Applied Hydrology

Dr. Biswajit Mukhopadhyay is a licensed professional engineer and certified floodplain manager with expertise in hydrology, hydraulics, and water resources engineering and management. He has over three decades of experience in working on solutions to real-world problems iin hydrology all over the world, from Alaska to Auckland, and China to Chile. He is one of the first 100 recipients of the Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) Board Certification conferred by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has authored over fifty technical articles in international journals, over 100 engineering reports, and presented key findings and critical observations at local, regional, national, and international conferences and seminars. He taught surface water hydrology, groundwater hydrology, and open channel hydraulics classes at the University of Texas at Arlington and Southern Methodist University. He regularly teaches professional development classes focusing on hydrology and hydraulics at his current place of work. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dr. Vijay P. Singh is a Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and the inaugural holder of the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has published extensively in the areas of hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, water quality, water resources, entropy theory, and copula theory with more than 1490 journal articles; 37 books; 85 edited reference books; 122 book chapters; and 330 conference papers. He has received more than 110 national and international awards, including the Norman Medal, the Chow Award, the Torrens Award, the Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award, the Outstanding Projects and Leader (OPAL) Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Roy C. Tipton Award (all from theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers); the Hancor Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers; the Merriam Improved Irrigation Award from the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage; the Linsley Award, the Wetzel Award, and the Founders Award from the American Institute of Hydrology; the Crystal Drop Award and the Chow Memorial Award from the International Water Resources Association; the Outstanding Scientist Award from Sigma Xi; the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Chinese Academy of Science; the Distinguished Professor Award from the Mexican Academy of Science; and the Professor Gajendra Singh Gold Medal for Education from the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers. He has served as President of the American Institute of Hydrology; President of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers; President of International Association for Water, Environment, Energy, and Society; and Chair of the Watershed Council of American Society of Civil Engineers. He has served as editor-in-chief for five journals and two book series and has served on editorial boards of more than 40 journals and three boo