Dr. Kusham

Honors & Awards

• NPDF Fellowship (2020-2022), DST-SERB, Govt. of India 
• International Travel Grant (2019), DST-SERB, Govt. of India to attend 27^th IUGG General Assembly, Canada
• ONGC-IGU Best Poster Award- Indian Geophysical Union (IGU), 2012

Publications

• Pratap A., Pradeep Naick B., Kusham, Rama Rao, P., Naganjaneyulu K., 2023. The elusive crustal resistive boundary beneath the Deccan Volcanic Province and the western Dharwar craton, India. Geological Acta 2, 1-14. DOI: 10.1344/GeologicaActa2023.21.2
• Kusham, Pradeep Naick B., Pratap A., Naganjaneyulu K., 2021b. 2-D versus 3-D Magnetotelluric Data Interpretation: A case study from the Dharwar craton, India. Tectonophysics 816, 229028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229028 
• Kusham, Pradeep Naick B., Pratap A., Naganjaneyulu K., 2021a. Magnetotelluric 3-D full tensor inversion in the Dharwar craton, India: Mapping of subduction polarity and kimberlitic melt. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 315, 106708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106708 
• Kusham, Pratap A., Pradeep Naick B., Naganjaneyulu K., 2019. Crustal and lithospheric mantle conductivity structure in the Dharwar craton, India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 176, 253–263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.02.015 
• Kusham, Dinesh Kumar, 2019. The 2011 Sikkim earthquake (Mw 6.9) of the Himalaya: Estimates of earthquake source parameters and representability of attenuation characteristics. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 169, 237–243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.08.013 
• Kusham, Pratap A., Pradeep Naick B., Naganjaneyulu K., 2018. Lithospheric architecture in the Archaean Dharwar craton, India: A magnetotelluric model. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 163, 43–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.05.022 
• Pratap A., Kusham, Pradeep Naick B., Naganjaneyulu K., 2018. A magnetotelluric study from over Dharwar cratonic nucleus into Billigiri Rangan charnockitic massif, India. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 280, 32–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2018.04.008 

Books

Research Scholars

• National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2020-2022), Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand
• Ph.D. Geophysics (2016-2021), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., M.Tech., B.SC.

Proffessional Experience

Scientist, CSIR-NGRI, 2022-present

N-PDF, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, 2020-2022

Research Scholar, CSIR-NGRI, 2014-2020

Proffessional Affiliations