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Archana M Nair

Associate Professor · Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Portrait of Archana M Nair
Institution
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Country
India
Qualification
PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Areas of interest

Groundwater Hydrogeology, Isotope Hydrology

Biography

Archana M Nair currently works at the Earth System Science and Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She worked as a scientist at NCESS, Thiruvananthapuram for five years and as a Petroleum Engineer at Shell for three years before joining I.I.T Guwahati. Archana does research in, Hydrogeology, Spectral Remote Sensing and Petroleum Engineering. Her current research areas are groundwater hydrogeology, remote sensing and GIS applications in Earth and Planetary Science, Carbon sequestration and Rock physics modelling

Key Publications/Reports

Aneesh TD, Nair, A.M., Prasad, K.R. and Srinivas, R., 2022. Groundwater vulnerability assessment of an urban coastal phreatic aquifer in India using GIS-based DRASTIC model. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 19, p.100810.

S Kumar, AB Devi, D Deka, and Nair, A.M., 2022. A Climate Zone Perspective on Spatiotemporal Variations in GRACE Derived Groundwater Storage (GWS) in India. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-022-01580-1.

Devi, A.B., Deka, D., Aneesh, T.D., Srinivas, R. and Nair, A.M., 2022. Predictive modelling of land use land cover dynamics for a tropical coastal urban city in Kerala, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 15(5), pp.1-19

Devi, A.B. and Nair, A.M., 2021. Effects of urbanisation in a shallow coastal aquifer: An integrated GIS-based case study in Cochin, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 15, p.100656.

Aneesh TD, R Srinivas, AT Singh, T. R Resmi, Nair, A. M., B. L. Redkar (2019) Stable water isotope signatures of dual monsoon precipitation: A case study of Greater Cochin region, south-west coast of India. Journal of Earth System Science 128:210, DOI: 10.1007/s12040-019-1234-2. Springer.