Deep Shah

Post Doctoral Researcher

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About me

I am an enthusiastic hydro-climatic researcher, working with Dr. Huilin Gao at Texas A&M University. My life goal is to solve global water problems and serve and contribute to the betterment of the society. I passionately work on how climate change impacts global fresh surface water and associated extremes using remote sensing and hydrological modeling.

I code, dance, cook, travel, play sports, and read spiritual novels.

 

Skills

Programming Skills (Matlab, Python, Google Earth Engine)
90%
Management Skills
86%
Teaching Skills
90%
Team Building and Leadership
85%
Soft Skills/Community Service
95%

Awards

  • Third Rank, 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2024.
  • First Runner-Up, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Competition, 2024.
  • Best Progress Award, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Competition, 2024.
  • Best Supplemental Information Award, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Competition, 2024.
  • Most Cited Paper of the Year, Water Resources Research (WRR) Journal, 2021-2022.
  • Student Representative, SATMOC Committee, American Meteorological Society, 2022-2024.
  • NASA and CUAHSI Travel Grant, for a field workshop at the University of Eugene, 2022.
  • Excellence Fellowship, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2020-2023.
  • Ministry of Human Resources and Development Scholarship, for M.Tech studies, India, 2017-2019.
  • Director’s Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, 2017-2019.
  • International Travel Grant, IIT Gandhinagar, for attending the European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2019.
  • Second Rank, Swachh Bharat Internship, India, 2018.
  • United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Travel Grant, Pune, India, 2017.
  • Bronze Medalist, B.E. Civil Engineering, India, 2017.

Research

I am working on developing a novel reservoir based global drought monitoring system that focuses on droughts in reservoirs (based on storage and evaporation losses), how these droughts are changing in the current climate across the globe, and how humans influence these droughts, especially in the era of the Anthropocene.

Project

Developing NASA’s Global Water Reservoir product suite using MODIS and VIIRS observations

Data

Our global reservoir products (MOD28C2, MOD28C3, VNP28C2, and VNP28C3) provide area, elevation, storage, evaporation rate, and evaporation volume data for 164 global reservoirs. It includes 151 man-made reservoirs (2,672 km^3) and 13 regulated natural lakes (23,801 km^3). The total storage capacity of the 151 man-made reservoirs represents approximately 45.82% of the global capacity.

RESEARCH PRODUCTS AND MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

SERVICE

Reviewed 20+ articles for disciplinary journals, including Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrology, Environmental Research: Climate, Scientific Data, Earth’s Future, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere.

 

Verified reviews: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8461-4162

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS FACILITATED
  • Chair, “Remote Sensing of Water Resources”, Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2023
  • Co-Convener, “Monitoring Global Lakes and Reservoirs Using Multi-Satellite Observations”, American Meteorological Society
WORKSHOP ORGANIZED (PLANNING TEAM MEMBER)
  • 2023 AMS SatMOC Virtual Short Course on ‘Satellite Enterprise: Applications and Opportunities’
  • 2024 AMS SatMOC Virtual Short Course on ‘Monitoring El Nino Southern Oscillation and its impacts on community’
  • 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology (AMS 2024 Annual Meeting)
  • 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems (AMS 2024 Annual Meeting)
INVITED TALK
  • “New Perspective for monitoring hydrological droughts considering reservoir dynamics”, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2022
LEADERSHIP
  • Student Member (Selected), Committee on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology (2023-2025)
  • Student Representative (Nominated), Remote Sensing Technical Committee, AGU (2023−2024)
  • Director of Finance, Indian Graduate Students’ Organization, Texas A&M University (2021-2023)
  • Discipline Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar (2017-2018)
  • Manager of Tech-Fest at Gujarat Technological University (GTU) (2016-2017)

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. Shah, D., Zhao, G., Li, Y., Singh, V. P., & Gao, H. (2024). Assessing Global Reservoir‐Based Hydrological Droughts by Fusing Storage and Evaporation. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(1), e2023GL106159.
  2. Shah, D., Zhang, S…, Gao, H. (2024). Transitioning from MODIS to VIIRS Global Water Reservoir Product. Scientific  Data 11, 209. 
  3. Román, M. O., Justice, C., Paynter, I., Boucher, P. B., Devadiga, S., Endsley, A., Shah, D… & Wolfe, R. (2024). Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 302, 113963.
  4. Shah, D., Shah, H., Dave, H., Mishra, V. (2021). Contrasting influence of human activities on agricultural and hydrological droughts in India. The Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144959
  5. Shah, D., & Mishra, V. (2021). Strong influence of changes in terrestrial water storage on flood potential in India. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, e2020JD033566.
  6. Li, Y., Zhao, G., Shah, D., Zhao, M., Sarkar, S., Devadiga, S., Zhao, B., Zhang, S., and Gao, H., (2021) NASA’s water reservoir product suite from moderate resolution remote sensing data, Remote Sensing 13(4), 565.
  7. Shah, D., & Mishra, V. (2020). Integrated Drought Index (IDI) for drought monitoring and assessment in India. Water Resources Research, 56(2), e2019WR026284.
  8. Shah, D., & Mishra, V. (2020). Drought onset and termination in India. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(15), e2020JD032871.
  9. Bhardwaj, K., Shah, D., Aadhar, S., & Mishra, V. (2020). Propagation of meteorological to hydrological droughts in India. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(22), e2020JD033455.
  10. Meghwal, R., Shah, D., & Mishra, V. (2019). On the changes in groundwater storage variability in western India using GRACE and well observations. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, 2(4), 260-272.

Conferences

  1. Shah, D., Mishra, V., and Gao, H. A Global Evaluation of the Propagation from Meteorological to Reservoir-Based Hydrological Droughts. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2023.
  2. Zhang, S., Shah, D., Zhao, B., and Gao, H. Remote sensing of vertical temperature profiles in global large lakes. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2023.
  3. Gao, H., Shah, D…, Justice, C. Transitioning from NASA’s MODIS to VIIRS Global Water Reservoir (GWR) Products: A Perspective of Continuity. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2023.
  4. Shah, D., Zhao, G., Li, Y., Huang, C., Zhang, S. and Gao, H. Estimating Storage and Evaporation Dynamics for Large Global Lakes. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2022. 
  5. Shah, D., Zhao, G., Li, Y., & Gao, H. Do Human Activities Influence Reservoir-based Hydrological Droughts?. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 2022.
  6. Gao, H., Zhao, G., Li, Y., Allen, G.H., Zhou, L. and Shah, D. Human influence on global surface water observed by satellites. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2022.
  7. Gao, H., Zhang, S., Shah, D., Zhao, G., Sarkar, S., Davidson, C.C., Zhang, R. and Devadiga, S. Developing and validating the SNPP/JPSS VIIRS Global Water Reservoir Product. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2022.
  8. Zhang, S., Zhao, G., Zhao, B., Shah, D. and Gao, H. Developing long-term global lake evaporation and temperature profiles records using MODIS observations. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2022.
  9. Shah, D., Zhao, G., Li, Y., Gao, H. Monitoring Hydrological Droughts using a New Remotely Sensed Global Reservoir Product. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2021.
  10. Li, Y., Shah, D., Zhao, G., & Gao, H. Estimating Groundwater Storage Variations from GRACE by Incorporating a Global Reservoir Storage Dataset. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 2021.
  11. Shah, D. & Mishra, V. Impact of Groundwater Pumping on Flood Potential (FP) in Indian Sub-continental River basins. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 2020.
  12. Shah, D. & Mishra, V. Integrated Drought Index (IDI) to Monitor Drought Severity in Western India. European Geo-sciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019.

Technical Reports

  1. Zhang, S., Shah, D., Gao, H. (2023). Collection 2 VIIRS Reservoir Product Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA.
  2. Zhao, G., Li, Y., Zhang, S., Shah, D., Gao, H. (2021). Collection 6.1 MODIS Reservoir Product Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
  3. Mishra, V., Shah, D., Shah, H. (2019). Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Water Resources of Sabarmati River Basin. Ministry of Water Resources, India

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Contact No: +1(979)-721-1212
Office: 405M Dwight Look Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA