Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for Earth | Atmosphere | Ocean | and Environmental Sciences 2018 awarded to Dr. Parthasarathi Chakraborty
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Environmental Sciences 2018 awarded to Dr. Parthasarathi Chakraborty

May 3, 2019, 3:58 pm   Public   Archive   Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award   2018   New Delhi   CSIR

During the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Foundation day function at New Delhi on 26 September 2018, Prof. Asutosh Sharma, Director General, CSIR announced award of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Environmental Sciences-2018 to Dr. Parthasarathi Chakraborty, senior scientist from the CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).

Dr. Chakraborty received M.Sc in Chemistry from North Bengal University, West Bengal, in 2000 and M.Tech. in Applied Chemistry from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, in 2002. He completed his doctoral research (PhD) from Ottawa Carleton Chemistry Institute, Canada in 2007. After working as a postdoctoral research associate in the Wageningen University, The Netherlands, he joined CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography in December-2008.

Dr. Chakraborty initiated metal speciation study (after establishing the FIRST metal-speciation laboratory in India (at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography) to realize the important role of metal-natural ligands interactions in controlling distribution, fate, mobility, and bioavailability of trace/heavy metals in marine environments (estuarine, coastal and open ocean).

The results of his research have been published in about 58 papers in national and international journals of repute with total impact factor of more 160. His pioneering works put him as an associate member of Scientific Committee on Ocean Research Working Groups (SCOR-WG 139 and SCIR-WG 145). He is the recipient of NATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AWARD-2013 (Ministry of Mines, Govt of India) KRISHNAN MEDAL -2015 (Indian Geophysical Union), KHARAKA AWARD-2017 (International Association of Geochemistry, USA) and INDIAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED GEOCHEMISTS (ISAG)-MEDAL-2017 for his significant contributions to the field of Environmental Geochemistry.  Dr. Chakraborty’s international recognition includes serving as an associate member of Scientific Committees (SCOR-WG139 AND WG-145), Thesis reviewer and committee member in foreign university (Otago University, New Zealand) and working as a potential reviewer for the assessment and evaluation of NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF, USA) funded projects.  He has been a visiting scientist/Professor to University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been working as an ASSOCIATE EDITOR of a very reputed journal MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN (ELSEVIER, with IMPACT FACTOR 3.25).

Congratulations to Dr. Parthasarathi Chakraborty.

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