Dr. Budhendra Bhaduri, Computational Specialist.(Group Leader)

Phone: (865) 241 9272
Fax: (865) 241 6261
Email: bhaduribl@ornl.gov

Education:

• Ph.D., 1998, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University
• Dissertation: A geographic information system based model for assessing long-term impact of land use change on non-point source pollution at a watershed scale.


• M.S., 1995, Geology, Kent State University
  • Thesis: An Empirical Evaluation of the Pollutant Trapping Efficiency of a Stormwater Retention Basin With Respect to Phosphorus and Selected Heavy Metals.


• M.S., 1992, Geology, University of Calcutta (through Presidency College), Calcutta, India
  • Thesis: Study of the Environmental Impact of Mining in Jainti, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India.


• B.Sc.(Honors), 1989, Geology, minor in Physics and Chemistry, University of Calcutta (through Presidency College), Calcutta, India

Dr. Bhaduri’s responsibilities include conceiving, designing, and implementing innovative computational methods and algorithms to solve a wide variety of problems involving land cover modeling, facility siting, natural resource studies, emergency management, terrain mapping, hazardous waste analysis, transportation studies, and geodata generation using various geographic information system (GIS) and image analysis techniques.  In addition to GIS and Remote Sensing, his expertise covers a variety of topics in earth and environmental sciences including water quantity and quality issues, watershed management, and erosion and sediment control.  He has published extensively in a number of scientific journals and is a co-author of a sedimentation basin manual produced for the state of Ohio.

While at Purdue, Dr. Bhaduri’s research included modeling the impact of non-point source pollution control measures in urban/suburban watersheds.  His projects included land use/land cover analysis of satellite imagery using remote sensing techniques and assessing the environmental impact of urbanization on a local wetland and ground water resources.