Dr. Arvind Shukla
Founding President · Scientific activities & event coordination
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Sr–Nd isotopes, sediment geochemistry, and past Indian Ocean circulation.
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The people behind the network
Meet the working team who coordinate scientific activities, membership, outreach, and documentation.
Team and roles shown in the supplied 2026–2027 member cards and team introductions. Individual profiles for all twelve working team members are included.
Dr. Prachita Arora
Scientific activities & event coordination
BSIP, Lucknow, India
Himalayan climate records and Holocene climate variability in the monsoon-fed Eastern Himalaya.
Full profileShivam Sundram
Outreach, digital media & communication
NCPOR, Goa, India
Antarctic ice chemistry and past climate in coastal Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica.
Full profileShikha Dixit
Scientific activities & event coordination
CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad, India
Geochronology and isotope studies of Paleoproterozoic carbonates and banded iron formations in the Gwalior Basin.
Full profileBhakti Shah
Scientific activities & event coordination
ZMT & University of Bremen, Germany
Coccoliths, foraminifera, and desert dust; dry–humid climate shifts in the northern Red Sea since the Late Pliocene.
Full profileMadhav Prasad Mishra
Membership & engagement
BSIP, Lucknow, India
Soot and black carbon, carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes, and paleo-wildfire activity in sediment archives.
Full profileHarddik Abhinandan
Membership & engagement · Documentation
IISER Bhopal, India
Isotope biogeochemistry and past hydroclimate; earlier work on grain size at IODP Site 1534, Drake Passage.
Full profileDr. Sreya Sengupta
Outreach & communication · Documentation
IIT Kanpur, India
Lake sediments and geochemistry; ~6,000 years of monsoon and vegetation change in the Central Ganga Basin.
Full profileAakanksha Tiwari
Outreach, digital media & communication
UQ–IIT Delhi Research Academy, India
Geochemical proxies and Indian Summer Monsoon variability over the past 10,000 years.
Full profileViplove Rajurkar
Outreach, digital media & communication · Documentation
Tongji University, China
Stable Ni isotopes in stromatolitic carbonates, metal cycling in microbial habitats, and the evolution of life through deep time.
Full profileNiharika Panigrahi
Membership & engagement · Documentation
CSIR-NIO, Goa, India
Foraminifera and isotope geochemistry; the history of the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone.
Full profileKoushik Deb Sharma
Membership & engagement · Documentation
IIT Kharagpur, India
Paleoecology and paleobiology; Instagram outreach, geology videos, video editing, and graphic design.
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