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

本書涵蓋了環境科學、水資源工程和農業科學領域研究者所需的最新資訊及未來方向。《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針對水文、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.

阿利瓦·南達博士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。南達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，以了解喜馬拉雅山地的水文過程。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，南達博士還獲得了許多獎項和旅行獎學金，包括洛伊德·V·伯克納旅行獎學金、美國地球物理聯合會（AGU）學生旅行獎、 日本地球物理聯合會（JpGU）學生旅行獎、AGU早期職業旅行獎以及其他多項學術獎項。她在高影響力的國際期刊和國際會議上發表了多篇論文，擁有卓越的出版紀錄。

潘卡吉·K·古普塔博士是印度理工學院（I.I.T.）德里的拉馬努詹獎學金得主，擔任該校的榮譽科學職位。作為拉馬努詹獎學金得主，他承擔了一個名為「工程微生物群（E-Microbiome）」的特殊項目，這是一個微生物學、水文地質學和化學科學的獨特結合，旨在修復污染地點，該項目由印度政府的安努桑丹國家研究基金會（ANRF）資助。他同時也是加拿大滑鐵盧大學的兼任助理教授。在完成印度理工學院魯爾基校區的博士學位後，他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《水前沿期刊》、《生物炭》和《碳研究》等期刊的編輯成員。他還編輯了幾本書籍，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、政策與觀點（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）》。古普塔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深入的經驗。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。

維韋克·古普塔博士是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。古普塔博士擁有印度理工學院魯爾基校區的水文學博士學位，以及印度理工學院古瓦哈提校區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影響評估、乾旱、氣候極端事件、早期預警和氣候信息系統的發展、水文建模，以及使用數值和數據驅動建模進行洪水和乾旱預測。

普拉卡什·庫馬爾·賈博士是密西西比州立大學的農業氣候學助理教授。他的研究領域包括作物建模、地理空間科學、農業物理學、氣候和環境科學。他在美國密西根州立大學獲得作物與土壤科學博士學位。他擔任美國全球印度科學家與技術專家論壇的秘書，並且是印度農業與水文學學者協會的創始成員。他是美國農藝學會和作物科學學會的全球農藝社區和早期職業社區的主席。

斯瓦坦特拉·庫馬爾·杜貝博士擁有印度瓦拉納西印度教大學的環境科學與技術碩士學位，以及印度拉賈斯坦中央大學的環境科學博士學位。他曾在多個領先機構擔任研究和學術職位，包括NEERI、IARI（新德里）、錫金大學和IISER博帕爾。他是印度國際稻米研究所（IRRI）在瓦拉納西的高級專家，並曾在首爾科技大學環境工程系擔任研究教授。

杜貝博士在國內外知名期刊上發表了20篇研究論文，並為學術書籍貢獻了四個章節。他還是印度氣象學會的終身會員。他在多種環境建模和地理空間軟體方面擁有專業知識，包括ArcGIS、SWAT、HEC-HMS、AquaCrop、CROPWAT、ET計算器、ERDAS Imagine、LARS-WG5、氣候數據操作員（CDO）和NetCDF。他的研究興趣集中在水質、水資源管理、水文建模、作物建模、作物水需求和氣候變化適應上。