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I had less difficulty in the discovery of motion of heavenly bodies in spite of their astonishing distances than in the investigation of movement of water before our very eyes.
– Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Dr. Ramesh Teegavarapu (Dr. T.) is currently a professor and a former graduate program director & coordinator in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Department at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, Florida, and founder and leader of the Hydrosystems Research Laboratory (HRL) in the department. He is a Fulbright Scholar and also a Fulbright Specialist. He is also an affiliate researcher with the Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI), FAU. He has over 25 years of experience in hydrological modeling, water resources, and environmental systems. Before his tenure at FAU, he worked as Assistant Director of the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI) and Assistant Professor (visiting and adjunct) at the University of Kentucky and as a Postdoctoral Scholar/Research Engineer at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. T.’s current research interests focus on climate variability and change, precipitation processes, statistical hydrology, water and environmental systems modeling and management, statistical learning, hydro analytics, and informatics, modeling extreme precipitation events, spatial interpolation, geostatistical methods, and hydrometeorology.
One of the focus research areas of Dr. T.’s is Precipitation Analysis and Estimation
Dr. Teegavarapu is a recipient of several national and international awards/recognition and the major ones include: 2016-2018 Fulbright Scholar Award and Fulbright Specialist (2019-2023) recognition (by United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs), member of Open Panel of Commission for Hydrology Experts (OPACHE) of World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) award, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), India, University level, “Scholar of the Year” (2021) (Professor), University level “Scholar of the Year” (2017) (Associate Professor) at FAU, ASCE-EWRI Task Committee Excellence Award, Outstanding Service as a Technical Program Co-Chair, EWRI, ASCE, two university level Excellence and Innovation in teaching Awards (2009, 2018) at FAU, one of eight finalists selected to Distinguished Teacher of the Year award at FAU and College of Engineering and Computer Science (COECS) Service Award, 2021, Engineer’s Council “Distinguished Engineering Educator Award”, 2021, College of Engineering and Computer Science (COECS) “Faculty teaching Award “,2019, College of Engineering and Computer Science (COECS) “Faculty Research Award”, 2020, Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment Grant, AEESP and special award to speak at a Workshop on International Framework on Water Dynamics at Kyoto University, Japan and invited researcher under Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Program, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) fellow, Canada, Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) Scholarship/Award and British Hydrological Society (BHS) Fellowship.
Dr. T. has given invited, session keynotes, plenary, and keynote lectures in several international conference venues in the past 25 years. Dr. T. has presented research talks and organized technical sessions in Australia, Austria, Greece, Brazil, Colombia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, China, Canada, Czech Republic, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Italy, India, Panama, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Dr. T. has served as grant proposal reviewer for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Research (FONDECYT), Chile, USGS (104G grants) NIWR, USA and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom, Canada Foundation for Innovation, NASA EPSCoR, NSERC Discovery Grant, Canada, The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek –[NOW]) and currently serves as a member of international leadership team (LT) on climate change with IAHR. He has served as an independent and expert reviewer for several projects and agencies and served on NSF-GRF panels for several years. He was previously a member of the Climate Change Working (CWG) Group and is current vice chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee of the International Association of Hydro-environmental Research (IAHR). Dr. T. has delivered guest lectures multiple times for Civil Engineering program at Nirma University, India (Feb- Mar 2021). Dr. T. has recently completed a visiting research professor appointment at Kobe University, Japan for two months (2015-2016, 2019-2020). Dr. T. recently has recently spent one and half month in Italy on two visiting professor appointments (Politecnico Di Torino and Universita Degli Studi Di Brescia). He has taught two graduate courses (Didattica di Eccellenza) on Spatial Analysis for Water Resource Modeling and Management and Statistical Methods for Climate Variability and Change Assessments at Politecnico Di Torino, Italy in summers of 2016 and 2022. He recently gave a series of talks as Visiting Professor at University of Brescia under the program “Advances in Statistical Hydrology in a Changing Climate” during May-June 2024. Dr. T. has completed his Fulbright Scholar assignment at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, for four months during 2016-2017.
Dr. Teegavarapu has published over 190 refereed research articles in high-impact journals and conference proceedings and books (articles and chapters). He is currently writing twelve book chapters in two books. He is the sole author of three books, co-author (lead) of one book. He is the sole co-editor of five books, including the lead on three and a sole editor of one book. He is the sole author or co-author of 55 technical reports, seven (7) white papers, and 36 extended international conference abstracts. He has been a reviewer for 86 international technical journals and 50 international conferences. He has been recognized for excellent reviews by four journal editors. He received national and international honors for his work and has been cited in hundreds of (Google Scholar citations: more than 3300, H-index: 28 and i10-index: 59) international research journals and publications in several languages. His works have been used for classroom instruction, and his methods have been used in several research studies worldwide. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, and the Journal of Hydroinformatics and serves as a Guest editor for a special issue on Radar-based precipitation for the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE. One of the research projects recently completed for USGS was selected as one of the best research projects at the national level. He has presented over 200 talks, two webinars, and 57 research posters, including several invited and session keynote lectures. He has chaired, convened, and moderated over 116 technical sessions at national and international conferences, served on advisory committees of conferences, and served as general and technical co-chair of two international conferences. Dr. Teegavarapu’s research is funded by several state and national agencies, including NSF, FEMA, USGS, USDOT, USACE, FDEP, SFWMD, SWFWMD, NSERC, PRIDE/NOAA, and several others. Total research funding at FAU from August 2006 to August 2024 is over 6 million.
Dr. T. is the author of several software including RAIN (Rainfall Analysis and INterpolation) software for interpolation and estimation of missing precipitation data and co-developer of a Bias Analysis Tool (BAT) software for the assessment of radar-based precipitation data and Coastal Hydraulic Structure Evaluation Tool (CHSET) and QA (Quality Assurance) Tool. He has served as a vice-chair for the “Radar (NEXRAD/NWS WSR88-D) Rainfall Datasets” and the “Uncertainty Analysis Approaches in Hydrologic Modeling” task committees with Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee (SWHTC), ASCE and member of AGU Hydrology Group. He is also a member of the International Leadership Team on Climate Change of the International Association of Hydro-Environmental Research. He was a general co-chair of the Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH) International conference held in April 2014. He has served as vice-chair and chair of ASCE’s Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee. He is also a member of three sections: (1) Water Resources Assessment; (2) Hydrology and Data Operations and Management and (3) Hydrological Forecasting and Prediction of OPACHE [Open Panel of Commission of Hydrology Experts] of WMO (World Meteorological Organization). He is currently the vice chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Technical Committee of IAHR.
Dr. T. has authored several books and edited and co-edited multiple books. A complete list is available here. Link: Books
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