Nandita Basu

Joined the College of Engineering: 2009

Education: Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2006.
M.Tech., Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2001.
B.S. Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, 1997.

Special Fields of Knowledge:

Present Research Interests: Contaminant fate and transport, watershed modeling, environmental and ecosystem hydrology, ecosystem restoration, human impacts on the environment, and water resource sustainability.

Selected Publications:

• Falta, R.W., Rao, P.S.C. and Basu, N.(2005a). Assessing the Impacts of Partial Mass Depletion in DNAPL Source Zones: I. Analytical Modeling of Source Strength Functions and Plume Response, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 78(4), 259-280.
• Falta, R.W., Basu, N. Rao, P.S.C. (2005b). Assessing Impacts of Partial Mass Depletion in NDAPL Source Zones: II. Coupling Source Strength Functions to Plume Evolution, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 79, 45-66.
• Basu, N.C., Rao, P.S.C., Poyer, I.C., Annable, M.D. and Hatfield, K. (2006). Flux-based assessment at a manufacturing site contaminated with trichlorethylene, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 86(1-2), 105-127.
• Basu, N.B., Rao, P.S.C., Falta, R.W., Annable, M.D. Jawitz, J.W. and Hatfield, K. (2007a). Temporal evolution of DNAPL source and contaminant flux distribution: Impact of source depletion, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 95(3-4), 93-109.
• Basu, N.B., Fure, A.D. and Jawitz, J.W. (2007b). Simplified Contaminant Source Depletion Models as Analogs of Complex Multiphase Simulators, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 97, 87-99.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: American Geophysical Union; SETAC; American Society of Civil Engineers.