IODP-India funded post-cruise 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         :  26^th 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         :  26^th Nov 2012

 Sanctioned Grant          :  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         :  14^th 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         :  22^nd 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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

Sanctioned Grant        :  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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

Sanctioned Grant        :  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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

 

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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

 Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

 

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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

 Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

 

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         :  23^rd Feb 2017

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

Project Title: “Probing the Evolution Of Late Miocene Bottom Water Oxygenation: A Stable Metal Isotope Constraints (PELMO-SMIC)”. 

 

PI of the Project         :  Dr. Gurumurthy GP

Organizations              :  BSIP, Lucknow

Project Duration          :  Three (+1) years

Date of Sanction         :  08^th May 2017

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

 

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         :  26^th September 2018

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

 

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         :  26^th September 2018

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

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         :  26^th September 2018

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

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         :  26^th September 2018

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

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         :  26^th September 2018

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

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         :  14^th June, 2021

Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing

 

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 years

Date of Sanction         :  14^th 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 years

 Date of Sanction         :  14^th June, 2021                           

 Sanctioned Grant        :  Ongoing