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Current

Outside NGRI

  • A collaboration between CSIR-NGRI and the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is going on since 2011 for the quantitative assessment of gas-hydrates in KG and Andaman offshore in India and the South China Sea in China using geophysical data under Indo-China S&T Cooperative Program.

    • Indian Coordinator       : Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • American Coordinator  : Dr. Xiujuan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • A collaboration between CSIR-NGRI and the Naval Research Laboratory is under consideration for the exploration of gas-hydrates in KG offshore basin using geophysical, geological and geochemical data under Indo-US cooperation.

    • Indian Coordinator       : Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • American Coordinator  : Dr. Richard Coffin, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Past

  • Indo-Russian Collaboration under ILTP project ‘Estimation of Gas-hydrates through Geophysical Survey’ (Project No. (A.11.17)

    • Indian Coordinator       : Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • Russian Coordinator     : Dr. G.A. Cherkashov, IGMRO at St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Under Indo-Italian Collaboration, two scientists from OGS, Italy visited CSIR-NGRI in 2009.

    • Indian Coordinator       : Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • Italian Coordinator       : Dr. Umberta Tinivella

  • The Indo-US collaboration between CSIR-NGRI and USGS resulted in two important publications on understanding (i) 'evolution of Southern Granulite Terrain' published in EPSL (2006) and (ii) causes of Bhuj Earthquake (2001) published in a book (2007) on Intra-plate Earthquake by the Geological Society of America.

    • Indian Coordinators       : Dr. P.R. Reddy, Dr. D. Sarkar and Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • American Coordinators  : Dr. Walter D. Mooney & Dr. Rufus R.D. Catchings

  • The Indo-UK programme between CSIR-NGRI and Cambridge University resulted in two important publications on (i) 'full-waveform inversion' of MCS data for gas-hydrate investigation published in Marine Geology (2000), and (ii) 'shallow velocity-structure' using traveltime tomography to shed light on geo-tectonics of central India published in Geophysical Journal International (2000).

    • Indian Coordinator       : Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • Bristish Coordinator     : Dr. Satish C. Singh

  • The Indo-US programme between CSIR-NGRI and Rice University resulted in two important publications on methodologies (i) 'Refraction and reflection traveltime tomography' published in Geophysical Journal International (2003), and (ii) '2-D waveform tomography' published in SPG (2004).

    • Indian Coordinator        : Dr. Kalachand Sain

    • American Coordinator   : Dr. Colin A. Zelt

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