Quaternary Palaeoclimate Group
Coordinator— Dr. Rahul Garg/ 
                      Dr. Asha Khandelwal
                       

Mandate

• Generation of high resolution multi-proxy data for palaeoclimatic interpretation
• Recognition & documentation of major Global Climatic Events, perturbations & catastrophes
• Reconstruction of Palaeovegetation in terrestrial and coastal records
• Impact of Anthropogenic activities and Global warming.
• Paleoproductivity and sea level changes
• Inshore-Offshore trends
• Organic matter distribution and preservation vis-à-vis OMZ in Arabian Sea
• Multidisciplinary integration   

Projects

Personnel

9.1

History of mangrove vegetation in Mahanadi Delta

Asha Khandelwal
Shilpa Singh

9.2

Evolution of Mangroves and Coastal Vegetation; Its implications in Palaeoclimate and sea-level studies during Quaternary

Anjum Farooqui

9.3

Multiproxy Palaeoclimatic studies in coastal and Marine sediments of Western Indian region

Rahul Garg
Vandana Prasad
Biswajeet Thakur

9.4

Studies on Quaternary vegetation and climate change in southwestern Madhya Pradesh, based on pollen proxy evidence

M.S. Chauhan
Md. Firoze Quamar

9.5

Studies on Quaternary vegetation and Climate from Himalaya

Asha Gupta

9.6

Proxy climatic signals from lacustrine lake sediments of Upper Assam Basin and adjoining Foot Hill Forests of Arunachal Pradesh (Subansiri District) during Holocene: a comparative Palaeoecological assessment

S.K. Bera
S.K. Basumatary

Dendrochronology Group
Coordinator— Dr. Dr. R.R. Yadav
                       

Mandate

• Develop well-dated tree-ring chronologies
• High-resolution proxy climate reconstructions
• Understanding global climatic events during late Holocene

Projects

Personnel

10.1

Development of long-term high resolution proxy climate record from the Himalayan region

R.R. Yadav

10.2

Analysis of climatic changes based on multi proxy data during Holocene from peninsular and Himalayan region

A. Bhattacharyya
Santosh Kr. Shah

Palaeoethnobotany Group Coordinator— Director /
               Dr. Chanchala Srivastava                       

Mandate

• Ancient plant Economy and past Plant-Human relationship.
• Ethnobotanical study of present day tribal regions.

Projects

Personnel

11.1

Palaeoethnobotany: Ancient man, plants and environment in northern and north-western India

Chanchala Srivastava
A.K. Pokharia

11.2

Studies on phytodiversity and ethnobotany of Bilaspur in Chhatisgarh State and Anuppur in Madhya Pradesh State

D.C. Saini

Isotope & Geochemistry Group
 Coordinator— Director /
               Dr. C.M. Nautiyal                       

Mandate

• Generation of isotope, geochemical, clay mineralogy and mineral magnetic data for environmental studies
• Interpretations to understand Palaeoseismicity and neotectonics
• Geochronometric studies

Projects

Personnel

12.1

Tectonoclimatic signatures in Ladakh and Lahul sectors of Tethyan Himalaya during Quaternary period: a multi-proxy approach using mineral magnetic, geochemical and geochronological parameters

Binita Phartiyal
Anupam Sharma 

12.2

Developing and combining physical, geophysical and geochemical methods to make a comparative study of Late Quaternary climate recorded in lake sediments/deposits from Himalayan regions

C M Nautiyal
S Chakraborty