Dr. Rakesh K Dumka (Scientist B & Head, GNSS Division)

Crustal Deformation, Tectonic Geodesy; Active Fault study; Application of GNSS for various geological and geophysical studies.

Recipient of Young Scientist Award – 2007 in Earth Sciences, from the UCOST, Government of Uttarakhand, Dehradun.

One of our publication Dumka et al., 2018 (GPS Measurements of Deformation Caused by Seasonal Filling and Emptying Cycles of Four Hydroelectric Reservoirs in India, BSSA, 108 (5B), 2955-2966, 2018) is highlighted by the UNAVCO in science snapshot.

Rakesh K Dumka, D. SuriBabu, Kapil Malik, Sandip Prajapati, P. Narain, PS-InSAR derived deformation study in the Kachchh, Western India, Applied Computational and Geosciences, (2020).

Rakesh K Dumka, D SuriBabu, AK Taloor, S Prajapati, BS Kotlia Demarcation of solar cycle 24 and characterization of ionospheric GPS-TEC towards the western part of India. QI, (2020).

Ajay Kumar Taloor, Lalit Mohan Joshi, Bahadur Singh Kotlia, Akhtar Alam, Girish Ch Kothyari, Raj Sunil Kandregula, Anoop Kumar Singh, Rakesh K Dumka, Tectonic imprints of landscape evolution in the Bhilangana and Mandakini basin, Garhwal Himalaya, India: A geospatial approach, QI, (2020).

Naveen Kumar, Kapil Mohan, Rakesh K Dumka and Sumer Chopra, Soft sediment deformation structures in Quaternary sediments from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, western India, JGSI, , DOI: 10.1007/s12594-020-1462-8. (2020)

H Bisht, BS Kotlia, K Kumar, Rakesh K Dumka, AK Taloor, R Upadhyay, GPS derived crustal velocity, tectonic deformation and strain in the Indian Himalayan arc, QI, (2020).

Naveen Kumar, Kapil Mohan, Rakesh K Dumka and Sumer Chopra, Evaluation of Linear structures in Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Western India: implication to Seismotectonics of the study area. JIGU, (2020).

Rakesh K Dumka, S. Chopra, Sandip Prajapati, 2019. GPS derived crustal deformation analysis of Kachchh, zone of 2001(M7.7) earthquake, Western India, Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.01.032. (2019)

Gahalaut, V.K., K. Gahalaut, Rakesh K. Dumka, Chaudhury, P., Yadav, R.K., Geodetic evidence of high compression across seismically active Kachchh paleo-rift, India, Tectonics, Doi:10.1029/2019TC005496. (2019)

Rakesh K Dumka, P Choudhury, VK Gahalaut, K Gahalaut, RK Yadav, GPS Measurements of Deformation Caused by Seasonal Filling and Emptying Cycles of Four Hydroelectric Reservoirs in India, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108 (5B), 2955-2966, (2018).

Rakesh K Dumka, BS Kotlia, D SuriBabu, P Narain, S Prajapati, Present-day crustal deformation and geodetic strain in the vicinity of Dholavira-Harappan civilization site, Kachchh, western part of the Indian plate, Quaternary International, (2018).

Rakesh K Dumka, BS Kotlia, GC Kothyari, J Paikrey, S Dimri Detection of high and moderate crustal strain zones in Uttarakhand Himalaya, India, Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica 53 (3), 503-521, (2018).

P Chaudhury, K. Gahalaut, Rakesh Dumka, V.K. Gahalaut, A.K. Singh, Sanjay Kumar, GPS measurement of land subsidence in Gandhinagar, Gujarat (western India), due to groundwater depletion, Environmental Earth Sciences, (2018).

G.C. Kothyari, P. Shirvalkar, R.S. Kandregula, Y.S. Rawat, Rakesh K Dumka, Neha Joshi, Holocene tectonic activity along Kachchh Mainland Fault: Impact on late mature Harappan civilization, Kachchh, western India. Quaternary International, (2018).

S Jade, TS Shrungeshwara, K Kumar, P Choudhury, RK Dumka, H Bhu, India plate angular velocity and contemporary deformation rates from continuous GPS measurements from 1996 to 2015, Scientific Reports 7 (1), 11439, (2017).

GC Kothyari, Rakesh K Dumka, AP Singh, G Chauhan, MG Thakkar, SK Biswas, Tectonic evolution and stress pattern of South Wagad Fault at the Kachchh Rift Basin in western India, Geological Magazine 154 (4), 875-887, (2016).

GC Kothyari, BK Rastogi, P Morthekai, Rakesh K Dumka, Landform development in a zone of active Gedi Fault, Eastern Kachchh rift basin, India, Tectonophysics 670, 115-126, (2015).

GC Kothyari, BK Rastogi, P Morthekai, Rakesh K Dumka, RS Kandregula, Active segmentation assessment of the tectonically active South Wagad fault in Kachchh, western Peninsular India, Geomorphology 253, 491-507, (2015).

GC Kothyari, BK Rastogi, Rakesh K Dumka, M Chauhan, Secondary surface deformation along the Bharudia/North Wagad Fault Zone in Kachchh rift basin, western India.Comunicaçõe Geológicas 102 (1), (2015).

Rakesh K Dumka, BS Kotlia, K Kumar, GS Satyal, LM Joshi, Crustal deformation revealed by GPS in Kumaun Himalaya, India, Journal of Mountain Science 11 (1), 41-50, (2014).

Rakesh K Dumka, BS Kotlia, K Kumar, Quantification of crustal strain rate in Kumaun Himalaya (India) using GPS measurements of crustal deformation, Himalayan Geology 35 (2), 146-155, (2014).

S Jade, M Mukul, VK Gaur, Rakesh K Dumka, al Jagannathan, Saigeetha: et. al, Contemporary deformation in the Kashmir–Himachal, Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya: significant insights from 1995–2008 GPS time series, Journal of Geodesy, 1-19, (2014).

Rakesh K Dumka, BS Kotlia, MS Miral, LM Joshi, K Kumar, AK Sharma, First Global Positioning System (GPS) Derived Recession Rate in Milam Glacier, Higher Central Himalaya, India, (2013).

P Choudhury, JK Catherine, VK Gahalaut, S Chopra, Rakesh K Dumka, KS Roy, Post-seismic deformation associated with the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, Natural Hazards 65 (2), 1109-1118, (2012).

BK Rastogi, P Choudhury, Rakesh K Dumka, KM Sreejith, TJ Majumdar, Stress pulse migration by viscoelastic process for long-distance delayed triggering of shocks in Gujarat, India, after the 2001 Mw 7.7 Bhuj earthquake, Complexity and Extreme Events in Geoscience, Geophys. Monogr. Ser, (2012).

Rakesh K Dumka,Determination Of Crustal Strain Field In Kumaun Lesser To Tethys Himalaya Using Global Positioning System GPS Geodesy, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, (2015).

Rakesh K Dumka, Vulnerability of Balia Nala Landslide (BNL) at Nainital:Preliminary GPS analysis ISBN No. 81-79-88-055-9, (2011).

K Kumar, Rakesh K Dumka, MS Miral, GS Satyal, M Pant, Lower recession rate of Gangotri glacier during 1971-2004-Response, current science, 95 (1), 10-10, (2008).

K Kumar, MC Pant, GS Satyal, Rakesh K Dumka, Comparison of digital surface modelling techniques for sloping hill terrain using GPS data, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation 28 (4), 439-447, (2008).

K Kumar, Rakesh K Dumka, MS Miral, GS Satyal, M Pant, Estimation of retreat rate of Gangotri glacier using rapid static and kinematic GPS survey, Current science-BANGALORE- 94 (2), 258, (2008).

MS Miral, K Kumar, Rakesh K Dumka, Traditional Construction Practices in the Seismically Active Areas of Uttaranchal, ENVIS Bulletin: Himalayan Ecology 11 (1), 35-37, (2008).

Active Fault study along KHF in Kachchh region using GPS geodesy sponsored by MoES (GoI), 2016 -2020.

Acting as a Co-PI of a joint “Intraplate seismicity in India and Norway: Distribution, properties and causes” project sponsored by MoES(GOI), 2019-2022.

Crustal Deformation study using GPS network of ISR sponsored by DST (GoG), 2015 – 2020.

Identification of progressively growing crustal strain zones along MCT in Uttarakhand Himalaya, using GPS geodesy, Sponsored by SERB-DST (GoI), 2013 – 2017.

GPS & GAGAN/ IRNSS data analysis for Intra-Plate Geodynamic profiling in Active Seismic Zones, collaborative proposal with SAC-NRSA, sponsored by ISRO. 2015 – 2019.

Correlation of IRNSS data with GPS data for the development of IRNSS, sponsored by ISRO. 2016 onwards.

Running and maintenance of four GPS stations of Gujarat region for online transmission of data to INCOIS, part of ISGN Indian Seismic GNSS Network (ISGN) of MoeS. 2009-2017.

Crustal deformation study along NSL using GPS, in collaboration with NITR, 2020 onwards.

Three Ph.D. students are registered under my supervision at Gujarat University and Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundary, A.P., for their Ph.D. degree.

More than a dozen of MS.C. Students completed dissertation work under my supervision.