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Mohit Prakash Mohanty
Assistant Professor
mohit.mohanty[at]wr.iitr.ac.in
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Flood risk management, Flood hazard mapping, Vulnerability analysis, Climate change impact assessment, Population exposure, Flood resilience mechanisms, Hydrological modelling, Design rainfall analysis for data-poor catchments, Statistical downscaling, Water and waste water treatment, Bio- kinetics modelling for pollutant removal
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Educational Details
Institute of Technical Education and Research Bhubaneswar
2011
B.Tech, Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
2014
M.Tech, Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2019
Ph.D, Water Resources Engineering
Professional Background
Assistant Professor
10 May 2021 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Post Doctoral Fellow
06 Oct 2019 - 09 Apr 2021
The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Research Associate
01 Jun 2019 - 31 Aug 2019
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Identification of critical soil erosion prone areas and preparation of CAT plan 01 Jan 2022 Water Resources Role- Co-PI 40.40 Lakh INR National Mission for Clean Ganga, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Govt. of India
Rethinking Disaster Management- A multi-hazard approach of floodplain mapping over a coastal region in India 01 Oct 2021 Water Resources Role-PI 20 Lakh INR Faculty Initiation Grant, IIT Roorkee
Potential for scaling up indigenous rainwater harvesting techniques in semi-arid regions of India 01 Oct 2021 Water Resources Role- Co-PI 81.07 Lakh INR Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom
State Specific Action Plan of Odisha; Duration- May 2022 to November 2023 (approved) 01 May 2022 Water Resources Role-PI 82.40 Lkah INR Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, GoI; and Department of Water Resources, Govt. of Odisha
Model Water Balance Study using system studies and modeling techniques for Godavari basin 01 Oct 2021 Water Resources Role- Co-PI 17 Lakh INR NWDA, Hyderabad




Publications

The most updated list of publications may be found in my Google Scholar profile

[18] Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., and Durga Rao, K.V.H., (2021) An integrated approach of flood risk assessment over a severely flood-prone coastal region using geomorphic classifiers, and socio-economic indicators. Journal of Geomatics [in press].

[17] Mohanty, M.P., and Simonovic, S. (2021) Changes in floodplain regimes over Canada due to climate change impacts: observations from CMIP6 models. Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 148323. 

[16] Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S. (2021) WebFRIS: an efficient web-based decision support tool to disseminate end-to-end risk information for flood management, Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, 288, 112456. 

[15] Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S. & Ghosh, S. (2021) WEBFRIS: a web-based flood information system for enhanced resilience through risk awareness. European Water, European Water Resources Association [in press]

[14] Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S. (2021) Hydrodynamic flood modelling of large regions under data-poor situations - A case study of Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha.  International Journal of Business Analytics (Special Issue on Data Analytics in Humanitarian Supply Chain and Disaster Relief Operations Under Risk and Uncertainty), 8(2).

[13] Satpathy, S., Bhatia, U., Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2021) Flood Evacuation during Pandemic: A multi-objective Framework to HandleCompound Hazard. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 16(3), 034034.

[12] Mohanty, M.P., and Simonovic, S. (2021) Fidelity of reanalysis datasets in floodplain mapping: investigating performance at inundation levelover large regions. Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier, 597, 125757. 

[11] Mohanty, M.P., and Simonovic, S. (2021) Understanding dynamics of flood exposure in Canada withmultiple high-resolution population data. Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 143559.

[10] Mohanty, M.P., S, Nithya., Indu, J., Ghosh, S. & Karmakar, S. (2020)  Sensitivity of various topographic data in flood management: Implications on inundation mapping over large data-scarce regions. Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier, 590, 125523.

[9] Mohanty, M.P., Sherly, M. A., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2020) Tide-Rainfall Flood Quotient:An incisive measure of comprehending a region’s response to storm-tide and pluvial flooding. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 15 (6), 064029.

[8] Mohanty, M.P., H, Vittal., Yadav, V., Ghosh, S. & Karmakar, S. (2020) A new bivariate riskclassifier for flood management considering hazard and socio-economic dimensions. Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, 255, 109733.

[7] Mohanty, M.P., Sahil, M., & Karmakar, S. (2020) Flood management in India: A focussed review on the current status and future challenges. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Elsevier, 101660.

[6] Gusain, A., Mohanty, M.P., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2020) Capturing Transformation of Flood Hazard over a Large River Basin under Changing Climate using a Top-down Approach. Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 138600.

[5] Ghosh, M., Mohanty, M.P., Kishore, P., Karmakar, S. (2020) Performance Evaluation ofpotential inland flood management options through a 3-way coupled hydrodynamic modelling for a coastal urban catchment. Hydrology Research, IWA Publishing, nh2020123.

[4] Ghosh, S., Karmakar, S., Saha, A., Mohanty, M.P. et al. (2019) Development of India's first integrated expert urban flood forecasting system for Chennai. Current Science, 117(5), 741-745.

[3] Brahmacharimayum, B., Mohanty, M.P., & Ghosh, P.K. (2019) Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Biological sulfate Reduction: A Review. Global NEST, 21 (2), 222-244.

[2] Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2018). Regionalized Design Rainfall Estimation:an appraisal of Inundation Mapping for Flood Management under Data-ScarceSituations. Water Resources Management, Springer, 32(14), 4725-4746.

[1] Mohanty, M.P., Brahmacharimayum, B., & Ghosh, P. K. (2018). Effects of phenol on sulfate reduction by mixed microbial culture: kinetics and bio-kinetics analysis. Water Science and Technology, IWA Publishing, 77(4), 1079-1088.

Books

1. Mohanty, M.P., and Karmakar, S. (2020) Flood risk estimation and mapping: Present status and future challenges Mathematical Advances towards Sustainable Environmental Systems-Earth Systems Protection, Springer. (in press)

Honors And Awards
Honors
International Academic Awards 2021-22
2022
Best researcher award
National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
2021
Travel Grant for ICFM 2021, Iowa, USA
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2021
Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada and Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), Canada
2019
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India
2019
Travel Grant for 11th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment, Madrid, Spain
CORDEX, Sweden and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Research (APN), Japan
2016
Travel grant for ICRC CORDEX 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
Space Technology Cell- IIT Bombay-Indian Space Research Organisation
2014
Ph.D scholarship
MHRD, Govt. of India
2012
M.Tech scholarship
Students
SuperVisions
A Unified Framework of Multi-hazard Flood Risk Mapping under Changing Climate: An Application over a Coastal Catchment in India
26 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: NA, Scholar: DEV ANAND THAKUR
Miscellaneous
Sponsored Research/Consultancy Projects
Title Funding agency Duration  Status

Rethinking Disaster Management- A multi-hazard approach of floodplain mapping over a coastal region in India (PI)

 

 Faculty Initiation Grant, IIT Roorkee 2 years Ongoing
Potential for scaling up indigenous rainwater harvesting techniques in semi-arid regions of India (Co-PI)  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK 6 months Ongoing
Identification of critical soil erosion-prone areas and preparation of CAT plan (Co-PI) National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 2 years  Ongoing
Invited Presentations

1. Invited lecture on Fidelity of reanalysis datasets in floodplain mapping: Investigating performance at inundation level over large regions by CONECTA AL II, CIVGEO 2022 on 24 July 2021 in Lima, Peru.

2. Invited lecture on Advances in Urban Water Management organized by CUSE, IIT Bombay from 10 December to Dec. 14, 2018, at IIT Bombay.

3. Invited lecture for a workshop on Flooding in Cities, Warning & Dissemination organized by SVNIT, Surat, Gujrat (India) from Aug. 20-21, 2018.

4. Invited lecture on Flood Modeling: A demonstration in the CEP-QIP course on Impacts of Climate Change, Urbanization, and Land-Use-Land-Cover Change on Water Resources organized from May 30- Jun. 3, 2016 at IIT Bombay.

Conferences presentations

1. Mohanty, M.P., & Simonovic, P. S. (2021) A comprehensive approach for flood-plain mapping through identification of hazard using publicly available data sets over Canada, ICFM 8, Aug. 17-19, 2021, Iowa, USA (accepted).

2. Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S. (2021) Tide Equivalent Rainfall: A new metric to improve the resilience of global coastal regions to pluvial and tidal impacts, ICFM 8, Aug. 17-19, 2021, Iowa, USA (accepted).

3. Ghosh, M., Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S., Identification of Optimal Hydraulic Flood Management Scenarios for a Socially Vulnerable Urban Coastal Catchment: A 3-way Coupled Hydrodynamic Approach, Paper Number: H218-0012, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 1-20, USA.

4. Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2019) WEBFRIS: a web-based flood information system for enhanced resilience through risk awareness, EWRA 2019, Jun. 23-25, 2019, Madrid, Spain.

5. Mohanty, M.P., Vittal, H., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2017) An exhaustive approach for identification of flood risk hotspots in data-poor regions enforcing combined geomorphic and socio-economic indicators, Paper Number: NH21B-0174, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA.

6. Singh, J., Paimazumder, D., Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2017) Urbanization induces non-stationarity in Extreme Rainfall Characteristics over Contiguous United States, Paper Number: GC43F-1125, AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA.

7. Sharma, T., Vittal, H., Mohanty, M.P., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2017) Assessing the Impacts of Decadal Socio-Agro-Hydro Climatic Variations on Agricultural Vulnerability over India. Paper Number: GC34B-08, AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA.

8. Mohanty, M.P., Nithya, S., Indu, J., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. Impacts of different sources of topographic data and uncertainty assessment on 1-D 2-D coupled flood inundation modelling, United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction - “Building Resilience through Integrated Applications”, Oct. 23-25, 2017, Beijing, China.

9. Mohanty, M.P., Gusain, A., Sharma, T., Ranjan, P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2016) A Comparative Flood Hazard Assessment with Climate Projections for India, ICRC: Cordex 2016, May 17-20, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.

10. Mohanty, M.P., Gusain, A., Sherly, M.A., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2016) Estimation of Design rainfall for flood risk mapping in a data-scarce situation, 9th International Geographical Union Conference, Mar. 18-20, 2016, New Delhi, India.

11. Gusain, A., Mohanty, M.P., Vittal, H., Karmakar, S., Ghosh, S., & Rao, G.S (2015) Assessment of future change in streamflow through the identification of its association with precipitation in Mahanadi Basin, India under the data-scarce scenario, Paper Number: H43I-1676, AGU Fall Meeting 2015, Dec. 14-18, 2015, San Fransisco, USA.

12. Mohanty, M.P., Brahmacharimayum, B., & Ghosh, P.K. (2014) Simultaneous bio-reduction of sulfate and nitrate in batch shake flasks Poster presentation at National Conference on Sustainable Development of Environmental Systems, Jun. 20-21, 2014, Guwahati, India.

13. Mohanty, M.P., & Ghosh, P.K. (2014) A review on various Bio-kinetic models used in biological sulfate reduction, International Conference on Harnessing Natural Resources for sustainable development – A global trend (IHNRSD-14), Jan. 29-31, 2014, Guwahati, India.

14. Brahmacharimayum, B., Mohanty, M.P., & Ghosh, P.K. (2014) A review on the intermediates, pathways, and enzymes utilized in dissimilatory sulfate reduction, International Conference on Harnessing Natural Resources for sustainable development – A global trend (IHNRSD-14), Jan. 29-31, 2014, Guwahati, India.

15. Laskar, M., Mohanty, M. P., Brahmacharimayum, B., & Ghosh, P.K. (2013) Kinetics of sulfate bio-reduction and sulfide oxidation by mixed microbial consortia, International Congress of Environmental Research (ICER-2013), Dec. 19-21, 2013, Aurangabad, India.

Technical Reports

4. Mohanty M.P., & Simonovic, S.P (2021) A generic framework to quantify changes in floodplain regimes by incorporating climate change impacts over large regions, Water Resources Research Report, Report No. 112.

3. Mohanty M.P., & Simonovic, S.P (2020) A comprehensive framework for regional floodplain mapping, Water Resources Research Report, Report No. 109.

2. Bogdana S., Mohanty M.P., & Simonovic, S.P (2020) Regional analysis of population exposure to flooding in Canada, Water Resources Research Report, Report No. 110.

1. Mohanty M.P., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2019) A comprehensive mapping of flood risk in changing climate: An application to Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha: A report submitted to the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad in Jul. 2018.

Media Coverages

[6] New flood risk prediction tool to help “map” out disaster mitigation plans in the Prevention Web, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), August 31, 2021.

[5] A new measure that can predict whether a city is prone to rain- or tide-based flooding in the Hindu, January 02, 2021.

[4] New Recommendations for a Proactive Flood Policyin India in the EoS, Science News by American Geophysical Union, 17 September 2020.

[3] How to save Jagatsinghpur from floods in the Odisha Post, September 14, 2020.

[2] Flood risk on the rise: An urgent need of a socio-technocratic approach for flood management” in the Political and Business Daily, Feb. 16, 2020.

[1] New study offers promising way of looking at flood risk in the Odisha Post, January 2, 2020.

Research Opportunities

I am eagerly looking for prospective candidates (Ph.D., and Masters) to work in the following research themes-

1. Floodplain mapping over large water sheds.

2. Flood resilience mechanisms 

3. Multi-hazard risk mapping

4. Satellite-based data-driven quantification of flood risk 

5. Human health risk assessment during urban flooding

Interested candidates may send their CV to mohit.mohanty@wr.iitr.ac.in