Dr. Ranjan S. Muttiah Department of Geology, TCU Box 298830 Fort Worth, Texas 76129

1. Ranjan S. Muttiah

2. Born
Kurunegala, Sri Lanka on November 30, 1964

3. Educational Background
BS Agricultural Engineering University of Geogia 1987
MS Agricultural Engineering Purdue University 1989
Ph.D. Agricultural Engineering Purdue University 1992

4. Professional Certification
Professional Engineering, P.E. license, Texas Board of PE.(#94406)

5. Present Rank
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, 8/2004

6. Year of Appointment, and rank
2004, Assistant Professor

7. Year of last promotion
Not applicable

8. Previous Appointments
1992-1996, Associate Research Scientist, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Temple, Texas
1996-2000, Assistant Professor, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Temple, Texas
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M
2000-2004, Associate Professor, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Temple, Texas
Associate Professor, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M

9. Positions other than 9).
Graduate Research Assistant, Purdue University, 1987-1992.

10. Courses taught
FRSC 602, Remote sensing for natural resources management, Texas A&M University
GEOL 50721, Geographic Information Systems
GEOL 50762, Advanced Geographic Information Systems
GEOL 50712, Environmental Geology
GEOL 50863, Spatial Analysis
GEOL 50493, Physical Hydrogeology
GEOL 50731, Remote Sensing Technology
GEOL 50741, Image Processing
GEOL 50751, Image Interpretation


11. External Support Sought

a. Received:

1. Coastal Zone Assessment of Watersheds. NOAA/SEA Division; $100,000, 1995-1996.
   
2. Texas Ag. Experiment Station, Faculty Development Fund. $20,000, 1996.
   
3. Water yield change with brush control on the Edwards Plateau. 1994-1996. Texas Water Development Board. $150,000.
   
4. Water Resources and Climate Change: Regionally Integrated Assessment of Consequences. National Inst. Global & Environmental Change (NIGEC). $335,000. 1995-1997.
   
5. Hydrologic Tools for an Uncertain Climate. NIGEC, $300,000. 1998-2001.
   
6. Watershed delineations of Texas. Texas Soil & Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB). $200,000. 1999-2002.
   
7. From spectroscopy to remotely sensed spectra, conference funding from Soil Science Society of America, $3,500.
   
8. Salinity and Hydrologic Monitoring and Modeling of the Middle Rio Grande. Advanced Technology Program (ATP), Texas Higher Education Board; 2002-2004; $200,000.
   
9. Evaluation of downstream impacts of PL-562 structures on riparian zones. Texas Water Resources Institute, 2001-2002, $35,000.
   
10. Water Yields from Texas Watersheds due to Brush Control, 2002-2003 TSSWCB. $400,000.
    
11. Ecosystem and Wildlife Implications of Brush Management Systems Designed to Improve Runoff and Percolation. 2001-2002. Army CoE., $375,000.
    
12. Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin. USDA-CSREES, 2001-2003, $2.2M.
    
13. Development of Agricultural Water Use methodology. Texas Water Development Board, 2003-2004, $75,000.
    

Year 2000

Scale Dependent Soil and Climate Variability Effects on Watershed Water Balance
Sponsor: USDA-NRICGP
Req. Amount: $266,611

Water Management Options for Reducing Salinity Constraints in Urbanizing Irrigation Basins
Sponsor: USDA-NRICGP
Req. Amount: $566,235

A Web-Enabled GIS/Database System for Region VI Integration of Water Quality
Sponsor: USDA-CREES
Req. Amount: $2,393,191

Title: Coupled carbon and water flux rates in Central Texas Rangelands from Stable Isotopes of Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1.9 million

Year 2002

Title: Predicting Plot to Regional Scale Carbon Cycle on Semi-Arid Grasslands
Sponsor: National Institute of Global & Environmental Change (NIGEC)
Total amount: $446,000

Title: Transmigration of nitrogen from nodulating to non-nodulating plants under pre to post-industrial CO₂ climes.
Sponsor: USDA-NRI, Soils & Soil Biology
Total amount: $224,000

Title: Carbon and Water Flux Rates in Converted Agriculture to Open Rangeland Ecosystems of Central Texas from Below to Above Ground Measurements.
Sponsor: USDA-NRI, Managed Ecosystems
Total amount: $407,000

Title: Stream-aquifer dynamics in degrading stream channels in Texas.
Sponsor: USDA-NRI, Water & Watersheds
Total amount: $335,000

Title: Leaf optical parameters from light scattering experiment and theory
Sponsor: USDA-NRI, Biochemistry
Total amount: $222,000

Title: Hydrologic budgets of PL-566 reservoir riparian forests determined by isotopic analysis
Sponsor: USDA-NRI, Water & Watersheds
Total amount: $200,000

1. Land Feedback on Precipitation for a Transect from the Pacific to the Gulf Coast. NSF/EAR-Hydrologic Sciences, $684,000.
   
2. Analysis of data from the NOAA/CMDL KWKT tall tower monitoring site in Central Texas using the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport Model (STILT). NOAA-Office of Global Programs, $220,000.

Muttiah R.S., J.D. White, R.R. Duke, and P.M. Allen. 2004. Estimation of source water to Cedar Elm in a Central Texas PL-566 Riparian Ecosystem. Hydrological Processes (in press).

Savenkov S.N., L.T. Mishchenko, R.S. Muttiah, Y.A. Oberemok, and I.A. Mishchenko. 2004. Mueller polarimetry of virus infected and healthy wheat under field and micro gravity conditions. J. Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (in press).

Savenkov S.N, R.S. Muttiah, and Y.A. Oberemok. 2003. Transmitted and reflected scattering matrices from an English Oak leaf. Applied Optics 42(24): 4955-4962.

Dugas W.A., S. Bednarz, T. Dybala, R.S. Muttiah, W. Rosenthal, and J. G. Arnold. 2003. Rangeland Water Yield, Influence of Brush Clearing on. Encyclopedia of Water Science, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York.

Muttiah R.S., and R.A. Wurbs. 2002. Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supply Reliabilities. Water International 27(3): 407-419.

Muttiah R.S., and R. A. Wurbs. 2001. Scale-dependent soil and climate variability effects on the water balance of watersheds using the SWAT model. J. Hydrology 256: 264-285.

Arnold J.G., R.S. Muttiah, R. Srinivasan, and P.M. Allen. 2000. Regional estimation of base flow and groundwater recharge in the Upper Mississippi river basin. J. Hydrology 227 (2000): 21-40.

Muttiah R.S. 1999. Polarization parameters of cotton leaves from a refraction model. J. Optical Soc. Am. A. 16(6): 1266-1267

Muttiah R.S., and H.B. Johnson. 1999. A biomass model without photorespiration for huisache at different CO₂ levels. Biotronics 28: 23-31.

Arnold J.G., R. Srinivasan, R.S. Muttiah, and P.M. Allen. 1999. Continental Scale Simulation of the Hydrologic Balance. J. Am. Water Res. Assoc. 35(5): 1037-1051.

Book chapters:

Savenkov S., and R.S. Muttiah. 2004. Inverse polarimetry, and light scattering from leaves. In: Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing. G. Videen, Ya.S.Yatskiv, and M.I. Mishchenko (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Muttiah R.S., and R.A. Wurbs. 2004. Climate change effects on the water supply of some major basins. To appear in book edited by Rattan Lal (Ohio State University), and B.A. Stewart (West Texas A&M).

Muttiah R.S., S. Miyamoto, M. Borah, and C.H. Walker. 2004. In-stream salinity modeling of the mid-Rio Grande and Wichita basins. In: Water for Texas: Beyond 2000. J.R. Norwine (Ed.). Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.

Muttiah R.S. 2002. Application of the T-matrix method to light scattering from a leaf. In: From Laboratory Spectroscopy to Remote Sensed Spectra of Terrestrial Ecosystems. R.S. Muttiah (Ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

1. Non-refereed publications

Bednarz S.T., T. Dybala, R.S. Muttiah, W. Rosenthal, and W. A. Dugas. 2000. Simulating the effect of brush control on rangelands. Proc. Brush, Water, and Wildlife, A Compendium of Our Knowledge. November 30- December 1, 2000. YO Ranch Conference Center, Kerrville, Texas. Texas Agricultural Research & Extension Center, San Angelo, Texas.

Muttiah R.S., and R. Lacey. 2000. Estimation of Kansas prairie FIFE soil moisture using potential theory. Proc. Remote Sensing 2000/Bouyoucos conference, October 22-25, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Rosenthal W., W. Dugas, S. Bednarz, T. Dybala, and R.S. Muttiah. 2002. Simulation of brush removal within eight watersheds in Texas. ASAE Paper 022168. Presented at the 2002 Annual ASAE meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

Santhi C., R.S. Muttiah, J.G. Arnold, and R. Srinivasan. A GIS-based regional planning tool for assessment of irrigation demand. Trans. ASAE.

Muttiah R.S., D. Harmel, and C. Richardson. Periodicities between discharge and sedimentation from a small agricultural watershed. Catena.

Muttiah R.S. (as spokesperson). 2004. Task-8 report, Basin scale modeling for the Rio Grande. Rio Grande Basin Initiative Annual Conference, Hilton Las Cruces, New Mexico. April 4-7, 2004, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Muttiah R.S., R. Lacey, and P. M. Allen. 2003. Detection of Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ cycling in fluvial deposits from hyperspectral sensing. Presented at the GCTE Soil Erosion Network: Soil Erosion under Climate Change: Rates, Implications, and Feedbacks, Tucson, Arizona, November 17-19.

Muttiah R.S. 2003. Evaporative and precipitation processes on the Rio Grande and Pecos rivers using PHREEQC and stable water isotopes. Presented at the 2003 New Mexico Water Resources Institute Hydrologic Modeling Symposium, Socorro, New Mexico, August 12, 2003 (http://www.brc.tamus.edu/blackland/staff/muttiah/addinfo.html)

Muttiah R.S., J.D. White, J. Duke, and P.M. Allen. 2003. PL-566 Riparian zone water dynamics from hydrometric and isotope measurements. Integrated Biological Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 14-16, 2003. Biological Systems Simulation Group. http://beaumont.tamu.edu/Conference/presentation.asp.

Muttiah R.S. 2003. Water Supply Under Climate Change in Texas, and for ten basins world wide. Climate Change, Carbon Dynamics, and World Food Security Workshop, June 11, 2003. Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State University (Rattan Lal, Organizer).

Muttiah R.S., G. Coutu, and M. Gaber. 2002. Sixth level sub-watersheds as basis for TMDL assessments. Proc. March 11-13, 2002 Conference on Total Maximum Daily Load, Ft. Worth, Texas. ASAE, St. Joseph, Michigan. Pp. 485-489.

Muttiah, R.S., S. Miyamoto, M. Borah, and J. G. Arnold. 2001. Flow salinity modeling of Mid-Rio Grande Accounting for Dilution and Storage Release. International Union of Soil Science, Sub-Commission A, Bouyoucos Conference. Riverside California, June 25-27, 2001.

Muttiah R.S. March, 2000. Ecological Inference on Health Database. GIS & Public Health, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Sponsored by John Hopkins School of Public Health.

Muttiah R.S. 2000. Hapke and T-matrix models in remote sensing of cotton fields. Light scattering by nonspherical particles. Fifth International conference on light scattering by nonspherical particles, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 28-September 1, 2000. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland

15. Professional Activities

Invited speaker Climate Change, Carbon Dynamics, and World Food Security Workshop, hosted by Ohio State University (2003); Chairman 2000 SSSA Bouyoucos conference called From Spectroscopy to Remotely Sensed Spectra; Editor of book (2002) by same title. Invited speaker Aspen Global Change Institute (1999); Participatory Watershed Management Training in Asia (PWMTA) – UN-FAO projects in Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan and China (1997, 1999); Team member, Hydrologic Unit Modeling of the United States (HUMUS) project funded by USDA-NRCS, 1992-1996.

16. Academic Advising

Fabrice Felden, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M, Water availability under climate change in Texas (2002).

Chae Kwan Lim, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M, salinity modeling of inundated soils along the middle Rio Grande (current).

17. Departmental Service

Promotion committee, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engr, Texas A&M

18. College Service

Participant in Vision 20/20, a college wide mission statement

19. University Service

Selection committee member for remote sensing faculty, Forest Science, Texas A&M
Review Committee Environmental Sciences, TCU

20. Community Activities

Career day speaker at intermediate schools in Belton and Temple, Texas
Judge at science fair Temple, Texas High School

21. Memberships (past & present)
American Geophysical Union
Soil Science Society of America
Agronomy Society of America
Crop Science Society of America
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Optical Society of America

22. Awards

Texas A&M, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Vice Chancellors award for best research team, 2002

23. Other Professional Activities
Consultant to Bayer Cooperation, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and World Resources Institute.