| Ongoing Research Projects |
TAT 1: GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE HIMALAYA AND ADJOINING MOUNTAINS
| TAT-1.1 | Himalayan Deep Image Profiling (HIMDIP) along Defined Transect (S.S. Bhakuni, Gautam Rawat, Naresh Kumar, D.K.Yadav, Devajit Hazarika, P.K.R. Gautam and S. Rajesh) |
| TAT-1.2 | Fluid-P-T-t evolution of Leopargil Gneissic dome,Himachal Pradesh (H.K. Sachan, Aditya Kharya and Saurabh Singhal) |
| TAT-1.3 | Crust-Mantle interaction in continental subduction zone and their role in Himalayan tectonics (Barun K. Mukherjee, Koushik Sen, C. Perumalswami, Pratap Sethy and Santosh K. Rai) |
| TAT-1.4 | Tectono -metamorphic , exhumation and mineralization in Himachal, Garhwal and Sikkim Himalaya (Rajesh Sharma, S.S. Thakur, A.K. Singh, Paramjeet Singh, Aliba Ao, D.R. Rao and Saurabh Singhal) |
| TAT-1.5 | Exhumation History of Higher Himalayan Crystallines of Zanskar, NWIndia (Vikas Adlakha) |
| TAT-1.6 | Isotopic aqautic (major & trace elements) gerochemistry and morpho-tectonic studies of geothermal systems (geothermal springs) of Kumaun West – Central Himalaya India: Implications for their source of origin and orogenic CO degassing 2 (Sameer K. Tiwari, A.K.L. Asthana and Aditya Kharya) |
TAT – 2: INDIAN MONSOON-TECTONIC INTERACTION AND EXHUMATION OF THE HIMALAYA
| TAT-2.1 | Paleoclimatic records from Himalaya and its foreland and their hydrological impacts (Pradeep Srivastava, Anil Kumar, Santosh K. Rai, Suman Lata Rawat, Jayendra Singh, Som Dutt, Prakasham M., Saurabh Singhal and Pinky Bisht) |
| TAT-2.2 | Aquatic geochemistry and morpho-tectonic studies in the Indus River system: Implications to denudation process and evolution of land forms in the Northwest Indian Himalaya (Santosh K. Rai and A.K.L. Asthana) |
| TAT-2.3 | Past 2 ka climatic variability in Himalaya using multiproxy and multi-archival records (Narendra Kumar, Narender K. Meena, Sudipta Sarkar and M. Prakasam) |
| TAT-2.4 | Black Carbon monitoring in north-west Himalaya (P.S. Negi and Chhavi P. Pandey) |
| TAT-2.5 | Late Quaternary summer monsoon variability and its connection with erosion in the western Himalaya from Site U1457, Arabian Sea (Anil Kumar and Som Dutt) |
TAT – 3: EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORS STUDIES AND GEO HAZARD EVALUATION
| TAT-3.1 | Seismological, seismotectonic and subsurface related studies hazard evaluation from the NW Himalaya, Ladakh & Jammu & Kashmir regions (Sushil Kumar, Ajay Paul, P.K.R. Gautam, Narendar Kumar, Chhavi P. Pandey and Parveen Kumar) |
| TAT-3.2 | Seismotectonics and subsurface structure investigation in the Siang Valley of the Eastern Himalaya, Northeast India (D.K. Yadav, Devajit Hazarika, Naresh Kumar and A.K.Singh) |
| TAT-3.3 | Timing, size, and lateral extent of earthquake ruptures along the Himalayan FrontalThrust, DaukiDapsiandNagaThrust , SchuppenThrustBelt (R.Jayangondaperumal, Pradeep Srivastava and Swapnamita Vaideswaran) |
| TAT-3.4 | Neotectonics between North Almora Thrust (NAT) and Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT) of Kumaun Himalaya: Implication to morphotectonic evolution (Khayingshing Luirei and S.S. Bhakuni) |
| TAT-3.5 | Late Quaternary landform evolution and active tectonics in the selected segments of northwestern Sub Himalaya between Kali-Ganga-Beas rivers (G. Philip, N. Suresh, Gautam Rawat, S. Rajesh and P.K.R. Gautam) |
| TAT-3.6 | Evaluation of Geomorphic Hazards in the selected transacts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Himalaya (Vikram Gupta and Ajay Paul) |
TAT – 4: BIODIVERSITY – ENVIRONMENT LINKAGE
| TAT 4.1 | Paleobiological study of the Neoproterozoic-early Cambrian sequence of Carbonate belt, Lesser Himalaya and their interpretation in terms of palaeo- environment and correlation of evolutionary trend with global bioevents. (Meera Tiwari) |
| TAT-4.3 | Biotic investigations of Early Tertiary successions from NW Sub-Himalaya and western India with reference to India-Asia collision and faunal dispersals (K. Kumar – till Sept. 2018) |
| TAT-4.4 | Characterization of Tertiary fauna and flora from the NE India vis-à-vis NW Himalaya in light of India-Asia collision and global bioevents (Kapesa Lokho, Kishor Kumar and M. Prakasam) |
| TAT-4.5 | Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Neogene terrestrial Siwalik Group of NW India: a combined study of vertebrate fossils and stable isotopes (R.K. Sehgal and Aditya Kharya) |
TAT- 5: HIMALAYAN GLACIERS: THEIR ROLE IN INDIAN MONSOON VARIABILITY AND HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE GANGA BASIN
| TAT-5.1 | Status of glaciers in Doda and Suru River basins, Ladakh, Western Himalaya (Manish Mehta, Aparna Shukla, Vinit Kumar and S.K. Bartarya) |
| TAT-5.2 | Hydrogeology of Himalayan Spring (S.K. Bartarya) |