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Disaster Extreme and Environmental Remote Sensing

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Dr. Dericks P. Shukla

Dr. Dericks Praise Shukla is currently Chairperson and associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. He has completed his Ph.D. in Remote sensing and GIS from University of Delhi in 2012 titled “Arsenic and heavy metal contamination and its remediation”. Earlier, he has completed his bachelor in science from Ewing Christian College University of Allahabad and postgraduation from Jiwaji University in Remote Sensing and GIS. Before Joining IIT Mandi as assistant professor, he has worked as assistant Professor at Department of Geology and Ram Lal Anand College University of Delhi from August 2011- January 2015 and environmental consultant at J.M. EnviroNet for period of 4 years. Dr. Dericks have currently co-authored and published 44 research work in reputed journal and 15 full papers in books, book chapter and conference proceedings. His hIndex is 18 with as total citations of 1553. He has supervised three Ph.D. students and currently eight Ph.D. students are working under his guidance.

Team

Harsimranjit Kaur Romana

Phd Scholar (2019-present)

 Interest: Environmental pollution and its relation 

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Ipshita Priyadarsini Pradhan

Phd Scholar (2021-present)

 Interest: Mapping and Monitoring the Permafrost Distribution of Indian Himalayan          

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Priyanka Gupta

Phd Scholar (2021-present)

 Interest: Mapping and Monitoring the Forest Fire Distribution of Indian Himalayan          

Nitesh Dhiman

Phd Scholar (2021-present)

 Interest: Analysing the slope stability conditions along the geological thrust areas          

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Ankit Singh 

Phd Scholar (2022-present)

 Interest: Landslide Susceptibility and risk analysis      

Kirti Kumar Mahanta

Phd Scholar (2022-present)

 Interest: Permafrost distribution and its geophysical characterstics

Meenakshi Kumari

Phd Scholar (2022-present), Scientist at CSIR-IHBT Palampur 

 Interest: Species mapping using hyperspectral imaging 

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Pooja Sharma

Phd Scholar (2023-present)

 Interest: Socio-economic and psychological impacts of natural disasters.   

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Neetu

Phd Scholar (2023-present)

 Interest: Glacial dynamics and ecology     

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Bhawna Pathak

Phd Scholar (2024-present)

 Interest: GLOF monitoring and casacading effect     

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Apoorva Singh

Phd Scholar (2024-present)

 Interest: Forest fire mapping in north-eastern Himalayas (tentative)

Alumni

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Dr. Sharad Kumar Gupta (2015-2020)

Scientist at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research 

Dr. Munmun baisantry (2017-2022)

Scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

Dr. Niraj KC (2018-2023)

Assistant Professor , Paschimanchal Campus, Tribhuvan University, IoE, Pokhara, Nepal

Past Members

1. Nishant Tiwari (Phd in Penn State University, USA)

3. Ashutosh Laxman Taral (PhD in Finland)

2. Ajeet Rai (Phd at IIT Guwahati)

4. Akshay Bansal (Ms Erasmusmundus)

Project Staff

1. Shefali Bhardwaj (Currently pursuing PhD in Australia)

2. Neetu Singh 

Dissertation and Interns

 MSc Dissertations
1. Simran Arora 
2. Albert
3. Suneet
4. Aman Rai
5. Ayushi Pandey
6. Maithli Joshi (GIS analyst
at ESRI)
7. Adhrija Dawn (GIS analyst at ESRI)
8. Piyush Malvi
9. Tahira U (MS Erasmusmundus)
10. Alka Dash (Phd at Newfoundland University, Canada)
11. Bobita Pati
12. Sampriti Bhuyan 

 

  Interns
1. Muskan Jhunjwala
2. Vanshika Gupta
3. Shaleen Guleria
4. Anne Marrie
5. Balaji



 

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