Dr. Pravi Shrestha brings over 30 years of experience in water resources and environmental engineering. His expertise includes the analysis and mitigation of flood hazards, alluvial fan flooding, open channel flow, hydraulic structures, post-wildfire flooding, erosion, and debris flows, investigation of landslides, dams, and levees, and hurricane and storm surge analysis. Well-regarded for his expertise in hydrodynamics and sediment transport, Dr. Shrestha has consulted nationally and internationally on the development and application of finite element and finite difference models for fate and transport studies in surface water systems such as lakes, river, bays, estuaries and the coastal ocean. Dr. Shrestha currently serves as an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and for the Journal of Coastal Research. He also serves on several task committees (the ASCE Standards Committee KSTAT, the ASCE Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee, and the COPRI Navigation Engineering Task Committee).
Areas of Expertise
Professional Associations
- Academy of Coastal Ocean Port & Navigation Engineers
- American Academy of Water Resources Engineer
- American Geophysical Union
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Association of State Dam Safety Officials
- Association of State Floodplain Managers
- Coastal Education and Research Foundation
- Floodplain Management Association
- Water Environment Federation
Publications
- Navigation Channel Sedimentation Task Committee. Navigation Channel Sedimentation Solutions, ASCE Press, October 2023
- Estimation of Aquifer Hydraulic Properties by Inverse Numerical Model of Aquifer Pumping Tests, ASCE Press, January 2020
- Cohesive Sediment Transport, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, May 2018
- Standard Guideline for Calculation of the Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Fine-Grained Soils, ASCE Press, January 2017
- Nautical Depth for U.S. Navigable Waterways: A Review, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, September 2015
- Conceptual Site Model for Newark Bay — Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, February 2014
- Flood Hazard Identification and Mitigation in Semi- and Arid Environments, World Scientific Publishing Co., October 2011
- The 2005 La Conchita Landslide, California: Part 1 - Geology, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment, January 2011
- The 2005 La Conchita Landslide, California: Part 2 - Modeling, Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment, January 2011
- Standard Guideline for Geostatistical Estimation and Block-Averaging of Homogeneous and Isotropic Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity, ASCE Press, January 2010
- Standard Guideline for Fitting Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Probability Functions, ASCE/EWRI Standard 50-08, ASCE Press, January 2008
See CV for additional publications.