Sabari Nathan C.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Landslide Hazard & Geophysics

  1. Sabari Nathan, C., Zaalishvili, V. B., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2026) The Role of Hydrology in Hillslope Monitoring and Landslide Risk Mitigation., Geology and Geophysics of Russia South, Vol 16(1), 80-92.
  2. Sabari Nathan, C., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2025) Evaluation of ground conditions and vehicle-induced vibration using Spatio-geophysical approach for the Nilgiris landslide transportation interaction corridor, Western Ghats, India., Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Vol 16(1).
  3. Sabari Nathan, C., and G. P. Ganapathy. (2024) Quantifying the impact of changing rainfall patterns on landslide frequency and intensity in the Nilgiris District of Western Ghats, India, Progress in Disaster Science, Vol 23, pp 100351.

Patent (Published)

  1. Sabari Nathan, C., Priyadrashini, B., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2026) Elevation-Integrated Tokenized Water Allocation System with Remote Sensing and IoT Monitoring., Indian Patent Office, Indian Patent Application No. 202641018163.

Dataset (Published)

  1. Sabari Nathan, C., Saravana Ganesh, M., Chandra, H., Iftekhar, A., & Ganapathy, G. P. Code, trained model, and susceptibility rasters for corridor-scale landslide susceptibility mapping of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, southern India., Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21337329.

Media Coverage

  1. Rain and roads: Both spell landslides for Nilgiris, Says study. (2024, August 1). Times of India. [Retrieved 2024, August 3].

Conference Proceedings (Published)

  1. Sabari Nathan, C., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2026, May) A Geophysical Perspective on Subsurface Characterization and Slope Response to Traffic Induced Vibrations in the Nilgiris under a Changing Environment., Japan Geoscience Union - American Geophysical Union Joint Meeting 2026, Chiba, Japan. [Poster].
  2. Sabari Nathan, C., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2025, November) Spatio-Geophysical Evaluation of Ground Conditions and Vehicle-Induced Vibrations in the Nilgiris Landslide Transportation Interaction Corridor., 9th National Geo-Research Scholars Meet, Dehradun, India. [Oral].
  3. Sabari Nathan, C., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2024, December) A Spatio-Geophysical Approach for Landslide Hazard Mitigation in the Nilgiris Region, Western Ghats, India., AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Washington DC, USA. NH11B-2221 [Poster].
  4. Sabari Nathan, C., & Ganapathy, G. P. (2023, December) Evaluation of Precipitation Indices as Landslide Triggering Factors in Parts of the Western Ghats, India., AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, San Francisco, USA. NH13D-0714 [Poster].

Research Publications in Progress

  1. Sabari Nathan, C., Saravana Ganesh, M., Chandra, H., Iftekhar, A., & Ganapathy, G. P. Corridor-Scale Landslide Susceptibility from a Long-Term Maintenance Inventory and Multi-Model Machine Learning, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, Southern India., JGR: Earth's Surface. (status: under review).
  2. Sabari Nathan, C., Subramanian, S., & Ganapathy, G. P. Seismic Damage Potential Mapping and Retrofitting Prioritization of Critical Lifeline Structures Using Rapid Visual Screening and an Integrated GIS-MCDM Framework: A Case Study from the Composite Vellore District, India.

Environmental Geochemistry (Prior research - postgraduate work)

  1. Prakasheswar, P., Sivapriya, V., Sabari Nathan, C., Ramya, S., & Hussain, S. M. (2026) Non-linear ecological responses of Ostracod communities to multi-metal pollution based on tolerance-weighted indices from the Vedaranyam shelf, Bay of Bengal, India., Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol 225, 119297.
  2. V. Gopal, R.R. Krishnamurthy, M. Bhuvaneshwari, R. Deepika, C. Sabari Nathan, R Manikanda Bharth, N.S. Magesh, Ramamoorthy., A. (2025) Hazardous trace elemental contamination in urban river sediments: Distribution, source identification, and Environmental impacts., Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, Vol 19, pp 100733.
  3. V. Gopal, R.R. Krishnamurthy, R. Vignesh, C. Sabari Nathan, R. Anshu, R. Kalaivanan, P. Mohana, N.S. Magesh, K. Manikanda Bharath, A.Z. Ekoa Bessa, K. Abdelrahman, M. Abioui. (2023) Assessment of heavy metal contamination in the surface sediments of the Vedaranyam coast, Southern India., Regional Studies in Marine Science, Vol 65, pp 103081.
  4. V. Gopal, R.R. Krishnamurthy, T. Sreeshma, P. Chakraborty, C. Sabari Nathan, R. Kalaivanan, and M. Jayaprakash. (2021) Effect of a tropical cyclone on the distribution of heavy metals in the marine sediments off Kameswaram, Southeast coast of India, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol 171, pp 112741.