Young Scientist Award 2010-11

Dr. Uma Shankar, Senior Scientist, CSIR-NGRI Hyderabad, Gas Hydrate Group received the Young Scientist Award 2010-11 of the Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh (CSTUP) in the Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Science discipline on 29^th November 2011, at Vigyan Bhawan, Lucknow from Shri Abdul Mannan, Hon. Minister of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh.

 Dr. Uma Shankar has so far published 19 research papers in the high impact journals of earth science contributing towards identification and quantitative assessment of gas hydrate along the continental margins of India. Dr. Uma Shankar utilised seismic proxies and seismic attributes for detection of gas hydrates and /or free gas and established geothermal modeling for predicting the base of the gas hydrate stability zone and derived heat flow from the BSR depth. He is also actively associated with the estimation of gas hydrate saturation in the Krisha-Godavari Basin using rock physics modeling approach from the suits of well log data and constrained from multi-channel seismic data.