Yadu Pokhrel
Red Cedar Distinguished Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering
Engr Rsch Complex, 1449 Engineering Research Ct Room A134
Biography
Dr. Yadu Pokhrel is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and holds title of Red Cedar Distinguished Professor. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan and received postdoctoral training at Rutgers University. Dr. Pokhrel’s research takes a transdisciplinary approach to studying the complex interactions and feedback among water, energy, and food systems under compounding climatic and human stressors—from global to local scales.
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Ph.D., Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan 2011
M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan 2008
B.S., Civil Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2005
Awards
“John K. Hudzik Emerging Leader in Advancing International Studies and Programs Award”, MSU (2024)
“Withrow Global Leadership Award”, Michigan State University (2024)
“US Fulbright Scholar Award” to National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2022-2023)
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Bhattarai, Nishan, David B. Lobell, Balwinder Singh, Ram Fishman, William P. Kustas, Yadu Pokhrel, and Meha Jain (2023), Warming temperatures threaten to quadruple groundwater depletion rates in India, Science Advances, 9(35), eadi1401.
McDermid, S., Nocco, M., Lawston-Parker, P., Keune, J., Pokhrel, Y., Jain, M., Jägermeyr, J., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Jones, A.D., Vahmani, P., Thiery, W., Yao, Y., Bell, A., Chen, L., Dorigo, W., Hanasaki, N., Jasechko, S., Lo, M.-H., Mahmood, R., Mishra, V., Mueller, N.D., Niyogi, D., Rabin, S.S., Sloat, L., Wada, Y., Zappa, L., Chen, F., Cook, B.I., Kim, H., Lombardozzi, D., Polcher, J., Ryu, D., Santanello, J., Satoh, Y., Seneviratne, S., Singh, D., Yokohata, T., (2023), Irrigation in the Earth system, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4(7): 435-453.
Dang Huy, Yadu Pokhrel, Sanghoon Shin, Jac Stelly, Daniel Ahlquist, and Duong Du Bui (2022), Hydrologic balance and inundation dynamics of Southeast Asia's largest inland lake altered by hydropower dams in the Mekong River basin, Science of the Total Environment, 831, 154833.
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