Femeena Pandara Valappil, Ph.D., P.E.
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Agricultural Engineering Building, Rm 257
University Park, PA 16802
- Email fpp5057@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-5661
- Pronouns She/Her
Areas of Expertise
- Ecohydrology and water quality
- Stream nutrient uptake and biogeochemical cycling
- Agricultural and urban best management practices
- Land use and climate change impacts on watersheds
- Simulation modeling, optimization, and geospatial analysis
- Water-energy-food nexus
- Life cycle assessment
Education
- Ph.D., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 2019
- M.S., Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 2013
- B.S., Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum, India, 2011
Professional Experience
Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State University, 2024
Assistant Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, 2022-2023
Post-doctoral scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, 2020-2022
Technical consultant (stormwater), BAI Group LLC, State College, PA, 2019-2020
Consultant, International Water Management Institute, India, 2014-2015
Graduate Engineer (water), WS Atkins Private Ltd., India, 2013-2014
Publications
Nutrient Cycling with Duckweed for the Fertilization of Root, Fruit, Leaf, and Grain Crops: Impacts on Plant–Soil–Leachate Systems
Agriculture (Switzerland), Fernandez Pulido, Carlos R., Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Brennan, Rachel A., 2024
Evaluating the Impacts of Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors on Water Quality in the Bumbu River Watershed, Papua New Guinea
Water (Switzerland), Doaemo, Willie, Betasolo, Mirzi, Montenegro, Jorge F., Pizzigoni, Silvia, Kvashuk, Anna, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Mohan, Midhun, 2023
Maximizing duckweed biomass production for food security at low light intensities: Experimental results and an enhanced predictive model
Environmental Challenges, Femeena, P. V., Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Roman, B, Brennan, R. A., 2023
Spatial optimization of nutrient recovery from dairy farms to support economically viable load reductions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Agricultural Systems, Femeena, P. V., Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Costello, C., Brennan, R. A., 2023
The Future of Indiana’s Water Resources: A Report from the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment, Cherkauer, Keith, Barr, Robert, Bowling, Laura, Byun, Kyuhyun, Chaubey, Indrajeet, Chin, Natalie, Chiu, Chun-Mei, Ficklin, Darren, Hamlet, Alan, Kines, Stephen, Pandara Valappil, Femeena, others, None, 2023
Reconceptualizing HRU Threshold Definition in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Karki, Ritesh, Cibin, Raj, Sudheer, KP, 2022
Climate change impacts and strategies for adaptation for water resource management in Indiana
Climatic Change, Cherkauer, Keith A., Bowling, Laura C., Byun, Kyuhyun, Chaubey, Indrajeet, Chin, Natalie, Ficklin, Darren L., Hamlet, Alan F., Kines, Stephen J., Lee, Charlotte I., Neupane, Ram, Pignotti, Garett W., Rahman, Sanoar, Singh, Sarmistha, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Williamson, Tanja N., 2021
Duckweed growth model for large-scale applications: Optimizing harvesting regime and intrinsic growth rate via machine learning to maximize biomass yields
Journal of Cleaner Production, Calicioglu, Ozgul, Sengul, Mert, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Brennan, Rachel A., 2021
Techno-economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of an Integrated Wastewater-Derived Duckweed Biorefinery
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Calicioglu, Ozgul, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Mutel, Christopher, Sills, Deborah, Richard, Tom L., Brennan, Rachel A., 2021
The water–energy–food nexus discovery map: Linking geographic information systems, academic collaboration, and large-scale data visualization
Sustainability, Arenas, Matthew, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Brennan, Rachel A., 2021
Developing an improved user interface for a physically-based stream solute transport model
Environmental Modelling and Software, Femeena, P. V., Chaubey, I., Aubeneau, A., McMillan, S. K., Wagner, P. D., Fohrer, N., 2020
An improved process-based representation of stream solute transport in the soil and water assessment tools
Hydrological Processes, Femeena, Pandara V., Chaubey, Indrajeet, Aubeneau, Antoine, McMillan, Sara K., Wagner, Paul D., Fohrer, Nicola, 2020
Improving Nutrient Transport Simulation in Swat by Developing a Reach-Scale Water Quality Model, Pandara Valappil, Femeena, 2019
Environmental impacts of bioenergy crop production and benefits of multifunctional bioenergy systems, Ale, Srinivasulu, Femeena, Pandara V., Mehan, Sushant, Cibin, Raj, 2019
Simple regression models can act as calibration-substitute to approximate transient storage parameters in streams
Advances in Water Resources, Femeena, P. V., Chaubey, I., Aubeneau, A., McMillan, S., Wagner, P. D., Fohrer, N., 2019
Spatial optimization of cropping pattern for sustainable food and biofuel production with minimal downstream pollution
Journal of Environmental Management, Femeena, P. V., Pandara Valappil, Femeena, Sudheer, KP, Cibin, R., Chaubey, I, 2018
