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Particulars of organization, functions and duties

Dr. Debasis D Mohanty

Designation : Senior Scientist

Education : PhD (Seismology), IIT Kharagpur, ,M(Sc)Tech (Geophysics), BHU-Varanasi,M.Sc (Physics), Ravenshaw University

Contact Details:Room No. 11, Geoscience and Technology Division, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat, Assam, 785006.

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

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Research Interest

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

Experiences

• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
• Senior Research Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur, Dec 2016-July 2017
• PhD (Seismic Tomography, Geophysics); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, 2013-2016
• Reviewer of peer reviewed journal – Bulletin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Tectono physics, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (PEPI), etc.

• S. Behera, P. Pattnaik and Debasis D Mohanty; Mineral Exploration: Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, AI and Seismic Methods; Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 2024.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Ruchika B Mohanty; Modelling the deformation patterns induced by major regional scale structures beneath Northeast India and contemporary seismotectonics. Springer Series, 2024.
• Litan Mohanty, Vishal Pateswary, Sabyasachi Maiti and Debasis D Mohanty; Future prediction of existing glacial lake’s size in the Himalaya by Markov model and glacial surface topography; All Earth (Geodynamica Acta); 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/27669645.2023.2256034.
• Debasis D Mohanty, Satyapriya Biswal and Kazunori Yoshizawa; Decoupled deformation between crust and mantle beneath Indo-Burmese Wedge: a new seismotectonic model; Earth & Planetary Science Letters (EPSL); 2024, 648, 119089 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119089.
• Anshuman Phukan and Debasis D Mohanty; Seismic hazard estimation and medium-term earthquake precursor analysis of North East India: an assessment on large earthquake scenario; All Earth (Geodinamica Acta); 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/27669645.2023.2191917.
• Debasis D Mohanty; Source localized modelling to estimate the depth of anisotropy beneath eastern Himalaya using spatial coherency of shear-wave splitting parameters; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; 336, 106987, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2023.106987
• Debasis D Mohanty; Theory and practices involved in depth and source localization of anisotropy: Recent developments in subsurface investigation; 1st Edition, CRC Press, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003177692
• Debasis D Mohanty, Satyapriya Biswal and Manoj Kumar Phukan and Ayodeji A; Possible depth determination and source localization of seismic anisotropy beneath Shillong plateau and Himalaya foredeep region, Invited Paper, Geological Journal, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4334.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Arun Singh; Birefringence of shear wave and mantle deformation patterns beneath Shillong Plateau: role of regional Geological structures; International Journal of Earth Sciences (IJES); 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02114-9.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Poulommi Mondal; Evidence of heterogeneous and unstable anisotropic layers beneath northeast Indian lithosphere from characterization of null splitting measurements; Acta Geophysica(AGPH), 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-021-00676-5
• Poulommi Mondal and Debasis D Mohanty; Mantle deformation and seismic anisotropy beneath northeast India inferred from SKKS birefringence; Stud. Geophys. Geod.; 65, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-020-1121-y.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Poulommi Mondal; Disparate behaviour of deformation patterns beneath northeast Indian lithosphere inferred from shear wave splitting analysis; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2019; DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2019.106315
• Arun Singh, M. Ravi Kumar, Debasis D. Mohanty, Chandrani Singh, Rahul Biswas and D Srinagesh; Crustal structure beneath India and Tibet: New constraints from inversion of receiver functions: Crustal structure: INDIA and TIBET; Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth; 2017; DOI: 10.1002/2017JB013946.
• Debasis D Mohanty, Arun Singh, Leland J. Odriscol, Eugene Humphrey and M.Ravi Kumar; P-Wave velocity structure below India and Tibet incorporating anisotropic delay time effects; Geophysics,Geochemistry ,Geosystems; 2016; DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006064 .
• Debasis D Mohanty, Tuna Eken, Arun Singh and M Ravi Kumar; Mantle deformation patterns beneath southern Tibet using splitting of direct-S waves; Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU-2016-2348,2016.
• Arun Singh,Tuna Eken,Debasis D. Mohanty Dipankar Saikia, Chandrani Singh, M.Ravi Kumar; Significant seismic anisotropy beneath Southern Tibet inferred from direct S-waves; Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, PEPI, Elsevier; 2015, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2015.11.001 .
• Chandrani Singh, Pushkar Modal, Sagar Singh, Debasis D. Mohanty, Namrata Jaiswal, M.Ravi Kumar; Lg Attenuation Tomographic models of Himalaya and Southern Tibet; Tectonophysics, Elsevier, 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.009 .
• Debasis D Mohanty, Hemant Singh, Ajay Singh and Gour Douli; A review on general theoretical view:The Dynamics of Changing Earth: An Evolution from the beginning to the Present Scenario; International Research Journal of Earth Sciences; Vol. 2(8), 10-14, September (2014); ISSN 2321–2527.
• Debasis D. Mohanty; Crustal seismic parameters beneath India and Tibet by CRUST1.0 analysis: A complement to other crustal models; In Submission.

• Satyapriya Biswal, Gourab Dey, and Debasis D Mohanty; Implications on source localization and central depth of anisotropy beneath the Sikkim Himalaya: an appraisal on lithospheric deformation, EGU General Assembly 2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9402, 2022.
• Debasis D Mohanty, Satyapriya Biswal and Kazunori Yoshizawa; Decoupled deformation patterns between crust and mantle beneath Indo-Burmese Wedge inferred from shear wave splitting analysis: a comprehensive study on complex tectonics, Japan Geosciences Union (JpGU) Annual Meeting, Chiba, Japan, 21-26 May, 2023.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Kazunori Yoshizawa; High-resolution Tomographic Imaging of the Indo-Australian Plate with Multimode Surface Waves, Japan Geosciences Union (JpGU) Annual Convention, Chiba, Japan, 26 -31 May, 2024.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Kazunori Yoshizawa; Structure and Geodynamics beneath the Indian Ocean inferred from multimode surface wave tomography, International Geological Congress (IGC), Busan, South Korea, 25-31 August, 2024.
• Poulommi Mondal, Debasis D Mohanty, Satyapriya Biswal and Rekha Yadav; Implication of mantle dynamics beneath North-East India through the perspective of SKKS splitting analysis, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14437, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14437, 2021.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Poulommi Mondal; Mantle dynamics and deformation patterns beneath Shillong plateau inferred from shear wave splitting: The role of major regional geological structures; American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA, 2019.
• Payaswini Das, Debasis D Mohanty, Manoj Kumar Phukan, Anmol Raj Mondal and Poulommi Mondal; Constraints of crustal anisotropy behaviors from Silghat, Northeast India from the analysis of shear wave splitting effects, 2nd Triennial Congress on Geosciences for sustainable development goals, Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad, 2019. Paper Selected for AnniTalwani Women Researcher of the Award, 2019.
• Debasis D Mohanty and Poulommi Mondal; Variations in anisotropic behaviour under northeast Indian lithosphere inferred from core refracted phases; Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Annual Conference, Sngapore, 2019.
• Poulommi Mondal and Debasis D Mohanty; Identifying the unstable and heterogeneous anisotropic layers beneath northeast Indian Lithosphere by characterization of null measurements; Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Annual Conference, Singapore, 2019.
• Poulommi Mondal and Debasis D Mohanty; Characterizing the null anisotropy beneath Tezpur, North East India ; Indian Geophysical Union, 55th Annual Convention, Page 87-91, Bhopal, 2018; Selected for AnniTalwani Women Researcher of the Award, 2018.
• Debasis D Mohanty, Arun Singh and Chandrani Singh; Significant seismic anisotropy beneath southern Tibet inferred from splitting of direct S-waves (Oral); American Geophysical Union (AGU), Joint Assembly, Canada, Montreal, 2015.
• Debasis D Mohanty, Arun Singh,Leland J Odris M Ravi Kumar and Eugene Humphreys; Anisotropy corrected Tomography of India and Tibet using SKS splitting parameters (Oral); Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS); Singapore, 2015. (Selected and incoll, vited as a crew member presentation).
• Debasis D Mohanty, Tuna Eken, Arun Singh and M Ravi Kumar; Mantle deformation patterns beneath southern Tibet using splitting of direct S-waves (Poster); European Geosciences Union (EGU); Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2016.
• Debasis D Mohanty, Arun Singh, Dipankar Saikia, Chandrani Singh and M Ravi Kumar; Remarkable splitting of direct S-waves beneath southern Tibet deciphering significant seismic Anisotropy; Debasis et.al,; International conference on reducing Earthquake losses and Advances in Earthquake sciences; Gandhinagar, India, 2015.
• Debasis D Mohanty; Crustal Seismic parameters for India and Tibet: A CRUST 1.0 analysis; Annual conference of Geological Society of India, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2016.

• Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS) Grant, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)- India, 2023.
• JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) Fellowship, Japan, 2022.
• Early Career Research Award, SERB, Department of Science and Technology, India, 2019.
• International Travel Scheme Award (ITS) to United States of America (USA), SERB, Department of Science and Technology, India, 2019.
• Paper entitled ‘ Constraints of crustal anisotropy behaviors from Silghat, Northeast India from the analysis of shear wave splitting effects ’ awarded for ‘AnniTalwani Women Researcher of the Year 2019’ ; Indian Geophysical Union (Received by PhD student, Ms. Payaswini Das, JRF).
• Paper entitled ‘Characterizing the Null anisotropy beneath Tezpur, North East India’ has been awarded for ‘AnniTalwani Women Researcher of the Year 2018’ by Indian Geophysical Union (Received by PhD student, Ms. PoulommiMondal, JRF and Inspire Fellow).
• Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan fellowship for Post Doc, 2017 (Denied).
• Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, Young Crew member award, 2015.
• MHRD-IIT Kharagpur Travel Grant for attending Joint Assembly of American Geophysical Union (AGU), Montreal, Canada, 2015.
• MHRD-IIT Kharagpur Travel Grant for attending annual meeting of European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 2016.
• MHRD- Senior Research Fellowship: 2013-2016, IIT Kharagpur, India.
• Department of Space (DOS) fellowship : 2010-2012
• Baisnab Charan Memorial Award for securing highest marks in Mathematics in State, 2000.
• Selected for District Junior Red cross Society study cum training camp, 1998.
• State Award from Department of Information and Public Relations, Govt. of Odisha, for Cultural significance, 1996.
• GATE 2012, 2013, 2015
• 42 times District and sub-divisional awards in various academic events.
• Science Society Champion (University, 2003 and 2004), BHU Cultural (2011 &2012), Springfest IIT Kharagpur (2016), etc.

• As PI: "Source localized modeling of the central depth of anisotropy beneath the north-eastern Himalaya and tectonic implications", Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India , 2023-2026.
• As Co-PI: “Earthquake Hazard Studies in Moderate and Severe Seismic Zones of India (EHIND) - MLP-0005”, CSIR-FBR, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 2021-2023.
• As PI- "Active Geodynamics, Evolution, Structure and Deformation analysis of Indo-Burman Wedge", SERB, Department of Scienne and Technology, India, 2019-2022.
• As Co-PI: "Assessment of air, water and soil quality in Baghjan oil blowout site and its vicinity, Tinsukia, Assam", Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), MoEF, New Delhi, 2021.
• As Member- "Seismic hazard assessment of NE India through multidisciplinary approach"

• Convener of the National workshop on " Geodynamic Genesis of Indo-Burmese Region: A Conundrum in Geosciences (Geo-IBR)", June, 2022. Sponsor: SERB, India
• Project Coordinator and Mentor, Summer Research Training Program (SRTP), 2020, A PAN India Program for University students by CSIR, India amid COVID-19 situation.
• Elected as Main convener for Solid Earth Section for chairing the session (SE07) at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2019, Singapore.
• Convener of National Workshop on ‘Recent Developments in Civil and Earthquake Engineering (RDCEE)’, 09th April, 2018
• Knowledge of programming language:C, C++, FORTRAN 77. "Certificate course in Object Orient Programming Using C++" from NIIT, Delhi, 2008. Experience in Linux environment, shell scripting and MATLAB.
• Ten days field works for installation of MT instruments and flux gate magnetometer at MPGO site, Tezpur, 2017.
• Thirty days field works in installation of seismometers in Eastern Ghat region (Angul, Koraput, Balangir and Bargarh), Odisha, 2015.
• Twenty days exposure of Geophysical activities in ONGC, Wadia, Institute of Himalayan Geology, IIRS, GSI, Deheradun and IMD,ICAR,IIT, (Dept. Of Atmospheric Science), Delhi in December 2007.
• One month field training in “Resistivity method and well logging techniques for ground water exploration” in CGWB, Patna in December 2008.
• Summer Internship at SPIC,ONGC, Panvel, Mumbai on seismic data processing, AVO analysis and Inversion, July,2009-Jan,2010.

• Young Earth System Scientists (YESS)
• Geological Society of America ( ID: 9327378)
• Japan Geoscience Union (ID: 042355)
• Indian Geophysical Union (Life Member ID: LM 176)
• Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (Associate member ID:15A036)
• European Geosciences Union (Member)
• American Geophysical Union (Member)