Recent Trends in River Corridor Management

Dr. Vinay Chembolu is currently working as Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Jammu. He obtained his B. Tech. (Civil) from UCEK-JNTU Kakinada, and M. Tech. and PhD in Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His major research interests include River Engineering, River Dynamics and Experimental and Field Hydraulics. He has published his research work in reputed international journals. He also got varied experience of working with research and consultancy projects for river training, development of waterways, dam break analysis, flood inundation modelling and environmental flows, all those pertaining to Indian Rivers. He has been actively involved in conducting hydrographic surveys in challenging rivers like the Brahmaputra, Kosi, Brahmani and Himalayan Rivers using advanced river surveying equipments. He is a member of British Society of Geomorphology, International Association of Sedimentologists and Association of Sciences of Liminology and Ocenography.Prof. Subashisa Dutta is working in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He is currently working as a Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor-In charge of Space Technology Cell, IIT Guwahati. He was a visiting fellow in Technical University of Munich, Germany; Kyoto University in Japan and visited several other countries for research and academic collaborations. His research interests include fluvial hydraulics, hydroinformatics and advanced remote sensing for water resources applications, hill slope hydrology, urban hydrology and climatic change. He has been working for various sponsored and consultancy research projects in distributed hydrological modeling, sediment budgeting, flood inundation modeling, river basin management and bank protection. He was a member in water resources thematic group in Ganga River Basin Environment Management Plan, the Brahmaputra Board and several other academic and research organizations. He has published more than 100 research articles in reputed water resources journals and conferences. He has been the Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal and active reviewer for many reputed journals. He was awarded prestigious S.N. Gupta memorial award, R. J. Garde research award, DAAD fellowship and many others for his wide contribution in the Water Resources Engineering in India. He has supervised 10 PhD research thesis (and other in progress) in different areas of hydrological sciences and in advanced Satellite Remote Sensing.