Dr. Suresh Sharma
Associate Professor
Rayen School of Engineering
Moser Hall 2413
phone: (330) 941-1741
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Education
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2012
Auburn University Civil/water resources,Ph.D.
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2005
Tribhuvan University Civil/water resources, M.S.
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2000
Tribhuvan University Civil B.S.
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Awards and Honors
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2024
Youngstown State University
Student award, Diversity Scholorship for Mr. Umesh R Joshi at YSU, supervised by Dr. Sharma
Student received this award. I was just supervisor.
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2024
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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2023
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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2023
Youngstown State University
Distinguished Professor in Scholorship
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2022
Youngstown State University
Student award, Three Minute Thesis Finalists Mohd Ansari, Rajati Dahal supervised by Dr. Sharma
I was just supervisor. Graduate students were listed as finalists
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2022
Youngstown State University
Student Award, Three Minute Thesis at YSU, Fall 2022 received by Mr. Samir Mainali and supervised by Dr. Sharma
I was just a supervisor. Student received this award.
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2022
Ohio River Basin Consortium for Research and Education (ORBCRE)
Student award, Mrs. Rajati Dahal, 2nd in ORBCRE conference under poster competition, supervised by Dr. Sharma
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2022
Youngstown State University
Student Award, Samir Mainali and Rajati Dahal, Second in QUEST, 2022 supervised by Dr. Sharma
Students received this award. I was just a supervisor.
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2021
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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2020
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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2019
Youngstown State University
STEM Research Award
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2018
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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2017
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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2015
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship, 9 WH
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Intellectual Contributions
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2024
"Exploring PCSWMM for Large Mixed Land Use Watershed by Establishing Monitoring Sites to Evaluate Stream Water Quality"
M. Ansari, S. Sharma, F. Armstrong, M. Delisio, S. Ehsani
Hydrology, MDPI, volume 11, issue 7, p. 104
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2024
"Investigating the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Soil Salinity and Phragmites Using Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Mentor Marsh Wetland, Ohio, USA"
R. Bhatt, S. Sharma, P. Kimosop
Cambridge Scholars Publishing -
2024
"Exploring PCSWMM for Large Mixed Land Use Watershed by Establishing Monitoring Sites to Evaluate Stream Water Quality"
M. Ansari, S. Sharma, F. Armstrong, M. Delisio, S. Ehsani
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2023
"Climate Change Effects on Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) Curves for the Lake Erie Coast Using Various Climate Models"
S. Mainali, S. Sharma
Water, volume 15, issue 23
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2023
"Monitoring Water and Soil Salinity across Mentor Marsh to Investigate Their Temporal and Spatial Variability"
S. Sharma, R. Bhatt
Water, volume 15, issue 23
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2023
"Water Quality Modeling and Monitoring"
X. Fang, J. Hu, S. Sharma
Water, volume 15, issue 18, p. 3216 -
2023
"Monitoring, Modeling and Planning Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Atwood and Tappan Lake Watersheds with Stakeholders Engagements"
S. Sharma, S. Bijukshe, S. Puppala
Water, volume 15, issue 17, p. 3028
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2021
"Monitoring an ungagged coastal marsh to analyze the salinity interaction of the marsh with Lake Erie"
P. Khadka, S. Sharma, T. Mathis
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, volume 193, p. 1--22
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2021
"Investigating the impact of climate change on river ice thickness across the Northern Belt of United States"
M. Nalbant, S. Sharma
ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, volume 29, issue 3, p. 217--231
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2021
"Flood damage assessment in HAZUS using various resolution of data and one-dimensional and two-dimensional HEC-RAS depth grids"
E. Ghimire, S. Sharma
Natural Hazards Review, volume 22, issue 1, p. 04020054
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2021
"Evaluation of one-dimensional and two-dimensional HEC-RAS models to predict flood travel time and inundation area for flood warning system"
E. Ghimire, S. Sharma, N. Lamichhane
ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, volume 28, issue 1, p. 110--126
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2021
"Effects of climate change in winter ice cover and ice thickness in flooding: a case study of Grand River, Ohio, USA"
N. Lamichhane, S. Sharma, A. Subedi
ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, volume 28, issue sup1, p. 503--517
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2021
"Assessment of climate change impact on high flows in a watershed characterized by flood regulating reservoirs"
S. Shrestha, S. Sharma
International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, volume 14, issue 1, p. 178--191
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2020
"Monitoring ungauged watersheds for investigating the variability of flow and salinity to implement the possible removal of salt fill sites"
H. Dhungel, S. Sharma, R. Bhatt, K. Dhakal
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, volume 192, p. 1--19
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2019
"Quantification of the Effect of Bridge Pier Encasement on Headwater Elevation Using HEC-RAS"
A. Subedi, S. Sharma, A. Islam
Hydrology, volume 6, issue 1
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2019
"Impact of global climate change on stream low flows: A case study of the great Miami river watershed, Ohio, USA"
S. Shrestha, S. Sharma, R. Gupta, R. Bhattarai
International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, volume 12, issue 1, p. 84--95
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2018
"Modeling Streamflow and Salinity in the Mentor Marsh Watershed"
S. Sharma, M. Dhungel
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2018
"Effect of input data in hydraulic modeling for flood warning systems"
N. Lamichhane, S. Sharma
Hydrological sciences journal, volume 63, issue 6, p. 938--956
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2018
"Characterization of temporal and spatial variability of phosphorus loading to lake erie from the western basin using wavelet transform methods"
S. Sharma, D. Nalley, N. Subedi
Hydrology, volume 5, issue 3, p. 50
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2017
"Surface and subsurface transport of nitrate loss from the selected bioenergy crop fields: systematic review, analysis and future directions"
S. Sharma, I. Chaubey
Agriculture, volume 7, issue 3, p. 27
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2017
"Scenario analysis for assessing the impact of hydraulic fracturing on stream low flows using the SWAT model"
A. Shrestha, S. Sharma, C. McLean, B. Kelly, S. Martin
Hydrological Sciences Journal, volume 62, issue 5, p. 849--861
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2017
"Development of flood warning system and flood inundation mapping using field survey and LiDAR data for the Grand River near the city of Painesville, Ohio"
N. Lamichhane, S. Sharma
Hydrology, volume 4, issue 2, p. 24
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2016
"Teleconnection of Instream Total Organic Carbon Loads with El Ni\~no Southern Oscillation (ENSO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)"
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava
Transactions of the ASABE, volume 59, issue 1, p. 81--95
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2016
"Impact of global climate change on stream low flows in a hydraulic fracking affected watershed"
S. Sharma, A. Shrestha, C. McLean
Journal of Water Resource and Hydraulic Engineering, volume 5, issue 1
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2016
"Hydrologic simulation approach for El Ni\~no Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-affected watershed with limited raingauge stations"
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava, X. Fang, L. Kalin
Hydrological Sciences Journal, volume 61, issue 6, p. 991--1000
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2015
"Stream low flows and regulatory low flows estimation for national pollutant discharge elimination systems (NPDES) permitting in changing climate"
S. Sharma, K. Khanal, T. Marucci
Journal of Water Resource and Hydraulic Engineering Oct, volume 4, issue 4, p. 432--449
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2015
"Performance comparison of adoptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) with loading simulation program C++ (LSPC) model for streamflow simulation in El Ni\~no Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-affected watershed"
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava, X. Fang, L. Kalin
Expert Systems with Applications, volume 42, issue 4, p. 2213--2223
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2015
"Long-range hydrologic forecasting in El Ni\~no Southern Oscillation-affected coastal watersheds: comparison of climate model and weather generator approach"
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava, X. Fang, L. Kalin
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, volume 20, issue 12, p. 06015006
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2015
"Hydrologic modeling to evaluate the impact of hydraulic fracturing on stream low flows: challenges and opportunities for a simulation study"
S. Sharma, A. Shrestha, C. McLean, S. Martin
American Journal of Environmental Sciences, volume 11, issue 4, p. 199
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2014
"Predicting total organic carbon load with El Nino southern oscillation phase using hybrid and fuzzy logic approaches"
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava, L. Kalin, X. Fang, E. Elias
Transactions of the ASABE, volume 57, issue 4, p. 1071--1085
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2013
"Impact of bioenergy crops expansion on water quality in agricultural regions of Indiana"
S. Sharma, I. Chaubey, R. Cbin
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2013
"Deriving spatially distributed precipitation data using the artificial neural network and multilinear regression models"
S. Sharma, S. Isik, P. Srivastava, L. Kalin
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, volume 18, issue 2, p. 194--205
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2012
"Incorporating climate variability for point-source discharge permitting in a complex river system"
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava, X. Fang, L. Kalin
Transactions of the ASABE, volume 55, issue 6, p. 2213--2228
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2010
"Incorporating Seasonal to Inter-annual (SI) Climate Variability in Point Source Discharge Permitting for Effective TMDL Development and Implementation."
S. Sharma, P. Srivastava, X. Fang
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Professional Service
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2025 - 2025
Reviewer, Grant Proposal
Ohio Water Resources Center -
2024 - 2024
Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer
EWRI -
2024 - present
Reviewer, Journal Article
Water -
2023 - 2024
Reviewer, Grant Proposal
NSF-GRFP Proposal Review -
2021 - 2022
ORBCRE Conference Co-Chair at YSU -
2021 - 2023
Editor, Journal Editor
Water Journal, Guest Editor -
2020 - present
Committee Member, EWRI, Oral Curve number Task Sub-Committee -
2019 - present
Task Committee Member, EWRI, Curve Number Task Committee -
2018 - 2019
Officer, President/Elect/Past
American Society of Professional Engineers, Environmental Water Resources Institute -
2016 - 2016
ORBCRE Conference Co-Chair at YSU -
2016 - 2018
Committee Chair
American Society of Professional Engineers, Environmental Water Resources Institute -
2016 - present
Member
Committee Member, EWRI, Watershed Management Technical Committee -
2015 - 2021
Reviewers to various Proposals -
2015 - 2023
Member
Ohio River Basin Consortium for Research and Education (ORBCRE) -
2014 - 2016
Officer, Vice President
American Society of Professional Engineers, Environmental Water Resources Institute -
2013 - 2021
Reviewer, Journal Article
Reviewers to various Scientific Journals
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Public Service
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2023 - 2024
Outreach
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Dr. Suresh Sharma is an associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Program of Youngstown State University, Ohio. Dr. Sharma worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Purdue University, Indiana for a year after completing his PhD study in Civil Engineering.
Dr. Sharma received his PhD ("Incorporating El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-Induced Climate Variability for Long-Range Hydrologic Forecast and Stream Water Quality Protection") from Auburn University, USA. Before joining PhD, Dr. Sharma worked in Nepal Government as a Civil Engineer being involved in various multi-disciplinary projects such as rural road, bridge, irrigation, water supply and sanitation. Dr. Sharma received his Masters degree in Water Resources Engineering (Civil) in 2005 from the Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Nepal, and also received Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in 2000 from the same university.
- Research Focus
Complex hydrologic and water quality modeling using various types of data-driven, conceptual, physically based and distributed, and semi-distributed watershed models in the context of climate change and variability.
- Expertise
Dr. Sharma is interested in complex hydrologic and water quality modeling using various types of data-driven, conceptual, physically based and distributed, and semi-distributed watershed models in the context of climate change and variability. Dr. Sharma also worked in a research-related to hydraulic fracking and its impact on water resources, early flood warning systems, sediment and nutrient loading reduction in lakes and reservoir using best management practices (BMPs).
Currently, Dr. Sharma is working on the salinity prediction of the marsh area in the Mentor Marsh, Ohio. The overall goal of this project is to develop hydrologic and hydrodynamic models and predict salinity variation across the marsh in various locations, especially by incorporating the seiche influence of Lake Erie and upstream salinity loadings.
In addition, Dr. Sharma conducts studies related to the impact of climate change/climate variability on water resources and water quality (NPDES permit and TMDL development, organic carbon simulation) including watershed modeling using various kinds of models/programming tools and technique. Dr. Sharma’s research also includes the application of various climate forcing functions including ENSO, NAO, PDO for TOC load monitoring, long-range streamflow forecasting using climate models, climate variability-based rainfall-runoff modeling, hydrological time series analysis with ENSO (wavelet analysis), and mathematical modeling for streamflow forecasting with ENSO application.Dr. Sharma has experience in watershed modeling, hydrodynamic, in-stream water quality modeling, and river modeling in tidally influenced streams. Some of his research interests include nutrient modeling, non-point source modeling/sediment modeling/DO modeling, best management practices, sediment transport, and anthropogenic influence on nutrient cycle and management. Besides, Dr. Sharma’s research includes land use/land cover change impact analysis, remotely sensed precipitation datasets (NEXRAD) and its application in hydrology, spatial variability, and its impact in hydrologic analysis.