Honors and Awards

McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award (2022), Clemson University: It is placed on recognition of the preceding year’s accomplishments, distinctions, and awards within the context of the past three years.
Board of Trustees Award for Excellence (2019), Clemson University: To acknowledge faculty and staff whose vision, accomplishments, and efforts have brought honor to Clemson University.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award (2017): most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
University Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award (2018), Clemson University: To recognize the faculty whose work has been acknowledged at the highest levels nationally and internationally.
Invited to participate in an exclusive, high-level virtual roundtable discussion (2022), on the current critical infrastructure, climate change, and economic questions facing the United States. This event was attended by the speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
Examples of the research highlights during the past year

Publication in Nature communications (Impact factor: 17.71). (Graduate student is the lead author)

• It appeared as a ‘featured article’ by the Nature Communications editors for the year 2020

• It appeared as 2020 Top 50 Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Articles

Publication in Earth’s Future (Impact factor: 8.85). (Graduate student is the lead author)

• Highlighted by NSF news: (https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302847&org=NSF&from=news

• Appeared in NSF discovery files (https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=187489&from=)

• Highlighted by AGU in a press release: (https://news.agu.org/press-release/heat-stress-in-u-s-may-double-by-the-end-of-the-century/

Publication in Geophysical Research Letters [Impact Factor: 5.58]:

Highlighted by the Eos, Transactions of American Geophysical Union

(https://eos.org/articles/simultaneous-drought-and-heat-wave-events-are-becoming-more- common)

Research highlighted by 21 news outlets (https://nature.altmetric.com/details/84557505/news)
Appeared among the world’s top 2 % scientists based on two categories (Career and 2019 Yr), published by a team led by John Ioannidis from the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University (METRICS). (10th August 2020)
Elected to the Board of Directors of CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.). This election is voted by the CUAHSI members, which consist of more than 130 US universities and international organizations.
Invited by US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as one of the six committee members to conduct five-year retrospective review for the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s National Program 211 – Water Availability and Watershed Management. Clemson University is one of the four universities to get such invitation.
Research (project) was highlighted by USDA in a press release (17th May 2016). It was highlighted to demonstrate the type of critical research funded by USDA. “Clemson University is integrating remote sensing products and weather forecast information for farmers and growers to address the best products, increase agricultural drought indices, and develop an agricultural drought forecasting model to provide near real-time feedback.”
Best Forum Article for 2015, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE
Highly cited paper certificate, Journal of Hydrology; Journal of Hydrology is considered as one of the most respected journal worldwide in the field of water resources.
Received ‘Excellence in Research award for the year 2012’, BAEN department, Texas A&M University, College station, Texas.
Selected as a reviewer for the development of a guidance document for the evaluation of water monitoring networks for climate change adaptation (on behalf of the Water Monitoring and Climate Change Subgroup of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME).
Biographical profile was selected for inclusion in the 2011 editions of Marquis Who’s Who in America.
Biographical profile was selected for inclusion in the 2009 editions of Marquis Who’s Who in World.
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Texas A&M University.
Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University, Canada. (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Alberta Environment).
Institute fellowship awarded by IIT-Kharagpur for full time Ph.D programme.
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering), National Level Examination for pursuing Master of Engineering.

McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award (2022), Clemson University: It is placed on recognition of the preceding year’s accomplishments, distinctions, and awards within the context of the past three years.

Board of Trustees Award for Excellence (2019), Clemson University: To acknowledge faculty and staff whose vision, accomplishments, and efforts have brought honor to Clemson University.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award (2017): most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

University Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award (2018), Clemson University: To recognize the faculty whose work has been acknowledged at the highest levels nationally and internationally.

Examples of the research highlights during the past year

Publication in Nature communications (Impact factor: 17.71). (Graduate student is the lead author)

• It appeared as a ‘featured article’ by the Nature Communications editors for the year 2020

• It appeared as 2020 Top 50 Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Articles

Publication in Earth’s Future (Impact factor: 8.85). (Graduate student is the lead author)

• Highlighted by NSF news: (https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302847&org=NSF&from=news

• Appeared in NSF discovery files (https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=187489&from=)

• Highlighted by AGU in a press release: (https://news.agu.org/press-release/heat-stress-in-u-s-may-double-by-the-end-of-the-century/

Publication in Geophysical Research Letters [Impact Factor: 5.58]:

Highlighted by the Eos, Transactions of American Geophysical Union

(https://eos.org/articles/simultaneous-drought-and-heat-wave-events-are-becoming-more- common)

Research highlighted by 21 news outlets (https://nature.altmetric.com/details/84557505/news)

Appeared among the world’s top 2 % scientists based on two categories (Career and 2019 Yr), published by a team led by John Ioannidis from the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University (METRICS). (10th August 2020)

Elected to the Board of Directors of CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.). This election is voted by the CUAHSI members, which consist of more than 130 US universities and international organizations.

Best Forum Article for 2015, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE

Highly cited paper certificate, Journal of Hydrology; Journal of Hydrology is considered as one of the most respected journal worldwide in the field of water resources.

Received ‘Excellence in Research award for the year 2012’, BAEN department, Texas A&M University, College station, Texas.

Selected as a reviewer for the development of a guidance document for the evaluation of water monitoring networks for climate change adaptation (on behalf of the Water Monitoring and Climate Change Subgroup of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME).

Biographical profile was selected for inclusion in the 2011 editions of Marquis Who’s Who in America.

Biographical profile was selected for inclusion in the 2009 editions of Marquis Who’s Who in World.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Texas A&M University.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University, Canada. (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Alberta Environment).

Institute fellowship awarded by IIT-Kharagpur for full time Ph.D programme.

GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering), National Level Examination for pursuing Master of Engineering.