Project Investigator/Coordinator : Dr. Sunil K. Wanchoo, Associate Professor, SMVDU
- Multi-Institutional collaborative programme between SMVD University Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISERK) and University of Cambridge (Cambridge).
- Prof. Supriyo Mitra (IISERK)
- Prof. Keith Priestley (Cambridge)
- Dr. Sunil K. Wanchoo, SMVDU
- Largest filed experiment of its kind in NW Himalaya.
- A field intensive program with a network seismographs (20) and NaVIC receivers (12) installed in the States of J&K and HP.
- One Ph.D. student each in SMVDU and IISERK about to submit their thesis.
- Several projects with a cumulative grant of several crores have been implemented by the collaborating team. The funding had been received from both National and International funding agencies:
- UKIERI-UGC thematic partnership scheme
- UGC, New Delhi
- NERC, UK
- Royal Society London
- ISRO
- Enormous amount of data generated from the experiment being jointly analysed.
- Several outreach activities have been conducted by the group in the State of J&K involving international resource persons from UK and USA.
- A tri-patriate MOU has been approved by three collaborating institutions and is being signed shortly.
