IODP-Postcruise Research Support
IODP-India funded post-cruise projects
Ongoing Projects:
Project Title: “Pliocene dynamics of the southern Pacific and its linkages with the low latitude climate".
PI of the Project : Dr. Raj Kumar Singh
Organizations : Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 14th June, 2021
Sanctioned Grant : Ongoing
Project Title: "Late Neogene-Quaternary Planktic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Paleoceanographic History of the Agulhas current".
PI of the Project : Dr.Vikram Pratap Singh
Organizations : Indira Gandhi National Tribunal University, Amarkantak M.P
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 14th June, 2021
Sanctioned Grant : Ongoing
Project Title : "Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event as deciphered from the geochemistry of marine sediments".
PI of the Project : Dr.Sambuddha Misra
Organizations : Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Project Duration : Three years
Date of Sanction : 14th February, 2023
Sanctioned Grant : Ongoing
Project Title : "Delineating mantle melting systematics of mid-ocean ridge basalts: A case study from the South Atlantic transect".
PI of the Project : Dr.Jonnalagadda Mallika Kedarnath
Organizations : SavitribaiPhule Pune University, Pune
Project Duration : Three years
Date of Sanction : 14th February, 2023
Sanctioned Grant : Ongoing
Project Title : "Flow sense and emplacement setting of the Mid-Norwegian continental margin basalts".
PI of the Project : Dr.Amar Agarwal
Organizations : Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Project Duration : Three years
Date of Sanction : 14th February, 2023
Sanctioned Grant : Ongoing
Completed Projects:
Project Title: “Paleoclimatic and magmato-metamorphic history of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica: constraints from accessory minerals in oceanic sediments”.
PI of the Project : Dr. N C Pant
Organizations : University of Delhi
Project Duration : Three years
Date of Sanction : 26th Nov 2012
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Study of seismically induced slope failure of sediment and subsurface fluid flows in the Costa Rican seismogenic zone using long sediment cores drilled during IODP Expedition 334”.
PI of the Project : Dr.Yatheesh Vadakkeyakath
Organizations : NIO, Goa
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 26th Nov 2012
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) paleoceanography and its impact on global climate during the last 3 MY”.
PI of the Project : Dr. A. D Singh
Organizations : BHU, Varanasi
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 14th Feb 2013
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Millennial to centennial scale variability in the Asian summer monsoon: Foraminiferal perspective from the East China Sea”.
PI of the Project : Dr. R. K Singh
Organizations : IIT, Bhubaneswar
Project Duration : Three years
Date of Sanction : 22nd Dec 2014
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Marine biogeochemical response to Neogene and Quaternary climate: organic geochemical study of Bengal Fan sediments from IODP Expedition 354”.
PI of the Project : Dr.Supriyo Kumar Das
Organizations : Presidency University, Kolkata
Project Duration : Two years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Sediment provenance and palaeo weathering studies of Mahanadi basin”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Aditya Peketi
Organizations : NIO, Goa
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “The nature of the lower crust at slow spreading ridges: constraints from gabbroic samples recovered from IODP Expedition 360, Southwest Indian Ridge”.
PI of the Project : Dr.Biswajit Ghosh
Organizations : University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Reconstructing variability of Indian Monsoon since the Late Pleistocene using a marine sediment core (U1446) recovered from the Mahanadi Basin during the expedition 353”.
PI of the Project : Dr. M. Satyanarayanan
Organizations : NGRI, Hyderabad
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Quantifying Late Pleistocene-Holocene seawater temperature and runoff changes from the northeastern Arabian Sea to understand ocean-climate linkage”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Rajeev Saraswat
Organizations : NIO, Goa
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Evolution of pCO2 and Indian monsoon from the Miocene to Pleistocene”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Sushant Naik
Organizations : NIO, Goa
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography of the Lower Bengal Fan from late Paleogene to present – IODP Expedition 354”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Manoj M C
Organizations : BSIP, Lucknow
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 23rd Feb 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Probing the Evolution Of Late Miocene Bottom Water Oxygenation: A Stable Metal Isotope Constraints (PELMO-SMIC)”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Gurumurthy G P
Organizations : BSIP, Lucknow
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 08th May 2017
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Geochemical records in the South China Sea: Implications for its Evolution”.
PI of the Project : Mr. N. Lachit Singh
Organizations : NCAOR, Goa
Project Duration : Two years
Date of Sanction : 26th September 2018
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Impact of climate change on Microbial communities in Ross Sea, Antarctica during the periods of Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Shiv M. Singh
Organizations : BHU, Varanasi
Project Duration : Two (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 26th September 2018
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Gas hydrates characterization and assessment from seismic and log data in the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Uma Shankar
Organizations : BHU, Varanasi
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 26th September 2018
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Reconstruction of long term climate variability and depositional environments from sediment cores of South China Sea”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Devleena M Tiwari
Organizations : University of Hyderabad
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 26th September 2018
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Understanding the role of mineral hydration driving tectonics and its effect on climate during Neogene”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Prosenjit Ghosh
Organizations : Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Project Duration : Three (+1) years
Date of Sanction : 26th September 2018
Status : Completed
Project Title: “Diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy and their implications on palaeoclimate from early Paleocene to Oligocene of Site U1553, South Pacific Ocean (IODP Expedition 378)”.
PI of the Project : Dr. Amit K Ghosh
Organizations : Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences , Lucknow
Project Duration : One year
Date of Sanction : 14th June, 2021
Status : Completed