Dr. R.J. Azmi, a Young Associate awardee of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1983, is a Humboldt Fellow since 1985 for discovering Cambrian small shelly fossils from the Krol Belt, necessitating a major age revision of the Lesser Himalayan successions.

Best paper award of WIHG in 2007
K. Phadtare
Paper: Ruhland, K, Phadtare, NR, Pant, RK, Sangode, SJ, Smol, JP, 2006. Accelerated melting of Himalayan snow and ice triggers pronounced changes in a valley peatland from northern India. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L15709, doi: 10.1029/2006GL026704