Biography
Dr. V. Ramaswamy is the Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/ NOAA, located in Princeton (New Jersey), USA. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, won prestigious awards, and has been a Coordinating Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I reports, and has been a Vice-Chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program. He is also a Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University (USA), and teaches a popular graduate course in Atmospheric Physics.
Research Interest
Climate Change, Atmospheric Sciences,
Biography
Prashant is working in Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development, instrumentation and simulation for various applications, and affiliated with IESD, Banaras Hindu University as a faculty. He received his PhD degree from Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. The doctoral dissertation primarily focuses on the use of optical and microwave satellite (SMOS) synergy with Weather Research and Forecasting for hydrological applications. He is also a working group partner with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation over the globe. Prashant was the recipient of several awards such as NASA Fellowships; USA; University of Maryland Fellowship, USA; Commonwealth Fellowship, U.K.; and CSIR-UGC- JRF-NET (2005), CSIR-JRF-NET (2006), University Grant Commission (UGC)-NET (2006). Prashant made 100+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and published 04 books with reputed publishing house such as Springer, Taylor and Francis and Elsevier and several book chapters with citation index of 21.
Research Interest
Hydrological Sciences
Biography
Ganesh Bora received his PhD from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA and is currently the Interim Director of Bio-Imaging and Sensing Center at North Dakota State University, USA. He is teaching courses on agricultural systems management and researching on mitigation of climate change through precision farming, development of precision planter, energy saving through auto-guidance systems, sensing techniques for variable rate technology, precision ammonia applicator using PWM, mechanical harvesting, UAS in PA, affordable technology. Ganesh is globally well known for his precision agricultural expertise and conducted workshops in Vietnam, Thailand, India and Bangladesh besides teaching every summer in Kazakhstan.
Research Interest
Agricultural systems management, Climate Change Mitigation