Dr. Suresh Sharma is actually a faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering at YSU. He could be originally from Nepal. He worked as the Civil Engineer in Nepal government before choosing visit the United States for his PhD at Auburn University in 2008. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University before joining the faculty position at YSU in 2013.
Recently, Dr. Sharma, together with City of Mentor and Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District, has a gracious grant with the EPA. The grant was presented with to him on account of his research with the Mentor Marsh. The Mentor Marsh watershed, on the Lake Erie coastline, provides the chance of future economic development via eco-tourism related activities, that have strong and positive impacts around the local economy.
“In 2016, we established the monitoring stations through the upland watershed with some grant support from your Ohio Sea Grant and Lake Erie Protection Fund. However, these studies was conducted from the upstream tributaries using two monitoring stations, which only provides some general information with the upland sub-watersheds,” said Dr. Sharma. “Therefore, additional monitoring stations were required by the Mentor Marsh, mainly in the downstream region, to cultivate a separate hydrodynamic model for the complete investigation of salinity inputs on this watershed. We wrote an offer to EPA to ascertain nine (9) additional monitoring stations and couple a watershed model using a hydrodynamic model thoroughly understand the salinity intrusion mechanism in Mentor Marsh.”
The grant in the EPA was, in one payemnt, $187, 959 for three years. When it comes to using the grant, Dr. Sharma with his fantastic team will probably be monitoring an added sites who were added to the river Erie coast. They will likely additionally be recording the stage in the stream and developing models. With the addition of more sites, Dr. Sharma will likely be adding new students to his research team after reviewing various applications from interested candidates.
Aside from his research, Dr. Sharma is usually the faculty advisor for the Nepali Student Organization on campus. The corporation is built to help Nepali students become utilized to the multi-cultural setting at YSU. There are about 40 students in the organization. To learn more about his research and involvement at YSU, please take a evaluate his website http://ssharma06.people.ysu.edu/. For more information with regards to the Nepali Student Organization, contact the club President, Romit Thapa at [email protected].
