Dr. Firoz Kadar Badesab ( CSIR-NIO )
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Dr. Firoz Kadar Badesab 

Principal Scientist ( Headquarters, Goa )

DepartmentGeological Oceanography (GOD)

Research Interests/SpecializationMarine Geophysics

Career at CSIR

Date of Joining CSIR : 2014-08-12
Date of Joining Present Post : 2023-08-12
Date of Retirement : 2042-07-31

Contact Details
 Emailfiroz.nio@csir.res.in
  Office +91 8322450358
Work Details

Work Domain Scientific

Area of WorkEnviron, Rock & Biomagnetism

People Trained

Number of Ph.D. students supervised (Ongoing & Completed): 3
No of student(s) trained through Internship/Project Work/Dissertation :23

Grant-in-aid Projects
Ongoing Completed
0 1

 Education
Degree Specialization University Graduation Year
Ph.D Marine Geophyics University of Bremen, Germany 2012
MSc Physics Goa, University, India 2005
BSc Physics Goa University, India 2003
 Experiences
Position Organization From To
INSA-JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Advanced Marine Core Research (CMCR), Kochi University, Japan 2018 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow MARUM-Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University fo Bremen, Germany 2012 2013
CSIR-Quick Hire Fellow CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India 2014 2014
Project Assistant CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India 2005 2009
 Scholarship / Awards
Scholarship/Award Award Granting Agency Year
Raman Research Fellowship CSIR 2023
Ministry of Jal Shakti - "Water Hero" Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt of India 2022
K.K.Menon Award Council of the Geological Society of India 2020
Early Research Career Award Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB),DST 2017

Publications

Kadam, N., Badesab, F., Lascu, I. et al. (2024), Discovery of late Quaternary giant magnetofossils in the Bay of Bengal. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 5, 107 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01259-0

J. John Savio, V. Yatheesh, C.M. Bijesh, K. Mahender, K.K. Aswini, Firoz Badesab, M. Shuhail, G. Sriram, D. Twinkle, Raj Kumar, (2024)Morphotectonics of the Raman-Panikkar-Wadia seamount chain in the Laxmi Basin, Eastern Arabian Sea, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Volume 262, 105977,ISSN 1367-9120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105977.

Badesab, F., Kadam, N., Gullapalli, S., Dewangan, P., Gaikwad, V., Satelkar, N., et al. (2023). Control of source-to-sink processes on the dispersal, fractionation, and deposition of magnetic minerals in
a tropical mesotidal estuarine system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2023GC011178. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023GC011178

Kadam, N.B., Sangode, S.J., Venkateshwarlu, M., Meshram, D.C., Kulkarni, Y.R., Badesab, F., Singh, J. and Gudadhe, S.S., (2023). Acquisition of natural remanence in the basaltic laterites of Deccan volcanic province (India): Implications to palaeomagnetic studies in laterites. CATENA, 228, p.107154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107154

Badesab, F. *, Gaikwad, V., Venkateshwarlu, M., Kadam, N. (2023). Genesis and preservation of authigenic magnetite and greigite in the cold seep sediments, Bay of Bengal. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 151, 106212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106212

Kadam, N., Badesab, F. *, Gaikwad, V., Kotha, M., Fernandes, L. L., & Venkateshwarlu, M. (2022). Sedimentary response to the contrasting provenance and oceanographic conditions on the continental shelf of India. Continental Shelf Research, 248, 104853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104853

Gaikwad V, Badesab F, Dewangan P and Kotha M (2021). Diagenesis of magnetic minerals in active/relict methane seep: constraints from rock magnetism and mineralogical records from Bay of Bengal. Frontiers in Earth Science,9, 60. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart. 2021. 638594

Badesab, F. *, Gaikwad, V., Venkateshwarlu, M., Kadam, N. and João, H.M. (2022). Diagenetic dissolution, maghemitization and sulphidization of magnetic minerals in rapidly deposited gas hydrate bearing sediments from the Bay of Bengal. Marine and Petroleum Geology, p.105585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105585

Sridhar D. Iyer, A. R. Gujar, V. Sanil Kumar, D. K. Naik, S. S. Gaonkar, Sandhya Naik, Pooja Shirodkar, F. Badesab, R. A. A. Luis (2021) Sedimentological responses to coastal dynamics along the Thane District, North Maharashtra, West Coast of India, Sustainable Water Resources Management, 7:28 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-021-00518-8

F. Badesab*, V. Gaikwad, B. Nagender Nath, M. Venkateshwarlu, P.V. Aiswarya, A. Tyagi, K. Salunke, W. Fernandes, N. Kadam, S.J. Sangode, A. Sardar, G. Prabhu (2021) Controls of contrasting provenance and fractionation on the sediment magnetic records from the Bay of Bengal, Marine Geology, 437, 106515, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106515

F. Badesab*, M.B.L. Mascarenhas-Periera, V. Gaikwad, P. Dewangan, P.P. Panda, K. Deenadayalan, K. Salunke, B. Augastian, J. R. Patil, and B.V. Lakshmi (2021) Rock Magnetic Evidence of Tectonic Control on the Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Andaman Sea over ~ 1 Million Years, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 130, 105150, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105150

Hilda Maria Joao, Firoz Badesab*, Virsen Gaikwad, Muralidhar Kocherla, K. Deenadayalan (2021) Controls of mass transport deposit and magnetic mineral diagenesis on the sediment magnetic record from the Bay of Bengal, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 128, 104994, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.104994

A. Mazumdar, P. Dewangan, A. Peketi, F. Badesab, M. Sadique, K. Sivan, J. Mathai, A. Ghosh, A. Zatale, S.P.K. Pillutla, C. Uma, C.K. Mishra, W. Fernandes, A. Tyagi and T. Paul (2021) The first record of the genus Lamellibrachia (Siboglinidae) tube worm along with associated organisms in a chemosynthetic ecosystem from the Indian Ocean: a report from the Cauvery–Mannar Basin. Journal of Earth System Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01587-1

Gaikwad V, Badesab F*, Dewangan P and Kotha M (2021) Diagenesis of Magnetic Minerals in Active/Relict Methane Seep: Constraints from Rock Magnetism and Mineralogical Records from Bay of Bengal. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:638594. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.638594

Badesab F*, Dewangan P and Gaikwad V (2020) Magnetic Mineral Diagenesis in a Newly Discovered Active Cold Seep Site in the Bay of Bengal. Frontiers in Earth Science 8:592557. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.592557

Badesab, F*., Dewangan, P., Gaikwad, V., Sebastian, J. G. and M.V. Venkateshwarlu (2020). A rock magnetic perspective of gas hydrate occurrences in a high-energy depositional system in the Krishna-Godavari basin, Bay of Bengal, Geo-Marine Letters https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-020-00646-8

Badesab, F*., Gaikwad, V., Dewangan, P., (2019). Controls on greigite preservation in a gas-hydrate system off Krishna-Godavari basin, Bay of Bengal. Geo-Marine Letters, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00604-z

Badesab, F*., Dewangan, P., Gaikwad, V., Kars, M., Kocherla, M., Krishna, K. S., et al. (2019). Magnetic mineralogical approach for the exploration of gas hydrates in the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 4428–4451. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017466.

Badesab, F*., V. Gaikwad, T. R. Gireeshkumar, O. Naikgaonkar, K. Deenadayalan, S. V. Samiksha, P.K Dinesh Kumar (2018). Magnetic tracing of sediment dynamics of mudbanks off southwest coast of India. Environmental Earth Sciences 77, no. 17 2018): 625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7807-6

A. Usapkar, P. Dewangan, A. Mazumdar, K.S. Krishna, T. Ramprasad, F.K. Badesab, M. Patil, V.V. Gaikwad (2018). Paleomagnetic record for the past 80 ka from the Mahanadi basin, Bay of Bengal, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Volume 151, 2018, Pages 226-239.

Badesab, F*., Dewangan, P., Usapkar, A., Kocherla, M., Peketi, A., Mohite, K., Sangode, S. J., and Deenadayalan, K. (2017). Controls on evolution of gas-hydrate system in the Krishna-Godavari basin, offshore India, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18, 52–74, oi:10.1002/2016GC006606.

Firoz Badesab*, Tilo von Dobeneck, Roger M. Briggs, Karin R. Bryan, Janna Just, Hendrik Müller (2017). Sediment dynamics of an artificially deepened mesotidal coastal lagoon: An environmental magnetic investigation of Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 194, 2017, Pages 240-251, ISSN 0272-7714.

Badesab, F*., Iyer, S.D., Gujar, A.R., Naik, D.K., Gaonkar, S.S., Luis, R.A.A., Shirodkar, P. and Naik, S (2017). Understanding heavy mineral dynamics using magnetic fingerprinting technique: a case study of North Maharashtra Coast, India. (2017). Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(6), p.257.

A. Usapkar, P. Dewangan, F.K. Badesab, A. Mazumdar, T. Ramprasad, K.S. Krishna, N. Basavaiah (2016). High resolution Holocene paleomagnetic secular variation records from Bay of Bengal, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 252, Pages 49-76, ISSN 0031-9201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.01.004.

P. Dewangan, N. Basavaiah, F.K. Badesab, A. Usapkar, A. Mazumdar, R. Joshi, T. Ramprasad (2013). Diagenesis of magnetic minerals in a gas hydrate/cold seep environment off the Krishna–Godavari basin, Bay of Bengal, Marine Geology, Volume 340, Pages 57-70, ISSN 0025-3227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.04.016.

Badesab, F*., Dobeneck, T., Bryan, K. R., Müller, H., Briggs, R. M., Frederichs, T., and Kwoll, E. (2012). Formation of magnetite-enriched zones in and offshore of a mesotidal estuarine lagoon: An environmental magnetic study of Tauranga Harbour and Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q06012, doi:10.1029/2012GC004125.

P. Dewangan, T. Ramprasad, M.V. Ramana, A. Mazumdar, M. Desa, F.K. Badesab (2010). Seabed morphology and gas venting features in the continental slope region of Krishna–Godavari basin, Bay of Bengal: Implications in gas-hydrate exploration, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 27, Issue 7, Pages 1628-1641, ISSN 0264-8172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.03.015.

A. Mazumdar, P. Dewangan, H. M. Joäo. A. Peketi, V. R. Khosla, M. Kocherla, F. K. Badesab, R. K. Joshi, P. Roxanne, P. B. Ramamurty, S. M. Karisiddaiah, D. J. Patil, A. M. Dayal, T. Ramprasad, C. J. Hawkesworth, R. Avanzinelli (2009). Evidence of paleo–cold seep activity from the Bay of Bengal, offshore India, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10, Q06005, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GC002337.

A. Mazumdar, A. Peketi, P. Dewangan, F. Badesab, T. Ramprasad, M.V. Ramana, D.J. Patil, A. Dayal (2009). Shallow gas charged sediments off the Indian west coast: Genesis and distribution, Marine Geology, Volume 267, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.09.005.

Achievements:

Raman Research Award by CSIR, India for the YEar 2023-24.

Ministry of Jal Shakti “Water Hero Award - 2022” by Govt of India.

Goa State Biodiversity Conservation Award – 2021 by Govt of Goa.

K. K. Menon Award by Geological Society of India in 2020

INSA-JSPS Young Researcher Fellowship award by INSA-DST in 2018.

Recipient of Early Career Research Award (ECRA) awarded by SERB-DST in 2016

Recipient of Three months early career fellowship awarded by MARUM-Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany in 2012

Recipient of DFG (German Research Foundation) Funded PhD fellowship.

Principal Investigator: Completed a project on “Developing a magnetic minerals as markers of evolution of gas hydrate system of Bay of Bengal” (2016 –2019).

Assistant Professor of the AcSIR Academy in the Faculty of Physical Sciences, CSIR

Chairman of Biodiversity Management Committee which was constituted at our village panchayat (Curti-Khandepar, Ponda, Goa) under the banner of Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB), Government of Goa.

Recipient of CSIR- quick hire fellowship in 2014.

Participated in various international and national scientific cruises for geophysical data acquisition and geological sampling. The scientific cruises includes onboard IODP research vessel DV JOIDES Resolution, DV Chikyu, RV Marion Dufresne, RV Alkor, ORV Sagar Kanya, ORV SagarNidhi, CRV Sagar Sukhti, RV Sindhu Sadhana, RV Sindhu Sankalp The total sea-going experience is around 180 Days

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 Professional Membership
Indian Geophysical Union (IGU)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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