Prof. L. N. Satpati : IAGR Conference 2024

Prof. L. N. Satpati, Professor of Geography & Professor Director, UGC Human Resource Development Centre, University of Calcutta, West Bengal Dr. Lakshminarayan Satpati obtained Ph. D. degree in Geography from the University of Calcutta for his thesis entitled An Approach Towards Rational Water Resources Management of the Rupnarayan River Basin, West Bengal. Prof. Satpati has an experience of teaching of geography for about 29 years in schools, colleges, universities and institutes of higher education in West Bengal. He has presented more than 150 research papers and chaired sessions in national and international platforms, of which the 32nd IGU Conference in Cologne, Germany (2012), 8th IAG Conference in Paris, France (2013) and PRSCO-2019 of RSAI, Bangkok are notable. Besides, he has been invited to deliver lectures in various faculty development programmes of UGC, ICSSR, DST, NRDMS etc. He has to his credit nearly forty publications in the form of research papers and articles published in reputed national and international journals and books. His research and teaching interests include climatology, geomorphology, hydrology, environment, population & development, quantitative geography and curriculum development in geographical sciences. He has edited a book on Climate and Society- a Contemporary Perspective published by the University of Calcutta in 2015. Seventeen scholars have already obtained their Ph. D. degrees under his supervision, and two Post-Doctoral Fellows have completed their projects under his mentorship. He has successfully completed two UGC sponsored research projects and organized three national workshops on Climate Science. Prof. Satpati is associated with a large number of academic and professional organizations of teachers, geographers and climate scientists of India. He has been the Hony. Assistant Secretary (Administration) of the Geographical Society of India, Kolkata since 2009. He has been elected as the Hony. Secretary, Indian Meteorological Society (IMS), Kolkata Chapter for the period 2018-20. Prof. Satpati has performed the responsibility of the Chairman, High Powered Committee to restructure NATMO, GoI. He is the honorary Editor of UGC recognized peer reviewed biannual Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies of Indian Institute of Landscape, Ecology and Ekistics, since 2017.