Research Summary

Smriti has a master’s degree in Geoinformatics, but her PhD work is about glacier mass balance and catchment hydrology using temperature index and energy balance models. She is an active member of research field expeditions on Chhota Shigri and Durung Drung glaciers in Indian Himalaya. She is working as a post-doc at the University of Utah. She is probably the only female Indian scientist having strong skills in remote sensing, modelling and field glaciology.

Education

• PhD, Water Resource Engineering, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India. Project: Glaciohydrology of Himalaya Karakoram : functioning of glacierized catchments in monsoon and alpine climatic regimes
• Integrated M.Tech in Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India