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Dr Santosh Aryal

/Santosh Aryal is a surface water hydrologist/

https://people.csiro.au/a/s/santosh-aryal

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Biography

Santosh Aryal is a surface water hydrologist with over 25 years of experience in hydrology and water resources with a strong research focus on drought and low-flow hydrology across Australia.

Santosh's key contributions are in:

o Evaluation of streamflow behaviour due to climate and other changes in the Murray-Darling
Basin.

o Low flow modelling, and drought propagation behaviour across Australia.

o Bioregional Assessment (lead surface water hydrologist: Northern Inland Catchments, NSW).

o Pilbara Water Resources Assessment in Western Australia.

o Southwest Western Australian Sustainable Yields.

o Effect of urbanisation on water resources in Southeast Queensland.

o An independent review of water resources policies of a NRM agency in South Australia.

Santosh has published several research papers in high-quality international water and hydrology journals.

Current Roles

  • Project Leader
    Study of propagation and other behaviours of droughts across Australia.

Academic Qualifications

  • 1998

    PhD
    Monash University

  • 1987

    Master of Engineering
    Asian Institute of Technology

  • 1985

    Bachelor of Engineering
    University of Roorkee (IIT Roorke)