Prof. K Rajendram

Professional Experience

1. Senior Lecturer (Grade-I):  From 2008 to date, Dept. of Geography, Eastern University, Sri Lanka

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2. Senior Lecturer (Grade-I): From 2004 to 2008, Department of Geography, University of Jaffna 
3. Senior Lecturer (Grade II): From 1997 to 2004, Dept. of Geography, University of Jaffna
4. Lecturer: From  1991 to 1997, Dept. of Geography, University of Jaffna
5. Temporary Tutor: From May 1991 to June 1991, Department of Geography, University of Jaffna

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Research and Publications (Selected)

1. Markov chain model probability for the occurrence of wet and dry spells in Kanthale, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, World Scientific News, An International Science Journal, WSN 196, (2024)31-45.
2. Spatial and Temporal Response of Vegetation and Production of Crops to Climate in Rajasthan, India, Book Chapter published (June 2024) in Research Advances in Environment, Geography and Earth Science Vol. 4, BP International, DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/raeges/v4/8030A
3. An Assessment of Flood Risk in Kilinochchi District, Sri Lanka, Using Open-Source Geospatial Technology, Paper presented to the 7th International Conference on Climate Change-2023, held 9th -10th February 2023, Colombo and published.
4. An Assessment of Flood Hazard at Eravur Pattu Divisional Secretariat Division, Batticaloa Using Geospatial Technology, World Scientific News, An International Science Journal, WSN 174, (2022)112-130.
5. Rainfall Variability and Drought in the Dry and Wet Zones of Sri Lanka’, World Scientific News, An International Science Journal, WSN 160, (2021)172-189. 
6. Flood Occurrence and Risk Assessment in Trincomalee District, Using Open-Source Geo-Spatial Technology, World Scientific News, An International Scientific Journal, WSN 161 (2021) 45-65. 7  
7. Rainfall Variability and Drought Occurrences in the Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka’, World News of Natural Sciences, An International Scientific Journal, WNOFNS 39, (2021) 30-45  
8. Geospatial Application in Desertification Monitoring, Rajasthan, India, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), Volume VIII, Issue III, March 2021, ISSN 2321–2705
9. ‘An Assessment of Drought in Mannar District, Sri Lanka’ (November 2019), International Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Science (IJHASS) Center for Promoting Education and Research (CPER) USA, Vol: 4, Issue: 11, 1-13 (DOI:10.33642/ijhass.v4n1p1).
10. A GIS Based Analysis of Temporal Changes of Land Use Pattern in Batticaloa MC, Sri Lanka from 1980 to 2018, World Scientific News, An International Scientific Journal, WSN 137 (2019) 210-228 (Join Paper).
11. ‘Solid Waste Disposal and Management Practices at Kinniya Urban Council, Trincomalee’ (July 2020), Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (VJHSS), Vol.05 (01), http://doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.,V05102.04, 49-73.
12. ‘Sand Mining and its Environmental Problems in Mavadiodai Riverbeds, Eravur Pattu D.S. Division’, Paper Presented in the Annual Research Session, Faculty of Arts & Culture, Eastern University, held 20.10.2020.
13. A study on Tourism Development in in Nedunthivu Divisional Secretariat Division (December 2019), Paper Presented to the Annual Research Session, Faculty of Arts & Culture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, Full paper published in the preceding (Joint paper).
14. Female Leadership Families and Their Social Problems in the War Affected Area of Puthukkudiyiruppu Divisional Secretariat Division in Mullaitivu District of Sri Lanna’, (September,2019)International Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Science (IJHASS) Center for Promoting Education and Research (CPER) USA, Vol: 4, Issue: 09, 1-8 (DOI:10.33642/ijhass.v4n9p1), (Joint Paper).
15. ‘Sand mining and Land Degradation in Vadamarachchi East-Jaffna’ (2019), Journal of Cintanai, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna, (Joint Paper).
16. An Introduction to Statistical Techniques in Geography, December 2018, Text Book, Published by Kumaran Book House, Colombo-Chennai, ISBN 978-955-659-609-0 (in Tamil).
17. ‘Rainfall Variability and Trend in the Northern Region of Sri Lanka’ International Journal of Advanced Research and Review, 2018, 3(3); 20-32.
18. ‘Occurrences of Flood in the Northern Region of Sri Lanka’, Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol.3 (3), 2015, 363-376
19. ‘Impacts of Flood and Drought Hazards on the Economy of the Northern Region of Sri Lanka’, International Research Journal of Social Sciences, September 2014, Vol.3, 22-33
20. ‘Occurrences of Drought Hazard in the Northern Region of Sri Lanka’, Paper presented to the International Conference on Contemporary Management (ICCM)-2014, held on 14th & 15th March 2014, at the Faculty of Management Studies & Commerce, University of Jaffna,1050-1058.
21. ‘Drought Monitoring in Rajasthan, India Using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing’, paper presented in the 4th International Conference on Geo-Information Technology for Natural Disaster Management (GIT 4NDM), held on 7th -8th November 2012 at hotel Galadari, Colombo (Paper selected for the Best Technical Paper Awards), 77-82.
22. ‘A Case Study on Flood Hazard Potential in the Jaffna District of Sri Lanka’, Paper presented to the International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, held on 8th -9th November 2012, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayawardenepura.150.
23. ‘Climatic Hazards Impacts on Agriculture in Jaffna District of Sri Lanka’ paper published in Lifestyle of Jaffna, Department of History, University of Jaffna, Kalaikesari publication, Express Newspapers (Ceylon) Pvt. Ltd.,2012, 322-339.
24. ‘The Use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System in Agriculture’ Paper published in National Safety Day Souvenir, Batticaloa District, 26.12.2011, 39-44.
25. ‘Rainfall Trend and Flood Hazard in Batticaloa District’ Paper presented to the National Conference on Regional Development, held on 10-11th December 2011, Faculty of Arts and Culture, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.
26. Tracking of Spatial Dimensions of Dengue Disease in Trincomalee Town D.S. Division Using Geographic Information System, Paper presented to the National Geographic Conference, held on January 2011, University of Sri Jayawardanapura, Sri Lanka (Joint paper).
27. ‘Sand Mining and Coastal Zone Degradation in Vadamaradchi East, Jaffna’, Paper presented in the 9th Annual Research Session-2010, Eastern University, Sri Lanka held from 17th and 18th December 2010 (Joint paper).
28. ‘Sand Mining and Coastal Zone Degradation in Manmunai North DS Division, Batticaloa’, Paper presented in the 9th Annual Research Session-2010, Eastern University, Sri Lanka held from 17th and 18th December 2010 (Joint paper).
29. ‘Water Quality and Human Settlements: A case Study of Mannmunai North DS Area, Batticaloa District’, Paper presented to the National Geographic Conference, held from 9-10 January 2010, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka and full paper published in the Journal of Sri Lanka Association of Geographers, Vol.1,No1,18-25(Joint paper).
30. ‘Markov Chain Model for Probability of Weekly Rainfall and its Agro Climatic Implication to Paddy Crop over Batticaloa - Sri Lanka’ The Indian Geographical Journal, Indian Geographical Society, Vol.79, No.2, 2006,83-96.
31. ‘Spatio-Temporal Response of Vegetation and Production of Crops to Climate in Rajasthan’ Research report submitted for the Partial fulfillment of PG Diploma on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System in the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, 2007.
32. ‘Spatial and Temporal Profiles of the Occurrence of Droughts in Sri Lanka’ Paper presented to 10th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies, held on 16th -18th December 2005, Organized by the Research Centre for Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
33. ‘Rainfall Variability, Drought and El Nino Southern Oscillation over dry zone Sri Lanka’ Paper presented to Leonard Woolf Memorial International Conference held on 18th -19th December 2004, jointly organized by the University of Ottawa, Canada and University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka.
34. ‘The Occurrence of Drought and ENSO Relationships Over the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka’ Paper presented to the National Workshop on Fresh Water issues with Discussion on National River Linking Plan, held on 31st March –2nd April, 2003, Organized by ENVIS Centre in Biogeochemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, INDIA.
35. ‘Role of Weather Observation on Agricultural Development in Northern Sri Lanka’ Paper presented to Planning for Reconstruction and Redevelopment Workshop III, held on 12th -14th February 2000, Jointly organized by the University of British Columbia and University of Jaffna, and full paper published in proceedings: (edited by Mikiko Terashima), 93-114.
36. ‘Confidence limits of expected monthly and weekly rainfall of Jaffna’ Paper presented to 9th Annual Session, Organized by the Jaffna Science Association, held on 4th to 6th April 2001, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Book Published

1. Climatic Water Balance in the Eastern Region of Sri Lanka (2021), Pages 201, Published by Kumaran Book House, Chennai-Colombo.ISBN:978-955-659-737-0 (State Literary Awarded Book in 2022)
2. Weather Observation and Climate: Eastern Region of Sri Lanka (2020), Pages 151, Published by Kumaran Book House, Chennai-Colombo.ISBN:978-955-659-740-0

• Climate Change, Climatic Hazards and disasters, Climatic Water Budget, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental Management and Geospatial Applications

1. General and Applied Climatology, 
2. Climate Change and Environment, 
3. Quantitative Techniques in Geography, 
4. >Research Methodology in Geography
5. Disaster Management, 
6. Environmental Geography, 
7. Geo-statistical Techniques and 
8. Geographic Information System & Remote Sensing (GIS & RS)

Awards/Fellowship/ Scholarships:

1. State Literary Award-2022: One of the books on ‘Climatic Water Balance in the Eastern Region of Sri Lanka’ (Tamil), was selected for the State Literary award. The award ceremony was held 28th October 2022 at Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo
2. The Eastern University was awarded in recognition of the Meritorious Service rendered to the University System over Thirty Years (1991-2021), and an awarding ceremony was held on 3rd October 2022.
3. The UGIT’s Excellency Award-2018. This prestigious international award was adjudged by the Union of Geographic Information Technologist (UGIT: www. ugit.net), Department of Geography and Geo-informatics, Bangalore University, India, December 2018. The award was conferred with the felicitation in the inaugural session of UGIT’s 7th International Conference on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Sustainable Development through Geospatial Technologies was held at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on 24 November 2018.
4. Meritorious Award-2017:  The Eastern University, Sri Lanka awarded in recognition of dedicated and Meritorious Service rendered to the University over a Period of Twenty Five Years (1991-2016), the awarding Ceremony was held on 02.01.2017, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
5. The Best Technical Paper Award was adjudged at the 4th International Conference on Geo-Information Technology for Natural Disaster Management (GIT 4NDM) and 1st International Conference on Infrastructure Management held on 7th -8th November 2012 at Colombo, Sri Lanka. The International Conference was organized by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), National University of Science & Technology, Pakistan & Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka. Papers were presented by scholars from various countries in this conference.
6. Fellowship awarded by the Centre for Space Science Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP-Affiliated to the United Nations), IIRS, Dehradun, from October 2006 to June 2007 to follow PG. Diploma in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Remote Sensing (RS).
7. ‘Sivagamy Murugesar’ Memorial Scholarship award was adjudged by the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka for the Best Performance in Geography in the Special degree examination in Arts.
8. Fellowship awarded by the Centre for Space Science Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the United Nations), IIRS, Dehradun, from April 18 –May 17, 2016, to follow short course on ‘Weather Forecasting using Numerical Weather Prediction Models’.

1. Dean/Faculty of Arts & Culture from 02.12.2013 to 01.12.2016
2. Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts & Culture from 01.11.2011 to 12.01.2012
3. Head, Department of Geography from 09.05.2010 to 30.12.2013
4. Acting Head, Education & Child Care from 30.11.2011 to 12.01.2012
5. Coordinator, Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts & Culture 01.11.2008 to 31.10.2011.
6. Chairman, Curriculum Evaluation Committee of the Senate, Eastern University from June 2015 to December 2016.