Vishal is a hydrologist and environmental modeler with eight years of experience in water resources, forest conservation and micro-hydropower for rural development.

With SEI's Water and Sanitation Group in Davis, Vishal is working on the impacts of climate change on California's water supply. His expertise includes forest ecosystem sciences, distributed hydrological modeling, and the use of several open-source and commercial geographic information systems.

His recent work includes modeling of a 100-year monthly dataset of reference evapotranspiration for all of India; studying the impacts of land-use change on water resources and forest ecosystems; and modeling stream flow and runoff source areas in headwaters of the New York City watersheds.

Vishal received his Ph.D. in Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University, Ithaca in 2007.

Publications

• Irrigation demand and supply, given projections of climate and land-use change, in Yolo County, California (Journal article - 2013)

• Social Ecology of Domestic Water Use in Bangalore (Journal article - 2013)

• Scenario-based water resources planning for utilities in the Lake Victoria region (Journal article - 2013)

• Simulating High Elevation Hydropower with Regional Climate Warming in the West Slope Sierra Nevada (Journal - 2013)

• Water in a Low-Carbon Economy: Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Business in a Finite World (Policy brief) (Policy brief - 2012)

• Water for Electricity: Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Business in a Finite World (Project report - 2012)

• Technology Innovation and Policy: A Case Study of the California ZEV Mandate (Book chapter - 2012)

• Integrated water-energy-emissions analysis: Applying LEAP and WEAP together in California (Policy brief - 2012)

• Potential impacts on hydrology and hydropower production under climate warming of the Sierra Nevada (Journal article - 2011)

• Modifying agricultural water management to adapt to climate change in California's central valley (Journal article - 2011)

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Projects

• Quito Vulnerability Study

  
  

• Energy, emissions and water: Bottom-up inventory, mitigation and adaptation options for agriculture in Yolo county, California

  
  

• Urban Metabolic Mapping: Securing the Biophysical Foundation of Indian Cities

  
  

• Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) V1 - Targeting and Scaling Out in the Volta Basin

  
  

• Google Earth applications in support of Climate Change Adaptation

  
  

• Agricultural Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in California

  
  

• Updating the California Water Plan

  
  

• Policy Guidance on Forest-Related Trade and Investment and Its Environmental and Social Impacts