Dr. Luminda Gunawardhana is a senior lecturer of Hydrology
and Hydrogeology in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained an MSc in Environmental Management (Urban
Environment Management) from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand,
in 2006, and a PhD in Environmental Studies (Hydrology and Climate Change) from
the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan, in 2010.
His teaching courses include Hydraulics Engineering II, Hydraulic Design,
Research Methodology for Water Resources Engineering and Management, RS &
GIS for Planning and Management, and Advance Surface and Groundwater Hydrology.
Dr. Gunawardhana is also an associate editor for the Hydrological Research
Letters journal.
Prof. Lalith Rajapakse is a Professor in the Department of
Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and Chairman of the
UNESCO-Madanjeeth Singh Centre for South Asia Water Management (UMCSAWM). He also serves as the UNESCO Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Resources Management in South Asia at University of Moratuwa. He obtained an
MSc in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Hydroscience & Geotechnology)
in 1999 and a PhD in Environmental Science & Technology (Environmental
Hydraulics/Ecological Engineering) in 2005 from Saitama University, Japan. His
areas of expertise include surface and groundwater hydrology, watershed and water resources management, hydrological modeling, flood/inundation/drainage
analyses, ecological modeling, sediment transport/erosion modeling, stream flow
analyses, and basin-wide nonpoint source pollution management. His research
interests are environmental ecology, and surface and groundwater hydrology.
Dr. Chaminda Samarasuriya Patabendige is the Head and Senior
Lecturer of Mining Engineering & Hydrogeology at the Department of Earth
Resource Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri
Lanka. He completed his Master’s degree from the Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand in 2009 and then obtained a PhD from Tohoku University, Japan in 2014.
His teaching disciplines include Mine Planning and Designing, Natural Disaster
Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness, Space Technology and Navigation, Mine
Surveying Field Camp, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modelling, and GIS and
Spatial Statistics, and his interests encompass mining engineering, hydrology
and hydrogeology, remote sensing and GIS, and climate change analysis.
