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UPCOMING EVENTS

18-20

Oct

International Workshop

on "Membrane Technologies for Desalination, Energy, and Water Sustainability (MemDEW)" on 18-20th October 2023, IIT Roorkee, India.

27

Sep.

1-DAY WORKSHOP EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS DAY 2023

"EMERGING HYDRO- CLIMATIC EXTREMES AND APPROACHES"

25

Aug

UDAN Lecture Series

Analyzing Water Dynamics and Mitigating Hazards through the HILLTOP: “Himalayan Instrumentation Laboratory and Long-Term HydrOlogical Pathways Observatories”

20-26

Aug

Workshop (AI4WATER)

on 20-26 August,2023.

09

June

Co-PREPARE lecture by Prof. Ed McBean

Glacier depletion and Arctic ice cover loss and potential linkages to the Himalayas

07

June

Bharat Singh Memorial Lecture

"Low-Tech Water Treatment Technology for Producing Safe Water" by Prof. Edward McBean

06

June

One-day workshop

Himalayan Freshwaters: Assessing the Services and Vulnerability of Freshwater Ecosystems in Himalayas

HIGHLIGHTS

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS DAY 2023

1-DAY WORKSHOP EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS DAY 2023 "EMERGING HYDRO- CLIMATIC EXTREMES AND APPROACHES" 27 September 2023.

International Workshop

on "Membrane Technologies for Desalination, Energy, and Water Sustainability (MemDEW)" on October 18–20, 2023, IIT Roorkee, India.

Workshop on 20-26 August 2023.

ADVANCED DATA-DRIVEN AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN WATER RESOURCES (AI4WATER), Funded by: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

One day workshop

Himalayan Freshwaters: Assessing the Services and Vulnerability of Freshwater Ecosystems in Himalayas,June 6, 2023.

Bharat Singh Memorial Lecture

"Low-Tech Water Treatment Technology for Producing Safe Water" by Prof. Edward McBean,June 07, 2023.

Co-PREPARE lecture by Prof. Ed McBean

Glacier depletion and Arctic ice cover loss and potential linkages to the Himalayas, 09 June, 2023.

PRAVAAHA 2023

Celebrating World Water Day 2023 and Research Scholar’s Day,22 March 2023.

e-ITEC Sponsored Training Program on Ecohydrology

Hydrology, IITR is organizing a short-term (online) training program on ecohydrology on March 27th-31st 2023, sponsored by TECnetwork.

NATURAL-HAZARD SYMPOSIUM FOR THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS 2022 (NSIH 2022)

On October 12–13, 2022 at the Department of Hydrology, IITR, sponsored by UGC India and DAAD Germany.

Expert Talk

"Modelling fluid flow through porous media using MATLAB" on April 15, 2023 during 11:00-1:00 PM at DOH.

International e-ITEC training course during 28th to 30th November 2022.

"Emerging technologies for water/wastewater treatment" Supported by Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Programme, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.

UDAN Online lecture series

PD Dr. Daniel Viviroli, Head of Mountain Hydrology Group, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, gives a lecture on "The hydrological significance of mountains" Friday, 26 August 2022.

9th INTERNATIONAL GROUNDWATER CONFERENCE

"Effective Management of (sub)-surface water resources in arid and semi-arid regions" November 02 - 04, 2022.

PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING ON GROUNDWATER MODELLING USING FEFLOW

31 October – 1st November 2022, 2-day preconference workshop on Groundwater modelling using FEFLOW is being jointly organized by Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee and DHI (India).

Indo-German workshop by IITR and Hamburg University of Technology

"Workshop on Securing sustainable treatment for drinking water production and water recycling with a focus on anionic contaminants” 20 to 22 July,2022.

UDAN Lecture Series

lecture on "Climatic and neotectonic interplay during Late Quaternary in Ladakh - the high altitude cold desert of India" Friday, 24 February 2023 at 10:00 a.m. (Berlin), 2:30 p.m. (Delhi).

HANDS-ON TRAINING PROGRAMME ON TOOLS & TECHNIQUES OF EXPERIMENTAL HYDROLOGY

Organized by: Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee. MAY 24 – 30, 2022.

Two-week Training

Two-week Training on “Emerging Space Technology Applications for Compound Extremes (STAC-X)” 09 to 20 May,2022.

Workshop on 20 July,2022

"Introduction to Google Earth Engine (GEE) and its Applications" by Prof. Roopam Shukla Centre of Excellence for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. & Dr. Praveen Kumar

1-day workshop on 1D- 2D Dam Break Modelling using the MIKE platform

DHI EXPERT AND TRAINER Mr. Mark Falcon Britton, Date: 5 July 2022 Time: 9:00 – 6:00 PM

Welcome Ceremony

On completion of the glorious 50 years of Hydrology program at the Department of Hydrology IIT, we are organizing a Welcome Function on 1st October for our new M Tech and PhD students.

Workshop on 20 July,2022

"Introduction to Google Earth Engine (GEE) and its Applications" by Prof. Roopam Shukla Centre of Excellence for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. & Dr. Praveen Kumar Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

Hydrometeorological Observatory

A group of 100 students from Espee Global School visited our Hydrometeorological Observatory. Wonderful experience of interacting with young minds.

Soil Pollutants Impact Assessment and Remediation of Contamination Sites

Three-day Training on Soil Pollutants Impact Assessment and Remediation of Contamination Sites.

Recent Awards & Recognitions

Prof. Ankit Agarwal

Department of Hydrology, has been awarded the ‘IEI Young Engineers Award 2023-24’ in Environmental Engineering. The award consists of a Plaque and a Certificate, which will be presented during the inaugural session of the 37th National Convention of Environmental Engineers held at Himachal Pradesh (Shimla) from September 15-16, 2023.

Prof. Ankit Agarwal,

Department of Hydrology has been awarded the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) travel Grant to participate in the IUGG Union at Berlin during 11-20 July 2023.

Mr. Pankaj Ramji Dhote,

Ph.D. Scholar received Space4Sust mobility fund to work as visiting researcher at G-EAU, INRAE, Montpellier, France during August 07 to Nov 03, 2023.

Mr. Pankaj Ramji Dhote,

Ph.D. Scholar selected as Secretary, International Commission of Remote Sensing (ICRS), IAHS for the term 2023-2017 after 2023 elections held during the IAHS Administrative Plenary on 12 July 2023 at IUGG 2023, Berlin, Germany.

Mr. Pankaj Ramji Dhote (PhD Student)

has been selected as the secretary for Remote Sensing commission of International Association of Hydrological Society (IAHS).

Mr. Akash Singh Raghuvanshi (Ph.D. scholar)

has been awarded Deloitte work-studentship.

Nikunj Mangukiya

has been selected for the "Deloitte work-studentship program" for 6 months.

Shubham Ketan Sharma

Received the International Travel Support (ITS), SERB, DST to attend, “The 13th International Congress on Membrane and Membrane Processes ICOM13, 9-14 July 2023, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan”.

Mr. Bhargabnanda Dass

(Ph.D. candidate) has been conferred the 2023 IAHS SYSTA award (Sivapalan Young Scientist Travel Award) to attend the IUGG 2023 General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, held from 12th to 16th July.

Newsletter

Recent Publications

Jahangeer; Yadav*, B K; Beegum, S (2023)

Modeling of nitrate transport in the vadose zone by considering the mobile-immobile approach using sand tank experiment,

ASCE's Journal of of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste. Q2 (IF=0.415)

Ravindra Kumar Singh, Satish Kumar, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Vasanta Govind Kumar Villuri, Ankit Agarwal;

Evaluating evolutionary algorithms for simulating catchment response to river discharge. Journal of Water and Climate Change 2023;

jwc2023083. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.083.

Tegegn Kassa Beyene, Ankit Agarwal, Manoj Kumar Jain, Brijesh K. Yadav;

Investigation of the propagation of meteorological to hydrological drought and water required to recover from drought over Ethiopian basins.

Journal of Water and Climate Change 2023; jwc2023024.

Agarwal A, Kuriqi A and Matthews J (2023) Editorial:

Emerging talents in water science. Front. Water 5:1275554. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1275554

Tiwari, S., and Yadav*, B. K. (2023).

Role of hydrogeological factors on Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) performance in saline groundwater regions.

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE). Accepted (IF=3.457) Q1.

Agarwal A, Kuriqi A and Matthews J

(2023) Editorial: Emerging talents in water science. Front. Water 5:1275554. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1275554

Ravindra Kumar Singh, Satish Kumar, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Vasanta Govind Kumar Villuri, Ankit Agarwal;

Evaluating evolutionary algorithms for simulating catchment response to river discharge. Journal of Water and Climate Change 2023; jwc2023083.

Das, S. and Jain, M.K*.

Unravelling the future changes in rainfall erosivity over India under shared socioeconomic pathways. Catena J. Elsevier, 232: 107417. 2023.

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 15 . (IF=3.7) Q1

Mishra, A., Arya, D.S.

Assessment of land-use land-cover dynamics and urban heat island effect of Dehradun city, North India: a remote sensing approach.

Environ Dev Sustain (2023). (I.F: 4.9, Q1)

Simon, M., Joshi, H., and Hazra, M. (2023)

“Performance appraisal of microbial inoculants treating polluted surface water through bench-scale investigation”

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 15 https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.7472. (IF=3.7) Q1

Yadav, A., Boothroyd, R. J., Sambrook Smith, G. H., Sen, S. 2023.

Morphological adjustments of the Yamuna River in the Himalayan foothills in response to natural and anthropogenic stresses.

Hydrological Processes, 37 (4):e14934.

Mangukiya, NK, Sharma, A, & Shen, C. (2023)

"How to enhance hydrological predictions in hydrologically distinct watersheds of the Indian subcontinent?",

Hydrological Processes, 37(7), e14936. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14936

van de Giesen, N., Peña Haro, S., Sen, S.

WMO HydroHub Innovation Snapshot: Introduction to non-contact technologies for hydrometry.

Published by WMO HydroHub, Issue 1, 2023.

Ehret, U. and Dey, P.

Technical note: Complexity–uncertainty curve (c-u-curve) – a method to analyse, classify and compare dynamical systems,

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 2591–2605,

Patle, P., Sharma*, A. (2023).

Evaluation of Water Resources in a Complex River Basin using Water Accounting Plus (WA+): A case study of Mahi River Basin in India,

ASCE's Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Accepted (IF=3.457) Q1"

Observatory Document

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Proforma For Reimbursement Under Professional Development Allowance (PDA)

Reimbursement Form

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Application Forms Seminar Report2 credit.pdf

Notification for comprehensive Examination

Progress and Performance Report

Spotlight

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Activities And Upcoming Events

GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR

Alumni over the Years

Lecture Series

ADMISSION BROCHURE M.TECH 2023-24

50+ Research Publications

2022-23

Faculty Members

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