Research Projects
Sl. No | Title | Investigators | Sponsor |
1 | Post-processed Global Climate model outputs for India | Dr. Rajarshi Das Bhowmik (PI) | DST INSPIRE |
2 | Development and application of a stochastic rainfall generator (SRG) to account for unprecedented rainfall events. | Dr. Rajarshi Das Bhowmik (PI) Prof. D Nagesh Kumar (Co PI) | SERB Core Research Grant |
3 | Mapping Terrestrial Water Resources from Space | Dr. Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma (PI) Prof. D Nagesh Kumar (Co PI) Dr. Sharad Chander, SAC-ISRO (Co PI) Dr. Bhaskar R. Nikam, IIRS-ISRO (Co PI) | SERB |
4 | Improving the spatial resolution of GRACE TWS for India using remote sensing datasets and modeling approach | Dr. Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma (PI) | IISc-ISRO STC |
5 | Advanced Research in Hydrology and Knowledge Dissemination | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) Prof Nagesh Kumar D (Co PI) Prof M Sekhar (Co PI) Prof V V Srinivas (Co PI) Prof Govindasamy Bala (Co PI) Prof Venugopal V (Co PI) Prof Prosenjit Ghosh (Co PI) Dr Ramananda Chakrabarti (Co PI) | MoES |
6 | Intelligent water supply network monitoring and control for EQuitable Distribution of Water within Mega city (EQWATER) | Prof V V Srinivas (PI) Lakshminarayana Rao M P (Co PI) Amrutur Bharadwaj (Co PI) Rajesh Sundaresan (Co PI) Yogesh Simmhan (Co PI) R. Parthasarathy (Co PI) Chiranjib Bhattacharyya (Co PI) P. N. Ravindra (BWSSB) (Co PI) | MHRD |
7 | Urban Modelling: Development of Multi-sectorial Simulation Lab and Science- Based Decision Support Framework to Address Urban Environmental Issues | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) Prof B S Murthy (IIT Madras) (Co PI) Dr G S Srinivasa Reddy (KSNDMC) (Co PI) | DST and MeitY (Under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)) |
8 | Smart water Solutions in Agriculture: Integration of Sensors, Satellite & ICT tools | Prof M Sekhar (PI) Rajendra Nath Goswami (Robert Bosch) (Co PI) | MHRD |
9 | Impact Assessment of Climate and Land-use/ Land-cover Changes on Hydrology and Storm water drain Network of Bangalore Urban area | Prof V V Srinivas (PI) Prof Govindasamy Bala (Co PI) | DST |
10 | Funding for Post-doctoral Work at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore Related to Soil water Monitoring and Modelling | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) M Sekhar (Co PI) James Hutton Institute (JHI) Scotland (Co PI) | CEH, UK |
11 | Estimation of Higher resolution Soil moisture Over UK Combining Active and Passive Microwave Satellite data | Prof M Sekhar (PI) | CEH, UK |
12 | Hydro Nation International Fellows Programme | Prof M Sekhar (PI) James Hutton Institute (JHI), UK (Co PI) Buvaneshwari S (Co PI) | JHI, UK |
Sl. No | Title | Investigators | Sponsor |
1 | Start-up grant | Dr. Rajarshi Das Bhowmik (PI) | IISc |
2 | Likely Impacts of Climate Change on the Water Resources of Karnataka State | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) | EMPRI |
3 | Urban Flood Model for Bangalore (UFM) | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) Dr. G S Srinivasa Reddy (KSNDMC) (Co PI) | DST |
4 | Upscaling Catchment Processes for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India (Newton – Bhabha Project) (Collaborative project with Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK; ICWaR is the Indian Lead) | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) Prof M Sekhar (Co PI) ATREE (Co PI) ICRISAT (Co PI) | MoES |
5 | Statistical Downscaling for Hydro-climatic projections with CMIP5 Simulations to Assess Impact of Climate Change | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) | MoWR |
6 | Coupled human and Natural systems environment (CHANSE) for water management under uncertainty in the Indo- Gangetic Plain (Newton-Bhabha Project) (Collaborative project with Imperial College London; IIT Bombay is the Lead; ICWaR is partner) | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) | MoES |
7 | DST Urban Climate Network Workshop | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) | DST |
8 | Design of an Expert System for Flood forecasting and management for the city of Chennai | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) | PSA |
9 | Develop a Portal on Downscaled Information for Smart city as a Permanent website for Training Purposes and Organize Monsoon School on Urban Floods using ICT’s | Prof P P Mujumdar (PI) | UNESCO |
- CEH: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- DST: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
- EMPRI: Environmental and Policy Research Institute
- IISc: Indian Institute of Science
- INSPIRE: Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research
- ISRO: Indian Space Research Organisation
- JHI: James Hutton Institute
- MHRD: Ministry of Human Resource Development
- MoES: Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India
- MoWR: Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India
- NSM: National Supercomputing Mission
- PSA: Office of Principal Scientific Advisor
- SERB: Science and Engineering Research Board
- STC: Space Technology Cell
- UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization