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Dr. T. is currently a Professor and former Graduate Program Director 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.
Dr. Ramesh Teegavarapu (Dr. T.) is currently a professor and 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 Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI), FAU. He has over 25 years of experience in hydrological modeling and water resources systems area. Prior to his tenure at FAU, he has worked as Assistant Director of Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI) and Assistant Professor (visiting and adjunct) at University of Kentucky, and also as Postdoc Scholar/Research Engineer at University of California, Davis. 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 15 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 independent and expert reviewer for several projects and agencies and served on NSF-GRF panels for several years. He was previously a member of Climate Change Working (CWG) Group, and current vice chair of Climate Change Adaptation Committee of 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.
One of the focus research areas of Dr. T.’s is Precipitation Analysis and Estimation
Dr. Teegavarapu has published over 150 technical articles in high impact journals and conference proceedings and also authored more than thirty eight (34 of them as a sole author) published book chapters, six mini-Chapters and book. He is currently writing twleve book chapters in two books. He is the sole and co-editor of three books including lead on two of them. He is sole author or co-author of 55 technical reports, 7 white papers and 36 extended abstracts. He has served as a reviewer for 86 international technical journals and 50 international conferences. He has been recognized for excellent reviews by four editors of the journals. He received national and international honors for his work and his works have been cited in hundreds of (Google Scholar citations: more than 3000, H-index: 28 and i10-index: 58) international research journals and publications in several languages. His works have been used for classroom instruction and his methods were used in several research studies throughout the world. He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, and Journal of Hydroinformatics and served as a Guest editor for a special issue on Radar-based precipitation for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE. One of the research projects recently completed by him for USGS is selected as one of the best research projects at the national level. He has presented over 195 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 and served on advisory committees of conferences and 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 2022 is over 6 million.
Dr. T.’s current research interests focus on climate variability and change, precipitation processes, water and environmental systems modeling extreme precipitation events, spatial interpolation and geo-statistical methods, radar meteorology, rain-radar (NEXRAD) relationships. He is the author 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 assessment of radar-based precipitation data and Coastal Hydraulic Structure Evaluation Tool (CHSET). 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 member of International Leadership Team on Climate Change of International Association of Hydro-Environmental Research and served as a general co-chair of Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH) International conference held in April, 2014. He has served as vice-chair and chair of Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee of ASCE. 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 Climate Change Adaptation technical committee of IAHR.
He has recently authored a book on “Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation” published by Cambridge University Press, U.K. He has co-authored a book chapter on precipitation to be published by ASCE. He co-edited a book on Radar Rainfall Estimation in which he authored four chapters. He is also currently author of two chapters one on: “Climate Variability and Precipitation Extremes” and another one on “Sustainable management of water resources under climate change” and co-editor of the book published by Springer this year and and author of one chapter in Handbook of Applied Hydrology published by McGraw Hill. He is recently edited book on “Trends and Variations in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change” was published by Elsevier this year. He has authored three chapters in this book. He is also the lead editor of the monograph and author of one chapter on precipitation in “Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Variables: Methods and Applications” published by ASCE in May 2019. He has published a book by CRC Press in December 2020 on Climate Change-Sensitive Water Resources Management as lead editor and author/co-author of three chapters. He has co-authored another book on dynamic simulation and virtual reality in hydrology and water resources management published in July 2021 by CRC Press. He is currently authoring two more books and co-editing two books to be published this year and next year.