Education: B.Tech. (Agricultural Engineering) SKUAST-Kashmir (2012); M.Tech. (Soil and Water Engineering) PAU Ludhiana (2014); Ph.D. (Soil and Water Engineering) PAU Ludhiana (2021)

Positions held: Scientist (Soil and Water Engineering) (2016-till date)

Field of Specialization: Soil and Water Engineering

Research Interests:

1. Hydrological Modeling
2. Soil and Water Conservation
3. Watershed Management
4. Dryland Agriculture

Research Projects:

Ongoing

1. All India Research Project on Dryland Agriculture funded ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
2. National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture funded ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
3. Assessment of reservoir sedimentation using hydrological modeling, remote sensing and GIS for the selected dams located in Kandi region of Punjab funded by Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Govt. of Punjab
4. Assessment of current status of Makkowal type water harvesting structures in Kandi region of Punjab funded by Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Govt. of Punjab

Completed

1. Planning of decentralized erosion prevention for selected rain water retention measures in Punjab, India under the aspect of the adjustment to climate change funded by GIZ, New Delhi and IPRO-Consult, Germany.
2. Integrated approaches to conserve natural resources for sustainable development and to mitigate the effect of climate change in participatory mode funded by DST, New Delhi.
3. Revival of village ponds through scientific interventions funded by DST, New Delhi

Selected Research Publications

1. Abrar Yousuf, Anil Bhardwaj and Faizaan Yousuf (2022) Development and evaluation of GIS-based runoff and sediment yield watershed scale model. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 15:1570. DOI:10.1007/s12517-022-10863-3
2. Abrar Yousuf and Anil Bhardwaj (2021). Development and application of travel time based gridded runoff and sediment yield model. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 19: 9801–9816. doi:10.1007/s13762-021-03661-z
3. Navneet Sharma, Arun Kaushal, Abrar Yousuf, Anil Sood, Samanpreet Kaur and Rakesh Sharda (2022). Geospatial technology for assessment of soil erosion and prioritization of watersheds using RUSLE model for lower Sutlej sub-basin of Punjab, India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28:35242–35265
4. Manmohanjit Singh, Abrar Yousuf, Harpreet Singh, Sukhdeep Singh, Kerstin Hartsch, Michael von Werner, Ashraf Y. Elnaggar, Enas E. Hussein, Hager R. Ali, Abdulrazzak (2022). Simulation accuracy of EROSION-3D Model for estimation of runoff and sediment yield from micro-watersheds. Water. 14, 280. doi:10.3390/w14030280
5. Anil Khokhar, Abrar Yousuf, Manmohanjit Singh, Vivek Sharma, Parminder Singh Sandhu and Gajjala Ravindra Chary (2021). Impact of Land Configuration and Strip-Intercropping on Runoff, Soil Loss and Crop Yields under Rainfed Conditions in the Shivalik Foothills of North-West, India. Sustainability. 13:6282.

Awards/Honours/Distinctions

1. DST-INSPIRE fellowship during Ph.D. degree
2. Best Ph.D. Thesis award by Soil Conservation Society of India, New Delhi.
3. Best Paper Award during the National seminar on “Agrometeorological interventions for doubling the farmers’ income” held at Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur during 20-22 January 2020
4. AICRP for Dryland Agriculture Most Responsive Centre Team Award during XXVI Biennial Workshop of All India Coordinated Research Project for Dryland Agriculture at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru during 16-19 January 2019. (Team award)
5. Best Poster Award at 26th National conference on Natural Resource Management through Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture (NRMCSSA), Barapani, Meghalya.