Organisational Structure - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
Consultancy/Technical Assistance rendered
Sixty-four samples have been dated in the
Radiocarbon Lab as a part of consultancy services
offered by the Institute. Also technical assistance
(Radiocarbon dating of samples) rendered to
following organizations/individuals:
Geological Survey of India,
Anna University, Chennai,
Kumaon University, Nainital,
National Institute of Oceanography, Goa,
Deccan College, Pune,
ASI, Bhopal,
Centre for Earth Science Studies, Trivandrum,
and
Prof.P.K.Banerji, Emeritus Scientist, CSIR,
Jadavpur University, Calcutta
K. Ambwani & V.K. Singh provided
consultancy services in Scanning Electron
Microscopy to the scientists/students of the different
Institutions and Universities.
J.S. Guleria identified fossil samples sent by
Commissioner of Jabalpur as bone pieces and
submitted a report on that.
M. Shukla & R. Babu extended help to
Professor A.D. Ahluwalia and his student Sandeep
Walia of Department of Geology, Chandigarh
University for the isolation of microbiota from the
sediments of Krol-Tal succession, Lesser Himalaya.
A. Khandelwal imparted aerobiological
training to two M.Sc- 4 th Semester students of
Environmental Science, Lucknow University for their
environment oriented aerobiology projects: i) Study
on aerial prevalence of Parthenium hysterophorus
L. pollen in relation to pollen allergy, and ii) Biomonitoring
of grass pollen and grass pollen allergy.
M.R. Rao provided technical assistance to
Mr. Salman Velayati, Department of Geology, Tehran
University, Iran for the identification of Tertiary
spore-pollen recovered from the metamorphic rocks
exposed at Kord Kouy, Gorgan, north-east of Iran.
C. Srivastava provided practical training and
interpretational assistance to Mr. A.P. Singh, M.Sc.
student in Environmental Science, Lucknow
University, on the problem entited Palaeoethnobotanical
studies at ancient Charda-Jamoga
(ca. 800 BC-1100 AD), District Bahraich (UP).
S.K.M. Tripathi provided scientific
assistance to Miss Nidhi Rai, 4 th Semester student of
Environmental Science, Lucknow University in
completing her Project report on Role of Palynology
in hydrocarbon generation and crude oil pollution.
M.S. Chauhan carried out the pollen analysis
of one Quaternary sample from Meghalaya received
from Geological Survey of India.
R.C. Mehrotra & R. Srivastava helped in
identification of big logs of fossil woods and other
plant megafossils placed in the Ghughua fossil park
situated near Shahpura, District Dindori (MP).
A. Farooqui provided scientific assistance
to two students of M.Sc. Environmental Sciences,
Lucknow University for their dissertation on Impact
of Anthropogenic pressure on coastal vegetation in
Adyar and Pichavaram estuaries.
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