Shraddhanand Shukla
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Washington
email: shrad@hydro.washington.edu
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Box 352700
Seattle, WA 98195-2700
web: http://www.hydro.washington.edu/shrad/
Education
University of Washington, Seattle
Sep 2006 - Present
PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Current GPA:3.58/4
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
July 2003 - June 2005
Master of Technology in Water Resources Development and Management, GPA: 9.14/10
Chandrashekhar Azad University of Agricultural and Technology, Kanpur, India
July 1999 - May 2003
Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering, GPA: 7.86/10.00
Research experience
Using NOAA Climate Forecasts with Hydrologic Assessment to reduce Drought Vulnerability and improve
Water management in Washington State Funded by NOAA-SARP
Sep 2006 - Present
PIs: Dr. A. C. Steinemann and Dr. A. W. Wood, University of Washington
- Involved in development of the Hydrological Monitoring and Prediction System for Washington State at 1/8
and 1/16
th
deg resolution (http://www.hydro.washington.edu/forecast/sarp/,
http://www.hydro.washington.edu/forecast/new_sarp/). Currently working on development of the hydrological
model based drought indices.
COMMON Sense project (Community-Oriented Management and Monitoring of Natural Resources through sensor
network) www.commonsense.epfl.ch
Oct 2005 - June 2006
Project Head: Prof. A. Mermoud, ISTE- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Modelling Sediment Transportation in Furrow Irrigation. (Master’s Thesis)
June 2004 - May2005
Project Guide: Prof. N. S. Raghuwanshi. Department of Ag.& FE- Indian Institute of Techonolgy- Kharagpur (India)
Design and Economical Analysis of Different Water conveyance Systems. (Bachelor’s Thesis)
Jan 2004 - Jun 2004
Project Guide: Dr. Mohd. Gufran, Er. Anil Kumar Sahu. Chandrashekhar Azad university of Ag. And Tech., Kanpur
(India)
Summer Training
Watershed management and Artificial Groundwater Recharge
June 2002
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering-Bhopal (India)
Farm Machinery and Power
July 2001
Central Farm Power Training and Testing Institute-Budani (India)
Academic Honors and Scholarship Awarded
Federal Commission Scholarship by Swiss Government for pursuing nine month research work in EPFL.
Ministry of Human Resources and Development Scholarship for pursuing post-graduate study in Indian Institute
of Technology.
Achieved 98.31 percentile with all India rank-10 in the Graduate Aptitude Test for Enginnering-2003 common
entrance test conducted by all seven Indian Institute of Technology for post-graduation studies.
Computer Skills
Programming: C, Visual Basic, Perl, html
Tools: MATLAB, ArcInfo and ArcGis
Publications
S. Shukla, M. Damodhara Rao, R. Singh, N.S. Raghuwanshi, G.H. Schmitz, F. Lennartz. 2005. Modeling Temporal
Variation of Soil Erosion in Furrow Irrigation. Proceedings of International Symposium on Recent Advances in
Water Resources Development and Management held at IIT-Roorkee.
V. Mishra, N. S. Raghuwanshi, S. Shukla, G. H. Schmitz. 2005. Regional Flood Frequency Analysis of Freiberger
Mulde Catchment by L-Moments.Proceedings of International Symposium on Recent Advances in Water
Resources Development and Management held at IIT-Roorkee
V. Mishra, N.S. Raghuwanshi, S. Shukla, J. Cullmann, G.H. Schmitz. 2006. Understanding runoff generation
process through scaling of flood peaks. International Conference in University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
S. Shukla, M. Damodhara Rao, N.S. Raghuwanshi, R. Singh 2006. A simple mathematical model for simulating
water flow in furrow irrigation. International Conference in University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Poster Presented
Wood, A., A. Steinemann, D. Alexander and S. Shukla, Fall AGU Meeting (San Francisco), Dec-2006.
Applications of Medium Range To Seasonal/Interannual Climate Forecasts For Water Resources Management In
the Yakima River Basin of Washington State
S. Shukla, and D. Alexander, Annual Review of Research of The Water Center, 2007. Applications of Medium
Range To Seasonal/Interannual Climate Forecasts For Water Resources Management In the Yakima River Basin of
Washington State
S. Shukla, D. Alexander, Wood, A., and A. Steinemann, The Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop,
2007, Applications of Medium Range To Seasonal/Interannual Climate Forecasts For Water Resources
Management In the Yakima River Basin of Washington State