Disaster Management

Harsh K Gupta, an eminent geophysicist, is currently Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Ocean Development. He has vast experience in ocean sciences dating back to the 1960s, when he participated in the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Later, he was responsible for setting up the permanent Indian base in Antarctica, as the leader of the 3rd Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica during 1983-84 in a record t5ime of one Antarctic summer. He has been spearheading several new innovative programmes, and was recently invited to deliver the Prestigious Bruun Memorial Lecture by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris. He has authored three pioneering books, edited 17 volumes and published over one hundred and thirty papers in scientific journals of international repute.