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Dr Debasis D Mohanty

Dr Debasis D Mohanty

Designation : Scientist E

ID. No.: 1277

Contact Details: +91-0376-2370114 | Fax: 0376-2370011

Email id : debasis.neist@csir.res.in, devlinkan@gmail.com, debasis06@iitkgp.ernet.in

Research Interest

  • Seismology and Structure
  • Seismic Tomography
  • Tectonics and Geodynamics
  • Seismic Anisotropy
  • Integrated Geophysics
  • Seismic Hazard

Projects(Ongoing & Completed)

  • PI: Assessment and Mitigation of Geo-Hazard in Himalaya (AMOGH)
  • PI: Active Geodynamics and Tectonics of Indo-Australian coupled plate system
  • PI: Source localized modeling of the central depth of anisotropy beneath the north-eastern Himalaya and tectonic implications
  • PI/Mentor: Seismic Anisotropic Characterization of Tight Reservoirs via Machine Learning: Insights into an Enhanced Reservoir Production
  • PI: Active Geodynamics, Evolution, Structure and Deformation analysis of Indo Burmese Wedge
  • Co-PI: Assessment of Air, water and soil quality in Baghjan oil blowout site and its vicinity, Tinsukia, Assam
  • Co-PI: Earthquake Hazard Studies in Moderate and Severe Seismic Zones of India (EHIND)

List of Publications

  • Decoupled deformation between crust and mantle beneath Indo-Burmese Wedge: a new seismotectonic model; Debasis D Mohanty, Satyapriya Biswal and Kazunori Yoshizawa;Earth & Planetary Science Letters (EPSL); 2024, 648, 119089, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119089
  • P-Wave velocity structure below India and Tibet incorporating anisotropic delay time effects; Debasis D Mohanty, Arun Singh, Leland J. Odriscol, Eugene Humphrey, M.Ravi Kumar and D. SrinageshGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed); 2016, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC006064
  • Source localized modelling to estimate the depth of anisotropy beneath eastern Himalaya using spatial coherency of shear-wave splitting parameters; Debasis D Mohanty; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; 336, 106987, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2023.106987
  • Birefringence of shear wave and mantle deformation patterns beneath Shillong Plateau: role of regional Geological structures; Debasis D Mohanty and Arun Singh; International Journal of Earth Sciences; 111, 269-286, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02114-9
  • Disparate behaviour of deformation patterns beneath northeast Indian lithosphere inferred from wave splitting shear analysis; Debasis D Mohanty and Poullomi Mondal; Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors (PEPI), 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2019.106315

Awards and Fellowships

 JSPS Fellowship, (Japan Society for Promotion of the Science), Govt. of Japan, 2022.

 SERB-MATRICS Grant for 2023-2026, Science & Engineering Research Board, DST, India, 2023.

 Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology, India, 2019.

 International Travel Support Award (USA), Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, India, 2019.

 Young Crew member award and invited talk, AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society), Solid Earth Students’ Section, Singapore, 2015.

 Baisnab Charan Memorial Award by Govt. of Odisha for securing highest mark in Mathematics in the State, 2000.

 State award by Department of Information and public relations, Govt. Of Odisha on Utkal Divas, 01.04.1996.

 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) fellowship for Post Doc at Taiwan, sponsoring: MOST, Govt. of Taiwan, 2016 (Denied).

 MHRD Travel Grant Award for annual meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), Montreal, Canada, May, 2015.

 MHRD Travel Grant Award for annual meeting of European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, April, 2016.

 Kalandi Charan Award by District academic committee for social significance, 2004, Dist- Bhadrak, Odisha.

 41 times district and Sub-divisional awards winner for participating in different academic competitions.

 Best Poster Award, International Conference on “Engineering Sciences and Technology for Environmental Care (ESTEC), 2020.

 Best Poster Award, AcSIR-Gyantarang Annual Conference, 2020.

 CSIR- Young Scientist Award, 2020 (Nominated-Last Round).

Personal Website

https://sites.google.com/view/debasisdmohanty

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