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Dr OP Mishra

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National Centre for Seismology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India

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    Developing an Early Warning System in the Himalayas
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Dr Om Prakash Mishra is the Director of NCS. Previously, he worked with IDRC-Canada in a joint venture project with CMPDIL, Coal India (1992-1995). Dr Mishra has served at the GSI for two decades (1995-2014). He has worked with SAARC Disaster Management Centre, New Delhi, as the Head / Director and at GRC-Japan as the Foreign Visiting Guest Professor. He has represented India as a SAARC Member State to various UN agencies (UNDP; UNESCAP; UNISDR; UNOCHA; UN-HABITAT). Dr Mishra is a National Academy of Sciences, India (F.N.A.Sc.) Fellow and a Life Member of several professional international and national bodies (AGU-USA; SSA-USA; SSJ-Japan; JPGU-Japan; ISCA-India; AOGS-Singapore; IUGG- Germany; IIPA-India; IGU-India; ISES-India; AEG-India). He received several awards, including Visiting Professorship by JSPS-Japan in 2005; National Mineral Award-2008 for Disaster Risk Management in Applied Geosciences by the Government of India; A.S. Arya Award-2014 by IIT-Roorkee; Anni Talwani Gold Medal-2015 by Indian Geophysical Union. He has more than 150 research publications, including edited books, reports, special issues, and roadmaps on various themes of seismology, geophysics, and interdisciplinary Earth sciences in peered reviewed journals.