College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, OUAT, Bhubaneswar | India
Kiran Bala Behura is currently pursuing a PhD at the College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, having previously earned a Master’s degree in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering (where she was a gold-medalist) and a Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering from OUAT. She has gained practical research experience as a research scholar at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar where she worked on seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers of Puri district, Odisha, and as a trainee at institutions including the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (Dehradun), Indian Institute of Remote Sensing/ISRO (Dehradun and Ahmedabad) and the KSCSTE-Centre for Water Resources Development & Management. Her research interests centre on remote sensing and GIS applications for evapotranspiration estimation and water-salinity intrusion in coastal aquifers, groundwater quality assessment in eastern India, and mapping of rice fallow areas for second cropping opportunities. She has authored peer-reviewed work such as “Evaluation of Actual Evapotranspiration from Rice Fields of Odisha Using Remote Sensing Based Surface Energy Balance Approach” and “Hydrogeochemical Assessment of Groundwater Quality and Salinity Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers of Eastern India.” She was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 58th ISAE Annual Convention & International Symposium in 2024 and her MSc gold medal recognises academic excellence. Through combining geospatial techniques, hydrogeochemistry and agricultural-water engineering, Behura contributes to sustainable water resource management and climate-smart agriculture in coastal and rice-dominated regions of India.
Featured Publications
Behura, K. B., Mohanty, S., Pratim, P., & Ghosh, S. (2025, March 22). Hydrogeochemical assessment of groundwater quality and salinity intrusion in coastal aquifers of eastern India. Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India).
Behura, K. B., Raul, S. K., Paul, J. C., Mohanty, S., Jena, P. P., Dwibedi, S. K., Ghosh, S., Singh, L. K., Devi, S. R., & Singha, A. K. et al. (2025, March 4). Comprehensive analysis of methods for estimating actual paddy evapotranspiration—A review. Frontiers in Water.