Ecological Significance of River Ecosystems

Dr. Sughosh Madhav works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The area of his doctoral research is the environmental impact of textile effluents on groundwater and soil quality. He has published various research papers and book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, and wastewater remediation. He also edited 4 books related to water resource management in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley publications. Dr. Shyam Kanahiya Singh is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Professor Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph. D. from the Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. His area of interest is the geochemistry of earth surface processes: river processes geochemistry, chemical weathering of rocks, sediment geochemistry, and paleoclimatology and provenance studies besides fluvial sedimentology of the Ganga plain. He has published more than fifteen research papers in various international Journals. Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Virendra Bahadur Singh is presently working as Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow (DSKPDF) in the Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He has also worked as National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India. Dr. Singh has obtained a doctoral degree from School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2016. His research work is mainly focussed on hydrology, sediment dynamics, hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry etc. He has published 28 papers in various peer-reviewed national and international journals. Dr. Singh has awarded Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship tenable at University of Bristol, UK. Dr Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India in 2011. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi in the year 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management.

• 1. Pollution of aquatic ecosystems due to opium alkaloids and related pharmaceutical products: An overview2. Pharmaceutical, and antibiotics waste in the river ecosystem3. Heavy metal contamination in the river ecosystem of theme4. Factors influencing the alteration of microbial and heavy metals characteristics of River systems in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria5. Impact of climate change on the river ecosystem6. Geomorphologic concepts and application of remote sensing and GIS for the conservation of the river ecosystem7. Chemical and isotopic variability of the upper Ganga river, Uttarakhand, India8. Occurrence and distribution of perfluoroalkyl acids in  rivers: Impact and Risk Assessment9. Socio-economic effects of water pollution in a River: A case study10. Sources of ions in the river ecosystem11. Nutrients conatamination and eutrophication in river ecosystem12. Current status of available techniques for removal of heavy metal contamination in the river ecosystem13. River Biodiversity, Potential Threat, And Conservational Challenges14. Alteration of river ecosystems: in the light of nematode community structure15. Human-Induced Stresses on the Rivers beyond their Assimilation and Regeneration Capacity16. Ecological Engineering Approaches for Riparian Ecosystems'17. Integrated River Basin Management and Future Prospectus18. Engineer Substantiation Of Estimated Characteristics Of Maximum Rivers' Runoff During   Floods Under Climate Change19. Palaeoclimatic imprint on fluvial sediments: case studies from Indian Phanerozoic successions20. Sustainability assessment of Jumar river in Ranchi district of Jharkhand using River Sustainability Bayesian Network (RSBN) model approach21. Prospects of microbes in mitigations of environmental degradation in the river ecosystem22. Sustainable fisheries/Aquaculture of Hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha in changing and dynamic riverine ecosystem of India and its neighborhood23. Water Quality Status in Bagmati River of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal