Faculty Profile: Raja Das

Raja Das
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Phone: (860) 297-2551	Office Location: McCook 123
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Trinity College faculty member since 2025	View office hours for Fall 2025

Das, Raja, and Karl W. Wegmann. “InSAR Characterization of Short-Term Deformation in a Late Quaternary Landslide Complex in the Lower Rio Grande Gorge in New Mexico.” Scientific Reports (2025).
Das, Raja, Pham Van Tien, Karl W. Wegmann, and Madhumita Chakraborty. "Machine learning-based assessment of regional-scale variation of landslide susceptibility in central Vietnam." PloS one 19, no. 10 (2024): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308494
Das, Raja, and Karl W. Wegmann. "Evaluation of machine learning-based algorithms for landslide detection across satellite sensors for the 2019 Cyclone Idai event, Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe." Landslides 19, no. 12 (2022): 2965-2981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01912-9
Foad, H., Das, R., Greer, L., & Wirth, K. R. (2025). Tracking coral loss at a refugium in Belize: A multitemporal satellite assessment. GSA Southeastern Section Meeting 2025, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.
Das, R., & Wegmann, K. Identifying present-day slope instability in the landslides of Black Mesa, Rio Grande Gorge, New Mexico, using InSAR time-series analysis. GSA Connects 2024, Anaheim, California.
Das, R., Tien, P.V., Wegmann, K. Quantitative Assessment of Landslide Hazard and Risk at Regional-Scale: A Case Study from Central Vietnam. (Under revision in Environmental Science and Pollution Research).
Das, R., Wegmann, K., Tien, P.V. Event-Based Mapping and Spatial Pattern Analysis of Landslides in Parts of Central Vietnam. (Under revision in Natural Hazards).
Das, R., Nandi, A., Luffman, I. et al. Assessment of discontinuity-controlled rock slope instability for debris slide initiation: a GIS-based kinematical analysis in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN, USA. Environmental Earth Sciences 83, 284 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-024-11578-2
Chakraborty, M., Mukherjee, A., Ahmed, K.M., Fryar, A.E., Bhattacharya, A., Zahid, A., Das, R., and Chattopadhyay, S. Influence of Hydrostratigraphy on the Distribution of Groundwater Arsenic in the Transboundary Ganges River Aquifer System, India and Bangladesh. GSA Bulletin (2022). https://doi.org/10.1130/B36068.1
Ghosh, S., Das, R., Goswami, B. Developing GIS-Based Techniques for Application of Knowledge- and Data-Driven Methods of Landslide Susceptibility Mapping. Indian Journal of Geosciences 67 (3-4), 249-272 (2013).