Water Resources Assessment in a River Basin Using AVSWAT Model

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Aavudai Anandhi is working as an assistant professor for research in the Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States, since October 2011. Earlier she worked as a research associate (December 2008–August 2011) in Hunter College, CUNY University, New York, United States, studying the impacts of climate change in New York City water supply. For about eleven months, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, after she obtained her PhD from the same institute in 2008. Earlier to 2002, she has worked in state government agencies and a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in India handling projects relating to remote sensing and GIS applications to water resources and agriculture and soil and water conservation. Her areas of research include the following: climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation on water, agriculture, and energy nexus, extreme event analysis, downscaling, global climate model evaluation; agroecosystems and hydrological modeling, model sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, reliability and vulnerability assessments, life cycle analysis; and remote sensing and GIS applications in water resources and agriculture. She has published about 20 papers in leading international journals and about 40 in conference proceedings.