BUET-IWFM

RESEARCH

  • REACH: Improving Water Security for the Poor

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Oxford University, Bangladesh Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, Affiliates: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b); Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, DU; Department of Development Studies, DU

    Duration: June, 2015 - December, 2024

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  • Remote sensing assessment and capacity building for sustainable development in Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

    Duration: January 2022 - December 2024

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  • Integrated flood services and climate change adaptation for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Duration: January 2022 - December 2024

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  • Center for Climate and Health GlObal Research on Disasters (CORD)

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Tufts University, USA , Affiliate: IWFM, BUET

    Duration: September 2023 - September 2026

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  • Web-based Agricultural Information System for Bangladesh (WebAIS)

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Technische Hochschule Koln-TH Koln, Germany, BD Lead: IWFM, BUET; Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Affiliates: Tehnischen Universitat Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt); University of Bonn

    Duration: June 2024 - August 2026

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  • Improving Water Management in Micro Watersheds of Southwest Bangladesh through Physical Intervention and Community Participation

    Research Collaborator: Lead: IWFM, BUET, Affiliate: Center of Resilience for Youth (CRY), Bangladesh

    Duration: April 2024- December 2024

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  • Implementation of geospatial technique in flood and drought monitoring for the safety of nuclear installations.

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), Affiliate: IWFM, BUET

    Duration: November, 2023 - June, 2027

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  • Preparatory Survey on Chattogram – Cox’s Bazar Highway Improvement Project (Phase 2)

    Research Collaborator: Unknown

    Duration: September 2023 - November 2024

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  • UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: March, 2019 - December, 2024

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  • Field Based Applied Research on “Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)” technology for increasing cropping intensity of Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliate: Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC)

    Duration: December, 2020 - December, 2023

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  • Sediment Discontinuity in Ganges River and its Impact on Flooding Patterns

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: January 2022 - June 2025

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  • Towards sustainable urban water management in Hindukush Himalayan (HKH) Region: a participatory approach to improving water security in mountain cities

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India; and Chattogram University, Bangladesh

    Duration: October 2021 - September 2023

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  • Understanding flood risk in human-altered landscapes from cities to farms: inferences from satellites and machine learning

    Research Collaborator: Lead: University of Arizona, Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: November, 2021 - March, 2025

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  • Academic Alliance on Anticipatory Action

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Tufts University, USA, Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: September, 2021 - September, 2023

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  • Monitoring and assessment of morphological changes of the Feni River near the proposed LGED two bridges

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: January, 2022 - June, 2025

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  • Development of web-application of Early Warning System for River Erosion (EWS-RE)

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, Affiliate: Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), BUET

    Duration: July, 2022 to June, 2024

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  • Early Prediction of Riverbank Erosion in Poorly Gauged River Using Free Satellite Data

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

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  • Environmental Sustainability through Enhancing Local Capacity in Textile Chemical and Waste Management

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Department of Chemical Engineering, BUET

    Duration: May, 2018 - April, 2021

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  • Study on abstraction-induced recharge as an adaptation response to climate variation for shallow aquifer in Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: October, 2018 - December, 2021

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  • Impacts of Hydro-Limnological Changes on Breeding Performance of Major Carps in the River Halda

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI), Chandpur, Bangladesh; Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: December, 2018 - June, 2021

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  • GWMap: Applying Machine Learning to map groundwater levels in Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET; Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: July 2019 - December 2021

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  • Development of IoT enabled data logger to monitor groundwater and analysis of the collected data

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliates: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, and Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)

    Duration: December 2019 - December 2021

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  • A Nation that rebuilds its soil rebuilds itself addressing the land/energy/water disconnect across the globe

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: November, 2019 - July, 2021

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  • Low-Cost Automated Weather Monitoring System Development

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT); Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: May, 2018 - June, 2021

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  • DeltaCap

    Research Collaborator: Lead: UNESCO Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE); Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Department of Water Resources Engineering, BUET; Alterra Wageningen UR, Delta Alliance Bangladesh Wing, Power, Climate Adaptation Services Foundation

    Duration: January, 2017 - April, 2021

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  • Enhancing efficiency of Subsurface Arsenic Removal (SAR) Technology through Chemical Modification

    Research Collaborator: Lead: North South University; Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: January, 2020 - January, 2021

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  • Development of River Health Card for Assessing River Pollution Status and Prioritize Interventions

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: January, 2019 - November, 2020

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  • Adaptive Delta Management: Development, Acculturation, and Dissemination in Bangladesh and Indonesia

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft); Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; University of Twente; Utrecht University; Deltares; Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia; Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)

    Duration: January, 2015 - June, 2019

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  • Estimation of SLR in Bangladesh using Satellite Altimetry Data

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: July, 2018 - June, 2020

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  • Water Energy Food-nexus Perspective: Path Making for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Country Actions in Asia

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan; Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: September, 2017 - June, 2019

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  • Diagnosing Water security in hard to reach mountainous areas with an environmental security framework

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliate: Sikkim University, India

    Duration: August, 2018 - November, 2019

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  • Research on Disaster Prevention / Mitigation against Floods and Storm Surges in Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Kyoto University, Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: 2015-2019

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