List of Publications

  1. Anilkumar N.,  Dash M.K., Luis A.J., Ramesh Babu V., Somayajulu Y.K., Sudhakar M.,  Pandey P.C., 2005. Oceanic fronts along 45°E across Antarctic Circumpolar Current during austral summer 2004. Current Science, 88 (10): 1669-1673.
  2. Anilkumar N.,  Luis A.J., Somayajulu Y.K., Ramesh Babu V., Dash M.K. , Pednekar S.M., Babu K.N., Sudhakar M., Pandey P.C., 2006.  Fronts, Water Masses and Heat Content Variability in the Western Indian Sector of Southern Ocean during Austral Summer 2004. Journal of Marine Systems 63: 20-34.
  3. Anilkumar N., Pednekar S.M., Sudhakar M., 2007. Influence of ridges on hydrographic parameters in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Marine Geophysical Researches 28: 191-199. doi: 10.1007/s11001-007-9026-5.
  4. Anilkumar, N., George, J.V., Chacko R, Nuncio, M., Sabu, P. 2014. Variability of fronts, fresh water input and chlorophyll in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/00288330.2014.924972.
  5. Anilkumar N., Chacko R., Sabu P., Honey U.K. Pillai., George J.V., Achuthankutty C. T. 2014. Biological response to physical processes in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, A case study in the coastal and oceanic waters. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 186:8109-8124. DOI: 10-1007/s10661-014-3990-4.
  6. Chacko R., Nuncio M, George G.V., Anilkumar N., 2014. Observational evidence of the southward transport of watermasses in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean. Current science [in press].
  7. Dessai D.V.G., Singh K.T., Mohan R.,  Nayak G.N.,  Sudhakar M., 2011. Reading source and processes from the distribution of suspended particulate matter and its selected elemental chemistry in the Southern and Indian Oceans. Current Science, 100 (8): 1193-1200.
  8. George J.V.,  Nuncio M., Chacko R., Anilkumar N., Noronha S.B., Shramik M.P, Pavithran S., Alappattu D.P, Krishnan, K.P., Achuthankutty C.T., 2013. Role of physical processes in chlorophyll distribution in the western tropical Indian Ocean.  Journal of Marine Systems, 113–114: 1–12.
  9. Jasmine P., Muraleedharan K.R., Madhu N.V., Ashadevi C.R, Alagarsamy R., Achuthankutty C.T., Zeena P.R., Sanjeevan V.N., Sahayak S., 2009. Hydrographic and productivity characteristics along 45° E longitude in the southwestern Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean during austral summer 2004. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 389: 97-116.
  10. Jayasankar P., Krishnan A.A., Rajagopalan M., Krishnakumar P.K., 2007. A note on observations on cetaceans in the western Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (20-56°S and 45-57°30'E), January to March 2004. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management.  9(3): 263-267.
  11. Jiping L., Swart S., Bhaskar P.V., Newman L., Meredith M. and Schofield O., Jianfeng H.E., 2014. The SOOS Asian Workshop: Exploring possibilities for collaboration. Advances in Polar Science, 25(2): 121-125.
  12. Krishnan, K.P.,  Rupesh Kumar Sinha, Shanta Nair, Noronha, S., Chacko, R. and Anilkumar, N., 2014. Carbon demand, utilization and metabolic diversity of bacterioplankton in the frontal regimes of the Indian sector of Southern Ocean.    Annals of Microbiology. doi: 10.1007/s13213-014-0948-2 [published online].
  13. Manoj M.C, Thamban M., Basavaiah N., Rahul Mohan, 2012. Evidence for climatic and oceanographic controls on terrigenous sediment supply to the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 63,000 years. Geo-Marine Letters. 32: 251-265.
  14. Manoj M.C., Thamban M., Sahana A., Rahul Mohan, Mahender K., 2013. Provenance and temporal variability of ice rafted debris in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the last 22,000 years. Journal of  Earth System Science. 122 (2) 491–501.
  15. Manish Tiwari, Rahul Mohan, Thamban M., Naik S.S, and Sudhakar M., 2011. Effect of varying frontal systems on stable oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions of modern planktic foraminifera of Southern Ocean. Current Science, 100(6): 881-887.
  16. Manish Tiwari, Siddhesh S. Nagoji, Thammisetti Kartik, G. Drishya, R.K. Parvathy, Sivaramakrishnan Rajan, 2013. Oxygen isotope–salinity relationships of discrete oceanic regions from India to Antarctica vis-à-vis surface hydrological processes. Journal of Marine Systems 113-114: 88-93.
  17. Moorthy K.K., Sateesh S.K., Babu S.S., Saha A., 2005. Large latitudinal gradients and temporal heterogeneity in aerosol black carbon and its mass mixing ratio over southern and northern oceans observed during a trans-continental cruise experiment. Geophysical Research Letter. 32,  L14818. doi: 10,1029/2005GL023267.
  18. Naveen Gandhi, Ramesh, R., Laskar, A.H., Sheshshayee, M.S., Suhas Shetye, Anilkumar, N., Shramik M. Patil and Rahul Mohan, 2012. Zonal variability in productivity and nitrogen uptake rates in the southwestern Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean. Deep Sea Research-I 67, 32-43.
  19.  Naveen Gandhi, Ramesh, R., Prakash, S., Sharon Noronha, Anilkumar, N., 2013. Primary and new production in the thermocline ridge region of the southern Indian Ocean during the summer monsoon.  Journal of Marine Research, 70, 779–793, 2013.
  20.  Pavithran S., Anilkumar N., Krishnan K.P.,  Noronha S. B., George J.V, Nanajkar M., Chacko R., Dessai, D.R.G., Achuthankutty, C.T., 2012. Contrasting pattern in chlorophyll a distribution within the Polar Front of the Indian sector of Southern Ocean during austral summer 2010. Current Science 102(6): 899-903.
  21. Rahul Mohan, Mergulhao L.P., Guptha M.V.S., Rajakumar A., Thamban M., Anilkumar N., Sudhakar M., Ravindra R., 2008.   Ecology of Coccolithophores in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Marine Micropaleotology. 67:30-45. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.08.005
  22. Rahul Mohan, Shanvas S., Thamban M., Sudhakar M.,  2006. Spatial distribution of diatoms in surface sediments from the Indian sector of Southern Ocean. Current Science. 91 (11): 1495-1502.
  23. Rahul Mohan, Shukla S. K., Anilkumar N., Sudhakar M., Satya Prakash, Ramesh  R. 2009. Relative Microalgal Concentration in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica during Late Austral Summer, 2006. Algae. 24(3): 1-10.
  24. Rahul Mohan, Anayat A. Quarshi, Thamban M., Sudhakar M., 2011. Diatoms from the surface waters of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer of 2004. Current Science, 100 (9): 1323-1327.
  25. Roseline C. Thakur, Thamban M., 2013. Latitudinal and size segregated compositional variability of aerosols over the Indian and Southern Ocean during 2010 austral summer. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, [In Press].
  26. Sabu, P., Anilkumar, N., George J.V., Chacko R., Tripathy, S. C. and Achuthankutty, C.T., 2014. Air-sea-ice interaction on the anomalous phytoplankton bloom in the Indian Ocean sector of Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean during austral summer 2011. Polar Science. doi: 10.1016/j.polar.2014.08.001. [published online].
  27. Saraswat, R., Khare, N.,Chaturvedi, S.K., Rajakumar, A., 2007. Sea-water pH and planktic foraminiferal abundance: Preliminary observations from the western Indian Ocean. Current Science, 93 (5):703-706.
  28. Saraswat, R., Khare, N.,  2010. Deciphering the modern calcification depth of globigerina bulloides in the southwestern Indian Ocean from its oxygen isotopic composition. Journal of Foraminiferal Research,  40(3): 220–230.
  29. Sruthi K.V., Thamban M., Manoj M.C., Laluraj C.M., 2012. Association of trace elements with various geochemical phases in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean during past 22,000 years and its palaeoceanographic implications. Current Science 103(7): 803-808.
  30. Srivastava R., Ramesh R., Satya Prakash, Anilkumar N., Sudhakar M., 2007 Oxygen isotope and salinity variations in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters.  34, L24603. doi: 10.1029/2007GL031790.
  31. Suhas Shetye., Sudhakar M., Ramesh R.,  Rahul Mohan, Shramik Patil, Amzad Laskar, 2012.  Sea surface pCO2 in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean during Austral summer of 2009. Advanced Geosciences,28:79-92.
  32. Swart S., Jiping L, Bhaskar P.V., Newman L., Fenney K., Meredith M. and Schofield O., 2014. The SOOS Asian Workshop: Exploring possibilities for collaboration. Advances in Polar Science, 25(2): 126-132.
  33. Thamban M., Naik S.S., Rahul Mohan, Rajakumar A., Basavaiah N., D’Souza W., Kerkar S., Subramaniam M.M., Sudhakar M., Pandey P.C., 2005. Changes in the source and transport mechanism of terrigenous input to the Indian sector of Southern Ocean during the late Quaternary and its palaeoceanographic implications.Journal of Earth System Science. 114 (5): 443–452.
  34. Tripathy S.C. , Pavithran S., Sabu P., Naik R.K., Haridevi, C. K., Noronha, S.B., Bhaskar, P.V., Anilkumar, N., 2014. Is phytoplankton productivity in the Indian Ocean sector of Southern Ocean affected by pigment packaging effect? Current Science Vol. 107(6): 1019 – 1026.
  35. Usha V. Parameshvaran, Abdul Jaleel K.U., Sanjeevan V.N., Anthony P.J., Elizabeth John, 2014. Benthic polycheates off Edward VIII plateau in the continental shelf of East Antarctica. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences. 43(6): 915-919.
  36. Vinoj V., Anjan A., Sudhakar M., Sateesh S.K., Srinivasan J., Moorthy K.K., 2007. Latitudinal variation of aerosol optical depths from northern Arabian Sea to Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letter. 34,  L10807. doi: 10,1029/2007GL029419.
  37. Papers accepted in Special Volume on Southern Ocean studies (Eds. M.Sudhakar & Rasik Ravindra)-Current Science 2010
  38. Anilkumar N., Rahul Mohan, Sunil Kumar Shukla, Pednekar, S.M., Sudhakar, M. and Ravindra, R., 2010. Signatures of coastal upwelling in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica during austral summer 2006.
  39. Baban Ingole,  Ravail Singh., 2010. Biodiversity and Community Structure of Free-living Marine Nematodes from the Larsemann Ice Shelf, east Antarctica .
  40. Bhat G.S., Rao P.L., Sangolli V.G., 2010. Atmospheric Boundary-Layer across Hadley and Ferrel Cells over the Indian Ocean.
  41. Narayana A.C., Rahul Mohan, Mishra R., 2010. A preliminary Study on Morphology and Surface Textures of  Quartz Grains from Fresh Water Lakes.
  42. Ravi Mishra, Sudhakar, M., Pednekar, S.M., Abhishek Tyagi., 2010. Seabed Morphology of the Approach Channel of  Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay,  East Antarctica.
  43. Rohit Srivastava, Ramesh R., Jani R.A., Anilkumar N., Sudhakar M., 2010. Spatial variation of hydrogen isotopes and salinity in the Southern Indian Ocean.
  44. Satya Prakash, Ramesh R., Sheshshayee M.S., Rahul Mohan, Sudhakar M., 2010. Effect of iron enrichment on nitrogen assimilation by marine planktons in Southern Ocean.
  45. Suresh Babu S., Krishna Moorthy K., Satheesh S.K., 2010. Latitudinal Gradient in Aerosol Properties over Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean during the Northern Hemispheric Winter.

Conferences / Symposiums

 

  1. Alappattu D.P., Satheesan, K., Anilkumar, N., Chacko R., George J.V.,  2012. Air Sea fluxes over Indian Sector of Southern Ocean using satellite and in-situ data. Book of abstracts, PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India. P 176.
  2. Anilkumar N., Chacko R., Sabu P., Pavithran S., Pillai H.U.K, Dessai D., George J.V., Achuthankutty, C.T., 2012. Environmental influence on biological production in the coastal and oceanic regions off Antarctica. Book of abstracts, PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India P 342.
  3. Anilkumar N Participated in the third scientific meeting of the India-Brazil-South Africa [IBSA] inter-regional alliance for Oceanography at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: 7-9th March, 2012.
  4. Anilkumar N Participated in the Workshop on impact of Climate Change on biogeochemical cycle and ecosystem in Arctic-Antarctic Polar seas at Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 1st & 2nd October 2011.
  5. Anilkumar N., Pednekar S.M., Chacko R., Ravindra, R., 2012. Meridional extent of subtropical and polar water masses in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean. Abstract accepted for SCAR Conference July 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  6. Anilkumar N., Pednekar S.M., Sudhakar M., Ravindra R., 2007.  Thermohaline structure in the Antarctic Waters. Oral presentation in the Indian Science Congress, Annamalai University on 6th January 2007.
  7. Anilkumar N., Pednekar S.M., Sudhakar M., Ravindra R., 2007. Characterization of water masses and meridional circulation in the Indian sector of southern Ocean. Paper presented in the Conference Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Bangkok, 31st July, 07 -2nd August, 2007.
  8. Bhaskar P.V., Naik R., Pavithran S., Desai D.G, Pillai H., George J.V., Anilkumar N., 2012. Phytoplankton distribution in contrasting frontal environments: impacts on food-web dynamics in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean- Authors: Abstract accepted for AOGS 2012.
  9. Cavalheiro F., Mendes C.R.B., Garcia V.M.T., Kerr R. Garcia C.A.E., Dessai D.R.G., Anilkumar N., 2012. Phytoplankton across the main fronts in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean: HPLC CHEMTAX approach. Abstract accepted and presented IPY conference 22-27 April 2012 at Montreal, Canada.
  10. Chacko R., George J.V., Anilkumar N., Pednekar S., Sudhakar M., Ravindra R., 2009. Variability of thermohaline structure on inter-annual time scale in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer.  National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  11. Chacko R., Anilkumar N., Sabu P., George J.V., Divya David T., 2012. Variability of the Polar Front in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summer.  Book of abstracts,  PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India. P 344.
  12. Cutting R., Singh N., Tiwari A.K., Ravindra R., 2009. Particle size variation and trace metal pollution: A comprehensive study over Southern Ocean and Antarctica. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  13. Dessai D.R.G., Soares M.A, Pavithran S., Chacko R., George J.V, Bhaskar P.V., Anilkumar N., Achuthankutty C.T., 2012. Spatial and Vertical Distributions of Nutrients along 57030’E and 470E in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean. Abstract accepted in AOGS 2012.
  14. Divya David T, Chacko R., Anilkumar N., Sabu P., George J.V., 2012. Stratification variability in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean associated with climatic events. Book of abstracts, PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India.  P 343.
  15. George J.V., Nuncio M., Anilkumar N., Chacko R. and Ullas N., 2012. Physical control on the chlorophyll variability in the Seychelles Chagos Thermocline. Ridge. Book of abstracts, PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India. P 127.
  16. Jeyabaskaran R. and Vivekanandan E. Marine mammal sightings in Southern Ocean. Poster presented during (CIMCAR) Dr. S. Jones centenary colloquium on Challenges In Marine Mammal Conservation & Research in the Indian Ocean. 26-27 august 2011, Kochi.
  17. Manoj M.C., Thamban M., Rahul Mohan, Quarshi A., Basavaiah N., 2009. Reconstuction of late quaternary climate variability in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean using rock magnetic properties. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  18. Neelu Singh, Cutting R.M., Tiwari A.K., Ravindra R., 2009. Biogeochemical cycles of trace metals (including mercury) in the southern ocean. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  19. Nuncio M, Satheesan K. and George J.V., 2012.  High frequency variability of the Subtropical Front. Book of abstracts, PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India  PP  191.
  20. Pednekar S.M.,  Anilkumar N.  Luis A.J.,  Sudhakar M., Yasuhiro Sugimori, 2006. Mesoscale Eddy Trajectories in the Indian Ocean Circulation using Satellite Altimetry. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference on the Asia –Pacific Remote Sensing, 13-17 November 2006.
  21. Prabhu A., Mahajan P.N., Khaladkar R.M., 2009. Polar climate variability over the southern Ocean and its association with the Indian sector summer monsoon rainfall. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  22. Roseline C. Thakur and Thamban M., 2013. Latitudinal and size segregated compositional variability of aerosols over the Indian and Southern Ocean during 2010 austral summer. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, In Press, IF – 2.83. doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.12.0337
  23. Sabu P., Chacko R., Anilkumar, N., George J.V., Divya David, T. Ravindra R., 2012. Variability of Dicothermal Layer in the Indian Sector of Southern Ocean during Austral Summer. Book of abstracts, PORSEC-2012, Kochi, India. P 341
  24. Satya Prakash, Ramesh R., Rahul Mohan, Sudhakar M., 2009. Is there a shift in productivity regime in the southern Indian Ocean due to global warming? National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  25. Shetye S.S., Noronha S.B., Anilkumar N., Sudhakar M., Ravindra R., 2009. Spatial variations in dissolved oxygen and macro nutrients and its controlling factors in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  26. Shukla S.K., Rahul Mohan, Shetye S., Sudhakar M., Ravindra R., 2009. Diatom assamblage from Enderby basin of Indian sectir of southern Ocean. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  27. Soares M.A., Bhaskar P.V., Dessai D., Naik R., George J.V., Manish Tiwari, Anilkumar N., 2014. Latitudinal variation of δ13C and δ15N in Particulate Organic Matter (POM) from surface waters of Indian Ocean sector of Southern Ocean and Tropical Indian Ocean during 2012. Poster presented during XXXIII SCAR Open Science  Conference, 2014 at Auckland, New Zealand.
  28. Sruthi K.V., Thamban M., Laluraj C.M., Manoj M.C., Rahul Mohan, 2009. Geochemical speciation studies in sedimentary records of the Indian sector of southern Ocean and its implications on the paleoenvironmental changes. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.
  29. Thamban M., Rahul Mohan, Manoj M.C., 2009. Climatic evolution and productivity fluctuations during the past 22 kyr in the Indian sector of southern Ocean. National conference on “Climatic change during the quaternary; special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” at Goa during 22-23rd October 2009.