Phanikumar Mantha
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Biography
Dr. Phanikumar Mantha is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research emphasizes water quality and environmental flow and transport processes. Recent questions addressed involve fate and transport of chemical and biological agents (e.g., nutrients, algae, bacteria, viruses) in different hydrologic units in the Great Lakes region of North America (watersheds, rivers and streams, lakes and groundwater). His research combines data from field observations with computational models to gain insights into complex biophysical processes, make predictions in managing natural resources and frame policy. Two general research themes of current interest are: (a) Coastal processes and water quality in the Great Lakes and (b) Integrated hydrologic modeling in large river basins.
Education
- Ph.D., Computational Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India 1990
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Andhra University, India 1984
Selected Publications
- S. Memari and M.S. Phanikumar, Assessing transport timescales in Lake Huron's Hammond Bay: The crucial role of the Straits of Mackinac's exchange flows, Science of the Total Environment, 912, Article #: 168777, p. 1 - 14, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168777 (2024)
- H. Qiu, J. Niu, D. Baas and M.S. Phanikumar, A watershed-scale modeling framework for nitrogen transport and transformations, Science of the Total Environment, 912, Article #: 168777, p. 1 - 14, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168777 (2024)
- O. Bagheri, Y. Pokhrel, N. Moore and M.S. Phanikumar, Groundwater dominates terrestrial hydrological processes in the Amazon at the basin and subbasin scales, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 628, 130312, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130312 (2024)
- A. Abhishek, M.S. Phanikumar, A. Sendrowski, K.M. Andreadis, M.Z.G. Hashemi, S. Jayasinghe, P.V. Vara Prasad, R.J. Brent, and N.N. Das, Dryspells and minimum air temperatures influence rice yields and their forecast uncertainties in rainfed systems, Agricultural & Forest Meteorology, 341, Article #: 109683, p. 1-16, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109683 (2023)
- G. Shen, J. Yuan and M.S. Phanikumar, Quantifying the effects of bed roughness on transit time distributions via direct numerical simulations of turbulent hyporheic exchange, Water Resources Research, Vol. 58(4), Article: e2021WR030503, doi:10.1029/2021WR03050 (2022)
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Awards
- Elected Fellow, Geological Society of America (GSA) (2013)
- Elected Member of the Council of Fellows, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), University of Michigan (2012)
- Lilly Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University (2004)
- Project Member, Outstanding Remediation Project Award, National Groundwater Association, Ohio (2002)
- Professor C.V. Raman Young Scientist Award for “…Outstanding Contributions to Computational Sciences and Earth Sciences”, Government of India (1996)
- Indian Institute of Science Student Scholarship (1984-1989)
