Name:

Jaivir Tyagi

Highest qualification and awarding university

Ph. D., I.I.T. Roorkee

Designation

Director

Employer

National Institute of Hydrology (Under Deptt. of Water Resources, RD and GR, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India)

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tyagi.nihr@gov.in

+91 9897736025

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Key areas of interest

Hydrological modeling, soil erosion and sediment transport modeling, forest hydrology, soil & water conservation technologies for flood and sediment control, impact assessment of land use changes on catchment hydrology, application of remote sensing & GIS in hydrological studies, etc.

 

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Brief career profile

Dr. J. V. Tyagi is currently the Director, National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee, India. Prior to joining NIH in 1992, he worked with Agricultural Finance Corporation since 1985. He has over 35 years of experience of working in field as well as in R&D in the area of hydrology and water resources sector. As a researcher, he has carried out a number of basic and applied research studies, sponsored and consultancy projects and field based studies with a focus on hydrological modelling, water budgeting, forest hydrology, impact assessment of land use changes on catchment hydrology, soil erosion and sediment transport, etc. He has more than 150 publications to his credit in the form of technical reports and research papers in national and international journals and conferences.

 

Research projects completed or on-going

  1. Hydrological Studies in a Forested Watershed (sponsored by FTA, Govt, of Uttarakhand).

  2. Impact assessment of land use on the hydrologic regime in the selected watersheds in lesser Himalayas, Uttarakhand (sponsored by FRI Dehradun)

  3. Assessment of effects of sedimentation on the capacity / life of Bhakra reservoir (Gobind Sagar) on river Satluj and Pong reservoir on river Beas (PDS under HP II).

 

Key publications

  1. Gupta, S. K., Tyagi, J., Singh, P.K., Sharma, G., Jethoo, A. S. (2019). Soil Moisture Accounting (SMA) Based Sediment Graph Models for Small watersheds. Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier Science, Vol. 574, 1129-1151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.04.077.

  2. Gupta, S.K., Tyagi, J., Sharma, G., Jethoo, A.S., Singh, P.K. (2019). An Event-Based Sediment Yield and Runoff Modeling Using Soil Moisture Balance / Budgeting (SMB) Method, Water Resources Management, Vol. 33, No. 11, 3721-3741, https://doi.org/10.1007 /s11269-019-02329-1.

  3. Tyagi, J.V., Qazi, N., Rai, S.P. and Singh, M.P. (2013). Analysis of soil moisture variation by forest cover structure in lower western Himalayas, India. Journal of Forestry Research, Springer publication, 24(2):317-324.

  4. Tyagi, J.V., Kumar, R., Srivastava, S.L. and Singh, R.D. (2011). Effect of Micro-Environmental Factors on Natural Regeneration of Sal (Shorea robusta). Journal of Forestry Research, Springer publication, 22(4):543-550.

  5. Tyagi, J. and Jain, S.K. (2014). “Assessing Swat for discharge and sediment yield estimation from Satluj basin in Indian Himalayas”, 19th Int. Conf. on “Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO 2014 International)”, MANIT Bhopal, Dec. 18-20, 2014.