Tanni Sarker, Ph.D. - Professional Experience

Job Title: Deputy Field Director / Environmental Engineering Consultant September 2024 – Present

Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water (https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/drinking-water/)

Global urban environmental and socioeconomic sustainability (GUESS) Lab (https://sites.google.com/view/peileifan/home?authuser=0)

Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA

Bureau of Water Supply Planning

St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida, USA

Representative Projects
Utilize Python, R, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcMap for data wrangling, calculations, spatial, and statistical analyses on water use data, and making maps.
Assist in developing and maintaining methodologies for water demand and population projections, both tabularly and spatially.
Prepared annual water use data and reports from scratch and prepared story maps. Please see attached link (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ecdf034a0c0643a59738645f078a6f11)
Prepared a detailed residential irrigation well geodatabase with documentation and technical memorandum.
Collaborated with other divisions for apportionment analysis and prepared a workflow in ModelBuilder and R to automate the East Central Florida Transient Expanded Model (ECFTX) scenario.
Participate in Regional Water Supply Planning efforts such as: Developing data and coordinating with Suwannee River staff for the North Florida Regional Water Supply Partnership.
Assisting planning staff members with consumptive use permitting reviews. Coordinates with regulatory staff, external consultants, and public Supply Utilities to modify or renew permits and plans.
Performed QA/QC and provided coding assistance that included thoroughly reviewing the code, addressing and fixing any identified bugs, and ensuring its functionality for further analysis.
Developed a methodology of Population model for use in regional water supply planning using ArcPy.

Center for Global Change and Earth Observation (CGCEO)

East Lansing, Michigan State University

Projects worked in

Divergent Local Responses to Globalization: Urbanization, Land Transition, and Environmental Changes in Southeast Asia (SEAGUL) – funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Data-driven approaches to unravel the complex interactions between humans and the environment.
Analyzed spatiotemporal patterns of urban sprawl and urbanization-induced environmental stresses by using remote sensing and statistical techniques.
Utilize quantitative research to inform policy recommendations for land use and land cover.
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice.
Developing new methods for classifying urban built-up land area on the Google Earth Engine platform.
Socio-economic and environmental data preparation from satellite observation and field measurements.
Assisted in proposal figure preparation.

Environmental Justice & Public Health: Climate, Land, & (Health) Outcome of Dengue Fever (CLOUD) – funded by NASA.

Performed maintenance, data curation, and processing of global dengue trends and driver analysis using statistical techniques.
Suitability maps of Aides aegypti -- the main mosquito species that transmits dengue fever, across Peru for 2011–2020

Report for the State of Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).

Assisted in making maps to understand the characteristics of community water systems.
Developed environmental justice index for CWS in MI combined with demographic factors.

COVID-19, Economic Vitality, and Environmental Impact: Global Synthesis & Urban Perspective – funded by MSU

Examined the co-evolved interrelationships between key human forces and COVID-19 severity at a global scale using remote sensing and global data sources using R and ArcGIS (Publication available)

Human health and causes across the physical-social landscapes in Michigan cities.

Assisted in health and socio-environmental data collection and ran the model using R.

Arctic PIRE: Promoting Urban Sustainability in the Arctic

George Washington University

Washington DC

Assisted in collecting data for developing an Arctic Urban Sustainability Index.
Facilitated process review workshops with research fellows.

Civil Engineering Department, City University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Facilitated Undergraduate Courses
Fluid Mechanics, Hydrology, Water Supply Engineering, Environmental Engineering-II

Satteliteborne Geoinformation Analysis Laboratory

Kumoh National Institute of Technology

Gumi-Si, South Korea

Develop land use models to predict land cover change and its environmental impacts.

Water Resources Division, Centre of Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)

Assisted in preparing environmental impact assessment report
Assisted in performance evaluation of urban drainage system using a stormwater management tool (SWMM)