Venkatesh Merwade

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

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

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!

Please check out our new article, led by @_ankitghanghas in the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, that addresses the current limitations of hydraulic design at confluences. This approach is more general and applicable for the entire contiguous US. doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF…

It is super exciting to see that the videos that I created for Purdue students have reached more than 1M views! It is very rewarding when I meet these learners. Recently I was very touched when a student came to my hotel in Lima, Peru, to thank me with a souvenir!

Happy to share our vision for River Morphology Information System (RIMORPHIS) through our recent article in Environmental Modelling and Software! What started more than 20 years ago for my PhD thesis is slowly gaining traction! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new article led by Tianle Xu in the Journal of Hydrology: Regional studies looks at changes in event-based runoff coefficient in the Ohio River Basin. It is open access so please take a look and share! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…