Professor DEVESH KUMAR SINHA

Professor

Department of Geology
University of Delhi

Professor DEVESH KUMAR SINHA

Professor

Department of Geology
University of Delhi

Prof. Devesh K Sinha

Department of Geology

University of Delhi

Delhi-110007

Email: dsinha@geology.du.ac.in, deveshksinha@yahoo.com

Phone: + 9818546353

 

Prof. Devesh K Sinha is at present, Director, Delhi School of Climate Change and Sustainability, Institution of Eminence, and Professor of Oceanography and Marine Geology in the Department of Geology, Centre of Advanced Study at the University of Delhi. He was also Head, Department of Geology, and Dean, Faculty of Science. He held one of the top administrative positions at the University of Delhi and worked as Dean of Colleges from 2016-to 2018. The other important administrative position held by Prof. Sinha were, Chairman, Non- Collegiate Women Educational Board (NCWEB), Chairman, Board of Research Studies, Science, Chairman, Governing Body, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi.

Prof. Sinha has been a member of several important academic committees including those of CSIR and ISRO, UGC and DST (SERB). He was also Vice-President of the Paleontological Society of India. He was a UGC Expert and Advisory Member of the Centers of Advanced Studies in Geology of Kumaun University, Nainital, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and Banaras Hindu University. Prof. Sinha has been a member of Governing Bodies of prestigious Institutions of Delhi University including Miranda College, V.P. Patel Chest Institute, BR Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, CPDHE ( HRDC UGC) in the University of Delhi. He was also an Executive Council and Academic Council Member of Delhi University. Prof. Sinha was also honoured with a membership of Majlis-i-Talimi (مجلس اے تعلیمی)  (Academic  Council)  of Jamia Millia University, Delhi. He is at present a Member of the Board of Studies in Earth Science at Jammu Cluster University, Pondicherry University and Kumaun University. . Prof. Sinha is also a Member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun.

 

Prof. Devesh K Sinha obtained his Graduate and Post-Graduate degrees in Geology from Banaras Hindu University with a specialization in Micropaleontology and Paleoceanography. He obtained his Doctoral degree from the same University on “Late Neogene Paleoceanography of the Southwest Pacific Ocean” based on Deep-Sea Cores recovered from the International Ocean Drilling Programme – on Lord Howe Rise between Australia and New Zealand”. Prof. Sinha later did his Post-Doctoral Studies from GEOMAR Research Centre for Marine Geosciences, University of Kiel, Germany on North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation and “Heinrich Layers” based on RV-Sone-Cores from Portuguese margin. He also studied the recession of Alpine Glaciers, Switzerland due to climate change. After serving his alma mater for nearly two decades he joined the University of Delhi where he continues to be a Professor, teaching Oceanography and Micropaleontology, Paleoclimate, and Stratigraphy.

His research interest includes

a)            Refinement of Cenozoic Geological Time Scale;

b)            Paleoceanography and climate change during the last 6 million years;

c)            Understanding teleconnections in Earth –Ocean-Climate system on the

               geological time scale

d)            Effect of plate tectonics- closing and opening of ocean gateways and their effect on ocean

               circulation and climate change.

He has significantly contributed to all the above aspects by publishing at national and international levels. Due to his contributions to paleoceanography, he has been invited by several organizations to share his expertise including the National Science Foundation, USA where he was instrumental in framing the initial phase of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) in Bengal Fan at - University of Colorado, USA. His research work has found very significant citations in international literature including his more than 10 refinements in the Cenozoic Time Scale which have been incorporated in Geological Time Scale-2020 published by Elsevier recently. Professor Sinha with his illustrious group of students has contributed significantly to the geological history and ocean circulation changes in high northern latitudes around the Arctic and in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.

He is the recipient of the prestigious Paleontologist Gold Medal from the Palaeontological Society of India. Prof. Sinha has chaired several technical sessions in National and International Conferences and has delivered invited talks and keynote addresses at many prestigious national and international institutions including Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; National Institute of Oceanography, Goa; National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa; Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; GJ University Hisar, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations, Bangalore; Indian Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar; Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, S.N. Bose Institute of Physics, Kolkata, Department of Geology, Kumaun University, Nainital, Department of Geology, Madras University, Chennai, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Pondichery University, Navrachna University, Vadodra, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Dehra Dun, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, University of Colorado, USA, University of Kiel, Germany, Yonsei University, South Korea, to name a few. He has been a frequent speaker at the INSPIRE programs of DST. He was several times honoured as a Guest speaker at Earth Day celebrations. Prof. Sinha has the privilege of being on the Expert Panel in a USA Academy-INSA –Public Expert interaction on Climate Change held at INSA, New Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Chennai, PRL Ahmadabad, and West Bengal Academy of Sciences, Kolkata. Prof. Sinha frequently gives 'Invited Talks" on Climate Change and Sustainability to Foreign Delegates/ Diplomates and Trainees of the Indian Foreign Service at the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service, New Delhi. 

Prof. Sinha has also been a Participating Shipboard Scientist in International Oceanographic Expeditions conducted under JOINT GLOBAL OCEAN FLUX STUDIES (JGOFS) in the Indian Ocean. Having wide experience in sailing in the Tropical Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans to working near the freezing Baltic Sea, he has also edited a book “Micropaleontology: Application in Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography” published by Alpha Science International Oxford, and Narosa Publishers, New Delhi. At present, he has several International Research Projects on Global Cenozoic Ocean Circulation including

a)         Variation of Indonesian Throughflow during Late Neogene- (With Kochi -Japan)

b)         Paleoceanography of the Trans Tropical Pacific-(With Texas A & M University; USA)

c)         Late Neogene variation in ITCZ-(Kochi –Japan);

d)         Late Neogene History of Benguela Current (Bremen University, Germany)

e)         Variation in Indian Monsoon since Last Glacial Maximum-ISRO- International

            Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, India.

 

Prof. Sinha is on the Expert Panel of reviewers in CSIR, ISRO, DST, MOES, and UGC. He is a reviewer of papers published by Elsevier and other national and International Journals.

Besides academics, he loves music and is a vivid player of flute and mouth-organ. His family includes his wife, Son, and all his research students who are now occupying important positions in Universities and Research Institutes.

Some Latest Publications 

2020 Late Neogene –Quaternary planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and biochronology from ODP Site 807A , Ontong Java Plateau, Western Equatorial Pacific. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 50, no. 2, p. 111–127, https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.50.2.111

2021 Northward Migration of Antarctic Polar Front during the Quaternary: Planktic Foraminiferal Record from Southeast Indian Ocean Journal of Climate Change, The Netherlands, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2021), pp. 13-24. DOI 10.3233/JCC210002

2021 Diachronism in Late Neogene-Quaternary planktic foraminiferal events in Northern and Eastern Indian Ocean: Paleoceanographic implications”, Journal of Paleontological Society of India  Volume 66(2), 31, 2021: 357-374

2021 Ocean circulation in high northern latitudes and its influence on Arctic climate through the ages . In: Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments: Elsevier. P- 79-116 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822869-2.00017-7

2022  Cenozoic Evolution of Antarctic Ice Sheet, Circum Antarctic Circulation and Antarctic Climate: Evidence from Marine Sedimentary Records: In Assessing the Antarctic Environment from a Climate Change Perspective: An Integrated Approach – Springer-Nature:ISBN:978-3-030-87077-5,p-47-71  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87078-2_4

2022 Plio-Pleistocene planktic foraminiferal biochronology of ODP site 762B, Exmouth Plateau, Southeast Indian Ocean Journal of Foraminiferal Research, USA, v. 52, no. 4, p. 248-263, October 2022.https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.52.4.248

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Department of Geology,
University of Delhi
Phone : 9818546353

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