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Prof. Surabhi Mehrotra

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U.G

Environment and Ecology (ARC 1105)

GIS for Planning (PLN 326)

Environment Impact Assessment (PLN  434 )

Settlement Geography (PLN  213 )

Urban Landscape (Elective) (ARC 538)

Zonal Plan (Area Planning) (Studio) (PLN 311 )

Introduction to Regional Planning (PLN  411 )

Neighborhood Planning (Studio) (PLN 211 )

Environment, Ecology and Resource Management (PLN 225)

Basic Design (PLN 104)

Ecology, Environment and Resource Management (PLN 224)

P.G

Application of GIS in Planning, Geoinformatics ( 556 )

Research Methodology – II (ARP 812)

Organization

Start Date

End Date

Designation

Nature of Work

CUSE, IIT Bombay

1-01-2014

30-07-2018

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant during PhD

MANIT Bhopal

8-01-2019

ongoing

Assistant Professor

.  Teaching, Research and Administrative work 

Name of the Student

Topic

Year of Award

Co-Supervisor (if any)

Nirupam Das (Ongoing)

Urban wetland protection framework for resilient planning

ongoing

-

Rakesh Mistry (Ongoing)

Thermal variability in urban residential neighborhood: a parametric study in composite climate

ongoing

-

Akanksha Shrivastava (Ongoing)

Recreational open space opportunities for adolescents and its association to their health

ongoing

-

Title

Sponsoring Agency

Duration

Amount

Co-PI (if any)

Ensuring Livelihood security through resource optimization model for Tribal Areas of MP” ICSSR Major Project 2023 - 2025 Govt of India (ongoing)

ICSSR

 24 months

12 lakhs

Alka Bharat

 

Yogesh Garg

Resilient Infrastructure Planning for Fragile Socio-Ecological System of Wetlands

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

12 months

    (2023 – 2024)

1500 USD

(~12 lakhs)

Lal Bihari Singha

, Manipur University

GoAL: Gender oriented Adaptive Transformation Cross-Learning for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Resilience Asia Pacific Network (APN) 24 months 5 Lakh

PI - Harshit Lakra, IIT Roorkee

“Calibrating urban liveability in the Global South: Gendered perspectives on climate, health, governance and policy” USF -Seminar Series Award, 2023-2024 (ongoing)

Urban Studies Foundation (USF)

12 months

(2023 – 2024)

£ 15,683 GBP

(~13 lakhs)

 

 

 

Divya Subramanian and Sneha Krishnan

(ETCH)

Chappan Dukan and Carbon Credit Project under Smart Cities and Academia towards Action and Research (SAAR) Project

Project funded by National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)

4 months

1 lakh-

Preeti Onkar

Yogesh Garg

Rahul Tiwari

Amrit Sarovar Mission project on Karan Sagar Talaab, Datia, M.P. by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)

2 months

2 lakhs

-

Data driven Thermal Sensing of urban neighbourhoods: A study of Bhopal

 

Ministry of Education

2 years

Seed Funding

-

Travel route plan using Spatial analytics during COVID 19, 2021,

NITSER research on COVID

1 year

 

Yogesh Garg

Slum Vulnerability to COVID 19, 2021, NITSER project

NITSER research on COVID

1 year

 

Neha Pranav Kolhe

Title

Sponsoring Agency

Duration

Amount

Co-Investigator                       (if any)

Vetting of Bhopal Development Plan 2031, 2020

Town and Country Planning

1 year

1.7

K K Dhote and Preeti Onkar

Industry consultancy projects are detailed in biodata

Authors

Title

Journal

VOL. NO.,

PAGE NO

YEAR

SCI/

Scopus

IMPACT FACTOR

N Das, & Mehrotra, S.

Impact of Urban Expansion on Wetlands: A Case Study of Bhoj Wetland, India

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

1-18

2023

SCI

WoS- 1.6

Scopus- 2.27

 

K Barpete & Mehrotra S

Climate-Informed Planning through Mapping of Urban Thermal Load and Cooling Potential: Case of Tropical City of Bhopal,

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

1-17

2023

SCI

WoS- 1.6

Scopus- 2.27

 

R Mistry & Mehrotra S

Spatio-temporal Variation of the Daytime Surface Temperature in Local Climate Zones, Forming Cool Island in Bhopal,

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

1-19

2023

SCI

WoS- 1.6

Scopus- 2.27

 

 Shrivastava, A., & Mehrotra, S.

 Emerging trends and knowledge domain of research on urban green open spaces and wellbeing: A scientometric review.

Reviews on Environmental Health.

online

2022

SCI

3.9

Mehrotra S, D Subramanian, R Bardhan, A Jana.

Effect of surface treatment and built form on thermal profile of open spaces: A case of Mumbai, India ,

Urban Climate

35, 100736

2021

SCI

6.4

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., &Ramamritham, K.

Diurnal thermal diversity in heterogeneous built area: Mumbai, India.

 

Urban Climate

32, 100627.

2020

SCI

6.4

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity: a geographically weighted regression approach.

 

Area Development and Policy

https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2019.1609368

2019

Scopus

 

 Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.,

Outdoor thermal performance of heterogeneous urban environment: An indicator-based approach for climate-sensitive planning,

Science of the Total Environment

669, 872-886

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.152

2019

SCI

9.8

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Urban Informal Housing and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity: Exploring Spatial Association in the City of Mumbai.

Journal of Environment and Urbanisation

Asia Journal DOI: 10.1177/0975425318783548, 534-538

Volume 9 Issue 2.

Sept 2018

Scopus

 

Mehrotra S, H Kumar, K Ramamritham,

Want to Reduce Energy Consumption, Which Floor Should I Prefer?,

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy

Page no 534- 538,

June 2020

Scopus

0.209

Mehrotra, S., Mammen, P. M., Ramamritham, K., & Bardhan R.

Data-Driven Monitoring of Thermal Profile : Towards Sustainable Urban Habitats. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287098.3287133

In ACM-ICTD’ 19, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Ahmedabad, India: ACM.

(pp. 1–5).

Jan 2019

Scopus

0.5

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Built Form Determinants of Urban Land Surface Temperature: A Case of Mumbai, Sustainable Built Environment DOI 10.3218/3774-6_13

Conference: Expanding Boundaries, Systems Thinking in the Built Environment, 13-17 June 2016, Zurich, Switzerland.

Proceedings

2016

Scopus

 

Nirupam Das & Surabhi Mehrotra

 

Wetlands in Urban Contexts: A Case of Bhoj Wetland

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS 2021

IEEE Xplore

Digital Library

 11th – 16th July 2021

Scopus

 

Harikesh Devgan & Surabhi Mehrotra

Impervious Land Cover Pattern and Its Impact on Urban Water Logging: Case of New Delhi, India

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS 2021

IEEE Xplore

 

Digital Library

11th – 16th July 2021

Scopus

 

Rakesh Mistry, Surabhi Mehrotra

Assessment of thermal comfort using WBGT index in the Neighborhoods of Bhopal city

International Conference of Recent Trends in Applied Sciences and Computing Engineering, RTASCE-2021

 Proceedings

December 2021

 

 

Aditi Parihar, Surabhi Mehrotra and Neha P Kolhe

Measuring Change In Ecological Footprint Due To Covid 19: An Analysis Of Five Cities Of India

International Conference of Recent Trends in Applied Sciences and Computing Engineering, RTASCE-2021

Proceedings

December 2021

 

 

Rakesh Mistry, Surabhi Mehrotra

Spatio-temporal variation of the daytime surface temperature across different land cover in Bhopal city

International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, (ICESE) 2022

Proceedings

January 2022

 

 

Surabhi Mehrotra and Swati Singh

Assessment of air pollution levels using geospatial techniques for suggesting mitigating measures: case of Kanpur city

International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, (ICESE) 2022

Proceedings

January 2022

 

 

Madav R, Kulkarni Y and Mehrotra S

City Biodiversity Index for an Indian City- A case study, Mumbai, India

3rd International Conference of Urban Biodiversity and Climate Change, URBIO

Proceedings

2012

-

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Mehrotra, S., Bardhan, R., & Ramamritham, K.

Heat stress and urbanisation pattern in Megacity Mumbai: Towards climate – resilient urban policies.

In 4th World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM2019). Mumbai, India. 29th January - 1st February 2019

Proceedings

2019

 

 

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Built Form Determinants of Urban Land Surface Temperature: A Case of Mumbai, Sustainable Built Environment DOI 10.3218/3774-6_13

Conference: Expanding Boundaries, Systems Thinking in the Built Environment, 13-17 June 2016, Zurich, Switzerland.

Proceedings

2016

 

 

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Simulation of surface temperature across varied urban built forms: A case of megacity Mumbai.

Distributed and Embedded High-Performance Computing (de-HPC) symposium, June 1-4, 2016, IIT Bombay

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2016

 

 

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Evaluating thermal profile of urban informal housing through spatial analysis: A case of Mumbai.

Paper presented in 12th Regional Science World Congress, 2018, Goa

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2018

-

-

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Investigation of Intra-Urban Thermal Profile at Neighbourhood Level: A case of Mumbai

10th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC10), August 6th - 10th 2018, in New York City, USA.

Online Proceedings

2018

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-

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K., Kshetrimayum B

Imprints of urban development pattern on its thermal environment in the megacity Mumbai,

Urban Transitions, Elsevier, Spain, November 2018.

-

2018

-

-

Mehrotra, S., Bardhan R., Ramamritham K.

Data-driven monitoring of intra-intra-urban thermal Variations. “

IEEE conference, Mumbai IIT Mumbai, Dec 2018 on “Thinking machines in physical system”

-

2018

-

-

Lulwa Ali, Karnoor A Dhaulath, A El Sammak, Mehrotra, S.

Integrated and Cumulative Environmental Assessment of the coastal area, South of Ras az Zour, Kuwait,

4th Euro-Arab environmental conference and 1st International Remote Sensing conference, Kuwait 2005.

Proceedings

2005

 

 

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