BIOGRAPHY:
Krishna Pratap Sah is a Ph.D. Student in Dr. Thomas Wahl’s lab at the University of Central Florida. He earned his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada, India and a master’s in water resources engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India). His master’s thesis was focused on finding the influence of threshold selection in modelling peaks over threshold extreme streamflow series using a Bayesian framework and finding the return levels under non-stationarity. Krishna began his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at UCF in 2024.
RESEARCH:
Krishna’s research focuses on understanding compound high‐water and flooding processes in the Mississippi River Delta by disentangling the relative roles of riverine and oceanographic drivers. He leverages a newly compiled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tide‐gauge dataset, including 30 previously underused stations with hourly and daily records, to overcome the sparse spatial and temporal coverage of traditional coastal gauges. Using both event-based hurricane analyses and empirical methods, he quantifies how coastal storm surge and river discharge jointly shape water levels at different locations along the coast–river continuum. He further examines how these contributions vary across space, event type, and time by combining shorter, high-resolution hourly records with longer daily records, ultimately scaling the analysis to many more gauges across the delta to assess evolving flood hazards and inform risk management.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: krishnapratap.sah@ucf.edu