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LUNA BHARATI
Head of IWMI-Nepal Office
Global Change, Water and Environment Group
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Luna Bharati has over 12 years of experience in projects related to natural resources and land and water management. Luna has a multidisciplinary background with a bachelors majoring in Biology (Ecology) and a minor in Economics, a Masters in Water Resources and a Doctorade from the Faculty of Agriculture focusing on surface hydrology, erosion and pollutant transport. Luna has worked in projects in Nepal, USA, Germany, India, Bangladesh, China, Ghana and Burkina Faso. She is currently Researcher in Hydrology and Water Resources at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). The key areas of her interests and expertise are in: Establishing and maintaining field observation networks for hydrological and meteorological monitoring, Field investigation and modeling of erosion and nutrient transport and the impacts on water quality (models used: AGNPS, Erosion 3D), Modeling the water balance of a catchment and the influence of climate and land use change using distributed watershed models (e.g. WaSim-ETH, SWAT, GeoSFM, WEAP), Developing integrated environmental and economic models for calculating optimal water use and allocation for decision support systems, Calculating environmental flow requirements in the context of basin water allocation strategies |
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This page was last updated on
Monday, March 28, 2011
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