Kshitij Dahal
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777 E University Dr Mail 3005 Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 3005Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentCivil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
Ira A Fulton Engineering
- PhD, Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA (Expected 2026)
- BE, Civil Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2015 - 2019)
water resources, natural hazards, remote sensing, machine learning, sustainable development
Pradhan, P., Joshi, S., Dahal, K., Hu, Y., Subedi, D. R., Putra, M. P. I. F., Vaidya, S., Pant, L. P., Dhakal, S., Hubacek, K., Rupakheti, M., Roberts, D., & van den Hurk, B. (2024). Policy Relevance of IPCC Reports for the SDGs and Beyond. Resources, Environment and Sustainability. [Accepted].
Pradhan, P., Subedi, D. R., Dahal, K., Hu, Y., Gurung, P., Pokharel, S., Kafle, S., Khatri, B., Basyal, S., Gurung, M., & Joshi, A. (2024). Urban agriculture matters for sustainable development. Cell Reports Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100217
Dahal, K.*, Talchabhadel, R., Pradhan, P., Parajuli, S., Shrestha, D., Chhetri, R., Gautam, A. P., Tamrakar, R., Gurung, S., & Kumar, S. (2024). Nepal's carbon stock and biodiversity are under threat from climate change exacerbated forest fires. Information Geography. [Under review] https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4572353
Dahal, K.*, Sharma, S., Shakya, A., Talchabhadel, R., Adhikari, S., Pokharel, A., Sheng, Z., Pradhan, A. M. S., & Kumar, S. (2023). Identification of groundwater potential zones in data-scarce mountainous region using explainable machine learning. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130417
Dahal, K.*, & Gnyawali, K.R., (2023) Mapping landslide susceptibility and critical infrastructure for spatial decision-making, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23789689.2023.2181552
Talchabhadel, R., Maskey, S., Gouli, M. R., Dahal, K.*, Thapa, A., Sharma, S., Dixit, A. M., & Kumar, S. (2023). Multimodal multiscale characterization of cascading hazard on mountain terrain. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 14(1), 2162443. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2022.2162443
Gnyawali, K., Dahal, K., Talchabhadel, R., & Nirandjan, S. (2023). Framework for rainfall-triggered landslide-prone critical infrastructure zonation. The Science of the Total Environment, 872, 162242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162242
Teck, V., Poortinga, A., Riano, C., Dahal, K., Legaspi, R. M. B., Ann, V., & Chea, R. (2023). Land use and land cover change implications on agriculture and natural resource management of Koah Nheaek, Mondulkiri province, Cambodia. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 29, 100895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100895
Bera, S., Gnyawali, K., Dahal, K., Melo, R., Li-Juan, M., Guru, B., & Ramana, G. V. (2023). Assessment of shelter location-allocation for multi-hazard emergency evacuation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 84, 103435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103435
Pradhan, P., Callaghan, M., Hu, Y., Dahal, K., Hunecke, C., Reusswig, F., Lotze-Campen, H., & Kropp, J. P. (2023). A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food. Global Food Security, 38, 100700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100700
Pandey, H. P., Gnyawali, K., Dahal, K., & Pokhrel, N. P. (2022). Vegetation loss and recovery analysis from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake (7.8 Mw) triggered landslides. Land Use Policy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837722002125
Sharma, S., Dahal, K., Nava, L., Gouli, M. R., Talchabhadel, R., Panthi, J., Roy, T., & Ghimire, G. R. (2022). Natural Hazards Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science. Earth and Space Science, 9(1), e2021EA002114. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002114 [SPOTLIGHT 1] [SPOTLIGHT 2]
Talchabhadel, R., Panthi, J., Sharma, S., Ghimire, G. R., Baniya, R., Dahal, P., Baniya, M. B., K. C., S., Jha, B., Kaini, S., Dahal, K., Gnyawali, K. R., Parajuli, B., & Kumar, S. (2021). Insights on the Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes and Anthropogenic Activities on Sediment Yield of a River Basin. Earth, 2(1), 32–50. https://doi.org/10.3390/earth2010003
TA - Spring 2024 - Numerical Methods for Engrs (CEE 384), Arizona State University
TA - Fall 2023 - Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers (CEE 341), Arizona State University
UGTA - Spring 2019 - Engineering Hydrology (CE 606), Tribhuvan University, Nepal
UGTA - Spring 2019 - Engineering Surveying (CE 504), Tribhuvan University, Nepal
UGTA - Fall 2020 - GIS and Remote Sensing (CE 78501), Tribhuvan University, Nepal
UGTA - Spring 2021 - Engineering Hydrology (CE 606), Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Full Scholarship to the Snow Measurement Field School, CUAHSI, Mammoth Lakes, California (5 days residential school) - 2025
Outstanding Poster Award for “A Framework to Improve Hydrological Forecasting with Deep Learning”, ASU Flow 2024, Arizona State University, AZ, USA - 2024
Travel grant, CIROH Developers Conference, The University of Alabama, USA - 2024
Travel Grant, Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle Chapman, HI, USA - 2024
Water Quality Tiny Grant (HaikuYourResearch), American Geophysical Union, AGU Fall Meeting 2023 - 2023
Recipient of the Graphical Abstract Competition Prize, American Geophysical Union - 2023
Full Funding Award for Summer Graduate Writing Camp (June 12-16, 2023) at Arizona State University - 2023
Hackathon Competition Winner (1st place), SpaceHack for Sustainability, Arizona State University - 2023
Travel Grant, DRI Technical Conference 2022, India - 2022
Research Grant, National scale landslide database and susceptibility map of Nepal ($10,000) by CDRI fellowship - 2021
Hackathon Competition Winner (1st place), 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences, USA - 2021
Travel Grant, 36th International Geological Congress, India (The event was canceled due to COVID-19) - 2020
Editorial Advisory Board, Regional Environmental Change, Springer Nature
- Community Science Fellow, American Geophysical Union, May 2024 – Present
- Regional Representative (South East Asia), Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) Community, Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Coordinator, Capacity Building, U-Inspire Alliance, May 2019 – Jan 2023
Co-advisor, Vanna Teck (MS), National University of Battambang, Cambodia, 2019-2021