Jun 13 2024 to Jun 13 2024 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The summer monsoon is the primary source of rainfall in India. Year-to-year summer monsoon variability causes the deficit and surplus of rainfall during the monsoon season. The prolonged deficit can cause meteorological drought during the monsoon season, propagating to agricultural and hydrological droughts. Droughts pose tremendous challenges for water availability, agriculture, energy, and several other sectors, with profound implications for people’s socio-economic well-being. In this talk, Dr. Mishra will discuss some of the major droughts that occurred in the past and affected the Indus Valley Civilization, the flow of the Ganga River, and caused famines during the British era. He will also discuss some of the recent droughts and their impacts along with the impacts of climate change and whether anthropogenic climate change will make droughts more severe or not. Finally, Dr. Mishra will summarise the grand challenges associated with droughts and water availability in India in the context of building climate resilience.

A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Speaker

Vimal Mishra Professor, Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar

Dr. Vimal Mishra is currently a Vikram Sarabhai Chair professor in Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar. Prior to joining IIT Gandhinagar, he completed his PhD from Purdue University and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Mishra examines the role of climate and human interventions on water resources and hydrological extremes. His research work has been published in the leading journals including PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Geophysical Research Letters, and Water Resources Research. He received the Devendra Lal Memorial Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2021. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2022. He is currently serving as an editor of Earth’s Future and associate editor of Journal of Hydrology.