Harsha Rao
@ksoumysuru.ac.in
Chairman and Assistant Professor
I am Dr. Harsha, 48 years gentleman with an M. Sc., Ph. D in Environmental Sciences. My research specialization is Aquatic Microbial Ecology. My research interest includes attempting to identify role of heterotrophic bacterial community in natural aquatic ecosystems and the factors controlling this important biopurification activity in lotic aquatic ecosystem. My future research endeavor would be to identify the factors responsible for decomposition/mineralization process, chemical nature of these factors, pathogenesis, mass-production of responsible bacterial communities by genetic engineering, so as to bring about maximum decomposition in these ecosystems as biological tool in the biopurification process.
My Professional ambition is to be a good researcher, try to do original research work for publishing in standard peer reviewed national and international research Journals.
EDUCATION
M.Sc Environmental Sceince Kuvempu University 01-08-1996 -To 12-06-1998 12-06-1998 76.09
First
Ph.D., Environmental Sceince University of Mysore 10-11-2000 to 31-06-2006 18-03-2008 --
Diploma Environmental Education Center for Environmental Education 01-09-2005 to 01-09-2006 01-09-2006 58.5
Second
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Environmental Science, Aquatic Science, Waste Management and Disposal, Pollution
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Angel Benny, Raghuram Achar, T.S. Harsha, and K.T. Vadiraj
Elsevier
M. MAHADEVASWAMY
ALOKI Ltd
Cell-size here refers to mean length, as only the lengths of bacterial cells were measured in this study. Cell breadths were not measured, hence calculation of biovolume and biomass was not possible. In this study, the mean cell-lengths of heterotrophic bacterioplankton as well as their relation with environmental (water-quality) variables were analyzed for two years in the main river Cauvery and its four important upstream tributaries from February 2000 to January 2002. The initial hypothesis that all the five water courses have similar bacterial mean cell-lengths was rejected, because mean cell-lengths of free living and particle bound planktonic bacteria was more and was also significantly different in the river Lakshmanatheertha, when compared to the other four water courses studied. Season-wise grouped data revealed that, the mean cell-length of free-living bacteria was significantly less in winter season as compared to rainy and summer seasons during the second year of study only in the river Lakshmanatheertha. A correlation (r) analysis between the mean cell-lengths of heterotrophic bacteria and environmental (water-quality) variables revealed significant relations. Also with the help of regression analysis (r) the effect of some important environmental variables on the mean cell-length of heterotrophic bacteria has been discussed in the light of recent investigations in the field of fresh water microbial ecology.
T S Harsha, Sadanand M Yamakanamardi, and M Mahadevaswamy
Springer Science and Business Media LLC