Dr. Archana Das
| Designation : Scientist C |
| Email : rchndas7@gmail.com, archanadas@isr.res.in |
| Phone : +91-9898942680 |
Academics:
- M.Sc. (Geology), The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara (2010 with First Class).
- Ph.D (Geology), KSKV Kachchh University, Bhuj (2014-2018).
Positions:
- 2011 – 2013 : Project Fellow in ISRO‐SAC sponsored research project, Subsurface imaging by RISAT‐SAR and its geoarchealogical applications.
- 2013 – 2015 : Geologist, Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Gujarat.
- 2016 – 2022 : Scientist B (Project Mode), Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Gujarat.
- 2022 – 2023 : Scientist-C (Project Mode), Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Gujarat.
- 2023 – Present : Scientist-C (Permanent), Institute of Seismological Research, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Gujarat.
Thrust areas of research:
- Paleoclimate - Sea level change, Sedimentology, Tectonic geomorphology, OSL Chronology, Geochemistry, Quaternary Geology, Geoarchaeology.
Awards and Honours:
- Awarded Gujarat Science Congress – M. P. Patel best Ph. D Thesis award in Geology, 2018-2019.
- Awarded Post Graduate Grant Scheme of 1000 euro from International Association of Sedimentologists (2014) for pursuing Ph.D.
- Received letter of appreciation from the Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Anandi Ben Patel.
- Received International Travel funding from International Association of Sedimentologists, SERB -DST (New Delhi), University of Cologne, Germany.
- Awarded Best Oral presentation award at Regional Science Congress held on M. S. University of Baroda at 15th and 16th September 2012.
Publications (SCI):
- Archana Das* Shraddha Band, Chintan Vedpathak, Sunny Tiwari, Nisarg Makwana and Siddharth Prizomwala (2025). Holocene Climate Variability and Indian summer Monsoon Dynamics in the Kachchh Region, Western India: Insights from Fluvial, Coastal, and Rann Sediment Archives. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Under Review).
- Chintan Vedpathak, Archana Das, Sunny Tiwari, Tarun Solanki, Nisarg Makwana, S. P. Prizomwala (2025). New insights and review of the Relative Sea Level Index Points from the Gulf of Khambhat, West coast of India: Implications in constraining the magnitude of the Mid-Holocene high stand. Scientific reports (Under Review).
- Rachna Raj*, J. K. Tripathi, Archana Das, Md. Maroof Azam, Anuradha Patel, Pankaj Kumar, Hema Achyuthan, Satish Sangode, Sunny Tiwari, Siddharth Prizomwala (2025). Unravelling Holocene Climate Patterns in North-western India: Insights from Lake Sediment Proxies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Under Review).
- Archana Das*, Aashima Sodhi, S. P. Prizomwala and Sumer Chopra (2024). Assessment of climate change and its impact on human inhabitation of Gujarat during the Mid- Late Holocene Period. Taylor & Francis; DOI: 10.1201/9781003485995-11.
- Chintan Vedpathak, Archana Das *, S. P. Prizomwala and Nisarg Makwana (2024). Holocene Palaeoenvironmental change at the mouth of Sabarmati River, Gulf of Khambhat, and Western India. Journal of Quaternary Environments and Human 2(5), 100016.
- Archana Das*, K. C. Nauriyal, S. P. Prizomwala, Chinmoyee Borgohain , Chintan Vedpathak, D. R. Kouli , N. Deori and C Hassan (2024). Geoheritage of Charaideo Moidams (Assam, India): A tale of human resilience and man-environment relationship. Geoheritage 16(3), 69.
- Siddharth P. Prizomwala, U. Pandey, A. Tandon, N. Makwana and A. Das (2024), Characterization of paleotsunami deposits along the western coast of India. PAGES https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.32.1.36
- Archana Das*, Aashima Sodhi, Chintan Vedpathak, Abhijit Ambekar, S. P. Prizomwala (2022). Assessment of Geoheritage and Geotoursim potential of the geoarchaeosites from the Gujarat Alluvial Plains, Western India. Geoheritage Journal (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-022-00768-8).
- Archana Das*, Aashima Sodhi, Chintan Vedpathak, S. P. Prizomwala, Rajesh Agnihorti, Nisarg Makwana, Jaquilin Joseph, Nikhil Patel, Sumer Chopra and M. Ravi Kumar (2022). Evidence for seawater retreat with advent of Meghalayan era (∼ 4200 a BP) in a coastal Harappan settlement. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 23(6), 10.1029/2021GC010264.
- Aashima Sodhi, Archana Das*, S. P. Prizomwala, Chintan Vedpathak, Nisarg Makwana (2022). Centennial – scale linkages between the Indian Summer Monsoon and the solar irradiation from the Gulf of Khambhat (Western India). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.05.01.
- S. P. Prizomwala, Chintan Vedpathak, Aashna Tandon, Archana Das, Nisarg Makwana, Neha Joshi (2022). Geological footprints of the 1945 Makran tsunami from the west coast of India. Marine Geology, 446, 1066773.
- Nisarg Makwana, S. P. Prizomwala, Archana Das*, Binita Phartiyal, Gaurav Chauhan, Aashima Sodhi, Chintan Vedpathak, M. G. Thakkar (2021). Reconstructing the climatic variability during the last 5000 years from the Banni Plains, Kachchh, and Western India. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.679689.
- Archana Das and Tarun Solanki (2020). Signatures of tectonic instability along the North Cambay basin during the Late Holocene period, North Gujarat, India. Journal of Geological Society of India 96 (6), 584-590.
- Archana Das, Joseph, J.K., Tarun Solanki, Nisarg Makwana, Gaurav Chauhan, M G Thakkar (2020). Climate-tectonic interplay from the dryland fluvial landscape of the Southern Kachchh Mainland, Western India: Insights from new OSL and sedimentological datasets. Geological Journal 55 (10), 7041-7056, DOI: 10.1002/gj.3861.
- Pallabee Choudhury, Sumer Chopra, Charu Kamra, and Archana Das (2019). New Insight into the Recent Earthquake Activity in North Cambay Basin, Western India: Seismological and Geodetic Perspectives. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109 (6), 2240-2251, doi: 10.1785/0120190126.
- Archana Das, Siddharth Prizomwala, Tarun Solanki, Gaurav Chauhan, M G Thakkar, Nilesh P Bhatt (2019). Relative Assessment of Tectonic Activity along the seismically active Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India. Journal of Geological Society of India 94, 179-187.
- Archana Das, S. P. Prizomwala, Nisarg Makwana, M. G. Thakkar (2017). Early to Late‐Holocene climate and sea level changes inferred based on the tidal terrace sequences, Kachchh, western India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 473, 82‐93.
- Archana Das, Gaurav Chauhan, S. P. Prizomwala, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016). Geomorphic Evidence and Tectonic Variability along the South Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India: Insights from Geomorphic Indices. Zeitschriftfür Geomorphologie 60, 209‐218.
- Archana Das, Falguni Bhattacharya, B.K. Rastogi, Gaurav Chauhan, Mamata Ngangom, M.G. Thakkar (2016). Response of a dryland fluvial system to climate‐ tectonic perturbations during the Late Quaternary: Evidence from Rukmawati River basin, Kachchh, Western India. Journal of Earth System Science, 125, 1119‐1138.
- S. P. Prizomwala, Archana Das, G. Chauhan, T. Solanki, N. Basavaiah, Nilesh Bhatt, M.G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016). Late Pleistocene‐Holocene terrace formation and uplift driven valley incision in Eastern Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India. Journal of Asian Earth Science 124, 55 ‐ 67.
- S.P. Prizomwala, Gunjan Yadav, Tarun Solanki, Archana Das, Gaurav Chauhan, Nisarg Makwana (2018). Style and stages of valley fill aggradation-incision cycles in the Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India. Quaternary International, 510, 18-27.
- S. P. Prizomwala, Tarun Solanki, Gaurav Chauhan, Archana Das, Nilesh Bhatt, M. G. Thakkar, B. K. Rastogi (2015). Spatial variability in Tectonic Activity along the Kachchh Mainland Fault, Kachchh, Western India: Implications in Seismic Hazard Assessment. Natural Hazards. 82, 947 – 961.
- Khonde, N., Maurya, D. M., Singh, A. D., Das Archana, and Chamyal, L. S (2013). Sedimentary characteristics and foraminiferal distribution in the Bet zone of the Great Rann of Kachchh, western India. Special publication Geological Society of India No. 1, 2013, pp.146-156.
- D. M. Maurya, N. Khonde, Archana Das V. Chowksey, and L. S. Chamyal (2013). Subsurface sediment characterization of the Great Rann of Kachchh from preliminiary textural analysis of two cores. Current Science, VOL. 104, NO. 8, 1071 – 1077.
- V. Chowksey, D. M. Maurya, P. Joshi, N. Khonde, Archana Das and L. S. Chamyal (2011). Lithostratigraphic development and neotectonic significance of the Quaternary sediments along the Kachchh Mainland Fault (KMF) zone, Western India. Jour. Earth System Science, 120, 979‐999.
Projects Completed/Ongoing
- Project Title: Human Response to Landscape Dynamics during the last 20,000 years and Future Implications
- Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat
- Project Duration: 2018–2024 (6 years)
- Budget: ₹1.2 Crore