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Harsh Gupta
Seismologist
Known forSeismology
AwardsPadma Shri
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
100 Years of International Geophysics Memorial Medal
National Mineral Award
Professor K. Naha Memorial Award
Nayudamma Memorial Gold Medal Award
Waldo E. Smith Award

Harsh Kumar Gupta (born 1942) is an Indian

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,[3] the highest Indian award in the science and technology category, and the 2008 Waldo E. Smith Award,[4] Gupta was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2006.[5][6]

Biography

Gupta Ji, born on 28 July 1942, did his Schooling in St.George's College, Mussoorie ( Batch of 1957) and graduate studies (BSc Hons) at the

Department of Ocean Development of the Government of India from where he superannuated in 2005.[2]

Gupta, after returning from the US, continued his association with the University of Texas at Dallas as an adjunct professor till 2001. He is a former member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), a post which had the rank of a Union Minister, during 2011–14. He has served as the president of many scientific societies such as International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, and Geological Society of India. He is the founder president of the Asian Seismological Commission and presided over the commission from 1996 to 2000. He has served as an advisor and consultant to the Commonwealth Science Council, UNESCO, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Council for Science (ICSU).[9]

Legacy

Gupta's researches have been focused on the study of earthquakes and he is known to have developed methodology for discriminating normal earthquakes from reservoir-induced ones.[1] He has developed procedures to estimate the potential of reservoir-triggered earthquakes at a given site. His later studies are reported to have assisted in understanding the genesis of stable continental region earthquakes. He has conducted investigative studies on the structure of the regional crust of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. His studies have been documented by way of over 200 scientific papers in national and international journals[9] and five books,[10] namely, Disaster Management,[11] Oceanology,[12] Geothermal Energy: An Alternative Resource for the 21st Century,[13] Reservoir Induced Earthquakes (Developments in Geotechnical Engineering),[14] and Three Great Tsunamis.[15] He has also edited 15 books,[1] which included the Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics.[16]

Gupta headed the team which set up the

rain harvesting, and assessing earthquake hazards.[1]

Awards and honours

Gupta, a Raja Ramanna Fellow of the

USSR Academy of Sciences in 1985.[1] He became an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 1989, and two years later, he was selected for the 1991 National Mineral Award. The year 2000 brought him two awards, Indian Geophysical Union Millennium Award and Indian Society of Applied Geochemists Millennium Award.[1]

Gupta received the National Mineral Award for a second time in 2002 and the Professor K. Naha Memorial Award of the

Republic Day Honours list for the civilian award of the Padma Shri in 2006. He is also a recipient of the 2003 Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary visiting Fellowship and 2008 Nayudamma Memorial Gold Medal Award.[1] The same year, the American Geophysical Union honoured him with the Waldo E. Smith Award.[4]

Selected bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Indian Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Prof Harsh Gupta" (PDF). Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Brief Profile of the Awardee". CSIR. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Waldo E Smith Award recipients". American Geophysical Union. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Most Illustrious Alumni of ISM". Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Biography on ISM alumni association website". Archived from the original on 19 April 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Career highlights in brief" (PDF). International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  9. ^ a b c "NGRI Hyderabad previous directors". National Geophysical Research Institute. 2015. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  10. ^ "Amazon profile". Amazon. 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  11. ISBN 9788173714566
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  12. ISBN 9788173715297
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  13. ASIN B000WOM32C
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  14. ISBN 9780444889065
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  15. ISBN 9789400765757
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  16. ISBN 9789048187010
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  17. ^ "Third Indian Expedition to Antarctica – Scientific Report" (PDF). Department of Ocean Development. 1986. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  18. ^ "NASI Fellow". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
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