Dr. Lalit Saikia
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: M.Sc., Ph.D., (GATE, UGC NET, Joint CSIR UGC NET qualified)
SPECIALIZATION: Environmental Chemistry, Water Resources Engineering, Hazards and Disaster Management
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
Based on primary as well as secondary data, PhD thesis (in Department of Civil Engineering from IIT Guwahati) focuses physico-chemical properties of sediments including contamination status (by laboratory analysis), sediment budget, role of geotechnical and geochemical properties of bank materials in erosion (by laboratory analysis followed by statistical analysis) , bank line shifting, river bank erosion, braiding and land use land cover of the Brahmaputra river in Assam (by remote sensing and GIS tools). One objective of the research was to understand geoenvironmental changes of Brahmaputra in Assam and seeking solution to the bank erosion problem.
PUBLICATIONS
Journals:
Saikia L, Mahanta C, Borah SB. A novel approach to calculate braiding of a large alluvial river, Current Science, (2018) 115:6, 1179-1185.
Saikia L, Mahanta C, Mukherjee A, Borah SB. Erosion-deposition and land use/ land cover of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, Journal of Earth System Science, (2019) 128: 211.
Saikia L, Barman R. A Study on Occupational Hazards Among Traffic Personnel in Guwahati City, India, CSVTU International Journal of Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Biomedical, (2019) 4: 2, 36-43.
Saikia L, Mahanta C. A Mass Balance Approach in Sediment Budgeting of Large Alluvial Rivers with Special Emphasis on the Brahmaputra in Assam, Journal of Indian Association of Sedimentologists, (2021) 38: 2, 15-24.
Book chapters:
‘Preliminary Assessment of Arsenic Distribution in Brahmaputra River Basin of India Based on Examination of 56,180 Public Groundwater Wells’, in Ramanathan A. et al.(Eds.),‘Safe and Sustainable Use of Arsenic-Contaminated Aquifers in the Gangetic Plain’, Springer, 2015.
‘The Brahmaputra and Other Rivers of the North-East’, in Iyer R. R. (Ed.), ‘Living Rivers, Dying Rivers’, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2015.
‘Sediment Dynamics in a Large Alluvial River: Characterization of Materials and Processes and Management Challenges’,in Sharma N. (Ed.), ‘River System Analysis and Management’, Springer, 2016.
‘Water Resources of North East India and Challenges in Development’, In Borthakur P., Saikia L. and Huda E.A. (Eds.), Resources and Challenges in North East India, Chandra Prakash, Guwahati, 2017.
‘Increasing Extreme Temperature Events in the Guwahati City During 1971–2010’, in Sarma, A.K., Singh, V.P., Bhattacharjya, R.K., Kartha, S.A. (Eds.), Urban Ecology, Water Quality and Climate Change, Springer, 2018.
‘Flood Hazard of the Brahmaputra River in Assam: Current Mitigation Approaches, Challenges and Sustainable Solution Options’, In Mukherjee A (Ed.), Riverine Systems: Understanding the Hydrological, Hydrosocial and Hydro-heritage Dynamics, Springer, 2022.
Books
Physical Assessment of the Brahmaputra River, IUCN, Bangladesh, 2014.
Resources and Challenges in North East India, Chandra Prakash, Guwahati, 2017 (Edited)
Conference proceedings: 7
PRESENTATIONS
Climate Change in the Brahmaputra Basin of Northeast India: Need of Policy Interventions and Institutional Mechanism; EWRI’s 3rddeveloping nations conference: India 2010; IIT Madras; January 5, 2010.
Increasing Complexity of Sediment Budgeting in The Brahmaputra River Due to Potential Climate Change and Mega Dam Initiatives; National seminar on climate change and sustainable development with reference to India; Tezpur University, Assam; April 3, 2010.
Observed Climate Variability in the Brahmaputra Valley: Implication to Water Security and Food Security; International conference on Climate Change and Water: Assessing impact, vulnerability and adaptation in the Eastern Himalayan Region, IIT Guwahati; January 3, 2011.
RS-GIS based study on utilization of mid-channel bars in downstream of Brahmaputra River in Assam; Young Scholar’s Forum, 2019; The Asian Confluence Center, Shillong; March 19, 2019.