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SIBER INDIA

SIBER INDIA was initiated as major national programme by Dr. Wajih Naqvi at a workshop held at National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Goa in April 13-14, 2009. This programme is sponsored by Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India and has got strong national participation. SIBER INDIA programme has been subdivided into two major groups: Open Ocean and Esturies and Coastal Ocean. Open Ocean cluster has 6 projects and Easturies and Coastal Ocean cluster has 8 projects.

Details of the Projects are as follows:

Open Ocean Projects

S.No Project Leader(Institute/University) Project Title 1 Dr. S.W.A. Naqvi National Institute of Oceanography, GOA, Long-term monitoring of oceanographic, biogeochemical and ecological processes in the North Indian Ocean through establishment of open-ocean time series stations in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal 2. Dr. N. Ramaiah National Institute of Oceanography, GOA Elucidation of long-term changes in microbial communities in intensely denitrifying and oligotrophic environs through metagenomic analyses. 3. Dr. Sujitha Thomas Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mangalore Flow of matter through trophic levels and biogeochemical cycles in marine and estuarine ecosystems 4. Dr. R. Rengarajan Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad Particulate organic carbon export flux from upper Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal using 234th as a tracer 5. Prof. R. Ramesh Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. The role of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in nitrogen-loss from the Arabian Sea. 6. Dr. M.K. Sharada C-MMACS, Bangalore Modelling of marine biogeochemical cycles in the Indian Ocean Esturies and Coastal Ocean Projects S.Noo Project Leader(Institute/University) Project Title 1 Dr. SWA Naqvi National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula-Goa Dynamics of selected biogenic elements in Indian estuaries - A case study of the Mandovi - Zuari estuarine system 2 Prof. C Annapurna Department of Zoology, Andhra University, Visakhapatname Assessing macro and meiobenthic diversity off Goa Coast with special emphasis on OMZ 3 Dr. Vishnu Murty Matta Department of Marine Sciences, Goa University Atmospheric deposition and its influence on nutrients in coastal waters of Goa- West coast of India 4 Dr. B.R. Manjunatha Department of Marine Geology, Mangalore University Assessing the Anthropogenic Impact on South-West Coast of India 5 Dr. A.A. Mohamed Hatha School of Marine Sciences,Cochin University of Science and Technology,Cochin Role of Heterotrophic Bacteria and Cyanobacteria in the Nitrogen Cycle in the Cochin estuary and coastal waters with Special Reference to Nitrification, Denitrification and Nitrogen Fixing capabilities 6 Dr. V.N. Sanjeevan Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Kochi Time-Series studies on the Biogeochemical aspects in the estuarine and coastal waters of Kochi, southwest coast of India 7 Dr. T. Balasubramanian Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, Tamilnadu Hydro - Biological studies of Vellar - Coleroon estuarine system 8 Dr. S. K. Mukhopadhyay Department of Marine Science,University of Calcutta Biogeochemical dynamics of the Hooghly-Matla estuarine systems along the northeast coast of the Bay of Bengal, India.