0000-0002-4039-3780 About
Prof. Umesh Kumar Singh is serving as Professor and Coordinator at Centre of Environmental Studies, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj,
India. He has received his postdoctoral training in Environmental Engineering from Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. Dr. Singh has been enlisted as World’s Top 2% Scientist published by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. He has received Ph.D. degree (Environmental Science) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His fields of specialization are hydrogeology, geochemistry, water and soil pollution, human health risk assessment, solid waste management and climate change. He has done extensive research in the areas of arsenic and fluoride pollution, heavy metals pollution in groundwater and surface water bodies and its health effects, river geochemistry, and impact of climate change on water resources. He has to his credit many research papers published in refereed international and national journals/ edited books. He has also a patent in the field of fluoride removal from the contaminated groundwater.
Employment
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University of Allahabad Professor2019 - Present
Education
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Kansas State University Post doc
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Publications (34)
- Metal(loid)s contamination in Ganga River water along the Patna stretch, India, and its ecological and human health implications Save
- Quantifying Urban Encroachment and Impact on Lake Ecosystem: Geospatial Insights From Jagannath Sagar Lake, Jeypore City, Odisha, India Save
- Pathways of major ion chemistry and evaluation of contaminants in the River Ajay, India Save
- Pesticide pollution: toxicity, sources and advanced remediation approaches Save
- Environmental and human health risk associated with heavy metals in sediment of a tropical river in India Save
- Cleansing Tannery Effluent with Pleurotus opuntiae: A Green Solution for Environmental Restoration and Toxicity Evaluation Save
- Explicating the fertilizer potential of anaerobic digestate: Effect on soil nutrient profile and growth of Solanum melongena L. Save
- Exploring a variance decomposition approach integrated with the Monte Carlo method to evaluate groundwater fluoride exposure on the residents of a typical fluorosis endemic semi-arid tract of India Save
- Hydrogeochemical characterizations and quality evaluation of groundwater in the major river basins of a geologically and anthropogenically driven semi-arid tract of India Save
- Characterization of groundwater nitrate exposure using Monte Carlo and Sobol sensitivity approaches in the diverse aquifer systems of an agricultural semiarid region of Lower Ganga Basin, India Save