Kabiraj Khatiwada

Kabi is an Environmental Dynamics Ph.D. student in our group, currently focused on modeling methane dynamics in forested wetlands. His travel grant to the 2023 AGU meeting from the University’s Graduate School is described here, and a blogpost about his Fluxnet-funded Secondment to French Guiana in 2025 is here.

M.Sc. Environmental Science, Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal
Master’s dissertation: Climatic Variability and its Impact on Hydrology of the Karnali River Basin, Nepal

Office: ENGR 228
Website: https://kabiraj404.github.io/CV/index.html
Email: kabik@uark.edu

Kabi in a kayak

Publications:

Ross SK, Klauss N, Miles M, Khatiwada KR, El Masri B, Runkle BRK, Stinchcomb GE, Moon JB (2025). Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) Knees Are Methane Sources Controlled by Geomorphology, Climate, and Hydrologic Extremes. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosciences 130, e2025JG008996. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008996

Khatiwada, K. R., Pradhananga, S., Nepal, S., (2024). Inferring the impacts of climate extreme in the Kabul River Basin. Regional Environmental Change, 24(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02167-3

Nepal, S., Khatiwada, K. R., Pradhananga, S., Kralisch, S., Samyn, D., Bromand, M. T., … & Chevallier, P. (2021). Future snow projections in a small basin of the Western Himalaya. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 795, 148587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148587

Khatiwada, K. R., & Pandey, V. P. (2019). Characterization of hydro-meteorological drought in Nepal Himalaya: A case of Karnali River Basin. Weather and Climate Extremes, 26, 100239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2019.100239

Panthi, J., Khatiwada, K. R., Shrestha, M. L., & Dahal, P. (2018). Water poverty in the context of climate change: a case study from Karnali river basin in Nepal Himalaya. International Journal of River Basin Management, 17(2), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2018.1531421

Khatiwada, K. R., Panthi, J., Shrestha, M. L., & Nepal, S. (2016). Hydro-climatic variability in the Karnali River basin of Nepal Himalaya. Climate, 4(2), 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli4020017