Instructors / Facilitators for this Course
The Panel of Instructors & Facilitators
Your instructors all have significant experience in research and education on hydrologic topics.
The panel of Instructors & Facilitators
Your instructors all have significant experience in research and education on hydrologic topics.
Instructors on our panel for this course from India are:
Mr N K Mathur is 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.
Mr Dattakumar Chaskar, Chief Engineer & head, National Water Academy, 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. Since then he has worked in various Organisations of CWC in the capacity of Assistant Director/Deputy Director/Director/Chief Engineer. He has more than 34 years of experience in different areas of water sector. For more details pl. visit https://www.nwapune.gov.in/Faculty.jsp
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.
Mr. Asheesh Kumar Singhal, Director, National Water Academy, Central Water Commission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India & Course Director for this Course completed his B. E. in Civil Engineering with Honours from M.B.M. Engineering College (Now M. B. M. University), Jodhpur in the year 2007.
He joined Central Water Engineering (Group 'A' ) Services of Central Water Commission as Assistant Director in 2011. Before joining CWC, he worked in Engineers India Ltd. (A Public Sector & leading Engineering Consultancy and Project Management Company).
During his 17 years professional service, he gained the experience in multi discipline fields like Contract Management, Construction, Hydrological Observations, Flood Forecast, Project Monitoring, Administration, Establishment, Finance, Accounts and Coordination etc. For more details pl. visit https://www.nwapune.gov.in/Faculty.jsp
Mr Ankit Dudeja, Director, National Water Academy, Central Water Commission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India completed his M.Tech in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 2011.
After a short teaching experience as Civil Engineering Faculty at RGUKT (IIIT-Basara), AP for 8 months, he joined Central Water Engineering (Group-A) Services in March 2012.
During his 13 years of professional service he has served in Hydrological Studies Organisation for about 7 years dealing with Hydrological aspects of Planning, Designing and Management of WR projects (Project Hydrology). Thereafter he served in Guwahati Assam for 3 years looking after Physical & Financial Monitoring of ongoing WR projects and Techno-Economical Appraisal of proposed WR projects. Before joining NWA he worked as Executive Engineer for past 3 years. He has been dealing with aspects of Hydrological Observation, Flood Forecasting, Water Quality Assessment, Administration, Establishment, Finance, Accounts, etc. For more details pl. visit https://www.nwapune.gov.in/Faculty.jsp
Facilitators for this course from WMO include:
Silvana Alcoz is a Scientific Officer in charge of the Hydrological Forecasting Unit and Capacity Development. She is part of the Hydrological and Water Resources Division (HWR) , Hydrology, Water, and Cryoshphere Branch, Service Department.
Nirina Ravalitera works as Scientific Officer in the Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere Branch within WMO Services Department. Nirina has been facilitating distance learning courses in hydrology for more than 10 years. He is also providing training and coordinating the activities on the Meteorology, Climatology and Hydrology database (MCH) management system.
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.
Instructor/Facilitator consulting with the WMO:
Matthew Kelsch was Hydrometeorologist from 1998-2022 at UCAR's COMET Program in Boulder, CO, USA. He is currently a consultant for the WMO in areas of meteorology, climate, and hydrology.