Annual Report 2011-2012 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

EBIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUT
OF PALAEOBOTANY
1946
Annual Report 2011-2012
Papers presented at Conferences/Seminars
Babu R & Singh VK – Megascopic multicellularity in
deep time: New evidences from the Proterozoic
Singhora Group. XXIII Indian Colloq.
Micropalaeontol. Stratigr. & Int. Symp. Global
Bioevents in the Earth History, Bangalore,
December 2011.
Bera SK- Antarctic Science: Researcher’s dream,
opportunities, survival and future prospects. Plant
Sci. Res. in Human Welfare, Kolkata, January 2012.
Bera SK, Basumatary SK & Gogoi R – Modern pollen
and spore assemblage in relation to biodiversity of
Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh. 24 th
Ann. Gen. Meet. Indian Phytol. Soc. (Eastern
zone) & Nat. Symp. Microorganism &Plant
Health, Guwahati, November 2011.
Bernardes-de-Oliveira ME, Mune Sandra, Sucerquia
Paula, Garcia MJ, Guerra Sommer, Margot, Schimidt
IB & Tewari R – Mesophytic Gondwanan paleofloras
from Brazil and India: Composition and palaeoclimatic
approach. Indo-Brazilian Symp. Glimpses of
Gondwana Research, XXII Brazilian Congr.
Palaeontol., Natal, Brazil, October 2011.
Bhattacharyya A & Shah SK – Wood analysis of temporal
tree growth variation of tree be suitable in assessment
of dynamics of Gangotri glacier A
dendrochronological approach. Sem. Plant diversity
and Resources: Evolution, Analysis, Stress and
Challenges and Phytodiversity. Kolkata, December
2011.
Dixit S & Bera SK – Late Quaternary climatic
fluctuations from Lower Brahmaputra valley of
Assam, Northeast India: in context with global climatic
events. World Conf. Palaeontol. Stratigr., Thailand,
November-December 2011.
Dixit S & Bera SK – Interplay between pollen and extant
vegetation in wetland environ of Lower Brahmaputra
floodplain of Assam, India. Nat. Conf. Science of
Climate Change & Earth’s Sustainability: Issues
and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’,
Lucknow, September 2011.
Dixit S & Bera SK – Reconstruction of vegetation vis-àvis
climatic fluctuations since early Holocene in and
around lower Brahmaputra flood plain of Assam,
Northeast India: based on pollen proxy records. Int.
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Sem. Emerging Threats & Challenges to
Biodiversity: Policy framework for sustainable
management, Tirupati, March 2012.
Dixit S, Basumatary SK, Bera SK, Rahman A, Rabha D
& Thomas S – Melissopalynological investigations
from Goalpara District, Assam. 24 th Ann. Gen. Meet.
Indian Phytol. Soc. (Eastern zone) & Nat. Symp.
Microorganism &Plant Health, Guwahati,
November 2011.
Farooqui A, Naidu TY & Suryanarayana G – Pleistocene
record of sea level and vegetation, East coast, India.
XVIII INQUA Congr., Bern, July 2011.
Ghosh AK & Sarkar S – Facies characterization and
palaeoenvironmental significance of reef-forming
Coralline algae dominated sediments: A case study
from the Guitar Formation (Middle Pliocene) of Car
Nicobar Island, India. 10 th Int. Symp. Fossil Algae,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 2011.
Ghosh AK & Sarkar S – Palaeodiversity of fossil algae
and benthic foraminifera with special allusion to
taphonomy and growth-form analyses of coralline
algae from the Late Middle Miocene sediments of
Long Formation, Little Andaman Island (Hut Bay),
India. 10 th Int. Symp. Fossil Algae, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania, September 2011.
Ghosh AK & Sarkar S – Influence of end Cretaceous
mass extinction on the diversity of Coralline Red
Algae from India. Sem. Plant diversity and
Resources: Evolution, Analysis, Stress and
Challenges and Phytodiversity. Kolkata, December
2011.
Ghosh AK & Sarkar S – Fossil calcareous algae from
the hydrocarbon-potential sedimentary basins of
India. 99 th Indian Sci. Congr., Earth Syst. Sci.,
Bhubaneshwar, January 2012.
Ghosh R, Parua DK & Bera S – Phytolith spectra from
Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentary sequences in
Darjeeling Sub-Himalaya and its palaeoclimatic
significance. Sem. Plant diversity and Resources:
Evolution, Analysis, Stress and Challenges and
Phytodiversity. Kolkata, December 2011.
Govind N – Palaeoinformatics– A step towards the modern
paleontology. World Conf. Paleontol. Stratigr.,
Thailand, November-December 2011.
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