Research Interests:
Vadose zone hydrology, soil hydraulic parameter estimation, parameter scaling, remote sensing, artificial neural networks, watershed/regional scale modeling.
Projects:
· Physical controls of soil moisture and vadose zone fluxes across space-time scales under different hydro-climatic conditions, NASA-THP.
· Multiscale data assimilation of soil moisture under heterogeneous soil hydraulics, NSF-CMG.
· Soil hydrologic properties for simulation of semi-arid river basin water balance—Phase II, Los Alamos National Lab.
· Use of satellite data for soil parameter estimation in Rio Grande Basin, NASA-ESS Fellowship.
Publications:
1. Jana R. B., B. P. Mohanty, and E. P. Springer (2007), Multiscale Pedotransfer Functions for Soil Water Retention, Vadose Zone J. 6: 868-878.
2. Jana R. B., B. P. Mohanty, and E. P. Springer, Multiscale Bayesian Neural Networks for Soil Water Content Estimation, Water Resour. Res., doi: 10.1029/2008WR006879, in press.
Presentations:
1. Jana, R. B., and B. P. Mohanty, Multiscale Soil Property Estimation Using Artificial Neural Networks and Remotely Sensed Data, ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2007 International Annual Meetings, Nov. 4-8, 2007.
2. Jana, R. B., Neural Networks for Multi-Scale Soil Hydraulic Parameter Estimation, 10th Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, Mar. 27, 2007.
Posters:
1. Mohanty, B. P., R. B. Jana, N. N. Das, A. V. M. Ines, and J. Zhu, Effective Soil Hydraulic Parameters at Multiple Scales, Gordon Research Conference, 2008.
2. Jana, R. B., B. P. Mohanty, and E. P. Springer, Neural Network-Based Multi-Scale Pedotransfer Functions for Soil Water Retention, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 2006.
3. Jana, R. B., B. P. Mohanty, and E. P. Springer, Multi-Scale Pedotransfer Functions for Soil Water Retention, Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) Annual Meeting, 2006.
4. Jana, R. B., and B. P. Mohanty, Soil Hydraulic Properties for Simulation of Semi-Arid River Basin Water Balance, 9th Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, Mar. 28, 2006.
5. Jana, R. B., B. P. Mohanty, and E. P. Springer, Soil Hydraulic Properties for Simulation of Semi-Arid River Basin Water Balance, Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) Annual Meeting, 2005.
6. Zhu, J., B. P. Mohanty, and R. B. Jana, Hydraulic Parameter Upscaling in Heterogeneous Soil, Topography, and Vegetation, Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) Annual Meeting, 2004.
Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships:
1. Bill A. and Rita L. Stout International Graduate Student Achievement Award, Texas A&M University, 2007
2. Earth System Science Ph. D. Fellowship, NASA, 2006-09
3. Joseph A. Orr Fellowship in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002
4. Session 1st place, 9th Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2006
5. Session 2nd place, 10 Annual Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2007
