Mr. Dammith Tarinda RUPASINGHE
Civil Engineer/Deputy Director
4 th FloorNew Secretariat Building
Maligawatta
Sri Lanka
Marine and Coastal Engineering
My
responsibilities are monitoring of coastal erosion and accretion around the
coastline using surveys, satellite images and aerial photographs, designing
coast protective structures to combat coastal erosion and facilitate to
recreational activities, conducting water quality monitoring programs, carrying
out bathymetric surveys, monitoring shoreline changes and beach profiling.
Apart that, I was actively engaged to initiate the Disaster Hazard Assessment,
disaster Risk Reduction for four major disasters as Tsunami, Cyclone, and
Coastal Inundation and Coastal erosion in Sri Lanka.