Dr. Siddharth Prizomwala ( Scientist - D )

Siddharth Pravinbhai Prizomwala (Scientist-D)

Education :

Bachelors in Geology in 2006 from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

Masters in Geology in 2008 from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

PhD thesis in Geology in 2013 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

Title: “Sediment provenance, pathways and sink potential of inner Gulf of Kachchh coast, Western India” PhD Supervisor: Dr. N.P. Bhatt in 2013 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

Thrust area of research :

Palaeotsunami, Quaternary Geology, OSL Dating, Holocene Sea Level, Geomorphology, Active Tectonics

POSITIONS HELD :

  • Scientist-B at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar since Aug 2018 to Present.

  • Research Associate/DST Young Scientist at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar since June 2014 to Aug 2018.

  • Geophysicists/Geologist at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar since Oct 2012 to June 2014.

  • Academic Guest at Geological Institute, Department of Earth Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland since Oct 2011 to June 2012 with Prof. Wilfried Winkler

  • Junior Research Fellow in in DST sponsored project of Science of Shallow Subsurface at The M. S. University of Baroda during August 2008 to September 2011.

RESEARCH PROJECTS :

  • Ongoing Project: MoES project (Co-PI) entitled “Source-to-Sink spatio-temporal variability in sediment fluxes and their control on coastal sediment dispersal systems in Gujarat” since Sept 2018 – Aug 2021. (Cost: 19,82,120 INR)

  • Ongoing Project: MoES project (PI) entitled “Structure, style and rates of deformation along the Himalayan Frontal Fault (HFT) zone, northeast Himalaya using an integrated geophysical and geological approach: Implications for seismic hazard scenario” since Sept 2018 – Aug 2021. (Cost: 38,34,200 INR)

  • Completed Project: MoES project (PI) entitled “Reconstructing high energy marine events from Gujarat coast from last 6000 years” since May 2015 – Nov 2018. (Cost: 25,08,000 INR)

  • Completed Project: DST FAST TRACK project (PI) entitled “Aggradational-Incisional phases in the Fluvial sequences of Southern Saurashtra: Implications for Sea level / Tectonic forcings during the Late Quaternary” since April 2014 – Nov 2017. (Cost: 31,40,000 INR)

  • Completed Project: PI was Awarded “Research Fellowship” by the Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme (ISJRP) to visit Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland from October 2011 to June 2012. (Cost: 13,76,000 INR)

CUMULATIVE IMPACT FACTOR :

  • Total citation since 2010 : 232 (Source: Google scholar)

ACHIEVEMENTS :

  • Awarded R. C. Mishra Gold medal award by Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradoon for 2018

  • Awarded Best Scientist for research contribution in Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar for 2018.

  • Awarded the 1st prize for poster presentation at 2nd International Symposium on Advances in Earthquake Sciences at Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar during 1-2nd February 2013.

  • Awarded “Research Fellowship” by the Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme (ISJRP) to visit Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland from October 2011 to June 2012.

  • Received travel funding from International Association of Sedimentologists, Quaternary Research Association, DST (New Delhi), CSIR-India, University of Cologne-Germany, IGCP 639 project

FULL LENGTH PUBLICATIONS :

  • "Assessing the Mineral Alteration in Ambaji–Deri Region (Northwestern India) Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing" Samani, P., Prizomwala, S. P., Rajawat, A.S., Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01208-2

  • “Geomorphic response to neotectonic instability in the Deccan volcanic province, Shetrunji river, western India: Insights from quantitative geomorphology” Solanki, T., Solanki, P. M., Makwana, N. M., Prizomwala, S. P., and Kothyari, G. Ch., Quaternary International, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.015.

  • “Assessing the climatically triggered aggradation-incision processes in a dryland environment during the Late Quaternary period from Shetrunji River basin (Saurashtra), India” Solanki, T., Prizomwala, S. P. Solanki, P. M., Makwana, N. M., Quaternary International, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.007.

  • “Redefining the timing of Tongul glacial stage in the Suru valley, NW Himalaya, India: New insights from luminescence dating” S. Nawaz Ali, Morthekai, P., Bjpai, S., Phartiyal, B., Sharma A., Quamar MF., Prizomwala, S. P., Journal of Earth System Science, (2020) 129 (16), 1-11.

  • "Relative Assessment of Tectonic Activity along the seismically active Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India" Das, A, Prizomwala, S.P., Solanki, T., Chauhan, G., Thakkar, M.G., and Bhatt N.P. Journal of Geological Society of India (2019), 94 (2), 179-187.

  • "Climate forcing and initiation of glacier advance during MIS 2 in the North Sikkim Himalaya, India" S. Nawaz Ali, Dubey, J., Morthekai, P., Sharma A., Singh R., Prizomwala, S. P., Journal of Asian Earth Science (2019) 174, 381-388.

  • "Style and stages of valley fill aggradation-incision cycles in the Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India" Prizomwala, S. P., Gunjan Yadav, Tarun Solanki, Archana Das, Gaurav Chauhan, and Nisarg Makwana, Quaternary International (2019). 510, 18-27.

  • "Late Holocene palaeo-environmental change in Banni Plains, Kachchh, Western India" Nisarg Makwana, Prizomwala, S. P., Gaurav Chauhan, Binita Phartiyal and M. G. Thakkar Quaternary International (2019), 507, 197 - 205.

  • "Proxy mineral magnetic and elemental analyses for 2004 tsunami impact deposit along the Muttukadu backwater, East Coast of India: Scope of the palaeotsunami studies" N. Basavaiah, J.L.V. Mahesh Babu, S.P. Prizomwala, H. Achyuthan, V.H.R. Siva and Pranab Boral Quaternary International (2019), 507, 224-232.

  • "Geological evidence for AD 1008 tsunami along the Kachchh coast, Western India: Implications for hazard along the Makran Subduction Zone" S. P. Prizomwala, Drasti Gandhi, N. P. Bhatt, W. Winkler, M. Ravi Kumar, Nisarg Makwana, N. Y. Bhatt Scientific Reports (2018) 8, 16816.

  • "Late Pleistocene relative sea level changes from Saurashtra, west coast of India." Prizomwala, S. P., Gunjan Yadav, N. P. Bhatt and Komal Sharma Current Science (2018) 115 (12), 2297-2301.

  • "Transient Electromagnetic investigations in a tectonic domain of the Kachchh intraplate region, western India: A morphotectonic study of the Kachchh Mainland Fault" Pavan Gayatri, Indu Chaudhury, Mehul Nagar, Avinash Chauhan, S. P. Prizomwala, Mahesh P., Sumer Chopra, Tectonics (2018) 37 (11), 4239-4260.

  • "Geomorphic evidences of tectonic instability during the Late Quaternary period along southern Saurashtra, Western India." Prizomwala, S. P., Arabian J. of Geoscience (2018) 11: 397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-018-3771-4

  • "Geomorphic Expressions of Active Strike-slip faulting (Girnar Fault), Saurashtra, Western India." Solanki, T., Prizomwala, S. P., Solanki P. M., J. Ind. Geophys. Union (2018), 22 (4), 411-418.

  • "Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate and sea level changes inferred based on the tidal terrace sequence, Kachchh, Western India" A. Das, S. P. Prizomwala, N. Makwana and M. G. Thakkar palaeoecology palaeoclimatology palaeogeography (2017), 473, 82-93.

  • "Testing numerical model for boulder transport through high energy marine wave event: An example from southern Saurashtra, western India" Drasti Gandhi, K.A. Chavare, S. P. Prizomwala, Nilesh Bhatt, N. Y. Bhatt, Kapil Mohan and B. K. Rastogi, Quaternary International (2017) 444A, 209-216.

  • "Morphotectonic of Sabarmati-Cambay basin, Gujarat, Western India" Pancholi,V., Kothyari, G. Ch., Prizomwala, S.P., Sukumaran, P., Shah, R.D., Bhatt, N.Y., Chauhan, M., and Kandregula, R. S., J. Ind. Geophys. Union (2017), 21 (5), 371-383.

  • "Geological evidences of extreme waves along the Gujarat coast from Western India" Nilesh Bhatt, Murari, M.K., V. Ukey ,S. P. Prizomwala, and A. K. Singhvi, Natural Hazard (2016) 84 (3), 1685-1704.

  • "Tectonic variability along the South Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India: Insights from geomorphic indices" A. Das, G. Chauhan, S. P. Prizomwala, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie (2016) 60 (3), 209-218.

  • "Archaeological Evidence for Modern Coastal Uplift at Diu, Saurashtra Peninsula, India " Kazmer, M., Bhatt Nilesh, Ukey, V., Prizomwala S. P., Taborosi, D., and Szekely, B., Geoarchealogy (2016) 31 (5), 376-387.

  • "Late Pleistocene-Holocene uplift driven terrace formation and climate-tectonic interplay form a seismically active intraplate setting: an example from Kachchh, Western India" S. P. Prizomwala, A. Das, G. Chauhan, T. Solanki, N. Basavaiah, N. P. Bhatt, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi Journal of Asian Earth Science (2016) 124, 55–67.

  • "Spatial variations in tectonic activity along the Kachchh Mainland Fault, Kachchh, western India: implications in seismic hazard assessment" S. P. Prizomwala, T. Solanki, G. Chauhan, A. Das, N. P. Bhatt, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi Nat Hazards (2016) 82, 947-961

  • "Late Quaternary environmental and sea level changes from Kolleru Lake, SE India: Inferences from mineral magnetic, geochemical and textural analyses" N. Basavaiah, J.L.V. Mahesh Babu,  P.B. Gawali, K.Ch.V. Naga Kumar, G. Demudu, S. P. Prizomwala, P.T. Hanamgond and K. Nageswara Rao Quaternary International. (2015) 371, 197 - 208.

  • "Coastal boulders as evidences of high energy marine events from Diu island, west coast of India: storm or palaeotsunami?" S. P. Prizomwala, Drasti Gandhi, V. Ukey, Nilesh Bhatt and B. K. Rastogi, Natural Hazard (2015) 75 (2), 1187-1203.

  • "Delineating the spatial variations in neotectonic activity along the southwestern Saurashtra using remote sensing" Drasti Gandhi, Parnavi Prajapati, S. P. Prizomwala, Nilesh Bhatt and B. K. Rastogi, Zeistchrift fur geomorphologie (2015) 59 (1), 21-36.

  • "Understanding the sediment routing system along the Gulf of Kachchh coast, western India: Significance of small ephemeral rivers" Prizomwala, S.P., Nilesh Bhatt and Basavaiah N., Journal of Earth System Science 2014, 123 (1), 121-133.

  • "Sediment fluxes from small dryland fluvial catchment, Kachchh, Western India: Provenance discrimination and insights into source-to-sink studies in a macrotidal environment". Prizomwala S.P., Nilesh Bhatt and Basavaiah, N., International Journal of Sediment Research 2014, 29 (1), 99-109.

  • "Internal Sedimentary Architecture and Coastal Dynamics as Revealed by Ground Penetrating Radar, Kachchh coast, Western India". Shukla, S.B., Chowksey, V., Prizomwala, S.P., Ukey, V., Nilesh Bhatt and Maurya, D.M., Acta Geophysica 2013, 61 (5), 1196-1210.

  • "Provenance Discrimination Studies on Sediments of the SW Kachchh Coast, Western India: Insights from Heavy Mineral and Mineral Magnetic Analysis". Prizomwala S.P., Shukla S.B., Basavaiah, N., and Bhatt Nilesh, Journal of Coastal Research 2013, 29 (1), 52-60.

  • "Distribution of Indus born mica along Gulf of Kachchh coast: Implications in understanding offshore dynamics". Prizomwala, S.P., Shukla, S.B., and Nilesh Bhatt, Journal of Geological society of India 2012, 79, 557-562.

  • "Coastal geomorphology and Tsunami hazard scenario along the Kachchh coast, Western India". Shukla, S.B., Prizomwala, S.P., Ukey, V., Bhatt, N.P., and Chamyal, L.S., Indian Journal of Marine Science 2010, 39 (4), 549-556.

  • “Geomorphic assemblage of coastline of Gulf of Kachchh, western India: Implications in understanding the pathways of coastal sediments”. Prizomwala, S. P., Shukla, S.B., and Bhatt, N.P., Zeistcrift fur geomorphologiea 2010, 54 (1), 31-46.

INTERNATIONAL VISITS :

  • INQUA Summer School on active tectonics, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019

  • IGCP 639 meeting, Kawa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa, 2017

  • IGCP 639 meeting, Muscar, Oman, 2016

  • Cologne workshop, Germany, 2016

  • EGU meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2016

  • IAS meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014

  • EGU meeting, Vienna, 2012

  • ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 2011 to 2012 (short stay)

  • INQUA meeting Bern, Switzerland, 2011

  • IAS meeting Zaragoza, 2011

MEMBERSHIP :

  • Life Member of International Society of Earthquake Sciences

  • Member of Quaternary Research Association (QRA)

  • Member of International Association of Sedimentologist (IAS)

  • Member of Seismological Society of America (SSA)

News

Detailed geophysical and geological investigations to identify copper lead and zinc mineralization around Ambaji, Banaskantha district are in progress.

ISR has initiated a project on imaging the shallow subsurface of the Kachchh district for delineation of ground water aquifers and fresh water-saline water interface.