Ashutosh Sharma

1. Vijaykumar Bejagam and Ashutosh Sharma (2023). Characterization of ecohydrological indicators (EHIs) in India: a multi-scale perspective. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-340
Nikunj K. Mangukiya and Ashutosh Sharma (2023). Evaluating Machine Learning Approach for Regional Flood Frequency Analysis in Data-sparse Regions. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-1278
Pooja Patle, Ashutosh Sharma, Singh, P. K., Ahmad, I., Matsuno, Y., Leh, M., & Ghosh, S. (2023). Assessment of Water Consumption Pattern & Agricultural Production using Water accounting Plus (WA+) Framework: A case study of Mahi River basin; EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-2510
Akriti Singh, Vijaykumar Bejagam, and Ashutosh Sharma (2023). Examining the role of groundwater in the spatio-temporal variation of Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency in India. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-1618
Tapobeeva Sahoo, Vijaykumar Bejagam, and Ashutosh Sharma (2023). Assessment of compound extremes using statistical methods in India. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-2305
Vijaykumar Bejagam, and Ashutosh Sharma (2023) “Characterization of ecohydrological indicators (EHIs) at multi-spatial scales in India.” National conference on "Land-atmosphere interactions controlling weather & climate: Applications of numerical models and observations (LAI-2023)", 09-12 January 2023, held at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
Akriti Singh, Vijaykumar Bejagam, and Ashutosh Sharma (2022) “Role of groundwater in spatiotemporal variations of Water Use Efficiency in India." 9th International Ground Water Conference (IGWC) 2022, 02-04 November 2022.
Vijaykumar Bejagam and Ashutosh Sharma (2022). “Quantification of impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem net primary productivity in India using residual trend (RESTREND) analysis”, AsiaFlux 2022 Conference, 22-24 September 2022.
Ashutosh Sharma, Vijaykumar Bejagam and A.K. Singh (2021). “Streamflow prediction using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model across 55 hydrologically-distinct watersheds in India.” AGU fall meeting 2021, 13-17 December 2021.
Ashutosh Sharma, Vijaykumar Bejagam (2021). “Impact of Climatic Changes and Anthropogenic Activities on Ecosystem's Net Primary Productivity in India during 2001-2019.” Second International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World 2021, 5 – 6 October 2021.
Vishwakarma, A.; Bejagam, V; Sharma, A; “A review on the influence of droughts on Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services (ES)”, International Conference on Ecosystem Restoration for Resilience and Sustainability: Living with nature (2021) (World environment Day- Launch of UN decade for Ecosystem Restoration), June 5th- June 7th, 2021.
Hinge, G., & Sharma, A. (2021). Comparison of wavelet and machine learning methods for regional drought prediction (No. EGU21-218). Copernicus Meetings.
Sharma, A., & Shen, C. (2020, December). Improving multi-month streamflow forecast in CONUS using Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
Liu, J., Sharma, A., Tsai, W. P., Ma, K., Feng, D., Lawson, K., & Shen, C. (2020, December). Automated deep-learning-based soil moisture planning and forecast system for planning against natural disasters. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
Ashutosh Sharma, Manish Kumar Goyal and Arup Kumar Sarma (2018) “Comparative assessment of ecosystem resilience to droughts in two large scale river basins in India”, AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Session: H51K: Drought: Dynamics, Impacts, Resilience, and Mitigation I Posters, Washington DC, US. 10-14 Dec 2018.
Ashutosh Sharma, Manish Kumar Goyal and Arup Kumar Sarma (2018) “Remote sensing-based assessment of terrestrial ecosystem resilience to droughts in India”. Midwest Big Data Hub Digital Agriculture All Hands meeting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 21 September 2018.
Manish Kumar Goyal and Ashutosh Sharma (2017) “Wavelet transform based trend analysis for drought variability over 566 stations in India”. 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (Panta Rhei), European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Athens, Greece, 5-9 July 2017.
Ashutosh Sharma, Manas Khan, and Manish Kumar Goyal (2017) “Assessment of the impact of changes in climate and land use / land cover on ecosystem services of a river watershed in Peninsular India”. In: Book of Abstracts of the Sixth International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning & Economics (CEMEPE). Thessaloniki, Greece, 159. Edited by: A. Kungolos, C. Laspidou, K. Aravossis, P. Samaras, K.W. Schramm, and G. Marnellos.
Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Ashutosh Sharma, Katherine Werner, Juan-Carlos Chacon, Gerald Corzo, Manish-Kumar Goyal (2017) “Hydrocentric view of agro-ecosystem resiliency to extreme hydrometeorological and climate events in the High Plains, US”. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Vol. 19, Pages 11865. 2017.
Manish Kumar Goyal and Ashutosh Sharma (2017) “Assessment of the ecosystem resilience in an urbanized river basin in India”. ASCE India Conference 2017 on Urbanization Challenges in Emerging Economies: Moving Towards Resilient Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure, 12-14 Dec 2017.
Ashutosh Sharma and Manish Kumar Goyal (2016) “Modelling rainfall prediction using Bayesian approach with interstation dependencies.” In the proceedings of Sixth IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), Chandigarh.
Ashutosh Sharma and Manish Kumar Goyal (2015) “Bayesian network model for monthly rainfall forecast.” In the proceedings of 2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), Kolkata, India, 241–246. IEEE.

S.N.	Topic	Event/Organizer	Date
1	Assessment of ecosystem resilience to drought conditions in India	Faculty Development Program, organized by Oriental Institute of Science and Technology, Bhopal	June 20, 2020
2	Climate Change and its Impacts	Training program on “Emerging Trends in Civil Engineering" under TEQIP-III organized by Rajkiya Engineering College (REC), Azamgarh	March 17, 2021
3	Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in Indian Himalayas: What we know and future directions	Panel Discussion on "Breaking Silos: Future of water research for Himalayas” during Natural-hazard Symposium for the Indian Himalayas (NISH), IIT Roorkee	October 26, 2021
4	Analyzing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change: Working with Climate Model data	Training program on “Fluvial Disasters and Strategies in Risk Reduction" organized by IIT Jammu and NIDM	October 28, 2021
5	Resilience of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Droughts in India	Training program on “Water security for resilience to deal with disasters and outbreaks”, organized by National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee	November 03, 2020
6	Climate Change Impacts on Hydrological Systems and Terrestrial Ecosystems	Department of Civil Engineering, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), Shimla	January 22, 2022
7	Understanding the interactions between water, climate and ecosystems	Society of Young Agriculture and Hydrology Scholar of India (SYAHI)	February 05, 2022
8	Overview of Experimental Facilities and Hydrometeorological Observatory	Short-term program on Soil Pollutants Impact Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sites at Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee	March 11, 2022
9	Ecosystem functioning and responses to hydroclimatic extremes	ISRO funded two-week training program on Emerging Space Technology Applications for Compound eXtremes (STAC-X 2022) at the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee	May 13, 2022
10	Training on Hydrometeorology Observatory	STUTI workshop on Hands-on Training Program on Tools and Techniques of Experimental Hydrology, at the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee	May 24, 2022
11	Applications of Machine Learning in Water Resources	APN funded PRAJAL training program on ‘Approaches for management of Groundwater Quantity and Quality with a special focus on Managed Aquifer Recharge’ at the Department of Water Resources Development and Management, IIT Roorkee	June 10, 2022
12	Applications of Machine Learning in Water Management	IGSTC funded Indo-German workshop on “Securing sustainable treatment for drinking water production and water recycling with focus on anionic contaminants (SuWaRec)”, organized by TUHH, Germany and IIT Roorkee at TUHH	July 22, 2022
13	Increasing Climatic Extremes and Flood Risk in India (Application of Machine Learning in Flood Risk Mapping)	International Conference on Systems Analysis for Enabling Integrated Policy Making, organized by TIFAC and IIASA at New Delhi	August 12, 2022
14	Introduction to Downscaling Techniques (Statistical and Dynamical)	1-week training program on “Climate Change and Hydrological Impact Assessment” organized at NIH, Roorkee	December 14, 2022
15	Trend Analysis of Hydroclimatic Data	5-day training course on ‘Hydro-Meteorological and Climate Data Analysis: Basic and Advanced Techniques (HyMCBAT-2023)’ at NIH Roorkee	February 27, 2023
16	Overview of Methods of Data Collection, Processing and Analysis in Hydrology	Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Aspects of Research Methodology at Guru Gobind Singh College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik	March 01, 2023
17	Hydro-meteorological Data Collection, Processing and Analysis	Short Term Training Program on ‘Hydrological Analysis and Planning for the Hydro and Thermal Power Projects’, sponsored by NTPC, at Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee	March 14, 2023
18	Introduction to Ecohydrology and Ecohydrological Processes	Training Program on Ecohydrology during March 27th–31st, 2023, sponsored by the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Programme (e-ITEC), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.	March 27, 2023
19	Resilience of terrestrial ecosystems to hydroclimatic disturbances	Brainstorming Workshop under IMPRINT 2 on Climate Resilient Agricultural Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar	April 8, 2023

TOPIC	START DATE	FIELD	DESCRIPTION	FINANCIAL OUTLAY	FUNDING AGENCY	OTHER OFFICERS
Leveraging NCMRWF Weather Forecasts for Enhanced Streamflow Forecasting with Deep Learning	01 Jun 2025	Hydrological forecasting		Rs. 1.19 Cr.	Monsoon Mission III, MoES, IIT Indore, IIT Bombay, NCMRWF, India
REgional cooperation for FReshwater Ecosystem Services in Himalayas (REFRESH)	01 Oct 2022	Ecosystem Services in Himalayas		USD 92,000	Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, IIT Indore, NIH Roorkee, IIT Mandi, Nepal Engineering College, Royal University of Bhutan, Japan
Probabilistic floods and sediment transport forecasting in the Himalayas during the extreme events (Indo-Italy Joint project)	01 Jun 2022	Hydrology of Himalayas		Rs. 34 lac	DST, CNR-IRPI, Italy, Italy	Prof. Sumit Sen (PI)
Improving primary healthcare for patients with non-communicable diseases during severe flooding in India	01 Apr 2025	Flood impacts		Rs. 1.03 Cr	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), United Kingdom (UK), University of Birmingham, United Kingdom	Prof. Brijesh Yadav
Understanding the Interactions between Hydroclimatic Extremes and Terrestrial Ecosystems in Indian Western Himalayas	21 Nov 2021	Western Himalayas	Understanding the Interactions between Hydroclimatic Extremes and Terrestrial Ecosystems in Indian Western Himalayas	20 lac	SRIC, IIT Roorkee
AI4Water (Advanced Data-Driven and Artificial Intelligence Tools in Water Resources) Workshop	01 May 2024	Workshop		5 lacs	SERB	Prof. Ankit Agarwal (Co-PI)
Improving Hydrologic Predictions of Extreme Events using Machine Learning in India	01 May 2021	India		15 lac	Microsoft AI for Earth (AI4Earth) Grants	Prof. Basant Yadav (Co-PI)
Hydrological and Hydraulic studies of river Tarnah using software for delineation of Gair Mumkin Khad of village Kore Qusba	01 Dec 2023	Flood mapping		5.9 lacs	One - For - All Consultancy Services	Prof. Ankit Agarwal (Co-PI)
Study on Assessment of Impact of Climate Change on West Seti and SR-6 Hydro Electric Projects	01 Jul 2023	Climate change		39.5 lacs	NHPC Ltd.	Prof. Brijesh Yadav (PI), Prof. Ankit Agarwal (Co-PI), Prof. Sumit Sen (Co-PI)