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Sonia Binte Murshed

Associate Professor| Institute of Water and Flood Management

Bangladesh University Of Engineering and Technology

sonia@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

+880-2-9665650 (ext. 6994), Fax: +880-2-9665601, +880-2-8613026

Profile Last Updated: 29.12.2023

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D.,Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2019

    Utah State University, USA

  • M.Sc., Water Resources Development, 2008

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

  • B.Sc.,Civil Engineering, 2004

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Integrated Water Resources Management, Transboundary Water Management, Disaster Management (Anticipatory Actions and Adaptive Management), Mainstreaming Gender in Water Resources Management

COURSES

  • Integrated Water Resources Management

  • Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management

  • Socio-economic Analysis

  • Humanitarian Response to Disasters

  • Application of Remote Sensing in Climate Change

EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Professor

    Institute of Water and Flood Management

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

    October 10, 2012 to December 2021

  • Lecturer

    Institute of Water and Flood Management

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

    June 30, 2009 - October 9, 2012

  • Executive Engineer

    HARB Trade International Limited

    December 2005 - December 2006

  • Co-ordination Engineer

    Nagar Design & Developments Ltd

    January, 2005 - August, 2005

  • Associate Professor

    Institute of Water and Flood Management

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

    January, 2022 - Present

PUBLICATIONS

  • Murshed, S. B., Rahman, M. R. and Kaluarachchi, J. J. (2019) “Changes in Hydrology of the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh and Corresponding Impacts on Water Resources,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, JAWRA featured Collection: Climate Change Solutions.

  • Murshed, S. B. and Kaluarachchi, J. J. (2018) “Scarcity of Fresh Water Resources in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh,” Water Security, volumes 4-5, pp 8-18, Science Direct. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2018.11.002

  • Nowreen S, Murshed S.B., Islam A.S, Bhaskaran B, Hasan MA (2014), “Changes of Rainfall Extremes around the Haor Basin Areas of Bangladesh using Multi-member Ensemble RCM,” Theoretical and Applied Climatology 119 (1-2), Springer, Pages 363-377; doi:10.1007/s00704- 014-1101-7.

  • Nowreen,S., Murshed, S.B., Islam, A.S., Hasan, M.A. and Sarker, T.K. (2012), “An indicator of Climate Change in the South West Region of Bangladesh”, The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses” Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 47-60, 2012, (ISSN: 1835-7156).

  • Murshed, S.B., and Khan, M.S. (2009), “Water Use Conflict between Agriculture and Fisheries in a Selected Water Resources Development Project in Bangladesh”. SAWAS 1 (2):159-183, 2009, Volume 1, Issue 2

  • Afsari, N, Murshed, S.B, Uddin, S.M. N and Hasan, M. (2022), Opportunities and Barriers Against Successive Implementation of Rainwater Harvesting Options to Ensure Water Security in Southwestern Coastal Region of Bangladesh. Frontiers in Water:811918.doi: 10.3389/frwa.2022.811918

  • Nahin, K.T.K., Islam, S.B., Ahmed, S., Mondal, M.S., Murshed, S.B. and Nowreen, S. (2022), Voluntary immobility despite hazard: a case of Jamuna floodplain in Bangladesh, GeoJournal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10820-3

  • Kashem, S., Tahsin, N., Subah, Z., Murshed, S.B., Nowreen, S. and Mondal, M.S. (2022), Assessing the right to water of the urban poor in Dhaka city, GeoJournal, https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s10708-022-10804-3

  • Coughlan de Perez, E., Harrison, L., Berse, K., Easton-Calabria, E., Marunye, J., Marake, M., Murshed, S.B., Shampa, , Zauisomue, E.-H. (2022), Adapting to climate change through anticipatory action: The potential use of weather-based early warnings, Weather and Climate Extremes,doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100508.

  • E. Coughlan de Perez, K.B. Berse, L. Angelico C. Depante, E. Easton-Calabria, E. Pierre R. Evidente, T. Ezike, D. Heinrich, C. Jack, A. Mahar Francisco A. Lagmay, S. Lendelvo, J. Marunye, D.G. Maxwell, S. Binte Murshed, C. Garimoi Orach, M. Pinto, L.B. Poole, K. Rathod, Shampa, C. Van Sant, (2022), Learning from the past in moving to the future: Invest in communication and response to weather early warnings to reduce death and damage, Climate Risk Management, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100461

  • Cremin, E., Sumana, B., Abhra, C., O'Connor, J., Bui, L.H.T., Hua, H.H., Huynh, D.V., Murshed, S.B., Vu, A., Vân, H. L. T., Mashfiqus, S., Sebesvari, Z., Large, A. and Renaud, F. (2023), Aligning the Global Delta Risk Index with SDG and SFDRR Global frameworks to assess risk to socio-ecological systems in river deltas. Accepted for publication in Sustainability Science, Springer Nature