Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Professor

MA (Gauhati) PhD (Gauhati) MPhil (Gauhati)

Fluvial Geomorphology, flood plain studies and GIS

Department of Geography
Gauhati University, Guwahati, 781014
Email: dhrubajyoti[at]gauhati[dot]ac[dot]in

1. Nuffic Fellowship from Govt. of Netherlands, 2006

2. Commonwealth Travel Grant, 2005

3. Best Teacher Award by Deccan Geographical Society of India, 2023

Ongoing Projects

  1. Dynamics of Sedimentation and its impact on local resources in Upper North bank of Brahmaputra: An Integrated study using field surveys and geospatial technologies. Funding Agency: ISRO, Department of Space, Govt. of India
  2. Climate change impact assessment of threatened taxa in the Eastern Himalaya: Regeneration and conservation strategies. Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
  1. Hyperspectral Remote sensing Applications, 22-26 July 2019, Organised by National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Department of Space, Govt. of India, Hyderabad
  2. Data Analytics using 'R' programming. 8-12 January 2019, Organised by the Department of Business Administration, Gauhati University and Electronics & ICT Academy IIT Guwahati, Assam
  3. 6-week course on Earth Imagery at Work (MOOC), Organised by ESRI, February-March, 2018
  4. UGC Sponsored Short-term Course in Gender Sensitisation, 4-10 January 2018, HRDC, Gauhati University
  5. National Information System for Climate and Environment Studies (NICES) and its activities, Organised by, NRSC, ISRO, NESAC, and Cotton University, 29th January 2018
  6. Two days Train the trainer National Workshop on Massive open online courses(MOOCs), Organised by NIT, Silchar, Thapar University, Patiala and Sponsored by Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and TEQUIP II, held on 26-27th August 2017.
  1. Chaired a session in the ICSSR-sponsored International Seminar on Vikshi Bharat@2047- Voice of Youth: Transforming India through Voice of Youth at Jagiroad College, Assam on 28th and 29th November 2024
  2. Worked as a resource person in the NGP-DST Winter School on Geospatial Technologies, Conducted from 5th November to 25th November 2024 in the Department of Geography, Gauhati University 
  3. Delivered an invited talk at the workshop on quality assurance in Indian higher education institutions in the northeastern region, organised by NIEPA, New Delhi, and Gauhati University on 21st and 22nd March 2024 at Gauhati University.
  4. Chaired a session at the 44th IIG Annual Meet and International Conference on Shaping Tomorrow: Society, Culture and Environment in the Interconnected World, organised by the Department of Geography, Cotton University, from 22nd to 24th January 2024.
  5. DST-SERB sponsored National Level Workshop (Virtual) on “Advances in Geoinformatics: Methods, Techniques and Applications” from 4th to 10th October, 2021,
  6. National Science Day lecture, 28th February, 2020. on Climate Change our Common Future, at B. Barooah College, Organised by the Botanical Society of Assam and ASTEC
  7. National Conference on green, Sustainable and Evolving Sciences (GSES-2019) and 64th Annual technical Sessional of Assam Science Society, June 28-29, 2019, Organized by Cotton University, Guwahati.
  8. 21 days Summer School in Geospatial Technologies, Sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Organised by the Department of Geography, Gauhati University, 3-23 July 2019
  9. Symposium on Emergent Techniques of Watershed Management, Organised by Don Bosco University, Guwahati in Collaboration with Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, on 27th October 2017.
  10. The workshop on “Application of Geospatial Technologies” was organised by Dibrugarh University and held on February 25-30, 2017.
  11. Workshop to Develop and Review ICT in Education Course Content for Teachers, Phase-II. 2-6 October 2017, Organised by NCERT, New Delhi-110016
  12. Workshop on Data Analysis with Statistical Tools, 6-8 January 2016, Organised by USTM, Meghalaya.
  13. National Workshop on Remote sensing and GIS, 24-30 October 2016, Organised by Department of Computer Science, Gauhati University
  14. UGC Sponsored National Workshop on Application of Quantitative Techniques in Physical Geography, July1-3, 2015, Organised by Bajali College, Pathsala.
  15. GIS Workshop in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Environment and Development, on 15-16 September 2015, Organised by Sonapur College and NEIGS
  16. State Level Resource Person’s Training for NCSC-2015, 21 and 22 July 2015, Organised by ASTEC, Guwahati

Floodplain Studies, Wetlands, Human-Forest Interface

  • Flood Hazard Assessment in Assam’s Belsiri River Basin Using AHP and MaxEnt (2025): Revue Internationale de Géomatique  Volume 34, Number 1,
  • Long-term future prediction of potentially suitable zones for Calamus flagellum Griff.(Arecaceae) in Assam, using Maxent and Artificial Neural Networks(2024), Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 13 (2), 143-150                       
  • Assessing critical flood-prone districts and optimal shelter zones in the Brahmaputra Valley: Strategies for effective flood risk management (2024): Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 136, 103772   
  • Assessment of dyna clue model for prediction of spatio-temporal dynamics of urbanisation and green space in Jaipur district, Rajasthan (India) (2024): Discover Cities 1 (1), 21                              
  • Extended distribution of Trillium govanianum Wall. ex D. Don (Melanthiaceae), an endangered species from Arunachal Pradesh, India(2024): Journal of Threatened Taxa 16 (10), 26049-26052                 
  • Projected trends in ecosystem service valuation in response to land use land cover dynamics in Kishtwar High Altitude National Park, India(2024):Landscape and Ecological Engineering, 1-26                
  • Species distribution modelling of Cephaleuros parasiticus Karst in India using maximum entropy model, (2024): Ecocycles 10 (2), 5-13                              
  • Unearthing India’s soil moisture anomalies: impact on agriculture and water resource strategies(2024), Theoretical and Applied Climatology 155 (8), 7575-7590               
  • Distribution mapping of five threatened medicinally important plant species of Arunachal Himalaya (2024), Vegetos 37 (3), 844-858               
  • Assessment of the land use/land cover and climate change impact on the hydrological regime of the Kulsi River catchment, Northeast India(2024): Sustainable Water Resources Management 10 (2), 60    
  • Species distribution modelling of Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus in Nagaon District of Assam, India: a zoogeographical analysis(2024): Journal of Threatened Taxa 16 (3), 24949-24955                 
  • Flood susceptibility assessment of the Agartala Urban Watershed, India, using machine learning algorithm(2024): Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 196 (2), 110              
  • Integrating RUSLE Model with Cloud-Based Geospatial Analysis: A Google Earth Engine Approach for Soil Erosion Assessment in the Satluj Watershed (2024):  Water 16 (8), 1-18
  • Impact of climate change on potential distribution and altitudinal shift of critically endangered Amentotaxus assamica D.K. Ferguson in Arunachal Pradesh (2024):Theoretical and Applied Climatology 155 (1), 261-271     
  • Modelling on assessment of flood risk susceptibility at the Jia Bharali River basin  in Eastern Himalayas by integrating multicollinearity tests and geospatial techniques (2024): Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
  • Evaluating Flood Susceptibility in the Brahmaputra River Basin: An Insight into Asia's Eastern Himalayan Floodplains Using Machine Learning and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (2023):Earth Systems and Environment    
  • Geospatial modeling to assess the past and future land use-land cover changes in the Brahmaputra Valley, NE India, for sustainable land resource management(2023): Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30 (49), 106997-107020   
  • Decoding Chambal River Shoreline Transformations: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Remote Sensing, GIS, and DSAS (2023):Water 15 (9), 1793            
  • Assessment of ecosystem service value in response to LULC changes using geospatial techniques: A case study in the Merbil Wetland of the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India (2023): ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12 (4), 165
  • Assessment of Ecosystem Service Value in Response to LULC Changes Using Geospatial Techniques: A Case Study in the Merbil Wetland of the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India. (2023) ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(4), p.165.
  • Assessing Bankline Shift Using an Automated Approach in the Jia Bharali River, India. Land. 2023; 12(3):703. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030703
  • Assessing the impacts of current and future changes of the planforms of River Brahmaputra on its land use-land cover,2023, Geoscience Frontiers, 101557, ISSN 1674-9871, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2023.101557.
  • Growth of water hyacinth biomass and its impact on the floristic composition of aquatic plants in a wetland ecosystem of the Brahmaputra floodplain of Assam, India.2023 PeerJ, 11:e14811 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14811
  • Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring and Prediction of a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone Using Cellular Automata-Markov Model ,2023,Land.  12 (1), 151

Post-Doc

Dr. Jatan Debnath (2021Nov to  2024, Nov)

PhD (Awarded)

  1. Swarupjyoti Baishya
  2. Kuleswar Sinha
  3. Akangsha Borgogain
  4. Banashree Saikia
  5. Kripal Panging
  6. Mrinal Deka
  7. Durlov Lahon

PhD (Ongoing)

  1. Kirti Chowdhury
  2. Thejangunu Peseyie 
  3. Kusumbar Bordoloi (ISRO-RESPOND Fellow)
  4. Jubilee Goswami
  5. Meghna Mazumdar
  6. Pradip Kr. Kalita
  7. Nityaranjan Nath

M.Phil (Awarded)

  1. Ripunjita Borthakur
  2. Minakshi Das
  3. Kuleswar Singha
  4. Nalini Deka
  5. Mitali Haloi
  6. Debangana Goswami
  7. Nilotpala Sarma
  8. Azruddin Khan
  9. Kasturi Borkotoky
  10. Durlov Lahon
  11. Meghna Mazumdar
  12. Nityaranjan Nath 

Deputy Director, IQAC, Gauhati University 

Member, IQAC, Gauhati University

Convener, Town Advisory Committee 

Member, Governing Body, North Guwahati College(2020-23)

Member, Governing Body, KRB Girls' College (2018-21)

Member, Academic Audit Team, Abhayapuri College

M.C. College, Tihu College, Jagiroad College, Lakhipur College

Bhabanipur Anchalik College, BHB College, West Goalpara College,

BBK College, Barnagar College

Member, NEP Core Committee, Gauhati University 

Member, College Development Council

Coordinator (Joint), External Academic Audit, Gauhati University 

Head, Department of Geography, (Sept, 2022 onwards)

Board Member, Assam Pollution Control Board

Member, Board of Studies in Geography, RGU

Member, Board of Studies in Geography, Bhattadev University

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