Prof. J. Srinivasan

Chairman,  Divecha Centre for Climate Change,

Indian Institute of Science

Email: jayes@caos.iisc.ernet.in

Tel: +91-80-2293-3068    

+91-80-2360-3331    

+91-80-2293-2505

Fax:     +91-80-2293-3425

Dr. Govindasamy Bala

Professor

Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Indian Institute of Science

Email: gbala@iisc.ac.in

Tel:     +91-80-2293-3428

Fax: +91-80-2293-3425

Honors

• World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Norbert Gerbier MUMM International Award for 2014 for the research paper entitled “Climate response to changes to atmospheric carbon dioxide and solar irradiance on the time scale of days to weeks”. This paper was published 2012 in the Environmental Research Letters, Volume 7. Shared the award with collaborators Profs. Long Cao of China and Ken Caldeira of USA.


• Lead Author for the carbon cycle chapter in IPCC WG1 AR5  report


• Contributing author for Chapter 7 on clouds and aerosols in IPCC WG1 AR5 report


• Numerous press releases, articles in news papers, interviews to Newspapers (New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Economist, Forbes, Science, San Jose Mercury, Tri-Valley Herald, Sacramento Bee, Tracy Press, The Hindu, Times of India, PTI, Hindustan Times, DNA Bangalore, Financial Express, Times of India, Financial Express, Business Times, etc), TV (CBS) and Radio (BBC, NPR, Berkeley Radio, France, etc.) on research work related to high resolution global climate simulations, land cover change, deforestation, climate change and geoengineering (can be viewed by google search).


• Scopus Young Scientist Award in Earth Sciences 2008


• McGill-CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) Fellowship, 1990-1994.


• TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Scholarship, one among 25 selected on a national (India) basis for a Joint TIFR-Pune University program in M.Sc Physics, 1986-1988.


• Government of India Merit Scholarship for achievement in State level 10th grade exams, 1981-1986.


• Merit Scholarship for achievement in 8th grade, 1979-1981.

Editor

• Editorial board member- Environmental Research Letters Review (an Institute of Physics Journal)– 2016-2018


• Editor, Earth System Dynamics (A journal of the European Geophysical Union)


• Guest Editor, Special section of Current Science on “Climate Change: Projections and Impact s in India”, August 2011


• Guest Editor for 2 papers related to climate change, Current Science, 2011

Memberships

• Theme Leader for the “Environmental Science and Climate Change” Theme, and IISc representative for the IMPRINT India Initiative.


• Member, Expert Committee on Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, 2013 - present


• Member, Scientific Steering Committee - Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System(AIMES), International Geosphere-Biosphere Program(IGBP), Jan 2015 - Dec 2017.


• Member, Silver Jubilee Awards Committee of Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 2015 - 2016.


• American Geophysical Union – Member, 1996 - present


• Advisor, Indian Climate Research Network, 2011 - present

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