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Rajiv Sinha

राजीव सिन्हा

PhD (University of Cambridge, England)

Professor, Departement of Earth Sciences

शोध करना दिलचस्पी

River science-river morphology and dynamics, flood hazards, morphology-ecology linkages Remote Sensing and GIS Applications Climate Change and paleoclimate reconstruction

Office

303B, Western Lab Extension Building
IIT Kanpurr,
Kanpur 208016

Labs addresses: Core Archive and Analysis Lab

विशेषज्ञता

River Science, geomorphology, sedimentology, natural hazards

शिक्षा

PhD (fluvial sedimentology), University of Cambridge, UK, 1992Thesis Title:Quaternary alluvial sedimentology of the Gandak-Kosi inter fan, north Bihar, IndiaThesis Supervisor:Dr. Peter F. Friend

M.Tech. (Applied Geology), University of Roorkee, India, 1987

B.Sc., Patna University, India, 1983

शिक्षण क्षेत्र

Earth surface processes, river science, geomorphology, climate change

चयनित प्रकाशन

Lahiri, S.K. and Sinha, R. (2014). Morphotectonic evolution of the Majuli island in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam, India inferred from geomorphic and geophysical analysis. Geomorphology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.032.
Kumar, R., Jain, V., Prasad Babu, G. and Sinha, R. (2014). Connectivity structure of the Kosi megafan and role of rail-road transport network. Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.031
Roy, N.G. and Sinha, R. (2014). Effective discharge for suspended sediment transport of the Ganga river and its geomorphic implications. Geomorphology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.029
Sinha, R., Priyanka, S., V. Jain and Malay Mukul (2014). Avulsion threshold and planform dynamics of the Kosi river in north Bihar (India) and Nepal: a GIS framework. Geomorphology, 216, 157-170.
Sinha, R., Jawed Ahmad, Kumar Gaurav and Guillaume Morin (2014). Shallow subsurface stratigraphy and alluvial architecture of the Kosi and Gandak megafans in the Himalayan foreland basin, India. Sedimentary Geology, 301, 133-149.
Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Sinha, R. and Petrie, C.A. (2014). Abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon at 8.2 kyr B.P. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 16-23.
Sinha, R., Gaurav Kumar, S. Chandra and S.K. Tandon (2013). Exploring the channel connectivity structure of the August 2008 avulsion belt of the Kosi River, India: Application to flood risk assessment. Geology, v. 41; no. 10; p. 1099 – 1102.
Sinha, R., Yadav, G.S., Gupta, S., Singh, Ajit, and Lahiri, S.K. (2013). Geoelectric resistivity evidence for subsurface paleochannel systems adjacent to Harappan sites in northwest India. Quaternary International, 308-309, 66-75.
Roy, N.G. R. Sinha, M.R. Gibling (2012) Aggradation, incision and interfluve flooding in the Ganga Valley over the past 100,000 years: Testing the influence of monsoonal precipitation. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 356-357, 38-53.
Pal, D.K., T. Bhattacharya, R. Sinha, P. Srivastava, A.S. Dasgupta, P., Chandran, S.K. Ray, A. Nimje (2012). Clay minerals record from Late Quaternary drill cores of the Ganga Plains and their implications for provenance and climate change in the Himalayan foreland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 356-357, 27-37.
Lahiri, S.K. and Sinha, R. (2012). Tectonic controls on the morpho-dynamics of the Brahmaputra River System in Upper Assam valley, India. Geomorphology, 169-170, 74-85.
Sinha, R. & Santosh Ghosh (2012): Understanding dynamics of large rivers aided by satellite remote sensing: a case study from Lower Ganga plains, India, Geocarto International, 27 (3), 207-219.
K. Gaurav, R. Sinha, P.K. Panda (2011). The Indus Flood of 2010 in Pakistan: a perspective analysis using remote sensing data. Natural Hazards, 59, 1815 - 1826 (DOI 10.1007/s11069-011-9869-6).
Gibling, M.R., Fielding, C.R. and Sinha, R., (2011). Alluvial valleys and alluvial sequences: towards a geomorphic assessment, SEPM Special Publication No. 97,423–447.
Rahaman, Waliur, Sunil K. Singh, Rajiv Sinha, S.K. Tandon (2011) Sr, C and O isotopes in carbonate nodules from the Ganga Plain: Evidence for recent abrupt rise in dissolved 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the Ganga. Chemical Geology 285 (2011) 184­193.
Barnes, Jason, Alexander Densmore , Malay Mukul , Rajiv Sinha, Vikrant Jain, Sampat Tandon (2011). Interplay between faulting and base level in the development of Himalayan frontal fold topography. Journal of Geophysical Research (Earth Surface) 116, F03012 (doi:10.1029/2010JF001841).
Nádor Annamária, Sinha, R, Árpád Magyari , Sampat K. Tandon, Zsófia Medzihradszky, Edit Babinszki, Edit Thamó-Bozsó, Zoltán Ungera, Ashish Singh (2011). Late Quaternary (Weichselian) alluvial history and neotectonic control on fluvial landscape development in the southern Körös plain, Hungary, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299 (2011) 1-14.
Srivastava, P., M. K. Rajak, R. Sinha, D.K. Pal, T. Bhattacharyya (2010) A high resolution micromorphological record of the Late Quaternary paleosols from Ganga-Yamuna Interfluve: Stratigraphic and Paleoclimatic implications, Quaternary International, 227, 127-142.
Sanyal, P. and Sinha, R. (2010) Evolution of the Indian summer monsoon: Synthesis of continental records. In: Clift, P. D., Tada, R. & Zheng, H. (eds) Monsoon Evolution and Tectonics - Climate Linkage in Asia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 342, 151 - 179.
Yadav, G.S., Dasgupta, A.S., Sinha, R., Lal, T., Srivastava, K.M., Singh, S.K.,(2010) Shallow sub-surface stratigraphy of interfuves inferred from vertical electric soundings in western Ganga plains, India, Quaternary International, 227, 104-115.
Sinha, R. (2009) The Great avulsion of Kosi on 18 August 2008. Current Science, VOL. 97, NO. 3, 429-433.
Rahaman, W., Sunil K. Singh1, Rajiv Sinha and S.K. Tandon (2009) Variations in the Provenance of Sediments of the Ganga Plain during the past ~100 ka: Role of Climate. Geology, 37(6), 559–562.
Sinha, R. Gibling M.R. and Y. Kettanah, , S.K. Tandon, P.S. Bhattacharjee, and A.S. Dasgupta, P. Ghazanfari, (2009) Craton-derived alluvium as a major sediment source in the Himalayan Foreland Basin of India. GSA Bulletin, 121, 1596-1610.
Sinha, R. and Sarkar, S. (2009) Climate-induced variability in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene fluvial and fluvio-deltaic successions in the Ganga plains, India. Geomorphology, 113, 173-188.Sinha, R., Yadav, G.S., Gupta, S., Singh, Ajit, and Lahiri, S.K. (2013). Geoelectric resistivity evidence for subsurface paleochannel systems adjacent to Harappan sites in northwest India. Quaternary International, 308-309, 66-75.Tandon, S.K., Sinha, R., Gibling, M.R., Dasgupta, A.S., Ghazanfari, Parvez (2008) Late Quaternary evolution of the Ganga Plains: myths and misconceptions, recent developments and future directions. Memoir Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 66, 259-299.Sinha, R., G.V. Bapalu, G.V., Singh, L.K., and Rath, B. (2008). Flood risk analysis in the Kosi river basin, north Bihar using multi-parametric approach of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). J. Indian Soc. Remote Sensing, 36:293–307.Gibling, M. R., Sinha, R., Roy, N. G., S.K. Tandon, Jain, M. (2008). Quaternary fluvial and eolian deposits on the Belan River, India: paleoclimatic setting of Paleolithic to Neolithic archeological sites over the past 85,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27/3-4, 392-411.Tandon, S.K. and Sinha, R. (2007). Geology of large river systems. In: Large Rivers (ed. Avijit Gupta), John Wiley and Sons, UK.Sinha, R., Kumar, R., Sinha, S. Tandon, S.K. and Gibling, M.R. (2007). Late Cenozoic fluvial successions in India: an overview and synthesis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 2801-2822.
Roy, N. G. and Sinha, R. (2007) Understanding confluence dynamics in the alluvial Ganga–Ramganga valley, India: An integrated approach using geomorphology and hydrology. Geomorphology, 92/3-4, 182-197.
Sinha, R., Bhattacharjee, P., Sangode, S.J., Gibling, M.R. and Tandon, S.K., Jain, M. Godfrey, D. (2007). Valley and interfluve sediments in the southern Ganga plains, India: exploring facies and magnetic signatures. Sedimentary Geology, 201, 386-411.
Sinha R., S.K. Tandon, P. Sanyal, M.R. Gibling, D. Stuben, Zsolt Berner and P. Ghazanfari (2006). Calcretes from a monsoon-dominated Late Quaternary interfluve in the Southern Ganga Plains: isotopic data and palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242/3-4 pp 214-239.
Tandon, S.K., Gibling M.R., Sinha R., Singh V., Ghazanfari P., Dasgupta A., Jain M. and Jain V. (2006) Alluvial valleys of the Gangetic Plains, India: causes and timing of incision. In: Incised Valleys in Time and Space, SEPM Special Publication no. 85, 15-35.
Sinha, R., W. Smykatz-Kloss, D. Stueben, S.P. Harrison, Z. Berner & U. Kramar (2006) Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic reconstruction from the lacustrine sediments of the Sambhar playa core, Thar Desert margin, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 233/3-4, 252-270.
Roy P. D., Smykatz-Kloss W. and Sinha R. (2006) Late Holocene geochemical history inferred from Sambhar and Didwana playa sediments, Thar Desert, India: comparison and synthesis. Quaternary International, 144/1, 84-98.
Latrubesse, E.M., Stevaux J.C. and Sinha, R. (2005) Tropical Rivers. Geomorphology, 70/3-4, 187-206.
Sinha R., Jain V., Prasad Babu G., and Ghosh S. (2005) Geomorphic characterization and diversity of the fluvial systems of the Gangetic plains. Geomorphology, 70/3-4, 207-225.
Jain V. & Sinha, R. (2005) Response of active tectonics on the alluvial Baghmati river, Himalayan foreland basin, eastern India. Geomorphology, 70/3-4, 339-356.
Gibling, M.R. Tandon, S.K., Sinha, R. and Jain, M. (2005). Discontinuity-bounded alluvial sequences of the southern Gangetic plains, India: aggradation and degradation in response to monsoonal strength. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75(3), 373-389.
Sinha, R. & Raymahashay B. C. (2004) Evaporite mineralogy and geochemical evolution of the Sambhar Salt Lake, Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India. Sedimentary Geology, 166, 59-71.
Jain, V. & Sinha, R. (2004) Fluvial dynamics of an anabranching river system in Himalayan foreland basin, Baghmati river, north Bihar plains, India, Geomorphology, 60, pp. 147-170
Vaidhyanathan, N. S., Gaurav Sharma, R. Sinha, & Onkar Dikshit (2002), Mapping of erosion intensity in Garhwal Himalaya", Int. Jour. Remote Sensing, v.23 (20), 4125-4129.
Sinha, R., Sanjoy Das & Onkar Dikshit (2002) GIS-assisted mapping of catchment-scale erosion and sediment sources in Alaknanda valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie (Annals of Geomorphology), 46/2 (June), p. 145-165.
Roy, P.D., R. Sinha & W. Smykatz-Kloss (2001) Mineralogy and geochemistry of the evaporitic crust from the hypersaline Sambhar Lake playa, Thar Desert, India, Chemie der Erde (Geochemistry), v.61, 241-253.
Sinha, R. & Jain, V. (1998) "Flood Hazards of North Bihar Rivers, Indo-Gangetic Plains", In: Flood studies in India; Memoir Geological Society of India, No.41. p.27-52.
Sinha, R. (1998) "On the controls of fluvial hazards in the north Bihar plains, eastern India", In: Maund, J.G. & Eddleston, M. (Eds) Geohazards in Engineering Geology, Geological Society of London, Engineering Geology Spl. Publication 15, p.35-40.
Sinha, R., Friend, P. F. and Switsur, V. R. (1996), "Radiocarbon dating and sedimentation rates of Holocene alluvial sediments of northern Bihar plains, India", Geological Magazine, 133(1), p.85-90.
Sinha, R. (1996). "Channel avulsion and floodplain structure in the Gandak-Kosi interfan, north Bihar plains, India", Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie N.F., Suppl.-Bd, 103, p.249-268.
Sinha, R. and Friend, P. F. (1994). "River systems and their sediment flux, Indo-Gangetic plains, northern Bihar, India", Sedimentology, 41, p.825-845.
Friend, P. F. and Sinha, R. (1993). "Braiding and Meandering Parameters", in J. L. Best and C. S. Bristow (ed.) 'Braided Rivers', Geological Society of London Special Publication, 75, p.105-111.

पुरस्कार एवं फैलोशिप

Pandit Girish Ranjan & Sushma Rani Pathak Chair Professorship (2013)
Best paper award by the Indian Society of Remote sensing (2008)
S.S. Merh Award for contributions in Quaternary Geology, Geol. Soc. of India (2006)
National Mineral Award, Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India (2002)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for post-doctoral research in Germany (2000).
Career Award for Young Teachers, All India Council for Technical Education (1998)
Letter of appreciation for courses ESO208 (1997-98 I semester), CE640 (2011-12 I)
Selected for the XVI Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (Dec.'96-Mar'97) (1998)
Lundgren Research Award & Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Award, Cambridge University, UK (1992).
Cambridge Nehru Scholarship for doctoral research at Cambridge University, UK (1989).
University Grants Commission (UGC) Research Fellowship in Engg. & Tech. (1988).
University Gold Medal during the M.Tech course (1987).
State Merit Scholarship and University Grants Commission (UGC) Merit Scholarship during the M.Tech Course (1986).

शोध परिणाम

New insights on process based understanding of river systems, geomorphology as a template for river management

कीवर्ड

Rajiv Sinha, Himalayan rivers, Ganga, Kosi floods

अनुसंधान समूह

Alexander Densmore and Patrice Carbonneau, University of Durham

Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London

Craig Hutton, University of Southampton

Paul Whitehead, University of Oxford

Francois Metivier, Institute du Physique de Globe, Paris

Christian France-Lanord, CNRS, Nancy, France

पेशेवर अनुभव

Apr'14- present: Professor and Head, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur

Dec'05- Apr 2014: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Oct'01-Dec'05: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Dec'95-Sep'01: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

June'94 –Nov'95: Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Apr'93-June'94: Scientist, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee