Water Resources Civil Engineering

SUBRAMANIA (SRI) I. SRITHARAN Ph.D., M. ASCE. P.E.

Dayton, OH 45440 (937) -239 1231 (Mobile) ;**********@*****.***

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JOB OBJECTIVE – SENIOR WATER RESOURCES MAMANGEMENT POSITION WITH A FOCUS ON HYDRAULICS, IRRIGATION, DRAINAGE, ENERGY, & SUSTAINABILITY

An international expert with extensive experience in 3 different continents with experience in research, practice, education & training, administration, and technology development in the field of water resources management.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL:

Surface Hydraulics - Physical and computer modeling of steady and unsteady flow in channels and pipes; control of hydraulic transients in open channels; applications of transient control for irrigation canal systems; erosion and sedimentation, vortex flow at hydraulic intakes; convection and diffusion of contaminants; hydraulic structures; wetland hydraulics; application of hydraulics to irrigation

Sub-surface Hydraulics - Flow interaction between surface and subsurface flows under saturated and unsaturated conditions, field scale studies of convection and diffusion parameters under saturated and unsaturated conditions; applications of subsurface hydraulics to irrigation and drainage.

Water Resources Systems Management and Analysis- Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Water Management; Optimal design of water resources system design, operation and management, Computer Aided Decision Making in Water Resources Systems Analysis, Remote Sensing Applications in water and environmental systems.

Hydrology (deterministic and stochastic) - Evaporation processes, rainfall-runoff correlation in watersheds, wetland hydrology.

Irrigation and Drainage – Hydraulic applications in irrigation and drainage; System design, operation and management; Design of optimal links for on-farm and main system operation and management; Computer aided design and management (CAD) and management of irrigation systems; Rehabilitation planning and design of irrigation systems; Interdisciplinary agricultural systems studies; Environmental impacts of irrigation and drainage; Irrigated Agricultural Development; Soil and Water Conservation.

Remote Sensing Applications for Water and Environmental Management – Estimation of regional scale evapotranspiration using remote sensing; Ground truthing experimental design for remote sensing algorithms; Thermal flux estimation; Biospheric -atmospheric interactions.

Hydropower - Conventional hydropower planning stage designs; hydraulic turbine selection, setting and reservoir component systems design; instream hydro-kinetic technologies; power development from low dams; environmental assessment of hydropower systems.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

Ph. D, Hydraulics and Water Resources Program, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

M.S., Hydraulics Program, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

B.S., Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ceylon, with Honors.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Professional Engineer, Ohio (Registration Number - E 56988)

Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

PROFESSIONAL RECORD SUMMARY

October 2016- December 2023

Associate Director for Research, CSU Land Grant Program and Professor of Water Resources Management, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH 45384

January 89 – August 1997

Assistant- Full Professor, International Center for Water Resources Management,

Central State University, Wilberforce, OH 45384

September 1985 - December 1988

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

April 1984 - August 1985

Research Engineer, Water Management Synthesis Project

Department of Civil Engineering,

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Actively engaged in numerous areas of environmental engineering and water resources management. Has served as the Associate Editor Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Have Participated in in numerous advisory committees.

HONORS

America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals 2002-2003

Who's Who Among America's Teachers and Who's Who in Science and Engineering

Sigma -Xi, The Scientific Honor Society

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Climate Change Impacts on Irrigated Agriculture and Hydropower; Water and environmental management; Instream Hydro turbines for Low Dams; Modeling of environmental engineering systems; Global changes in Rainfall-Runoff processes.

SELECTED PROJECTS

WASTE WATER SYSTEMS

Review of Equalization Basin System design

Review of the design of equalization basins including the pump selection for Upper Mill Creek Water Reclamation Facility (UMCWRF) Equalization System in Butler County, Ohio. Continued residential and commercial developments in the sewer service area and upstream trunk sewer improvements will increase flows for the plant to manage, driving the operational need for additional flow equalization (EQ) storage capacity to help contain wastewater flows during wet weather in the 16MGD plant.

Smart Water System For Wastewater Collection And Distribution

Development of a Smart Water System (SWS) using advanced techniques for distribution and wastewater collection modeling across Montgomery County in Ohio.. The Montgomery County Environmental Services (MCES) will be able employ the developed system and tools to assure a state-of-the-art system for wastewater collection and treatment that would meet futuristic standards at optimal cost.

HYDROLOGY /WATER QUALITY

Ecosystem Sustainment of the Appalachian Forest Regions under Natural Gas Exploration in Ohio - The project aims at Sustainable exploration of natural gas production in Ohio through

optimization of energy production, provision of ecosystem services through maintaining forest

health, and maintaining agriculture production.

Carbondale Wetland and Monitoring Regulation Project -Project aimed at finding mechanisms of iron removal and improving design standards for cattail wetlands constructed to treat acid mine drainage by monitoring an abandoned wetland in forested area of Southeastern Ohio. Work involved studying the hydraulics/hydrology of the acid mine drainage from abandoned mines, measuring water quality, soil and plant parameters and the analysis of the data. Project resulted in a new formula for sizing wetlands to treat acid-mine drainage.

Optimal Agronomic Practices to Reduce Nutrient Loading In Ohio’s Water Bodies -The major goal of this effort is to develop an overall strategy for reducing nutrients that lead to harmful consequences for humans and aquatic life in the water bodies of Ohio, considering the different sectors of the State economy, agricultural in particular. Recommendations for farmers in the Upper Little Miami River in Ohio using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that will incorporate a variety of data sets with input from farmers, agronomists, hydrologists, water quality experts, agricultural economists, and others.

Modeling The Effects of Nutrient Loading From The Contributing Streams On The Growth Of Cyanobacteria In Lake Erie – investigated the key issue of nutrient loading from the Maumee river contributing to Microcystis sp. algal blooms along the Maumee Bay shoreline of Lake Erie. The study involves modeling (using the US EPA WASP water quality model) the hydrodynamics of Lake Erie in the Maumee Bay region, modeling the fate and transport of nitrogen, phosphorus, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll and decoupling of hydrodynamics and transport models resulting in the prediction of algal bloom concentrations (2007-2008).

Monitoring Agricultural Sewage Sludge, OH- Phase II - Project involved developing a GIS based sludge database for the Greene County Ohio permitted fields. Cataloguing these sites across several regions in the State of Ohio to study the epidemiological effects of sludge application on agricultural fields and possible soil and water contamination with heavy metals

Applied Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration. This is a $3 million multi- university, multi-agency effort aiming at applying remote sensing technologies for the estimation of evapotranspiration from irrigated areas and from riparian vegetation in the Lower Colorado River Region.

Water Quality Database Management System for the Upper Little Miami River Basins- This research involved developing an integrated data base management system for water quality determination studies for Total Maximum Daily Load determination.

Ascertaining Non-Point Source Pollution Loads in TMDL Determination Using Remote Sensing – A Case Study of Upper Little Miami River. Studied determining appropriate methodologies for assessing non-point source pollution from watersheds as applied to Upper Little Miami River in Ohio. The methodologies include using remote sensing technology as well. Comparison of pollution amounts from agricultural watersheds and wastewater treatment plans is being attempted combining remotely sensed data and watershed modeling using WMS software.

Dewatering, Remediation, and Evaluation of Dredged Sediments. Funded by US EPA. As a researcher in the project studied bare soil evaporation that would enable us to study the impact of soil moisture evaporation from dredged sediments and evapotranspiration from test areas under phyto-remediation. We were trying to build an integrated soil evaporation model that would include thermal processes in the soil-moisture transport under evaporative conditions.

High Performance Computer Applications in Hydrology

Using the USDA’s Computer Model KINEROS peak flows of runoff and sediment were correlated with watershed parameters using different storm patterns.

Equations for peak runoff and time to peak were developed for general use by analyzing different watersheds of extents in the range of 250-750 square miles. The model is useful in tracking the after-effects of storms in watersheds by satellite imagery.

HYDRAULICS

Integrated Power Hydraulic Power Production Module (HPPM) – This research aims at developing a cross flow turbine adaptable for use in unpowered small dams in the Mid-West to develop power in the range of 350 kW – 1.5 MW. Physical model development, testing and preliminary validation of the technology has been completed under this research project, funded by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Currently we are working on developing a 35KW prototype.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Biospheric - Atmospheric Interactions

Work at the Biospheric Sciences Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Engaged in adapting the Sib2 Model which is a sub-component of Global Circulation Model (GCM) for predicting evapotranspiration and yield performance from agricultural areas using satellite data as changes in GCM patterns evolve due to climate change.

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Books and Book Chapters:

Water Use and Stream-Aquifer-Phreatophyte Interaction Along a Tamarisk-Dominated Segment of the Lower Colorado River”, Saleh Taghvaeian, Christopher M.U. Neale, John Osterberg, Subramania I. Sritharan,and Doyle R. Watts, in Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle, Geophysical Monograph 206. First Edition. Edited by Venkat Lakshmi.

© 2015 American Geophysical Union. Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc pp-95-113.(To appear)

Chapter 10 - Application of GIS in Evaluating the Potential Impacts of Land Application of Biosolids on Human Health, Kevin P. Czajkowski, April Ames, Bhuiyan Alam, Sheryl Milz, Robert Vincent, Wendy McNulty, Timothy W. Ault, Michael Bisesi Brian Fink, Sadik Khuder, Teresa Benko, James Coss, David Czajkowski, Subramania Sritharan, Krishnakumar Nedunuri, Stanislov Nikolov, Jason Witter, and Alison in Geospatial Technologies in Environmental Management, Geotechnologies and the Environment 3, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9525-1,Spongberg Springer Science Business Media B.V. 2010.

Recent Publications

“Estimating Completely Remote Sensing-Based Evapotranspiration for Salt Cedar (Tamarix ramosissima), in the Southwestern United States, Using Machine Learning Algorithms”, Sumantra Chatterjee, Ramanitharan Kandiah, Doyle Watts, Subramania Sritharan, and John Osterberg 4, Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 5021. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15205021

“Long-term Changes in Hydrology at Wayne Forest at Appalachian Foothills in Southeast Ohio”, Ramanitharan Kandiah, Jayshan Lundy, and Subramania Sritharan. World Environmental & Water Resources Congress. Henderson, NV. May 21–24, 2023

“Assessing the Hydrological Impacts from the Fragmentation of Forested watersheds experiencing significant Oil and Gas (O&G) Exploration”, Krishna Kumar V. Nedunuri, Ramanitharan Kandiah, Xiaofang Wei, Ning Zhang, Subramania I. Sritharan. 2021 ASCE/ EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress. Milwaukee, WI. (Virtual) May 23–26, 2021 (Oral)

“Hydrology-Environment-Cost Index for Hydraulic Fracturing: A Competitive study in Ohio, California and Texas”, Ramanitharan Kandiah, Gilbert Robinson, Krishna Kumar Nedunuri and Subramania Sritharan. 2019 ASCE/ EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress. Pittsburgh, PA. May 19–23, 2019 (Oral)

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