Dr. N. Nandini Menon

Dr. N. Nandini Menon Doctorate in Marine Biology from Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. She joined NERCI as Senior Scientist in 2009 and has twenty years of post doctoral research experience and nineteen years of teaching experience. Before joining NERCI, she had been working at CUSAT in the capacity of Research Associate in projects funded by various national agencies like MoEF, DBT, CSIR, DST and MoES and as Ad-hoc lecturer in the Dept. of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, CUSAT. She had also implemented an independent project as PI under the DST –SERC young scientist scheme in CUSAT. At NERCI, she was the leader of 2 work packages in the European Commission FP7 project INDO-MARECLIM ( 2012 - 2015) and organised 2 international workshops and one winter school as part of the project. As an alumnus of NF-POGO (Nippon Foundation - Partnership for Observation of Global Oceans) and member of NANO (NF-POGO Alumni Network for Oceans), she headed two Indo-SriLankan projects funded by POGO-NANO. She is involved in the projects funded by Dept. of Environment and Climate Change, Kerala State, DST-SEED scheme, SAC-ISRO and DST-SPLICE scheme as PI /Co-investigator. She is also serving as Guest faculty for M. Tech programme in Marine Biotechnology of CUSAT.

Research Interest:

Marine ecosystem, marine optical and primary productivity studies.

Recent Publications:

Racault, M. F., Raitsos, D., Shubha Satyendranath, Nandini Menon & T. Platt 2017. Phenological responses to ENSO in the global oceans. Surveys in Geophysics. January 2017, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 277–293.

Saleem Shalin, Annette Samuelsen , Anton Korosov , Nandini Menon , Björn C. Backeberg and Lasse H. Pettersson. 2017. Delineation of marine ecosystem zones in the northern Arabian Sea using an objective method. Journal of Biogeosciences Discuss., EGU., .

Nashad, M., Nandini Menon, N., Ajith Joseph , Lasse. H. Pettersson and N. R. Menon. (2017). First report of Leptocylindrus sp. bloom in the coastal waters of South Eastern Arabian Sea and coagulation of cells. Marine Biology Association of India – JMBAI J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, vol 59 (1), 87-92. doi: 10.6024/jmbai.2017.59.1.1937-00

Nandini Menon, T. Singh & L. Pettersson 2014. Integrated Research Approaches to Coastal Zone Management, EOS (Transactions American Geophysical Union), 95 (49),463-464

Akram Alkershi and Nandini Menon, N., 2011. Phytoplankton in polluted waters of the Red sea coast of Yemen. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, 53 (2): 1-6

Principal Scientist & Deputy Director

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menonnandinin@gmail.com