Femeena Pandara Valappil

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Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Femeena Pandara Valappil’s primary research is at the intersection of stream water quality management and the use of best management practices for addressing nutrient pollution in agricultural and urban contexts. She also has expertise in ecohydrological modeling, watershed-scale optimization, life cycle assessment, and systems modeling of the water-energy-food nexus.

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Recent Publications

Nutrient Cycling with Duckweed for the Fertilization of Root, Fruit, Leaf, and Grain Crops: Impacts on Plant–Soil–Leachate Systems

Fernandez Pulido, C. R., Femeena, P. V. & Brennan, R. A., Feb 2024, In: Agriculture (Switzerland). 14, 2, 188.

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Evaluating the Impacts of Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors on Water Quality in the Bumbu River Watershed, Papua New Guinea

Doaemo, W., Betasolo, M., Montenegro, J. F., Pizzigoni, S., Kvashuk, A., Femeena, P. V. & Mohan, M., Feb 2023, In: Water (Switzerland). 15, 3, 489.

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Maximizing duckweed biomass production for food security at low light intensities: Experimental results and an enhanced predictive model

Femeena, P. V., Roman, B. & Brennan, R. A., Apr 2023, In: Environmental Challenges. 11, 100709.

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Spatial optimization of nutrient recovery from dairy farms to support economically viable load reductions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Femeena, P. V., Costello, C. & Brennan, R. A., Apr 2023, In: Agricultural Systems. 207, 103640.

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CREATING A CIRCULAR NITROGEN BIOECONOMY IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS THROUGH NUTRIENT RECOVERY AND UPCYCLING BY MICROALGAE AND DUCKWEED: PAST EFFORTS AND FUTURE TRENDS

Femeena, P. V., House, G. R. & Brennan, R. A., 2022, In: Journal of the ASABE. 6, 2, p. 327-346 20 p.

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Reconceptualizing HRU Threshold Definition in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool

Femeena, P. V., Karki, R., Cibin, R. & Sudheer, K. P., Aug 2022, In: Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 58, 4, p. 508-516 9 p.

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The water–energy–food nexus discovery map: Linking geographic information systems, academic collaboration, and large-scale data visualization

Arenas, M., Femeena, P. V. & Brennan, R. A., May 1 2021, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 13, 9, 5220.

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Duckweed growth model for large-scale applications: Optimizing harvesting regime and intrinsic growth rate via machine learning to maximize biomass yields

Calicioglu, O., Sengul, M. Y., Femeena, P. V. & Brennan, R. A., Nov 15 2021, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 324, 129120.

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Climate change impacts and strategies for adaptation for water resource management in Indiana

Cherkauer, K. A., Bowling, L. C., Byun, K., Chaubey, I., Chin, N., Ficklin, D. L., Hamlet, A. F., Kines, S. J., Lee, C. I., Neupane, R., Pignotti, G. W., Rahman, S., Singh, S., Femeena, P. V. & Williamson, T. N., Mar 2021, In: Climatic Change. 165, 1-2, 21.

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An improved process-based representation of stream solute transport in the soil and water assessment tools

Femeena, P. V., Chaubey, I., Aubeneau, A., McMillan, S. K., Wagner, P. D. & Fohrer, N., May 30 2020, In: Hydrological Processes. 34, 11, p. 2599-2611 13 p.

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Developing an improved user interface for a physically-based stream solute transport model

Femeena, P. V., Chaubey, I., Aubeneau, A., McMillan, S. K., Wagner, P. D. & Fohrer, N., Jul 2020, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 129, 104715.

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Simple regression models can act as calibration-substitute to approximate transient storage parameters in streams

Femeena, P. V., Chaubey, I., Aubeneau, A., McMillan, S., Wagner, P. D. & Fohrer, N., Jan 2019, In: Advances in Water Resources. 123, p. 201-209 9 p.

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Spatial optimization of cropping pattern for sustainable food and biofuel production with minimal downstream pollution

Femeena, P. V., Sudheer, K. P., Cibin, R. & Chaubey, I., Apr 15 2018, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 212, p. 198-209 12 p.

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