Sonam Sahoo

Dr. Sonam Sahoo is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Sustainability, Mahindra University. Before joining MU, she was a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine, Orono, USA. Dr. Sonam earned her PhD in Earth Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Her research focuses on the dynamics of hydro-geomorphic processes and their implications for river health and water security.

• Ph.D. (Earth Sciences), IIT Gandhinagar, July-2019

• M. Sc. Geology, University of Delhi, 2013

• B.Sc. (H) Geology, University of Delhi, 2011

• Brierley, G., Sahoo, Sonam, Danino, M., Fryirs, K., Pandey, C.N., Sahoo, R., Khan, S., Mohapatra, P. and Jain, V., 2023. A plural knowledges model to support sustainable management of dryland rivers in western India. River Research and Applications. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4219

• Sonam, Vikrant Jain, Kirstie Fryirs, Gary Brierley. 2022. Geomorphic characterization of a seasonal river network in semi-arid western India using the River Styles Framework, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2021.100077
• Sonam, Ajit Singh, V. Jain. 2022 A review of hydro-geomorphic studies in the Ganga Plains: emergence of a new interdisciplinary area of research. J. of Paleontological Society of India. 67(1), 139-157

• Sonam, Sahoo, R., Singh, R.N. and Jain, V., 2020. Temporal profiling of uplift rate along an active fault using river long profile in the Kuchchh region, Western India. Quaternary International. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.11.022
• Jain, V., Sonam, Singh, Ajit, Sinha, R., and Tandon, S. K., 2020. Evolution of modern river system: An assessment of ‘landscape Memory’ in Indian River System. Episodes. doi: 10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020035

• Dey, S., Kaushal, R.K., Sonam and Jain, V., 2019. Spatiotemporal variability of Neotectonic activity along the Southern Himalayan front: a geomorphic perspective. Journal of Geodynamics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2018.09.003

• Sonam and Jain, V., 2018. Geomorphic effectiveness of a long profile shape and the role of inherent geological controls in the Himalayan hinterland area of the Ganga River basin, India. Geomorphology, 304, pp.15-29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.12.022
• Agrawal, S., Srivastava, P., Sonam, Meena, N.K., Rai, S.K., Bhushan, R., Misra, D.K. and Gupta, A.K., 2015. Stable (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) isotopes and magnetic susceptibility record of late Holocene climate change from a lake profile of the northeast Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 86(6), 696-705. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-015-0362-9

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• Fulbright-Kalam Climate Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Maine, Orono, USA (2023 – 2024).
• CSIR Research Associate, Sustainable River Basin Management Project hosted at IIT Gandhinagar (2021 – 2023).
• Research Associate, Forest and Biodiversity under the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC) Project at IIT Gandhinagar (2019 – 2021).
• Research Associate for the Establishment of Gujarat State Climate Change Centre under the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC).
• Teaching Assistant, IIT Gandhinagar (2014 – 2019).
• CSIR Research Associate.

Her research interests primarily focus on Dynamics of hydro-geomorphic processes and their implications for river health and water security, with a focus on remote sensing data analytics for sustainable river health management