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Ujjal Deka Baruah

Ujjal Deka Baruah

Associate Professor

Ph.D. : Gauhati University

Research Interests:

Glaciology, Climate Science, Atmospheric Chemistry, Remote Sensing and GIS
Joined the University in Jun 19, 2020

Phone: +91-9954382489
Email: udbmail@cottonuniversity.ac.in

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About

Namaste !

BASIC EDUCATION: I was born and brought up in Dibrugarh town of eastern Assam, India. My basic education was in Don Bosco School and Salt Brook Academy (Science stream) with graduation from D.H,S.K College, Dibrugarh University. While I moved from away Dibrugarh town for higher education, I managed to grab a seat out of five (5) in the entrance examination for postgraduate under Gauhati University. During my post-graduation course, I qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship (2007).

WORK EXPERIENCE: Upon completion of post-graduation (2008), I was absorbed in government service and worked for the organisation for two years. During my tenure in government service, I was appointed as a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Geography Department, Gauhati University in 2010. Thereafter, I went through self-taught courses in online and offline mode in various aspects of Geography. I was enrolled in the PhD program under the supervision of Prof. Anup Saikia (Fulbright Fellow).

TRAINING: During my lectureship at Gauhati University, I underwent both national and international training to streamline my specialisation in the research domain. I started off my career development skills through courses from Oxford Univerity and World Bank Institute (online mode).

Thereafter, I underwent various national/international training on:

  1. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing training at North East Space Application Centre (NESAC), Meghalaya, under Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, India in 2018.
  2. Evaluation, prediction and early warning for earthquake-induced mountainous hazards, 2016, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, China Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
  3. Field Techniques in Glaciology training in Hamtah Glacier conducted by Geological Survey of India, 2014.
  4. Remote Sensing under Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) of Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) at Kasetsart University, Thailand in 2012. 
  5. Glaciology training in Chhota Shigri Glacier under the Indo-Himalayan Capacity Building Program conducted by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland & DST (India). 
  6. Microwave Remote sensing Training Programme “RISAT-1 data utilization with special emphasis on North East Region” held at North East Space Application Centre (NESAC), Meghalaya, India under Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, India in 2013.

RESEARCH SKILLS:

  1. Glaciology field and geodetic techniques 
  2. Softwares includes ArcGIS, ERDAS IMAGINE, Ecognition, R, Pix4D, Agisoft Metashape, Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Endnote
  3. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 

  1. Glaciology
  2. Climate Science
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry
  4. Remote Sensing and GIS

CONTACTS INFO:

  1. Email: udbmail@cottonuniversity.ac.in
  2. Youtube: Ujjal Deka Baruah's Youtube Page
  3. Twitter: Ujjal Deka Baruah's Twitter Handle
  4. Instagram: Ujjal Deka Baruah's Instagram Handle

Teaching

  1.  Assistant Professor, Geography Department, Gauhati University (2010-2020)
  2.  Associate Professor (2020-onwards)
  3. Coordinator, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Outreach Program, Indian Space Administration Organisation (ISRO)

Research Projects

 

  1. DST sponsored Major project (Rs. 1.37 Cr.)  under Strategic Programmes, Large Initiatives and Coordinated Action Enabler (SPLICE) Climate Change Programme of National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) titled “Climate change impact assessment of threatened taxa in the Eastern Himalaya: Regeneration and conservation strategies (on-going as co-PI). FY 2019
  2. UGC sponsored Minor project (Rs. 1.75 lakhs) titled "Weather elements and crop response to climate change in Assam", Project no. F.No. 42-1009/2013 dated 25/03/2013  (completed as PI)

Research Projects

slno Name of the Project Name of the Principal Investigator Name of the Copi Name of the Funding agency Type (Government/Non-Government) Year Funds sanctioned (INR in lakhs) Duration of the project
1 Modeling tropospheric ozone and its precursor pollutants N02 and HCHO over South Asia
Status: Ongoing		 Ujjal Deka Baruah SERB Government 2022 35.48 3 years

Research paper publications

2023

1. Ujjal Deka Baruah, Agro-Climatic Constraints and the Adaptive Empirical Knowledge System of Indigenous Farmers in Assam, India, Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Resource Management in Asia, 333–348, 978-3-031-16840-6, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16840-6_20

2. Kuladip Sarma,.., Ujjal Deka Baruah, Distribution mapping of five threatened medicinally important plant species of Arunachal Himalaya, Vegetos, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42535-023-00619-z

2022

1. Ujjal Deka Baruah, Habitat suitability of Gymnocladus assamicus - A critically endangered plant of Arunachal Pradesh, India using machine learning and statistical modeling, Acta Ecologica Sinica, 1872-2032, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chnaes.2022.05.009

2. Ujjal Deka Baruah, Spatio-temporal characterization of tropospheric ozone and its precursor pollutants NO2 and HCHO over South Asia, Science of The Total Environment, vol. 809, 151135, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151135

3. Ujjal Deka Baruah & Nitashree Mili, Spatial Distribution and Trend Estimation of Tropospheric Formaldehyde: A Space-Borne Observation Over South Asia, Environmental Change in South Asia, 171-185, 978-3-030-47660-1, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47660-1_9

4. Ujjal Deka Baruah, When the Bough Breaks: Spatial Variability of Tropospheric Ozone in the Indian Sub-continent, In: Saikia, A., Thapa, P. (eds) Environmental Change in South Asia. Springer, Cham, 978-3-030-47659-5, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47660-1_11

Research paper publications till 2021

Only Scopus/ Indexed Journals:

  1. Baruah, U.D. et al. (2021). Perceptions and adaptation behavior of farmers to climate change in the upper Brahmaputra Valley, India, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23 (3),https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01309-z
  2. Baruah, U.D. et al. (2020). Detection of Anomalies and Approximate Change Point in Temperature, Assam, India, Transactions 42(1).https://iigeo.org/transaction-contents-vol-42-1/
  3. Mishra, M. et al. (2019). Response of long-to short-term changes of the Puri coastline of Odisha (India) to natural and anthropogenic factors: a remote sensing and statistical assessment. Environmental Earth Sciences, 78(11), 338 http://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019-8336-7 (co-authored).
  4. Singh, V. B. et al. (2018). Evaluation of Meltwater Quality Using Dissolved Ions Chemistry and Multivariate Statistical Methods: A Case Study of the Manimahesh Glacier, Ravi Basin, Himachal Pradesh, India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences http://doi.org/10.1007/s40010-018-0560-0 (co-authored)
  5. See, L. et al. (2013) Mapping cropland in Ethiopia using crowdsourcing. International Journal of Geosciences, 4(6), pp.6-13 http://doi.org/10.4236/ijg.2013.46A1002 (co-authored).

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

  1. Chand, P. et al. (2019) Shrinking Glaciers of the Himachal Himalaya: A Critical Review. In: Saikia A., Thapa P. (eds) Environmental Change in the Himalayan Region. Springer, Cham http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03362-0 (co-authored).
  2. See, L. et al. (2016). Mapping human impact using crowdsourcing. In: S. Carver and S. Fritz (ed). 2016, Mapping Wilderness: Concepts, Techniques and Applications of GIS, Springer, Dordrechthttp://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7399-7 (co-authored).

Students

Sl.No Name Research Topic Roll No
1 Mayuri Chetia Atmospheric Chemistry
2 Karishma Sarma Glacier & Permafrost

Other Informations

Office: 

Coordinator

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Outreach Program

Indian Space Administration Organisation (ISRO)

Resource Person

1. "UAV and its application in spatial analysis " in National Webiner theme "GIS and Remote Sensing application"
Institute : Pragjyotish College
Place : Guwahati
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2020-07-29 to 2020-07-29

2. "GIS/Remote Sesning training" under DST Winter School on "GIS/RS applications in  climate / environmental studies"
Institute : Gauhati University
Place : Guwahati
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2021-11-30 to 2021-11-30

3. "Basics of GIS" in "Three days hands on training on GPS, GIS & Basics of Map Making"
Institute : Zoology Department
Place : Cotton University
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2022-03-23 to 2022-03-23

4. "Modelling of tropospheric ozone and its precursor NO2 and HCHO over South Asia using geospatial technology" in "5th Pre-Event Leading To The Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress: Geo-enabling the Global Village" Department of Geography, Gauhati University, Guwahati (Assam) in association with Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Institute : Gauhati University
Place : Online mode
Type of Conference : International
Date of Conference : 2022-06-22 to 2022-06-22

5. "Concept and principles of Quantitative analysis of climatological data and modelling with special reference to R" in DST-SERB sponsored  "Application Of Statistical Techniques in Geo-Spatial Analysis: Theory and Practice"
Institute : Gauhati University
Place : Guwahati
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2022-07-15 to 2022-07-15

6. "Flood and Erosion:  Its Nature, Dimension, and Characteristics with special reference to Assam" in "North East India Regional Pastoral Conference"
Institute : North East Diocesan Social Service Society Centre (NEDSSS)
Place : Guwahati
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2022-09-14 to 2022-09-14