Recent Advances in Sustainable Environment

Landscape Degradation: The August 2019 Puthumala Landslide in Kerala, India.- Understanding the role of biological oxygen demand in aquaculture waters in the western delta region of Andhra Pradesh.- Interpreting different timeslot precipitation characteristics in the Seonath River basin, Chhattisgarh during 1901-2017.- To study the effect of confining walls on flexible circular particle using Immersed boundary method.- Time series modelling and forecasting of mean annual rainfall over MRP Complex Region Chhattisgarh associated with climate variability.

Prof. Krishna R. Reddy is University Scholar, Distinguished Researcher, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory (SERL), and also the Director of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory (GAGEL) in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Reddy received Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. He received gold medals for being first in his class of B.S. (Civil Engineering) at Osmania University, India, and M.S. (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. Prof. Reddy has over 28 years of research, teaching, and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, geotechnical, materials, environmental, and sustainable/resilient engineering, addressing the nexus among sustainability, resiliency, infrastructure, water, energy, and the environment. His research expertise includes environmental remediation of soils, sediments, groundwater, and stormwater; solid and hazardous waste management, waste containment, and landfill engineering; characterization and engineering applications of waste/recycled materials; life cycle assessment and sustainable & resilient engineering; and geotechnical engineering. His research includes laboratory studies, field experiments, and computer modeling, ultimately leading to fundamental advances and practical solutions to the real-world problems.

Dr. Srinivas Tangellapalli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dr B.R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He previously worked as a Professor at the CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, India. He received his Ph.D. from JNT University College of Engineering, Telangana