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Eva Sinha is an Earth scientist in the Earth and Biological Science Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Her research interests include improving crop model representation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model Land Model (ELM), understanding the impact of fertilizer constraint on land and energy systems, and studying the impact of future socioeconomic pathways and climate outcomes on riverine nitrogen loading.

• Earth system models
• Crop modeling
• Climate change
• Nutrient load estimation 

• PhD in Earth system science, Stanford University
• MS in civil and environmental engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BTech in civil engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

• American Geophysical Union, member since 2012

• Best Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2018

2025

• Di Vittorio A., E. Sinha, D. Hao, B. Singh, K.V. Calvin, T.R. Shippert, and P.L. Patel, et al. 2025. "E3SM-GCAM: A synchronously coupled human component in the E3SM Earth system model enables novel human-Earth feedback research." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17, no. 6:e2024MS004806. PNNL-SA-204727. doi:10.1029/2024MS004806
• Sinha E., D. Xu, K.A. Morris, B. Drewniak, and B. Bond-Lamberty. 2025. "Interactions between climate mean and variability drive future agroecosystem vulnerability." Global Change Biology 31, no. 2:e70064. PNNL-SA-200366. doi:10.1111/gcb.70064

2024

• Xu D., G. Bisht, Z. Tan, E. Sinha, A. Di Vittorio, T. Zhou, and V. Ivanov, et al. 2024. "Climate change will reduce North American inland wetland areas and disrupt their seasonal regimes." Nature Communications 15, no. _:Art. No. 2438. PNNL-SA-184173. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-45286-z

2023

• Sinha E., B. Bond-Lamberty, K.V. Calvin, B.A. Drewniak, G. Bisht, C. Bernacchi, and B. Blakely, et al. 2023. "The Impact of Crop Rotation and Spatially Varying Crop Parameters in the E3SM Land Model (ELMv2)." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128, no. 3:Art. No. e2022JG007187. PNNL-SA-177430. doi:10.1029/2022JG007187
• Sinha E., K.V. Calvin, B. Bond-Lamberty, B. Drewniak, D.M. Ricciuto, D.M. Ricciuto, and K. Sargsyan, et al. 2023. "Modeling perennial bioenergy crops in the E3SM land model (ELMv2)." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 15, no. 1:e2022MS003171. PNNL-SA-164323. doi:10.1029/2022ms003171

2022

• Cheng Y., M. Huang, D.M. Lawrence, K.V. Calvin, D. Lombardozzi, E. Sinha, and M. Pan, et al. 2022. "Future bioenergy expansion could alter carbon sequestration potential and exacerbate water stress in the United States." Science Advances 8, no. 18:Art. No. eabm8237. PNNL-SA-166393. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abm8237

Selected Publications

2019

• Sinha E., A. Michalak, K. Calvin, and P. Lawrence. 2019. "Societal choices about climate mitigation will have dramatic impacts on eutrophication in the 21st century." Nature Communications 10, no. 1:939. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08884-w

2018

• Del Giudice D., Y. Zhou, E. Sinha, and A. Michalak. 2018. "Long-Term Phosphorus Loading and Springtime Temperatures Explain Interannual Variability of Hypoxia in a Large Temperate Lake." Environmental Science & Technology 52, no. 4:2046-2054. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04730

2017

• Sinha E., A. Michalak, and V. Balaji. 2017. "Eutrophication will increase during the 21st century as a result of precipitation changes." Science 357, no. 6349:405-408. doi:10.1126/science.aan2409

2016

• Sinha E., and A. Michalak. 2016. "Precipitation Dominates Interannual Variability of Riverine Nitrogen Loading across the Continental United States." Environmental Science & Technology 50, no. 23:12874-12884. doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b04455

2014

• Li C., E. Sinha, D. Horton, N. Diffenbaugh, and A. Michalak. 2014. "Joint bias correction of temperature and precipitation in climate model simulations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 23:13153-13162. doi:10.1002/2014JD022514

2007

• Sinha E., and B. Minsker. 2007. "Multiscale Island Injection Genetic Algorithm for Ground Water Remediation." Advances in Water Resources 30, no. 9:1933-1942. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.03.006