Hydrologist · Stochastic Modelling · GeoAI for Water

Dr. Shalini Balaram

Stochastic and statistical methods for rainfall and streamflow simulation, drought dynamics, and machine learning for water resources.

Selected research

How long does water take to recover?

Across global reservoir records, the return-to-normal phase of a storage anomaly often runs longer than its development — a persistence diagnostic for water-supply planning rather than a universal law.

Global hex map of reservoir return-to-normal persistence — Plate 1 Global gridded distribution of reservoir-level return-to-normal persistence (median log2 ratio). Balaram (under review), Environmental Research Letters

Placeholder home — built to exercise the Gauging Station system. See /styleguide for the full component set.