Gopi K. Jaligama
Senior Engineer
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Tel: 609-924-8821 ext. 143
Fax: 609-924-8831
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Omni Environmental LLC
Research Park
321 Wall Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
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Education and Licenses
- M.S., Civil Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, June 2004
- B.Tech., Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University, India, June 2002
- EPA's online Watershed Management Training Certificate, 2004
Professional Positions
- Omni Environmental LLC, 2004 - present
- Senior Engineer, 2007 - present
- Project Engineer, 2004 – 2007
- SUNY at Buffalo, Great Lakes Program, Research Assistant, 2002 - 2004
- SUNY at Buffalo, Department of Civil Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Aug. 2002 – Dec. 2002
- Center of Spatial Information Technology, JNTU (India), Intern, May 2001- June 2001
- Global Information Resource & Development Services (India), Intern, May 2000 - June 2000
Professional Activities and Awards
- Wesley W. Horner National Award by American Society of Civil Engineers presented at World Environmental and Water Resources Congress in 2010
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Watershed Council – Watershed Management Technical Committee
- Watershed Council – TMDL Task Committee
- Journal of Environmental Engineering – Reviewer Panel Member
- Water Environment Federation
- Watershed Management Committee
- Coauthor of the Urban Wet Weather Flows section of the Literature Review Committee
- Peer Reviewer of Manuscripts for Water Environment Research Board of Editorial Review
- American Water Resource Association
- New Jersey Water Environment Association
Career Snapshot
Mr. Jaligama has a background in Civil and Environmental engineering with specific experience in watershed management and modeling, TMDLs, hydrologic/hydrodynamic and water quality modeling, ground water modeling and spatial analysis with Geographic Information Systems. His experience includes development, calibration and validation of the water quality and hydrologic models for different rivers. He has worked on the Non-Tidal Passaic River Nutrient TMDL Study and the Raritan River Basin Nutrient TMDL Study. Water quality modeling for the TMDLs was performed using Water Quality Simulation Program (WASP). As a part of the TMDL studies, Mr. Jaligama has developed a new hydrologic model, HydroWAMIT, to simulate the overland runoff flows and loads generated from the watersheds. He has also worked on various water quality modeling projects for wasteload allocation studies, regional storm water management and planning projects and dilution studies for mixing zones.
His master's thesis involved the development of two dimensional (width averaged) coupled hydrodynamic/water quality model (DOMod) for estuaries. The model simulates the impact of the nutrients discharged from various point and nonpoint sources in the instream dissolved oxygen concentrations. During his masters, Mr. Jaligama has also worked for Malcolm Pirnie and Limno-Tech as a consultant for water quality studies along with Dr. Joseph Atkinson, a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the State University of New York, Buffalo. The work with the above-mentioned firms involved the application of DOMod model to the Black River, Ohio and the Buffalo River, NY, respectively.
