Dr. Pathmakumara Jayasingha
Senior Lecturer - Department of Geography, University of Colombo
Research
Research interests
- Soils, Sediments and Paleosols, Engineering Application of Soils and Soil Stability
- Geomorphology, Coastal Geomorphology and Evolution of Coastal Landforms
- Quaternary Geology and Paleontology
- Hydrogeology and Water Quality Analysis
- Speleology (Cave Science)
- Geoarchaeology and Heritage Conservation
- Geobiology, Geomicrobiology and Biogeography
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Landslides
- Social Geology
- Geophysics and Application of GPR in Subsurface Exploration
- Metaphysics and Parapsychology
On Going Research
- Addressing Disaster Risk Reduction in Sri Lanka; modelling and profiling
- Soil Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands (Climate change Mitigation)
- Origin, Evolution, Paleontology and geochronology of Miocene Limestone of Sri Lanka; A collaborative research with the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Speleological Research on Sri Lankan Caves (Origin and Evolution of Caves and Cave Sediments); A Collaborative Reserach with the University of Sydney, Australia
- Geoarchaeological Reserach on Cultural Sediments from Archaeological Sites of Sri Lanka