The Panel of Instructors & Facilitators

Your instructors all have significant experience in research and education on hydrologic topics.

 

Facilitators for this course from WMO include:

Claudio Caponi


 

Claudio Caponi is a Senior Scientific Officer in the Climate and Water Department of the World Meteorological Organization. Mr. Caponi holds a degree in hydrometeorological engineering from the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas and a degree in applied hydrology from the International Institute of Infrastructural Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands.

Mr. Caponi has held various positions in the fields of hydrology and the environment in his country, including that of Director of Hydrology and Meteorology, from 1989 to 1992, and that of Director General of Environmental Information from 1992 to 1996, in the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Venezuela. He has also worked as a private consultant and, in 1998, became director of a GTZ (Germany) funded project for the Sanitation of the River Tuy, in support to the then newly created River Basin Authority for River Tuy, the source of water supply for the city of Caracas.

In 1999 Mr. Caponi joined the WMO Secretariat, where he has been the officer responsible for HOMS, the system for technology transfer in hydrology and water resources of WMO. Recently he has been given the responsibility of coordinating all the capacity building activities of WMO in the area of hydrology and water resources.

  

Mustafa Adiguzel

 

     

Mustafa Adiguzel is Scientific Officer of the WMO Education and Training Office. Prior to joining the WMO in 2007, Mustafa worked for the Turkish State Meteorological Service for 24 years as Meteorological Technician, Engineer, Chief of Satellite Meteorology Division, Director of External Relations Division respectively; and finally he was Director of WMO Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Turkey and organized many international training events. Mustafa holds two MSc degrees one in Applied and Natural Sciences, and one in Electronic Engineering.

 

Nirina Ravalitera

 

Nirina is Scientific Officer, Climate and Water Department, World Meteorological Organization. He is facilitator for this course from WMO.

 

Contributors for this course from  COMET include :

Matt Kelsch



Matt Kelsch is a Hydrometeorologist with UCAR's COMET Program in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Observer for the U.S. Cooperative Climate Network. Coordinator for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Observing (CoCoRaHS) network.

Matt has a Master of Science degree in Meteorology. He has worked in the Boulder, Colorado hydrometeorological community since 1986, first at the U.S. NOAA laboratory, and then at the UCAR COMET facility since 1998. He has worked in areas of hydrometeorology, remote sensing of precipitation, flash floods, societal response to weather events, winter weather, climate variability, and local forecasting. He has been an avid weather observer since age 9, and is the official climate observer for Boulder in addition to coordinating precipitation reports from dozens of volunteer observers.

  

Thomas Hopson



Thomas Hopson is a hydrometeorologist who specializes in daily to seasonal forecasts of river discharges. He works on a pioneering flood forecasting program, first applied for Bangladesh, that delivers 1- to 10-day forecasts to residents living along major rivers, alerting them when river levels are likely to rise dangerously. The system, which uses a combination of weather forecast models, satellite observations, river gauges, and new hydrologic modeling techniques, is being applied to other countries. Hopson also works on verifying and, when necessary, calibrating the output from computer weather models. His area of interest include Conducting research in probabilistic river discharge forecasting, seasonal forecasts of water resources, statistical corrections to numerical weather prediction output, multi-model approaches, and verification measures for ensemble forecasting.

 

Instructors on our panel for this course from India are :

N K Mathur



He is a Former Member, Central Water Commission. Worked in Water Sector for more than 40 years. 36 years in "Central Water Commission" in the field of "Water Resources Development". Worked over a decade in Hydrology Study Organisation, dealing with Hydrology including Hydrometeorology for determining inputs for Project Planning and designing. Other Significant fields of work are Dam Safety and Instrumentation, Water Planning, Flood Management, WRD Project Planning, and Monitoring. He has been a mentor & guide to all the Indian faculty in this list.

 

Dattakumar Chaskar



Dattakumar Chaskar, Director, Central Water Commission is a postgraduate in "Design Engineering " from IIT, Mumbai, he joined the Central Water Engineering (Group 'A' ) Services of Central Water Commission as Assistant Director in 1991. 

In his professional career spanning about 29 years, he has worked in various organizations of Central Water Commission(CWC) and has  shouldered important  responsibilities in design, administration & coordination,  infrastructure & institutional development, training & capacity building, human resources management, hydrological and flood forecasting services, monitoring of irrigation projects, water resources management etc.  During his tenure at National water Academy, Pune, he conducted more than 100 training programs on various subjects, including Induction Training programs for newly appointed Assistant Directors.  He was instrumental in starting the national & international Distance Learning training programs  in collaboration with World Meteorological Organization. He is well versed in IT skills, particularly database management & web application development. At present, as Director, Monitoring & Appraisal Directorate, CWC at Pune, he is looking after the  Monitoring of irrigation projects.



Anup Kumar Srivastava



Anup Kumar Srivastava, Senior Joint Commissioner, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India did his M Tech from University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee). Sri Srivastava has done extensive works in the field of Hydrometry, Hydrology, Flood Forecasting, Irrigation Management, Water Planning and GIS Techniques.

He has gained wide expertise in various soft tools and their application in water resources sector, such as Surface Water Data Entry System (SWDES), HYMOS, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HEC-SSP, HEC-ResSIM, Watershed Modelling System (WMS), Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP), and CROPWAT.

He has authored a book on Application Guide for HYMOS Software. This apart, he developed Training modules for Distance Learning course on topics like Flood Frequency Analysis, Flood forecasting Techniques; Stage Discharge Management and Convolution of Rainfall into Runoff. He had also contributed earlier also as Instructor for Distance Learning training programs run by National Water Academy, Pune in collaboration with World Meteorological Organization.

 

N N Rai

              

Nitya Nand Rai is a graduate in Civil Engineering from KNIT, Sultanpur. He obtained his Masters in Hydrology from IIT, Roorkee. He is recipient of Merit Award of Central Water Commission and Vice Chancellor Gold Medal of Avadh University. He has over 26 years of experience with Central Water Commission and currently working as Director of Hydrology with focus of hydrological and hydrodynamic studies of River Valley Projects. Rai has carried out hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling for more than 300 river valley projects for Water availability study, Design Flood estimation, dam break studies, Glacial lake outburst flood studies, back water studies, reservoir sedimentation profile studies, surge analysis, reservoir and channel routing studies. He has been using appropriate techniques and models such as; HEC-HMS, HEC-GeoHMS, ARC-GIS, ILWIS, HEC-RAS, HEC-GeoRAS, HEC-RAS2D and MIKE11 software. He is one of the very few experts in India  who have evolved the methodology for Glacial Lake Outburst Flood estimation and carried out number of studies including a very detailed analysis of Uttarakhand flood of June 2013, J&K flood of September 2014, Kerala Flood of 2018, Flood storage estimate of Ganga and Brahmaputra basins. He made significant contribution in  Environmental flow estimation for proposed river valley projects in Siang, Subansiri and Himalayan Ganga sub basins using hydraulic rating cum habitat simulation techniques. He has delivered a number of lectures on hydrological, hydrodynamic and environmental flow modeling for CWC, IIT Rookee, NIH, NHPC, CBIP, NTPC and Water Resources Departments of State Governments. He has authored more than 33 technical papers in the field of hydrological and hydrodynamic studies, Environmental flow estimation  in journals, National and International Conferences.

 

S N Pande


S N Pande, Director, National Water Academy & Course Coordinator , completed his B. Tech in Civil Engineering from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. He attended M.E. ( Geotechnical Engineering) at University of Roorkee. He belongs to ESE 1993 batch of Central Water Engineering (Group ‘A’) Services. In his professional career in CWES, he has worked in various capacities in Central Water Commission and Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation. He has more than 26 years experience in different areas of water sector. 

 


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