Academic profile of faculty member

ACADEMIC PROFILE OF FACULTY MEMBER

1. Name: ___ ARUN K. SHARMA _______________________________________________________________

2. Designation: __ Professor of Geology

3. Qualification: __ M.Sc Ph.D __________________________________________________________

4. Area of Specialization/Research field:___ Engineering Geology and Ground water Hydrology

5. Awards/Recognitions: ___ Recipient of Associateship of LEAD India

6. Number of Research projects:

i) Completed -03

S/ N	Title of the project	Funding Agency	Amount(Rs.)	Year (From-To)
1.	Slope Instability investigation of the Dabka Catchment in the Nainital Hills, Kumaun Himalaya	Dept. of Environment, New Delhi	7.8 Lakh	1987-1990
2.	Digital Telemetered Seismic Network in Kumaun Himalaya	D.S.T. New Delhi	1.20 Crore	1998-2001
3.	Geoenvironmental Appraisal of Dabka Microwatershed: A model study for sustainable development	D.S.T. New Delhi	20.00 Lakh	2005-2008

ii) On-going-NA

S/ N	Title of the project	Funding Agency	Amount	Date of Commencement	Expected date of completion

7. Number of Ph. Ds awarded___03___________________________________

8. Number of candidates working for Ph.D. award: _____01________________

9. Publications:

i) Books

S/N	Co-Author/s	Title	Publisher	Year of publication
1.	B.P. Pande, C.C. Pant, K.L. Arya	Watershed Management in Himalaya: Concept and Strategy	Gyanodaya Prakashan,	2002
2	C.C Pant	Aspects of Geology and Environment of Lesser Himalaya	Gyanodaya Prakashan	2002

ii) Research Articles published

Mention complete list of publications indicating authors, title, name of the journal, year, volume and page numbers. Try to limit the number maximum upto 50 articles.

1. 
   Sharma A.K. (1986) Morphology and Evolution of Hill slopes of the Nainital area (Kumaun Himalaya). Jour. Him. Res. Dev., 5(1&2) 22-31
   

2. 
   Sharma A.K. (1987) Sedimentation in Naini lake, Nainital U.P.,AQUA WORLD,2(5): 139-140.
   

3. 
   Sharma A.K. (1987) Hill side instability of Nainital Hills Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, India. Proc.” Impact of Env. Protect. on future Dev. Ind. (Environmental Management) Institute of Engineers, 171-177.
   

4. 
   Pant C.C. and Sharma A.K. (1988) Ichnogeneous skolithos from Gethia Unit, Dist Nainital, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, Current Sci ,57(11): 800-802
   

5. 
   Pant C.C. and Sharma A.K. (1988) Middle Krol stromatolite from the Nainital area, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya. Current Sci., 57(11), 608-611.
   

6. 
   Sharma A.K. (1989) On the strain history of the superposed folding in Krol hills, Kumaun Himalaya . Ind. Jour. Earth Sciences, 16: 38-46.
   

7. 
   Sharma A.K. (1990) Stratigraphic setup of a part of Nainital Hills, Kumaun Himalaya, (eds.) Sah et al. Himalaya: Environment,, Resource and Development, Sri Almora Publishers: 86-100.
   

8. 
   Sharma A.K. (1990) Evolution of slope instability in the Krol belt around Nainital, Kumaun Himalaya (eds.) Sah et al. Himalaya: Environment, Resource and Development, Sri Almora Publishers: 445-468
   

9. 
   Hashmi N.H., Pathak A., Jauhari P., Sharma A.K. and Valdiya K.S. (1993) Bathymetric study of the Neotectonic Naini lake in Outer Lesser Himalaya. Geol. Soc. Ind. 91-104.
   

10. 
    Pant C.C. and Sharma A.K. (1993) Quaternary Sedimentation in Indo Gangetic Basin – A review. Current Sci., 64(11&12) : 620-621
    

11. 
    Sharma V.K., Atri A. and Sharma A.K. (1996) Slop Mass Rating (SMR) Technique in Landslide Susceptibility in parts of Nainital area, Kumaun Himalaya. Jour. Engg. Geol. XXV(104) 189-295.
    

12. 
    Sharma A.K. and Pant C.C. (2001) Accelerated Erosion and Sediment Yield in the Dabka Watershed: A case study from Kumaun Himalaya . In Tandon S.K. and Thakur S. (eds) “Recent Advances in Geomorphology, Quaternary and Environmental Geosciences: Indian case study” Manisha Publications, New Delhi, pp 45-64
    

13. 
    Sharma A.K. and Pant C.C. (2002) Sediment Budget and State of Environment of Dabka Watershed, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya. In Nainwal H.C. and Prasad C.(eds.) Geodynamics and Environment Management of Himalaya, Dept of Geology H.N.B. Garhwal University , Srinagar pp 148-163
    

14. 
    Sharma A.K. and Pant C.C. (2002) Dwindling Water Resources and Status of Erosion in a Himalayan Watershed: A case study from Kumaun Himalaya . In Pande B.P., Pant C.C., Arya N.K. and Sharma A.K. : Watershed Management in Himalaya : Concept and Strategy, Gyanodaya Prakashan pp 27-47
    

15. 
    Sharma A.K. and Pant C.C. (2002) Landslide Hazard Evaluation and Zonation in the Dabka Watershed Uttaranchal Himalaya, India. In Pant C.C. and Sharma A.K. (eds.) Aspects of Geology and Environment of Himalaya. Gyanodaya Prakashan 169-186.
    

16. 
    Rawat P.K., Pant C.C., Tiwari P.C., Sharma A.K. and Pant P.D. (2011) Climate change and its geo-hydrological impacts on mountainous terrain: A case study through remote sensing and GIS modelling. E-International Scientific Research Journal Vol 3(1) 51-69.
    

17. 
    Rawat P.K., Pant C.C.,,Tiwari P.C.; Sharma A.K. and Pant P.D. (2011) Modelling of stream run-off and sediment output for erosion hazard assessment in Lesser Himalaya: Need for Sustainable Land use Plan using Remote Sensing and GIS: A case study. Natural Hazards, Vol 59(3), pp. 1277-1297.
    

18. 
    Rawat P.K. and Sharma,A.K. (2012) Geo-diversity and its hydrological response in relation to landslide susceptibility in the Himalaya: a GIS based case study. Geo Risk, Vol 6(4), pp. 229-251.
    

19. 
    Rawat, P.K. Pant C.C.,Tiwari P.C., Pant P.D. and Sharma, A.K. (2012) Spatial variability assessment of river-line floods and flash floods in Himalaya: A case study using GIS. Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol 21(2), pp. 135-159.
    

20. 
    Dumka R.K., Kotlia B.S., Miral M.S., Joshi L.M., Kireet Kumar and Sharma, A.K. (2013) First Global Positioning System (GPS) Derived Recession Rate in Milam Glacier, Higher Central Himalaya, India. Research Inventory: Inter Jour. of Engg. and Sci, Vol 2(7), pp. 58-63.
    

21. 
    Kotlia, B.S., Goswami, P.K., Joshi, L.M., Sharma, A.K. 2017. Sedimentary environment and geomorphic development of the uppermost Siwalik molasse in Kumaun Himalayan foreland basin, north India. Geological Journal. DOI: 10.1002/gj.2883. Impact factor 2.33.
    

22. 
    Manisha Sanguri, Rajesh Sharma, D. Rameshwar Rao, M. Pandey, A. K. Sharma, 2017. Syn-to Post-Metamorphic Fluids in the Central Crystallines of Kumaun Himalaya: Evidences from Fluid Inclusion study of the metapelites, Himalayan Geology Vol. 38 No. 1. Impact factor: 0.4
    

23. 
    Singh, A.K., Jasrotia, A.S., Taloor, A.K., Kotlia, B.S., Kumar, V., Roy, S., Champati Ray, C., Singh, K.K., Singh, A.K., Sharma, A.K., 2017. Estimation of quantitative measures of total water storage variation from GRACE and GLDAS-NOAH satellites using geospatial technology. Quaternary International, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.quaint.2017.04.014. Impact factor 2.067.
    

24. 
    Kotlia, B. S., Singh, A.K., Zhao, Jian-Xin, Duan, W.,Tan, M., Sharma, A.K., Raza, W. 2016. Stalagmite based high resolution precipitation variability for past four centuries in the Indian Central Himalaya: Chulerasim cave re-visited and data re-interpretation. Quaternary International, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.quaint. 2016.04.007. Impact factor, 2.067.
    

25. 
    Kotlia, B.S., Singh, A.K., Sanwal, J., Raza, W., Ahmad, S.M., Joshi, L.M., Sharma, A.K. and Sagar, N. 2016. Stalagmite Inferred High Resolution Climatic Changes through Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Northwest Indian Himalaya. Journal of Earth Science and Climate Change, 7:3, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.4172/ 2157-7617.1000338.
    

26. 
    Kotlia, B. S., Singh, A.K., Zhao, Jian-Xin, Duan, W.,Tan, M., Sharma, A.K., Raza, W. 2016. Stalagmite based high resolution precipitation variability for past four centuries in the Indian Central Himalaya: Chulerasim cave re-visited and data re-interpretation. Quaternary International, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.quaint. 2016.04.007. Impact factor, 2.067.
    

27. 
    Maurya, V. K., Sharma, A. K., and Kumar S., (2015) Report on International Seminar on Magmatism, Tectonism and Mineralization (MTM-2014), Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v. 84, pp. 746-747
    

10. Conference/Seminar organized:

S/N	Status as organizer	Title of the conference/seminar	Year and dates
1.	Member	Stratigraphy and Correlation of Lesser Himalayan Formations	1979
2.	Member	Conference of INSA	1982
3.	Member	Environmental Regeneration in the Himalaya: Concept and Strategies	1982
4.	Member	7^th Five Year plan for Kumaun Hills	1986
5.	Member	Krol-Tal Field Meeting	1986
6.	Member	INSA Meeting	1987
7.	Convener	Analysis of Sedimentary Basins of India	1988
8.	Member	Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary problem with special reference to Ediacaran Fauna	1991
9.	Convener	Group discussion on Indo-Gangetic Basin	1992
10.	Member	Uttarakhand Ke Vikas Ki Rooprekha	1993
11.	Organizing Secretary	Geology and Natural Environment of the Lesser Himalaya	2001
12.	Co-convener	Quaternary Climate, Tectonics and Environment of the Himalaya : Comparison with other regions	2002
13.	Member	4^th PAC & Mid Term Review Meeting of DST	2002
14.	Member	Asian Monsoon Variability during the past global changes	2007
15	Convener	Geology and Geo-resources of Himalaya and Cratonic Regions of India	2012

11. Academic/Administrative positions held

S/N	Chairman/Member/Secretary	Committee/Board	Year (From-To)
1.	Assistant DSW	D.S.B. campus	2002-2005
2.	Joint Director Research & Extension (Science)	Kumaun University	2011-2012

16. Membership to professional Organization/Associations:

S/N	Name of the Association/Organizations	Status of the membership
1.	Central Himalayan Environment Association	Life member
2.	Indian Association of Engineering Geology	Member

17. Any other Information: Geotechnical advise rendered to the Government and the society since 1986

July, 2017