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Dr. Siddharth Prizomwala

Designation : Scientist-D / Group head Tectonic climate and extreme events / in-charge OSL-XRF laboratory
Phone Number : +91 7567049349
Email : prizomwalasiddharth@gmail.com, prizomwala@isr.res.in

Academics:

  • PhD (Geology), The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2013).
  • Masters (Geology), The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2008).
  • Bachelors (Geology), The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2006).

Positions:

  • Scientist-D at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar (June 2021 - Present).
  • Scientist-B at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar (Aug 2018 - June 2021).
  • Research Associate/DST Young Scientist at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar (June 2014 - Aug 2018).
  • Geophysicists/Geologist at the Institute of Seismological Research, Raisan, Gandhinagar (Oct 2012 - June 2014).
  • Academic Guest at Geological Institute, Department of Earth Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Oct 2011 - June 2012).
  • Junior Research Fellow in DST sponsored project at The M. S. University of Baroda (August 2008 - September 2011).

Thrust areas of research:

  • Quaternary Geology, Tectono-geomorphology, Palaeotsunami, Archaeoseismology

Achievements / Awards :

  • Awarded Best Scientist for research contribution in Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar for 2022.
  • 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.

Research Publications:

  • Tandon, A, Prizomwala, S.P., Solanki, T., Ambekar, A., Nikam, R., Srivastava, P., Chopra, S. (2025), “An archaoseismological investigation of the footprints of human resilience to seismic shaking from the alluvial plains of Gujarat, Western India”, Geomorphology, 473, 109631, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109631.
  • Das, A., Sodhi A., Prizomwala, S. P., Chopra, S., (2024) “Assessment of Climate Change and Its Impact on Human Inhabitation of Gujarat during the Mid-Late Holocene Period”, Book chapter in Climate change in India, 204-227, CRC Press
  • Chauhan, G., Samji, S.V., Joshi, A., Limaye, M., Patel, J.M., Thacker, H., Shah, Y., Chavada, B., Bhosale, S., Lakhote, A., Jani, C., Chauhan, S., Kothyari, G.Ch, Prizomwala, S. P., Kapasya, H., Padia, D., Bhandari, S., Thakkar, M.G., Chopra, S., Chauhan, N.K., (2024) “Geoheritage Values of Ambaji Region, Gujarat: Western India”, Geoheritage 16, 82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-024-00985-3
  • Vedpathak, C., Das, A., Prizomwala, S. P., & Makwana, N., (2024) “Holocene Palaeoenvironmental change at the mouth of Sabarmati River, Gulf of Khambhat, Western India”, Quaternary Environments and Humans 2, 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100016
  • Prizomwala, S.P., Pandey, U., Tandon, A., Makwana, N., and Das, A., (2024) “Characterization of paleotsunami deposits along the western coast of India”, Pages science magazine, 32(1), 36-37. doi.org/10.22498/pages.32.1.36
  • Chauhan, G., Jani, C., Kothyari, G.C, Prizomwala, S., Vedpathak, C., Lakhote, A., Kundregula, R.S., Solanki, J., Parmar, C., Bhandari, S., & Thakkar, M. G., (2024) “Structural analysis and neotectonic evidences of the dip-slip transverse fault system in the central Mainland Kachchh region, Western India”, Quaternary Science Advances, 13, 100168
  • Das, A., Nauriyal, K.C., Prizomwala, S. P., Borgohain, C., Pandey, U.R., Vadpathak, C., Kouli, D. R., Deori, N., Hassan, C., (2024) “Geoheritage of Charaideo Moidams (Assam, India): a Tale of Human Resilience and Man‑Environment Relationship”, Geoheritage, 16(69), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-024-00975-5
  • Tandon, A., Prizomwala, S.P., (2023) “Decoding the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Terrace Evolution along the Main Frontal Thrust Zone, Northeastern Himalayas, India: Insights from Tectonic Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Optical Dating”, Journal of Geological Society of India, 99(8), 1063-1070. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-023-2432-8
  • Prizomwala, S. P., Tandon, A., Kazmer, M., Makwana, N., Solanki, T., & Chauhan, G., (2022) “Geoheritage Potential of Miliolite Formation of the Southern Saurashtra (Western India), Gujarat”, Geoheritage, 14(4), 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-022-00761-1
  • Das, A., Sodhi, A., Vedpathak, C. D., Prizomwala, S. P., Agnihotri, R., Makwana, N., ...& Ravi Kumar, M., (2022) “Evidence for seawater retreat with advent of Meghalayan era (∼ 4200 a BP) in a coastal Harappan settlement”, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(6). https://doi. org/10.1029/2021GC010264
  • Das, A., Sodhi, A., Vedpathak, C., Ambekar, A., & Prizomwala, S. P., (2022) “Assessment of Geoheritage and Geotoursim Potential of the Geoarchaeosites from the Mainland Gujarat, Western India”, Geoheritage, 14(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-022-00768-8
  • Padia, D., Desai, B., Chauhan, S., Prizomwala, S., Chauhan, G., & Thakkar, M. G., (2022) “Middle to Late Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the western Great Rann of Kachchh, India: Insights from ichnology, geochemistry, and sedimentology”, Geological Journal, 57(9), 3916-3934. DOI: 10.1002/gj.4521
  • Sodhi, A., Das, A., Prizomwala, S. P., Vedpathak, C., & Makwana, N., (2022) “Centennial-scale linkages between the Indian Summer Monsoon and the solar irradiation from the Gulf of Khambhat (Western India)”, Quaternary International, 631, 82-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.05.011
  • Prizomwala, S.P., Vedpathak, C.D., Tandon, A., Das, A., Makwana, N. and Joshi, N., (2022) “Geological footprints of the 1945 Makran tsunami from the west coast of India”, Marine Geology, 446, 106773 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106773.
  • Kázmér, M., Prizomwala, S.P., and Gaidzik, K., (2022) “8th century coastal uplift in Peninsular India- The Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu”, Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.014
  • N Makwana, SP Prizomwala, A Das, B Phartiyal, A Sodhi, C Vedpathak. (2021) “Reconstructing the climate variability during the last 5000 years from the Banni Plains, Kachchh, Western India”, Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 581.
  • M Kázmér, AB Roy, S. P. Prizomwala (2020) “Archaeoseismological potential of the Indian subcontinent”, Current Science 119 (11), 1767
  • Prizomwala, S. P., Aashna Tandon, Neha Joshi, and Nisarg Makwana, (2021) "Reconstructing the catalogue for extreme wave events from the Gujarat coastline (Western India) and their implications to coastal settlers during the last 6000 years", Quaternary International, 599-600, 24-31.
  • Samani, P., Prizomwala, S. P., Rajawat, A.S., (2020) "Assessing the Mineral Alteration in Ambaji–Deri Region (Northwestern India) Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing", Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 49 (2), 249-257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01208-2
  • Solanki, T., Solanki, P. M., Makwana, N. M., Prizomwala, S. P., and Kothyari, G. Ch., (2021) “Geomorphic response to neotectonic instability in the Deccan volcanic province, Shetrunji river, western India: Insights from quantitative geomorphology”, Quaternary International, 575, 96-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.015.
  • Solanki, T., Prizomwala, S. P. Solanki, P. M., Makwana, N. M., (2021) “Assessing the climatically triggered aggradation-incision processes in a dryland environment during the Late Quaternary period from Shetrunji River basin (Saurashtra), India”, Quaternary International, 585, 70-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.007.
  • S. Nawaz Ali, Morthekai, P., Bajpai, S., Phartiyal, B., Sharma A., Quamar MF., Prizomwala, S. P., (2020) “Redefining the timing of Tongul glacial stage in the Suru valley, NW Himalaya, India: New insights from luminescence dating”, Journal of Earth System Science, 129 (16), 1-11.
  • Das, A, Prizomwala, S.P., Solanki, T., Chauhan, G., Thakkar, M.G., and Bhatt N.P. (2019), "Relative Assessment of Tectonic Activity along the seismically active Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India", Journal of Geological Society of India, 94 (2), 179-187.
  • S. Nawaz Ali, Dubey, J., Morthekai, P., Sharma A., Singh R., Prizomwala, S. P., (2019) "Climate forcing and initiation of glacier advance during MIS 2 in the North Sikkim Himalaya, India", Journal of Asian Earth Science, 174, 381-388.
  • Prizomwala, S. P., Gunjan Yadav, Tarun Solanki, Archana Das, Gaurav Chauhan, and Nisarg Makwana, (2019) "Style and stages of valley fill aggradation-incision cycles in the Northern Hill Range, Kachchh, Western India", Quaternary International, 510, 18-27.
  • Nisarg Makwana, Prizomwala, S. P., Gaurav Chauhan, Binita Phartiyal and M. G. Thakkar (2019), "Late Holocene palaeo-environmental change in Banni Plains, Kachchh, Western India", Quaternary International, 507, 197 - 205.
  • N. Basavaiah, J.L.V. Mahesh Babu, S.P. Prizomwala, H. Achyuthan, V.H.R. Siva and Pranab Boral (2019), “Proxy mineral magnetic and elemental analyses for 2004 tsunami impact deposit along the Muttukadu backwater, East Coast of India: Scope of the palaeotsunami studies", Quaternary International, 507, 224-232.
  • S. P. Prizomwala, Drasti Gandhi, N. P. Bhatt, W. Winkler, M. Ravi Kumar, Nisarg Makwana, N. Y. Bhatt (2018) "Geological evidence for AD 1008 tsunami along the Kachchh coast, Western India: Implications for hazard along the Makran Subduction Zone", Scientific Reports, 8, 16816.
  • Prizomwala, S. P., Gunjan Yadav, N. P. Bhatt and Komal Sharma (2018) "Late Pleistocene relative sea level changes from Saurashtra, west coast of India.", Current Science, 115 (12), 2297-2301.
  • Pavan Gayatri, Indu Chaudhury, Mehul Nagar, Avinash Chauhan, S. P. Prizomwala, Mahesh P., Sumer Chopra, (2018) "Transient Electromagnetic investigations in a tectonic domain of the Kachchh intraplate region, western India: A morphotectonic study of the Kachchh Mainland Fault", Tectonics, 37 (11), 4239-4260.
  • Prizomwala, S. P., (2018) "Geomorphic evidences of tectonic instability during the Late Quaternary period along southern Saurashtra, Western India.", Arabian J. of Geoscience, 11: 397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-018-3771-4
  • Solanki, T., Prizomwala, S. P., Solanki P. M., (2018) "Geomorphic Expressions of Active Strike-slip faulting (Girnar Fault), Saurashtra, Western India.", J. Ind. Geophys. Union, 22 (4), 411-418.
  • A. Das, S. P. Prizomwala, N. Makwana and M. G. Thakkar (2017), "Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate and sea level changes inferred based on the tidal terrace sequence, Kachchh, Western India", palaeoecology palaeoclimatology palaeogeography, 473, 82-93.
  • Drasti Gandhi, K.A. Chavare, S. P. Prizomwala, Nilesh Bhatt, N. Y. Bhatt, Kapil Mohan and B. K. Rastogi, (2017) "Testing numerical model for boulder transport through high energy marine wave event: An example from southern Saurashtra, western India", Quaternary International, 444A, 209-216.
  • Pancholi,V., Kothyari, G. Ch., Prizomwala, S.P., Sukumaran, P., Shah, R.D., Bhatt, N.Y., Chauhan, M., and Kandregula, R. S., (2017) "Morphotectonic of Sabarmati-Cambay basin, Gujarat, Western India", J. Ind. Geophys. Union, 21 (5), 371-383.
  • Nilesh Bhatt, Murari, M.K., V. Ukey ,S. P. Prizomwala, and A. K. Singhvi, (2016) “Geological evidences of extreme waves along the Gujarat coast from Western India”, Natural Hazard, 84 (3), 1685-1704.
  • A. Das, G. Chauhan, S. P. Prizomwala, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016) "Tectonic variability along the South Katrol Hill Fault, Kachchh, Western India: Insights from geomorphic indices", Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 60 (3), 209-218.
  • Kazmer, M., Bhatt Nilesh, Ukey, V., Prizomwala S. P., Taborosi, D., and Szekely, B., (2016) "Archaeological Evidence for Modern Coastal Uplift at Diu, Saurashtra Peninsula, India ", Geoarchealogy, 31 (5), 376-387.
  • S. P. Prizomwala, A. Das, G. Chauhan, T. Solanki, N. Basavaiah, N. P. Bhatt, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016) "Late Pleistocene-Holocene uplift driven terrace formation and climate-tectonic interplay form a seismically active intraplate setting: an example from Kachchh, Western India", Journal of Asian Earth Science, 124, 55–67.
  • S. P. Prizomwala, T. Solanki, G. Chauhan, A. Das, N. P. Bhatt, M. G. Thakkar and B. K. Rastogi (2016) "Spatial variations in tectonic activity along the Kachchh Mainland Fault, Kachchh, western India: implications in seismic hazard assessment", Nat Hazards, 82, 947–961
  • 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 (2015) “Late Quaternary environmental and sea level changes from Kolleru Lake, SE India: Inferences from mineral magnetic, geochemical and textural analyses”, Quaternary International, 371, 197 - 208.
  • S. P. Prizomwala, Drasti Gandhi, V. Ukey, Nilesh Bhatt and B. K. Rastogi, (2015) “Coastal boulders as evidences of high energy marine events from Diu island, west coast of India: storm or palaeotsunami?”, Natural Hazard, 75 (2), 1187-1203.
  • Drasti Gandhi, Parnavi Prajapati, S. P. Prizomwala, Nilesh Bhatt and B. K. Rastogi, (2015) “Delineating the spatial variations in neotectonic activity along the southwestern Saurashtra using remote sensing”, Zeistchrift fur geomorphologie, 59 (1), 21-36.
  • Prizomwala, S.P., Nilesh Bhatt and Basavaiah N., (2014) “Understanding the sediment routing system along the Gulf of Kachchh coast, western India: Significance of small ephemeral rivers”, Journal of Earth System Science, 123 (1), 121-133.
  • Prizomwala S.P., Nilesh Bhatt and Basavaiah, N., (2014) “Sediment fluxes from small dryland fluvial catchment, Kachchh, Western India: Provenance discrimination and insights into source-to-sink studies in a macrotidal environment”, International Journal of Sediment Research, 29 (1), 99-109.
  • Shukla, S.B., Chowksey, V., Prizomwala, S.P., Ukey, V., Nilesh Bhatt and Maurya, D.M., (2013) “Internal Sedimentary Architecture and Coastal Dynamics as Revealed by Ground Penetrating Radar, Kachchh coast, Western India”, Acta Geophysica, 61 (5), 1196-1210.
  • Prizomwala S.P., Shukla S.B., Basavaiah, N., and Bhatt Nilesh, (2013) “Provenance Discrimination Studies on Sediments of the SW Kachchh Coast, Western India: Insights from Heavy Mineral and Mineral Magnetic Analysis”, Journal of Coastal Research, 29 (1), 52-60.
  • Prizomwala, S.P., Shukla, S.B., and Nilesh Bhatt, (2012) “Distribution of Indus born mica along Gulf of Kachchh coast: Implications in understanding offshore dynamics”, Journal of Geological society of India, 79, 557-562.
  • Shukla, S.B., Prizomwala, S.P., Ukey, V., Bhatt, N.P., and Chamyal, L.S., (2010) “Coastal geomorphology and Tsunami hazard scenario along the Kachchh coast, Western India”, Indian Journal of Marine Science, 39 (4), 549-556.
  • Prizomwala, S. P., Shukla, S.B., and Bhatt, N.P., (2010) “Geomorphic assemblage of coastline of Gulf of Kachchh, western India: Implications in understanding the pathways of coastal sediments”, Zeistcrift fur geomorphologiea, 54 (1), 31-46.

Projects

  • Replenishment of ordinary sand along Jojva to Orsang-Sukhi confluence, chhota udepur, sponsored by Commissioner of Geology and Mining.
  • District Survey Reports for various districts of Gujarat, sponsored by Commissioner of Geology and Mining.
  • Archaeoseismological investigation at Vadnagar, Mainland Gujarat, sponsored by Directorate of Archaeology and Museums (Gujarat).
  • Sand Replenishment study in various districts of Gujarat, sponsored by Commissioner of Geology and Mining.
  • Source-to-Sink spatio-temporal variability in sediment fluxes and their control on coastal sediment dispersal systems in Gujarat, sponsored by MoES.
  • Structure, style and rates of deformation along the Himalayan Frontal Fault (HFT) zone, northeast Himalaya using an integrated geophysical and geological approach, sponsored by MoES.
  • Reconstructing high energy marine events from Gujarat coast from last 6000 years, sponsored by MoES.
  • Aggradational-Incisional phases in the Fluvial sequences of Southern Saurashtra, sponsored by DST FAST TRACK.
  • Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme (ISJRP) Research Fellowship.

PhD Supervision

  • Utkarsh Pandey (2024 - Ongoing)
  • Sunny Tiwari (2024 - Ongoing)
  • Aashna Tandon (2018 - 2024)
  • Chintan Vedpathak (2017 – 2023)
  • Aashima Sodhi (2017-2023)

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
  • 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)