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Extra Caricular:
Award and Prizes:

Doctoral Fellowship to Sweden, 1990-1991

1994 Khosala Annual Research Award (silver medal)

BOYSCAST Fellow, 2000-2001

INSA-DFG Exchange Fellowship to Germany 2002-2003

First Prof. H.H. Read Gold Medal, 2005

Others

Membership/Fellowship Of Professional Societies:

 

Ø         Life Member (LM-569) Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry (ISMAS)

Ø         Life Member Geological Society of India, Bangalore

Ø               Life Member Paleontological Society of India, Lucknow

Ø               Life Member, Himalayan Geology, WIHG, Dehradun

Ø               Life Member, Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad

Ø               Life Member, Association of petroleum Geologists, Dehradun

                        Ø         Member IASTG, (International Association of Structural/ Tectonic Geologists) Membership no. IA 975.

Ø               Member AGID, (Association of GeoScientist for International Development).

 

Other Activities/Responsibilities:

 

Ø               Member – Expert Pannel, Development Research Committee of Research Council for culture and Society of Academy of Finland.

Ø               Secretary, Commission on Granite, International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), An Association of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 2001-2004.

Ø               Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Virtual Explorer, Electronic Journal published from Monash University Australia, ISSN numbers: 1441-8126 (for the printed journal), 1441-8142 (for the online journal) and 1441 8134 (for the CD-ROM's journal).

Ø               Guest Editor, 19th Himalayan-Karakoram Workshop volume to be published in Journal of South East Asia (Elsevier Publication)

Ø               Regional Editor, Himalayan Notes, published from Department of Geology, Box 871404, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA.

Ø               Involved in running and maintaining of National Facility on Geochronology/Isotope Geology at Indian Institute of Technology

Ø               Involved in Himalayan Geotransect Programme (HIMPROBE)

Ø               Organized a workshop on Himalayan Tectonics (the HIMPROBE Result) in October 2003

Ø               Member of the core team Establishing a National Facility for 40Ar-39Ar Geo-thermochronology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

Ø               Co-chaired a session on Eastern Himalaya –II in 17th International Workshop on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth (EM  India 2004) at Hyderabad, India, October 2004.

Ø               Co-Chaired a session on Central Transects in National Workshop on Indian Geotransect (WinGeo-2004) at Dehradun, India, November 2004.

Ø               Convenor, National Conference on Geochemical and Isotopic Evolution of Continental Crust, IITRoorkee, November 2005.

Ø               Organizing Secretary, 23rd International Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Leh, India in 2008

Training

Isotope geochemistry & geochronology on Finnegan Mat 261 massspectrometer for U-Pb dating of zircon and Rb-Sr techniques. This includes sample collection and preparation, chemical separation, data acquisition on mass spectrometer and interpretation at Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden (for 6 Months).

 

Metamorphic petrology and mineral chemistry using Electron Probe Micro Analyser (EPMA) at USIC, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India

 

Excellence in Diagramatics and Cartography in Earth Sciences at Department of Geology, Pune University, India

 

On hand experiences and the Courses on Scanning Electron Microscopy (the course covered basic SEM, digital imaging and minimum sample requireents. Users were trained on instruments appropriate to their needs to a basic operational standards. Afternoon practical sessions support the Theory), Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (the course covered special characteristics of the ESEM with emphasis on control of temperature and pressure of the sample chamber environment. The benefits of ESEM on a range of moist and uncoated specimens of a physical and biological nature. Along with this a new charge contrast imaging (CCI) was also covered), Electron Microbeam Analysis (an introductory course on electron microbeam analysis of bulk samples and it covered general theory and principles of operation of energy dispersive X-ray detector, X-ray data correction procedures and sample preparation. Basic wavelenth dispersive X-ray analysis was also covered) and Digital Image Manipulation and Storage (the course contained review of the nature of digital image; explaining the relevent terminology, the currently available facilities for printing and transferring of images and the various media for image storage. The course also covered introduction to the image manipulation softwares like Adobe photoshop 5.0, NIH Image 1.62, Macromedia Freehand 7.0 and Powerpoint 5.0) at The Western Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Western Australia.

 

On hand experience and course on SHRIMP II (Sensitive High mass Resolution Ion MicroProbe II) at The Western Australian Isotope Science Research Center based at Curtin University. The course was aimed at the working knowledge of: how ion microprobe function; what ion microprobes are used for; how not to damage the SHRIMP II; some common problem and fixes; how to collect good data and how to identify bad data; the fundamentals of problem diagnosis and safety. 

 

Isotope geochemistry & geochronology on Finnegan Mat 261 massspectrometer for U-Pb dating of zircon and Rb-Sr techniques. This includes testing Pb blanks in the lab along with column preparation for U-Pb technique, data acquisition on mass spectrometer and interpretation at Center for Isotope Geology, Department of Earth and Environment Science, Ludwig-Maximillan University Munich, Germany (for 3 Months).

 

Isotope geochemistry & geochronology on Triton T1 massspectrometer for U-Pb dating  of zircon and Sm-Nd techniques. This includes testing Pb blanks in the lab along with column preparation for U-Pb technique, data acquisition on mass spectrometer and interpretation at Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden and Thermo Electron Corporation, Breman, Germany (for 1 Months).

 

Isotope geochemistry & geochronology on Triton T1 massspectrometer, India Geochemistry on ICP-MS (Perkin Elemer), India







International Collaboration:

 

  1. Prof. Mark E. Barley, Centre for Global Metalogeny, School of Earth and Geographical Science, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
  2. Dr. Jan Koslar, Department of Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Charles University, Albertovn 6, Prague, 2, 128 43, Czeck Republic
  3. Prof. Ernst Hegner, Professor of Geochemistry and Geochronology, Head Isotope Laboratory, Department of earth Sciences, Geochemistry Section, Ludwig-Maximlans-Universitat, Munchen, Germany
  4. Dr. Mary L. Leech, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA