Abheera Hazra

Abheera Hazra is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research interest includes hydrologic predictions of extreme conditions, designing experiments for better understanding of land and atmospheric processes through simulations using dynamical models such as NoahMP, CLSM, CESM and CAM. She has research experiences at University of California Santa Barbara’s Earth Research Institute (California) and George Mason University’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructural Engineering (Virginia). She currently leads the tasks for operational hydrologic forecasting (NHyFAS) over continental Africa and the Middle East and has authored and been part of many peer reviewed articles, as well as research presentations. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences and workshops.