Economic Geology, Mineral Exploration, Environmental Geology, Mapping

Current Academic Profile                                                      

Member of faculty, since 2003, in the Department of Geology at Cotton University, Guwahati, a premier institution of higher education in NE India. Work profile involves teaching and academic research. Teaching UG and PG courses in Environmental Geology, Economic Geology, Mineral Exploration, Mapping of Natural Resources since 2003. Research interests include Numerical Modelling of Landslide Processes, Machine Learning & GIS Applications in Landslide Susceptibility Modeling, Geostatistical Ore Body Evaluation, Machine Learning in Mineral Exploration.

Previous Industry Profile

Represented ROLTA INDIA LIMITED, from 2000 to 2003, in the capacity of Product Executive (Mapping/GIS), for providing onsite technical operations support to Imagery Interpretation Teams under the Directorate of Military Intelligence of the Indian Army for mobile and static Photogrammetry units integrated with GIS. These systems, for command and truck-mounted units for mobile formations, are used to create high-resolution 3-D Digital Terrain Models (0.156 × 0.156 m per pixel) from softcopy stereo photos/imageries of the ground collected from spy satellites, drones and low-flying aircraft. Aerial photos and high-resolution satellite imageries are draped over Digital Terrain Models for database creation in GIS to generate a digital library of military targets. Viewshed analysis, line-of-sight analysis, on-screen surveying/mapping play a key role in mission planning, logistics management and acquiring precise spot height information for targeting.

1. Dutta PJ, Sarma S, Laskar JJ (2017) Predicting the Spatial Distribution of Rain-Induced Shallow Landslides by applying GIS and Geocomputational Techniques: A Case Study from North East India. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication (ISSN: 2321-8169), 2017, Vol. 5, Issue 5, pp. 1306–1319.

2. Sarma S, Dutta PJ, Borgohain R (2017) Susceptibility Assessment of Rainfall-induced Shallow Landslides using a GISsupported Deterministic Analysis – A Pilot Study. International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS (ISSN: 2320 – 0243), 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1, pp. 2281- 2291.

3. Persichillo MG, Dutta PJ, Bordoni M, Meisina C, Bartelletti C, Barsanti M, Giannecchini R, Avanzi GD, Galanti Y, Cevasco A (2016) Nonlinear regression technique to assess the landslide susceptibility of the Kalapahar hill, Guwahati, Assam State (India). Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana (ISSN:2035-8008), 2016, Vol. 41, pp. 179-182.

Dutta PJ (2015) Assessment of groundwater potential in a part of the Vedganga watershed of Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, by a GIS-based Bivariate statistical method. International Journal of Advancement in Earth & Environmental Sciences (ISSN: 2321 – 9149), 2015, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 22-29.

Dutta PJ, Sarma S (2013) Landslide Susceptibility Zoning of the Kalapahar Hill, Guwahati, Assam State, (India), using a GIS-Based Heuristic Technique. International Journal of Remote Sensing & Geoscience (ISSN: 2319-3484), 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp. 49 – 55.

Accredited with “Top Performing Mentor” in India for January-June 2022 session by NPTEL for mentoring an M.Sc. 2nd Semester batch (2022) of students for a massive open online course (MOOC) entitled “Mineral Resources: Geology, Exploration, Economics, and Environment.”

Association with Professional Bodies:

1. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) AAAS Member Number: 41761151

Any other information:

1. Reviewer for the "Journal of Earth System Science" of Indian Academy of Sciences

2. Reviewer for the journal "Landslides" published by Springer