Navigating the Nexus: Hydrology, Agriculture, Pollution and Climate Change (導航交匯點：水文、農業、污染與氣候變遷)

本書涵蓋了最新資訊以及未來方向，針對從事環境科學、水資源工程和農業科學研究的學者。《Navigating the Nexus: Hydrology, Agriculture, Pollution, and Climate Change》專注於水資源、農業和環境領域的主題。本書探討了建模方法的進展，包括機器學習（Machine Learning, ML）/人工智慧（Artificial Intelligence, AI）應用；地理資訊系統（GIS）和遙感技術；以及感測器，以提供在持續的氣候危機中，水文、農業和環境的解決方案。

Dr. Aliva Nanda is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India. She had three years of research experience at Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California, Merced, USA. Her research expertise includes understanding runoff generation mechanisms, pathways, and thresholds at micro- to macro-scale and eco-hydrological processes of the forested mountainous catchments. She also works in the research domain of disturbance hydrology and eco-hydrological processes. Dr. Nanda has a Ph.D. in Hydrology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. During her Ph.D., she has done extensive field studies to understand the hydrological processes of the Himalayan landscapes. Her master's and bachelor's degrees are in Irrigation and Drainage Engineering and Agricultural Engineering, respectively. She also received the University Gold Medal and Governor's Award for her outstanding academic performance during her undergraduate and postgraduation studies. Besides these, Dr. Nanda bagged many accolades and travel fellowships, i.e., Lloyd V. Berkner Travel Fellowship, American Geophysical Union (AGU) student travel grant, Japan Geophysics Union (JpGU) student travel grant, AGU early-career travel grant, and many other academic awards till date. She has an amazing publication record with papers in highly reputed high-impact international journals and international conferences.

Dr. Pankaj K. Gupta is a Ramanujan fellow, upholding one of the honored scientific positions ​at the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Delhi, India. As a Ramanujan fellow, he has undertaken an exceptional project "Engineered Microbiome (E-Microbiome)", a unique combination of microbiology, hydrogeology, and chemical sciences for restoration of polluted sites, funded by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Govt. of India. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. After having completed his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, he has been a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the co-founder of the Society of Young Agriculture and Hydrology Scholars of India (SYAHI) and is also an editorial member of Frontiers in Water Journal, Biochar, and Carbon research. etc. He has also edited several books entitled "Decontamination of Subsurface Water Resources System using Contemporary Technologies (Elsevier)", "Agri-Tech Approaches for Nutrients and Irrigation Water Management (CRC Press)", "Integrated Waste Management Trends, Policies, and Perspectives (CRC Press)", "Soil-Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Exploring Linkages (Springer)", "Advances in remediation techniques for polluted soils and groundwater (Elsevier)", "Fate and transport of subsurface pollutants" (Springer). Dr. Gupta holds his in-depth experience of incorporating novel technologies to map soil-water systems of 30+ sites in India. Dr. Gupta is passionate about interdisciplinary research and teaching to understand multi-scale interactions between different components of the subsurface environment, especially the soil- groundwater-pollutant-microbes system.

Dr. Vivek Gupta is an Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, India. Before joining IIT Mandi, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California Merced in the USA and a researcher at the International Water Management Institute in New Delhi, India. Dr. Gupta holds a Ph.D. in Hydrology from IIT Roorkee and an M.Tech. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Water Resources Engineering and Management from IIT Guwahati. He has published over 30 research articles, including 16 international peer-reviewed journal articles in highly respected journals, three book chapters and one edited book. His research interests include climate change impact assessment, droughts, climate extremes, development of early warning and climate information systems, hydrological modeling, and flood and drought prediction using numerical and data-based modeling.

Dr. Prakash Kumar Jha is an Assistant Professor of Agriculture Climatology at Mississippi State University. He works in the field of crop modeling, geospatial science, agricultural Physics, climate and environmental sciences. He has PhD in Crop and Soil sciences from Michigan State University, USA. He serves as secretary of Global Indian Scientist and Technocrat Forum USA. He is founding member of Society of Agricultural and Hydrology Scholars of India. He is chair of global agronomy community and early career community of American society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America.

Dr. Swatantra Kumar Dubey holds an M.Sc. (Tech) in Environmental Science and Technology from Banaras Hindu University, India, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Central University of Rajasthan, India. He has held research and academic positions at several leading institutions, including NEERI, IARI (New Delhi), Sikkim University, and IISER Bhopal. He is a Senior Specialist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Varanasi, India, and worked as a Research Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul.

Dr. Dubey has published 20 research papers in reputed national and international journals and contributed four chapters to academic books. He is also a lifetime member of the Indian Meteorological Society. He has developed expertise in a wide range of environmental modeling and geospatial software, including ArcGIS, SWAT, HEC-HMS, AquaCrop, CROPWAT, ET Calculator, ERDAS Imagine, LARS-WG5, Climate Data Operator (CDO), and NetCDF. His research interests focus on water quality, water resources management, hydrological modeling, crop modeling, crop water requirements, and climate change adaptation.

Dr. Aliva Nanda目前在印度理工學院曼迪校區的土木與環境工程學院擔任助理教授。她曾在美國加州大學默塞德分校的西耶拉內華達研究所擁有三年的研究經驗。她的研究專長包括理解微觀到宏觀尺度的徑流生成機制、途徑和閾值，以及森林山區的生態水文過程。她還從事擾動水文學和生態水文過程的研究領域。Nanda博士擁有印度理工學院魯爾基校區的水文學博士學位。在攻讀博士學位期間，她進行了廣泛的實地研究，以了解喜馬拉雅地區的水文過程。她的碩士和學士學位分別為灌溉與排水工程和農業工程。她在本科和研究生學習期間因卓越的學業表現獲得了大學金獎和總督獎。此外，Nanda博士還獲得了許多榮譽和旅行獎學金，包括Lloyd V. Berkner旅行獎學金、美國地球物理聯合會（AGU）學生旅行補助、日本地球物理聯合會（JpGU）學生旅行補助、AGU早期職業旅行補助以及其他多項學術獎項。她擁有卓越的出版紀錄，發表了多篇在高影響力國際期刊和國際會議上的論文。

Dr. Pankaj K. Gupta是印度理工學院（I.I.T.）德里的Ramanujan研究員，擔任著榮譽的科學職位。作為Ramanujan研究員，他承擔了一個卓越的項目「工程微生物群（E-Microbiome）」，這是一個結合微生物學、水文地質學和化學科學的獨特項目，旨在修復污染地點，該項目由印度政府的Anusandhan國家研究基金會（ANRF）資助。他同時也是加拿大滑鐵盧大學的兼任助理教授。在完成IIT魯爾基的博士學位後，他曾在加拿大滑鐵盧大學擔任博士後研究員。他是印度青年農業與水文學學者協會（SYAHI）的共同創始人，並且是《Frontiers in Water Journal》、《Biochar》和《Carbon research》等期刊的編輯成員。他還編輯了多本書籍，包括《使用當代技術去污地下水資源系統（Elsevier）》、《農業技術方法在養分和灌溉水管理中的應用（CRC Press）》、《綜合廢物管理趨勢、政策與展望（CRC Press）》、《土壤-水、農業與氣候變化：探索聯繫（Springer）》、《污染土壤和地下水的修復技術進展（Elsevier）》、《地下污染物的命運與運輸（Springer）》。Gupta博士在將新技術應用於印度30多個地點的土壤-水系統映射方面擁有豐富的經驗。他對跨學科研究和教學充滿熱情，旨在理解地下環境中不同組件之間的多尺度相互作用，特別是土壤-地下水-污染物-微生物系統。

Dr. Vivek Gupta是印度喜馬偕爾邦印度理工學院曼迪校區土木與環境工程學院的助理教授。在加入IIT曼迪之前，他曾是美國加州大學默塞德分校的博士後學者，以及印度新德里的國際水管理研究所的研究員。Gupta博士擁有IIT魯爾基的水文學博士學位，以及IIT古瓦哈提的土木工程碩士學位，專攻水資源工程與管理。他已發表超過30篇研究文章，包括16篇在高度受尊重的國際期刊上經過同行評審的期刊文章、三篇書章和一本編輯書籍。他的研究興趣包括氣候變化。