Prof. Ramesh P. Singh

(Career Highlights)

 

Education                                              M.Sc. 1976, Ph.D. 1980 from Banaras Hindu University.

Position held                                                       

1976-1977                                               National Geophysical Res. Institute, Hyderabad (National Institute)

                                                                Selected as Institute Fellow

1997                                                        Guest scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste

1981-1986                                               Post-doctoral and Alberta Oil and Sand Technology Fellow, Department of

                                                                Physics, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

1986-2007                                               Indian Institute of  Technology, Kanpur (one of the leading institutions in India)

Joined as Faculty in 1986.  Spent 22 years at IIT Kanpur; since 1986 worked as Full Professor

2003-2005                                               worked at CEOSR, GMU as Distinguished Visiting Professor

2007-Tilldate                                         In GMU as Full Professor

Teaching and Research Experience

                                                                Taught 22 years at IIT Kanpur, Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses

                                                  Developed new courses at Undergraduate and Post Graduate levels.

Developed Remote Sensingand GIS Lab and also Geology and Geophysics Lab

for undergraduate and post graduate levels.

                                                 

Teaching at GMU                                During 2003-2005, taught Undergraduate course, class of 92 students,

                                                                Participated in teaching 3 Graduate level courses, GMU, 2004-2005

                                                                Presently teaching Undergraduate level course at GMU in Fall 2008.

 

Ph.D. students                                Advisor of  Ph.D. thesis of Five students

M.Tech. students                            Advisor of  35 M.Tech. thesis and published papers based on these theses

                                                                in mostly International Refereed Journals.

B.Tech.                                            Supervised B.Tech. project of six students, based on project and summer work, the under graduate students published papers in International Journals with me.

 

Research Projects                        Handled research grants from Indian Government Funding agencies  and also from Indian Space Research Organization, grant of more than Rs. 2000,0000.00. 

Part of several projects submitted to NASA by CEOSR Director.

                                                          One proposal as PI is under pending with NASA under NASA ROSES A16.

Patents                                            Two patents submitted by GMU (under process)

International                                  Had international collaborations with Japan, Sweden, Germany, France, Hungary, China and Russia

Reviewers                                       Almost all the leading Journals in Earth, Natural Hazards and Atmospheric sciences

§         Reviewer of UNESCO Publications

§         Reviewer of EU and NASA research proposals

§         Reviewers of Research proposals submitted to Indian Govt Funding agencies

Publications                        

§         Edited 6 books (published by Pergamon and Elsevier Sci. Press, UK)    

§         Published 180 publications in almost in most of the leading journals of Earth sci., Natural hazards, Remote Sensing. These publications are widely cited.

Editor                                                    

§         Chief Editor, Indian J. Remote Sensing during 2000 – 2007

§         Editor of International J. Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis, UK (2004- todate)

§         Indian J. Marine Sciences (Sci. publication), 2008 –

§         Disaster, (Indian J.) (2008 -)

§         Member, Editorial Board of the Journal "The Journal of Terrestrial Observation (JTO)" (Purdue University Press, USA).

§         Editor – EOS American Geophysical Union (2001 – 2006)

 

 

International Recognition

§         Internationally known especially among NASA and Atmospheric scientists  as PI of IIT Kanpur AERONET, this was started single handedly by Prof. Singh. The data collected is used by International scientists with due acknowledgment.

 

§         Proposed SLHF as a Precursor in EMSEV meeting during IUGG Sapporo, Japan 2003 meeting which is used by many groups throughout the world citing his work.

 

§         Proposed Chlorophyll blooming associated with Earthquakes and Cyclone/.hurricanes; first time Prof.Singh shown to the International scientific community about chlorophyll blooming associated with Super cyclone of Orissa 1999 and with Guajrat earthquake of January 2001.

 

§         Developed RAYPT (Ramesh- Yeshpal technique) for Cross hole technique for making three dimensional image of subsurface used by Oil Company. This paper is well cited by scientist from Oil Company

 

§         Internationally known for Carrying out Magnetotelluric Work over 150 stations in India for getting information up to 200 km beneath the Earth to understand the Geodynamics of Indian plate.

 

§         Multi sensor studies associated with Gujarat Earthquake 2001 known among Earthquake and Seismology community.

 

§         His team work on aerosol pollution over India due to Coal based power plants is now well recognized as the cause of Dense Haze Fog and Smog in the Northern parts of  India.

 

§         Validation of AIRS satellite data work by CEOSR group in India and applications studies recognized by AIRS Science team; that will be presented as latest work during AIRS science Team meeting on Oct. 14-16, 2008.

 

§         Nominated as one of the Three Directors to organize Winter College on OPTICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE during Feb. 2009 at International Center for Theoretical Physics (this is unique recognition)

 

§         Proposed to hold EMSEV Workshop in US during 2010 which is now accepted by EMSEV during Romania meeting held recently.

 

§         His proposal is actively under process to start a New International Journal on Remote Sensing of Natural Hazards by an International Press.

 

§         Some of his Indian students are working as tenured Faculty member  in UK and USA, NOAA,. B.Tech. students are working in numerous companies in USA.

 

§         Brought out a special issue of the International J. Remote Sensing on Sumatra earthquake.

 

§         Bringing out a special issue on Wenchuan earthquake (May 12, 2008) of the International J. Remote Sensing.

 

§         Complementary behavior of multi parameters observed from multi sensor data associated with Earthquakes, approach initiated by me.

International Committees 

§         COSPAR Associate

§         Member of the Executive Committee of

§         Vice Chair, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Commission on Georisk (2004 – 2011).

§         Chairman, IAF Committee on Natural Hazards (2002-2006)

§         Member, International EMSEV Working Group

§         Member, AGU Committee on International Participation (1998-2001)

Organizational Experience               Organized International Workshops and Symposia at IIT Kanpur

                                                                               

§         QIP course and two weeks Workshop on Magnetotelluric Methods of Exploration, IIT Kanpur, Jan. 1988

§         ILP Workshop on Three-dimensional mapping of the Lithosphere, IIT Kanpur, March 1997. ISRS Annual Meeting and Symposium on Natural Hazards, Oct. 2000.

§         International Symposium on Gujarat Earthquake, Jan. 2003. 

§         IASTA Annual meeting and International Symposium on Aerosol, Cloud and Monsoon, Nov. 2004

§         COSPAR Session on Use of Remote Sensing for Geological Mapping,

Delft, Holland, 1990

§         World Space Congress on Geological Exploration, Washington, USA, 1992COSPAR Session on Natural Hazards, Hamburg, Germany, 1994.

§         COSPAR Session on Natural Hazards, Warsaw, Poland, July 2000.

§         COSPAR Session on Natural Hazards, Houston, USA, Oct. 2002.

§         COSPAR Session on Early Warning of Natural Hazards, July, 2004.

§         Organized sessions during AGU meetings 2006, 2007 and 2008.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

While at IIT Kanpur, Prof.Singh had developed following International collaborations, under which number of students from Germany had spent six months in his  Remote Sensing Lab and took training. Number of scientists had visited from Japan, USA, Russia, Germany and Sweden. 

·         Department of Geophysics, University of Uppsala, Sweden

·         Department of Earth Sciences, Hirosaki University, Japan

·         Institute of Oceanology, USSR  Academy  of  SciencesMoscowUSSR

·         NASA, USA

·         JPL, USA

·         University of California, San Diego, USA

·         Technical University Berlin, Germany

·         Free University, Berlin, Germany

·         UNEP, Sioux Falls, USA

·         NOAA, Maryland, USA

·         George Mason University, USA

·         Technical University Dresden, Germany.

·         University of Jena, Germany.