13 Facts About Rengaswamy Ramesh

Rengaswamy Ramesh was an Indian climatologist, oceanographer, a former Prof.

Rengaswamy Ramesh was known for paleo-climatic and paleo-oceanographic studies and was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

Rengaswamy Ramesh joined the Planetary and Geosciences Division of PRL as a research associate in 1987 and has served the institution in such various capacities as a Scientist-Grade D, Reader, Associate Professor, Professor and Senior Professor and holds the position of a Foundation for GLocal Science Initiatives Outstanding Scientist.

Rengaswamy Ramesh died on 2 April 2018, at the age of 61.

Rengaswamy Ramesh is known to have contributed to the reconstruction studies of paleo-climatic and paleo-oceanographic conditions of the Indian Ocean.

Rengaswamy Ramesh is credited, along with S K Bhattacharya and Kunchithapadam Gopalan, with the establishment of a Stable Isotope laboratory for the first time in India.

Rengaswamy Ramesh developed equations for the calculation of past temperatures and rainfall using stable isotope ratios and prepared high resolution documentation of the monsoon changes during the Holocene epoch.

Rengaswamy Ramesh's studies have been detailed in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate and Google Scholar, two online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 208 and 267 of them respectively.

Rengaswamy Ramesh was one of the lead authors of the book, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, a 1552-page compilation of reports of the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.

Rengaswamy Ramesh has mentored 15 scholars in their doctoral studies who were trained by him in stable isotope methodology.

Rengaswamy Ramesh is the project director of the National Program on Palaeoclimate studies of the ISRO-Geosphere Biosphere Programme and sits in the Research Council of the National Geophysical Research Institute as an external member.

Rengaswamy Ramesh received the TWAS Prize in 2006; TWAS honored him again in 2007 with an elected fellowship.

Rengaswamy Ramesh is a recipient of the Jagirdar of Arni Gold Medal and the Professor P E Subrahmanya Ayyar Gold Medal.