Office Address
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences IISER Campus, Knowledge city Sector 81, SAS Nagar (Mohali) P.O Manauli India. PIN 140306
- headees@iisermohali.ac.in
Our research encompasses all parts of the Earth's dynamic system, investigating the linkages between the Earth's interior, surface, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere, and how the coupling of chemical, physical, biological, and geological processes shape the evolution of Earth and impact society. Our research themes are unconventional in that they blend deep time and present day, investigating the longer term consequences of short term processes.
Poor air quality over the Indo Gangetic Plain has become a matter of public debate and concern. Our research group works on improving air quality action plans by conducting source apportionment studies, deploying low-cost air pollution sensors and developing emission inventories . . . . .
Read MoreOur current research is focused on improving fundamental process based understanding of emissions-atmospheric chemistry-air quality and climate and their feedbacks over South Asia. Ozone formation chemistry and the sources, sinks of ambient gases (including green house gases . . . . .
Read MoreMy research group works on utilizing lake sediments as climate archive in the Indian summer . . . . .
Read MoreThe research activities of Dr. Patil’s lab (https://eemblab.website/) aim to advance the understanding of Electromicrobiology, a new sub-discipline of Environmental Microbiology, and contribute to developing sustainable biotechnologies for valorizing . . . . . .
Read MoreGEOM Lab (Geomorphology of Mountains and Valleys lab) focuses on understanding the evolving controls of co-seismic, post-seismic, and rainfall-induced landslides in different orogenic settings. We also aim to understand the mechanisms of large landslides and rock avalanches in glaciated. . . .
Read MoreGeogenic or naturally occurring arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater is widespread particularly in south-east Asian countries (Kumar et al., 2016a; Mandal and Suzuki, 2002; Naidu et al., 2007; Singh et al., 2016). It has a significant threat to human health and a massive challenge . . . . .
Read MoreI have worked on reconstruction of early life and palaeoenvironment and probing mass extinction event using organic geochemical techniques. Our work on a Gondwana Permian Triassic section showed the massive deforestation of coal-forming vegetation and a sharp decline in the . . . . .
Read MoreOur team delves into the nexus between granitic magmatism and metal enrichment in Earth’s crust. Our inquiry spans various stages in the ‘life cycle’ of metalliferous granites ranging from melt generation, through its geochemical evolution, till up to the terminal stage of granite crystallization . . . . .
Read MoreOur group focuses on interdisciplinary research covering a broad spectrum of satellite remote sensing technology and its application for Earth observation related to natural and anthropocentric processes. This includes hydrological and geophysical processes involving glacier dynamics studies . . . . .
Read MoreBiological processes in waste(water) treatment, Water reuse, Resource recovery, Anaerobic Digestion, Characterization of microbial communities involved in bioremediation, Oxyanions removal from drinking water, Fate of biogenic metal/loid sludge. . . . . .
Read MoreAtmospheric processes and climate change take place on a wide range of spatial scales from global to regional and local scales. Our group aims at analyzing, simulating and predicting the regional weather and climate aspects, including extremes, over India using high-resolution regional climate . . . . .
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