• Petrogenesis of HED clan meteorites: constraints from crystal size distribution 

  Das, Biraja P.; Sarbadhikari, Amit Basu; Srivastava, Yash; Rudraswami, N. G.; Panda, Dipak Kumar (Springer, 2023-03)

  Two diogenites (Johnstown and ALHA 77256) and two eucrites (Malotas (b) and Stannern) meteorites from the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) clan are investigated by petrography, mineral chemistry and using crystal size ...
• A review of hydro-geomorphic studies in the Ganga Plains: the emergence of a new interdisciplinary area of research 

  Singh, Ajit; Jain, Vikrant (SAGE Publications, 2022-06)

  Ganga alluvial plains have attracted a diverse field of geoscientific research in the last few decades. Earlier studies were mostly focused on subsurface structure mapping using geophysical techniques followed by ...
• Resolution of conflict of reduced sludge production with EBPR by coupling OSA to A2/O process in a pilot scale SBR 

  Khursheed, Anwar; Munshi, Faris Mohammad A.; Almohana, Abdulaziz Ibrahim; Alali, Abdulrhman Fahmi; Kamal, Mohab Amin; Alam, Shamshad; Alrehaili, Omar; Islam, Dar Tafazul; Kumar, Manish; Varjani, Sunita; Kazmi, A. A.; Tyagi, Vinay Kumar (Elsevier, 2023-03)

  The pinnacle of all the efforts of nutrient removal is practically put-down the moment biological cells are lysed, hydrolyzed or digested causing subsequent reappearance of assimilated nitrogen and phosphorus in any ...
• Occurrences of UV filters, endocrine disruptive chemicals, alkyl phenolic compounds, fragrances, and hormones in the wastewater and coastal waters of the Antarctica 

  Balakrishna, Keshava; Praveenkumarreddy, Yerabham; Nishitha, D'Souza; Gopal, Chikmagalur Mallappa; Shenoy, Jayakrishna Kanhangad; Bhat, Krishnamurthy; Khare, Neloy; Dhangar, Kiran; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2023-04)

  We present a simplified status description of the prevalence and occurrences of organic micropollutants including endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDCs), therapeutic drugs, hormones, fragrances and ultraviolet (UV) filters ...
• Urban fingerprinting on the river Ganges: a perspective of emerging contaminants status 

  Tripathi, Sachin; Kumar, Rakesh; Mondal, Prasenjit; Thakur, Alok Kumar; Singh, Sanyogita; Kaur, Gagandeep; Sharma, Madhuben; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2023-02)

  Over the decades, there has been an increase in the number of ECs (Emerging Contaminants) in different aquatic compartments. These ECs do have a direct effect on marine organisms and indirect impacts on human health. ...
• Late quaternary sediments from Barakar-Damodar basin, eastern India include the 74 ka Toba ash and a 17 ka microlith toolkit 

  Mukhopadhyay, Sourav; Roy, Biswajit; Sangode, Satish J.; Jaiswal, Manoj K.; Dutta, Samiran (Elsevier, 2023-06)

  The Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT, 74 ka ago) is considered as the product of one of the largest super-volcanic events in the Quaternary period, which possibly caused a disastrous effect on the climate and hominid habitation. ...
• Dominant role of deglaciation in late pleistocene-early holocene sediment aggradation in the upper Chenab valley, NW Himalaya 

  Dey, Saptarshi; Chauhan, Naveen; Mahala, Milan Kumar; Chakravarti, Pritha; Vashistha, Anushka; Jain, Vikrant; Ray, Jyotiranjan S. (Cambridge University Press, 2022-12)

  Sediment transfer from the interiors of the Himalaya is complex because the archives are influenced by both glacial and monsoonal cycles. To deconvolve the coupling of glacial and monsoonal effects on sediment transfer ...
• A changing thermal regime revealed from shallow to deep basalt source melting in the Moon 

  Srivastava, Yash; Sarbadhikari, Amit Basu; Day, James M. D.; Yamaguchi, Akira; Takenouchi, Atsushi (Springer Nature, 2022-12)

  Sample return missions have provided the basis for understanding the thermochemical evolution of the Moon. Mare basalt sources are likely to have originated from partial melting of lunar magma ocean cumulates after ...
• Aggregation behaviour of black carbon in aquatic solution: effect of ionic strength and coexisting metals 

  Dhangar, Kiran; Kumar, Manish; Aouad, Marwan; Mahlknecht, Jurgen; Raval, Nirav P. (Elsevier, 2023-01)

  Black Carbon (BC) is an important constituent of both aquatic and terrestrial environment, but also has several adverse effects on human health, aquatic life, and contributes to the global climate change. Thus, to understand ...
• Observational evidence of increasing compound tropical cyclone-moist heat extremes in India 

  Rajeev, Akshay; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley Open Access, 2022-12)

  Moist heat stress can lead to the inability of the human body to cool itself due to the impact of high temperature and humidity. The co-occurrence of tropical cyclones (TCs) and moist heat stress has considerable implications ...
• The distribution and hydrological significance of intact rock glaciers in the north-west Himalaya 

  Chakravarti, Pritha; Jain, Vikrant; Mishra, Vimal (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-10)

  Intact rock glaciers are common periglacial landforms that occur in cold alpine mountains and are often considered indicators of alpine permafrost. They can be both active and inactive, but both have ice in them and can ...
• Discharge-driven rapid bank-erosion and its impact on sediment budgeting in the lower Gangetic plains 

  Dey, Saptarshi; Basu, Abhirup; Banerjee, Sudeep Narayan; Jain, Vikrant (Seoul: International Union of Geological Sciences, 2022-10)

  Riverbank erosion coupled with recurrent flooding has been a persistent problem in large parts of eastern India. Published data on bank erosion along the Ganges in the state of West Bengal suggests an annual average of 8 ...
• Region‐ and Site‐Specific Measurements of Kappa (⁠κ0⁠) and Associated Variabilities for Iran 

  Tafreshi, Mehran Davatgari; Bora, Sanjay Singh; Ghofrani, Hadi; Mirzaei, Noorbakhsh; Kazemian, Javad (Seismological Society of America, 2022-12)

  Spectral parameter kappa (⁠κ⁠) is widely used to model the decay slope of the Fourier acceleration spectrum at high frequencies. This study presents estimates of κ0⁠, often referred to as the site‐related contribution in ...
• Development of novel core-shell impregnated polyuronate composite beads for an eco-efficient removal of arsenic 

  Raval, Nirav P.; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2022-11)

  Arsenic (As) can geogenically and anthropogenically contaminate the potable water resources and undoubtedly reduces its availability for human consumption. To circumvent this predicament, present study focuses on the ...
• Climate warming and summer monsoon breaks drive compound dry and hot extremes in India 

  Rajeev, Akshay; Mahto, Shanti Shwarup; Mishra, Vimal (Cell Press, 2022-11)

  Considering the severe impacts of compound dry and hot extremes, we examine the primary drivers of CDHEs during the summer monsoon in India. Using ERA5 reanalysis we show that most of the CDHEs in India occur during the ...
• Absence of well-developed floodplains along the lowland rivers and controls of the hydro-geomorphic conditions in the Western Ghat, India 

  Guha, Shantamoy; Kaushal, Rahul Kumar; Jain, Vikrant (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022-09)

  Lowland rivers across the world are characterized by accumulation of sediment due to a decrease in the channel slope. Despite the antiquity of the topography, the lowland part of the west-flowing rivers of Western Ghat, ...
• Three-dimensional morphometric analysis and statistical distribution of the Early Kimmeridgian Hanifa Formation stromatoporoid/coral buildups, central Saudi Arabia 

  Ramdani, Ahmad; Khanna, Pankaj; Sander, De Jong; Gairola, Gaurav Siddharth; Sherif, Hanafy; Volker, Vahrenkamp (Elsevier, 2022-12)

  The high porosity and permeability stromatoporoid/coral facies partly characterize some of the most productive supergiant Late Jurassic carbonate reservoirs in the Middle East. Reservoir models often overlook detailed ...
• Genetic sequencing detected the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant in wastewater a month prior to the first COVID-19 case in Ahmedabad (India) 

  Joshi, Madhvi; Kumar, Manish; Srivastava, Vaibhav; Kumar, Dinesh; Rathore, Dalip Singh; Pandit, Ramesh; Graham, David W.; Joshi, Chaitanya G. (Elsevier, 2022-10)

  Wastewater-based genomic surveillance can identify a huge majority of variants shed by the infected individuals within a population, which goes beyond genomic surveillance based on clinical samples (i.e., symptomatic ...
• Assessing and processing 3D photogrammetry, sedimentology and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogs 

  Ramdani, Ahmad; Khanna, Pankaj; Gairola, Gaurav Siddharth; Sherif, Hanafy; Vahrenkamp, Volker (American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2022-10)

  A 3D outcrop depositional facies investigation of carbonate reservoir analog requires a comprehensive integration between outcrop with "behind-the-outcrop" geophysical data. This study proposes a comprehensive methodology ...
• Geochemical ratios mediated understanding of estuarine dynamics in submarine groundwater discharge prevalent basaltic aquifer 

  Misra, Anant; Bhagat, Chandrashekhar; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2022-08)

  Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) has been recognized as an integral pathway of hydrological cycle. The role of SGD as a mechanism for material transport from terrestrial to marine ecosystems has also been investigated, ...

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