Narendra Saxena
SOEST Professor and Director

  • Office: HIG 440
  • Phone number: (808) 956-7338
  • E-mail address: nsaxena@hawaii.edu
  • Area(s) of specialty: Satellite and Marine Geodesy, Surveying Engineering

Education:

B.S., 1955, Agra University, India
Diploma, 1959, University of Roorkee, India
Diploma, 1966, University of Hanover, Germany
Ph.D., 1972, Technical University of Graz, Austria

Experience:

  • Professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) since 1998.
  • Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Chairman 1994-1997.
  • Assistant Professor, Photogrammetric and Geodetic Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
  • Instructor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
  • Adjunct Research Professor of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
  • CNOC Research Chair in Mapping, Charting and Geodesy (MC&G), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
  • Director, Pacific Mapping Program, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Editor-in-Chief, Marine Geodesy: International Journal of Ocean Surveys, Mapping and Sensing, Taylor & Francis, London (UK).
  • Founding President, PACON International - a Professional Society of Marine Science, Technology and Policy of the Pacific.

Awards and Honors:

  • Merit Award for Research, University of Hawaii.
  • Fellow, MTS
  • Fellow, IAG
  • Life-time Achievement Award, PACON International

Professional Activities:

  • Editor-in-Chief, Marine Geodesy Journal, since 1976.
  • Founding member of the Tsunami Society.
  • Founding member of the Pacific Congress (PACON) International.
  • Editor of the proceedings of the PACON on Marine Science and Technology.
  • Editor/Co-Editor, Recent Advances in Marine Sciences and Technology Series.
  • Member of the steering committee of the Graduate Ocean Policy Certificate Program.

Research Activities:

  1. Bathymetry of Myanmar Coastal Water.
  2. Shallow Water Mapping of South China Sea (Vietnam - Coastal Areas)
  3. Cooperative Research Center for Pacific Mapping (Pacific Mapping Center). U.S. Geological Survey, National Ocean Service/NOAA, and the University of Hawaii.
  4. Direct Seafloor Measurements of the Spreading Rate of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. U.S. Geological Survey, Naval Postgraduate School, University of Hawaii and Defense Mapping Agency.
  5. Detection of Water Seepage in the Coastal Seas by High Resolution Thermal Infrared Scanner System. Sea Grant College Program, and Water Resources Research Center.
  6. Study of "Application of Marine Geodesy in Support of National Objectives in Ocean Science, Engineering and Operation." NASA, Defense Mapping Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oceanographer of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, U. S. Coast Guard.
  7. Study of Bathymetric Systems and Possible Integration of Multibeam and Sidescan Sonar Systems. Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawaii.
  8. Assessment of Remote Sensors for Locating Groundwater seepage into Coastal Waters. Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii.
  9. Assessment of Remote Sensors for Locating Groundwater Seepage in Coastal Waters. President's Fund, University of Hawaii.
  10. Seafloor Benchmark Positioning System. Naval Postgraduate School, (CNOC), Monterey, California.

Selected Publications:

"Tsunami Detectability Using Open-Ocean Pressure Fluctuations", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, (with A. Zielinski) , Vol. OE-8, No. 4, 1983, pp. 272-280.

"Marine Geodetic Applications for Ocean Sciences and Engineering", Marine Geodesy Journal, Vol. 7, Nos. 1-4, 1983, pp. 39-60.

"First Pacific Congress on Marine Technology (PACON 84)--A Report", Marine Technology Society Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1984, pp. 61-68.

"Global Positioning System for Marine Geodetic Control", Marine Geodesy Journal--Special Issue on GPS (with M. Kumar), Vol. 9, No. 2, 1985, pp. 199-211.

"Modelling of Tsunami Directivity", Natural Sciences of Geophysical Hazards--An International Journal of the Tsunami Society (with A. Zielinski), Vol. 3, No. 2, 1984.

"Accuracy of Tsunami Travel Charts", Marine Geodesy Journal (with T.S. Murty et al.), Vol. 11, Nos. 2-3, 1987, pp. 89-102.

"Sub-meter Acoustic Surveying", Marine Geodesy Journal (with L. Spielvogel and S.P. Tucker), Vol. 11, Nos. 2-3, 1987, pp. 137-151.

"Some Theoretical Approaches to Delineate Tsunami Hazards in the Pacific Ocean", Marine Geodesy Journal (with T.S. Murty), Vol. 11, Nos. 2-3, 1987, pp. 173-180.

"Scaling Considerations for Acoustic Measurement of Ridge Extension", EOS-Transactions of American Geophysical Union (with W. R. Normark and J. L. Morton , 1990.

"Development of an Integrated Marine Geographic Information System", Marine Geodesy Journal (with R. Li), Volume 16, No. 4, 1993, pp. 293-307.

"Bathymetry Computation from Free-Air Anomaly Data", Marine Geodesy Journal (with A. Basu), Volume 16, No. 4, 1993, pp. 325-336.

"A Review of Shallow Water Mapping Systems", Marine Geodesy Journal (with A. Basu), Volume 22, No. 4, 1999, pp. 249-257.

“Bathymetry Data Corrections using Global Optimization Method”, Marine Geodesy Journal (with A. Basu), Volume 25, Nos 1-2, 2002, pp.37-60.

“PACON 2003 Proceedings – Ocean Capital Year”, November 30 – December 2, 2003, PACON International, Honolulu

“Recent Advances in Marine Science Technology”, 2004 (ed.) PACON International, Honolulu (in print)

Mailing Address:

Dr. Narendra Saxena
Pacific Mapping Program, SOEST
University of Hawaii
2525 Correa Road, HIG 440
Honolulu, HI 96822