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Bhavna Arora portrait

Bhavna Arora

Research Scientist

Building 074A, Room 0111

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-495-2163

Fax: 510-486-5686

[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Professional Affiliations
  • Scholarly Service
  • Committees, Councils and Other Service

Biography

Bhavna Arora is a Research Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Water Management and Hydrological Science program at Texas A&M University in 2012. Dr. Arora also holds a minor in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Her research primarily involves reactive transport modeling to provide a comprehensive and predictive understanding of biogeochemical processes in various types of subsurface environments and at different space-time scales. She specializes in utilizing a combination of numerical models, uncertainty analysis and data mining techniques to test new concepts and hypotheses and in applying these tools to provide a scientific basis for solving diverse issues in the earth and environmental sciences such as, water resources management, environmental remediation, energy budget analysis, and ecological sustainability.

For more information, see Bhavna’s Research Website.

     

Research Interests

Reactive transport modeling, hot spots and hot moments analysis, upscaling of hydrological and biogeochemical parameters/properties, and understanding ecosystem processes and functioning.

Education

  • Ph.D. Water Management & Hydrologic Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2012
  • M. Tech. Water Resources Development & Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, 2006
  • B. Tech. Agricultural & Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, 2006, Honors

Experience

  • Geological Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2017-Present
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2012-2017
  • Research & Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University, 2006-2012
  • Water Quality Intern, Jumbo International, 2004
  • Software Development Intern, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, 2003

Awards

  • Spot Recognition Award, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2019, 2020
  • Principal Investigator, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Grant, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ($380,000). Collaborators: Sergi Molins (Co-PI), David Trebotich, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin and Carl Steefel, 2015-2017
  • AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science Membership Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012-2014
  • Bill and Rita Stout International Graduate Student Achievement Award, Texas A&M University, 2011
  • Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010
  • TWRI Mills Scholarship, Texas Water Resources Institute, 2009-2010
  • Institute Silver Medalist, IIT Kharagpur, 2006
  • A. A. Hakim Memorial Endowment Prize, IIT Kharagpur, 2006
  • Vinod Gupta Leadership Award, IIT Kharagpur, 2003

Professional Affiliations

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Geological Society of America
  • American Geophysical Union
  • Alpha Epsilon
  • Phi Kappa Phi

Scholarly Service

  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Water, Water & Hydrocomplexity Section, 2019-Present
  • Reviewed ~40 papers for a variety of journals including Applied Geochemistry, Nature Communications and Water Resources Research (LINK to my Publons reviewer profile)
  • Workshop Organizer, Toward an International Critical Zone Network-of-Networks for the Next Generation through Shared Science, Tools, Data and Philosophy, AGU Fall Meeting 2019. Co-conveners: James Stegen (PNNL), Jannis Groh (FZ Jülich), Andrew Ireson (USask), Genevieve Ali (U of G), Pamela Sullivan (KU), Adam Wymore (UNH), Basile Hector (UGA), and Caroline Le Bouteiller (UGA)
  • Primary Convener, Characterizing spatial and temporal variability of hydrological and biogeochemical processes across scales, AGU Fall Meeting, 2014-2019. Co-convener: Haruko Wainwright (LBL)
  • Session Chair, Modeling the Critical Zone: Integrating Processes and Data Across Disciplines and Scales, AGU Fall Meeting, 2017-2018. Co-conveners: Li Li (Penn State), Harry Vereecken (IBG), and Praveen Kumar (UIUC).
  • Panelist, GEM Fellowship Program (60 proposals), Alexandria, VA, Nov 14-16, 2018
  • Panelist, DOE Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program, 2017 and 2019

Committees, Councils and Other Service

  • Member at large, Executive Board, The International Soil Modeling Consortium, 2020-Present
  • Member, AGU Ecohydrology Technical Committee, 2018-Present
  • Member, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area Awards Committee, 2018-Present
  • Lead, Biogeochemical Cycling Group, Energy Geosciences Division, 2017-Present
  • Department Representative, Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series committee, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2015-Present
  • Working Group Member, Diversity and Inclusion Council, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, 2015-Present
  • Poster presenter, DOE-ASCAC review of LBNL's LDRD program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jan. 4, 2017
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