Current Sponsored Projects

Project Title : Geo-quest of Varanasi
Principal Investigator : Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee and Dr. Probal Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Arindam Basu, Dr. Joy Sen
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Crustal seismic attenuation characteristics in Nepal Himalaya and southern Tibet from Lg Q inversion
Principal Investigator : Chandrani Singh
Sponsor : ISIRD
Project Title : Architectural-Archeological-Iconographic & Epigraphic exploration of Lalitagiri-Vajragiri-Pushpagiri, Odisha
Principal Investigator : Dr. Joy Sen and Dr. Priyadarshi Patnaik
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Probal Sengupta, Dr. Arindam Basu, Dr. Narayan Chandra Nayak
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Evaluating the potential of Malani Igneous Suite rocks, Rajasthan for Uranium mineralization using petrological and geochemical proxies
Principal Investigator : Dewashish Upadhyay
Co-Principal-Investigators : Kamal Lochan Pruseth
Sponsor : BRNS
Project Title : Structural, mineralogical and geochemical appraisals of the Pur-Banera basin, Rajasthan for assessing its uranium potential
Principal Investigator : Biswajit Mishra
Sponsor : BRNS
Project Title : Geophysical Syurvey using Gravity and Magnetic methods in South Purulia Shear Zone
Principal Investigator : Dr. S.P. Sharma
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. W.K. Mohanty
Sponsor : BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy
Project Title : Indian Geoid low: A feasibility study
Principal Investigator : Dr. M. Ravi Kumar (NGRI)
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Arun Singh (IIT, KGP)
Sponsor : MOES(Ministry of Earth Sciences Govt. of India)
Project Title : Isostatic coherence anisotropy using wavelet method
Principal Investigator : Rajesh R Nair
Sponsor : ISIRD
Project Title : Near Surface Geophysical and Geotechnical Investigation for Site-specific Seismic Hazard and Slope Stability studies in Gangtok (New Project revised))
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. K. Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. A. Ghosh, Dr. P. Sengupta, Dr. A. Mukherjee and Dr. S. Maiti
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India
Project Title : Crust formation and terrane amalgamation in eastern Indiaâ€”constraints from enclaves in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex
Principal Investigator : Dewashish Upadhyay
Sponsor : Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Project Title : Mineral prospecting along SPSZ using field and satellite hyperspectral imaging (on going)
Principal Investigator : Sabyasachi Maiti
Sponsor : ISIRD (SRIC, IIT Kharagpur)
Project Title : The exhumation factor in the genesis of inverted metamorphic sequences â€“ an evaluation from structure, metamorphism, fluid inclusions and earthqu
Principal Investigator : Saibal Gupta
Co-Principal-Investigators : M. K. Panigrahi, S. Mitra
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : The Thermal Evolution of Peninsula India: Past behaviors and Future Potential.
Principal Investigator : Saibal Gupta
Co-Principal-Investigators : M. K. Panigrahi, M. A. Mamtani
Sponsor : Australia â€“ India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST)
Project Title : Testing models for mountain building in the northeastern Himalaya
Principal Investigator : Prof. Nigel Harris (Open University, U.K
Co-Principal-Investigators : Saibal Gupta, Tom Argles (OU, U.K.)
Sponsor : Royal Society
Project Title : Microzonation and Evaluation of Vulnerability and Socio-Economic Impacts for the City of Kolkata including Greater Kolkata
Principal Investigator : Prof. S K Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. P Sengupta, Prof. N Dhang (CE), Dr. D Roy (CE)
Sponsor : MOES
Project Title : Thermal History of the Inverted Metamorphic Sequence from the Northwestern Arunachal Pradesh: Constraints from Microstructure, Thermobarometry and P-T
Principal Investigator : Santanu Kumar Bhowmik
Sponsor : CSIR
Project Title : Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (Just completed))
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. K. Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. P. Sengupta (GG)
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India
Project Title : Seismic Hazard Assessment, Microzonation, and Evaluation of Vulnerability & Risk of the Urban Kolkata (Ongoing)
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. K. Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : P Sengupta, D Roy, N Dhang, RK Majumdar, A Ghosh, D Das, MK Sinha
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India
Project Title : Characterization of Seismicity in the Kumaun Himalaya for Hazard Assessment
Principal Investigator : Chandrani Singh (IITKGP)
Co-Principal-Investigators : Arun Singh (IITKGP), R. K. Chadha (NGRI)
Sponsor : MOES(Ministry of Earth Sciences Govt. of India)
Project Title : Investigation of the basement structure of the Bengal Basin using Gravity and Seismic data
Principal Investigator : P Sengupta
Sponsor : ISIRD IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Seismicity monitoring, Maintenance of the Existing 16 Station Sikkim Strong Motion Array and Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Darjeeling-Si
Principal Investigator : Prof. S K Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : P Sengupta
Sponsor : MOES
Project Title : Geo-quest of Chandraketugarh
Principal Investigator : Dr. Arindam Basu & Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Probal Sengupta , Dr. Joy Sen
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Geo-quest of Varanasi
Principal Investigator : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Geo-quest of Chandraketugarh
Principal Investigator : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Application of artificial intelligence in groundwater storage of Indian Subcontinent
Principal Investigator : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Geo-quest of Lalitagiri-Pushpagiri (Vajragiri), Odisha
Principal Investigator : Dr. Probal Sengupta, and Dr. Arindam Ba
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee, Dr. Joy Sen
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Characterization of Seismicity in the Kumaun Himalaya for Hazard Assessment
Principal Investigator : Chandrani Singh
Co-Principal-Investigators : Arun Singh (IITKGP), R. K. Chadha (NGRI)
Sponsor : MOES(Ministry of Earth Sciences Govt. of India)
Project Title : Near Surface Geophysical and Geotechnical Investigation for Site-specific Seismic Hazard and Slope Stability studies in Gangtok (New Project revised)
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. K. Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. A. Ghosh, Dr. P. Sengupta, Dr. A. Mukherjee and Dr. S. Maiti
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India
Project Title : The relationship between anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, strength anisotropy and microstructure in rocks devoid of mesoscopic foliations
Principal Investigator : Manish A. Mamtani
Co-Principal-Investigators : Arindam Basu
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi (Completed)
Project Title : Quantitative assessment of weathering grades of rock materials
Principal Investigator : Arindam Basu
Co-Principal-Investigators : None
Sponsor : ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur (Completed)
Project Title : Predicting crack initiation stress by porosity and evaluating microstructural control on crack initiation: a study on granite
Principal Investigator : Arindam Basu
Co-Principal-Investigators : None
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi (Research Completed)
Project Title : Vertebrate microfossils from the Tiki Formation of the Rewa Gondwana basin: an integrated study on Upper Triassic biodiversity
Principal Investigator : Sanghamitra Ray
Co-Principal-Investigators : S. Bandyopadhyay (GSU, ISI Kolkata) and P.M. Datta (Retd. Director, GSI)
Sponsor : SERB, DST India
Project Title : Deciphering the history of hydrothermal activity and controls on uranium mineralization at Koppunuru: constraints from mineral chemistry, stable isoto
Principal Investigator : Kamal Lochan Pruseth
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dipak Pal
Sponsor : BRNS
Project Title : The Indian Continental Shelf as a potential source of Phosphate
Principal Investigator : M K Panigrahi
Co-Principal-Investigators : A K Gupta, S. Tripathy
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences
Project Title : Rock strength investigations of the metabasalts of Gadag region â€“ implications for vein emplacement and mineralization
Principal Investigator : M.A. Mamtani
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. C.S.Vishnu (DST Young Scientist)
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi
Project Title : Reservoir Characterization using Artificial Intelligent Techniques (Soft Computing)
Principal Investigator : Dr. William K. Mohanty
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr, Aurobinda Routray
Sponsor : Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC), Dehradun
Project Title : National stable Isotope facility project at IIT, Kharagpur, sponsored by DST (outlay ~Rs. 200 lacs, 2004-2010; on-going).
Principal Investigator : A Sarkar
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Indo-US joint pilot project on Himalayan glaciers, aerosols and climate change sponsor Indo-US forum, US$ 25000/- (2009-2011; on-going).
Principal Investigator :
Sponsor : Indo-US forum
Project Title : Isotopes of water in India (2008-2013; on-going)
Principal Investigator : A. Sarkar
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Building types in India. (Ongoing)
Principal Investigator : Prof. N. Dhang, Prof. D. Roy
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S. K. Nath, Prof. S. Chakraborty, Prof. A. Deb
Sponsor : NDMA, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India
Project Title : Groundwater-Sea water interaction at a coastal aquifer adjoining the Bay of Bengal: implications on flux and solute exchange
Principal Investigator : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : ISRD, SRIC IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Establishment of Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA) National Facility IIT, Kharagpur
Principal Investigator : A. Bhattacharya
Co-Principal-Investigators : B. Mishra and S. K. Bhowmik
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Strong Motion Seismometry, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Microzonation of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (New Project to commence)
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. K. Nath
Sponsor : MoES
Project Title : Anatomy of the Himalayan orogeny using direct S waves
Principal Investigator : Arun Singh
Sponsor : ISIRD
Project Title : Historical Evidence, Myth and Geophysical Modeling to Assess the Tectonic Movement and Risks Associated with the Odisha Coastal â€˜Heritageâ€™ Belt
Principal Investigator : Prof. William K. Mohanty
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. A. Routray, Prof. Joy Sen, Prof. P. Pattanaik, Prof. Saibal Gupta, Prof. N.C. Nayak, Prof. B.S
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Project Title : SANDHI, Science -Technology & Culture - Heritage Interface
Principal Investigator : Joy Sen (Architecture and Regional Plann
Co-Principal-Investigators : Arindam Basu (one of the Co-PIs)
Sponsor : MHRD, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, NEW DELHI
Project Title : Understanding the extent and natural/anthropogenic controls on groundwater recharge in water scarce areas of western districts of West Bengal
Principal Investigator : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : Govt. of West Bengal, PHED
Project Title : Delineating physico-chemical dynamics of discharging groundwater to sea in coastal areas of the Bay of Bengal
Principal Investigator : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences
Project Title : Geo-quest of Lalitagiri-Pushpagiri (Vajragiri
Principal Investigator : Probal Sengupta
Co-Principal-Investigators : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Urban-design, planning and urban engineering exploration of Varanasi
Principal Investigator : Partha Pratim Chakraborti
Co-Principal-Investigators : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Architectural-archeological-iconographic and epigraphic exploration of Chandraketugarh
Principal Investigator : Joy Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Geomicrobiology of the deep subsurface in Koyna-Warna region: Diversity, distribution and function of microbial communities within granitic-basaltic
Principal Investigator : Pinaki Sar
Co-Principal-Investigators : Abhijit Mukherjee
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences
Project Title : Inter-dependencies of deep crustal and surficial geological processes during continental collision
Principal Investigator : T. Ahmad & J. Aitchison
Co-Principal-Investigators : S.K. Bhowmik, S. Dasgupta (India) & G. Lister, T. Ireland, M.A. Forster, G. Clarke (Australia)
Sponsor : Department of Science & Technology/Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF)
Project Title : Exploration of microbial diversity and function in acid mine drainage and mine tailings: An integrated geomicrobiological approach for bioremediation
Principal Investigator : Pinaki Sar
Co-Principal-Investigators : M K Panigrahi
Sponsor : DBT
Project Title : Relationship between Shoreline Changes and Suspended sediment flow from Source to Sink System in the Bengal Delta (Submitted)
Principal Investigator : Sabyasachi Maiti
Co-Principal-Investigators : D. Mitra, IIRS Dehradun
Sponsor : ISRO