Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Sasmita Sahoo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University. She is looking at the connection between U.S. groundwater and the changes in climate and hydrological factors, utilizing large-scale high-resolution climate observations and simulated irrigation demand. Prior to this, she was in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where she completed her Masters and PhD in land and water resources engineering and developed numerical simulation-optimization models for multi-layered aquifer systems in India. Sasmita’s research is mainly focused on analyzing the impact of environmental- and human-induced stresses on groundwater systems using numerical, statistical and machine learning models to better understand these interactions and to simulate changes and future availability in groundwater resources.