aditi bhaskar

I am a Ph.D. candidate at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in the Environmental Engineering program within the department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering (CBEE). My graduate advisor is Dr. Claire Welty. I was an IGERT trainee at the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE). I graduated with an Sc.B. in Environmental Geology-Physics/Math from Brown University in 2008.

• Bhaskar, A.S., J.W. Harvey, and E.J. Henry. 2012. Resolving hyporheic and groundwater components of streambed waterflux using heat as a tracer, Water Resources Research, 48, W08524, doi: 10.1029/2011WR011784. This project was started during my IGERT internship in Fall 2010 at the USGS in Reston, VA, in collaboration with Judson Harvey (USGS) and Eric Henry (UNCW).
• Bhaskar, A.S. and C. Welty. 2012. Water Balances along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient of Metropolitan Baltimore, 2001-2009. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience. 18(1), 37-50. doi: 10.2113/​gseegeosci.18.1.37.  
  
• Bhaskar, A.S. 2010. Getting Started with ParFlow: Dead Run, Baltimore, Maryland Example. UMBC/CUERE Technical Report 2010/002. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD. There is a short addendum for ParFlow.CLM.
•  Land Cover Variability and Water Resources in Spring Valley, Nevada
• Senior Undergraduate Thesis Research at Brown University. 2008. Advisor: Dr. John Mustard. 
• Abstract: Spring Valley in Eastern Nevada is part of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Groundwater Development Project. Tens of thousands of acre-ft of groundwater per year will be pumped out of Spring Valley for use in Las Vegas Valley. Understanding the pumping’s impacts on Spring Valley ecosystem goods and services is important for rational water management. This project seeks to contribute to a scientific understanding of vegetation in Spring Valley for potential use in informing vegetation monitoring. This work defines baseline vegetation abundance and variability as indicated by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from Landsat data of June 1991, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2007. A vegetation response classification was created where the sensitive classes are identified. Vegetation greenness over these 5 years, as indicated by NDVI, does not correlate either with precipitation or groundwater variability. Large changes in the water table could trigger changes in NDVI which are easily flagged, and thus remotely sensed data could be an important tool to monitor potential future vegetation changes in Spring Valley.
  
• I owe a great deal to my early research mentors:
  
• Dr. Shing Fung at NASA GSFC
• The Relationship Between Outer Radiation Belt Psi Database Variables
• My senior research project (SRP) during summer 2003, part of the Montgomery Blair  High School Magnet curriculum.
  
• Dr. Brian Savage and the late Dr. Paul Silver at CIW-DTM
• Bhaskar, A., B. Savage, and P. Silver. 2005. Crustal Structure Beneath the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Yunnan Province Using Teleseismic Data, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2005, Eos Trans., AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, vol. 86 (52), A1282.
• Dr. Rosanna Neupauer at CU-Boulder
• Neupauer, R.M., J.L. Wilson, and A.S. Bhaskar. 2009. Forward and backward temporal probability distributions of sorbing solutes in groundwater, Water Resour. Res., 45, W01420, doi:10.1029/2008WR007058.
  

               

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