Personal Information

 Assistant Professor

Department of

Faculty of Maritime Studies - Hydrographic Surveying

Contact Information

Phone: 6990978 Ext. 154

Email: svidyanandan@kau.edu.sa

Dr. V.R. SHAMJI

 Assistant Professor

Profile

Research and Academic experience of over Nine years in the field of Earth Sciences. I have developed substantial knowledge and aptitude on the preparation of multidisciplinary programme and report works. The said works enabled me for organizing, planning, designing, implementing and reporting many of the project related programmes.

Extensive Hydrographic survey (single and Multibeam) Indian coast and Red sea coast  using CEEDUCER PRO, ODOM, BATHY 500,   etc. Experience in Hypack V6.2A Gold Software and Hydro survey advanced software. Experience in Deployment of Oceanographic instruments like ADCP, ADP (wave and current metres), FSI, S4, RCM (current meter), Vale pot (Tide and Wave gauge) in the offshore, near shore. Real Time Kinematic – GPS (RTK-GPS) survey. Real time data quality analysis from Buoy data in all over Indian Ocean. Participatied Indian Ocean cruise programme for deployment of met-ocean data buoys, Tsunami buoys, CTD survey

Education

  • 2011

    Doctorate degree from Cochin University of Science and TechnologyCochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, الهــــــند

Employment

  • 2005-2011

    Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Earth Science Studies, Trivandrum, الهــــــند

  • 2011-2012

    Project Scientist, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, الهــــــند

Research Interests

Interested in Near shore Hydrodynamic modelling, Tide Modelling, Hydrographic data processing andanalysis etc.


Scientific interests

I believe teaching is an integral part of an academic career and I have experience in teaching marine science related courses like hydrography, oceanography, underwater positioning, etc. for the intellectual development of my students to the best of my abilities.

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Areas of expertise