Venigalla Purnachandra Rao
Oceanography
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Venigalla Purnachandra Rao earned the BSc and MSc from Andhra University, after which he joined National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa where he has been working on 'marine geology' till date. He carried out extensive studies (1980-88) on the mineralogy of the fine-grained sediments deposited along the continental margins of India and controlling factors for their distribution, and submitted the thesis to the Andhra University where he obtained PhD (1989) under the supervision of Professor M Subba Rao.
Research Interest
Marine Geology/Sedimentology
