RajagopalanBalaji

  • Professor
  • HYDROLOGY, WATER RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS
  • CIVIL SYSTEMS
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Office:ECOT444

Education:

  • B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, 1989
  • M.Tech. in Operations Research and Reliability, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, 1991
  • Ph.D. in Stochastic Hydrology and Water Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 1995

Honors and Distinctions:

  • Honorary Fellow, Indian Meteorological Society, 2024
  • Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship,US Department of State, 2023
  • Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers,2023
  • Fellow,American Geophysical Union,2018
  • College Research Award,College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of ֱ, Boulder, CO, 2014
  • Department Service Award,Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of ֱ, Boulder, CO, 2013
  • Department Distinguished Achievement Award,Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of ֱ, Boulder, CO, 2010
  • Department of Interior,Partners in conservation award – part of the group that played a role in the adoption of innovative, new operational guidelines for managing the ֱ River in drought years. Award presented to the group by the secretary of Interior in Washington D.C. on May 6, 2009
  • World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier – MUMM International Award for 2009,for the paper entitled “Unraveling the Mystery of Indian Monsoon Failure During El Nino”, published in SCIENCE, Vol. 314, 6 October 2006.
  • Department Research Development Award,Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of ֱ, 2006
  • Department Young Researcher Award,Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of ֱ, 2003

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Society of Civil Engineers

Interests:

  • Understanding and modeling space-time variability of hydroclimatology and extremes
  • Bayesian hierarchical and statistical learning methods for climate, hydrology, ecology, water and wastewater quality, ecology, public health, human migration, construction safety risk and others
  • Incorporating climate information in water resources/hydrologic decision making
  • Paleoclimate reconstruction and their signatures on human migration and rise and fall of societies