Organisational Structure - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
Recognition
A.K. Sinha
Presided over the 1 st Session— Geology in
the Himalayas at 15 th Himalayas-Karakoram-Tibet
Workshop held at Chengdu, China in April, 2000.
Unanimously elected the ‘Chairman’ of
National Committees of the International Lithosphere
Program by the General Body for the period of five
years (since August 2000) at 31 st International
Geological Congress, Brazil.
Convened the Special Symposium F-1—
Global Tectonic Zones at 31 st International
Geological Congress held at Rio de Janerio, Brazil
in August, 2000. Elected ‘President’ of Earth
Sciences System for 89 th Session of Indian Science
Congress, Lucknow (2001-2002).
J. Banerji
Co-chaired the first scientific session of the
National Symposium on Recent Advances in Geology
and Resource Potential of the Kachchh Basin held
at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during
December 2000.
C. Sharma
Chaired Technical Session— Quaternary
Palynology at 10 th International Palynological
Congress held at Nanjing, China in June 2000.
C. Sharma & A. Dixit
Awarded Gold Medal for best Research Paper
entitled “Holocene climatic inferences from
lacustrine sediments from Surinsar Lake, Jammu”
presented at the National Symposium on Ecophysical
Consequences of Environmental pollution held at
Narendra Deo University, Faizabad (UP) in
November-December, 2000.
R. Garg, J.S. Guleria, A. Tripathi & Vijaya
Elected Fellows of The Palaeobotanical
Society, Lucknow.
A. Khandelwal
Co-chairperson, 34 th National Convention of
the Indian College of Allergy & Applied Immunology
held at Lucknow from September 29-30, 2000.
Co-chairperson, Geoenvironmental studies:
Indian Scenario held at Jhansi from November 9-
10, 2000.
C.M. Nautiyal
Chosen for ‘UP Vigyan Sancharak Award’
for contribution to science communication by VICAS
and District Science Club, Allahabad. Co-chaired the
Valedictory Session of the Science Writing/
Journalism Workshop, Palampur (HP).
S. Sarkar
Chaired a session at 10 th International
Palynological Congress held at Nanjing, China in
June 2000.
S.C. Srivastava
Chaired the one scientific session in Indian
Botanical Conference held at Meerut (UP) in October
2000. Received Mellennium Medal of CBEM
Laboratory, Hungary.
A. Gupta
Chaired Technical Session “Quaternary
Palynology” at 10 th International Palynological
Congress held at Nanjing, China in June 2000.
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