Alumni

Dr. Syam Sankar

Doctorate in Marine Sciences From Goa University, Goa. He joined Nansen Environmental Research Centre – India in 2012 as a Project Scientist. Had been working at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) as a Project Scientist before joining NERCI. He has completed his doctoral thesis titled “Annual and interannual variability of air-sea interaction processes over Indian Ocean in relation to monsoon activity in the Indian Subcontinent” at the Physical Oceanography Division of National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa. He has sufficient experience in studying the air-sea interaction processes over the Indian Ocean and their impacts on the Indian subcontinent during the monsoon season. He also has experience in implementing the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) on the IBM HPC at NCMRWF.

Poornima Rajan

M.tech in Remote sensing and wireless sensor networks from Amrita University, Coimbatore. She joined NERCI as Junior Research Fellow under DST funded project entitled "Atmospheric carbon sequestration potential of trees in Kochi City under the changing environmental scenario "(2016 - 2019) on 3rd April 2016. The idea of the project is to estimate the sequestration potential of the city with the existing vegetation pattern, Projecting the carbon balance for business as usual scenario and potential scenario and suggest measures to be taken for a sustainable city. Under the present scenario it will be an important step to address environmental issues related to the developmental activities including metro rail work. Also worked as Junior research fellow in a project entitled as " Estimating carbon sequestration potential of mangroves in Kunhimangalam area using remote sensing and Geographic Information System supported by field observations" (2016) Funded by APOLLO Foundation under CSR initiative. The work is all about mangrove monitoring and management in the study area and to serve as baseline data for future studies, a map depicting the mangrove vegetation cover pattern over the area is to be prepared. Mangrove species of maximum carbon sequestration potential were identified. Also, areas where most destruction have occurred and tolerant species fit for re-plantation is to be identified.

Dr. Smitha A

Doctorate in Atmospheric Science from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2017, on “Wind induced upwelling and the response of surface chlorophyll in the Bay of Bengal”. Currently working in NERCI as DST SERB sponsored National Post Doctoral Fellow on “Impact of the developing hypoxia on primary productivity in the Eastern Arabian Sea -Implications on fishery”. Concurrent to her Ph.D. work, she also worked in NERCI in two consecutive projects funded by SAC-ISRO and European Union FP7 project INDO-MARECLIM. Ms. Smitha received the NF-POGO (Nippon Foundation - Partnership for Observation of Global Oceans) fellowship in 2013 to carry out research in the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK on “Satellite data processing, interpretation and the modelling of primary production”. She also worked in the Oceanography Division of National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC, ISRO), Hyderabad.

Dr. Abish B

Doctorate in Atmospheric Science from Cochin University of Science and Technology (2008-2011), with CSIR fellowship. The outcome of his research advances knowledge on the aerosol-cloud interactions and its influence on the atmospheric circulations, which is a least explored facet over the location. During his MTech dissertation at Space Physics Laboratory, (VSSC, Trivandrum), he was entrusted to associate with the ISRO-GBP land campaign, which was a major campaign conducted at the Indo-Gangetic Plain. He joined NERCI, after gaining experience in working in several projects at Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS, Trivandrum) and National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL, Bangalore). At NERCI, he was involved in the European commission funded INDO-MARECLIM project. His collaborative work with NERSC (Norway) and CMCC (Italy), highlighted the important role of recent warming of the Indian Ocean in weakening the Indian summer monsoon circulation. The major findings emanated from these research are published in reputed international journals. Currently he is working as the Principal Investigator of Dept. of Science and Technology (DST, Govt. of India) funded project that focuses on the recent changes in the Indian summer monsoon circulation due to the combined effect of Indian Ocean warming and atmospheric aerosols.

Dr. Shinu Sheela Wilson

Post graduate in Meteorology from Cochin University of Science and Technology. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Atmospheric Sciences on the topic “Interannual Variability of Monsoon over India” under NANSEN Ph.D Programme. She has joined NERCI in November 2012.

Arun K

Post graduate in Meteorology from Cochin University of Science and Technology. Joined NERCI in June 2016, as junior research fellow in DST-SERB project titled as “Impact of atmospheric aerosols on the large-scale circulation over the Indian Summer monsoon region”.

Shalin Saleem

Post graduate in Meteorology from Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). She joined NERCI as Research Associate under Indo-Mareclim project on 11th March 2013 and now working at CMFRI, Cochin. She avarded Ph. D. entitled ‘Application of ocean colour to study oceanographic and atmospheric characteristics off the southwest coast of India with special reference to upwelling’ to CUSAT. The study revealed the utility of chlorophyll a / diffuse attenuation coefficient (Kd) to address the closer spatial features of upwelling. Her doctoral work was carried out at Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi – 21 under the guidance of Dr. KV Sanil Kumar, Scientist – 'F', NPOL. During the tenure at NPOL, she acquainted with analysis of in-situ data collection and validation of LAC of level – 2 of ocean colour satellite data with in-situ measurement. By now, she has few publications in her credit, which includes one paper in international journal, one in national journal and seven in conferences / proceedings.

Dr. Mary Swapna George

Completed her PhD programme at the Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography (MSC) at NERSC and NERCI. Her PhD programme was funded by Trond Mohn c/o Frank Mohn AS, Norway. Her studies comprises implementation and validation of the TOPAZ HYCOM model for the Indian Ocean and applications for meso-scale studies of the northern Indian Ocean.

Sachin Pavithran A.P

He had done his BSc-Botany from Govt Arts & Science College Calicut and later pursue his Masters degree in Business Economics(MBE) and MPhil in Appled Economics from Cochin University Of Science & Technology and worked in NERCI. He had involved in a project of Planning Commission of India entitled “Evaluation of ITI, ITC & ATS scheme 2010-2011 under Nodal Centre for Kerala CUSAT.He also involved in various projects of CRDAT & CSSEIPtwo prominent centres of CUSAT. He also had an academic experience of working as a Guest Lecturer (Industrial management & Economics)at Govt Engg College Idukki.

ALUMNI

Dr. Felix Jose
Associate Professor, Marine & Ecological Sciences, Gulf Coast University,USA

Dr. Prasanth Divakaran
Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Dr.Roshin P. Raj
Researcher,NERSC, Bergen, Norway

Dr. Rahman Mankettikkara
Scientist Engineer, Universiy of Tromso, Norway

Dr. M. S. Madhusoodanan
Scientist, TERI, New Delhi

Dr. Chv.C. Jayaram
Scientist, NRSC-Calcutta (ISRO)

Dr. A. Jayakumar
Scientist, NCMRWF,New Delhi

Mrs. Archana Nair
Project Scientist, IIT, Orissa

Mrs. Chethana A

Mrs. Geetu Rose