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Professor
Geology and Geophysics
A Senior Professor in the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG+) and former Head of the Department at IIT Kharagpur with over 40 years of professional experience in Academia and Industry I emerged a leading Geoscientist in the Country and in the International Arena teaching Classical, Exploration and Computational Geophysics courses, executing Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy projects on Seismic & Landslide Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Microzonation and Disaster Modeling and Seismic monitoring in the East and Northeast region of the country by setting up seismological observatories, executing Mission Projects & Earthquake Engineering Education and Research at the Institute, collaborating with research agencies in India and abroad. I have been amply successful in making an excellent blend of exploration & solid-earth Geophysics and earthquake hazard science & engineering with front ranking contributions in the delineation of near-surface structures, source, site and ground response characterization and integration for Seismic Microzonation, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment so vitally needed for our country. After Master’s in Exploration Geophysics from IIT Kharagpur I joined Oil Industry serving for nearly a decade working extensively on various facets of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Geophysical Tomography. My innovative research endeavours at IIT for 34 years and the Post-Doctoral Research at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA have resulted in the development of many efficient techniques for site-specific studies for disaster mitigation inflicted by earthquakes and in mine disasters in collieries.
As an Educationist with 14 Ph.D. supervisions and 10 more under progress, 35 M.Tech. and more than 140 M.Sc. dissertations I have helped revamp course and curricula of Applied and Pure Geophysics, Geophysical Technology and Geological Sciences in several Institutions and Universities in India and abroad.I have over 250 technical publications in peer-reviewed high impact factor SCI rated journals and the proceedings of Seminars and Conferences and 13 Books/Atlas.
A Seismic Hazard Scenario in the Sikkim Himalaya from Seismotectonics, Spectral Amplification, Source Parameterization and Spectral Attenuation Laws using Strong Motion Seismometry by Nath S. K., Vyas M. , Pal I. , Sengupta P. Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth) 110 1-24 (2005)
An Initial Model of Seismic Microzonation of Sikkim Himalaya through thematic mapping and GIS Integration of Geological and Strong Motion Features by Nath S. K. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 25 329-343 (2005)
Velocity Inversion in Cross-hole Seismic Tomography by Counter Propagation Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm and Evolutionary Programming Techniques, by Nath S. K., Chakraborty S. , Singh S. , Ganguly N. Geophysical Journal International 138 108-124 (1999)
Detection of Seismic Reflections from Seismic Attributes through Fractal Analysis by Nath S. K., Dewangan P. Geophysical Prospecting 50 341-360 (2002)
A Visual C++ Program for the Sequential Inversion of Seismic Refraction and Geoelectric Data by Nath S. K., Shahid S. , Dewangan P. Computers & Geosciences 26 177-200 (2000)
Peak Ground Motion Predictions in India: An appraisal for rock sites by Nath S. K., Thingbaijam K. Journal of Seismology 15 295-315 (2011)
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of India by Nath S. K., Thingbaijam K. Seismological Research Letters 83 135-149 (2012)
Topographic gradient based site characterization in India complemented by strong ground motion spectral attributes by Nath S. K., Thingbaijam K. S., Adhikari M. D., Devraj N. , Nayak A. , Ghosh S. K., Mahajan A. K. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 55 233-246 (2013)
Strong Motion Seismometry in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya - Comprehensive Maintenance for Round-the-Clock Seismic Monitoring by the 10 Station DSSM and Enriching Ground Motion Database for Relooking into Seismic Source, Site and Path Characteristics from Hazard Perspectives for a Conservative Damage and Loss Estimate in SELENA and HAZUS Environment Ministry of Earth Sciences
Suman Mandal
Area of Research: Earthquake Seismology
Chitralekha Ghatak
Area of Research: Earthquake Seismology & Engineering Geophysics :Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk
Siddhartha Bhaumick
Area of Research: Multi-Hazard Modeling
Anand Srivastava
Area of Research: Multihazard Modeling with special emphasis to Seismic Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk
Jyothula Madan
Area of Research: Earthquake Seismology
Arnab Sengupta
Area of Research: Landslide and Earthquake Hazard Analysis, Synthesis and Numerical Modeling towards Assessment and mitigation
Arpita Biswas
Area of Research: Earthquake & Engineering Seismology
Amrendra Pratap Bind
Area of Research: Earthquake Seismology & Engineering Geophysics :Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk
Km Radha Panday
Area of Research: Earthquake and Engineering Seismology
