Nowgong Girls' College

DR. NILOTPAL KALITA


Education


1. PhD: Gauhati University, Title: Flood, erosion and bed aggradation in the Belsiri River of Assam, India, 2017

SPECIALIZATION

  • Specialization in M.A.: Geoinformatics, Specialization in PhD : Geomorphology and Geoinformatics.

RESARCH INTERESTS

  • Fluvial Geomorphology •Hydrology •Machine Learning •GIS Modelling •Remote Sensing and its applications in Geographical studies •Phytogeography •Zoogeography

PAPER PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘ Flood frequency analysis of the Belsiri River in Assam’ in the 36th Indian Geographers’ meet and international seminar on ‘ Environmental changes and challenges: local, regional and global perspectives’ held at the Department of Geography, Gauhati University on February 25-28, 2015, 2015

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘Flood Hazard Risk Mapping in the Belsiri River Basin, Assam’ in the XXIX Biennial Conference of North East India Geographical Society (NEIGS) cum XI International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission Seminar, organized by Department of Geography, B. Borooah College, Guwahati from 8 to 10 February, 2018, 2018

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘Changing Landuse Pattern of Belsiri River Basin, Assam’ in the International seminar on ‘Community & cultural multiplicity in North East India & South Asia: Ethnography, History & Society’ at Shillong Law College organized by North East India Council for Social Science Research, Shillong, Meghalaya, May 20-22, 2019, 2019

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘‘Flood Hazard Risk Mapping in the Belsiri River Basin, Assam using GIS’ in the Second International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering (ICAEESE 2019), 2-3 November, 2019, held at Gauhati University, Assam, India, 2019

PAPER PRESENTED IN NATIONAL SEMINARS

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘ History of sikh people in the rural areas of Nagaon District of Assam’ in the UGC sponsored national seminar on ‘ Writtings of regional history of North Eeast India with special references to polity, society and economy’ held on 26th & 27th june, 2015 at Mayong Anchalik College, Rajamayang, Morogaon, Assam, 2015

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘ A geoinformatics based analysis of watershed delineation & some aspects of morphometry of Belsiri River, Assam, India’ in the UGC sponsored national seminar on ‘Environment and development’ held on 15th & 16th September , 2015 at Sonapur College, Sonapur, Assam, 2015

  • Presented a paper on ‘ Estimation of soil loss sensitivity in the Belsiri river basin using Universal soil loss equation in GIS’ in the 28th IGI conference and national seminar on ‘Human impact on Landscapes’ held at the Department of Geography, North Eastern hill university during 29-31st October,2015, 2015

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘ Flood inundation mapping in Belsiri River basin using HEC-RAS and HEC-GeoRAS’ in the 29th IGI conference, held at Kolkata from 24 to 27 November,2016, 2016

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘A study on Magnitude of Bank Erosion of Belsiri River, Assam,India’ in the ICSSR sponsored national seminar on ‘Transformation of Rural India: Challenges towards Sustainibility’ held on 29th &30th March,2019 at Sonapur College, Sonapur, Assam, organized by Department of Geography, Sonapur College, 2019

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘Species Distribution Modelling of Ploceus philippinus (Baya Weaver) in Nagaon and Hojai Districts of Assam: a zoogeographical analysis’ held on 14th & 30th October, 2022 at Nowgong Girls’ College, Nagaon, Assam, organised by the Department of Geography in association with IQAC & Research Cell, Nowgong Girls’ College, Nagaon, Assam, 2022

PAPER PRESENTED IN REGIONAL SEMINARS

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘ Application of geoinformatics in studying the brick industry in the Sonapur area of Kamrup Metropolitan District, Assam.’ in the annual academic session of the North East India Geographical Society organized by the Department of Geography, Goalpara College, Goalpara on January 19, 2013, 2013

  • Attended the 27th biennial conference of North East India Geographical Society held at Kokrajhar Government College, Kokrajhar on January 22-23, 2014 and presented a paper entitled ‘Some aspects of flow behavior of the Belsiri River, Assam’, 2014

  • Presented a paper entitled ‘ Flood inundation mapping in Belsiri River basin using HEC-RAS and HEC-GeoRAS’ in the 28th Biennial Conference of North East India Geographical Society (NEIGS) organized by the Department of Geography, Goalpara College, Goalpara, Assam on January 24-25, 2016, 2016

PARTICIPATED IN WORKSHOPS

  • Attended and participated in the Interactive Workshop on Climate Change and Livelihood Related Issues in the Context of Assam, held at the Biotechnology Gallery, Gauhati University on 8th March, 2014, 2014

  • Attended and participated in the workshop on ‘Assam College management rules’ and ‘UGC regulations’ organized by Pandu college teacher’s unit, held on 30th june 2015 at Pandu College, Guwahati, 2015

  • Attended and participated in the State level Workshop organized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Morigaon College on ‘Revised Process of Assessment and Accrediation of NAAC held on 9th June, 2018, 2018

  • Completed a Workshop on ‘Data Analysis in Geographical studies using R and MS-Excel’ organized by North East India Geographical Society in association with Department of Geography, Gauhati University during july 9-16, 2020, 2020

INVITED LECTURES

  • Attended and contributed as a resource person in the one day Workshop on Q-GIS organized by Department of Civil Engineering, School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University, Azara Campus, Guwahati on 21st July 2017, 2017

  • Attended and contributed as a resource person in International Workshop on ‘Application of Remote Sensing & GIS’ organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, ADP College, Nagaon, Assam, from 26th December 2019 to 1st January, 2020, 2020

  • Attended and deliver a lecture on “Application of linear Bi-Variate correlation and regression analysis in Geographical Studies” organized by Department of Geography, Dr. B.K.B College, Puranigudam, Nagaon, Assam, 19th March 2021, 2021

  • Attended and contributed as a resource person in the Five days workshop on ‘Quantitative Techniques in Geographical Research’ organized by Department of Geography in collaboration with IQAC Nowgong Girls’ College, Nagaon, Assam from 20th to 25th January, 2022, 2022

  • Invited for conducting some special classes on the topics Remote Sensing and GIS for 4th semester PG and 6th semester UG students on 23-05-22 in the Department of Geography, Morigaon College, Morigaon, Assam, India, 2022

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 3 month 19 days teaching experience in in UG course in Sonapur College, as a part time lecturer in the Department of Geography, Sonapur College, Sonapur, Assam

  • One year teaching experience in UG course in Pandu College as a part time lecturer in the Department of Geography, Pandu College, Pandu

  • One year teaching experience in both UG and PG courses in Morigaon College, Morigaon as assistant professor (Contractual) in the Department of Geography, Morigaon College, Morigaon, Assam

  • One year Eight months and 16 days teaching experience in both UG and PG courses as assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Gossaigaon College, Gossaigaon, Assam (26 jun 2018 to 12 Mars 2020)

  • 2 Years 8 months teaching experience in UG course as assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Nowgong Girls’ College, Nagaon, Assam (From 13th March 2020 to present)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (2015)

LIFE MEMBERSHIPS

  • A permanent Member of North East India Geographical Society (NEIGS), Gauhati University

  • North East India Council for Social Science Research (NEICSSR), Shillong