Debanjali Saha, PhD

Assistant Professor with more than eight years of experience in contributing to academic research, course content development and administrative responsibilities. Enthusiastic professional with background in water resources engineering and specialization in hydrology, disaster management and assessment of climate change adaptation strategies. Driven to contribute to program outcomes by active leadership, facilitating engagement and supporting learning objectives through effective integration of technical and management perspectives. Organized and dependable candidate at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude with willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

• Hydrological modelling
• Agricultural water management
• Crop modelling
• Flood damage assessment and monitoring
• River hydrology and flow analysis
• Disaster management and vulnerability analysis
• Integrated water resources management
• Climate change adaptation
• Gender and water

• Worked as a co-investigator in an international collaborative project titled: ‘Research on Disaster Prevention/Mitigation against flood and Storm Surges in Bangladesh' funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)-Japan International Cooperation Agency-JICA (SATREPS) from September 2017 to March 2019.
• Worked as a co-investigator in an international collaborative project titled: ‘Deltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA)' project under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) program with financial support from the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada from March 2015 to October 2018.
• Worked as technical research personnel in a project titled ‘Landscape Salinity and Water Management for Improving Agricultural Productivity' jointly with Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), funded by FAO/IAEA from August 2015 to July 2017.

• Participated in the International Symposium of Ecohydraulics (ISE 2018) in Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan in 2018.
• Worked as Assistant Organizing Secretary in the ‘6th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2017)' held in Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), Dhaka in 2017.
• Participated in ‘4th DECCMA Consortium Workshop' of Deltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project in Southampton, United Kingdom in 2016.
• Worked as Assistant Course Coordinator in ‘5th Short Course on Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management' in Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, Dhaka in 2015.
• Participated in a review workshop of IDRC-SAWA Fellows on ‘Climate Change and Food Security' in Hyderabad, India in 2015
• Completed Regional South Asian Water (SAWA) Fellows Training on ‘Interdisciplinary Research: Concepts and Methodologies' in Dhaka in 2014.
• Completed Regional South Asian Water (SAWA) Fellows Training on ‘Integrated Water Resources Management' in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2013.
• Completed Internship in the Flood Management Division of Institute of Water Modeling (IWM), Dhaka in 2012.

AWARDS

• South Asian Water (SAWA) Fellowship funded by IDRC, Canada in M.Sc. in Water Resources Development during May 2013 – April 2015.
• Merit Scholarship funded by BUET, Bangladesh in B.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering in the year 2012.
• Technical Scholarship funded by the Board Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Dhaka, Bangladesh (From 2008-2012) in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) Examination in the year 2007.
• Junior Scholarship funded by the Board Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Dhaka, Bangladesh (From 2003-2004) in the year 2002.

Journal Article

• Saha, D. , Oki, K., Yoshida, K., Hanasaki, N. and Kamiya, H. "Impact of Paddy Field Reservoirs on Flood Management in a Large River Basin of Japan", Sustainability, Volume 15, Issue 8 (2023), (DOI: 10.3390/su15086604 ), pp. 6604. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6604
• Haque, S., Saha, D. and Mondal, M.S. (2019). “Improving Practice of Flood Shelter Implementation in Alluvial River Floodplain With Hydro-Morphological Analysis”, International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management (IJDREM), Volume 2, Issue 2 (2019), (DOI: 10.4018/IJDREM.2019070103), pp. 35-50. https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/article/240786#pnlRecommendationForm
• Uddin, M. N., Islam, A. S., Bala, S. K., Islam, G. T., Adhikary, S., Saha, D., Haque, S., Fahad, M. G. R. and Akter, R., (2019). “Mapping of climate vulnerability of the coastal region of Bangladesh using principal component analysis”, Applied Geography, Volume 102 (2019), (DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.12.011), pp.47-57. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622818302170
• Saha, D , Hossain, M. S. S., Mondal, M. S. and Rahman, R. (2016). “Agricultural Adaptation Practices in Coastal Bangladesh: Response to Climate Change Impacts”, Journal of Modern Science and Technology, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2016) (ISSN: 2201-6686), pp 63-74. http://www.jmstpapers.com/static/documents/September/2016/7.%20Debanjali.pdf
• Kibria, M. G., Saha, D. , Kabir, T., Naher, T., Maliha, S. and Mondal, M. S. (2015). “Achieving Food Security in Storm-surge Prone Coastal Polders of South-west Bangladesh”, South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS) Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2015), pp 26-43. http://www.sawasjournal.org/files/v5i12015/Sawas_Journal_final_8th_June.pdf

Book Chapter

• Leya, R. S., Saha, D., Bala, S. K. and Huq, H. (2020). “Gender Vulnerability Assessment due to Flood in Northern Part of Bangladesh (A Case Study on 2017 Flood)”, in Haque, A. Chowdhury, A. (eds.) Water, Flood Management and Water Security Under Changing Climate, Springer, Cham, (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47786-8_17, ISBN: 978-3-030-47786-8), pp. 235-249. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47786-8_17
• Hussain, M. S. S. and Saha, D. (2019). “Adaptation in the Coastal Regions of Bangladesh”, in Selim S. A., Furlong, B. T. and Ahmed, M. (eds) Resilience in Action: Challenges and Solutions to Climate Change in Bangladesh, The University Press Limited (UPL), pp. 27-40. http://www.uplbooks.com/book/resilience-action-challenges-and-solutions-climate-change-bangladesh
• Mondal, M. S., Islam, M. T., Saha, D., Hossain, M. S. S., Das, P. K. and Rahman, R., (2019). “Agricultural Adaptation Practices to Climate Change Impacts in Coastal Bangladesh”, in Huq S., Chow J., Fenton A., Stott C., Taub J., Wright H. (eds.) Confronting Climate Change in Bangladesh. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 28. Springer, Cham (2019), (DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05237-9_2, ISBN 978-3-030-05236-2), pp: 7-21. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-05237-9_2
• Saha, D., Hossain, M. A., Hossain, M. S. S., Mondal, M. S. and Rahman, R. (2017). “Adaptations to Climate Change in Bangladesh: Development of a National Inventory”, in Leal Filho, W. (ed.) Climate Change Research at Universities: Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges, Cham: Springer International Publishing (2017), (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58214-6_11, ISBN: 978-3-319-58213-9), pp. 175-189. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-58214-6_11

Conference Proceedings

• Hossain, M. S. S and Saha, D. (2017). “Major Infrastructural Adaptations in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh Considering Cyclone and Tidal Flood”, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM 2017), 4-5 March 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-34-2207-1), pp 285-294.
• Kibria, M. G., Khan, M. S. A. and Saha, D. (2016). “Local Adaptation Practices in Response to a Super Cyclone in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD 2016), 12~14 February 2016, KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-34-0265-3), pp 15-23.
• Saha, D. and Mondal, M. S. (2016). “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Sunflower Yield Using the AquaCrop Model”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD 2016), 12~14 February 2016, KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-34-0265-3), pp 457-468.
• Saha, D. and Mondal M. S. (2016). “Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Dry Season Crop Yields Using the AquaCrop Model”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD 2016), 4-6 February 2016, ULAB, Dhaka, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-34-1611-7), pp 373-388.
• Habib, M. A., Saha, D. and Mondal M. S. (2016). “An Assessment on the Perception Alteration of the Local People on the Conventional Land Use Pattern to Achieve Livelihood Sustainability”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD 2016), 4-6 February 2016, ULAB, Dhaka, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-34-1611-7), pp 410-420
• Saha, D. and Saiful, A.K.M. (2015). “Assessment of the Changes of Climate in Bangladesh Using Geo-spatial Interpolation of Climatic Variables”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change in relation to Water and Environment (I3CWE-2015), 9-11 April 2015, DUET, Gazipur, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-33-9066-0), pp 95-102.
• Saha, D. and Akhter, F. (2015). “Analysis of Severe Flood and Cyclone Events in Bangladesh Using Hazard Impact Coordinate System”, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2015), 6-7 March 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-33-8801-8), pp 111-118.
• Saha, D. and Mondal, M. S. (2015). “Simulation of Boro Rice Yield in South-west Coastal Bangladesh Using the AquaCrop Model”, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2015), 6-7 March 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh (ISBN: 978-984-33-8801-8), pp 81-88.

Presentations

• Saha, D., Oki, K., Yoshida, K. and Kamiya, H. "Improvement of of Disaster Management Approaches in Japan Using Paddy Field", EGU General Assembly 2022, Viena, Austria, 2022.
• Saha, D., Bala, S. K., Huq, H., Leya, R. S., Fujita, K. and Parvin, G. A. “Gender Aspects in Flood Management of North-East and Northwest Regions of Bangladesh”, 12th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics (ISE, 2018), Tokyo, Japan, 2018.
• Saha, D. “Analyses on the Adaptation Inventory of Bangladesh Delta” (Poster), 4th DECCMA Consortium Workshop of Deltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2016.

• Professor Kazuo Oki, The University of Tokyo, Japan, kazu@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Professor Mohammad Shahjahan Mondal, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, mshahjahanmondal@iwfm.buet.ac.bd