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o   Forum 86 Research Excellence Award 2020 received on 06 February 2021

  • Two Publication Incentives 2020-2021 by BUET received on 28 January 2023
  • Best Oral Presentation award at ACEER Conference 2021 on 28 July 2021

 

 

Research Grants

 

  • Earth Science Innovation Award 2023: Art of the Possible Story by Planet on 23 Aug 2023 (secured 1st out of 38 applicants from 13 countries worth of services equivalent to $15,000)

 

  • Basic Research Grant Tk. 20k by BUET (2023-2024)

 

o   UNESCO-TWAS Project Grant 2022 for Gender Equity and Climate Action $22682 by TWAS and Elsevier Foundation fund in collaboration with Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) (2023-2026)

 

o   KGF Competitive Grants (TF 74-NRM/20) Tk. 87,58,000 by Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF), Bangladesh to carry out the project entitled “Field Based Applied Research on “Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)” technology for increasing cropping intensity of Bangladesh” (13 December 2020 – 12 December 2023).

 

o   CRECS small grant (CRECS2020-06MY-Nowreen) $28000 by Asia-Pacific Network (APN) for Global Change Research in collaboration with Tribhuvan Univ., Nepal and TERI, India (Oct 2021- Sep 2023) (Later transferred to Dr. Maharjan of Nepal as CRECS2020-06MY-Maharjan).

 

o   Rapid Response Fund 2020 of £4992 by UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub to carry out the project entitled “Aggravating Situation of Coastal Community Life in The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta During Post-Amphan and COVID – 19 Times” (January 2021–June 2021).

 

o   Innovation Fund 2019 of Tk. 20,00,000 funded by ICT division, GoB to carry out the project entitled “Development of IoT enabled data logger to monitor groundwater and analysis of the collected data” (2019-2020)

 

o   SDC HUC focus Grant 2018 of USD 25000 funded by ICIMOD to carry out the project entitled "Diagnosing Water security in hard to reach mountainous areas with an environmental security framework" (August 2018 - November 2019).

 

o   The International Foundation for Science (IFS) Research Grant 2018 of USD 12,000 to carry out the project entitled "Study on abstraction-induced recharge as an adaptation response to climate variation for shallow aquifer in Bangladesh" (October 2018 - December 2020)

 

o   The International Foundation for Science (IFS) Research Grant 2014 (W5582) of USD 12,000 to carry out the project entitled "Assessment of River Water Availability in Bangladesh for Off-stream Uses" (15 October 2015 - 31 December 2017).

 

 

 

Education Fellowships

 

o   Commonwealth Split Site Scholarship (BDCN-2014-4) at University College London (UCL), UK (20 October 2014 – 19 October 2015).

 

o   Bangabandhu Fellowship on Science & ICT awarded by the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology, GoB for Ph.D. at BUET (July 2011- June 2014).

 

o   SAWA (South Asian Water) Fellowship awarded by the Crossing Boundaries Project, IWFM, BUET for M.Sc. (WRD) Program (April 2008 - March 2010).

 

o   Deans’s List (2002), University Merit Scholarship (2000-2004), Technical Scholarship (1999 – 2004) awarded by BUET.

 

 

 

Visits / Training / Conference Grants

 

  • Climate Women: training workshop in Beijing, China, 2- 6 September 2024
  • HKH Springs Outlook Write Workshop, Kathmandu and Dhulikhel, Nepal (4-8 June, 2024)
  • Charles Wallace Trust Professional Visit Grant 2016 (BC 2016/0484) for 3 months (September-October 2016 & January 2017) to University College London (UCL), UK

 

  • ICIMOD (partial) Fund to attend HUC Third Water Group Meeting at Kathmandu, 6-7 Dec 2019 (Not Availed)

 

  • International Expert Workshop Fund by SDC project, Uzbekistan for 5 days on Groundwater Management for 5-10 September 2019 (Not Availed)

 

  • HUC Fellowship by ICIMOD for 14 days on Springshed Management (24th March–5th April 2019)

 

  • 17th CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum on Ecohydrology and Climate Change in Beijing, China (17-21 September 2018)

 

  • WISA Professional Training 2018 for Early Career (RC) workshop under Imperial College London, UK at Istanbul, Turkey (19 -24 July 2018)
  • Commonwealth Split-site Sponsorship for poster presentation in the International Conference on Water Resources Assessment and Seasonal Prediction at Koblenz, Germany (13 – 16 October 2015)

 

  • HighNoon Spring School’ programme 2012 at IIT, Delhi, India (2 – 6 April 2012)

 

  • RGCH Conference Grant 2016 supported by The British Council and the Thailand Research Fund for oral presentation at Bangkok, Thailand (8-11 February 2016)

 

  • Adaptation Futures Conference Grant 2012 for poster presentation at the University of Arizona, Tuscan, USA (29-31 May 2012)

 

  • Graduate Scholar Award 2012, Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, University of Washington, Seattle, USA for 12-13 July 2012 (Not Availed).

 

 

 

 


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