Muruganandam Muthiah, Principal Scientist at ICAR
About
Dr Muruganandam is a Fulbright Scholar working as Principal Scientist in the Hydrology and Engineering Division at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (ICAR-IISWC), Dehradun. Has over 25-years of research/professional experience in multi-disciplinary research areas/diverse topics of Soil-Water Conservation (SWC), Integrated Watershed Management (IWM), Natural Resource Management (NRM), fisheries development, aquatic ecosystems conservation, livestock-based micro-enterprises and influences of traditional knowledge. He had contributed innovatively and creatively across multiple themes of sustainable farming systems and natural resource management.
Extensively travelled including 15 US Universities/Institutions and 25 US-States and 30 Indian States. He had networked with various State Line Departments, national research institutions, developmental organizations, national academia, universities, colleges, local print- and online media houses and over 30 professional societies besides over 5000 farmers/fishermen and local representatives.
He had published over 100 scientific/technical papers/books/compendiums. He had organized around 15 conferences/workshops/training/outreach-programs. He had deliberated in over 80 conferences/seminars/workshops and been a resource-person/faculty member as an invitee in about 50 national/international seminars/training/extension programs. He has 30 professional fellowships, recognitions, and awards including Fulbright-Fellowship, Fulbright-Alumni-Award, 3 national-fellowships, Best-Scientist and Gold-Medal besides many competitive grants.
Information
Industry experience
Education: PhD
Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor
Years of experience: 20 years or above
Work experience
Principal Scientist
Research, training and demonstration on cross-cutting domainICAR
1996-07 - Present
Taxonomy
- Scientist
- Researcher
- Project Manager
- Research Institute
- Government Agency
- Water Quality
- Agricultural
- Environmental Consequences
- Ecosystem Management
- Biology
- Ecology
- Hydrology
- Sustainable Development
- Participatory Management
- Sustainable Economy
- Communication
- Impact Assessment
- Fisheries
- River Studies
- Water Harvesting
- Ecosystem Management
- Project Management
- Water Resources
- Watershed
- Pollution
- Conservation
- Freshwater
- Water Recycling
- Wetlands
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Water Resource Management
- Eutrophication
- Integrated Water Management
- Natural Resource Management
- Envirionmental Data Management
- Lake Management
- Integrated Watershed Management
- Aquatic Ecologist
- Constructed Wetlands
- Aquatic Environment
- River Basin management
- River Restoration
- Catchment Management
- Environmental Conservator
- Livestock Production
- Ecosystem Services
- Fish Farming
- Shrimp Farming
- Fisheries governance
- Poultry Farming
- Water Conservation
- Renewable Resources
- Common Property Management
- Community Based Resource Management
- Natural Resources Management
- Water Resources Management
- Land & Water Development
- Water Management
- Agricultural Research
- Soil Conservation
- Watershed Management
- water catchment management
- R&D
- Water Corporation - WA