National Centre for Earth Science Studies

Education:

Professional Career:

Training programmes attended:

• Attended a seminar on Scientific and rethinking on the recent mega flood of Kerala-2018.
• Attended the state level wokshop on Environmental Impact Assessment, School of Environmental Sciences, MG University, Kottayam, Kerala.
• Participated in the state level training cum workshop on wetland monitoring, School of Environmental Sciences, MG University, Kottayam, Kerala.
• Attended the Third International Conference on Frontiers of Mass Spectrometry-2017, School of Environmental Sciences, MG University, Kottayam.
• Attended Indo-US workshop on Application of membranes in energy and water purification-2015, ACESSD, MG University, Kottayam.
• Attended the International Conference on water: from pollution to purification-2016, School of Environmental Sciences, MG university, Kottayam.
• Attended the Third International Conference on Frontiers of Mass Spectrometry-2015, School of Environmental Sciences, MG University, Kottayam.
• Attended the Nature awareness camp conducted by Chinnar wildlife sanctuary 2013, 2014.
• Participated in the First aid training programme 2016.

Publications/Conferences/Seminars:

• Vandana, M., John, S. E., Maya, K., Sunny, S., & Padmalal, D. (2020). Environmental impact assessment (EIA) of hard rock quarrying in a tropical river basin—study from the SW India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192(9), 1-18.
• Vivek V. R., Sreelesh R., Syam Sunny, Silpa Mathew, K. Maya and D. Padmalal, Springs in the coastal lowlands Trivandrum block: Water discharge and hydro-geochemistry, INGWC 2020, 18-20 February 2020, CWRDM
• Maya K, Vivek V. R., Silpa Mathew, Sreelesh R, Syam Sunny and Padmalal D. Geothermal characteristics and hydrochemistry of ground water around a thermal spring in Southern Western Ghats, India, 36 th International Geological Congress.

Education:

Achievements/Awards/Fellowships:

• KVPY Fellow 2012 (SB 1212029)
• Qualified GATE 2020 in Geology and Geophysics
• Qualified Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test-Lectureship-December 2017 in Earth Sciences All India Rank-48
• Ministry of Earth sciences Research fellowship awardee 2019

Internships:

• Summer internship on “Parameters for Evaluating Calibration of Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) Analysis for Rare Earth Elements” under the guidance of Dr. P V Sunder Raju, Principal Scientist at CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad.
• Summer internship on “A study on spinel corona texture in corundum bearing amphibolite from Paramathi, Tamilnadu under the guidance of Dr. Sajeev Krishnan, Associate Professor at IISc, Bangalore

Participation in International/National Webinars:

• Attended a webinar talk on “Paleoclimate reconstruction using stable isotopes in natural archives” on 7th September 2020 organized by Association of Quaternary Researchers.
• Participated in 2 days international webinar on “Geological outreach and Career development” conducted on 13th and 14th August 2020 organized by Department of Geology and Environmental science, Christ college, Irinjalakuda.
• Attended a webinar on “Academic and scientific writing catapulting institutional visibility” held on 3rd August 2020 organized by Central Library, Manipur university in collaboration with Springer Nature.
• Attended a webinar series on the topic “Radiocarbon dating using AMS” organized by Geochronology group at IUAC on 11th and 13th May 2020.

Education:

Workshop and Seminars:

• Oral paper presentation on the topic “Study on the thermal and cold-water springs in the Western Ghats- A case study from India” on International Ground water conference, 2020.
• Oral paper presentation on the topic “Tracing source contributions of major ions in river waters an example from Southern Kerala” on Indian analytical science congress 2019 organized by Indian Analytical Scientists Kerala chapter.
• Presented a poster on a National Seminar on Aquatic Chemistry AQUASEM’19 School of Marine Sciences, CUSAT, cochin, India.
• Participated in the National Conference on Integrating Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems in a Changing Oceanic Environment held at KUFOS-INCOIS CENTRE Kochi, India.
• Participated in the seminar on GC-MS, LC-MS and NMR Spectroscopy held at St. Teresa’s College, Kochi, conducted by Indian Society of Analytical Scientists, Kerala Chapter, 2017.
• Participated in the National Workshop on Emerging Trends in Chromatography and Hyphenated held at the School of Marine Science, CUSAT, conducted by Indian Society of Analytical Scientists, Kerala Chapter, 2016.

Membership in Professional Bodies:

• Association of Science of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) (student membership)
• International Association of Geochemistry (student membership)

In Proceedings of Conferences:

• Sreelesh R, Presenjit Das, Vivek V. R., Silpa Mathew ,K Maya and D Padmalal, Study on the Thermal and cold water Springs of Dakshina Kannada district, Southern Western Ghats, India. INGWC 2020, 18-20 February 2020, CWRDM.
• Vivek V. R., Sreelesh R., Syam Sunny, Silpa Mathew, K. Maya and D. Padmalal, Springs in the coastal lowlands Trivandrum block: Water discharge and hydro-geochemistry, INGWC 2020, 18-20 February 2020, CWRDM.
• Maya K, Vivek V. R., Sreelesh R, Silpa Mathew, , Syam Sunny and Padmalal D. Geothermal characteristics and hydrochemistry of ground water around a thermal spring in Southern Western Ghats, India, 36 th International Geological Congress.

Education:

Professional Career:

Honours & Awards:

• CSIR NET Physics 2014.
• DST-INSPIRE Fellow

Education:

Professional Career:

Achievements/Awards:

• Tamilnadu State Eligibilty Test (TNSET) 2017 in Physical Sciences.

Training/Conferences:

• IIRS,ISRO off-campus outreach certificate program (2014) on Remote Sensing, GIS and IRNSS.