Saurav Bhattarai Hydrologist
Talks and posters

Presented in 14 cities on four continents.

8 oral and 7 poster presentations as presenting author, and 12 abstracts presented by co-authors, at AGU, EGU, ASCE-EWRI, AMS, and the World Water Congress, among others.

New Orleans, LA: AGU Fall Meeting 2025Washington, DC: AGU Fall Meeting 2024Anchorage, AK: ASCE-EWRI Congress 2025Honolulu, HI: AGU Chapman Conference 2024Milwaukee, WI: ASCE-EWRI Congress 2024San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2023Houston, TX: AMS Annual Meeting 2026Mobile, AL: ASCE-EWRI Congress 2026Vicksburg, MS: ERDC RD26 Workshop 2026Baltimore, MD: AMS Annual Meeting 2024Amsterdam, Netherlands: Natural Hazards and Risks Conference 2024Vienna, Austria: EGU General Assembly 2024Marrakech, Morocco: XIX World Water Congress 2025Kathmandu, Nepal: GeoMandu International Conference 2024
27presentations 14cities 5countries 15as presenting author

Anchorage · Honolulu · San Francisco · Houston · New Orleans · Mobile · Vicksburg · Milwaukee · Washington · Baltimore · Amsterdam · Vienna · Marrakech · Kathmandu

2026

  1. Oral

    Bridging the gap: An open-source, low-code platform for integrating data science into water resources engineering education

    Bhattarai, S., Pradhan, N. R., Walters, W. L., & Talchabhadel, R.

    ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress · Mobile, Alabama · April 2026

  2. Oral

    Democratizing hydroclimatic science education through the GeoClimate Intelligence Platform

    Bhattarai, S., Pradhan, N. R., & Talchabhadel, R.

    106th AMS Annual Meeting · Houston, Texas · January 2026

  3. Poster

    Explainable tree–neural network ensemble for GRACE-based TWS downscaling and groundwater estimation

    Bhattarai, S., Pradhan, N. R., & Talchabhadel, R.

    ERDC RD26 Workshop · Vicksburg, Mississippi · 2026

2025

  1. Oral

    Democratizing Earth science data for community-based water hazard assessment: A co-production platform for hydrologic intelligence

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Bista, S., Poudel, S., Jones, D., & Terrett, S.

    AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana · December 2025

  2. Oral

    Advancing groundwater monitoring and downscaling using open datasets and machine learning in the Mississippi River Basin

    Bhattarai, S., Pradhan, N. R., & Talchabhadel, R.

    XIX World Water Congress · Marrakech, Morocco · December 2025

  3. Oral

    Evaluating the compound effects of precipitation and storm surge on coastal flooding risk in the CONUS

    Bhattarai, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress · Anchorage, Alaska · May 2025

  4. Poster

    Spatiotemporal assessment of urban heat island and heatwave dynamics in densely populated Nepalese cities: Evaluating nature-based cooling strategies

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Prajapati, A. K., Karn, B., Bhattarai, B., Yadav, R., & Bhattarai, P. K.

    AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana · December 2025

  5. Poster

    Precipitation temporal disaggregation for event-based hydrological modeling in the Kathmandu watershed, Nepal

    Bhattarai, S., Talchabhadel, R., & Pradhan, N. R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana · December 2025

  6. Co-author · oral

    Global Snow Attribute Mapping Tool (Global-SAM)

    Pradhan, N. R., Bhattarai, S., Kloss, G., et al.

    AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana · December 2025

  7. Co-author · oral

    Projecting extreme temperatures and precipitation for the Gulf Coast region of the United States

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Bista, S., Poudel, S., & Kafoury, R.

    ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress · Anchorage, Alaska · May 2025

  8. Co-author · poster

    Unraveling urban heat and moisture anomalies across the continental U.S. using local climate zones and Earth observation data

    Gautam, A., Bhattarai, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana · December 2025

  9. Co-author · poster

    Evaluating the applicability of SWOT and SWORD for Nepal's water monitoring: Building a scalable national database

    Dahal, B., Bhattarai, S., Bhattarai, P. K., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · New Orleans, Louisiana · December 2025

2024

  1. Oral

    Assessing cascading and compound climate extremes and associated vulnerabilities across the United States

    Bhattarai, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World · Amsterdam, Netherlands · June 2024

  2. Oral

    Assessing multidimensional climate extremes and associated vulnerabilities across the United States (EGU24-20600)

    Bhattarai, S., Sharma, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    EGU General Assembly · Vienna, Austria · April 2024

  3. Poster

    Evaluating the compound effects of precipitation and storm surge on coastal flooding risk in the CONUS: A detailed case study of Galveston

    Bhattarai, S., Byrd, A., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC · December 2024

  4. Poster

    Detecting multihazards in the United States using machine learning: A comparative analysis of individual and compound hazard events

    Bhattarai, S., Sharma, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC · December 2024

  5. Poster

    Urban cooling strategies: Evaluating the effectiveness of green spaces and water bodies in mitigating heat exposure in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (GC51H-0059)

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Banjara, P., & Pandey, V. P.

    AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC · December 2024

  6. Poster

    Heatwaves, humidity, and the water cycle: A remote sensing perspective on climate transformation

    Bhattarai, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle · Honolulu, Hawaii · February 2024

  7. Invited · co-author

    Translating multi-hazard risk assessment to compounding and cascading disaster risk management for resilient infrastructure

    Thapa, B. R., Talchabhadel, R., & Bhattarai, S.

    2nd GeoMandu International Conference · Kathmandu, Nepal · November 2024

  8. Co-author · oral

    Implications of non-stationary climate dynamics for flood risk projections (H05-13)

    Bista, S., Bhattarai, S., Sharma, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC · December 2024

  9. Co-author · oral

    Assessing heatwave dynamics and vulnerability in Nepal: A geospatial analysis (H34F-04)

    Banjara, P., Bhattarai, S., Pandey, V. P., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC · December 2024

  10. Co-author · oral

    Urban flood inundation prediction under climate change

    Bista, S., Bhattarai, Y., Bhattarai, S., Sharma, S., Talchabhadel, R., & Amini, F.

    ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · May 2024

  11. Co-author · oral

    Providing undergraduate students with training on evaluating climate change projections within the framework of open-source software infrastructure

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Bista, S., White, L., & Amini, F.

    ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · May 2024

  12. Co-author · oral

    Projecting heatwave consequences in urban centers of the United States under changing climate

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Banjara, P., & Sharma, S.

    AMS 15th Conference on Environment and Health, 104th AMS Annual Meeting · Baltimore, Maryland · January 2024

  13. Co-author · poster

    Evaluation of climate change projections using open-source software infrastructure across the Gulf Coast of the United States (NH13B-2293)

    Talchabhadel, R., Bernard, D., Johnson, K., Bhattarai, S., Bista, S., Poudel, S., & Kafoury, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · Washington, DC · December 2024

  14. Co-author · poster

    Empowering undergraduate students in remote sensing for climate change projection evaluation using open-source software infrastructure

    Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., & Bista, S.

    AGU Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle · Honolulu, Hawaii · February 2024

2023

  1. Oral

    Assessing heatwave impacts and enhancing climate resilience in highly populated US cities

    Bhattarai, S., Bokati, L., Sharma, S., & Talchabhadel, R.

    AGU Fall Meeting · San Francisco, California · December 2023