CV of Dr. Ramesh P. Singh
Name
Dr. Ramesh P. Singh
Present Position
Professor (Earth System Science and Remote Sensing)
Permanent Address
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Schmid College of Science and Technology
Chapman University
One University Drive, Orange CA
Tel, 001 – 714-289-2057 (Off.),
E-mail [email protected]
Teaching Experience
27 years
Research Experience
37 years of experience, worked in Canada, USA,
Japan, Sweden, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Italy
Foreign Countries
Visited Brazil, Greece, Italy, Canada, Germany, Holland, France,
Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Azerbaijan, Hungary, Poland,
Australia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, China, Finland,
USA, Austria, Africa, Mexico, U.K, Belgium, Czecslovakia for
scientific conferences and invited lectures.
Research interests
Natural Hazards, Early Warning of coastal earthquakes, Soil
moisture, Landslides, Snow avalanches, Floods, Dust storms,
Remote sensing applications, Geophysical Explorations,
Atmospheric pollution and Mining Environment.
Research Papers:
About 193 (180 in international refereed journals)
Thesis Supervision
Ph.D. - 5 (completed)
M.Tech. – 36 (completed),
Research Grant:
Supervised research projects funded by numerous Indian funding
agencies and European Union.
Collaborations
USA, Japan, Sweden, China, Poland, France, Russia; some are
developed through IIT K and some are through DST, New Delhi
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Duration
January 2009 – todate
Professor
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Chapman University, Orange, USA
Duration
Organization
August 2007 – January 2009
Professor, Department of Earth System Sciences
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George Mason University, USA
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Duration
Organization
July 2003 – July 2005
Distinguished Visiting Professor
George Mason University, USA
taught UG and PG courses
Duration:
Organization:
May 1997 - 2007
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Duration:
Organization:
March 1991 – May 1997
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Duration:
Organization:
Nov. 1986 - March 1991
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Duration:
Organization:
Feb. 1986 - Nov. 1986
Lecturer
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (Total 37 Years)
Duration
January 2009 – todate
Professor
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chapman University,
Orange, USA
Duration
August 2007 – Jan. 2009
Center for Earth Observing and Space Research
College of Science, George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
Duration:
Organization:
February 1986 – August 2007
Department of Civil Engineering., IIT K
Duration:
Organization:
December 1981 - January 1986
Postdoctoral and AOSTRA Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada
Duration:
Organization:
November 1981 - December 1981
Senior Research Officer, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Duration:
Organization:
University
January 1978 - October 1981
Research Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu
Duration:
Organization:
September 1977 - December 1977
Guest Scientist, Int. Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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Duration:
Organization:
November 1976 - September 1977
Institute's Research Fellow, National Geophysical Research
Institute, Hyderabad
DETAILS OF EDITED BOOKS PUBLISHED
Remote Sensing of the Earths Surface and Atmosphere
Ed. R.P. Singh, A. Tabbagh, J.F.R. Gower, W.L. Smith, A.E. MacDonald, J. Pailleux,
K. Tsuchiya and J. Dozier, 1992, Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.
Observations of Earth from Space
Ed. R.P. Singh, M. Feissel, B.D. Tapley and C.K. Shum, 1994
Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.
Natural Hazards: Monitoring and Assessment Using Remote Sensing Technique
Ed. R.P. Singh and R. Furrer, 1995
Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.
Land Surface Characterization and Remote Sensing of Ocean Processes
Ed. R. K. Gupta, R. P. Singh and Y. Menard, 2002
Published by Pergamon Press, U.K.
Spatial Technologies for Natural Hazards Management
Ed. R.P. Singh and Vinod Tare
Published by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)
Monitoring of Changes Related to Natural and Manmade Hazards Using Space
Technology
Ed. R.P. Singh
Pergamon Press, U.K. , 2004
Early Warning of Natural Hazards using Space Technology
Ed. R.P. Singh
Elsevier Pub., U.K., 2006
Special issue on “Satellite Observations of the Wenchuan Earthquake 12 May 2008”
Ed. R. P. Singh
International J. Remote Sensing, v. 31, no. 13, 2010, Taylor and Francis, UK
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Awarded Ministry of Education, Government of India, East Germany Study Fellowship
(did not avail).
Awarded JSPS Research Award by the Government of Japan to work in Japan during July
1993 - Dec. 1993.
Awarded Research Fellowship by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany,
1994
Awarded National Mineral Award, Department of Steel and Mines, Government of India,
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New Delhi, 1991-1992.
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Awarded Indian National Remote Sensing Award, 1996
Awarded Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award, 1997
Vice President, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Commission on
Georisk (2004 – 2007) (2008-11).
Member of the Board of PACON
Member of the Scientific Board, PORSEC
EMSEV Bureau Member, 2011-2015
Fellow, Indian Geophysical Union
Fellow, Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Ph.D. Thesis Evaluation
Evaluated Ph.D. thesis of several Indian Universities and member of the Ph.D. Committee
of Guido Cervone, GMU
REVIEWER
- Reviewed more than 200 papers submitted in leading International and Indian Journals.
- Reviewed Research proposals submitted to European Union in Brussels and NASA,
Washington, USA and Reviewed Report on International Geological Observation Report of
ESA and Book submitted for publication to UNESCO
EDITOR AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
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Chief Editor, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk published by Taylor and Francis, UK,
this Journal was launched with my effort in March 2010. With my efforts this Journal
is recently included by Web of Science. First time this Journal received Impact Factor
of 0.977 which is considered as very high Impact factor for a new Journal which is
only started in 2010.
Chief Editor of the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. (2001- 2007),
presently continuing as Member of the Editorial Board.
Continuing as an Associate Editor, International J. Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis
Continuing as an Associate Editor, International J. Ocean and Climate System, UK
Corresponding Editor, EOS (American Geophysical Union).
Member, Editorial Board, Indian J. Marine Science (2008-2011)
Member, Editorial Board, DISASTER (2008 – 2011)
Book Editor
 Book titled, “Geospatial Technologies and Climate Change”, 2014 edited by
Sundaresan, Santosh, Deri, Roggema and Singh.
(http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/earth+system+sciences/
book/978-3-319-01688-7)
 I am working as the Chief Editor since last two years on the Book,
“Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards” to be published by Taylor and Francis,
UK, it will be published sometime in 2014/2015
(http://tandfencys.com/enh/).
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MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES
Member of several Professional Societies
Organizational Experience
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Organized several sessions in COSPAR since 1990. These sessions were held in Holland,
Washington, Hamburg, Warsaw, Houston, Beijing, Bremen (Germany).
Organized several National and International Workshops, Symposia and Course in India.
Organized EMSEV 2010 meeting, Chapman University, Oct 3-6, 2010.
Organized Union session at the IUGG General Assembly held in Melbourne, Australia,
during June 27 – July 7, 2011.
Organized Training workshop on Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Their
Impacts, Greater Noida, India, Jan 2-16, 2011.
Organized scientific session at Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco, Dec. 2010.
Organized a session during PORSEC 2010 meeting, Keelung, Taiwan, Oct. 2010.
Organized EMSEV 2010 on Chapman University campus, October 2010
Organized GeoRisk 2012 on Chapman University campus, December 8-11, 2012.
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AFTER JOINING CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
Bhuiyan, C., Flügel, W.A., and Singh, R.P., 2009, Erratic Monsoon, Growing Water Demand, and
Declining Water Table, Journal of Spatial Hydrology, Vol.9, No.1 Spring 2009, pp. 1 – 19.
(peer reviewed Journal)
Bhuiyan, C., R. P. Singh and W. A. Flugel, 2009, Factors controlling groundwater recharge in the
mountainous hard-rock Aravalli terrain, Hydrology in Mountain Regions: Observations,
Processes and Dynamics, IAHS Publ. 326, pp. 105-111 (peer reviewed Journal).
Bhuiyan, C., Singh, R.P. and Flügel, W.A 2009, Modelling of ground water recharge-potential in
the hard-rock Aravalli terrain, India: a GIS approach, Environmental Earth Sciences, v. v. 59,
no. 4, December, 2009, 929-938. (peer reviewed Journal)
Dasgupta, S; Singh, RP; Kafatos, M, 2009, Comparison of global chlorophyll concentrations using
MODIS data, Adv. Space Res. v. 43 Issue: 7 Pages: 1090-1100, 2009 (peer reviewed
Journal)
Gautam, R; Liu, ZY; Singh, RP, et al., 2009, Two contrasting dust-dominant periods over India
observed from MODIS and CALIPSO data, Geophy. Res. Lett., 36, Article Number: L06813,
2009 (peer reviewed Journal)
Kumar, Sanjay, Singh, A.K., Prasad, A.K. and Singh, R.P., 2009, Annual Variability of water
vapor from GPS and MODIS data over the Indo-Gangetic Plains. J. I n d . G e o p h y s .
U n i o n , v. 13, no. 1, pp. 17-23. (peer reviewed Journal)
Mishra, V. D., Negi, H. S., Rawat, A. K., Chaturvedi, A., and Singh, Ramesh P., 2009,
Retrieval of sub-pixel snow cover information in the Himalayan region using medium and
coarse resolution remote sensing data, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 30, Issue: 18 Pages: 47074731. (peer reviewed Journal)
Prasad, AK; Singh, RP, 2009, Validation of MODIS Terra, AIRS, NCEP/DOE AMIP-II
Reanalysis-2, and AERONET Sun photometer derived integrated precipitable water vapor
using ground-based GPS receivers over India, J. Geophy. Res., 114
Article Number:
D05107, 2009 (peer reviewed Journal)
Singh, RP; Kumar, R; Tare, V, 2009, Variability of soil wetness and its relation with floods over
the Indian subcontinent, Can. J. Remote Sensing, 35 Issue: 1 Pages: 85-97, 2009 (peer
reviewed Journal)
Tang, D., Zhao, Hui, Satyanarayana, B., Zheng, Guangming, Singh, Ramesh P., Lv, Jianhai, and
Yan, Zhongzheng, 2009, Variations of chlorophyll-a in the northeastern Indian Ocean after the
2004, South Asian
tsunami, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 30, Issue: 17, Pages: 4553-4565. (peer
reviewed Journal)
Singh, R.P., 2010, Satellite observations of the Wenchuan Earthquake, 12 May 2008,
International J. Remote Sensing, v. 31, no. 13, p. 3335-3339.
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Singh, R.P., Mehdi, W., and Chauhan, A., 2010, "Inter-annual variability of Chl-a along the
Western Coast of Africa, Proceedings “Oceans From Space” Venice 2010, Extended Abstracts
of the Contributions presented at the “Oceans form Space” Symposium Scuola Grande di San
Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy), 26-30 April 2010, V. Barale, J.F.R. Gower, L.
Alberotanza, eds, pp. 209-210.
Eck, T.F., Holben, B.N., Sinyuk, A., Pinker, R.T., Goloub, P., Chen, H., Chatenet, B., Li, Z., Singh,
R.P., Tripathi, S.N., Reid, J.S., Giles, D.M., Dubovik, O., O’Neill, N.T., Smirnov, A., Wang,
P., and Xia, X., 2010. "Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode
aerosol mixtures", J. Geophys. Res., 115, D19205, doi:10.1029/2010JD014002 (peer reviewed
Journal).
Kanwar, V.S., Kwatra, N., Aggarwal, P., and Singh, R.P., 2010, Use of vibration
measurements in health monitoring of reinforced concrete buildings, International Journal of
Structural Integrity, Vol. 1 Iss: 3, pp.209 – 232.
Kumar, R. and Singh, R., 2010, Understanding climate change from glaciers, J. Commodity Vision,
v. 3, no. 6, p. 2-7, 2010 (non peered reviewed Journal).
Prasad, A.K. and S i ngh, R .P . 2 010, Chlorophyll, Calcite, and Suspended Sediment
Concentrations in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea at the River Mouths, Advances in
Space Research, 45, 2010, p. 61–69, (peer reviewed Journal)
Shah, S., Guttikunda, S. and Singh, R.P, 2010, Himalayan climate change threatens regional
stability. Can India help?, The Christian Science Monitor, October 22, 2010 (news article).
Singh RP, Mehdi W, and Sharma M.. 2010, Complementary nature of surface and atmospheric
parameters associated with Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010, Natural Hazards and Earth
System Sciences, v. 10, no. : 6, P. 1299-1305, 2010 (peer reviewed Journal).
Singh RP, Mehdi W, Gautam R, Senthil Kumar J., Zlotnicki. J. and Kafatos, M., 2010, Precursory
signals using satellite and ground data associated with the Wenchuan Earthquake of 12 May
2008, Int. J. Remote Sensing, v. 31, no. 13, p. 3341-3354 (peer reviewed Journal).
Singh, R. P. and Prashant Chaturvedi, 2010, Comparison of chlorophyll concentration in the Bay of
Bengal and the Arabian Sea using IRS-P4 OCM and MODIS Aqua, Indian J. Marine Science,
v. 39 (3), pp. 334-340 (peer reviewed Journal).
Singh, R.P., 2010, Interactive comment on “Inferring absorbing organic carbon content from
AERONET data” by A. Arola et al., Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 10, no. 8, 18365-18388
(online available).
Singh, R.P., Kumar, J., Zlotnicki, J., and Kafatos, M., 2010,Satellite detection of carbon monoxide
emission prior to the Gujarat earthquake of 26 January 2001, J. of Applied Geochemistry, 25,
p. 580-585 (peer reviewed Journal).
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Giles, D., B.N. Holben, S. N. Tripathi, T. Eck, W. Newcomb, I. Slutsker, R. Dickerson,
A.Thompson, S. Mattoo, S.-H. Wang, R. Singh, A. Sinyuk, and J. Schafer, 2011,
Aerosol Properties over the Indo-Gangetic Plain: A Mesoscale Perspective from the
TIGERZ Experiment, Journal of Geophysical Res. doi:10.1029/2011JD015809, (in
press). (online available).
Kaskaoutis, D. G, Kharol, S.K., Sinha, P. R., Singh, R.P., Badarinath, K. V. S., Mehdi, W., and
Sharma, M., 2011, Contrasting aerosol trends over South Asia during the last decade based on
MODIS observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., 4, 5275-5323, 2011 (peer reviewed
Journal).
Kaskaoutis, D. G., Kharol, S. K., Sinha, P. R., Singh, R. P., Kambezidis, H. D., Sharma, A. R., and
Badarinath, K. V. S., 2011, Extremely large anthropogenic-aerosol contribution to total aerosol
load over the Bay of Bengal during winter season, Atmospheric Chem. and Physics, v. 11, no.
14 P.: 7097-7117 DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-7097-201 (peer reviewed Journal).
Shaiganfar, R., Beirle, S., Sharma, M., Chauhan, A., Singh, R P., and Wagner, T., 2011, Estimation
of NOx emissions from Delhi using car MAX-DOAS observations and comparison with OMI
satellite data, ACPD, 19179-19212 (one of the top most Journals, it is being considered by ACP
(ACPD, online available)(peer reviewed Journal).
Singh, R.P., 2011, Report on the Workshop “Electromagnetic Studies of Earthquakes and
Volcanoes (EMSEV)”, The IUGG Electronic Journal, v. 11, no. 2, p. 3-4 (Meeting Report)
Singh, Ramesh P.; Mehdi, Waseem; Naeimi, Majid; et al., 2011, Analysis of widespread fissures
associated with groundwater depletion and extreme rainfall using multi sensor data, IAHS,
Volume: 343 Pages: 28-33 Published: 2011 (peer reviewed Proceedings).(listed in Web of
Science).
Eck, T. F.; Holben, B. N.; Reid, J. S.; Giles, D. M.; Rivas, M. A.; Singh, R. P.; Tripathi, S. N.;
Bruegge, C. J. et al., 2012, Fog- and cloud-induced aerosol modification observed by the
Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), J. Geophys. Res., 117 Article Number: D07206 DOI:
10.1029/2011JD016839 Published: APR 5 2012 (peer reviewed Journal)
Kaskaoutis, D. G.; Gautam, R.; Singh, R. P.; et al., 2012, Influence of anomalous dry conditions on
aerosols over India: Transport, distribution and properties, J. Geophys. Res., 117, DOI:
10.1029/2011JD017314 Published: MAY 2 2012 (peer reviewed Journal)
Kaskaoutis, D., Singh, R.P, Gautam, R., Sharma, M., Kosmopoulos, P. G. and Tripathi, S.N., 2012,
Variability and trends of aerosol properties over Kanpur, northern India using AERONET data
(2001–10), Environ. Res. Lett. 7 (2012) 024003 (peer reviewed Journal).
Kumar, S., Kumar, S., Singh, A.K. and Singh, R.P., 2012, Seasonal variability of atmospheric
aerosol over the North Indian region during 2005–2009, Advances in Space Research, 50, 2012,
1220–1230 (peer reviewed Journal)
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Prasad, A.K., Singh, R.P. and Kafatos, M., 2012, Influence of coal-based thermal power plants on
the spatial–temporal variability of tropospheric NO2 column over India, Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment, Volume: 184 Issue: 4 Pages: 1891-1907 DOI: 10.1007/s10661011-2087-6 Published: APR 2012 (peer reviewed Journal)
Singh, R. P. and Sharma, M., 2012, Enhancement of BC concentration associated with Diwali
festival in India. IGARSS 2012, published by IEEE, p. 3685-3688 (peer reviewed IEEE
Proceedings)
Singh, R.P., 2012, Glaciers, Snow melt and Runoff in the Himalayas - Report on the outcomes of a
Trans-Himalayan workshop held at ICIMOD in Kathmandu, Nepal, 6-7 Feb 2012(based on my
contribution a report was prepared, I was Chair of the Panel discussion on Black Carbon).
(Report, non peer reviewed)
Singh, R. P., 2012, Insight: how do aerosols vary over Northern India?
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/49628 (peer reviewed Journal, the
Editorial Board asked me to write an Insight)
Singh, Ramesh P.; Sharma, Manish; Kaskaoutis, Dimitris G., 2012, Changes in Surface Irradiance
and Meteorological Parameters Associated with the Annular Solar Eclipse of 15 January 2010,
Radiation Processes in the Atmosphere and Ocean (IRS2012) Book Series: AIP Conference
Proceedings Volume: 1531 Pages: 600-603 DOI:10.1063/1.4804841 Published: 2013 Book
Editor(s): Cahalan, RF; Fischer, J (Peer Reviewed) included in web of science.
Kumar, Sanjay; Singh, A. K.; Prasad, A.K., Singh, R.P., 2013, Variability of GPS derived water
vapor and comparison with MODIS data over the Indo-Gangetic plains, Phys. And Chemistry of
the Earth, 55-57 Pages: 11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.03.040 Published: 2013.(peer reviewed
Journal) (included in web of science).
Kharol, Shailesh Kumar; Kaskaoutis, D. G.; Badarinath, K. V. S.; Rani, Anu and Singh R.P., 2013,
Influence of land use/land cover (LULC) changes on atmospheric dynamics over the arid region
of Rajasthan state, India, J. of Arid Environments, 88, p.: 90-01 DOI:
10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.09.006 Published: JAN 2013. (peer reviewed Journal) (included in
web of science).
Singh, R.P., 2013, IUGG GRC Conference on Extreme Natural Hazards and Their Impacts, Volume
13 No. 3 (1 March 2013), p. 1-2. (Report, non peer reviewed report).
Is dust pollution speeding up melting of Himalayan glaciers? based on session organized by me at
DACA-13 held in Davos, Switzerland, July 8-13, 2013. I proposed to form a working group on
Dust and Black carbon which was accepted by IACS.
Kaskaoutis, D.G., Sinha, P. R., Vinoj, V., Kosmopoulos, P.G., Tripathi, S.N., Misra, A., Sharma,
M. and Singh, R. P., 2013, Aerosol properties and radiative forcing over Kanpur during severe
aerosol loading conditions, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 79, November 2013, Pages 719. (peer reviewed Journal).
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Kharol, S.K., Kaskaoutis, D.G., Sharma, A.R., and Singh, R.P., 2013, Long-term (1951-2007)
rainfall trends around six Indian cities: Current state, meteorological and urban dynamics,
Advances in Meteorology, (in press) (peer reviewed Journal).
Singh, R.P., 2013, Multi geophysical parameters for earthquake forecasting, Current
Science, December 2013, 105 (12) (peer reviewed Journal).
Singh, R.P., 2013, Impacts of U.S. Government Shutdown on Earth Science Teaching and
Education, Eos, Vol. 94, No. 48, 26 November 2013 (peer reviewed weekly New Letter).
Zheng, S., Cao, Chun-Xiang, Singh, R.P., 2014, Comparison of ground based indices (API and
AQI) with satellite based aerosol products, Science of Total Environment (in
press)(peer reviewed Journal) (peer reviewed Journal).
Sharma, M., Kaskaoutis, D.G., Singh, R.P. and Singh, S.N., 2014, Seasonal Variability of
Atmospheric Aerosol Parameters over Greater Noida Using Ground Sunphotometer
Observations, AAQR, DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2013.06.021 (peer reviewed Journal).
Kanwar, V.S., Singh, R.P., Kwatra, N. and Aggarwal, P., 2014. Monitoring of RCC structures
affected by earthquakes, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk (in press) (peer
reviewed Journal).
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