Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change in Natural Systems

Dr. Rajiv Srivastava is currently a researcher at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He previously served as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Dr. Srivastava holds a B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Agricultural Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in Land and Water Resources Engineering from the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur, India. His research focuses on irrigation and drainage, integrated soil-crop-water management, surface water hydrology, climate change impact assessment, and the application of machine learning in these fields. He has authored more than 24 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, covering topics such as vadose zone hydrology, surface water hydrology, water and nitrogen transport, climate change effects, and crop modeling. In addition, he has contributed to 5 book chapters, edited 2 reference books, and has served as a co-guest editor for special issues in several academic journals.

Prof. Chakraborty is a renowned ocean modeler with extensive expertise in the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) and the coupled ROMS-WRF model (CROCO). During his Ph.D. at IIT Delhi, he developed a stretched-coordinate ocean general circulation model (IITD-OGCM). His postdoctoral work includes projects at institutions in the USA and Japan, where he contributed to the development of the Florida State University Coupled Global and Regional Spectral Model and the coupled model (MOM+FrAM) at the University of Tokyo (UTCM), respectively.