Nandita Basu

Nandita Basu
Alma mater	Purdue University (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology (MS), Jadavpur University (BTech)
Scientific career
Fields	Water sustainability and ecohydrology
Institutions	Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo
Website	http://nanditabasu.weebly.com/

Nandita Basu is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology at the University of Waterloo. ^{[1] [2]}

Early life and education

Basu earned her Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1997, Master of Technology in Environmental Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2001, and PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 2006.

Career and research

Basu is a professor and a Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She was previously a professor at the University of Iowa. She also runs the Basu Lab at the University of Waterloo, where she and her diverse research group discover innovative solutions to water sustainability challenges by studying patterns in landscape, hydrology, and biochemistry and the role humans play in changing such patterns. ^[3]

Basu is known for her research on how, through altered land use and changing climate, humans impact water availability and quality, specifically through agricultural practices such as the use of fertilizers and intensive livestock production. Much of her work is centered on finding solutions to the water sustainability challenges these impacts pose. Basu's expertise lies in contaminant fate and transport, watershed biogeochemistry, ecosystem restoration, human impacts on the environment, and water resources sustainability. ^[3]  She is recognized for her work on discovering the impacts of nutrient legacies on water quality and her proposed solutions to improving the water quality of lakes and coastal zones. ^[4]

Awards and honors

• Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2023)
• Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
• 2014 Ontario Early Researcher Award ^[5]
• 2010 CUAHSI Young Career Fellowship ^[3]
• 2009 Gordon Research Conference Travel Award ^{[3] [6]}
• 2005-06 Ludwig Kruhe Fellowship at Purdue University ^[7]
• 2005 Bossler Environmental Grant at Purdue University ^[3]
• 2003 Joseph P. Chu Fellowship at Purdue University ^[8]
• 2001-2003 Andrews Fellowship at Purdue University ^[9]

Publications

Select publications from Basu and her group are below. For a more complete list of publications, see Basu's Google Scholar profile. ^[10]

• The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world. 2010. Water Resources Research. ^[11]
• Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity. 2012. Geophysical Research Letters. ^[12]
• Geographically isolated wetlands are important biogeochemical reactors on the landscape. 2015 Bioscience. ^[13]

References

1. "Nandita B. Basu /PhD, University of Waterloo, Waterloo - UWaterloo: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering". ResearchGate. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
2. "Pollution reduction work can take decades to see results". CBC.ca. Canada: CBC.ca. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
3. "Nandita Basu". Earth and Environmental Sciences. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
4. "Press Release | The RSC presents the Class of 2019 | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
5. "Welcome - Ontario Data Catalogue". www.ontario.ca. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
6. "Gordon Research Conferences". www.grc.org. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
7. "Ludwig Kruhe Fellowship". Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
8. "Recruitment Fellowships - The Graduate School - Purdue University". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
9. "Recruitment Fellowships - The Graduate School - Purdue University". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
10. "Nandita B Basu - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
11. Wagener, Thorsten; Sivapalan, Murugesu; Troch, Peter A.; McGlynn, Brian L.; Harman, Ciaran J.; Gupta, Hoshin V.; Kumar, Praveen; Rao, P. Suresh C.; Basu, Nandita B.; Wilson, Jennifer S. (2010). "The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world". Water Resources Research. 46 (5): W05301. Bibcode:2010WRR....46.5301W. doi:10.1029/2009WR008906. ISSN   1944-7973. S2CID   7385644.
12. Basu, Nandita B.; Destouni, Georgia; Jawitz, James W.; Thompson, Sally E.; Loukinova, Natalia V.; Darracq, Amélie; Zanardo, Stefano; Yaeger, Mary; Sivapalan, Murugesu; Rinaldo, Andrea; Rao, P. Suresh C. (2010). "Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity". Geophysical Research Letters. 37 (23): n/a. Bibcode:2010GeoRL..3723404B. doi:10.1029/2010GL045168. hdl: 10161/5114 . ISSN   1944-8007. S2CID   53529686.
13. Marton, John M.; Creed, Irena F.; Lewis, David B.; Lane, Charles R.; Basu, Nandita B.; Cohen, Matthew J.; Craft, Christopher B. (1 April 2015). "Geographically Isolated Wetlands are Important Biogeochemical Reactors on the Landscape". BioScience. 65 (4): 408–418. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv009 . ISSN   0006-3568.