Annual Report 2011-2012 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

EBIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUT
OF PALAEOBOTANY
1946
Annual Report 2011-2012
Recognition
R.R. Yadav
Elected as Fellow, Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
Elected as Fellow, National Academy of Sciences,
Allahabad.
M.R. Rao
Chaired a Technical Session at the XXIII Indian
Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy
and International Symposium on Global Bioevents in
the Earth History held at Bangalore University,
Bangalore (in December 2011).
A. Rajanikanth
Chaired a Session of the International Seminar on
Emerging Threats and Challenges to Biodiversity:
Policy Framework for Sustainable Development,
ETCOB 2012 held at Sri Venkateswara University,
Tirupati (in March 2012).
Mukund Sharma
Delivered a Key Note Address and Chaired a Session at
the XXIII Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology
and Stratigraphy and International Symposium on
Global Bioevents in the Earth History, Bangalore (in
December, 2011).
Jyotsana Rai
Chaired Poster Session and Co-chaired a Technical
Session at the XXIII Indian Colloquium on
Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy and International
Symposium on Global Bioevents in the Earth History
held at Bangalore University, Bangalore (in
December 2011).
Rajni Tewari
Co-Chaired Special Session on 2 nd Indo-Brazilian
Symposium on ‘Glimpses of Gondwana Research’
during XXII Brazilian Congress of Paleontology held
at Natal (RN), Brazil (on October 27, 2011).
A.K. Ghosh
Chaired a scientific session in the 10 th International
Symposium on Fossil Algae held during September,
2011 at Department of Geology, Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Ratan Kar
Visiting Professor, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
(in March, 2012).
Biswajeet Thakur
Awarded 3 rd Best Poster on the paper entitled ‘Differential
primary productivity pattern in an estuarine setting:
A case study from Vembanad Estuary, displayed at
XXIII ICMS, Bangalore during December 2011.
Deepa Agnihotri
Awarded ‘Best Student Paper Award-2011’ and ‘Student
Travel Award-2011’ at the 28 th Annual Meeting of
The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) held at
Halifax, Canada during July-August, 2011.
Swati Dixit & Shilpa Singh
Awarded ‘Dr. B.S. Venkatachala Memorial Medal-2012’
for the outstanding pieces of research work in
Palaeobotany under research students category of
BSIP, Lucknow.
Dr. B.S. Venkatachala Memorial Medal Awardees
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