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Ms. Himasha Abeysiriwardana
Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering
Career Summary
- Assistant Lecturer, SLIIT, Malabe, Sri Lanka (Apr 2021 - Mar 2022)
- Summer Intern, SysLab, Central European University, Hungary (July 2019 – Sep 2019)
- Assistant Design Engineer, Infotechs Ideas (Pvt) Limited, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Nov 2017 – Aug 2018)
- Civil Engineer, Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Mar 2015 – Nov 2017)
- Irrigation Expert (Part-Time), Nepon Koei co. LTD, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Feb 2017 – Nov 2017)
- Civil Engineer, Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management, Sri Lanka (Mar 2014 – Mar 2015)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- MSc in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (Manchester, UK)
- PG Dip in Water Resources Engineering and Management (UoM)
- BSc (Hons.) (Civil Engineering) (UoM)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Research Interests and Memberships
Research Interests
- Surface and Groundwater Hydrology
- Hydrological (Numerical, Statistical and spatial) modelling
- Water Resources Management
- Climate Change
- GIS
Memberships
Associate member of Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL)
Ongoing Research
- Development of rainfall runoff model for water management in Nilwala Basin
- Assessing climate change impacts on dry zone irrigation
- Comparative analysis of flood susceptibility mapping techniques
My Publications
Journal Publications
- Abeysiriwardana, H.D. and Gomes, P.I.A. " Integrating vegetation indices and geo-environmental factors in GIS-based landslide-susceptibility mapping: using logistic regression " Journal of Mountain Science, vol.19, 2022, pp.477-492, Scopus indexed, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-021-6988-8,
- Abeysiriwardana, H.D., Muttil, N. and Rathnayake, U. " A Comparative Study of Potential Evapotranspiration Estimation by Three Methods with FAO Penman–Monteith Method across Sri Lanka " Hydrology, vol.9, 2022, pp.206, Scopus indexed, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9110206 ,
- Abeysiriwardana, H.D. and Wijesekera, N.T.S. " Application of GIS and Logistic Regression for Flood Susceptibility Mapping in Nilwala River Basin, Sri Lanka " Engineer: Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka, vol.55, Issue 2, 2022, pp.1-9, Emerging Sources Citation Indexed, http://doi.org/10.4038/engineer.v55i2.7503 ,
- Senatilleke,U., Abeysiriwardana, H.D., Makubura, R.K., Anwar, F. and Rathnayake, U. " Estimation of potential evapotranspiration across Sri Lanka, using a distributed dual-source evapotranspiration model " Advances in in Meteorology, vol.2022, 2022, pp.6819539, Scopus indexed, https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6819539,
- Janani, H.K., Abeysiriwardana, H.D., Rathnayake, U. and Sarukkalige, R. " Water Footprint Assessment for Irrigated Paddy Cultivation in Walawe Irrigation Scheme, Sri Lanka " Hydrology,, vol.9, 2022, pp.210, Scopus indexed, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9120210,
Book Chapters
- Guhananth, K., Gomes, P. I. A. and Abeysiriwardana, H. D. " GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study from Kegalle District, Sri Lanka " Monitoring and Managing Multi-hazards. GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling, Ed. Das, J. and Bhattacharya, S. K., 2022, Springer Nature, pp.197-210,
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