{"id":45235,"date":"2026-09-23T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=45235"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:20:31","slug":"uri-and-epscor-investigator-from-nepal-shares-insight-into-recent-flood-in-south-asian-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2026\/09\/23\/uri-and-epscor-investigator-from-nepal-shares-insight-into-recent-flood-in-south-asian-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"URI and EPSCoR investigators from Nepal share insight into recent flood in South Asian nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth wp-block-paragraph\">Soni Pradhanang and Pratik Singh Thakuri analyzing impact of recent events in their home country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 4, 2026 \u2013 A water scientist at the University of Rhode Island,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/espd\/meet\/soni-m-pradhanang\/\">Soni Pradhanang<\/a>&nbsp;is balancing the professional and the personal, watching her home country of Nepal make news after the recent glacial collapse and flooding there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a hydrologist with expertise in environmental science and water quality, flooding, and hazard communication, the events in her home nation are the subject she has made her career in since she left Nepal in 2001. Pradhanang, in URI\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/\">College of the Environment and Life Sciences<\/a>, conducts research in runoff, flood, drought, and water quality modeling, and has served as a point of contact in URI\u2019s prior work with Nepal. In 2022, during her Fulbright tenure, she served as an instructor for a hydrological modeling training program in Kathmandu, part of a project on \u201cModeling Hydrological Response to Changes in Climate and Glacier in a Data-Scarce Glacierized Region in Nepal Himalaya.\u201d The training covered core concepts in hydrology, climate change, and cold-region hydrology, providing early-career professionals with the tools to study these issues. \u201cThis tragedy highlights the urgent relevance of this research,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This piece was originally published by URI News on Sept. 4, 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/uri-water-expert-from-nepal-shares-insight-into-recent-flood-in-south-asian-nation\/\">Read the full story!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A water scientist at the University of Rhode Island,\u00a0Soni Pradhanang\u00a0is balancing the professional and the personal, watching her home country of Nepal make news after the recent glacial collapse and flooding there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":45218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[977,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-uri","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45241,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions\/45241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}