Member Profile
Membership type: full
Sara Nowreen
Country of origin: Bangladesh Currently in: Bangladesh, Dhaka General field of specialization: Engineering sciences-
Degrees
2017 Doctorate Engineering sciences -
Current Research Activities
Engineering sciences
My research area spans from climate change impacts on hydrology to interdisciplinary water resources management (IWRM). My recent year research works incorporate diagnosing water security (via ICIMOD collaborative project as PI), process understanding of shallow aquifer recharge mechanism (via IFS project as PI), development of IoT enabled data logger and analyses of groundwater levels (via ICT project as PI), synthesis of water histories related to interactions between environmental change and human activities (via GCRF collaborative project as Co-I) and hydraulics of surface water system (via FFEWAS collaborative project as Co-I).
Publications resulting from Research:
Nowreen S., Haque P., Mondal M. S., Zzaman R. U. (2020) Hydrological assessment for the availability of water for off-stream uses of Karatoa-Atrai River in Bangladesh. Water Policy. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2020.034
Mondal M. S., Nowreen S., Sakib M. N. (2020) Scale-Dependent Reliability of Projected Rainfalls over Bangladesh with the PRECIS Model. Climate 8:20. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli8020020
Arifin, S., Arifin, R., Pitts, D., Rahman, M., Nowreen, S., Madey, G., & Collins, F. (2015). Landscape Epidemiology Modeling Using an Agent-Based Model and a Geographic Information System. Land, 4(2), 378–412. https://doi.org/10.3390/land4020378
Nowreen, S., Murshed, S. B., Islam, A. K. M. S., Bhaskaran, B., & Hasan, M. A. (2015). Changes of rainfall extremes around the haor basin areas of Bangladesh using multi-member ensemble RCM. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 119(1–2), 363–377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-014-1101-7
Nowreen, S., Jalal, M. R., & Khan, M. S. A. (2014). Historical analysis of rationalizing South West coastal polders of Bangladesh. Water Policy, 16(2), 264–279. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2013.172
Nowreen, S., Murshed, S. B., Islam, A. K. M. S., Hasan, M. A., & Sarker, T. K. (2013). An Indicator of Climate Change in the South West Region of Bangladesh. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 4(3), 47–60. https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/v04i03/37170
Nowreen, S., Khan, M. S. A., & Huq, H. (2011). Development of an Operational IWRM Framework in a selected SSWRDSP of Bangladesh. SAWAS Journal, 2(2), 6–26.
Nowreen, S., Misra, A. K., Zzaman, R. U., & Sharma, L. P. (2019). Sustainable Springshed water management from community perspectives: Case studies in India and Bangladesh. In D. S. Yü & E. De Maaker (Eds.), Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities (THiEH) Conference (pp. 182–194). Kunming, China.
Newton, I. H., Zzaman, R. U., Nowreen, S., Islam, A. K. M. S., Islam, G. M. T., & Razzaque, S. (2019). Deciphering of groundwater recharge potential zones in Dhaka city, Bangladesh by RS and GIS techniques. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM 2019), 47–48. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Springer.
Zzaman, R. U., Nowreen, S., & Newton, I. H. (2019). Groundwater fluctuation in response to annual rainfall in North-west region of Bangladesh. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM 2019), 179–180. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Springer.
Current profession
Current professional activities type:ResearchTeachingI have been strongly engaged in several collaborative research projects as a PI as well as a Co-PI that involved understanding Hydro-social Deltas, WASH & MHM challenges, Policy Consultation about SDGs with a focus on groundwater and gender, Transnational Policy Dialogue for Improved Water Governance, etc. Otherwise, I work, broadly speaking, in the area of hydrology linking the technical with the social aspects of water management. That is why I have been teaching postgraduate courses called ‘Gender and water’, ‘Groundwater hydrogeology’ and ‘Interdisciplinary Field Research Methodologies’ in my institute. I have also been mentoring SAWA (South Asian Water, i.e., female) fellows with their MSc theses to incorporate Gender as a cross-cutting issue. I am actively involved with a higher secondary school as a member of the Board of Governance and helping with the preparation of safeguarding policy for BUET.
Workshop and Conference Attended
2019 Kathmandu, Nepal Regional Training on Springshed Management for Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayas2018 Beijing, China International Training Workshop on Land-hydrological Processes Under Changing Climate by the 17th CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum on Climate Science (CTWF)2018 Istanbul, Turkey WISA (Water Initiative of South Asia) Professional Training2015 London, UK 'Regressions with R'2015 San Antonio, TX, USA Estimating Rates of Groundwater Recharge2012 Delhi, India Adaptation to Changing Water Resources Availability in Northern India with Himalayan Glacier Retreat and Changing Monsoon pattern2009 Kandy, Srilanka South Asia Water (SAWA) Fellows Training on ‘Participatory Field Research Methodology’2019 Hanoi, Vietnam Safeguarding TrainingPresentation given
2016Groundwater responses to intensive rainfall in an Asian Mega-Delta: evidence from high-frequency monitoring in the Bengal Basin.Bangkok, ThailandEvent: International Conference on Resilience of Groundwater Systems to Climate Change and Human Development2018Hydrological Assessment for Off-Stream Uses of Karatoa-Atrai River in BangladeshBeijing, ChinaEvent: International Symposium on Ecohydrology and Climate Change in 17th CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum -
Other Awards
Dec 2019Innovation Fund 2019Research grant of Tk. 20,00,000 by ICT division of GoBAug 2018SDC HUC focus Grant 2018Research grant $25000 funded by ICIMODOct 2018Individual Research Grant 2018 (W5582-2)$12000 research grant funded by The International Foundation for Science (IFS)Oct 2015Individual Research Grant 2018 (W5582)$12000 research grant funded by The International Foundation for Science (IFS)Sep 2014Commonwealth Split Site Scholarship 2014 (BDCN-2014-4)For 1 year PhD study at University College London, UKSep 2016Charles Wallace Trust Professional Visit Grant 20163 months academic short visit to London, UKJul 2011Bangabandhu Fellowship on Science & ICT 2011By Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology, GoB for Ph.D.
