

Principal Scientist ( Headquarters, Goa )
DepartmentGeological Oceanography (GOD)
Research Interests/SpecializationMarine Geophysics
Date of Joining CSIR : 2014-08-12
Date of Joining Present Post : 2023-08-12
Date of Retirement : 2042-07-31
Work Domain Scientific
Area of WorkEnviron, Rock & Biomagnetism
Number of Ph.D. students supervised (Ongoing & Completed): 3
No of student(s) trained through Internship/Project Work/Dissertation :23
Ongoing | Completed |
0 | 1 |
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