Amol Kishore received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of the South Pacific in 1999 and 2007 respectively. He has worked as a secondary school teacher under the Ministry of Education, Fiji from 2000 – 2002. After joining the department of Physics at the University of the South Pacific as a Graduate assistant, he worked as a tutor in Physics at the department, and then joined the College of Foundation Studies as Coordinator in Physics and is currently an Assistant Lecturer in Physics with the School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics at the University of the South Pacific. He is completing his PhD in Atmospheric Physics and Space Weather.

Interest:

Swimming, Cooking, Movies, Computers, DIY home improvements, and Joinery.

Members of an organization:

• Member of International Radio Science Union (URSI) Working Group Commission G
• Member Worldwide Lightning Location Network
• Member South Pacific Physics Society

Undergraduate Courses:

• PH102 – Classical Physics
• PH103 – Quantum & Electrical Physics
• PH106 – Physics for other Sciences
• PH302 – Electronic Communication Systems
• PH306 – Special Topics (Measurement and

• Study effects of space weather such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and Geomagnetic storms and severe terrestrial hazards such as Earthquakes on Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) observed at Ionospheric heights.
• Studied propagation characteristics of lightning generated ELF-VLF signals in the Earth-Ionosphere waveguide
• Detections from the “World Wide Lightning Location Network” (WWLLN) were used to study lightning discharge occurrence over Fiji
• Recorded atmospherics (Tweeks and Whistlers) and calculated the Ionospheric reflection heights and the total propagation distance from the source point of occurrence
• Characterized the modes of tweek atmospherics in the Earth-Ionosphere and Sea-Ionosphere propagation paths
• Investigated ionospheric scintillation activity in the SHF band using the beacon signal at 3.925 GHz from the geostationary satellite IntelSat 701

• Scholarship Multiethnic Affairs for studies at Univ. South Pacific (1997)
• Gold Medal Award in Physics, Univ. South Pacific (2000)
• Graduate Assistant Award, Department of Physics, Univ. South Pacific (2002)
• Young Scientist Award URSI General Assembly 2005
• Certificate of recognition and award for ranked publication (B) in 2017
• Certificate of recognition and award for ranked publication (A*) in 2023

• Kishore, A., & Kumar, S. (2023). Large scale traveling ionospheric disturbances during geomagnetic storms of 17 March and 23 June 2015 in the Australian region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031740. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031740
• Kishore, A., Deo, A., Kumar, S. (2016) Upper Atmospheric Remote Sensing Using ELF – VLF Lightning Generated Tweek and Whistler Sferics. The South Pacific Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences, 34 (1). Pp. 12-20. 10.1071/SP16002. ISSN 1838-837X
• Kumar, Sushil and Kishore, Amol N. and Ramachandran, Visagaperuman (2008) Higher harmonic tweek sferics observed at low latitude: estimation of VLF reflection heights and tweeks propagation distance. Annales Geophysicae, 26. pp. 1451-1459. ISSN 0992-7689
• Kumar, Sushil and Deo, Anil and Kishore, Amol N. and Ramachandran, Visagaperuman (2007) Whistlers observed at low-latitude ground-based VLF facility in Fiji. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 69 (2). pp. 1366-1376. ISSN 1364-6826
• Kumar, Sushil and Kishore, Amol N. and Ramachandran, Visagaperuman (2007) Ionospheric scintillations on 3.95 GHz signal from intelsat (701) at low latitude in the South Pacific region. Physica Scripta, 75 (3). pp. 258-262. ISSN 0031-8949
• Ramachandran, Visagaperuman and Kishore, Amol N. and Kumar, Sushil (2006) Mapping the cloud-to ground lightning occurrence in Fiji. The South Pacific Journal of Natural Sciences, 24 (1). pp. 32-37. ISSN 1013-9877
• Ramachandran, Visagaperuman and Kumar, Sushil and Kishore, Amol N. (2005) Remote sensing of cloud to ground lightning location using the TOGA of sferics. Atmospheric Science Letters, 6 . pp. 128-132. ISSN 1530-261X
• Kumar, Sushil and Ramachandran, Visagaperuman and Kishore, Amol N. (2004) Geomagnetic storms and associated scintillation on VHF signals. The South Pacific Journal of Natural Sciences, 22 . pp. 75-77. ISSN 1013-9877
• Ramachandran, Visagaperuman and Kumar, Sushil and Kishore, Amol N. (2003) Cloud-to-ground lightning location using TOGA of sferics. The South Pacific Journal of Natural Sciences, 21. pp. 63-65. ISSN 1013-9877

• Kishore, S. Kumar and V. Kumar, “Large Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances during geomagnetic storms in the Australian region,” 2023 XXXVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), Sapporo, Japan, 2023, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.23919/ursigass57860.2023.10265410
• Kishore, Amol N. and Kumar, S. and Ramachandran, V. Observations of ELF-VLF sferics in the South Pacific, Presented in the General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), New Delhi, India, 23-29 October 2005.

1. Kishore, Amol Nitin (2006) Study of the Earth’s upper atmosphere using VLF and SHF radio wave technique. MSc. Thesis, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
2. Kishore, Amol Nitin (2003) Study of Ionosphere and its irregularities using low latitude data obtained by ground based radio wave techniques. PH400 Research Project in Physics, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji