PRESENT POSITION: "Associate Professor",

Oceanography & Climate Studies Group

DATE OF BIRTH:   26th July, 1951

ADDRESS:

Physical Research Laboratory

Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, India

Phone: 91-79-6462129

Fax: 91-79-6560502

E-mail: sarin@prl.ernet.in

QUALIFICATIONS:

B.Sc. 1971, Nagpur University, India

M.Sc. 1973, Nagpur University, India

Ph.D. 1984, Gujarat University, India

RESEARCH FIELD:

Radiometric and trace element studies of oceanic particulates, marine sediments and ferromanganese deposits. Use of natural radionuclides to investigate the geochemical processes in estuaries and salt water marshes. Application of U-Th decay series nuclides for studying chemical scavenging processes, particle export and new production rates in the ocean. Distribution of radionuclides and trace elements in major river systems of India with reference to river-ocean interactions. Carbon transport via fluvial systems. Chemistry of marine aerosols and inputs of trace constituents to Ocean. Study of trace gases in the tropical Indian Ocean. Chemical and isotopic studies on Himalayan glaciers.

HONORS:

1996-97, "Adjunct Appointment" - Associate Professor

1997-98, College of Marine Studies,

1998-99 University of Delaware, USA

1994 Elected Fellow, Geological Society of India.

1989 Recipient of Dr. A.K. Ganguly Felicitation prize-1989 for
the work carried out in the field of environmental radiation.

1984-86, 1998-99 Member, American Geophysical Union.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

1973 - Present Oceanography & Climate Studies Group,Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

1977 - 78 Participant - GEOSECS Indian Ocean Expedition

1980 -  Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

1982 - 83 Scientific collaborator on NSF grants INT - 8117218 and INT - 8218434 to Professor W.S. Moore, University of South Carolia, USA

1984 - 86 Postdoctoral Fellow on NSF grants OCE-8201056/8411064, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, USA

1992, 1995, Visiting Scientist, College of Marine Studies, University of

1996, 1998 Delaware, USA

1996 Participant - IOC South Atlantic Cruise

1996 - Present "Adjunct Faculty Appointment", University of Delaware, USA

Currently Funded Research Activities:

A. "Radionuclides in the Water Column of the Arabian Sea," JGOFS (India) Program, Principal Investigator.

B. "Trace Gases Study in the Tropical Indian Ocean," JGOFS (India) Program, Co-Principal Investigator.

C. "Paleoceanography Studies from the Sediments of the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean," JGOFS (India) Program, Co-Investigator.

D. "Biogeochemistry of carbon and related elements in the Godavari river and adjoining coastal zone", LOICZ (India) Program, Principal Investigator.

E. "Isotopic and Chemical Investigations on Dokriani Bamek Glacier, Garhwal Himalaya: Implications to Ice Dynamics, Climatic Variation and Chemical Pollution," Co-Principal Investigator.

 
Participation in Ocean Cruises:

1977-78 R/V Melville, GEOSECS Indian Ocean

1981 ORV Gaveshani, Bay of Bengal

1985 R/V Cape Henlopen, Delaware Bay

1988 ORV Sagar Kanya, Arabian Sea

1991(March) ORV Sagar Kanya, Bay of Bengal

1991(Dec.) ORV Sagar Kanya, Bay of Bengal

1994 ORV Sagar Kanya, JGOFS Arabian Sea

1995 ORV Sagar Kanya, JGOFS Arabian Sea

1996 R/V Knorr, IOC South Atlantic

1997 ORV Sagar Kanya, JGOFS Arabian Sea

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

1. D.V. Borole, M.M. Sarin and B.L.K. Somayajulu. Composition of Narbada and Tapti estuarine particles and the adjacent Arabian sea sediments. Indian J. Mar. Sci. 11 (1982) 51.

2. M. Basakaran, M.M. Sarin and B.L.K. Somayajulu. Composition of mineral fractions of the Narbada and Tapti estuarine particles and the adjacent Arabian sea sediments off western India. Chem. Geol. 45 (1984) 33.

3. M.M. Sarin, R. Bhushan, R. Rengarajan and D.N. Yadav. The simultaneous determination of 238U series nuclies in sea water : Results from the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal. Ind. Jour. Mar. Sci. 21 (1992) 121-127.

4. D.N. Yadav, M.M. Sarin and B.L.K. Somayajulu. Western continental margins of India : Are they sink or source for trace elements in the Arabian Sea. Proc. Int. Symposium on Oceanography of Indian Ocean, Jan. 1991, Goa, India. IBH, Oxford Publication (1992), pp.359.

5. A. Sarkar, S.K. Bhattacharya and M.M. Sarin.Geochemical evidence for Anoxic deep water in the Arabian Sea during the last glaciation. Geochim. et Cosmochim acta 57 (1993), 1009-1016.

6. M.M. Sarin, S. Krishnaswami, R. Ramesh and B.L.K. Somayajulu. 238U decay series nuclides in the north-eastern Arabian Sea : Scavenging rates and cycling processes. Continental Shelf Research 14 (1994) 251-265.

7. B.L.K. Somayajulu, D.N. Yadav and M.M. Sarin. Recent sedimentary records from the Arabian Sea. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. (EPS section) 103 (1994) 315-327.

8. B.L.K. Somayajulu, M.M. Sarin and R. Ramesh. Denitrification in the Eastern Arabian Sea: Evaluation of the role of continental margins using Ra isotopes. Deep Sea Res. 43 (1996). 111-117.

9. M.M. Sarin, R. Rengarajan and V. Ramaswamy. ²³⁴Th scavenging and particle export fluxes from the upper 100m of the Arabian Sea, Current Science, 71 (1996) 888-893.

10. S. Lal, P.K. Patra, S. Venkataramani and M.M. Sarin. Distribution of Nitrous oxide and methane in the Arabian Sea", Current Science, 71 (1996) 894-899.