Gopi K. Jaligama
Project Engineer
609-924-8821 Ext. 143
Education
M.S., Civil Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
BTech, Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IIT-Varanasi), India
Professional Experience
Omni Enironmental LLC, Project Engineer, 2007 - Present
TRC Omni Environmental Corporation, Project Engineer, 2004 - 2007
SUNY at Buffalo, Great Lakes Program, Research Assistant, Dec 02 - Jun 04
SUNY at Buffalo, Department of Civil Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Aug 02 - Dec 02
Center of Spatial Information Technology, JNTU (India), Summer Intern, May 01- Jun 01
Global Information Resource & Development Services (India), Summer Intern, May 00 - Jun 00
Mr. Jaligama has a background in Civil and Environmental engineering with specific experience in water quality modeling, ground water modeling, watershed management and spatial analysis with Geographic Information Systems. His experience includes development, calibration and validation of the water quality and watershed models for different rivers. He has worked on water quality modeling projects which studied the transport and transformation of conventional, toxic pollutants for wasteload allocation studies. Presently, he is working the Non-Tidal Passaic River Nutrient TMDL Study and the Raritan River Basin Nutrient TMDL Study using the EPA models WASP and HSPF.
His Masters thesis involved the development of two dimensional (width averaged) coupled hydrodynamic/water quality model for estuaries. The model simulates the impact of the nutrients discharged from various point and non point sources in the instream dissolved oxygen concentrations. The model was used in water quality studies to establish the wastewater treatment plant, CSO and other discharger nutrient effluent limitation. The model was also used to establish the effect of the sediment oxidation demand on the dissolved oxygen in the dredged rivers.
During his masters Mr. Jaligama has also worked for Malcolm Pirnie Inc and Limno-Tech Inc, as a consultant for water quality studies along with Dr. Joseph Atkinson, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. The work with the above mentioned firms involved the application of the developed water quality model to the Black River, Ohio and the Buffalo River, NY respectively.
Mr. Jaligama was involved in ground water modeling and risk assessment studies. He also worked as a teaching assistant, lecturing and assisting undergraduate students.