January 31, 2017

Curriculum Vitae

Rajesh Agnihotri(Ph.D.)

Scientist ‘E’
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences
53, University Road
LUCKNOW
India
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Education-

B.Sc. : 1992, Chemistry Physics and Mathematics, Lucknow Univeristy (Uttar Pradesh) India

M.Sc. : 1994, Chemistry (Physical Chemistry) Lucknow Univeristy (Uttar Pradesh) India

Ph.D.: 2002, M.L.S.University, Udiapur (Rajasthan), Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

Thesis title:Chemical and Isotopic studies of sediments from the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal: Supervisor- Late Profs. S. Krishnaswami & B.L.K. Somayajulu

Honors / Awards-

i)Received prestigious National Geosciences’ award (2013),given by Ministry of Mines, Government of Indiafor making outstanding contributions in Geo-environmental studies. The award was given by Honorable President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 6th April,2015.

ii)Received prestigious M.S. Krishnan Gold Medal (2012) by Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad, India for outstanding contributions made in the earth and environmentalsciences.

iii)Best presentation award in IEEE workshop on Artificial Intelligence held at IIT Kanpur on 14th July, 2013.

iv)Second best presentation award for a seminar given during Masters' degree course "Increasing greenhouse gases in atmosphere: Causes & Consequences".

v)National scholarship from standard 8th to 12th; given by state government based on merit.

Professional experience-

  • Scientist E at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences Lucknow, India, from 22nd September to till date
  • Scientist C at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi since December 2010- September 2015, at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India
  • ScientistCfrom June 2008 to December 2010 atCSIR- National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
  • Scientistfellow (under Quick-hire scheme) (from August 2006 to June 2008) National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist at School for Marine Sciences & Technology, New Bedford, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth USA from 2004-2006
  • Postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany from 2002-2003

Research interests-

  • Past climate / Monsoon variability on different timescales.
  • Tracing past environmental changes using isotopic ratio tracers (e.g.15N/14N, 13C/12C, 34S/32S) in tandem with other biotic / abiotic proxies.
  • Palaeo –environmental, –agricultural, and –cultural variability reconstructions using multiple geochemical and isotopic tracers.

Technical Expertise-

Stable isotope mass-spectrometry.
Radiocarbon dating.
Wet chemical methods / digestion schemes for measurements of major and trace elementabundances in geological/ environmental samples.

Projects involved –

  • Tracing palaeo-anthropogenic activities from vicinity of archaeological sites of India to nurture information exploitable for Anthropocene
  • Multi-elemental (Carbon, Nitrogen and Sulfur) isotopic characterization of atmospheric aerosols for quantitative source-apportionment and assessment of secondary transformations.

Membership of academic, scientific and professional bodies-

i)Fellow of Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad, India

ii)Fellow of Earth Science Society India

Peer reviewing of scientific journals-Reviewing several research papers submitted to several international journals such as Atmospheric Environment, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, JGR, Geochemical Journal, Journal of Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Tellus B, JMSI (Springer),Journal of Earth System Science (JEES; Indian Academy of Sciences) Bangalore, India, Earth Science India, Current Science.

Citation indices / All / Since 2012
Citations / 792 / 435
h-index / 13 / 12
i10-index / 17 / 16

Research publications-

1.Sarkar A., R. Ramesh, B.L.K. Somayajulu, Rajesh Agnihotri, A.J.T. Jull and G.S. Burr, (2000) High resolution Holocene paleomonsoonal record from the Eastern Arabian Sea, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 177, 209-218, IF: 4.062

2.Rajesh Agnihotri and M.M. Sarin (2001) Spectral interference in Analysis of Molybdenum in Geological Samples by ICP-AES: A Reassessment, Geostandards Newsletters25, 293-297, IF: 2.06

3.Rajesh Agnihotri,K. Dutta, R. Bhushan, B.L.K. Somayajulu (2002) Evidence of solar forcing of the Southwest Monsoon during the last Millennium, Earth Planet Sci. Lett.198, 521-527, IF: 4.062

4.Rajesh Agnihotri,S.K. Bhattacharya, M.M. Sarin and B.L.K. Somayajulu (2003) Changes in surface productivity, sub-surface denitrification and SW monsoon during the Holocene: a multi proxy record from the eastern Arabian Sea TheHolocene 13,5, 701-713, IF: 2.481

5.Rajesh Agnihotri,M.M. Sarin, B.L.K. Somayajulu, A.J.T. Jull, G.S. Burr and A. Sarkar (2003) Late- Quaternary Paleo-productivity and Organic carbon deposition record from the Eastern Arabian Sea, Paleogeo. Paleoclim. Paleoeco.197, 43-60, IF: 2.646

6.Rajesh Agnihotri and K. Dutta (2003), Centennial scale changes in the Indian, east equatorial and Chinese Monsoons during the last millennium: Manifestations of Solar activity changes, Current Science85, 459-463, IF: 0.926
7. M.A Altabet, R. Agnihotri, J. Tierny, S,M, Higgins, T.D. Herbert (2005) A tale of two margins: A comparison of redox and productivity paleo-proxies in sediments off Oman and Peru. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, 69, Issue 10, Supplement 1, A578

8.Rajesh Agnihotri, Mark A. Altabet, and T.D. Herbert (2006) Influence of marine denitrification on atmospheric N2O variability during the Holocene Geophysical Research Letters 33, L13704, doi: 10.1029/2006GL025864, IF: 3.204

9.Rajesh Agnihotri, Siby Kurian, Michelle Fernandes, K. Reshma, W. D’ Souza, S.W.A. Naqvi (2008) Variability of subsurface denitrification and surface productivity in the coastal eastern Arabian Sea over the past seven centuries, TheHolocene 18(5), 755-764, IF: 2.481

10.Rajesh Agnihotri, Mark A. Altabet, T.D. Herbert, J.E. Tierney (2008)Ultra high-resolution paleoceanography of the Peru margin during the last two millennia, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geosystems 9, Q05013, doi:10.1029/2007GC001744, IF: 2.979

11.Siby Kurian, Rajesh Agnihotri, D.V. Borole, S.W.A. Naqvi, Ana M. Ferriera and Carlos Vale (2009) Possible Solar control of primary production along the Indian coast on decadal to centennial time scales, Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 109-116, IF: 3.11

12.Ora Hadas, Mark A. Altabet, Rajesh Agnihotri(2009)Seasonally varying N isotope biogeochemistry in Lake Kinneret, Israel, Limnology. Oceanography 54 2009; 75-85, IF: 3.545

13.Rajesh Agnihotri and Siby Kurian, Recently studied sedimentary records from the eastern Arabian Sea: Implications to Holocene monsoonal variability, (2008) Earth Science India Vol.1 (IV), pp. 258-287

14.M.V.Maya, Melena Soares, Rajesh Agnihotri, A.K.Pratihary, Karapurkar, S.G., Naik, H., Naqvi, S.W.A, (2011) Variations in some environmental characteristics including carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic composition of suspended organic matter in the Mandovi estuary, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment175, 501–517, DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1547-8, IF: 1.34

15.Rajesh Agnihotri,T.K. Mandal, S. G. Karapurkar, Manish Naja, Ranu Gadi, Y. Nazeer Ahammmed, Animesh Kumar, T., Saud, M. Saxena, (2011) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of bulk aerosols over India and northern Indian Ocean, Atmospheric environment 45, 2828-2835,IF: 3.14

16.Rajesh Agnihotri, Koushik Dutta and Willie Soon. (2011) Temporal derivative of Total Solar Irradiance and anomalous Indian Summer Monsoon: An empirical evidence for a sun-climate connection. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 73, 1980-1987 IF: 1.61

17.MayaM.V., S.G. Karapurkar,M.A. Soares,R. Agnihotri,R.Roy, H. Naik,S.W.A.Naqvi(2011) Variability of Nitrogen Stable Isotope in Suspended Organic Matter in Waters of the Western Continental Shelf of India and the Mandovi EstuaryMineralogical Magazine,75(3) 1431 IF 1.78

18. Pradeep Srivastava, A. Kumar, A. Mishra, N.K. Meena, J.K.Tripathi, Y.P. Sundriyal, Rajesh Agnihotri, Anil K. Gupta. Early Holocene monsoonal fluctuations in the Garhwal higher Himalaya as inferred frommulti-proxy data from the Malari paleolake, Quaternary Research (2013), IF 2.881

19.Prasad, MVSN, C. Sharma, BC Arya, TK Mandal, Sachchidananda Singh, Monika J Kulshrestha, Rajesh Agnihotri, SK Mishra, SK Sharma. Experimental Facilities to Monitor Various Types of Atmospheric Parameters in the Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division (RASD) of CSIR-National Physical Laboratory. MAPAN-J. Metrol. Soc. India, 28(3) (2013) 193-203, doi: 10.1007/s12647-013-0067-8. IF 0.786

20.Ravi Bhushan, Koushik Dutta, Rajesh Agnihotri, R. Rengarajan, Satinder Pal Singh. Decadal variations in oceanic properties of the Arabian Sea water column since GEOSECS. Radiocarbon (2013) 56, DOI:10.2458/56.16963,IF 2.32

21.Rajesh Agnihotri, Kumar, R., Prasad, M.V.S.N, Sharma, C., Bhatia, S.K., Arya, B.C. Experimental setup and standardization of a continuous flow stable isotope mass spectrometer for measuring stable isotopes of Carbon, Nitrogen and Sulfur in Environmental samples. MAPAN-J. Metrol. Soc. India, 29, 195-205. (2014), DOI 10.1007/s12647-014-0099-8, IF 0.786

22. Rajesh Agnihotri, Sumit K. Mishra, Pawan Yadav, Sukhvir Singh, Rashmi, M.V.S.N. Prasad and B.C. Arya. Bulk to individual particle level Chemical characterization of atmospheric aerosols particles (PM5) over a semi-arid urban zone (Jaipur) of India, Aerosol and Air Quality Research 15, 58-71 (2015); IF 2.664

23.Rajesh Agnihotri, S.G. Karapurkar, V.V.V.S. Sarma, K. Yadav, M.D. Kumar, C. Sharma and M.V.S.N. Prasad. Stable isotopic and chemical characteristics of bulk aerosols during winter and summer season at a station in western coast of India (Goa) Aerosol and Air Quality Research 3, 888-900, (2015),IF 2.664

24.Sumit K. Mishra, Rajesh Agnihotri, P. K. Yadav, S. Singh, M.V.S.N. Prasad, P.S. Praveen, J.S. Tawale, Rashmi, N.D. Mishra, B.C. Arya, C. Sharma. Morphology of atmospheric particles over semi-arid region (Jaipur, Rajasthan) of India: Implications for optical properties. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 15, 974-984(2015) IF 2.664

25. D.S. Singh and Rajesh Agnihotri, Climate change in the Indian perspective and its societal impactsCurrent science 110, 964 (2016) IF 0.926.

26.Rajesh Agnihotri, R. Sawlani, C. Sharma, M.V.S.N. Prasad, Thermal Heating Induced Fractionation Effect on d15N Measurements (Using Continuous Flow Isotope Ratio Mass-Spectrometry) for SamplesContaining Lower N Contents, . MAPAN-J. Metrol. Soc. India, 29, 195-205. (2014), DOI 10.1007/s12647-014-0099-8, IF 0.634

27.A. Ghosh, R. Bhattacharyya, B.S. Dwivedi, M.C. Meena, B.K. Agarwal, P. Mahapatra, D.K. Shahi, R. Salwani, R. Agnihorti, Temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition as affected by long-term fertilization under a soybean based cropping system in a sub-tropical Alfisol, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (Elsevier)DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.09.010 IF 3.565

28.Rajesh Agnihotri, A.P. Dimiri, H.M. Joshi, N.K. Verma,C. Sharma, J. Singh, Y.P. Sundriyal, Evaluating operative natural and anthropogenic forcing factors from long term climate time series of Uttarakhand (India) in the backdrop of abnormal rainfall event of 2013. (2016) Geomorphology (Elsevier), DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.10.024 IF 2.577

29.P. Srivastava, A. Kumar, S. Chaudhary, N. Meena, Y.P. Sundriyal, S. Rawat, S., N. Rana, R.J. Perumal, P. Bisht, D. Sharma, R.Agnihotri, D.S. Bagri, N. Juyal, R.J. Wasson, A.D. Ziegler, Paleofloods records in Himalaya. (2016) Geomorphology (Elsevier), DIO: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.12.011, IF 2.577

Chapters in books and AGU monographs-

30.Somayajulu B.L.K., Rajesh Agnihotri, M. Dixit, K. Dutta, and C. Sharma (1998) Arabian Sea Sediments and Paleoclimate: Global Climate Changes Scientific Results from ISRO-GBP eds. Subbaraya, Rao, Desai, Manikiam, ISRO, Bangalore, pp. 207-222

31.Rajesh Agnihotri, S.W.A. Naqvi, Siby Kurian, Mark Altabet, J.F. Bratton, Is 15N of Sedimentary Organic Matter a Good Proxy for Paleodenitrification in Coastal Waters of the Eastern Arabian Sea ? a book chapter in Indian Ocean biogeochemical processes and ecological variability. eds. by: Wiggert, J.D.; Hood, R.R.; Naqvi, S.W.A.; Brink, K.H.; Smith, S.L.(Workshop on Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research (SIBER); Goa; India; 3-6 Oct 2006). (Geophys. Monogr. Ser.; 185). American Geophysical Union; Washington, DC; USA; 2009; 321-332.

32.Naqvi, S. W. A., H. Naik, D. A. Jayakumar, A. Pratihary, G. Narvenkar, S. Kurian, Rajesh Agnihotri, M. S. Shailaja, and P. Narvekar (2009) Seasonal anoxia over the western Indian Continental Shelf, a book chapter in Indian Ocean biogeochemical processes and ecological variability. eds. by: Wiggert, J.D.; Hood, R.R.; Naqvi, S.W.A.; Brink, K.H.; Smith, S.L.(Workshop on Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research (SIBER); Goa; India; 3-6 Oct 2006). (Geophys. Monogr. Ser.; 185). American Geophysical Union; Washington, DC; USA; 2009; 333-345.

33.Rajesh Agnihotri, Role of solar intrinsic variability in the modern era of anthropogenic climate change, a chapter in the book “Climate Change” edited by Dr. H. Saikia, CSIR 2010

34.Rajesh Agnihotri and Koushik Dutta, Anthropogenic Climate Change: Anthropogenic Climate Change: observed Facts, Projected Vulnerabilities and Knowledge Gaps, An invited chapter Chapter in book edited by R. Sinha and R. Ravindra, Earth System Processes and Disaster Management, Society of Earth Scientists Series 1, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28845-6_10, (2012); publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Cited by1

Technical reports-

35.Supriya Karapurkar, Anand Methar and Rajesh Agnihotri, Measurement of C and N isotopes of geological samples using Delta V Plus Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer via different preparatory systems. Technical report published by National Institute of Oceanography, NIO/TR-02/ (2008).

Articles in popular magazines of public outreach-

36.Rajesh Agnihotri, Vishwa ka samudri niotrogen chakra evam usaka jalvayuviya mahatwa. [Marine nitrogen cycle of the world oceans and its climatic importance], Sagar Bodh. [Understanding the oceans] ed. by: Ansari, Z.A. National Inst. of Oceanography; Dona Paula, Goa; India; 2009; 52-55

37.Rajesh Agnihotri and Supriya Karapurkar, Vaishvik ushnata va jalvayu parivartan: avalokit tahya avam anuttarit prashn [Global warming and Climate Change: Observed facts and unanswered questions] ed. by: Ansari, Z.A. National Inst. of Oceanography; Dona Paula, Goa; India; 2010; 53-57

Abstracts presented in Symposia/conferences-

1.Agnihotri R., M. Dixit, K. Dutta, and B.L.K. Somayajulu, Geochronological and Geochemical studies of the western Continental margins of India: IGBP implications, IGBP National Symposium, RRL, Bhubneshwar Jan 15-17, 1997.

2.Agnihotri, R., R. Bhushan, K. Dutta, A. Sarkar, and B. L. K. Somayajulu; (1997) Deciphering Monsoonal / Climatic Changes During the Past Millenium using the Continental Margin Sediments of the West Coast of Abstract submitted to International Symposium on Isotopes in Solar System, held at P. R. L. Ahmedabad, India

3.Agnihotri R., R. Bhushan, A. Dubey, K. Dutta, S. Karthikeyan, R. Rengarajan and B. L. K. Somayajulu, (1999) Ascertaining changes in Physical and Chemical properties of the Arabian Sea: Reoccupation of GEOSECS stations after two decades;; Abstract submitted to Second International Conference on Environmental Sciences at Trivandrum, India.

4.Agnihotri, R., R. Bhushan, K. Dutta, R. Ramesh., A. Sarkar and B.L.K. Somayajulu, Retrieving high resolution paleomonsoon and paleoclimatic information from the margin sediments of the Eastern Arabian Sea. In: Book of abstracts, Chairman’s review of ISRO-GBP projects and the 3rd workshop on scientific results from ISRO Geosphere Biosphere Programme, October 3-4 2000, ISRO headquarters, Bangalore, India. 23-26 pp.

5.Sarkar A., R. Agnihotri, R. Ramesh, B.L.K. Somayajulu, A.J.T. Jull and G.S. Burr, A Multi proxy Paleoclimatic Record of the Late Quaternary from the Eastern Arabian Sea, Abstract submitted to 8th ISMS Symposium held in December 1999, Hyderabad, pp. 611-613

6.Agnihotri R., M. M. Sarin, B.L.K. Somayajulu, A.J.T. Jull and G.S. Burr, Late-Quaternary Paleo productivity and Organic Carbon deposition record from the Eastern Arabian Sea , Abstract submitted to International symposium on " Neogene climate of the Indian Ocean and Indian subcontinent" prsented at IIT Kharaghpur, India, in 2001

7.Somayajulu B.L.K., Ashish Sarkar, R.Ramesh, R. Agnihotri, A.J.T. Jull and G.S. Bur, High resolution monsoon and climate changes during the Late Quaternary deciphered from eastern Arabian sea sediments, Abstract presented at International symposium on " Neogene climate of the Indian Ocean and Indian subcontinent" to be held at IIT Kharaghpur, India, in 2001

8.Agnihotri R. and M M. Sarin, Spectral interference in determination of molybdenum in marine sediments by ICP-AES, Abstract presented at 4th international conference on analysis of Geological & Environmental materials “GEOANALYSIS” held during 30 Aug. to 1 Sep. 2000 at Nancy (France).

9.Agnihotri R., R. Bhushan, K. Dutta, A.J.T. Jull, R. Ramesh, A. Sarkar and B.L.K. Somayajulu. Margin sediments of the eastern Arabian Sea: geochronology, geochemistry and C and O isotope systematics. Abstract presented at the International Conference on “Benthic Processes in Deep Arabian Sea”, 1998 Edinburg, Scotland.

10.Somayajulu B.L.K., A. Sarkar, R. Agnihotri, R. Ramesh, K.Dutta and R. Bhushan. Holocene monsoonal and upwelling records from the margin sediments of the eastern Arabian Sea. Abstract presented at the IAPSO Symposium P07, IUGG General Assembly, Birmingham, UK, July 19-31, 1999

11.Agnihotri R., B.L.K. Somayajulu. Evidence for millennial and sub-millennial periodicities in SW monsoon: Inference from a multi-proxy record from the eastern Arabian Sea. Extended abstract presented at international conference on Quaternary Climate, Tectonics and environment of the Himalaya: Comparison with other regions. held at Nanital (India) during March, 2002

12.Somayajulu B.L.K. Sarkar Ashish, R. Agnihotri, R. Ramesh, A.J.T. Jull, G. S. Burr. Arabian Sea eastern continental margins: Natural laboratory for biogeochemical and paleoceanographic studies. Abs. submitted to AGU/ASLO Ocean science meeting held in Honolulu (Hawaii) during February 2002.

13.Agnihotri R., K. Dutta, R. Bhushan, B.L.K. Somayajulu. Multi-decadal variability of South Asian monsoon: Proxy and instrumental records. Abs. presented at "First ARTS open science meeting, during February 2001 at Noumea, New Caledonia

14.Agnihotri, R., S.K. Bhattacharya, B.L.K. Somayajulu. Changes in sub-surface denitrification, surface productivity in response to SW- monsoon during the Holocene in the eastern Arabian Sea. Abs presented in Silver jubilee symposium of Indian mass-spectrometry, held in GOA, India, during 27 to 31 January, 2003.

15.Agnihotri, R., B.L.K. Somayajulu.Geochemical investigation of sediments from Arabian Sea: clues to paleo-environment. Abs presented in held in international workshop on Biogeochemistry of Northern Indian Ocean jointly organized by National Institute of Oceanography, GOA, India, and University of Bremen, Germany, during 24 to 25 February, 2003.

16.B. L. K. Somayajulu, R. Agnihotri, Ashish Sarkar, R. Bhushan, K. Dutta, R. Ramesh, M. Tiwari, A. J. T. Jull and G. S. Burr. Past monsoon variations over peninsular India deciphered using margin sediments from the Eastern Arabian Sea: Role of AMS 14C dating. Expanded abstract of the paper to be presented at the Xth ISMAS Workshop, Puri, February 2002.

17.Rajesh Agnihotri, Mark A. Altabet, T.D. Herbert, J.E. Tierney, Jeff Donnelly, Synchronous decadal to centennial scale variability in surface productivity off Peru and Indian Monsoon during the last millennium, Oral presentation at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, December, 2005

18.M.A. Altabet, R. Agnihotri, J.Tierney, S.M. Higgins and T.D. Herbert, A Tale of two margins: A comparison of redox and productivity paleo-proxies in sediments off Oman and Peru, Abstarct presented at Goldschmidt conference 2005

19.Rajesh Agnihotri andMark A. Altabet, Past records of marine denitrification in the Arabian sea, ETNP and ETSP : Implications for atmospheric N2O variability, Oral presentation at International Workshop on "Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research (SIBER)" at National Institute of Oceanography, Dona-Paula, Goa-403004, India 3-6 October, 2006

20.Altabet, M.A. , R. Agnihotri, T. D. Herbert, and S. Higgins, M. J. Higginson. Climate control of Peru Margin Productivity and Denitrification over the last 20 kyr; Local vs Remote Forcing (Humboldt Current Conference, Lima Peru, Nov. 2006)

21.Ora Hadas., Rajesh Agnihotri., Taixing Wuand Mark Altabet, Nitrogen isotope composition of particulate organic matter (POM) in Lake Kinneret Israel, abstract present in SIL conference in Montreal Canada in August 2007

22.Rajesh Agnihotri, Siby Kurian, S.W.A. Naqvi, On suitability of sedimentary 15N as a proxy for past denitrification in the coastal eastern Arabian Sea, Oral presentation at Science planning meeting of "Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research (SIBER)" National Institute of Oceanography, Dona-Paula, Goa-403 004, India 27-30 November, 2007

23.Rajesh Agnihotri, Siby Kurian, S.W.A. Naqvi and Mark Altabet, oral presentation entitled as “Suitability and limitation of sedimentary 15N as a proxy for paleo-denitrification in coastal suboxic Peru margin and Eastern Arabian Sea in recent past (few centuries)” atinternational conference on “Terrestrial Planets: Evolution through time” from 22-25 January 2008, held at Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, India

24.Rajesh Agnihotri and Mark Altabet, oral presentation entitled as “Significance of southern hemispheric paleo-denitrification records in understanding global climate during the Quaternary” at national conference on “Climatic Changes during the Quaternary: Special reference to Polar Regions and Southern Ocean” held at International Center Goa during 22-23 October 2010.

25.Rajesh Agnihotri, Koushik Dutta and B.C. Arya, (2011) Invited talk on “Solar irradiance forcing of terrestrial climate: An undeniable fact even in the Anthropocene era” in National conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth's Sustainability: Issues and challenges, held at Lucknow University from 12-14 September.