Nivedha Elango

As a master's graduate in integrated water resource management from Anna University (India), sustainable solutions to water management projects have always been of great interest to me. My master’s thesis focussed on adaptation strategies to climate change by performing a statistical analysis. I have also worked on several spatial analysis exercises during my entire tenure with a special focus on watershed delineation, land uses land cover analysis and river basin management.

In addition to the academic knowledge, I had undergone an internship with Hand In Hand, a non-profit organization, where I had a great experience exploring the GIS tools and also relating it to the field by undergoing projects such as well inventory studies, upper watershed restoration, morphometric analysis of the drainage pattern, rainwater harvesting at the watershed scale. The major deliverable was to achieve effective water resources management at the watershed scale.

2021-2022 Junior Innovation Project Engineer, Hydroscan, Belgium Hydroscan, Belgium

• Real-time flood forecast modeling.
• Pre-processing input data in GIS.
• Simulation of the model using python scripts and post-processing.

• Exploring the vulnerability of the natural habitat and coastal biodiversity of the east 

• Publication: Ecosystem-based disaster management planning for the eastern coast of India. 

• Presented as a speaker in several webinars on water and wastewater management, disaster risk reduction

• Supporting three different teams (Sustainable development goal 6, Agenda 2030 
  1. Assistant Professor  Anna University, India

Platform in Irrigated Agriculture, Water change makers) at Global Water Partnership.

• Civil Engineering department - theory and laboratory sessions.
• Involved in department research activities, working on a proposal - Investigation of Soil characteristics and Water quality of Adyar River shed, South Urban Chennai due to the Flood 2015.

• Ecosystem Services: A Method for Sustainable Development, University of Geneva, April 2020
• Programming for Everybody (Basics of Python): University of Michigan, April 2020
• Ecology: Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, May 2020
• Large Marine Ecosystem: Assessment and Management, University of Cape Town, June 2020
• Introduction to Probability and Data with R programming, Duke University, April 2021