Development of a GIS-based database on some eco-sensitive                  parameters of Chilka lagoon (A Ramsar site), East Coast of India               ( Under MMDP)

   

Principal Investigator: Research Coordinator, OSTC,  Berhampur University, Berhampur-7,

                                       Orissa, India

Sanctioned cost:           INR 359200

Man Power:                  1 Research Associate

Tenure:                         2 years

 

Objectives:

  1. Identify and delineate  all the major geomorphic units in the first category like the coastal plains, alluvial plains, hills, pediments etc as deciphered from the toposheet,

  2. Identify and delineate subgeomorphic units under each major  units such as old and new alluvial plains, palaeochannels under the Alluvial plains category, old and new coastal plains, beach, beach ridge, strand line, dunes etc. under coastal plains category, denudational hills, residual hills under hill category, shallow and deep buried pediments, piedmonts, valley fills under pediment category and other smaller geomorphic units,

 

Benefits:

  1. Temporal thematic information on Geomorphology of the lake system provides sufficient information on the changing pattern with respect to time of various landforms such as the sand bars that separate the lagoon from sea, the dynamics of mouth, appearance and disappearance of islands within the lagoon etc.

  2. The land use pattern of a particular region is closely correlated with the geomorphology of that area. In this connection, land use is also affected due to change in the geomorphology. Therefore a future land use of  a particular area can be predicted just by observing the change in geomorphology. Thus it helps in decision-making.

  3. It helps in building a database on various themes.

 

Publications:

  1. Tripathy, J.K. and Sahu, K.C., 2003;  Study on the relation of geomorphology to the groundwater hydrochemistry in the southern coastal aquifers of Chilka lagoon, East coast of India,  to be published in the proceedings of  Indian Geological Congress

  2. Dash, S.K., Tripathy, J.K, and Nayak, M.M., 2003; Ambient Air Quality  At a Mine Site In Joda-Barbil Mineral Belt In  Orissa : A Case Study; Pollution Research 22(2), 265-267.

  3. Tripathy, J.K.,  2003;Groundwater Hydrochemistry in and around Bhanja Bihar; Pollution Research 22(2), 185-188.