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* Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, September 2007.

Whats new  !               Honors/Awards

* Relocating to University of Arizona in Aug
JUL 2008     NCAR- YSN Workshop, Boulder
JUN 2008    Geophy. Res. L paper
MAY 2008 MYRES Workshop, New Orleans
MAY 2008  PhD Graduation
May  2007 Dissertation Year Fellow



SUJITH RAVI
Research Associate
Dept of Environmental Sciences
Clark Hall,
291 McCormick Rd
University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA 22904,USA
Phone:
434-924-4669 (office)
703-581-8186 (cell)
sujith@virginia.edu

Contact  me : sujith@virginia.edu, sujith ravi@gmail.com
Sujith Ravi

Research
  • I am interested in understanding the impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems (esp drylands).
  • Ecohydrological feedbacks associated with land degradation/desertification process.
  • Vegetation patterns and processes
Selected Publications

(1). Ravi, S., P. D’Odorico and G.S. Okin., (2007), Hydrologic and aeolian controls on vegetation patterns in arid landscapes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L24S23, doi:10.1029/2007GL031023

(2). Ravi, S., P. D'Odorico, T. M. Zobeck, T. M. Over, and S. L. Collins (2007), Feedbacks between fires and wind erosion in heterogeneous arid lands, J. Geophys. Res., 112, G04007, doi:10.1029/2007JG000474.

(3). Ravi, S., P. D’Odorico., T.M. Zobeck., and T.M. Over, On the effect of fire induced soil hydrophobicity on wind erosion in semi-arid grassland, Geomorphology (in press).

(4). Ravi, S., P. D’Odorico., B. Herbert., T.M. Zobeck., and T.M. Over (2006), Enhancement of wind erosion by fire-induced water repellency,
Water Resour. Res., 42, W11422,  doi: 10.1029/2006WR004895.

(5). Ravi, S., T.M. Zobeck., T.M. Over., G.S. Okin., and P. D’Odorico (2006), On the effect of wet bonding forces on the threshold friction velocity for wind erosion, Sedimentology, 53 (3), 597-609. 


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