Dr. Syed Hilal Farooq
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences
IIT-BBS Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
India
Biography
Education: Ph.D. Earth Sciences 2010 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Ph.D. Topic: Role of dissolved organic carbon in mobilization of arsenic from the sediments to groundwater, district Murshidabad, West Bengal (India). Institutes Involved: IIT Bombay (India) and KIT – Karlsruhe (Germany), through DAAD fellowship under “Sandwich model Ph.D. programmeâ€. Projects: i) Young Scientist Project: Lateral variability in the distribution of arsenic in agriculture fields and its mass balancing - a study from West Bengal (Sanctioned by D.S.T., Govt. of India). ii) International Collaborative Project: Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Groundwater-dependent Irrigation in Asia-Pacific Region (Submitted to Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Passed Ist Stage of Evaluation).
Research Interest
Hydro-geochemistry, Hydrology, Soil and Water Contamination, Environmental Impact Assessment
Publications
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A comparative study of the hydrogeochemistry of arsenic contaminated basins: Datong basin of PR China and Bengal basin of India and Bangladesh. International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering. 6(5), 1103-1110. (2013) Chandrasekharam, D., Farooq, S. H., Wang, Y., Chandrasekhar A.K., Xie, X. and Guo, Q.
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Surface Generated Organic Matter: An Important Driver for Arsenic Mobilization in Bengal Delta Plain, In Arsenic in Central Gangetic Plain (Eds.) H. Prommer, AL. Ramanathan, A. Mukharjee, B. Nath, Springer publication, pp. 179-196.(2015) Farooq S.H. and Chandrasekharam, D.
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Contamination and mobilization of arsenic in the soil and groundwater and its influence on the irrigated crops, Manipur Valley, India. Environmental Earth Science, 75:142, 1-15.(2016) Chandrashekhar A.K., Chandrasekharam, D., Farooq, S. H.,
