National Institute Of Oceanography( NIO ) -

Krishna, K.S.

Designation:  Chief Scientist
Location: Headquarters, Goa
e-mail:  krishna@nio.org
Telephone:  91-832-2450384
Fax:  91-0832-2450609

Publications

Academic Record:

Career Record:

Scientist G (National Institute of Occeanography, Dona Paula, Goa), 2009 - till date

Scientist E-II (National Institute of Occeanography, Dona Paula, Goa), 1999 - 2004

Scientist E-I (National Institute of Occeanography, Dona Paula, Goa), 1994 - 1999

Scientist B (Geophysical Service Inc. Subsidiary of Texas Instruments - American oil prospecting co), 1984 - 1989

Seismologist (Geophysical Service Inc. Subsidiary of Texas Instruments - American oil prospecting co), 1983 - 1984

Professional Interests:

Deformation of the central Indian Ocean lithosphere in response to the rapid uplift of Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau

Structure and tectonics of the volcanic constructs of the Indian Ocean leading to the understanding of plate motions, ridge migrations and fixity of primary hotspots

Scholarships and awards:

Elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad), 2010

Serving as Editorial Board Member for Indian Journal of Marine Sciences (CSIR Journal, for 3-year term from Jan 2008 to December 2010), 2008-2010

Served as Associate Editor for the JGR – Solid Earth (American Geophysical Union, for 6-year term from Jan 2005 to March 2010.), 2005-2010

Awarded the International Fellowship for the year 2008 (The Royal Society of London ), 2008

Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union (Indian Geophysical Union), 2002

Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore), 2002

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the discipline of Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary sciences. (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi), 2001

INSA-Royal Society (UK) Fellowship under the Exchange Programme with Foreign Academies and Organisations (Indian National Science Academy), 1999

Recipient of M.S. Krishnan Gold Medal of the Indian Geophysical Union for the year 1996. (Indian Geophysical Union), 1996

Recipient of Decennial Award of the Indian Geophysical Union (Indian Geophysical Union), 2010

Professional Memberships:

Any other information:

Spent about 1200 days at sea on various Indian and foreign research vessels and 300 field days on land for acquisition of geological and geophysical data.
Several scientific presentations were made at different national and international Earth Science forums and at different institutions in India and abroad.
Regularly interact with several reputed scientists of USA, UK, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, etc. on Indian Ocean aspects. Overseas research students quite often discuss their scientific problems on Indian Ocean and get guidance from me.
Several papers were reviewed for national and international journals. Scientific papers were referred more than 600 times by the scientists from India and abroad.
Chaired the scientific session " Research Advances on the Geologic, Tectonic, and Geochemical Evolution of the Indian Ocean Seafloor and its Margins” during the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting held at San Francisco, USA

Invited talks in foreign Institutions on Indian Ocean studies:

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