Urban Geology

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Dr Pradeep Bhaskarrao Jadhav has thirty-four years experience of quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in petroleum engineering and civil engineering, and as an invited visiting faculty at Fergusson college for M. Sc course in Geology. He supervised two students for doctoral work in areas of engineering geology and petroleum fiscal system. He completed six research projects including a project “Environmental Impact Assessment/Audit of Recent Construction Activities, Pune, based on Remote Sensing and GIS” to understand impact of built environment on natural environment using spatio-temporal analysis. Another research project ”Paleoseismology” funded by Department of Science and Technology, DST, India helped to recognize signatures of historic earthquakes preserved in soft sediments in different parts of Maharashtra. He alongwith other authors also also prepared a field manual for the BCUD –University of Pune sponsored state level workshop on “Modern Trends in Engineering Geology”, (with Prof. L. K. Kshirsagar, Dr. R A Joshi), 22 pp. He also provided consultancy on the feasibility of tunnels in N Karnataka, and problems in Lalsot a tunnel Rajasthan.