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S. Masood Ahmed, chief scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), here has won the K.K. Menon Award for 2013.
The award instituted by the Geological Society of India recognised his contributions in sedimentary geology.
Marine sediment cores
Ahmed has carried out extensive studies on marine sediment cores from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea to understand and interpret the paleoclimatic evolution of these basins.
He has focussed on sediments like corals, foraminifera, speleothems, lacustrine deposits etc. to reconstruct the earlier climatic phase in the Indian Ocean as well, according to a press release from NGRI.
Earlier, Ahmed also won the National Geoscience Award for the year 2009.
He is Indian leader of the International Geoscience Programme on ‘Evolution of Asian River Systems’. He has published more than 50 research papers in international and national journals.
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