I am a geochemist and paleoclimatologist interested in multi-proxy, multi-archive climate reconstruction, with a special focus on developing transfer functions for quantification of palaeoclimate and understanding the impact of climate change on different components of the geo-ecosystem. My research interest also includes understanding the long-term history of eutrophication in aquatic systems to understand their trends and develop relevant management. My research uses organic (lipid biomarkers) and isotopic geochemistry, aided by geochemical and climate modelling.

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My research group works on utilizing lake sediments as climate archive in the Indian summer monsoon domain.

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• Muneer, W., Behera, D., Ankit, Y., Anoop, A., Mishra, P.K. and Jehangir, A., 2023. Historical trends of heavy metal contamination and eutrophication in an aquatic system from Kashmir Himalaya, India. Environmental Challenges, 12, p.100721.
• Srivastava, P., Sanyal, P., Bhattacharya, S., Mishra, P.K., Dutta, S., Chakravarti, R., Rai, N., Navani, N., Anoop, A., Karanth, K.P. and Joshi, J., 2023. A need to integrate metagenomics and metabolomics in geosciences and develop the deep-time digital earth-biome database of India. Current Science (00113891), 124(1).
• Behera, D., Mishra, P.K., Sabale, P., Bhattacharya, S. and Anoop, A., 2023. Late Holocene climate variability and its impact on cultural dynamics in central India. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 515(1), pp.217-232.
• Behera, D., Bhattacharya, S., Rahman, A., Kumar, S. and Anoop, A., 2022. Molecular tracers for characterization and distribution of organic matter in a freshwater lake system from the Lesser Himalaya. Biogeochemistry, pp.1-20.
• Ankit, Y., Chirakkal, A#., Kataria, V#., Anoop, A. and Mishra, P.K., 2022. From biomass to fossil fuels: A contemporaneous transition to anthropogenic driven environmental changes recorded in a Central Himalayan Lake. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 8, p.100186.
• Ankit, Y., Mishra, P.K., Mehta, B., Anoop, A., Misra, S. and Jamir, T., 2022. Hydroclimatic variability in Northeast India during the last two millennia: Sedimentological and geochemical record from Shilloi Lake, Nagaland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 602, p.111151.
• Ankit, Y., Muneer, W., Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Bhattacharya, S., Bulbul, M., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A. and Mishra, P.K., 2022. Apportioning sedimentary organic matter sources and its degradation state: inferences based on aliphatic hydrocarbons, amino acids and δ15N. Elsevier Environmental research 205, 112409.
• Prasad, S., Mishra, P.K., Priya, P., Yousuf, A.R., Andersen, N., Anoop, A., Jehangir, A., Yaseen, T., Gaye, B. and Stebich, M., 2022. Impact of precipitation and temperature changes on limnology and sediment characteristics in NW Himalaya. Applied Geochemistry, p.105200.
• Bulbul, M., Ankit, Y., Basu, S. and Anoop, A., 2021. Characterization of sedimentary organic matter and depositional processes in Mandovi estuary, western India: An integrated lipid biomarker, sedimentological and stable isotope approach. Applied Geochemistry 131, p.105041.
• Ankit, Y., Muneer, W., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Misra, S., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A. and Mishra, P.K., 2021. Long term natural and anthropogenic forcing on aquatic system- evidence from biogeochemical and pollen proxies from lake sediments in Kashmir Himalaya (India). Applied Geochemistry 131, p.105046.
• Mishra, P.K., Chauhan, P.R., Diwate, P., Parth, S. and Anoop, A., 2020. Holocene climate variability and cultural dynamics in the Indian subcontinent. Episodes, 43(1), pp.552-562.
• Misra, S., Bhattacharya, S., Mishra, P.K., Misra, K.G., Agrawal, S. and Anoop, A., 2020. Vegetational responses to monsoon variability during Late Holocene: Inferences based on carbon isotope and pollen record from the sedimentary sequence in Dzukou valley, NE India. Catena, 194, p.104697.
• Prasad, S., Marwan, N., Eroglu, D., Goswami, B., Mishra, P.K., Gaye, B., Anoop, A., Basavaiah, N., Stebich, M. and Jehangir, A., 2020. Holocene climate forcings and lacustrine regime shifts in the Indian summer monsoon realm. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(15), pp.3842-3853.
• Mishra, P.K., Ankit, Y., Gautam, P.K., Lakshmidevi, C.G., Singh, P. and Anoop, A., 2019. Inverse relationship between south-west and north-east monsoon during the late Holocene: Geochemical and sedimentological record from Ennamangalam Lake, southern India. Catena, 182, p.104117.
• Basu, S., Sanyal, P., Pillai, A.A. and Anoop, A., 2019. Response of grassland ecosystem to monsoonal precipitation variability during the Mid-Late Holocene: Inferences based on molecular isotopic records from Banni grassland, western India. PloS one, 14(4), p.e0212743.
• Mishra, P.K., Parth, S., Ankit, Y., Kumar, S., Ambili, V., Kumar, V.V., Singh, S. and Anoop, A., 2019. Geochemical and sedimentological characteristics of surface sediments from Ashtamudi Estuary, Southern India: implications for provenance and modern sedimentary dynamics. Environmental Earth Sciences, 78(14), p.395.
• Mishra, Praveen K., Prasad, S., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., Yousuf, A. R., Gaye, B., 2018. Abrupt lake level rises in the high altitude Tso Moriri Lake (India) –investigating the role of meltwater versus precipitation seasonality in the regional hydrological budget. Paleoclimatology Paleoecology Paleogeography 493, 20-29.
• Pillai, A.A., Anoop, A., Prasad, V., Manoj, M.C., Varghese, S., Sankaran, M. and Ratnam, J., 2018. Multi-proxy evidence for an arid shift in the climate and vegetation of the Banni grasslands of western India during the mid-to late-Holocene. The Holocene, 28(7), 1057-1070.
• Basu, S., Anoop, A., Sanyal, P., Singh, P., 2017. Lipid distribution in the lake Ennamangalam, south India: Indicators of organic matter sources and paleoclimatic history. Quaternary International 443, 238-247.
• Ankit, Y., Kumar, P., Anoop, A., Mishra, Praveen K., Varghese, S., 2017. Mid-late Holocene climate variability in the Indian monsoon: evidence from continental shelf sediments adjacent to Rushikulya river, eastern India. Quaternary International 443, 155-163
• Pillai, A.A., Anoop, A., Sankaran, M., Sanyal, P., Jha, D.K. and Ratnam, J., 2017. Mid- late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485, 869-878.
• Ankit, Y., Mishra, Praveen K., Kumar, P., Jha, Deepak K., Kumar, Vivek V., Ambili, V., Anoop, A., 2017. Molecular distribution and carbon isotope of n-alkanes from Ashtamudi Estuary, South India: Assessment of organic matter sources and paleoclimatic implications. Marine Chemistry 196, 62-70.
• Mishra, Praveen K., Prasad, S., Marwan, N., Anoop, A., Krishnan, R., Gaye, B., Basavaiah, N., Stebich, M., Menzel, P., Riedel, N., 2017. Contrasting pattern of hydrological changes during the past two millennia from central and northern India: regionality of climate change or anthropogenic signal?. Global and Planetary Change 161, 97-107
• Mishra, Praveen K, Prasad, S., Anoop, A., Plessen, B., Jehangir, A., Gaye, B., Menzel, P., Weise, S., Yousuf, A.R., 2015. Carbonate isotopes from high altitude Lake Tso Moriri (NW Himalayas) provide clues to late glacial and Holocene moisture variability and atmospheric circulation changes. Paleoclimatology Paleoecology Paleogeography 425, 76–83.
• Basavaiah, N., Wiesner, M., Anoop, A., Menzel, P., Riedel, N., Gaye, B., Brauer, A., Stebich, M., Prasad, S., 2014. Physicochemical analyses of surface sediments from the Lonar Lake, central India – implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 184 (1), 51-68.
• Prasad, S., Anoop, A., et al., 2014. Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo- Pacific warm pool: a Holocene record from Lonar Lake, Central India. Earth and Planetary Science letters 391, 171-182.
• Menzel, P., Gaye, B., Mishra, P., Anoop, A., Basavaiah, N., Marwan, N., Plessen, B., Prasad, S., Riedel, N., Stebich, M., Wiesner, M.G., 2014. Linking Holocene drying trends from Lonar Lake in central India to North Atlantic cooling events. Paleoclimatology Paleoecology Paleogeography 410, 164-168.
• Goswami, B., Heitzig, J., Rehfeld, K., Marwan, N., Anoop, A., Prasad, S., Kurths, J., 2014. Estimation of sedimentary proxy records together with associated uncertainty. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 21, 1093–1111.
• Mishra, Praveen K, Anoop, A., Jehangir, A., Prasad, S., Menzel, P., Schettler, G., Naumann, R., Weise, S., Yousuf, A.R., Gaye, B., 2014. Limnology and modern sedimentation patterns in high altitude Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya – implications for proxy development. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 185 (3-4), 329-348.
• Mishra, Praveen K., Anoop, A., Schettler, G., Prasad, S., Jehangir, A., Menzel, P., Naumann, R., Yousuf, A.R., Basavaiah, N., Deenadayalan, K., Wiesner, M.G., B. Gaye, B., 2014. Reconstructed late Quaternary hydrological changes from Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya. Quaternary International 371, 76-86.
• Riedel, M., Stebich, M., Anoop, A., Basavaiah N., Philip, M., Prasad, S., Sarkar, S., Wiesner, M., 2014. Modern pollen vegetation relationships in the dry deciduous monsoon forest at Lonar Crater Lake (central India). Quaternary International 371, 268–279.
• Anoop, A., Prasad, S., Plessen, B., Naumann, R., Menzel, P., Basavaiah, N., Weise, S., Gaye, B., Brauer, A., 2013. Palaeoenvironmental implications of evaporative Gaylussite crystals from Lonar Lake, Central India. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (4), 349-359.
• Anoop, A., Prasad, S., Krishnan, R., Naumann, R., Dulski, P., 2013. Intensified monsoon and spatiotemporal changes in precipitation patterns in the NW Himalaya during the early-mid Holocene. Quaternary International 313-314, 74-84.
• Menzel, P., Gaye, B., Basavaiah, N., Prasad, S., Stebich, M., Das, B.K., Nagel, B., Anoop, A., Riedel, N., Wiesner, M., 2013. Impact of bottom water anoxia on nitrogen isotopic ratios and amino acid contributions of recent sediments from small eutrophic Lonar Lake, Central India. Limnology and oceanography 58 (3), 1061-1074.
• Anoop, A., Prasad, S., Basavaiah, N., Brauer, A., Shahzad, F., Deenadayalan K., 2012. Tectonic versus climate influence on landscape evolution: a case study from the upper Spiti valley, NW Himalaya. Geomorphology 145-146, 32-44.

• IDC 203 Introduction to Earth Science
• EES 301 Sedimentology and Principles of Stratigraphy
• EES402: Geomorphology and earth surface processes
• IDC 631 Geochemistry
• EES 638 Paleoclimatology
• EES636: The quaternary period-environments, animals adaptations during the last 2.5 million years
• EES 641 Isotope geology
• IDC 623 Field and Lab based methods in Geology, Ecology and Archeology

• Understand the proxy (in)coherence in lake basins from varied climatic regimes – implications for paleoclimate reconstruction. Core Research Grant (CRG), Science& Engineering Research Board (SERB), (Co-PI); March 2023-March 2026. Sanctioned amount- 54 L
• Distribution and quantification of organic contaminants and microplastic concentrations in lake systems from Himachal Pradesh, India. National Himalayan Mission studies (NHMS) under Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEF &CC); February 2019- February 2022 (PI). Sanctioned amount- 40 L
• Assessment of microplastic concentrations and persistent organic pollutants in freshwater ecosystems of Kashmir Himalaya Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) 2.0 (Co-PI); August 2020-July 2023. Sanctioned amount- 53 L
• Subsistence and symbolism in prehistoric India: Understanding environmental contexts in relation to Homo sapiens dispersals and adaptations MHRD-STARS; May 2020- April 2023 (Dr. Parth Chauhan PI; Co-PI). Sanctioned amount- 99 L
• Setting up of biomarker facility (GC-MS, solvent extractor and particle size analyser) at department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER Mohali utilizing start-up grant. Sanctioned amount- 100 L

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