Anindya Sarkar

Biography

Ph.D (Gujrat Univ.) Professor, Geology & Geophysics Head of the Department, Geology & Geophysics Program Coordinator, Deysarkar Centre of Excellence in Petroleum Engineering

Research Interest

~32 years experience in Isotope Geochemistry and stable isotope mass spectrometry; initiated teaching and research programmes on stable isotope geochemistry and mass spectrometry in general and past climate change, mass extinction events in earth history and isotope hydrology in connection with on-going climate change in particular; also developed new experimental techniques in the field of stable isotope measurements; used stable isotope tools to tackle variety of geological and climatic problems. published large number of research articles in peer reviewed journals including Nature and mentored number of masters and Ph.D. students.; established country?s first National Stable Isotope Facility at IIT, Kharagpur sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology under the IRHPA programme to provide quality isotope data to students and researchers from Universities so that they are not dependent on foreign laboratories and to create trained manpower in stable isotope research. Few major areas of research: Application of stable isotopes in Archaeology, Sedimentology, isotope and sequence stratigraphy of Palaeogene Himalayan foreland sediments and lignite basins of western India, Tropical PETM records, modern deltas; Arsenic pollution in Bengal basin; Monsoon variability and deep ocean circulation over century to million year time scale using stable and short lived radio-isotope systematics of carbonates, organic matter and water; Causes of extinction events across major geological boundaries namely Precambrian/Cambrian, Permo-Triassic, Cretaceous/Tertiary, Eocene/Oligocene etc. using isotope and geochemical tracers; Geochemistry and geochronology of mafic-ultramafic rocks from Singhbhum Craton using trace elements, REE, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and silicate stable isotope systematics.