NAME :	Dr. Santosh K. Shah
DESIGNATION :	Scientist - E
EMAIL :	santoshkumar_shah@bsip.res.in; santoshk.shah@gmail.com
PHONE/EXT :	/+91-522-2742927 (Off.) +91-9451246758 (Cell)

Research Interest

Dendroclimatology
Reconstruction and analysis of climate variability and change over the Common Era
Past Drought, Floods, River flow reconstruction and Glacier fluctuation
Climate Field Reconstruction
Proxy systems modeling
Holocene Palynology and Modern Pollen-Climate calibration
Statistical data analysis in R-programming environment

Awards and Honors

Young Scientist Award and Second Best Presentation (by Department of Science and Technology for the research contribution on Palaeoclimate studies (16th December, 2006). Department of Geology, University of Jammu, Jammu, India) - 2006
Dr. B.S.Venkatachala Memorial Gold Medal (BSIP, Lucknow) - 2008
Paper of the Month Award (BSIP) - December, 2014 - 2014
Paper of the Month Award (BSIP) - August-September, 2014 - 2014
Fellow, East Himalayan Society for Spermatophyte Taxonomy - 2014
Sharda Chandra Memorial Gold Medal: jointly with co-authors of paper entitled “Analysis of vegetation and climate change during Late Pleistocene from Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya Region” published in Quaternary Science Review 101, 111-123, 2014 - 2014
Diamond Jubilee Medal (BSIP, Lucknow) - 2016
Visiting Scientist: Tree-ring and Environmental Change Group, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), CAS, P.R. China; Jan.-Feb. 2018 (15 days). - 2019
INSA Bilateral Exchange Fellowship: Visited Tree-ring and Environmental Change Group, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), CAS, P.R. China; July-August, 2019 (1 month). - 2019
Treasurer, Association of Quaternary Researchers – (2019-2023) - 2019
President, Asian Dendrochronological Association – (2019-2021) - 2019

Memberships of Professional Societies

Tree-ring society of Nepal
Life member, Palaeontological Society of India
Life member, The Palaeobotanical Society
Life member, East Himalayan Society of Spermatophyte Taxonomy
Life member, Asian Dendrochronology Association
Life member, The Indian Science Congress Association

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Contact Details

* Contact Number	+91-522-2742927 (Off.) +91-9451246758 (Cell)
* Email ID	santoshkumar_shah@bsip.res.in; santoshk.shah@gmail.com

Publications

Selected Publications

Shah SK, Pandey U, Mehrotra N, Wiles GC, Chandra R. 2019. A winter temperature reconstruction for the Lidder Valley, Kashmir, Northwest Himalaya based on tree–rings of Pinus wallichian. Climate Dynamics 53: 4059-4075. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04773-6
Gaire NP, Dhakal YR, Shah SK, Fan ZX, Bräuning A, Thapa UK, Bhandari S, Aryal S, Bhuju DR. 2019. Drought (scPDSI) reconstruction of trans-Himalayan region in western Nepal using Pinus wallichiana tree-rings. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514: 251-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.026
Mehrotra N, Shah SK. 2019, Basavaiah N, Laskar AH, Yadava MG. Resonance of the ‘4.2ka event’ and terminations of global civilizations during the Holocene, in the palaeoclimate records around PT Tso Lake, Eastern Himalaya. Quaternary International 507: 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.09.027
Shah SK, Pandey U, Mehrotra N. 2018. Precipitation reconstruction for the Lidder Valley, Kashmir Himalaya using tree-rings of Cedrus deodara. International Journal of Climatology 38: 758-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5405
Babushkina EA, Belokopytova LV, Shah SK, Zhirnova DF. 2018. Past crops yield dynamics reconstruction from tree-ring chronologies in the forest-steppe zone based on low-and high-frequency components. International Journal of Biometeorology 62: 861-871. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-017-1488-9
Shah SK, Mehrotra N. 2017. Tree–ring studies of Toona ciliata from subtropical wet hill forests of Kalimpong, eastern Himalaya. Dendrochronologia 46: 46-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2017.10.001
Thapa UK, Shah SK, Gaire NP, Bhuju DR. 2015. Spring temperatures in the far-western Nepal Himalaya since A.D. 1640 reconstructed from Picea smithiana tree-ring widths. Climate Dynamics 45: 2069-2081. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2457-1
Bhattacharyya A, Mehrotra N, Shah SK, Basavaiah N, Chaudhary V, Singh IB. 2014. Analysis of vegetation and climate change during Late Pleistocene from Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya Region. Quaternary Science Review 101: 111-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.008
Shah SK, Bhattacharyya A, Chaudhary V. 2007. Reconstruction of June-September Precipitation based on tree-ring data of Teak (Tectona grandis L.) from Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India. Dendrochronologia 25: 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2007.02.001

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