BUET-IWFM

RESEARCH

  • 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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  • NIHR Global Health Research Centre on NCDs and Environmental Change

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Imperial College London and The George Institute for Global Health, India International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, University of Brawijaya, and Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research

    Duration: December 2024- December 2026

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  • Anticipatory Action for Health in a Changing Climate

    Duration: November 2024- April 2026

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  • Application and Updating of the CCM for Cyclone Impact Prediction and the DFRM for the Risk-based Riverine Flood Warning in Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: FOREWARN , Collaborator :IWFM, BUET

    Duration: April 2025- December 2025

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  • Pilot and scale up Cyclone Classifier Model (CCM) and Dynamic Flood Risk Model (DFRM) for location-specific, impact-based cyclone, storm surge, and flood risk and impact assessment to support early action mechanism

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Practical Action, Collaborator: IWFM, BUET

    Duration: April 2025- December 2025

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  • Assessing Sedimentation in Long-Term Morphological Time-Scale in GBM Delta

    Research Collaborator: Lead: WARPO , Collaborator: IWFM, BUET

    Duration: May 2025- April 2027

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  • Improvement of Inundation Forecast to Develop Flood Resilient Society under Climate Change.

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Kagawa University, Japan , Collaborator: University of Dhaka

    Duration: May 2025- April 2030

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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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  • 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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  • Promoting Resilience of Vulnerable Through Access to Infrastructure, Improved Skills and Information (PROVATi³)

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

    Duration: September, 2019 - June, 2022

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  • Research Project on Developing Flash Flood Early Warning System (FFEWS), Capacity Building and Knowledge Management for the Haor Region of Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliates: Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB); Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD); Institute of Water Modeling (IWM)

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  • ENHANCE-ENabling Humanitarian Attributes for Nurturing Community-based Engineering

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

    Duration: November 15, 2018 - May 31, 2023

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  • Understanding the Hydro-climatic Drivers of Cholera Outbreaks

    Research Collaborator: Lead: University of Notre Dame, The United States of America (USA); Affiliate: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b); Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: May, 2019 - March, 2023

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  • Research on Water-related Disaster Mitigation and Environment Symbiosis Technology in Rural Bangladesh

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

    Duration: October, 2019 - March, 2023

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  • Assessing Health Impacts of Urban Flooding under Changing Climate: A Case Study in Dhaka City

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

    Duration: October 2021 - May 2022

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  • Living Polders: Dynamic Polder Management for Sustainable Livelihoods, Applied to Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Utrecht University; Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, TNO Geological Survey, Netherlands

    Duration: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2021

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  • CORE Bangladesh: COmmunity REsilience through Rapid Prototyping of Flood Proofing Technologies

    Research Collaborator: Lead: UNESCO-IHE (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education); Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Delft University of Technology, HKVLijn, Netherlands

    Duration: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2021

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  • Oasis Platform for Climate and Catastrophe Risk Assessment – Asia

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Oasis Loss Modeling Framework Ltd., The United Kingdom (UK); Affiliate: Department of Civil Engineering, BUET

    Duration: January, 2019 - December, 2021

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  • Research on Sediment Distribution and Management in South-West Region of Bangladesh

    Research Collaborator: Lead: Water Resources Planning Organisation (WARPO); Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET

    Duration: July, 2019 - December, 2021

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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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