Specialization

Hydrology

Email

richa.babbar@thapar.edu

Biography

Richa Babbar is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India). She graduated in civil engineering from NIT Kurukshetra and did her master’s from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. Her Ph.D. work involved intensive fieldwork, monitoring, and modeling of water quality for its management.

Her research interests are in agricultural watershed management, especially non-point source apportioning and its management, trend analysis and forecasting of meteorological and water quality parameters, and contaminant transport studies.  She can perform spatial analysis using software such as ArcGIS/ QGIS. Her research is published in several national and international journals of repute.

Within the past 5 years, she has been a Visiting Scholar/Researcher in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Sciences at Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN (USA), and in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA).

She is a recipient of the Indo-US fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM), the Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP). She is trained for an “Innovation & Entrepreneurship” course at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Research Tags

Water quality modeling, Watershed management, Decision support Systems, Climate change study

Research Projects: 

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

1. Ajay Chalotra, Richa Babbar, Dwarikanath Ratha, Manoj Baranwal, Prangya Ranjan Rout (2023). Assessment of kinetic and statistical models for predicting breakthrough curves of bio-colloid transport through saturated porous media. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 259, 104246

2. S Walia, R Babbar, S Singh (2023). A scenario based analysis of selected Best Management Practices for reduced sediment and nutrient yield in the watershed located in the Shivalik hills, India. H2Open Journal, 6(3),463-476

3. Odai Ibrahim Al Balasmeh, Tapas Karmaker, and Richa Babbar (2023). Experimental Investigation and Modelling of Rainfall Induced Erosion of Semi-Arid Region Soil under Various Vegetative Land Covers. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(3), 1029, doi: 10.2166/hydro.2023.213.

4. A. Chalotra, D. Ratha, R. Babbar, M. Baranwal (2022). A study on transport of Escherichia coli through saturated porous Medium. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04338-x

5. R Babbar and Indrajeet Chaubey (2021). Multiple Regression analysis for predicting few water quality parameters at unmonitored sub-watershed outlets in the St Joseph river basin, USA. Geocarto International , 1-27

6. S Walia, S Singh, R Babbar (2020). Runoff Induced Soil Erosion and its Impact on the Quality of Water for Upper-Patiala-Ki-Rao Catchment Lying on Shivalik Hills. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 95(4), 385-392.

7. S Walia, S Singh, R Babbar, DC Loshali (2020). Prioritization of soil erosion vulnerable areas of upper Patiala-Ki-Rao catchment located on Shivalik Hills. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 95(5), 497-502.

8. O Al Balasmeh, R Babbar, T Karmaker (2020). A hybrid drought index for drought assessment in Wadi Shueib catchment area in Jordan. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 22(4), 937-956

9. Al Balasmeh, O., Babbar, R. & Karmaker, T. (2019). Trend analysis and ARIMA modeling for forecasting precipitation pattern in Wadi Shueib catchment area in Jordan. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 12(2), 27

10. D Ratha, A Chandra, R Babbar, A Sarkar (2018). Longitudinal dispersion subjected to rigid vegetation in a channel. KSCE-Journal of Civil Engineering 22(12), 5242-5252

11. S Walia, S Singh, D C Loshali, R Babbar (2018). Hypsometric analysis of the micro-watersheds with different management practices located on Shivalik foothills. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11, 276.

12. S Tiwari, R Babbar, G Kaur (2018). Performance evaluation of two ANFIS models for predicting Water Quality Index of River Satluj (India). Advances in Civil Engineering, 2018, Article ID 8971079, https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8971079

13. S Babbar and R Babbar (2018). Causal dynamics of CO2 source emissions and population in India using Bayesian approach. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment (Springer), 4(1),339-348

14. R Babbar and S Babbar (2017). Predicting river water quality index using data mining techniques. Environmental Earth Sciences (Springer), 76(14), 1-15

15. A Kumar, R Babbar and D Ratha (2017). Assessment of runoff potential of Tehri sub-watersheds based on geomorphology and runoff index, Disaster Advances, 10(9), 9-17.

16. R Babbar (2014). Pollution Risk Assessment based on QUAL2E-UNCAS simulations of a Tropical River in Northern India, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 186, 6771-6787.

17. R Babbar and H Joshi (2010). Mixed integer programming for pollution control of Indian Tropical River: a case study, Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies, 9(2) (Open Access).

18. R Babbar, D.S. Arya. H Joshi (2009). A Proposed Decision Support System for River Water Quality Management, Journal of Decision Systems, 18(4), 411-427

19. R Babbar and H Joshi (2008). Empirical Validation of Field Estimated Dispersion Coefficient for a Tropical River, Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, 5(3), 73-78.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Ajay Chalotra, Richa Babbar, Dwarikanath Ratha, Manoj Baranwal (2022). Effect of Chlorpyrifos pesticide on bio-tranportation of Escherichia Coli through porous media. HYDRO 2022, 27^th International conference on Hydraulics, water resources, Environmental and coastal engineering, PEC Chandigarh, December 22-24, 2022.

2. O Al Balasmeh, T Karmaker, R Babbar (2020). Estimation of reservoir capacity and sediment deposition using remote sensing data. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, 2020, ASCE sponsored, Henderson, Nevada, May 17–21, 2020. 

3. O Al Balasmeh, R Babbar, T Karmaker (2020). Investigation of Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Using Remote Sensing and GIS in Wadi Araba Sub-basin, North River Side Basin, Jordan. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, 2020, ASCE sponsored, Henderson, Nevada, May 17–21, 2020. 

4. O Al Balasmeh, T Karmaker, R Babbar (2020). Designing alternate method to minimize Overland Flow and increase groundwater recharge in SmartCities: An Experimental approach. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, 2020, ASCE sponsored, Henderson, Nevada, May 17–21, 2020. 

5. R Babbar, M Y H Ali (2017). A multivariate statistical approach to evaluate the impact of tributaries on water quality of a tropical river, Environmental Conservation, Clean Water, Air & Soil (CleanWAS), IWA Publishing.

6. R Babbar (2013). A Bayesian model to evaluate water quality of polluted river in Northern India, 35^Th IAHR World Congress, Chengdu, China September 8-13, 2013.

7. R Babbar, R Vikal, A Thube (2010). An Electrical Analogy for flow augmentation in tropical rivers, 9^th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, Prague, Czec Republic, May 16-19, 2010.

8. R Babbar and H Joshi (2009). Integrating socio-economic aspects for decision support: Underlying theories and principles, 33 ^rd IAHR World Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug 9-14, 2009

Book Chapter

1. Dwarikanath Ratha, Richa Babbar, K.S. Hariprasad, C.S.P. Ojha, Manoj Baranwal, Prangya Ranjan Rout, Aditya Parihar (2023). Mathematical Transport System of Microconstituents. Micro constituents in the Environment: Occurrence, Fate, Removal and Management (John Wiley & Sons, Inc), pp: 107-131, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119825289.ch5