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Nandita Basu is a Ecohydrologist who has training as a Civil Engineer and works on understanding causes of and developing solutions to water availability and quality issues.

Education
Basu earned her Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1997. She went on to Indian Institute of Technology where she earned her MTech in Environmental Engineering in 2001. In 2006 she received her PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. She wrote a dissertation entitled "Flux based site assessment and design of an integrated remediation system" in which "the applicability of contaminant flux and mass discharge as tools for site characterization and remediation design was evaluated through field experiments and modeling analyses."

Career
Basu is currently an Associate Professor of Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at the University of Waterloo. She is interested in studying the ways in which shifting anthropogenic land use and climate change affect water availability and quality. Her training as a Civil and Environmental Engineer give her the expertise to not only study the causes of water issues but also offer cost effective solutions to those experiencing the stark effects of these issues. Basu's lab, The Basu Lab, at the University of Waterloo works at this intersection of causes of and solutions to water availability and quality issues.

One highly cited study that came out of the Basu lab and Basu worked on as second author was "The Nitrogen Legacy: Emerging Evidence of Nitrogen Accumulation in Anthropogenic Landscapes". This study analyzes where the surplus soil organic nitrogen from fertilization of crop fields goes. Before this study it had long been a mystery where exactly this nitrogen went though scientists knew that it was not flowing into oceans. This study found large-scale evidence of nitrogen build up in the root zones of agricultural soil which could account for this aforementioned missing nitrogen. For example, 30 years of accumulated soil organic nitrogen in the Mississippi River Basin (where this study was conducted) would lead to a biogeochemical lag of 35 years for 99% of that nitrogen.

Formerly, Professor Basu worked as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Iowa.

Publications

 * "Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity"
 * "Hydrologic and biogeochemical functioning of intensively managed catchments: A synthesis of top‐down analyses"
 * "Flux-based assessment at a manufacturing site contaminated with trichloroethylene"
 * "Parsimonious modeling of hydrologic responses in engineered watersheds: Structural heterogeneity versus functional homogeneity"
 * "Temporal evolution of DNAPL source and contaminant flux distribution: Impacts of source mass depletion"

Awards and Honors
Professor Basu has earned many distinctions including
 * Prof. S. Neogi Memorial Award from Alumni Association
 * N.C.E. Bengal & Jadavpur University in 1997
 * Sarada Memorial Silver Medal from Jadavpur University in 1997
 * Andrews Fellowship from Purdue University in 2001-2003
 * Joseph P. Chu Fellowship from Purdue University in 2003
 * Ludwig Kruhe Fellowship from Purdue University in 2005-2006
 * Gordon Research Conference Travel Award in 2009
 * CUAHSI Young Career Fellowship in 2010
 * Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2014
 * Water Resources Research Editors' Choice Award in 2017.