Vishal K. Mehta
Staff Scientist
Vishal is a hydrologist and environmental modeler with eight years of experience in water resources, forest conservation and micro-hydropower for rural development. With SEI's Water and Sanitation Group in Davis, Vishal is working on the impacts of climate change on California's water supply. His expertise includes forest ecosystem sciences, distributed hydrological modeling, and the use of several open-source and commercial geographic information systems. His recent work includes modeling of a 100-year monthly dataset of reference evapotranspiration for all of India; studying the impacts of land-use change on water resources and forest ecosystems; and modeling stream flow and runoff source areas in headwaters of the New York City watersheds.
Vishal received his Ph.D. in Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University, Ithaca in 2007.