Umesh  Kulshrestha

Umesh  Kulshrestha
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre: 
School of Environmental Sciences
Room No: 
308
Off. Phone: 
011- 26704320
Residence: 
09810611857
Email: 
umesh@mail.jnu.ac.in ; umeshkulshrestha@gmail.com
Personal Webpage: 
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/umesh/cv.pdf
Qualifications: 

Ph D in Chemistry from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, INDIA.

Areas of Interest/Specialization: 

Chemistry and Climate Change, Atmospheric Dust, Air Pollution Transport and Chemical Transformations, PrecipitationChemistry, Reactive Nitrogen, Air Pollution Biomonitoring, Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Bioaerosols, Metal Aerosols, Carbonaceous aerosols, Holistic Environment. 

Experience: 

26 years

Awards & Honours: 
  • Fellow, Indian Geophysical Union.
  • Member, Environmental Pollution Control Authority ((EPCA).
  • Assessor, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
  • Member EIA Accreditation Committee, NABET (Quality Council of India).
  • Member, Advisory Committee of Knowledge and Awareness Mapping Platform [KAMP] – A Knowledge Alliance with CSIR-NISTADS.
  • Editor-in-chief, Current World Environment journal.
  • Deputy Director, South Asian Nitrogen Center.
  • LEAP  Trained Faculty under MHRD-Leadership for Academicians Programme
  • Vice President, Society for Conservation of Nature (SCON).
  • Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences.
  • Expert Reviewer of IPCC AR5 (WG1).
  • Member, Academic Committee, Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun.
  • Member, Academic Committee, Naval Academy (INA), Ezimala.
  • Member, Research Degree Committee, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
  • Member, Research Degree Committee Member, , DEI, Dayalbagh, Agra.
  • Member BoS, Studies, Department of Political and Social Sciences, DEI, Dayalbagh, Agra.
  • Ex-Member, Academic Committee, College of Military Engg., Pune.
  • Ex-Member, Academic Advisory Board, TERI.
  • Ex-Member, MHRD-GIAN, Sectional Committee for Earth & Environ. Sci.
  • Ex-Member, MHRD-GIAN, Sectional Committee for Inter-disciplinary Sciences.
  • Ex-Member of Expert committee of EPTRI on Andhra Pradesh Govt GO-111 regarding drinking water in Usman Sagar and Himayat Sagar (2007).
  • Ex-Member JNU Standing Committee on Defense Institutions (2012-14).
  • Ex-Director, Trans-disciplinary Research Cluster, JNU.
  • CSIR Young Scientist Award 2004 by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi.
  • M S Krishnan Gold Medal 2004 by Indian Geophysical Union (IGU).
  • Thomas Kuhn Honour Pin Award 2002 by The International Union of Air Pollution Prevention & Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) and the International Academy of Sciences.
  • International START Young Scientist Award 2000 by IGBP-START (System for Analysis, Research and Training for global change) Washington DC, USA.
  • IICT Gaurav Samman, 2005 Award by Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.
International Collaboration/Consultancy: 

GCRF-South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH)

International Nitrogen Management (INMS)

 

Final report of UGC project

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5): 

Wet Deposition and Long-range Transport of Major Ions Related to Snow at Northwestern Himalayas (India).
Anshu Sharma, U.C. Kulshrestha. 2020.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research 20 (5), 1249-1265.

 

Assessment of Atmospheric Emissions and Depositions of Major Nr Species in Indian Region
U Kulshrestha. 2017.
The Indian Nitrogen Assessment (Eds: YP Abrol et al.), 427-444 (Elsevier).

 

Importance of atmospheric dust in India: Future scope of research. 2015.
U Kulshrestha U and D Sharma.
J. Indian Geophysical Union, 19, 2, 205-209.

 

Spatial and temporal patterns of air pollutants in rural and urban areas of India
D Sharma, UC Kulshrestha. 2014.
Environmental pollution 195, 276-281.


Review of precipitation monitoring studies in India -a search for regional patterns. 
U C Kulshrestha, L. Granat, M. Engardt and H. Rodhe. 2005.
Atmospheric Environment, 39, 4419-4435.

Emissions and accumulation of metals in the atmosphere due to crackers & sparkles during Diwali festival in India. 
U C Kulshrestha, T Nageswara Rao, S Azhaguvel and Monika J Kulshrestha. 2004.
Atmospheric Environment, 38, 4421-4425.

Chemical characteristics of rain water at an urban site of south-central India. 
U C Kulshrestha, Monika J Kulshrestha, R Sekar, G S R Sastry and M Vairamani. 2003.
Atmospheric Environment, 37 (21), 3019-3026.

Estimation of SO4 contribution by dry deposition of SO2 onto the dust particles in India.
Monika J Kulshrestha,U C Kulshrestha, D C Parashar and M Vairamani. 2003.
Atmospheric Environment, 37 (22), 3057-3063. 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3): 

Extreme Air Pollution Events Spiking Ionic Levels at the Urban and Rural Sites of Indo-Gangetic Plain
M Mishra, UC Kulshrestha. 2020.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research 20 (5), 1266-1281.

 

PM 10 carbonaceous aerosols and their real-time wet scavenging during monsoon and non-monsoon seasons at Delhi, India.
S Sonwani, U C Kulshrestha. 2019.
Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 76, 171-200.

 

Wintertime distribution and atmospheric interactions of reactive nitrogen species along the urban transect of Delhi – NCR.
Reema Tiwari and Umesh Kulshrestha. 2019.
Atmospheric Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.04.007.

 

Trace ambient levels of particulate mercury and its sources at a rural site near Delhi.
A Kumari, U Kulshrestha. 2018.
Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 75 (4), 335-355.

 

Trace Ambient Levels of Particulate Mercury and Its Sources at a Rural Site Near Delhi. 
Anita Kumari and Umesh C Kulshrestha. 2018.

Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, DOI: 10.1007/s10874-018-9377-0.

 

An Overview of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Research: South Asian Perspective

M Naseem, UC Kulshrestha. 2017.

Current World Environment 14 (1), 10-26.

 

Wet deposition fluxes of atmospheric inorganic reactive nitrogen at an urban and rural site in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

Saumya Singh, Bablu Kumar, Anshu Sharma and U C Kulshrestha. 2017.

Atmospheric Pollution Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2016.12.021

 

Chemical Characteristics and Deposition Fluxes of Dust-Carbon Mixed Coarse Aerosols at Three Sites of Delhi, NCR.

Mishra M and Kulshrestha U. 2016.

J Atmospheric Chemistry, DOI:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10874-016-9349-1.

 

Status of Atmospheric Mercury Research in South Asia: A Review.
Anita Kumari, Bablu Kumar, Shabana Manzoor, Umesh Kulshrestha. 2014.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research, doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2014.05.0098.

 

Books:

  1. Umesh Kulshrestha (ed). 2017.
    `Air Pollution and Climate Change in South Asia: Issues, Impact and Initiatives.
    Athena Academic, London, UK, ISBN  9781910390344.

 

  1. YP Abrol TK Adhya VP Aneja, N Raghuram, H Pathak, U Kulshrestha, C Sharma and B Singh (Eds). 2017.
    The Indian Nitrogen Assessment.
    Elsevier, USA, ISBN: 9780128118368.

 

  1. Umesh Kulshrestha and Pallavi Saxena (Eds). 2016.
    `Plant Responses to Air Pollution’.
    Springer ISBN 978-981-10-1201-3.

 

  1. R Chandrappa and U C Kulshrestha. 2015.
    `Sustainable Air Pollution Management`.
    Springer ISBN_978-3-319-21595-2, e-ISBN_978-3-319-21596-9

 

  1. R Chandrappa, S Gupta and U C Kulshrestha. 2011.
    `Coping with Climate Change: Principles and Asian Context’
    Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-19674-4.