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​Nandita Basu
Professor & Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Waterloo

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @nanditabasu2
Office: Engineering 2 (E2) 2327

Research in our lab revolves around an interest in understanding and modeling the hydrology and biogeochemistry of human-impacted systems in the Anthropocene.

The Basu Lab at Waterloo is a diverse group of researchers utilizing tools from environmental science, engineering and the social sciences to explore water-related issues integral to the functioning of human-impacted systems. 

As part of our research, we ask the following types of questions:
  • What can we learn from existing datasets?
  • What are the emergent patterns in watershed hydrologic and biogeochemical responses across spatial and temporal scales?
  • Why do these patterns emerge?
  • What are the underlying processes that contribute to these patterns?
  • Can we develop parsimonious models that capture the dominant processes in watershed responses?
  • How do humans interact with the landscape to modify these patterns in space and time?

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Recent Team News

April 15 - 19, 2024 - Nandita and Julie traveled to EGU24 in Vienna, Austria. Julie was awarded the Jim Dooge Award for her outstanding paper at the general assembly. Congrats, Julie! Learn more about the award here. 

December 11 - 15, 2023 - Members of Basu Lab travelled to AGU23 Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

November 21, 2023 -  A water quality portal workshop was hosted to launch POSEIDON, a portal for AI assisted water quality datasets, with project partners. 

September 28 and 29, 2023 - Members of Basu Lab participated in the second annual Solutionscapes team meeting. Learn more about the meeting here. 

September 13, 2023 - It was announced that Nandita won two prestigious AGU awards: the Hydrology Section's Witherspoon Lecture and the Union-level Joanne Simpson Medal for Mid-Career Scientists! Congrats, Nandita!

May 19, 2023 – Tyler Hampton successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'Forested Watersheds and Water Supply: Exploring Effects of Wildfires, Silviculture, and Climate Change on Downstream Waters'. Congrats Tyler!

May 15-17, 2023 - Basu Lab traveled to Saskatoon, SK for the Global Water Futures Annual Science Meeting. 

May 9, 2023 - Nandita presented 'Nutrient legacies: the critical role of the subsurface in addressing surface water pollution' at IAGLR 2023, the annual conference on Great Lakes Research.
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