Venkatesh Merwade

Welcome Fall 2025! I am delighted to welcome all my students in CE 549! it is great to see students who are taking classes with me since 2024! It usually takes me weeks to know all the students in my class, but this year I know all names and faces from Day 1!

Hi colleagues, we are only one week away from the abstract submission deadline for AGU 2025! If you are working on river morphology related data and/or tools, please consider submitting an abstract to this session. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prel…

Congratulations to Linji Wang for getting his first paper published on using Earth Observations for evaluating hydrologic models. The current version of tool works with SWAT. Many thanks to @adnan_hydro for helping bringing this tool/work to fruition! lnkd.in/gBBWNYf6

I am grateful to the Universities Council on Water Resources Education and Public Service Award! I joined academia primarily to pursue research, but as time passes I enjoy the teaching and education part of it more and more! tinyurl.com/ucr25

Today we celebrated No. 10 in my CE 44200 - Hydrology Class. Number 10 represents a critical milestone my HydrologyVideos YouTube channel has crossed. It now has more than 10K subscribers, 100 videos and 1 million views! So exciting!!

Hi all, I will be doing a webinar on May 22 on HEC-HMS modeling. It will also involve hands-on modeling experience. It is not free but you can get 50% off if you use the following code during registration: VM3JHP50 Here is the link to the webinar: halfmoonseminars.org/product/webina…

We are offering a virtual Mini-workshop on geospatial data processing using Python for Hydrology on April 15, at 1 PM US ET. US participants may be eligible for honorarium. Please see the flyer and the link below to submit your interest to join. lnkd.in/gWGyPKGg

Congratulations to Chung-Yuan Liang for defending his PhD thesis. He joined my research group during COVID and did great work on using deep learning for creating river bathymetry. I wish him all the best for his future endeavors!

Congratulations to Mingda Lu on getting his second paper published in JAWRA. This paper deals with enhancing reservoir performance for flood control through pre-release operations. It is open access so feel free to download and read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Last week was an incredible experience delivering @NSF CyberTraining at a community college in south Texas! We trained nearly 30 students on using data science, cloud computing, and AI to tackle real-world water and environmental challenges🌍 @vmmerwade @carolsongpu @PurdueCCE @utaresearch @mavengineering @PurdueRCAC #earthscience #AIforGood #STEM #geospatial #GIS #flood #drought #python #AI #datascience

Our latest paper, led by Pin-Ching Li, looks the the bias due to data splitting and covariate shift in prediction of streamflow using machine learning methods. It is available at the link below. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhyd…

Our new, slightly unconventional, article on community engagement for developing RIMORPHIS is now published in the Journal of American Water Resources Association. You may find it interesting! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

@KinarNicholas Thank you for recognizing our work!

Exciting start of the new semester with students in CE 44200 - Introduction to Hydrology!

Below is a list of posters/presentations from my research group and collaborators at AGU 24 Fall meeting! I will be at my poster from 9 AM -12 PM tomorrow (Tuesday)This list is also available at: web.ics.purdue.edu/~vmerwade/agu24 if you want to read the abstracts.

@m_saharia Congratulations!

Pleased to share that I will be receiving the Indian National Geospatial Award (INGA) 2024 by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) on Dec 11. This recognition, primarily from the ISRO Remote Sensing community, means a lot to me because when I joined IITD, my first project was funded under the Space Technology Cell (STC). We have developed and recently transferred v1 of the Indian Land Data Assimilation System (ILDAS) to ISRO SAC.

Congratulations to (Dr) Ankit Ghanghas @_ankitghanghas for defending his PhD thesis, which was about exploring global changes in precipitation extremes!

@WardHydro I see HGL and EGL on slides! I am also teaching hydraulics this semester!

Lectured as a banana today! Happy Halloween 🎃👻🍭

Happy Diwali from my CE 34000 Hydraulics Class in @PurdueCCE! All the students lit up our classroom and enjoyed sweets to celebrate the festival of lights!

This includes the work that our group is doing to map underwater river bathymetry using AI!