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DD Kandel: Spatial and temporal scale issues related to soil erosion
Supervisors
- Professor Roger Grayson, Monash University
CRCCH project links
Personal background
- Agricultural Engineering, 1992, Tamilnadu Agricultural
University, Coimbatore, India
- Lecturer, Agricultural Engineering, Institute of Agriculture
and Animal Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
- Soil Conservation Officer , Nepal Government, Department
of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management, Kathmandu
- CRCCH Masters & PhD, Engineering Science, University
of Melbourne, Vic
Anticipated research outcomes/products
- To address the spatial and temporal scale issues related
to soil erosion, particularly in the mid-hills in Nepal,
through a field visit to the Jhikhu Khola catchment
- Model that can accurately measure runoff on a two-minute
scale
- To test the accuracy of current erosion prediction models
in Nepal
“My research is related to soil erosion modelling and
I intend to address the spatial and temporal scale issues related
to soil erosion. A number of empirically and physically-based
soil erosion models have been already developed and some of
the models have been tested to evaluate their performances.
However model testing has not encompassed a wide range of situations.
Performance evaluation on steeper and terraced agriculture situations
is rare, though model testing is more critical in accepting
a new prediction tool in these contexts.”
Contact
ddkandel@civag.unimelb.edu.au |
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