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About Dr Manish K Nema

Dr Nema is a water resources engineer and currently serves as a Scientist-E in the Water Resources Systems Division of the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand (INDIA). He has a rich experience of 19+ years in R&D with specialization in the field of water resources. He has also handled various other technical and administrative responsibilities independently. He is leading the functions as the Head of Maintenance Division and the Nodal Officer of Training Cell of the institute. In his previous assignment, he has also served as Scientist-In-Charge of the Western Himalayan Regional Centre of NIH at Jammu. 

An engineering graduate in B. Tech. from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishva Vidyalaya (JNKVV), Jabalpur (MP), a postgraduate in M Tech from GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar, (UK), and has been awarded a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (UK). His area of expertise is Hydrologic Modelling with a focus on Impact studies of Climate change, Experimental Hydrology, Estimation of Evapotranspiration, Water Audits, Application of advanced tools such as Artificial Neural Networks, Remote Sensing and GIS, etc. 

Right from his school days, he has been recognized and rewarded in different competitive categories. He was a Recipient of the Gramin Pratibha Scholarship (6-8th standard) and National Scholarship (9-12th standard). He also received an MHRD fellowship (now Ministry of Education, MoE) from the Government of India for post-graduation studies.

Recipient of the Best Paper Award for his paper -“Agricultural Water Footprint: A Way Forward for Water Conservation and Management” which was presented at the International Conference Water Environment, Energy & Society-2016 (ICWEES-2016) during March 15-18, 2016 at AISECT University, Bhopal and for article published in Annual Technical Volume II (2015-2016) of Civil Engineering Division Board of Institution of Engineers. He is a member of the Editorial Board of NIH's Hindi technical magazine "Jal Chetana".

His areas of professional consultancy include Water availability studies, carrying capacity studies, power potential studies, etc. He is a life member of a few professional water societies, like IAH, ISRS, etc. He has been involved in more than 20 consultancy, sponsored research projects, and guided 10 M Tech theses. Published more than 65 papers in peer-reviewed International/National journals, International/National conferences and 12 technical reports. Dr Nema has published more than 21 technical articles in Hindi. He has organized 15 training courses for the researchers, faculty members and water resources practising engineers. Dr Nema visited the United Kingdom and Indonesia for scientific works.