Parthasarathi Chakraborty is an Indian environmental geochemist, a former senior scientist at the CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography and an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
17 Facts About Parthasarathi Chakraborty
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty made contributions to the field of Environmental Geochemistry which has facilitated our understanding of the metals-natural ligands interactions in natural and marine environments.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty is a recipient of the National Geoscience Award-2015 and an elected fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty, born on 24 October 1976 in Siliguri, West Bengal India, graduated in chemistry with honors from the University of North Bengal in 1998 and continued at the institution to earn a master's degree in inorganic chemistry in 2000.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty did his post-doctoral work at the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science of Wageningen University for one year.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty returned to India in 2008 to join the National Institute of Oceanography.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty showed that kinetics-based approach provides the actual metal speciation instead of the current practice of chemical equilibrium speciation.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty has demonstrated the effects of Ligand Field Stabilization Energy, water exchange rate, Jahn Teller distortion of transition metals on their speciation and bioavailability in estuarine and coastal sediments.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty took the challenge to understand Hg-natural ligands interaction with an aim to reduce Hg pollution in marine systems.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty showed that sedimentary Hg concentrations around India are low and not alarming.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty identified that sedimentary organic matter can be an important factor to control Hg distribution and their bioavailability in coastal marine systems.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty has published a number of articles, ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 57 of them.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty is a former associate member of the Working Group 139 and works as an associate member of SCOR-145.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty is associated with several scientific Societies and is as an associate editor of the Elsevier journal, Marine Pollution Bulletin.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty was selected for the National Geoscience Award-2013 of the Ministry of Mines in 2015.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty was bestowed with the IAGC Kharaka Award in 2017.
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Parthasarathi Chakraborty received ISAG Medal-2017 for his contribution in Environmental Geochemistry.