Water Resources Management · Statistics · Hydrology

Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay

Data Scientist and Statistician working on statistical hydrology, climate change, and water resources management.

Sudarshana is a former Postdoctoral Employee with Morgan C Levy at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

She earned her Ph.D. in Spring 2020 from the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at NCSU. She worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Climate, Hydrology and Water Resources: Modeling and Synthesis Group with Dr. Sankar Arumugam. She previously worked as a postdoc at the Steinschneider Lab at Cornell University.

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September, 2026

Making RICON map-ready

Revisiting hydrological connectivity work in a new context.

March 6, 2020

Understanding Colorado River Connectivity

A new dataset — the River and Infrastructure Connectivity Network (RICON) for the Colorado River Basin — mapping streamgages, reservoirs, and flowlines across the basin.

April 12, 2018

Telling my story (in 3 minutes)

Second place in the CCEE Departmental 3 Minute Thesis competition — on forecasting at the sub-seasonal timescale, and why it matters for a warmer, more extreme world.