Evaluar la liquidez después de aplicar un sistema de control

2. Paleoclimatology (Paleontology, Geochemistry) 3. Crustal Evolution and Metallogeny

4. Environmental Hazards and Mitigation

New Acquisitions

1. A PC Based Gamma Ray Spectroscopy System GSPEC (for low level radiometric prospecting and assaying both in the laboratory and in-situ in the field/area of study, for ambient radioactivity measurements)

2. An HANNA multiparameter meter (for measuring water quality) 3. A FRANTZ magnetic barrier separator

4. A FRITSCH disc mill

Lectures by Visiting Experts

1. Incorporating the fourth dimension into geophysical data interpretation by Dr. Jung-Ho Kim (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea)

2. Early Life on Earth by Prof. Stefan Bengtson (Swedish Natural History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden)

3. Remote Sensing and GIS applications in Coastal Disaster Studies in India by Dr. D. Mitra (IIRS, Dehradun, India)

4. Helicopter-borne Time domain electromagnetic surveys by Dr. S. K. Verma (National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India)

5. Time-domain electromagnetic survey employing a grounded transmitter cable by Prof. T. Mogi (University of Hokkaido, Japan) 6. Full-Wavefield Seismic to extract fracture and stress information for shale gas exploration by Dr. Satish Sinha (RGIPT, Rae Bareli,

India)

7. Inside a fossil high pressure cell in the Crust: high resolution multi scale study of a crack - seal vein system in the Oman mountains by Prof. Janos Urai (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

8. Natural Radionuclides in Aqueous Systems: Tracing and Timing Biogeochemical processes and Particle Dynamics by Prof. S. Krishnaswami (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)

9. Metamorphism of crustal rocks at ultra-high temperatures by Prof. Michael M Raith (University of Bonn, Germany)

Doctoral and MS Degrees Awarded

1. Sriparna Goswami : Petrology of an Inverted Metamorphic Sequence from the Western Arunachal Himalaya, India(Ph.D.) 2. Sakthi Sarvana C : Greenstone metamorphism, geochemistry, ore mineralogy and fluid evolution of the granitoid-hosted gold

mineralization at Jonnagiri, eastern Dharwar Craton(Ph.D.)

3. Baidehi Mukherjee : Holocene record of Southwest Monsoon Variability from the Northwest Arabian Sea (Let 117)(Ph.D.) 4. Sabyasachi Maiti : Coastal change study along Midnapur Balasore coast of eastern India through integrated Remote Sensing and

Geographic Information System based approach(Ph.D.)

5. M.K. Bera : SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND STABLE ISOTOPES OF PALAEOGENE SEDIMENTS, SUBATHU SUB-BASIN, INDIA: IMPLICATIONS TO EVOLUTION OF THE HIMALAYAN FORELAND(Ph.D.)

Member - Professional Bodies

1. Basu, Arindam, Member - International Society for Rock Mechanics (through the National Group of India) 2. Das, Subhasish, Member - Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun

3. Das, Subhasish, Member - Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, USA 4. Das, Subhasish, Life Member - Indian Association of Sedimentologists,Aligarh

5. Datta, Indira, Life Member - Life Member of Association of Exploration Geophysics

6. Datta, Indira, Life Member - Life Member of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 7. Mishra, Biswajit, Member - INSA National Committee of IUGS-SCL-INQUA

8. Mishra, Biswajit, Life Fellow - Geological Society of India

9. Mishra, Biswajit, Fellow - Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), USA

10. Mishra, Biswajit, National representative - IMA-COM (International Mineralogical Association-Commission on Ore Mineralogy) 11. Mukherjee, Abhijit, Life Member - Indian Science Congress Association

12. Mukherjee, Abhijit, - Geological Society of America

13. Mukherjee, Abhijit, - International Association of Hydrogeologists

14. Nath, Sankar Kumar, Senior Life Fellow - Life Fellow (No.236): The Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India (GMMSI) 15. Nath, Sankar Kumar, Senior Fellow - Life Fellow: The Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT).

16. Nath, Sankar Kumar, Regular Member - Member Registration No. 8810 : The Mining Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI)

17. Nath, Sankar Kumar, Regular Member - Member (No. 10283967): American Geophysics Union (AGU). 18. Nath, Sankar Kumar, Senior Member - Member (No. 16472): The Seismological Society of America (SSA).

19. Nath, Sankar Kumar, Senior Life Member - Life Member (L/141): The Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 20. Panigrahi, Mruganka Kumar, Member - Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits

21. Panigrahi, Mruganka Kumar, Member - Society of Resource Geology 22. Panigrahi, Mruganka Kumar, Member - Association of Applied Geochemists 23. Sharma, Shashi Prakash, Regular - National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, U.P.

24. Sharma, Shashi Prakash, Regular - Association of Exploration Geophysicist, Hyderabad, India

Member - Editorial Board

1. Bhowmik, Santanu Kumar (2011) Editorial Advisory Board - Indian Journal of Geosciences 2. Gupta, Saibal (0) Member, Editorial Board - Himalayan Geology

3. Gupta, Saibal (0) Member, Editorial Board - Indian Journal of Geology

4. Mamtani, Manish A (2010) Editorial Board Member - Journal of the Geological Society of India 5. Mohanty, William Kumar (2010) Member Editorial Board - Prakruti Vikash

6. Mukherjee, Abhijit (2011) Guest Editor - Applied Geochemistry 7. Mukherjee, Abhijit (2011) Associate Editor - Applied Geochemistry 8. Mukherjee, Abhijit (2011) Associate Editor - Journal of Hydrology 9. Mukherjee, Abhijit (2008) Guest Editor - Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

10. Panigrahi, Mruganka Kumar (2010) Member, Advisory Editorial Board - Resource Geology

11. Sen Gupta, Debashish (2010) Member, Editorial Board - International Journal of Geology and Mining

12. Sharma, Shashi Prakash (2010) Co-Editor of a special Volume - Journal of Physics and Cheminstry of the earth

Awards & Honours

Sponsored Research Projects

1. Contrasting Styles of Exhumation of Monocyclic and Polycyclic Granulites from the Sausar Mobile Belt in Central India: Constraints from Metamorphic P- (DST, Rs.14.03 Lakhs)

2. Create Infrastructure Facilities and Additional Provisions needed for sustaining a 24-Month M.Tech. Programme in Computational Seismology (Completed) (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Rs.175.36 Lakhs)

3. Crust formation and terrane amalgamation in eastern India—constraints from enclaves in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Rs.5.00 Lakhs)

4. Establishment of Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA) National Facility IIT, Kharagpur (DST, Rs.573.18 Lakhs) 5. First Order Seismic Microzonation of Kolkata Area Based on Deep & Shallow Geotechnical and Geophysical Investigations

(Ongoing) (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Rs.62.10 Lakhs)

6. Geophysical Syurvey using Gravity and Magnetic methods in South Purulia Shear Zone (BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Rs.19.63 Lakhs)

7. Global Seismic Monitoring by Broadband Seismological Observatory at IIT Kharagpur (Ongoing) (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Rs.23.59 Lakhs)

8. Gravity and magnetic study around south Purulia shear zone (BRNS, DAE, Mombai, Rs.20.00 Lakhs)

9. Groundwater-Sea water interaction at a coastal aquifer adjoining the Bay of Bengal: implications on flux and solute exchange (ISRD, SRIC IIT Kharagpur, Rs.5.00 Lakhs)

10. Indo-US joint pilot project on Himalayan glaciers, aerosols and climate change sponsor Indo-US forum, US$ 25000/- (2009-2011; on-going). (Indo-US forum, Rs.12.50 Lakhs)

11. Influence of S-fugacity on the minimum temperature of melting in the system Pb-Fe-Zn-S: implication on sulfide ore remobilization by partial melting (SRIC-ISIRD, Rs.5.00 Lakhs)

12. Isostatic coherence anisotropy using wavelet method (ISIRD, Rs.3.00 Lakhs) 13. Isotopes of water in India (2008-2013; on-going) (DST, Rs.12.00 Lakhs)

14. Mesozoic Gondwana vertebrates from Madhya Pradesh, India: an integrated study in paleobiology (DST, India, Rs.22.80 Lakhs) 15. National stable Isotope facility project at IIT, Kharagpur, sponsored by DST (outlay ~Rs. 200 lacs, 2004-2010; on-

going). (DST, Rs.230.00 Lakhs)

16. Phase relations in the Fe-S-Au-S system and possible role of partial melting of ores in concentrating gold (DST, Rs.36.05 Lakhs) 17. Predicting crack initiation stress by porosity and evaluating microstructural control on crack initiation: a study on granite (DST,

New Delhi, Rs.18.77 Lakhs)

18. Quantitative assessment of weathering grades of rock materials (ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur, Rs.3.90 Lakhs)

19. Reservoir Characterization using Artificial Intelligent Techniques (Soft Computing) (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC), Dehradun, Rs.45.72 Lakhs)

20. Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya (Ongoing) (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Rs.40.00 Lakhs)

21. Seismic Hazard Assessment, Microzonation, and Evaluation of Vulnerability & Risk of the Urban Kolkata (Project sanctioned, fund just released) (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Rs.432.71 Lakhs)

22. Spatial relationship between metallogenesis and geodynamic evolution of granite-greenstone ensembles of the Eastern Dharwar craton from the perspectiv (Department of Science and Technology, Rs.11.00 Lakhs)

23. Testing models for mountain building in the northeastern Himalaya (Royal Society, Rs.0.00 Lakhs)

24. The exhumation factor in the genesis of inverted metamorphic sequences – an evaluation from structure, metamorphism, fluid inclusions and earthqu (DST, Rs.14.22 Lakhs)

25. The Indian Continental Shelf as a potential source of Phosphate (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Rs.93.00 Lakhs)

26. The relationship between anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, strength anisotropy and microstructure in rocks devoid of mesoscopic foliations (DST, New Delhi, Rs.19.55 Lakhs)

27. The Thermal Evolution of Peninsula India: Past behaviors and Future Potential. (Australia – India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Rs.13.59 Lakhs)

28. Thermal History of the Inverted Metamorphic Sequence from the Northwestern Arunachal Pradesh: Constraints from Microstructure, Thermobarometry and P-T (CSIR, Rs.18.72 Lakhs)

Consultancy Projects

1. Ground Vibration study on Inganijharan Iron and Manganese Mines in District Keonjhar, Orissa (Bhanja Minerals Pvt. Ltd., Rs.2.48 Lakhs)

2. Integrated geological and geophysical study around Tangarapada area, Orissa (The Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa Ltd. (IDCOL) Government of Orissa, Rs.10.68 Lakhs)

3. Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for Kakarapara Atomic Power Plant (KAPS- 1,2) (Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, Government of India, Rs.10.75 Lakhs)

4. Seismic Hazard Analysis (SHA) and preparation of seismic hazard curves (SHC) for smelter and CPP area of Aditya Aluminium at Lapanga, Sambalpur, Oriss (Aditya Aluminium, Rs.4.30 Lakhs)

5. Site Specific seismic hazard study of west Sikkim region for the Rangit II Hydro- Electric project (M/S Gammon India Limited, Mumbai, India, Rs.4.16 Lakhs)

Visits Abroad by Faculty Members

1. Mamtani, Manish A - Collaborative Research (University of Catania (Italy), ) 19 June - 8 July 2010

2. Bhowmik, Santanu Kumar - To Initiate Collaborative Research (Taiwan National University, Taipei, Taiwan, ) 1 week 3. Sen Gupta, Debashish - Made two Oral Presentations at 10th Intl. Workshop on Geological Aspects of Radon Risk (Prague,

4. Sarkar, Anindya - Visiting Professor (Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, USA, ) February-August, 2010

5. Sarkar, Anindya - Benjamin Meaker Professor at Institute of Advanced studies and Dept.of Chemsitry (Institute of Advances Studies and Dept. of Chemistry, Bristol University, UK, ) September-December, 2010

6. Basu, Arindam - To participate in the 11th IAEG Congress (Auckland, New Zealand, ) 5-10 September 2010

Invited Lectures by Faculty Members

1. Application of Nuclear Geophysics for studies on Environmental Radioactivity by Sen Gupta, Debashish (Department of Geology, Utkal University, Orissa)

2. Sulfur isotopes in Proterozoic pyrites by Sarkar, Anindya (Swedish Natural History Museum, Stockholm)

3. Evolution of Ganges Brahmaputra delta during late Quaternary by Sarkar, Anindya (Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, USA)

4. Marine to continental transition in Himalayan foreland and antiquity of Indian monsoon by Sarkar, Anindya (Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, USA)

5. Stable isotopes in palaeoelevation estimation by Sarkar, Anindya (Bristol University, UK)

6. Evolution of Ganges Brahmaputra delta during late Quaternary by Sarkar, Anindya (Public lecture at Bristol University) 7. Environmental Implications and Hazard Estimation for Uranium Mines by Sen Gupta, Debashish (IIT Kharagpur)

8. AMS, AARM and SEM-EBSD analysis and the deformation mechanism of magnetite in polymineralic rocks by Mamtani, Manish A (University of Catania (Italy))

9. AMS & Rock Magnetism: Principles, Methods, Scope and Limitations by Mamtani, Manish A (Mizoram University, Aizawl) 10. Case Studies in AMS with special reference to Structural Geology and Tectonics by Mamtani, Manish A (Mizoram University,

Aizawl)

11. Disaster Mitigation and Management for West Bengal with special emphasis to Seismic Microzonation of by Nath, Sankar Kumar (International Symposium on “Interdisciplinary Studies and Promotion of Research on Natural Disaster organized by MICRODIS - Jadavpur University at HYATT REGENCY, Kolkata.)

12. Status of Seismic Microzonation Studies in the North East India by Nath, Sankar Kumar (National Workshop on Earthquake Risk Mitigation Strategy in the North East at Administrative Staff College, Guwahati organized by NIDM, NDMA, MHA, GOI.) 13. Assembly and Growth of the Greater Indian landmass: Record from the Central Indian Tectonic zone by Bhowmik, Santanu

Kumar (Taiwan National University, Taipei, Taiwan)

14. Transition from Accretionary to Collisional orogenesis in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Linking by Bhowmik, Santanu Kumar (AOGS-2010 Conference, Hyderabad)

15. Groundwater issues in India by Mukherjee, Abhijit (Corporate Social Responsibility Conclave, Mumbai)

Short-Term Courses, Training Programmes and Workshops organised