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A timeline of recent achievements, publications, and presentations.

2025

• June 01: 🏆 Received Travel grant, CIROH Developers Conference, The University of Vermont, USA.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Outstanding Reviewer Award, Earth’s Future, American Geophysical Union.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Full Scholarship to the Snow Measurement Field School, CUAHSI, Mammoth Lakes, California (5 days residential school).
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Nepal’s carbon stock and biodiversity are under threat from climate exacerbated forest fires, was published in Information Geography.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Policy Relevance of IPCC Reports for the SDGs and Beyond, was published in Resources, Environment and Sustainability.

  2024

• October 21: 🎤 Gave a conference poster, ‘A Framework to Improve Hydrological Forecasting with Deep Learning’, at ASU Flow 2024. (This poster received the Outstanding Poster Award.)
• October 02: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Operational Streamflow Forecasting Tool for Arizona Streams’, at CMWR 2024.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Community Science Fellow, Thriving Earth Exchange, American Geophysical Union (https://thrivingearthexchange.org/project/lumberton-nc/).
• June 01: 🏆 Received HydroLearn Fellowship, Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Outstanding Poster Award for “A Framework to Improve Hydrological Forecasting with Deep Learning”, ASU Flow 2024, Arizona State University, AZ, USA.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Travel grant, CIROH Developers Conference, The University of Alabama, USA.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Travel Grant, Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle Chapman, HI, USA.
• March 13: 🎤 Gave a invited webinar, ‘Explainable Machine Learning in Groundwater Potential Mapping’, at UNESCO GWYN.
• February 13: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Mapping wetland potential in arid environments: A machine learning approach with geospatial interpretability’, at AGU Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Urban agriculture matters for sustainable development, was published in Cell Reports Sustainability.

  2023

• December 11: 🎤 Gave a conference poster, ‘Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Water Resources’, at AGU Fall Meeting 2023.
• September 19: 🎤 Gave a invited talk, ‘Discussion Facilitator at Session 1 –Development of core use cases in environmental sciences’, at 5th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Water Quality Tiny Grant (HaikuYourResearch), American Geophysical Union, AGU Fall Meeting 2023.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Recipient of the Graphical Abstract Competition Prize, American Geophysical Union.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Full Funding Award for Summer Graduate Writing Camp (June 12-16, 2023) at Arizona State University.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Hackathon Competition Winner (1st place), SpaceHack for Sustainability, Arizona State University.
• May 22: 🎤 Gave a workshop, ‘Remote Sensing, Big Data Analytics, and Cloud Computing: Application to Water Quality Modeling’, at Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Congress 2023, ASCE.
• May 21: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Explainable Artificial Intelligence to visualize the unseen’, at EWRI Congress 2023.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Identification of groundwater potential zones in data-scarce mountainous region using explainable machine learning, was published in Journal of Hydrology.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Mapping landslide susceptibility and critical infrastructure for spatial decision-making, was published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Multimodal multiscale characterization of cascading hazard on mountain terrain, was published in Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Framework for rainfall-triggered landslide-prone critical infrastructure zonation, was published in Science of the Total Environment.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Land use and land cover change implications on agriculture and natural resource management of Koah Nheaek, Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, was published in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Assessment of shelter location-allocation for multi-hazard emergency evacuation, was published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food, was published in Global Food Security.

  2022

• October 12: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Spatial decision making with landslide susceptibility and critical infrastructure’, at DRI Technical Conference 2022.
• June 21: 🎤 Gave a invited lecture, ‘Landslide susceptibility and monsoon preparedness in Nepal: An engineering perspective’, at Khwopa College of Engineering, Tribhuvan University.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Travel Grant, DRI Technical Conference 2022, India.
• April 07: 🎤 Gave a invited discussion, ‘Introduction to Google Earth Engine for cloud computing’, at S4W Nepal.
• April 06: 🎤 Gave a invited lecture, ‘Google Earth Engine and cloud computing’, at Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Vegetation loss and recovery analysis from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake (7.8 Mw) triggered landslides, was published in Land Use Policy.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Natural Hazards Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science, was published in Earth and Space Science.

  2021

• December 13: 🎤 Gave a conference poster, ‘National landslides database and susceptibility assessment of Nepal’, at AGU Fall Meeting 2021.
• December 13: 🎤 Gave a conference poster, ‘Framework for multi-hazards susceptibility assessment in Google Earth Engine’, at AGU Fall Meeting 2021.
• September 13: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Spatial downscaling of coarse resolution satellite-based precipitation estimates (SPEs) to 1 km using Machine Learning’, at 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
• September 13: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Machine Learning to Estimate Precipitation with Satellite-based and Gauged Observations’, at 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
• August 28: 🎤 Gave a moderator, ‘Chocolate Talk on DRR #3: Artificial intelligence (AI) for disaster risk reduction’, at U-INSPIRE Alliance.
• July 30: 🎤 Gave a invited talk, ‘DRR talk #1: The future of disaster risk governance in 2045’, at Disaster Risk Reduction and Tsunami Information, UNESCO Office, Jakarta.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) fellow.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Hackathon Competition Winner (1st place), 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences, USA.
• January 01: 📄 Our paper, Insights on the Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes and Anthropogenic Activities on Sediment Yield of a River Basin, was published in Earth.

  2020

• October 20: 🎤 Gave a conference talk, ‘Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Nepal using Google Earth Engine’, at Geo for Good 2020.
• June 01: 🏆 Received Travel Grant, 36th International Geological Congress, India (The event was canceled due to COVID-19).