Ms. Saumya Arya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India. As a doctoral candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, she has submitted her thesis titled “Urban stormwater resilience analysis using GIS Mapping and development of multi-criteria decision analysis framework.” The primary objective of her research was to provide a sustainable solution to urban floods by incorporating Green Infrastructure (GI). She constructed a framework that leverages the capabilities of the GIS environment (ArcGIS 10.8), stormwater modelling software (SWMM 5.2), and the methods of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). This framework was instrumental in conducting flood hazard mapping and evaluating the feasibility of implementing GI in the identified study area. She received her MTech degree in environmental engineering from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur.

Publications:

• Arya, S., & Kumar, A. (2023). “AHP GIS-aided flood hazard mapping and surface runoff estimation in Gurugram, India”. Natural Hazards. Springer. 117 (3). 2963–2987 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05973-4
• Arya, S., & Kumar, A. (2023). “Evaluation of stormwater management approaches and challenges in urban flood control”. Urban Climate. Elsevier. 51 (Sept). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101643
• Arya, S., & Kumar, A. (2024). “Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Stormwater Management in an Urban Setting Using SWMM-Based Multicriteria Decision-Making”. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 29 (1). https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-6080
• Arya, S., & Kumar, A. “Challenges and opportunities in making Indian cities flood resilient: A review.” AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, San Francisco, United States, 9-13 December 2019, pp. PA31B-06. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFMPA31B.06A/abstract