Education:

Area of Specialization:

• Paleoclimatology; Paleoceanography; Geochemistry; Radiocarbon dating; Lead-210 Dating.

Area of Interest:

• Indian monsoon and its teleconnection with the global climate system.
• Role of natural climate forcing and climate variables during Holocene Epoch.
• Geochemical and isotopic proxies in sediments and corals.
• Sediment Geochronology.

Professional Careers:

Honors/Awards/Fellowships/Recognitions:

• Best Oral Presentation Award for the paper presented at OSICON-2019 held at Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE), Kochi, between 12 and 15 December 2019.
• Travel grant of 690 Euros awarded by YES Congress 2019 to held at Berlin, Germany during 9-13th September 2019.
• DST sponsored International Travel Grant wide no ITS/2058/2017-18 for International Goldschmidt conference 2017, Paris, France.
• Second prize for poster presented at Expert Meet and National Conference on "Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability: Records from Poles to Tropics" held on September 9-10, 2014, organised by Center of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow.
• Cleared PhD Entrance Test (PET) of MS University of Baroda, Vadodara.
• Judges Appreciation awards for paper presented at Workshop on Satellite Meteorology: 50 Year Journey organized by Indian Meteorological Society Ahmedabad (IMSA) in 28th October, 2010.
• Conferred Gold Medal by Gujarat University in 2009 for being university topper in M.Sc.
• First prize for paper presented at Chandangiri Goswami Memorial Seminar Compeitition-2009 organized by Geology Department, M. G. Science Institute, Ahmedabad on 19 January 2010.
• First prize for paper presented at SCIENCE EXCELLENCE-2008 Organized by Gujarat University.

SCI Publications:

1. Banerji, U. S., Bhushan, R., Joshi, K. B., Dabhi, A., Sudheer, A. K., Dubey, C. P., Panda, R. K., Haridas, N. V, & Gaddam, M. (2024). Geochemical records of mudflat sediments from southern Saurashtra, Western India: Implications for Holocene climate and global teleconnection. Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241266398.
2. Das, P., Padmalal, D., Kumaran, K. P. N., Limaye, R. B., Vishnu Mohan, S., Banerji, U. S., & Bhushan, R. (2024). Tracing the Late Quaternary coastal evolution of Central Kerala, India, around the lost ancient port Muziris using multi-proxy study of the sedimentary archives. Quaternary Science Advances, 14, 100197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100197.
3. Srivastava, D., Dubey, C. P., Banerji, U. S., & Joshi, K. B. (2024). Geochemical trends in sedimentary environments using PCA approach. Journal of Earth System Science, 133(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-024-02306-2.
4. Firoze, M., *Banerji, U. S., Thakur, B., & Kar, R. (2024). Hydroclimatic changes in the Core Monsoon Zone of India since the Last Glacial Maximum: An overview of the palynological data and correlation with the marine and continental records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 633(January 2023), 111844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111844.
5. Joshi, K. B., Banerji, U. S., Dubey, C. P., & Oliveira, E. P. (2022). Detrital Zircons in Crustal Evolution: A Perspective from the Indian Subcontinent. Lithosphere, 2022(SpecialIssue8). https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/3099822.
6. Banerji, U. S., Goswami, V., & Joshi, K. B. (2022). Quaternary dating and instrumental development: An overview. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 7, 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2022.100091.
7. Raj, H., Bhushan, R., Banerji, U. S., Jena, P. S., & Dabhi, A. J. (2022). Seasonal variation of surface seawater radiocarbon in the Andaman Sea as recorded in coral. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 255, 107021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.107021.
8. Shaji, J., *Banerji, U. S., Maya, K., Joshi, K. B., Dabhi, A. J., Bharti, N., Bhushan, R., & Padmalal, D. (2022). Holocene monsoon and sea-level variability from coastal lowlands of Kerala, SW India. Quaternary International, March. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.03.005.
9. Raj, H., Bhushan, R., Banerji, U. S., Muruganantham, M., Shah, C., Nambiar, R., & Dabhi, A. J. (2022). Air-sea CO2 exchange rate in the northern Indian Ocean based on coral radiocarbon records. Applied Geochemistry, 137(January), 105208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105208.
10. Haridas, N. V., *Banerji, U. S., K, M., & Padmalal, D. (2022). Paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic records from the Bay of Bengal sediments during the last 30 ka. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 229(March), 105169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105169.
11. Joshi, K. B., Banerji, U. S., Dubey, C. P., & Oliveira, E. P. (2021). Heavy minerals in provenance studies: an overview. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14(14), 1–16.
12. Mohanty, B., Das, A., Mandal, R., Banerji, U.S., & Acharyya, S. (2021). Heavy Metals in Soils and Vegetation from Wastewater Irrigated Croplands Near Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Risk to Human Health. Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 20, 163–175.
13. Joshi, K. B., Goswami, V., *Banerji, U. S., Shankar, R., (2021). Recent Developments in Instrumentation and its application in absolute geochronology: Historical perspective and Overview. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 211(February), 104690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104690.
14. Raj, H., Bhushan, R., Kumar, S., Banerji, U. S., Shah, C., & Verma, S. (2021). Monsoon signature in corals from the northern Indian Ocean. Journal of Marine Systems, 226(103664), 103664. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2021.103664.
15. Banerji, U.S, Bhushan, R., Joshi, K. B., Shaji, J., & Jull, A. J. T. (2021). Hydroclimate variability during the last two millennia from the mudflats of Diu Island, Western India. Geological Journal, 3584–3604. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4116.
16. Shah, C., Banerji, U. S., Chandana, K. R., & Bhushan, R. (2020). 210Pb dating of recent sediments from the continental shelf of western India: factors influencing sedimentation rates. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192, 468.
17. Banerji, U. S., Arulbalaji, P., & Padmalal, D. (2020). Holocene climate variability and Indian Summer Monsoon: An overview. Holocene, 30(5), 744–773. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619895577.
18. Banerji, U. S. (2019). Comments on “Geomorphic evidences of tectonic instability during the Late Quaternary Period along southern Saurashtra, western India’’’ by Prizomwala (2018).” Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 12(11), 362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-019-4543-5.
19. Banerji, U. S., Bhushan, R., & Jull, A. J. T. (2019). Signatures of global climatic events and forcing factors for the last two millennia on the active mudflats of Rohisa, southern Saurashtra, Gujarat, western India. Quaternary International, 507, 172–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.02.015.
20. Bhushan, R., Yadava, M. G., Shah, M. S., Banerji, U. S., Raj, H., Shah, C., & Dabhi, A. J. (2019). First results from the PRL Accelerator Mass Spectrometer. Current Science, 116(3), 361–363.
21. Chandana, K. R., Banerji, U. S., & Bhushan, R. (2018). Review on Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) Reconstruction since LGM from Northern Indian Ocean. Earth Science India, 11(I), 71–84.
22. Srivastava, P., Agnihotri, R., Sharma, D., Meena, N., Sundriyal, Y. P., Saxena, A., Bhushan, R., Sawlani, R., Banerji, U. S., Sharma, C., Bisht, P., Rana, N., & Jayangonda perumal, R. (2017). 8000-year monsoonal record from Himalaya revealing reinforcement of tropical and global climate systems since mid-Holocene. Scientific Reports, 7(14515). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15143-9.
23. Banerji, U. S., Bhushan, R., & Jull, A. J. T. (2017). Mid−late Holocene monsoonal records from the partially active mudflat of Diu Island, southern Saurashtra, Gujarat, western India. Quaternary International, 443, 200–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.09.060.
24. Meena, N. K., Prakasam, M., Bhushan, R., Sarkar, S., Diwate, P., & Banerji, U. S. (2017). Last-five-decade heavy metal pollution records from the Rewalsar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India. Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-6303-0.
25. Sarkar, S., Prakasam, M., Banerji, U. S., Bhushan, R., Gaury, P. K., & Meena, N. K. (2016). Rapid sedimentation history of Rewalsar Lake, Lesser Himalaya, India during the last fifty years - Estimated using 137 Cs and 210 Pb dating techniques: A comparative study with other North-Western Himalayan Lakes. Himalayan Geology, 37(1), 1–7.
26. Banerji, U. S., Bhushan, R., & Maurya, D. M. (2016). Sedimentary records of paleoredox conditions at relict mudflat of Vasoj, Southern Saurashtra coast, Gujarat. Earth Science India, 9(II), 114–125.
27. Banerji, U. S., Pandey, S., Bhushan, R., & Juyal, N. (2015). Mid-Holocene climate and land-sea interaction along the southern coast of Saurashtra, western India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 111, 428–439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.06.021.
28. Joshi, D., Banerji, U.S, & Mankodi, P. C. (2015). Delayed recovery in Porites spp. following mass coral bleaching: a case study from the Gulf of Kachchh, Gujarat, India. Journal of Global Biosciences, 4(5), 2326–2331.
29. Joshi, D., Munjpara, S., Banerji, U., & Parasharya, D. (2014). Coral bleaching observations in the Gulf of Kachchh, India – a climate induced stress on the scleractinians. Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 2, 106–113.

Book/ Monographs /Chapters/Edited Volumes:

1. Banerji, U.S., Joshi, K. B., Pandey, L., & Dubey, C. P. (2022). An outline of geochemical proxies used on marine sediments deposited during Quaternary Period. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (Issue 7, pp. 1–38). Elsevier. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2022.09.002.
2. Banerji, U.S., Dubey, C.P., Goswami, V., Joshi, K.B., 2022. Geochemical indicators in provenance estimation. In: John, A.A., Kailasa, P., Verma, S.K. (Eds.), Geochemical Treasures and Petrogenetic Processes. Springer Nature.
3. Banerji, U. S., & Padmalal, D. (2022). Bond events and monsoon variability during Holocene-Evidence from marine and continental archives. In K. P. N. Kumaran & D. Padmalal (Eds.), Holocene Climate Change and Environment (Ist, pp. 293–338). Elsevier. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90085-0.00016-4.
4. Pandey, C. N., Raval, B. R., Parasharya, D., Munjpara, S., Joshi, D., & Banerji, U. S. (2010). Recruitment and Growth Study of Coral Reefs in the Gulf of Kachchh. Gujarat Ecological Education and Research Foundation. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=9k7RMwEACAAJ.

Conferences/Seminars/Symposia:

1. Banerji, U.S., Bhushan, R., and D. Padmalal., 2020. Hydroclimate variability during the last two millennia and imprints of forcing factors: A study from western India. Ocean digest: quarterly newsletter of Ocean Society of India (Pune Chapter) 7 (2).
2. Banerji, U.S., Bhushan, R., Pandey, S., 2019. Evidence of land-sea interaction during mid-late Holocene from sedimentary records, western India. Extended Abstract In, Young Earth Scientist Network German Chapter 2019. DOI: 10.2312/yes19.07.
3. Banerji, U.S., Maya K, D Padmalal, Ankur J Dabhi, Ravi Bhushan Decoding the conundrum of mid-late Holocene monsoon variability and sea level changes from southern India. In, International Seminar on Plate Tectonics, Sedimentation and Metallogeny Through Time, organised by the Geological Society of India and SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad held on 26-28 November 2024.
4. Banerji, U.S., Ravi Bhushan. Mid-late Holocene climate and sea level variability from the mudflats of southern Saurashtra, western India. In, 29th Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy 2024 (ICMS-2024) organised by Delhi University during 17-19 October 2024.
5. Banerji, U.S., Maya K, D Padmalal, Kumar Batuk Joshi, Ankur J Dabhi, A K Sudheer, Ravi Bhushan Decoding the conundrum of paleoclimate during the Northgrippian-Meghalayan Stages and its Global linkage from the lake sediments of southern India. In, Conference on Integrated Earth (CITE)-2024 held at IISER-Pune, Pune, during 1-2 June 2024.
6. Banerji, U.S., Maya K, Padmalal, D., Joshi, K.B., Dabhi, A.J., Sudheer, A.K., Bhushan, R., 2023. Paleomonsoon variability during the Meghalayan Stage and its global teleconnection: evidence from lake sediment of southern India. In Indian Quaternary Congress-2024 at IISER-Mohali, Mohali during 03-05 June 2024.
7. Banerji, U.S., Bhushan, R., Joshi, K.B., Sudheer, A.K., Dubey, C.P. 2023. Holocene paleomonsoon reconstruction during Holocene from southern Saurashtra, Gujarat-A geochemical approach. In, OSICON-2023 held at INCOIS, Hyderabad, during 22-25 August 2023.
8. Banerji, U.S., Maya K, Padmalal, D., Joshi, K.B., Dabhi, A.J., Sudheer, A.K., Bhushan, R., 2023. Hydroclimate changes during 3-5 ka from the Southern India and its global teleconnection. In, In, Frontiers in Geosciences Research Conference (FGRC- 2023) held at PRL, Ahmedabad, Gujarat during 1-3 February 2023.
9. Banerji, U.S. and Padmalal, D., 2021. Interaction of Indian Summer Monsoon with global climatic events during the Holocene epoch: An Overview. In, Frontiers in Geosciences Research Conference (FGRC- 2021) held at PRL, Ahmedabad, Gujarat during 27-28 September, 2021.
10. Banerji, U.S., Shaji, Jithu, Maya K, Sudheer, A.K., Bhushan, Ravi and Padmalal, D. 2021 Paleoclimate variability and global teleconnection during Northgrippian-Meghalayan stages from the Southern India. In, OSICON-2021 held at NCPOR, Goa, during 12-14 August 2021.
11. Banerji, U.S. and Padmalal, D., 2021. Holocene climate variability and Indian summer monsoon: Linkage to global climatic events. In, National Seminar on Recent Advances in Geoscience research in India organised by Department of Geology, University of Delhi on 1st and 2nd July 2021 on Virtual Mode.
12. Banerji, U.S., Bhushan, R., Padmalal, D., 2019. Hydroclimate variability during the last two millennia and imprints of forcing factors: A study from western India. In, OSICON-2019 held at CMLRE, Kochi, Kerala between 12-14 December 2019.
13. Banerji, U.S., Bhushan, R., Pandey, S., 2019. Evidence of land-sea interaction during mid-late Holocene from sedimentary records, western India. In, Young Earth Scientist Network German Chapter 2019.

Popular Articles:

1. Banerji U.S., 2022. Core samples reveal global climate signatures. NatureVolve Digital Magazine 21.
2. Banerji, U.S, 2022. Indian monsoon dynamics and its linkage with the global climate system. Quaternary Chronicles-Happenning in the sub-continent.4 (1), 5. Association of Quaternary Researchers (AOQR).

Invited Talks:

1. Banerji, U.S., Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) and its global climate linkage-An Overview, presented at University of Turku, Turku, Finland on 8th November 2023.
2. Banerji, U.S., Insights into the Abrupt Climatic Events (ACE) of Holocene: A Paleoclimate Conundrum at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 30th January 2024.

Membership in Professional Bodies:

1. Ocean Society of India (OSI).
2. Young Earth Scientists (YES) Network.
3. Association of Quaternary Researchers (AOQR).

Google Scholar Links:

• https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=d5L5F6kAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

ResearchGate:

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Upasana_Banerji

ORCID:

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5536-1442

Vidwanid:

• 472251

Professional Training:

1. “Visual interpretation using remote sensing data for Land use, Land cover & hydro-geomorphology, Introduction with application of GIS in Geology and Remote Sensing”. At Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG), 15-23 Nov 2007.
2. Summer Internship Program–2008 at Geosciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, Gujarat in the month of May - June 2008.

Guest editor:

1. Kalachand Sain, Chandra Prakash Dubey, Upasana S Banerji and Bappa Mukherjee, in the special issue titled ‘AI/ML in Earth System Sciences' in the Journal of Earth System Science (JESS), Springer.
2. Upasana S Banerji, Chandra Prakash Dubey, Laxmi Pandey, Md. Firoze Quamar, Kumar Batuk Joshi in the special issue titled ‘Quaternary climate reconstruction using multiproxy approach and mathematical techniques (QCM2)’ in the Quaternary International (QI), Elsevier.
3. Mohammad Firoze Quamar and Upasana S Banerji in the special issue titled ‘Vegetation Response to the Hydro-Climatic Changes during the Late Quaternary’ in the Quaternary, MDPI.