Education

  • 2017-2022 | Doctoral Candidate (Ph.D.) at the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Technical University of Munich | Munich
  • 2017-2022 | International PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Kanpur
  • 2013 | International semester abroad, Tallinn University of Technology, TalTech Estonia
  • 2009 – 2014 | Integrated Bachelor and Master of Technology (B.Tech., M.Tech.), Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Kanpur

Professional Career

  • 2018-2020 | Research Scientist at Kritsnam Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Kanpur
  • 2016-2017 | Guest Scientist at the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Technical University of Munich | Munich
  • 2015-2016 | Project Engineer at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Kanpur
  • 2014 | Intern in the Participatory Groundwater Management program at Samaj Pragati Sahayog (NGO) | Dewas (India)

Publications

Journal papers

  • Adla S., Gupta S., Karumanchi S.H., Tripathi S., Disse M., and Pande, S. 2022. Agricultural Advisory Diagnostics Using a Data-Based Approach: Test Case in an Intensively Managed Rural Landscape in the Ganga River Basin, India. Frontiers in Water 3:798241. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.798241
  • Adla S., Rai,N.K., Karumanchi,S.H., Tripathi,S., Disse M. and Pande, S. 2020. Laboratory calibration and performance evaluation of low-cost capacitive and very low-cost resistive soil moisture sensors. Sensors 20(2), 363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s20020363
  • Adla S., Tripathi S. and Disse M. 2019. Can We Calibrate a Daily Time-Step Hydrological Model Using Monthly Time-Step Discharge Data? Water 11(9), 1750. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11091750
  • Gupta S., Karumanchi S. H., Dash S. K., Adla S., Tripathi S., Sinha R., Paul D., and Sen I.S. 2019. Monitoring ecosystem health in India’s food basket. Eos 100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO117683

Oral presentations

  • Adla S., Bruckmaier F., Arias-Rodriguez L. F., Tripathi S., Disse M. and Pande S. 2022. Analysing the impact of calibrating a low-cost soil moisture sensor on FAO Aquacrop model performance. Oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022, Vienna (Austria), 23-27 May 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11810
  • Bruckmaier F., Adla S., Tripathi S. and Disse M. 2018. Modified AquaCrop-OpenSource tool for data-scarce regions.Oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022, Vienna (Austria), 23-27 May 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10694
  • Adla S., Gupta, S., Karumanchi S.H., Tripathi S., Disse M. and Pande S. 2021. Agricultural advisory diagnostics using a community driven data-based approach: test case in the Ganga River Basin, India. Oral presentation at the Delft International Conference on Sociohydrology, Delft (Netherlands), 7 September 2021.

Posters

  • Adla S., Gupta, S., Karumanchi, S.H., Rai, N.K., Tripathi S., Disse M. and Pande S. 2022. Evaluation/pilot-test of a low-cost monitoring methodology to represent plot-scale soil moisture for wheat cropping in India. Poster presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Vienna (Austria), 8-13 April 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29990.83529
  • Adla S., Pande S. and Disse M. 2017. Understanding challenges to smallholder sustainability with surveys in the Ganga river basin. Poster presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017, Vienna (Austria), 23-28 April 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28574.59204

Conference papers

  • Adla S. and Tripathi S. 2015. SWAT Model Assessment of Hydrological Impacts Of HRU-Scale Invasion By Parthenium Hysterophorus Weed. HYDRO 2015 International, 20th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources And River Engineering, Roorkee (India). 17-19 Dec 2015.
  • Adla S., and Tripathi S. 2014. The Effect of Parthenium Hysterophorus Weed on Basin Hydrology. Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering, H. L. Tiwari, S. Suresh, and R. K. Jaiswal, eds., Excellent Publishing House, New Delhi, pp 531-541.