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Sachin Shah is a hydrologist at the Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center where he leads the Socio-Hydrology Team addressing flood risks, climate adaptation, and food insecurity. A key part of this effort is facilitating scenario planning workshops with multiple institutions and partners to gain better insights into risk-informed decision making and scientific collective action.
In 2024, Sachin served as a Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. From 2021 to 2023, he was the Environmental Justice Science Advisor for the Department of the Interior’s Office of Environmental Policy. Sachin has over 20 years of hydrology, policy, and international development experience with the U.S. Geological Survey, World Bank Water Program, Council of Energy-Environment-Water (CEEW), and the UN-Shell Water-Energy Nexus Initiative.
Sachin works at the intersection of hydrology, socioeconomics, and adaptation to understand the human dimensions of water security and risk domestically, in the Mekong River Basin, South Asia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
A peek into a USGS planning meeting to coordinate water-quality sampling efforts in response to Harvey. This sampling effort is part of the federal government’s broad efforts to ensure public health and to support the state, tribal, and local response to the storm
A peek into a USGS planning meeting to coordinate water-quality sampling efforts in response to Harvey. This sampling effort is part of the federal government’s broad efforts to ensure public health and to support the state, tribal, and local response to the storm
A USGS field crew takes water-quality samples on Lake Houston following Harvey.
A USGS field crew takes water-quality samples on Lake Houston following Harvey.
USGS scientist Lisa Ashmore services a water-quality monitor on Lake Houston. These instruments stayed afloat and collected data throughout the storm.
USGS scientist Lisa Ashmore services a water-quality monitor on Lake Houston. These instruments stayed afloat and collected data throughout the storm.
Planning meeting at the USGS Gulf Coast Office.
Planning meeting at the USGS Gulf Coast Office.
USGS hydrologist Jason Ramage collects a groundwater-level measurement using a steel tape in Freeport, Texas.
A new interactive web application illustrates how groundwater, sediment compaction and land-elevation change are related in the Houston-Galveston region in Texas.
USGS hydrologist Jason Ramage collects a groundwater-level measurement using a steel tape in Freeport, Texas.
A new interactive web application illustrates how groundwater, sediment compaction and land-elevation change are related in the Houston-Galveston region in Texas.
A peek into a USGS planning meeting to coordinate water-quality sampling efforts in response to Harvey. This sampling effort is part of the federal government’s broad efforts to ensure public health and to support the state, tribal, and local response to the storm
A peek into a USGS planning meeting to coordinate water-quality sampling efforts in response to Harvey. This sampling effort is part of the federal government’s broad efforts to ensure public health and to support the state, tribal, and local response to the storm
A USGS field crew takes water-quality samples on Lake Houston following Harvey.
A USGS field crew takes water-quality samples on Lake Houston following Harvey.
USGS scientist Lisa Ashmore services a water-quality monitor on Lake Houston. These instruments stayed afloat and collected data throughout the storm.
USGS scientist Lisa Ashmore services a water-quality monitor on Lake Houston. These instruments stayed afloat and collected data throughout the storm.
Planning meeting at the USGS Gulf Coast Office.
Planning meeting at the USGS Gulf Coast Office.
USGS hydrologist Jason Ramage collects a groundwater-level measurement using a steel tape in Freeport, Texas.
A new interactive web application illustrates how groundwater, sediment compaction and land-elevation change are related in the Houston-Galveston region in Texas.
USGS hydrologist Jason Ramage collects a groundwater-level measurement using a steel tape in Freeport, Texas.
A new interactive web application illustrates how groundwater, sediment compaction and land-elevation change are related in the Houston-Galveston region in Texas.
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government