Awards and Honors

1. Awarded the Mani Shanker Shukla Gold Medal from the Palaeontological Society of India. - 2022
2. Awarded the Ramanujan Fellowship by the Science and Engineering Research Board, India - 2021
3. Awarded the Royal Society-SERB Newton International Fellowship for carrying out postdoctoral research work at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK for a period of 2 years (later received an extension of 3 months). - 2019
4. Awarded sponsorship (International Travel Support) from Science and Engineering Research Board, India to attend the Flugel Course at the University of Erlangen, Germany. - 2017
5. Dr. B.S. Venkatachala Gold Medal for best research work done by a young scientist (Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow). - 2016
6. Best Poster Presentation Award at the National Conference on Recent Developments in Plant and Earth Sciences (Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow). - 2013
7. Best Poster Presentation Award at the XXIV Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy (Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun). - 2013
8. Best Poster Presentation Award at the National Conference on Stratigraphy, Palaeontology and Palaeoenvironment (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur). - 2011
9. Awarded Student Sponsorship for attending the 3rd World Petroleum Council Youth Forum (Oil and Natural Gas Commission, India) - 2010

Memberships of Professional Societies

1. Gondwana Geological Society (Nagpur).
2. Palaeontological Society of India (Lucknow)
3. Palaeobotanical Society of India (Lucknow),

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Publications

Selected Publications

1. Sarkar S*, Cotton LJ, Valdes PJ and Schmidt DN (2022). Shallow water records of the PETM: Novel insights from NE India (Eastern Tethys). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37, e2021PA004257. (Impact Factor - 3.5)
2. Sarkar S (2020). Ecostratigraphic implications of a Late Palaeocene shallow-marine benthic community from the Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, NE India. Journal of Earth System Science 129, 10 (Impact Factor – 1.9).
3. Sarkar S (2019). Alveolina-dominated assemblages in the early Eocene carbonates of Jaintia Hills, NE India: Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications. Comptes Rendus Palevol 18, 949-966 (Impact Factor- 2.3).
4. Sarkar S (2019). Does specialization imply rare fossil records of some benthic foraminifera: Late Palaeocene examples from the eastern Neo-Tethys (Meghalaya, NE India). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 514, 124-134 (Impact Factor – 3.0).
5. Sarkar S* and Narasimha Rao GM (2018). Coralline red algae from late Palaeocene- earliest Eocene carbonates of Meghalaya, N-E India: palaeocommunity and trophic-level implications. Carbonates and Evaporites 33, 767-781 (Impact Factor – 1.4).
6. Sarkar S (2018). The enigmatic Palaeocene-Eocene coralline Distichoplax: Approaching the structural complexities, ecological affinities and extinction hypotheses. Marine Micropalaeontology 139, 72-83 (Impact Factor – 1.9).
7. Sarkar S* and Sarkar S (2016). Diversity of corals and benthic algae across the shallow water reefs of Andaman Islands: managing the valuable ecosystems. Environment, Development and Sustainability 18, 1801-1814 (Impact Factor – 4.9).
8. Sarkar S (2015). Thanetian-Ilerdian coralline algae and benthic foraminifera from northeast India: microfacies analysis and new insights into the Tethyan perspective. Lethaia 48, 13-28. (Impact Factor – 1.6).
9. Sarkar S* and Ghosh AK (2013). Coral bleaching a nemesis for the Andaman Reefs: Building an Improved Conservation Paradigm. Ocean and Coastal Management 71, 153-162 (Impact Factor – 4.6).
10. Ghosh AK and Sarkar S* (2013). Facies analysis and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Piacenzian carbonate deposits from the Guitar Formation of Car Nicobar Island, India. Geoscience Frontiers 4, 755-764 (Impact Factor – 8.9).

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