Milap Chand Sharma
Milap Chand Sharma
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
413, SSS-I
Off. Phone
011-26704690, 26704463
Residence
011-27641356
Email
milap[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in milapsharmain[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

M.A. M. Phil, Ph. D

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Glacial Geomorphology, Temporal Glacial Fluctuations, Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction, Glacial Chronology, Mass Movements and Earthquakes in the Himalayas. 

Experience

Undergraduate Teaching: 11 Years in Colleges in HP 

PG Teaching/supervision: 12 Years. 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

1. InterGIS and UniGIS with University of Salzburg, Austria.

2. Glaciation in Nanda Devi with University of Cincinnati, USA.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Landscape Modification and Geomorphological Consequences of the October 1991 Earthquake and the July-August 1992 Monsoon in the Garhwal Himalaya. Lewis A. Owen, Milap C. Sharma and Richard Bigwood; Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 103, pp 359-372 (1995).

2. “Quaternary Glacial History of NW Garhwal, Central Himalayas”. Milap C. Sharma and Lewis A. Owen; Quaternary Science Reviews, 15, pp 335-365 (1996).

3. Rates and Magnitude of Paraglacial Fan formation in the Garhwal Himalaya: Implication for Landscape Evolution. Lewis A. Owen and Milap C. Sharma; Geomorphology, 26/1-3, pp 171-184 (1998).

4. Cosmogenic Radio Nuclide Dating of Glacial Landforms in the Lahul Himalaya, Northern India: Defining Timing of Late Qauternary Glaciation. Lewis A. Owen, L. Gultieri, R.C. Finkel, M.W. Caffee, D.I.Benn and Milap C. Sharma; Journal of Quaternary Science, 16, pp 555-563 (2001).

5. Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Surface Exposure Dating of the Glacial Successions in the Himalayan Orogen: Ladakh Range, Northern India. Lewis A Owen, MW Caffee MW, KR Bovard KR, RC Finkel and Milap C. Sharma; Geological Survey of America Bulletin, 118, pp 383-392 (2006). 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. Spatial and temporal variability of sediment and dissolved loads from two Alpine watersheds of the Himalayas. Co-authors: Omvir Singh, A Sarangi and P Singh; Catena, 76, pp 27-35 (2008).

2. Assessment of Coastal Geomorphic Processes in Erasama Block, Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. Manoranjan Mishra and Milap C. Sharma; Journal of Geomatics, 3/2, pp 63-69 (2009).

3. Anthropogenic Impact on the Sediment flux in two Alpine Watersheds of the Lesser Himalayas. Co-authors: Omvir Singh, P Singh, A Sarangi, Milap C. Sharma and S Kumar: Current Science, 99/5, pp 608-618 (2010).