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Sujith Ravi

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Sujith Ravi

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Earth and Environmental Science

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

EES 2002

Energy and Environment

Undergraduate

EES 3025

Physical Hydrology

Undergraduate

ENVS 4085

Internship: Environmental Science

Undergraduate

EES 5434

Ecohydrology

Graduate

EES 8082

Independent Study Program

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Choi, C., Ravi, S., Siregar, I., Dwiyanti, F., Macknick, J., Elchinger, M., & Davatzes, N. (2021). Combined land use of solar infrastructure and agriculture for socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits in the tropics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 151. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111610.

  • Alam, S., Borthakur, A., Ravi, S., Gebremichael, M., & Mohanty, S. (2021). Managed aquifer recharge implementation criteria to achieve water sustainability. Science of the Total Environment, 768. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144992.

  • Koutnik, V., Leonard, J., Alkidim, S., DePrima, F., Ravi, S., Hoek, E., & Mohanty, S. (2021). Distribution of microplastics in soil and freshwater environments: Global analysis and framework for transport modeling. Environmental Pollution, 274. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116552.

  • Wang, G., Li, J., Ravi, S., Theiling, B., & Burger, W. (2021). Fire changes the spatial pattern and dynamics of soil nitrogen (N) and δ15N at a grassland-shrubland ecotone. Journal of Arid Environments, 186. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104422.

  • Sankey, J., Sankey, T., Li, J., Ravi, S., Wang, G., Caster, J., & Kasprak, A. (2021). Quantifying plant-soil-nutrient dynamics in rangelands: Fusion of UAV hyperspectral-LiDAR, UAV multispectral-photogrammetry, and ground-based LiDAR-digital photography in a shrub-encroached desert grassland. Remote Sensing of Environment, 253. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112223.

  • Ravi, S., Law, D., Caplan, J., Barron-Gafford, G., Dontsova, K., Espeleta, J., Villegas, J., Okin, G., Breshears, D., & Huxman, T. (2021). Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15919.

  • Le, H., Valenca, R., Ravi, S., Stenstrom, M., & Mohanty, S. (2020). Size-dependent biochar breaking under compaction: Implications on clogging and pathogen removal in biofilters. Environmental Pollution, 266. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115195.

  • Ravi, S., Li, J., Meng, Z., Zhang, J., & Mohanty, S. (2020). Generation, Resuspension, and Transport of Particulate Matter From Biochar-Amended Soils: A Potential Health Risk. GeoHealth, 4(11). doi: 10.1029/2020GH000311.

  • Ghavanloughajar, M., Valenca, R., Le, H., Rahman, M., Borthakur, A., Ravi, S., Stenstrom, M., & Mohanty, S. (2020). Compaction conditions affect the capacity of biochar-amended sand filters to treat road runoff. Science of the Total Environment, 735. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139180.

  • Choi, C., Cagle, A., Macknick, J., Bloom, D., Caplan, J., & Ravi, S. (2020). Effects of Revegetation on Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in Solar Photovoltaic Infrastructure. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 8. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00140.

  • Stewart, J., Shakya, K., Bilinski, T., Wilson, J., Ravi, S., & Choi, C. (2020). Variation of near surface atmosphere microbial communities at an urban and a suburban site in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Science of the Total Environment, 724. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138353.

  • Berger, A., Valenca, R., Miao, Y., Ravi, S., Mahendra, S., & Mohanty, S. (2019). Biochar increases nitrate removal capacity of woodchip biofilters during high-intensity rainfall. Water Research, 165. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115008.

  • Ravi, S. & Cornelis, W. (2019). Ecohydrological implications of aeolian processes in drylands. In Dryland Ecohydrology (pp. 199-238). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-23269-6_9.

  • Wang, L., Kaseke, K., Ravi, S., Jiao, W., Mushi, R., Shuuya, T., & Maggs-Kölling, G. (2019). Convergent vegetation fog and dew water use in the Namib Desert. Ecohydrology, 12(7). doi: 10.1002/eco.2130.

  • Wang, G., Li, J., & Ravi, S. (2019). A combined grazing and fire management may reverse woody shrub encroachment in desert grasslands. Landscape Ecology, 34(8), 2017-2031. doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00873-0.

  • Wang, G., Li, J., Ravi, S., Theiling, B., & Sankey, J. (2019). Fire changes the spatial distribution and sources of soil organic carbon in a grassland-shrubland transition zone. Plant and Soil, 435(1-2), 309-321. doi: 10.1007/s11104-018-3895-z.

  • Ravi, S., Gonzales, H., Buynevich, I., Li, J., Sankey, J., Dukes, D., & Wang, G. (2019). On the development of a magnetic susceptibility-based tracer for aeolian sediment transport research. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44(2), 672-678. doi: 10.1002/esp.4536.

  • Wang, G., Li, J., Ravi, S., Dukes, D., Gonzales, H., & Sankey, J. (2019). Post-fire Redistribution of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen at a Grassland–Shrubland Ecotone. Ecosystems, 22(1), 174-188. doi: 10.1007/s10021-018-0260-2.

  • Gonzales, H., Ravi, S., Li, J., & Sankey, J. (2018). Ecohydrological implications of aeolian sediment trapping by sparse vegetation in drylands. Ecohydrology, 11(7). doi: 10.1002/eco.1986.

  • Li, J. & Ravi, S. (2018). Interactions among hydrological-aeolian processes and vegetation determine grain-size distribution of sediments in a semi-arid coppice dune (nebkha) system. Journal of Arid Environments, 154, 24-33. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.03.011.

  • Trifunovic, B., Gonzales, H., Ravi, S., Sharratt, B., & Mohanty, S. (2018). Dynamic effects of biochar concentration and particle size on hydraulic properties of sand. Land Degradation and Development, 29(4), 884-893. doi: 10.1002/ldr.2906.

  • Kumar, G., Ravi, S., Micallef, S., Brown, E., & Macarisin, D. (2018). Aeolian contamination of fruits by enteric pathogens: an unexplored paradigm. Current Opinion in Food Science, 19, 138-144. doi: 10.1016/j.cofs.2017.12.003.

  • Dukes, D., Gonzales, H., Ravi, S., Grandstaff, D., Pelt, R.V., Li, J., Wang, G., & Sankey, J. (2018). Quantifying Postfire Aeolian Sediment Transport Using Rare Earth Element Tracers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(1), 288-299. doi: 10.1002/2017JG004284.

  • Wang, G., Li, J., Ravi, S., Pelt, R.S.V., Costa, P., & Dukes, D. (2017). Tracer techniques in aeolian research: Approaches, applications, and challenges. Earth-Science Reviews, 170, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.05.001.

  • Ratajczak, Z., D'Odorico, P., Nippert, J., Collins, S., Brunsell, N., & Ravi, S. (2017). Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal of Ecology, 105(3), 750-760. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12696.

  • Pelt, R.V., Baddock, M., Zobeck, T., D'Odorico, P., Ravi, S., & Bhattachan, A. (2017). Total vertical sediment flux and PM10 emissions from disturbed Chihuahuan Desert surfaces. Geoderma, 293, 19-25. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.01.031.

  • Ravi, S., Wang, L., Kaseke, K., Buynevich, I., & Marais, E. (2017). Ecohydrological interactions within “fairy circles” in the Namib Desert: Revisiting the self-organization hypothesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(2), 405-414. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003604.