Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

Recognitions to IITM Scientists

Dr. H.S. Chaudhari, Scientist F

Nominated as a member of the "Board of Studies of Space and Atmospheric Technology of SPPU University" for two years wef 27 December 2024.

Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist F

Received the Prof. R. Ramesh Endowment Award by the Ocean Society of India (OSI) for outstanding contributions in climate and ocean sciences at the OSICON 25 conference, CSIR National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, 05 February 2025.

Dr. Shikha Singh, Scientist D

Co-chair of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Regional Panel for a term of 2 years wef January 2025.

Dr. Ayantika Dey Choudhury, Scientist E

Member of the WCRP GPEX Working Group 3 on Precipitation Modeling, Prediction and Process Understanding.

Dr. Maheswar Pradhan, Scientist D

Elected as a member of CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel’s (MP) Working Group on Asian-Australian Monsoons (WG-AAM) with effect from 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2027.

Dr. Vineet Kumar Singh, Project Scientist II

Winner of the best Ph.D. Thesis Award in the Oceans and Atmospheric Science category by Ocean Society of India (OSI) for OSICON-25.

Dr. S. Fadnavis, Scientist F

Appointed as a member of the Atmospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (APARC) Core Project Scientific Steering Group for the term from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2028.
Nominated as a member of the Governing Board of UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research (CSR), lndore.

Dr. R. Krishnan, Director

India Meteorological Society (IMS) Awardees 2024 (IMS National Symposium TROPMET 2024)

IMS Fellow: Dr. Thara Prabhakaran, Scientist-G, IITM
IMS Associate Fellows: Dr Susmitha Joseph, Sc-F and Dr Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Sc-E, IITM
IMS Best Paper in Monsoon Research (formerly B N Desai Award): Ms. Mercy Varghese, Sc-E, IITM
IMS Best Paper on Weather and Climate Services (formerly Bhavanarayana Award): Mr. Avinash N Parde, Project Scientist-II, IITM

IITM Foundation Day Awards-2024: Best employees awards under 6 categories

Best employees 2024 for the Research category
Best employee award 2024 for the Administrative staff
Best employee award 2024 for the Project staff
Awards for Hindi outstanding contribution
Awards for Outstanding Performance (ACE)
Awards for Outstanding Performance Merit Certificate to the Section (General Administration and Security)

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