Publications:

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2025) "Increasing cumulative impacts of droughts under climate change does not alter the ecosystem resilience in India." Earth's Future , 13,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005888 (IF - 8.2)

• Singh, A., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2024) "Investigating the role of groundwater in Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency in India considering irrigation, climate and land use."  Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 27, 10163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2024.101363 (IF: 5.6)

• Bejagam, V., Sharma, A., and Wei, A. (2024) "Projected decline in the strength of vegetation carbon sequestration under climate change in India." Science of the Total Environment, 916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170166   (IF: 8.0)

• Bejagam, V., Singh, A., and Sharma, A. (2023) "Spatiotemporal variability and controlling factors of ecosystem water use efficiency in India." Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 152, 813–827. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-023-04418-z (IF: 2.7)

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2022) "Remote sensing-based multi-scale characterization of ecohydrological indicators (EHIs) in India." Ecological Engineering,  187,106841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106841. (IF: 4.1)

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2022) "Impact of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem net primary productivity in India during 2001–2019." Ecological Informatics,  70, 101732. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ECOINF.2022.101732. (IF: 7.3)

• Bejagam, V., Keesara, V. R., and Sridhar, V. (2022). “Impacts of climate change on water provisional services in Tungabhadra basin using InVEST Model.” River Research and Applications, 38(1),94-106. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3891. (IF: 1.9)

• Mangukiya, N.K., Kanneganti B.K.,  Dey, P., Sharma, S.,  Bejagam, V., Mujumdar, P.P., and Sharm A. (2025). CAMELS-IND: hydrometeorological time series and catchment attributes for 472 catchments in Peninsular India. Earth System Science Data https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-379

• Under Review:

• Bejagam, V., Sharma, A., and Wei, A. (2024) "A Holistic Multi-Dimensional Resilience Index for Assessing Ecosystem Functioning During Droughts in India."

• Sahoo, T., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2024) "Impact of compound hot-dry extremes on terrestrial ecosystem productivity in India." 

• Book Chapters:

• Sharma A., Bejagam V., and Goyal, M. K. (2022). “Remote Sensing Applications in Drought Monitoring and Prediction.” Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Disasters (part of the Disaster Resilience and Green Growth book series (DRGG)) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-0725-8_5.  

• Conferences:

• Bejagam, V., and Keesara, V. R. (2019). “Applicability and Sensitivity Analysis of InVEST Water Yield Model for Tungabhadra River Basin.” HYDRO 2019–International Conference on “Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering”,18-20 December 2019, Osmania university, vol-2, 1892-1897.

• Vishwakarma, A., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2021). “A review on the influence of droughts on Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services (ES).” International Conference on Ecosystem Restoration for Resilience and Sustainability: Living with nature (2021) (World environment Day- Launch of UN decade for Ecosystem Restoration), June 5th- June 7th, 2021.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2021). “Impact of Climatic Changes and Anthropogenic Activities on Ecosystem's NPP in India.” Second International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World 2021, 5 – 6 October 2021.

• Sharma, A., Bejagam, V., and Singh, A.K. (2021). “Streamflow prediction using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model across 55 hydrologically-distinct watersheds in India.” AGU fall meeting 2021, 13-17 December 2021.

• Bejagam, V., Singh, A., and Sharma, A. (2021). “Spatiotemporal variability and controlling factors of ecosystem water use efficiency in India” Roorkee Water Conclave 2022, 02-04 March 2022.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2022). “Quantification of impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem net primary productivity in India using residual trend (RESTREND) analysis.”AsiaFlux 2022 Conference, 22-24 September 2022.

• Singh, A., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2022).  “Role of groundwater in spatio-temporal variations of Water Use Efficiency in India." 9th International Ground Water Conference (IGWC) 2022, 02-04 November 2022.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). “Characterization of ecohydrological indicators (EHIs) at multi-spatial scales in india.” National conference on "Land-atmosphere interactions controlling weather & climate: Applications of numerical models and observations (LAI-2023)" 09-12 January 2023.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). “Impact of Climatic Changes and Anthropogenic Activities on Ecosystem's NPP in India.” PRAVAAHA- 2023, 22 March 2023.

• Sahoo, T., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). "Assessment of Compound Extremes in India using Statistical Methods." PRAVAAHA- 2023, 22 March 2023.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). Characterization of ecohydrological indicators (EHIs) in India: a multi-scale perspective. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-340.

• Singh, A., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). Examining the role of groundwater in the spatiotemporal variation of Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency in India. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-1618.

• Sahoo, T., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). Assessment of compound extremes using statistical methods in India. EGU23. https://doi.org/10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-2305.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). Characteristics and Drivers of ecohydrological Indicators in the Indian Western Himalayas. Himalayan Freshwaters- REFRESH, 06 JUNE 2023. 

• Singh, A., Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A. (2023). Examining the role of groundwater in the spatio-temporal variation of ecosystem water use efficiency in India. Himalayan Freshwaters- REFRESH, 06 JUNE 2023. 

• Bejagam, V., Sharma, A., and Wei, A. (2024). Projected Decline in the Responses of Tropical Vegetation to CO2 Fertilization Effect in India. AGU fall meeting 2023, 11-15 December 2023.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A.(2024). How CMIP6 Earth System Models project the terrestrial ecosystem productivity in India? Roorkee Water Conclave 2024, 03-06 March 2024.

• Bejagam, V., Sharma, A., and Wei, A. (2024).  Projected decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation carbon sequestration in India. EGU24. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-4893.html

• Bejagam, V., Sharma, A., and Wei, X. (2024). “Assessing Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Responses to Droughts in India: Insights into Resistance, Recovery, and Resilience.” AGU Annual  meeting 2024, 9-13 December 2024.

• Bejagam, V., and Sharma, A., (2025). “Enhanced impact of droughts on ecosystem  functioning despite unchanged resilience under climate change.” EGU25. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-14696.html

Workshop/Training Attended:

• NICES 2022 workshop held at Antariksh Bhavan, New Delhi from July 18-19, 2022.

• "Introduction to Google Earth Engine (GEE) and its applications" organized by the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee (under Co-PREPARE project) on July 20, 2022.

• "Theories of CO2 and H2O flux measurements and operations for open- and closed-path eddy-covariance flux systems" held at Tropical Peat Research Institute (TROPI), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia from 20-21 September 2022.

• 2nd Natural Hazard Symposium for Indian Himalayas (NSIH 2022) themed "Global Change and Impacts in Mountains" held at Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee from 12-13 October 2022.

• "STAtistical Analysis and Modelling of Climate Extremes (STACE)" under Karyashala - SERB Accelerate Vigyan  held at Department of Hydrology, IIT Indore from 12-17 December 2022.

• "Eddy-Covariance Flux Theory and Instrumentation Training Courses" by Campbell Scientific India Pvt.Ltd at Dehradun from 9-10 February 2023.

Volunteering:

• Worked as a Placement Coordinator at NIT Warangal.

• Worked as a volunteer for Workshop on “Geospatial Technologies for Decision makers”, held at the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Warangal.

• Worked as a Volunteer for Initiation Workshop on “Integrated Water Management model for BIS Countries under Climate Change Scenarios”, held at the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Warangal.

• EcoHydrology Symposium themed "Relevance of ecohydrology concept in solving the current environmental issues, held at the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee from 28 February - 1 March 2022.

• Roorkee Water Conclave 2022,  held at IIT Roorkee from 2-4 March 2022.

• Emerging Space Technology Applications for Compound Extremes (STAC-X) 2022, held at the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee from 9-20 May 2022.

• International Ground Water Conference (IGWC) 2022,  held at Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee from 02-04 November 2022.

• Himalayan Freshwaters- Assessing the services and vulnerability of Freshwater ecosystems in the Himalayas (REFRESH), held at Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee on 06 June 2023.

• Roorkee Water Conclave 2024,  held at IIT Roorkee from 4-6 March 2024.