Nandita Basu

Dr. Nandita Basu is a Professor of Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology at the University of Waterloo. She is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hydrology, and Director of the Collaborative Water Program at the University of Waterloo.

Her research expertise lies in the fields of water sustainability and ecohydrology, where her team has laid critical groundwork to address both fundamental science and applied management questions on nutrient pollution in anthropogenic landscapes. She is an environmental engineer, who uses data science, process modeling and Earth Observation/Remote Sensing to explore how climate, land use, and management impacts surface and groundwater quality across agricultural, urban and forested landscapes, and from watershed to the Regional (subnational) and global scales.