Dr. Vara Saritha, M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D., is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Life Science, Environmental Science Division, GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. She has 20 years of teaching and research experience. Specializations of the author include environmental planning and sustainable development, addressing challenges of potable water, and remote sensing technology. The author has published 80 research papers and is also active in addressing issues of public and occupational health and corrosion studies. She authored 4 textbooks. She has presented around 50 research papers in several national and international seminars and conferences. She has completed 3 research projects funded by University Grants Commission, Department of Science and Technology and GITAM. Three students have been awarded Ph.D. under her guidance and currently she is mentoring 4 students. She is Reviewer to 12 international journals in the field of environmental science. Dr. Chaitanya Baliram Pande completed his Ph.D. in environment science at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India, and an M.Sc. in geoinformatics at Amravati University in 2011. He has more than 13+ years of teaching, research, and industry experience. He is included in the 2% Stanford scientist list, 2024. He is Reviewer for several scientific journals of international repute, and he is Editorial Board Member in the American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. He has published 120+ research papers, 2 textbooks, 10 edited books, 19 conference papers, and 25+ book chapters. Altogether, they have received more than 4761 citations as per Google Scholar. His research interests include remote sensing, GIS, air pollution, Google Earth Engine, machine learning, watershed management, hydrogeology, hydrological modeling, drought monitoring, land use and land cover analysis, groundwater quality, urban planning, hydro-geochemistry, groundwater modeling, geology, and hyperspectral remote sensing. Mr. Raj Singh, M.Sc., PGD, is Research Scholar in the Department of Environmental Science GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He served as Assistant Professor at Dr. K. N. Modi University, Newai, Rajasthan, and Tula’s Institute, Dehradun, India. He is Alumnus of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Department of Space, Gov. of India, and also worked on a France-funded IDDRI project at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Campus, Goa, India. He is Active Member of Wetland International, Wageningen, Netherlands, and the British Ecological Society London, UK. His expertise is in space science, environmental science, wetland ecology, remote sensing, and GIS. He has published over 20 scientific articles in reputed national and international peer-reviewed journals, review, book chapters, presented 6 papers at international conferences, and edited 3 books with Jenny Stanford and Springer Nature publisher. Dr. Mohammad Shahid, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, India. He earned his master's in chemistry from Shibli National College, Azamgarh (2006), and Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2014). He pursued postdoctoral research at Soochow University, China, the University of Glasgow, UK (Marie Curie Fellow), and the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (Dr. DS Kothari Fellow). He also served as Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Science at Dr. K N Modi University and the Department of Chemistry at Mewar University, Rajasthan. Dr. Shahid has received several prestigious fellowships to support his research pursuits, including grants from UGC, India, China Postdoctoral Fellowship, EU Marie Curie Fellowship, and Dr. D. S. Kothari Fellowship. He has contributed to over 50 scientific publications with ~4000 citations and h-index of 24.
