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Y. R. DHAR
Professor
Email : dharyr@yahoo.com
Phone : +91-326-2206419 (H)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (Panjab University)
Ph. D. (ISM, Dhanbad)
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Prof. Dhar has 33 years experience in post-graduate teaching, consulting and research. Before joining Indian School of Mines in 1982, he worked as Geologist in Geological Survey of India (1976-1982) where he was posted as Resident Geologist at various onsite projects for geotechnical advice to various state government organizations. Projects under these organizations include prestigious Uri Hydroelectric Project, Upper Sindh Hydroelectric Project and Dolbha Dam project and several others. After graduate studies he served as lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering (1970-1976) in the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology where he taught post-graduate and under graduate geology courses to civil engineers. He coordinated various training programs for executives in the industry and for university teachers.His field of specialization deals with geotechnical investigation for hydropower projects: dams, hydraulic tunnels, hydropower channels, slope stability of hill roads and opencast mines, rock mass classification and design support systems for underground structures, and environmental geotechnology related to civil and mining activity. He also carries out consulting work on ground water exploration for location of tube well sites in township areas. |
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Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. |
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BHABESH C. SARKAR
Professor & Head
Email : bhabeshsarkar2005@gmail.com
Phone :+91-326-2235429(W),2235529(R),9431121653 (M)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (IIT, Kharagpur, 1980),
Ph.D. (Imperial College, University of London, 1988),
DIC (Imperial College, University of London, 1988) |
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Prof.B. C. Sarkar joined Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1989. Before joining ISM, he served as Geologist in Mineral Exploration Corporation during 1980-81 and as Geologist and Senior Geologist in Hindustan Zinc Limited in between 1981-89. He has also served as Director in All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi during 1997-98 (on deputation). Prof. Sarkar was awarded National Overseas Scholarship for Ph.D. research at Imperial College, University of London in 1985. He has supervised to date 7 PhD research programmes, and another 3 are ongoing. He has coordinated several sponsored research projects, consultancy programmes, short courses and conferences. Prof. Sarkar has been guest faculty at various institutions and organisations, both within India and abroad. He is receipient of (i) Subarna and Sashibhusan Bhattacharya Memorial Award, 2009; (ii) Certificate of Membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ABI, USA, 2003; and (iii) Honorary Appointment to Research Board of Advisors, ABI, USA, 1999.
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Geostatistics, GIS and Mining Geology. |
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Main areas of research include integration of Geostatistics and GIS to provide spatial tool for geo-characterisation in respect of mineral deposits, hydrocarbon, coal and coal bed methane, groundwater and geo-environmental assessment.
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S. MOHANTY
Associate Professor
Email : mohantysp@yahoo.com
Phone : +91-326-2211890 (H),
91-9431122457 (Mobile)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (IIT, Kharagpur)
Ph. D. (IIT, Kharagpur) |
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Dr. Mohanty joined ISM as Lecturer in 1985; visited ETH, Zurich, as a post-Doctoral Fellow for one year during 1989-1990. Before becoming Associate Professor he worked as an Assistant Professor.Main research interests of Dr. S. Mohanty cover structural analysis of polydeformed metamorphic terranes, study of shear zones, and geochemical changes in deformed rocks. Presently interested to solve the problem of origin and evolution of sediment-hosted manganese, uranium, and base metal deposits in the Paleoproterozoic rocks of Sausar Group and Aravalli Supergroup. Time bound nature of these deposits appears to be related to environmental changes associated with rifting of the first major supercontinent and subsequent development of collisional mountain belts. |
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Structural Geology and Geotectonics. |
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Mathematical modelling and strain analysis of different structures in rocks.Application of stress/strain for understanding stable continental interior earthquakes. |
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ATUL K. VARMA
Associate Professor
Email : atulvarma@hotmail.com
Phone : +91-326-2235234 (W)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M.Sc. (Ranchi University)
Ph.D. (Poland)
Post Doc (UK) |
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Dr. Varma is engaged in research involving Coalbed methane, gas diffusion in coal, kinetic Modelling, CO2 sequestration, sulphur and phosphorous distribution in coal, geological and petrographic aspects of coking, coal liquefaction, solvent extraction, coal combustion, spontaneous combustion, reactivity of inertinite. His developing research areas: fly ash-, coke-, liquefaction residue-, solvent residue petrography, coal based environmental aspects and nano-science.Industry Interaction: geological and petrographic approach for coal quality, rider seam, and evaluation of coal seams.Visits abroad: Poland, France, Germany, Czech, Slovenia, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Thailand, Canada.Dr. Varma is an active member/fellow of several professional bodies like TSOP (The Society for Organic Petrology), ICCP (International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology) and international commission on application of coal petrography to industries. |
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Coal Geology and Organic Petrology. |
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Dr. Varma carried research works in several aspects of coal geology, organic petrology and coal conversion. |
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DEEPANKAR ASTHANA
Associate Professor
Email : dasthana@hotmail.com
Phone : +91-326-2235424 (W), 2207970
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (AMU, Aligarh), Ph. D. (Sydney) |
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Dr. Asthana received his B.Sc.(Hons.) and M. Sc. from the Aligarh Muslim University, and did his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney under the guidance of Prof. Evan Leitch and worked on the petrology and Geochemistry of mafic / ultramafic rocks of the New England Fold Belt. After his return to India, he served as a Scientist with National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), Department of Space, and then at the Govind Ballav Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development. Since 1991, he has been in the Indian School of Mines as an Assistant Professor and is presently holding the position of Associate Professor. |
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Igneous Petrology and Geochemistry. |
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Dr. Asthana is engaged in the research involving petrogenesis of central Indian volcanics with the help of major, minor, and trace (including REE) elements along with relict clinopyroxene chemistry. The Pitepani volcanics was shown for the first time to consists of two contrasting magmatic suits: (i) calc-alkaline high Mg andesites, and (ii) plume and rift related tholeitic magmatic suite. The detailed petrological work establishes the crustal evolution in central India via modern style subduction related processes. |
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A. S. VENKATESH
Associate Professor
Email : asvenkatesh@hotmail.com
Phone : +91-326-2235466 (W)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (Andhra University), Ph. D (NGRI/AU) |
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Dr. Venkatesh did post doc at ISM before joining as a faculty member at the Department of Applied Geology, Indian School of Mines in 1991.He has conducted studies related to ore geology on the metallogenetic evolution of Archean greenstone-hosted gold mineralization at Hutti-Maski deposits, in addition to his work on Paleoproterozoic Malanjkhand Cu-Mo deposit and lode type gold and VMS type base metal-Au association within Sakoli Group of rocks in Central India and environmental aspects related to gold, base metals, Fe and U. One student completed his Ph. D and two more students are working towards Ph.D. Principal subject interests are, ore petrology, fluid-rock interactions and alteration geochemistry. Research projects handled two, one was funded by CSIR and DST sponsors the current one.Industry Interaction: Rendered services in the area of mineralogical characterization of ores to some industries. Subjects taught are ore geology and environmental geology. Member: International Liaison Group on Gold Mineralization (UK). |
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Ore Geology, Geochemistry, Mineral Exploration and Environmental Geology |
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RAJENDRA K. DUBEY
Associate Professor
Email : rkdubey1085@hotmail.com
Phone : +91-326-2235637 (W) +91-9431711058 (M)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (BHU, Varanasi, 1989)
Ph. D. (BHU, Varanasi, 1996) |
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Dr. Dubey after completing his doctoral studies in Geotechnical Engineering / Engineering Geology (Rock Mechanics) as a Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology sponsored Research Fellow at BHU, Varanasi worked as a Research Associate (CSIR) at the Department of Mining Engineering, BHU. He then joined Mekelle University, Ethiopia as an Assistant Professor under UNDP Programme. Before joining as Senior Lecturer at ISM, Dhanbad he worked as a Senior Research Associate (CSIR) at the Department of Geology, BHU.Dr Dubey teaches Engineering Geology, Rock Mechanics, Soil mechanics, Mining Geology at UG and PG levels. |
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Geotechnical Engineering, Experimental Structural Geology. |
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Dr. Dubey’s research interest include rheological behaviour of rocks and ice, impact of seismics shocks on deformation of rocks and effect of fluid pressure on deformation of rocks. He has proposed some alternative methods for fatigue study and an en’echelon crack arrays theory for deformation of rocks. He has redefined the effective limit of structural anisotropy under stress. |
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MRINAL KANTI MUKHERJEE
Associate Professor
Email : mrinal_km67@yahoo.co.in
Phone : +91-9431711148 (Mobile)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (Tech.), ISM Dhanbad
Ph. D. (ISI-Kolkata; University of Calcutta) |
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Dr. Mukherjee joined ISM-Dhanbad as Assistant Professor in 2007. Before that he served as Geologist in the Geological Survey of India (Central Region) at Nagpur from 2002 to 2007. In GSI, Dr. Mukherjee worked in a project that involved identification, mapping and seismic characterization of faults in and around a proposed site for construction of a Nuclear Power Plant of 625 MW capacity in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra. The project was sponsored by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. Besides, in GSI, Dr. Mukherjee also worked rigorously in the projects of Specialized Thematic Mapping in the Sausar Belt and Western Bastar Craton of Central India.
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Structural Geology, Seismotectonics |
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Broad areas of Research include deformation analysis in brittle and ductile field, Active fault mapping and characterization, tectonics and sedimentation; generation, ascent and emplacement mechanisms of plutons; structural controls on ore genesis, petroleum migration and trapping and role of structures in geotechnical engineering. |
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SUKANTA DEY
Assistant Professor
Email : sukantadeygeo@yahoo.co.in
Phone : +91-9431711148 (Mobile)
Telefax : +91-326-2296616 (W)
Qualification: M. Sc. (Jadavpur University, 1993)
Ph. D. (Jadavpur University, 2006) |
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Dr. S. Dey has one decade of experience in exploration for atomic minerals in Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Department of Atomic Energy as Scientific Officer. He has carried out extensive survey in Proterozoic basins of south India and Archaean basement crystallines, and assed their potential for atomic minerals. He is instrumental in identifying prospective mineral occurrences. His work on the granitoids of the northern part of Karnataka has thrown light on the Archaean crustal evolution, crust-mantle interaction and geodynamics. Dr Dey’s study on the Proterozoic Kaladgi and Cuddapah sediments has elucidated their provenance composition and tectonics, palaeoclimate, post-depositional alteration and mineral potential.
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Mineral Exploration, Igneous Petrology, Sedimentary Geochemistry |
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Dr. Dey’s research interests include Atomic Mineral potential of the Proterozoic basins of southern India. He is also working on the granitoids of north Karnataka (especially their geochemistry and Sr, Pb and Nd isotope systematics), and evolving a model for the change in style of crust formation during middle to late Archaean. He is studying the Proterozoic sediments of southern India as natural sample to trace the evolution of the upper crust composition, palaeoweathering and basin tectonics |
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