Recent Development in River Corridor Management

Prof. Subashisa Dutta is working at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He is currently working as a professor of Civil Engineering and a professor-in-charge of Space Technology Cell, IIT Guwahati. He was a visiting fellow in Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Kyoto University in Japan and visited several other countries for research and academic collaborations. His research interests include fluvial hydraulics, hydro-informatics and advanced remote sensing for water resources applications, hill slope hydrology, urban hydrology and climatic change. 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 and Hydrological Sciences Journal and an active reviewer for many reputed journals. He was awarded prestigious S.N. Gupta memorial, R. J. Garde Research Award, DAAD fellowship and many others for his wide contribution in the Water Resources Engineering in India. He has supervised 12 Ph.D. research thesis (and other in progress) in different areas of hydrological sciences and in advanced satellite remote sensing.Dr. Vinay Chembolu is currently working as an 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 Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His major research interests include River Engineering, River Dynamics, Experimental and Field Hydraulics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Satellite Remote Sensing for River Management Studies. 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 modeling 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 equipment. He is a member of British Society of Geomorphology, International Association of Sedimentologists and Association of Sciences of Liminology and Oceanography.

• Part 1: River Corridor: Issues and Challenges.- Chapter 1. Lateral connectivity influences on channel characteristics of previously glaciated landscapes.- Chapter 2. Challenges of River Corridor Management in Dynamic Braided River Systems.- Chapter 3. Some adverse effect of Kosi and Farakka barrages in India.- Chapter 4. A Non-stationary Hydrologic Drought Index using large-scale climate indices as covariates.- Chapter 5. Tectonism and drainage responses: Insights from the Siang River basin.- Part 2: Numerical and Physical Modelling.- Chapter 6. Numerical modelling of flow-vegetation interactions in rivers and coastal environments: Recent trends and future research directions.- Chapter 7. Numerical investigation of various turbulence models for a sinuous channel with sand mining pit.- Chapter 8. Structure of turbulent flow in a meander gravel bed channel.- Chapter 9. Experimental investigation of infiltration influenced by simulated macro-microporosity.- Part 3: River Ecology.- Chapter 10. Exploring Large Braided River Systems: Understanding the Dynamics and Pathways of River Recovery.- Chapter 11. Assessment of ichthyofaunal diversity and habitat variables in Himalayan Brahmaputra River of Assam, North-eastern India.- Chapter 12. Initial assessment of air and water temperature in Western Nayar River Basin in Garhwal Himalaya.- Chapter 13. Effect of Anthropogenic Activities on The Water Quality in Tarafeni River of Jhargram District, Bankura.- Chapter 14. Effects of Anthropogenic Stress and Water Security in Himalayan Urban River Watershed.- Part 4: Climate Change and Flood Modelling.- Chapter 15. Future Climate Change Impacts on the Stream Flow – A River Basin Scale Assessment. etc.