Neharika Bhattarai

Education

M.Tech, 2023: Remote Sensing and GIS, specialization in Water Resources, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun, India.

B.Tech, 2021: Civil Engineering, SMIT, Sikkim, India.

Experience

2025-present: Visiting PhD Candidate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

2023-present: PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.

Short Bio

Neharika is a PhD Candidate at IIT Delhi, India and a Visiting PhD Researcher at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on large-sample hydrological model calibration and regionalization over the Indian Subcontinent and assessing the impact of climate change on water cycle variables.

Publications

Bhattarai, N., Clark, M., Saharia, M., Eythorsson, D., Vasquez, N., and Thébault, C.: Evaluating Hydrological Model Structures and Parameter Transfer across the Indian Subcontinent, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-14520

Thongley, T., Thakur, P. K., Khajuria, V., Bhattarai, N., Choden, K., and Chokila, C.: Estimation of glacier dynamics of the major glaciers of Bhutan using geospatial techniques, Journal of Water and Climate Change, 14(8), 2825–2841. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.158

Neharika Bhattarai

Visiting PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, University of Calgary

About CAPE: We bring together observations, models, and data science to improve understanding and prediction of hydrological processes across scales from hillslopes to continents.

Land and Water Acknowledgement: We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on Treaty 7 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis, Tsuut'ina, Stoney, and Blackfoot. We thank these nations for their care and stewardship over this land and water, and we pay respect to the ancestors of these places.