research overview Dr. Bhaskar specializes in changes to water resources that accompany urban development with a focus on interactions between streams, groundwater, stormwater, and urban irrigation.
selected publications journal article Stream metabolism response to storm flow in urban watersheds near Cleveland, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado. Freshwater Science. 2025 Non-perennial streamflow and sediment mobilization in a semi-arid rangeland slated for development. PLOS Water. e0000466-e0000466. 2025 Urbanization in Denver produces more streamflow because of contributions from excess irrigation, leaking pipes, and stormwater. PLOS Water. 2025 Quantifying the success of stormwater control measure networks using effective imperviousness. PLOS Water. 2025 Reorienting urban stream management to focus on equitable delivery of benefits. PLOS Water. 2025 Understanding Spatiotemporal Patterns and Drivers of Urban Flooding Using Municipal Reports. Hydrological Processes. 2024 Assessment of hydrological parameter uncertainty versus climate projection spread on urban streamflow and floods. Journal of Hydrology. 2024 Assessing stormwater control measure inventories from 23 cities in the United States. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. 2023 The Role of Inflow and Infiltration (I/I) in Urban Water Balances and Streamflow Regimes: A Hydrograph Analysis Along the Sewershed-Watershed Continuum. Water Resources Research. 2023 Urbanization of grasslands in the Denver area affects streamflow responses to rainfall events. Hydrological Processes. 2022 Champions and Traditional Technocrats: The Role of Environmental Value Orientation in Stormwater Management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 336-354. 2022 A Call to Record Stormwater Control Functions and to Share Network Data. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment. 2022 Lawn Irrigation Contributions to Semi-Arid Urban Baseflow Based on Water-Stable Isotopes. Water Resources Research. 2021 K in an Urban World: New Contexts for Hydraulic Conductivity. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 493-504. 2021 Assessing the Use of Dual-Drainage Modeling to Determine the Effects of Green Stormwater Infrastructure on Roadway Flooding and Traffic Performance. Water (Switzerland). 2021 Spatial Arrangement of Stormwater Infiltration Affects Subsurface Storage and Baseflow. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering - ASCE. 2020 Hydrologic Signals and Surprises in US Streamflow Records During Urbanization. Water Resources Research. 2020 Stormwater control impacts on runoff volume and peak flow: A meta-analysis of watershed modelling studies. Hydrological Processes. 3134-3152. 2020 The Case for an Open Water Balance: Re-envisioning Network Design and Data Analysis for a Complex, Uncertain World. Water Resources Research. 2020 Relationships between riparian evapotranspiration and groundwater depth along a semiarid irrigated river valley. Hydrological Processes. 1714-1727. 2020 Spatial and Seasonal Response of Municipal Water Use to Weather across the Contiguous US. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 68-81. 2020 Changes in event-based streamflow magnitude and timing after suburban development with infiltration-based stormwater management. Hydrological Processes. 387-403. 2020 An analytical approach to ascertain saturation-excess versus infiltration-excess overland flow in urban and reference landscapes. Hydrological Processes. 3349-3363. 2019 Groundwater recharge amidst focused stormwater infiltration. Hydrological Processes. 2058-2068. 2018 Stormwater management network effectiveness and implications for urban watershed function: A critical review. Hydrological Processes. 4056-4080. 2017 COUPLING OF THE WATER CYCLE WITH PATTERNS OF URBAN GROWTH IN THE BALTIMORE METROPOLITAN REGION, UNITED STATES. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 1509-1523. 2016 Urban base flow with low impact development. Hydrological Processes. 3156-3171. 2016 Will it rise or will it fall? Managing the complex effects of urbanization on base flow. Freshwater Science. 293-310. 2016 Analysis of subsurface storage and streamflow generation in urban watersheds. Water Resources Research. 1493-1513. 2015 Untangling the effects of urban development on subsurface storage in Baltimore. Water Resources Research. 1158-1181. 2015 Resolving hyporheic and groundwater components of streambed water flux using heat as a tracer. Water Resources Research. 2012 Water Balances along an Urban-to-Rural Gradient of Metropolitan Baltimore, 2001-2009. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience. 37-50. 2012 Forward and backward temporal probability distributions of sorbing solutes in groundwater. Water Resources Research. 2009
education and training Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus 2013 B.S., Brown University 2008