Recent Trends in River Corridor Management

Dr. Vinay Chembolu is currently working as 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 PhD in Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His major research interests include River Engineering, River Dynamics and Experimental and Field Hydraulics. 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 modelling 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 equipments. He is a member of British Society of Geomorphology, International Association of Sedimentologists and Association of Sciences of Liminology and Ocenography. Prof. Subashisa Dutta is working in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He is currently working as a Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor-In charge of Space Technology Cell, IIT Guwahati. He was a visiting fellow in Technical University of Munich, Germany; Kyoto University in Japan and visited several other countries for research and academic collaborations. His research interests include fluvial hydraulics, hydroinformatics and advanced remote sensing for water resources applications, hill slope hydrology, urban hydrology and climatic change. He has been working for various sponsored and consultancy research projects in distributed hydrological modeling, sediment budgeting, flood inundation modeling, river basin management and bank protection. He was a member in water resources thematic group in Ganga River Basin Environment Management Plan, theBrahmaputra 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, Hydrological Sciences Journal and active reviewer for many reputed journals. He was awarded prestigious S.N. Gupta memorial award, R. J. Garde research award, DAAD fellowship and many others for his wide contribution in the Water Resources Engineering in India. He has supervised 10 PhD research thesis (and other in progress) in different areas of hydrological sciences and in advanced Satellite Remote Sensing.

Geomorphic controls on sediment mobility and channel stability of a riffle-pool gravel bed channel.- Environmental planning of river corridors considering climate change: A brief perspective.- Assessment of fluvial controls and cross-sectional recovery indicators in a large regulated river.- Holistic Environmental Flow Assessment by Building Block Method in Inaccessible Himalayan River Basins.- Significance of Dam altered Vis-à-vis free flowing stretches of a Himalayan river, Teesta with special reference to Icthyofaunal Diversity: Importance towards riverine fisheries sustainability.- Impact of barricades on habitat and fish migration in river Cauvery, India.- Impacts on reproductive biology of Golden Mahseer caused by climate and land use change in western Himalaya.- Critical Mixing Depth models for Eutrophicated Inland Water Bodies to Prevent Harmful Cyano-Bacterial Blooms.- Significance of representing buildings in urban flood simulations.- Three-dimensional hydrodynamic modellingof permeable and impermeable river training works using CCHE 3D model and laboratory experiments.- Numerical and experimental investigation of effect of green river corridor on main channel hydraulics.- Flood Inundation Modelling Using Coupled 1D-2D HEC-RAS Model in Lower Kosi River Basin, India with Limited Data.- A study of the impact of some land use land cover changes on watershed hydrology.- Modelling of sediment yield of Tawi catchment to identify the critical sources area.- Use of Landsat and Sentinel-1 data for implementation of bank protection work in Brahmaputra river.- Potentially dangerous glacial lake risk mapping and assessment in Satluj river basin, Himachal Pradesh using remote sensing and GIS.- A Geospatial Approach for Mapping and Delineation of Palaeochannels of Ghaggar Basin, North-West India, for Groundwater Development to Meet Sustainable Development Goals.