- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Earth Resources Engineering
- Senior Lecturer Grade I
Contact information
Department of Earth Resources Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Hydrogeology -Undergraduate -
Geology Field Camp -Undergraduate -
Mineral exploration Field camp -Undergraduate -
Engineering Geology -Undergraduate -
Hydrogeology -Undergraduate -
Sturctural and field geology -Undergraduate -
Optical Mineralogy and Petrology -Undergraduate -
Soil Mechanics and Geology I -Undergraduate -
Soil Mechanices and Geology II -Undergraduate -2015
Research Project -Undergraduate -
Research Project -Undergraduate -
Design Project -Undergraduate -
Natural Disaster Mitigation -Undergraduate -2012
Engineering Geology -Postgraduate -2016
Head/ Dept. of ERE -Administraion work (2013 To 2016)
Coordinator/ MSc/PG Dip in Mining and Mineral Exploration -Course Coordinator (2012 To 2017)
Cordinator part time course Geology - Course cordinator (2017 To date)
Research Activities
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelor's, University of Peradeniya ,1993
Masters, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) BKK ,1996
PhD, Saga University ,2004
Institute of Geology (IGSL)(2009 To date)
Geological Society of Sri Lanka (GSSL)(1994 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
Chartered Geologist (Received 2016)
Publications*
Lasan LI, Weerasekara MN, Prashanth S, Abeysinghe AMKB, Premasiri HMR and Samaradivakara GVI,".Applicability of ground Penetrating Redar (GPR) Techque to optimize soil nail wall designs.",Internaional Symposium on Earth resources & enviroment,The Blue Water, Wadduwa, Sri lankas,2017,121-126
Dissanayake SW, Pathirana GPNA, Sandaruwan MKS, Abeysinghe AMKB, Premasiri HMR and Weerawarnakula S,".ground Penetration Rader Observations at Kahagolla landslide and Evaluation of Potential Failure Mechanism.",International symposium on Earth Resources Manegemenal,The Blue Water, Wadduwa, Sri lankas ,2017,225-230
Dissanayake SW, Pathirana GPNA, Sandaruwan MKS, Abeysinghe AMKB, Premasiri HMR and Weerawarnakula S,".ground Penetration Rader Observations at Kahagolla landslide and Evaluation of Potential Failure Mechanism.",International symposium on Earth Resources Manegement & Environment,The Blue Water, Wadduwa, Sri lankas ,2017,225-230
Senarathna CSS, Godaliyadda OP, Disanayaka KTD, *Premasiri HMR, Abeysinghe AMKB and Weerawarnakula S,".Analysis of Geological Structures for Road Cut Failures: A Case Study Along Balangoda - Haputale Main Road, .",10th Annual Conference ERE,Colombo,2016,pp 81-86.
Nimila Dushyantha., Nadeera Batapola., I.M.S.K. Ilankoon., Sudath Rohitha., Ranjith Premasiri., Bandara Abeysinghe., Nalin Ratnayake., Kithsiri Dissanayake,".The story of rare earth elements (REEs): occurrences, global distribution, genesis, geology, mineralogy and global production. .",Ore Geology Reviews,122,2020
N.M. Batapola, N.P. Dushyantha, H.M.R. Premasiri, A.M.K.B Abeysinghe, L.P.S Rohitha, N.P. Ratnayake, D.M.D.O.K. Dissanayake, I.M.S.K. Ilankoon, P.G.R. Dharmaratne ,".A comparison of global rare earth element (REE) resources and their mineralogy with REE prospects in Sri Lanka. .",Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,200,2020
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