The Environmental Flows Blog

My research topic has finally been finalized! I was completely aware of the fact that the initial research proposal is likely to change even though you fall in love with the original research theme. Same thing happened with me but I am okay since this topic is pretty interesting too. Of course I have to use the softwares and do few cool computer programming tricks. Since I had to do that in my previous research also, it is not that bad.  Initially it was related to simulating environmental flows on regulated rivers and now, the topic is more inclined towards the measurement of stream metabolism such as Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Community Respiration (CR) with a software known as BASE (BAyesian Single - Station Estimation) developed by Grace et al*. in 2015 in the rivers of Japan.  As of now, I, who has never used 'R' programming, am struggling with the installation of OpenBUGS. Since my the OS of my laptop is in Japanese I am finding it difficult to deciphe

A workshop was held to better understand the relationship between flows and ecology at Kathmandu, Nepal. This workshop was organised by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), BCN (Bird Conservation Nepal) and ICIMOD (International Center for Integrated Mountain Development). The organizers of this workshop shared shared their thoughts about this program and they hoped to, Have this workshop as a knowledge base to understand further about the relationship between flow ecology in the Koshi River Basin in particular.  Discuss among the different experts of Aquatic Ecosystem present and hopefully, bring a scientific evidence to pledge the Government of Nepal to change the policy. Key questions: What else do we need to know to maintain the flow and ecological assets?  Conceptual models have been created and it was discovered that scientists liked the conceptualization as they gave current understanding of the relationship between flow and