DR. PRASANTA K.

PATRO
CSIR-NGRI, HYDERABAD, INDIA
http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=bZEvoE8AAAAJ

NGRI RESEARCH GROUP:

Magnetotellurics
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION:

Passive Electromagnetics, Geodynamics

EDUCATION:
2002
1995
1993

Ph.D. Geophysics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

M.Sc. Marine Geophysics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
B.Sc. Physics, Berhampur University, Odisha, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
07/0907/05-07/09
07/01-07/05
07/98-07/01

Principal Scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

Senior Scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
Scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
Junior Scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

VISITING POSITIONS:
09/08 8/10
03/0707/08
04/0304/05

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

Postdoctoral Fellow at Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA.
BOYSCAST Fellow at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Faculty member in the AcSIR.
SERVICE:
Life Member in the Indian Geophysical Union, India.
Life Member in the Association of Exploration Geoscientists, India.
Life Member in the Indian Science Congress Association, India.
Life Member in the Society of Petroleum Geophysicists, India.
Member in the American Geophysical Union, USA.
Associate Member in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, USA.
Member in the Japan Geoscience Union, Japan.
Member in the European Geoscience Union, Europe.

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Current NGRI Committees:

Member, IT committee, 2012-2014.
Past NGRI Committees:
Member, Library committee 2011
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Dr. M. S. Krishnan Gold Medal from Indian Geophysical Union for the year 2011.
PH.D. ADVISOR:
SCIENTISTS WITH WHOM I HAVE COLLABORATED (OUTSIDE NGRI):
Current
Makoto Uyeshima, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Past
Gary Egbert, Oregon State University, USA.
Adam Schultz, Oregon State University, USA.
Heinrich Brasse, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany.
NGRI Collaborators (present and past):
Not applicable
PATENT
Not applicable
PUBLICATIONS
Books: NA
Book Chapters: NA
Book Reviews: NA
Review or non-technical Article: NA
Peer-reviewed Journal Publications:
International Journals
1.

Naidu, G. D., Manoj, C., Patro, P. K., Sreedhar, S. V., Harinarayana, T., Deep electrical
signatures across the Achankovil shear zone, Southern Granulite Terrain inferred from
magnetotellurics, Gondwana Research, 20, 405-426, 2011.

2.

Patro, P. K. and Egbert, G. D., Application of 3D inversion to magnetotelluric profile data from
the Deccan Volcanic Province of Western India, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors,
187, 33-46, 2011.

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3.

Uyeshima, M., Yamaguchi, S., Patro, P. K., Ogawa, T., Kato, A., Hasegawa, K., Ueda, T.,
Aizawa, K., Hase, H., Wideband MT survey in Aridagawa nonvolcanic earthquake swarm area
in NW Kii Peninsula, CA Proceedings, JAPAN, 2010

4.

Patro, P. K. and Sarma, S. V. S., Lithospheric electrical imaging of the Deccan trap covered
region of western India, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B01102,
doi:10.1029/2007JB005572, 2009

5.

Patro, P. K. and Harinarayana, T., Deep geoelectric structure of the Sikkim Himalayas (NE
India) using magnetotelluric studies, Phys. Earth Planet Inter., 173, 171-176,
doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2008.10.011, 2009.

6.

Patro, P. K. and Egbert, G. D., Regional conductivity structure of Cascadia: Preliminary results
from 3D inversion of USArray transportable array magnetotelluric data, Geophysical Research
Letters, 35, L20311, doi:10.1029/2008GL035326, 2008.

7.

Harinarayana, T., Patro, B. P. K., Veeraswamy, K., Manoj, C., Naganjaneyulu, K., Murthy, D.
N., Virupakshi, G., Regional Geoelectric Structure Beneath Deccan Volcanic Province of The
Indian Subcontinent Using Magnetotellurics, Tectonophysics, 445, 66-80, 2007.

8.

Patro, B. P. K. and Sarma, S. V. S., Trap thickness and the subtrappean structures related to
mode of eruption in the Deccan plateau of India: results from magnetotellurics, Earth Planet
Space, 59, 75-81, 2007.

9.

Harinarayana, T., Naganjaneyulu, K. and Patro, B. P. K., Detection of a collision zone in South
Indian Shield region from magnetotelluric studies, Gondwana Research, 10, 48-56, 2006.

10.

Patro, B.P.K., Brasse, H., Sarma, S.V.S. and Harinarayana, T., Electrical structure of the crust
below the Deccan Flood Basalts (India), inferred from magnetotelluric soundings, Geophysical
Journal International, 163, 931-943, 2005.

11.

Patro, B.P.K., Harinarayana, T., Sastry, R. S., Rao, M., Manoj, C., Naganjaneyulu, K. and
Sarma, S.V.S., Electrical imaging of Narmada-Son Lineament Zone, Central India from
magnetotellurics, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 148, 215-232, 2005.

12.

Sarma, S. V. S., Patro, B. P. K., Harinarayana, T., Veeraswamy, K., Sastry, R. S., and Sarma, M.
V.C., A magnetotelluric (MT) study across the Koyna seismic zone, Western India: Evidence for
block structure, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 142, 23-36, 2004.

13.

Patro, B.P.K., Brasse, H., Sarma, S.V.S. and Harinarayana, T., Electrical characterization of the
crust in the Deccan Trap region, India., Protokoll ueber das kolloquium elektromagnetisce
Tiefenforschung, 20. Kolloquium: Koenigstein, 29.09.-3.10.2003, ISSN 0946-7467, 2003.

Indian Journals
14.

Patro, B.P.K., Nagarajan, N. and Sarma, S.V.S., Crustal geoelectric structure and the focal
depths of major stable continental region (SCR) earthquakes in India, Current Science , 90, 1,
107-113, 2006.

15.

Harinarayana T., Naganjaneyulu K., Manoj C., Patro, B. P. K., Kareemunnisa Begum S., Murty
D.N., Madhusudan Rao, Kumaraswamy V.T.C. and Virupakshi G., Magnetoteluric investigations
along Kuppam-Palani Geotransect, South India 2D Modeling Results, Mem. Geol. Soc. Ind., 50,
107-124, 2003.

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16.

Harinarayana T., Nagarajan N., Patro, B. P. K., Kareemunisha Begum, S., Manoj C., Lingaiah A.
and Sarma, S.V.S., A wideband Magnetotelluric study in the Chamoli earthquake region,
Uttaranchal India: Preliminary results, Himalayan Geology, 23(1&2), 153-162, 2002.

17.

Patro, B. P. K., A Magnetotelluric study of crustal geoelectric structure in western India in

relation to seismotectonics of the Deccan Trap region, Ph.D. Thesis, Osmania University,
Hyderabad, India, 2002.

Expanded Abstracts:
1.

Patro, P. K., Application of magnetotellurics in the basalt regions of India for hydrocarbon
exploration, Abstract No: P II-9 (paper ID 107), The 9th SEGJ International symposium, Sapporo,
Japan, 12-14 October, 2009.

2.

Patro, P. K. and Egbert, G., Regional conductivity structure of Cascadia: preliminary results from
3D inversion of USArray transportable array magnetotelluric, IAGA WG 1.2 on Electromagnetic
Induction in the Earth, Extended Abstract, 19th Workshop at Beijing, China, October 23-29,
2008.
Patro, B.P.K., Sarma, S. V. S. and Brasse, H., Phase tensor and phase sensitive strike analysis of
MT data from Deccan trap area an evaluation, 31st Annual Convention and 3rd International
seminar and Exhibition on Exploration Geophysics, Hyderabad, India, 6-12 Nov., 2006.

3.

4.

Patro, B.P.K. and Sarma, S.V.S., Thickness and Resistivity variations of the Deccan traps in the
Indian Peninsular shieldsome results from magnetotellurics , AEG 2005, Pune from 16-19
Nov., 2005.

5.

Patro, B.P.K., Brasse, H., Sarma, S.V.S., Harinarayana, T., 2003. Electrical characterization of
the crust in the Deccan trap region, India, presented in Central European EMTF Kolloquium held
at Konigstain, Germany from 29-9-03 to 3-10-03.

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SUMMARY OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES:

CURRENT STUDENTS
Gautam Singh, 3rd Year M.Tech.(Applied Geophysics), 2012, Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra
University, Haryana, India.
Sandeep, 3rd Year M.Tech.(Applied Geophysics), 2012, Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra
University, Haryana, India.
PAST STUDENTS
Konda Shankaraiah, Project Fellow, May, 2011- April, 2012
Ankit Kumar Gupta, M.Sc (Tech), Final year, 2010, ISM Dhanbad, India
POST-DOCTORAL AND VISITING SCIENTISTS SPONSORED
NA
EXTERNAL PROJECTS AS PL/CO-PL (PRESENT AND PAST)

Funding Agency

Project/Investigators

MOES

Deep electrical structurein the Sikkim

Himalayan region after 2006 earthquake
of magnitude 5.3
P. L. P. K. Patro

MOES

Geophysical and Seismological studies in

Koyna-Warna region
P.L: N. Purnachandra Rao
P.I. for MT component: P.K.Patro

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Amount

Period

Rs.
6,44,000

May, 2011- May,

2012

Rs.

April, 2012 April,

2014

34,36,90,
000