National Centre for Earth Science Studies

Education:

Professional career:

1. Scientist B, NCESS (2023 - Present)
2. Project Scientist I (May, 2023 – Sep, 2023) - Arctic Division, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Vasco Da Gama,
   Goa.
3. Research Associate (2021-2023): at Centre Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

Research Interests:

Past, present and future climate modelling.

Monsoonal variability and change

Tropical Indo-pacific drivers, their variability and impacts

Extreme events and background changes.

Awards/Honours/Achievements/Fellowships:

1. Participated in First Indian Scientific Expedition to Canadian Arctic in 2023

2. ERASMUS+ Worldwide Exchange student from April, 2018 to July 2018 at Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

3. Best paper award for the year 2018-2019 in CEOAS for the paper entitled “A PMIP3 narrative of modulation of
   ENSO teleconnections to the Indian summer monsoon by background changes in the Last Millennium”

4. Qualified CSIR-NET (JRF) in Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, 2016.

5. Awarded National Fellowship for Higher Education (NFHE) of ST Students to pursue PhD.

6. Participated in two Scientific ocean cruises (Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal)

Publications:

1. K. Ashok, S. Bidyabati, Tejavath, C. T., and U. Cubasch (2022), Summer monsoon over northeastern India during the last millennium, Int. J. Climatol., 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7332
2. Tejavath, C. T ., K. Ashok, and S. Chakraborty (2021), The role of the orbital parameters in the Indian monsoon during the Mid-Holocene, as deciphered from atmospheric model experiments, Frontiers. Earth. Science. 9, Doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.631310
3. Amat, H. B., M. Pradhan, C. T. Tejavath, A. Dey, A. S. Rao, A. K. Sahai, and K. Ashok (2021), Value addition to forecasting: towards Kharif rice crop predictability through local climate variations associated with Indo-Pacific climate drivers. Theor Appl Climatol, 144, 917-929, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03572-6
4. Tejavath C. T., K. Ashok, and P. Upadhyay (2020), The past climate of the Indian region as seen from the modeling world, Current Science, 119, pp 316-327, doi: 10.18520/cs/v119/i2/316-32
5. Tejavath, C. T., K. Ashok, S. Chakraborty, and R. Rengasamy (2019), A PMIP3 narrative of modulation of ENSO teleconnections to the Indian summer monsoon by background changes in the Last Millennium. Clim. Dyn., 53: 3445-3461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04718-z
6. Ashok, K, F. Feba and C. T. Tejavath (2019), The Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and ENSO. Mausam, 70(3), 443-452

Book chapters:

Feba F, D. Govardhan, C. T. Tejavath, and Ashok, K. (2021), ENSO Modoki Teleconnections to Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall – A Review, Chapter 4, Indian Summer Monsoon Variability: El Niño teleconnection sand beyond, Editors: Jasti S Chowdary; Anant Parekh; C. Gnanaseelan, (Elsevier pub.)

Conferences/Training/Workshops:

1. Oral and Poster presentation on “The role of the orbital parameters in the Indian monsoon during the MidHolocene, as deciphered from atmospheric model experiments”, PMIP2020 Nanjing (Conference virtual mode). [Oct., 2021]
2. The role of the orbital parameters in the Indian monsoon during the MidHolocene, as deciphered from atmospheric model experiments International Virtual Conference on Earth’s Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future. [Oct., 2020]
3. Oral Presentation titled “The ENSO teleconnections to the Indian summer monsoon climate through the Last Millennium as simulated by the PMIP3” in 1st PMIP4 conference, Stockholm, Sweden. [Sep., 2017]
4. Conference on “International Workshop on Representation of Physical Processes in Weather and Climate Models, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. [Feb., 2017]
5. The Indian Summer Monsoon During Last Millennium” in Tropmet-2016, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. [Dec., 2016]
6. Poster titled “The Indian Summer Monsoon Climate During Last Millennium, As Simulated by the PMIP3”, CLIVAR-2016, Qingdao, China. [Sep., 2016]
7. Two-week workshop on International Training course on “Indian Ocean Dynamics : From the Large scale Circulation to Small scale Eddies and Fronts” INCOIS, Hyderabad, India. [Nov., 2015]

Education:

Professional career:

1. Scientist B, NCESS (2023 (August) - Present)
2. Ph.D (2017 (April) - 2023 (April)) - CSIR-NGRI @ Department of Geology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
3. Project Fellow (2013 (Sep) - 2018 (Oct)): CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad, India.

Area of specialization:

Landslides, floods, Quantitative geomorphology, and tectonic geomorphology.

Honours/Awards/Fellowships:

1. EGU Early Career Scientist: Awarded 445 Euros by European Geoscience Union (EGU) to attend the EGU Galileo conference “Perturbations of Earth Surface Dynamics Caused by Extreme Events” held in Kathmandu, Nepal from October 13 – 19, 2019.

Field Work Experience:

1. 2023 Visited Idukki district, Kerala to gather basic information about past occurred landslides and Landslide-affected locations.
2. 2023 Visited Joshimath area to understand the subsidence affect using Ground Penetrating Radar.
3. 2019 Visited Earthquake triggered landslides affected area in Nepal during the Earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events workshop.
4. 2017 Visited the Gohna and Ukhimath landslides in the Upper Ganga catchment to understand the landslide morphology and the sub surface structure using Ground Penetrating Radar in the Uttarakhand state, India.
5. 2017 Visited Gohna and Ukhimath landslides in the Upper Ganga catchment, to understand landslide morphology and to understand the sub surface structure using Ground Penetrating Radar in the Uttarakhand state, India.
6. 2017 GPR analysis to detect the sinkholes in karst topography near Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh.
7. 2017 GPR analysis to recognise the leakage pipeline of underground drainage in Secunderabad – GHMC.
8. 2015 post-earthquake paleo-seismology studies in and around the 2015 Gorkha earthquake rupture zone in the Nepal.
9. 2015 Visited the Lesser Himalaya in the Kumauan Himalaya during Himalaya Karakorum Tibet (HKT) conference- 2015.

Training/Conferences:

1. 2023 Attended the 2-Day International Workshop On “Remote Sensing for Crustal Deformation Studies” at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh.
2. 2019 Attended the OSL/TL workshop at CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute sponsored by MOES.
3. 2019 Attended the 6th EGU Galileo conference “Perturbations of Earth Surface Dynamics Caused by Extreme Events” held in Kathmandu.
4. 2019 Attended 3-day workshop for ‘ESRI ArcGIS’.
5. 2019 Attended 45th IIRS Outreach Programme on "RS and GIS Applications in Watershed Management’.
6. 2019 Attended 44th IIRS Outreach Programme on ‘Remote Sensing based Mapping Monitoring and Modelling of Landslide and Earthquake hazards’.
7. 2016 Attended the short-term course on "Introduction to Landslide Site Mapping" is sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
8. 2014 Attended 13th IIRS Outreach Programme on ‘Basics of RS, GIS and GNSS’.

Publications:

1. Sravan Kumar Kotluri, Prabha Pandey, and Anand K. Pandey. "A Google Earth and ArcGIS-based protocol for channel width extraction." Journal of Earth System Science 133, no. 1 (2024): 1-10.
2. Akilan, A., M. Satyanarayanan, S. Balaji, M. J. Nandan, M. Venkateshwarlu, S. Kumar, Y. Srinivas, H. V. S. Satyanarayana, and O. P. Pandey. "Correlating volcanic emissions from Andaman-Sumatra region to atmospheric pollution in Delhi: A possible scenario." Geosystems and Geoenvironment 2, no. 1 (2023): 100142.
3. Reddy, S. Kiran Kumar, Sravan Kumar Kotluri, Harish Gupta, and D. Venkat Reddy. "Role of Climate and Topography on Hydrological Characteristics of the Bharathapuzha Basin in the Tectonically Quiescent Western Ghats, India." Journal of the Geological Society of India 97 (2021): 1087-1096.
4. Jaiswara, Nilesh K., Sravan Kumar Kotluri, Prabha Pandey, and Anand K. Pandey. "MATLAB functions for extracting hypsometry, stream-length gradient index, steepness index, chi gradient of channel and swath profiles from digital elevation model (DEM) and other spatial data for landscape characterisation." Applied Computing and Geosciences 7 (2020): 100033.
5. Jaiswara, Nilesh Kumar, Sravan Kumar Kotluri, Anand K. Pandey, and Prabha Pandey. "Transient basin as indicator of tectonic expressions in bedrock landscape: Approach based on MATLAB geomorphic tool (Transient-profiler)." Geomorphology 346 (2019): 106853.
6. Akilan, A., KK Abdul Azeez, H. Schuh, Simanchal Padhy, and S. Kumar Kotluri. "Perturbations in atmospheric gaseous components over coastal Antarctica detected in GPS signals and its natural origin to volcanic eruption." Polar Science 19 (2019): 69-76.

Conference Proceedings:

1. Pandey, A.K., Sravan Kumar, K., Mani Tiwari, V., Rao, P., Cook, K., Andermann, C., Dietze, M., Pilz, M. and Hovius, N., 2021, April. Extreme mass wasting during 2021 Dhauli Ganga event in the Higher Himalaya: insight from the landscape. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU21-16587).
2. Sravan Kumar Kotluri, Prabha Pandey, Anand K Pandey., 2019, October. Bedrock landslides induced landscape evolution in the upper ganga catchment of the Himalaya. Presented at 6th EGU Galileo conference of “Earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events” held in Kathmandu, Nepal from October 13-19, 2019.
3. Prabha Pandey, K. Sravan Kumar, Anand K Pandey., 2019, January. The extreme events and large-scale mass wasting including landslides in higher himalayan terrain. Presented at “Mastermind session on Landslide Hazards in India” held at NCESS, Trivandrum.
4. Kumar, K.S., Pandey, P. and Pandey, A.K., 2016, November. Tista river response to uplift in the himalayan terrain: a morphotectonic approach. In 53rd Annual Convention of IGU “Geoscience for Sustainability” (p. 160).
5. Kumar, K.S., Pandey, P. and Pandey, A.K., 2015, January. Tista river response to uplift in the himalayan terrain: a morphotectonic approach. Presented during 30th Himalaya Karakoram Tibet Workshop held at WIHG Dehra Dun”.
6. Kumar, K.S., Pandey, P. and Pandey, A.K., 2014, January. Drainage characteristics of tista river in himalayan terrain. In 50th annual convention “sustainability of Earth system-the Future challenges” (p. 219).