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BAJRACHARYA Samjwal Ratna
Nepalese
5 November 1955
Lecturer,
Tribhuvan University
Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus
Department of Geology
PGD (Photogeological Survey using Remote Sensing Technique)
ITC, The Netherlands. 1991
M. Sc. (Geology). Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1985
RS &GIS Analyst / Geomorphologist
MENRIS, ICIMOD
Jawalakhel, Kathmandu, Nepal
G.P.O. Box 3226
Tel: 5525313, 525316
Fax: 5524509 / 5536747
Email: sabajracharya@icimod.org.np
Web page: www.icimod.org

Field of Expertise

    • Inventory of glaciers and glacial lakes and identification of potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region (Nepal, Bhutan, India, China and Pakistan) using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System since 1999.
    • Resource person on Regional Training Courses and Course Coordinator in National course on the Application of GIS and Remote Sensing to slope instability analysis and Hazard mapping since 1997.
    • Course Coordinator and full time resource person in training to stabilise landslides, gully protection works, and rehabilitation of the degraded land using vegetative structure and civil engineering structure (Trained 20 Senior Divisional Engineers, 100 Engineers, 120 Overseers and 80 Supervisors of the Department of Roads in Kurintar. About 60 Overseers, JTs and Rangers from Nepal Danida Watershed Management Project and about 60 Overseers from Bagmati Watershed Management Project in the same theme in different parts of Nepal since 1995. Only 20 participants participated in one training course).
    • Involved in the Geological and Geo-technical investigation of Roads, Bridges, Irrigation canals, and Hydro-powers in different parts of Nepal and Second International Airport, Dumping Sites etc since 1988.

Publications

Books:

    • Mool, P. K; Bajracharya, S. R.; Joshi, S. P. 2001. "Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods, monitoring and early warning systems in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, Nepal". 364P. ICIMOD in cooperation with UNEP/RRC-AP, ISBN 92 9115 331 1, Published by ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.
    • Mool, P. K; Wangda, D.; Bajracharya, S. R.; Joshi, S. P.; Kunzang, K.; Gurung, D.R. 2001. "Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods, monitoring and early warning systems in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, Bhutan". 227P. ICIMOD in cooperation with UNEP/RRC-AP, ISBN 92 9115 345 1, Published by ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Research papers:

    • About one and half dozen of research papers in different Journals

Unpublished Reports

    • About two dozens of Project reports
    • Training Manuals in Bioengineering