18 Facts About Harsh Gupta

Harsh Kumar Gupta was born on 1942 and is an Indian earth scientist and seismologist, known for his pioneering work on estimation of reservoir-induced earthquakes.

Harsh Gupta is a former vice chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology and a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad.

Harsh Gupta served as the project director of the Kerala Mineral Development and Exploration Project during the same period.

Harsh Gupta was appointed as the vice chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology in 1987 and stayed at the post till he was offered the position of the Advisor of the Department of Science and Technology in 1990 for a two-year stint.

Harsh Gupta served the institution for nine years and, in 2001, he was appointed as the Secretary at the Department of Ocean Development of the Government of India from where he superannuated in 2005.

Harsh Gupta, after returning from the US, continued his association with the University of Texas at Dallas as an adjunct professor till 2001.

Harsh Gupta has served as the president of many scientific societies such as International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, and Geological Society of India.

Harsh Gupta is the founder president of the Asian Seismological Commission and presided over the commission from 1996 to 2000.

Harsh Gupta has served as an advisor and consultant to the Commonwealth Science Council, UNESCO, International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Council for Science.

Harsh Gupta's researches have been focused on the study of earthquakes and he is known to have developed methodology for discriminating normal earthquakes from reservoir-induced ones.

Harsh Gupta has developed procedures to estimate the potential of reservoir-triggered earthquakes at a given site.

Harsh Gupta has conducted investigative studies on the structure of the regional crust of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

Harsh Gupta's studies have been documented by way of over 200 scientific papers in national and international journals and five books, namely, Disaster Management, Oceanology, Geothermal Energy: An Alternative Resource for the 21st Century, Reservoir Induced Earthquakes, and Three Great Tsunamis.

Harsh Gupta has edited 15 books, which included the Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics.

Harsh Gupta headed the team which set up the Indian Tsunami Warning System.

Harsh Gupta worked for presenting the Indian claim for Legal Continental Shelf and developing technologies for detecting water resources, rain harvesting, and assessing earthquake hazards.

Harsh Gupta became an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1989, and two years later, he was selected for the 1991 National Mineral Award.

Harsh Gupta is a recipient of the 2003 Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary visiting Fellowship and 2008 Nayudamma Memorial Gold Medal Award.