CURRICULUM VITAE

SUJITH. K. B
C4/5
P&T QUARTERS
POOTHOLE
THRISSUR, KERALA, INDIA
PIN: 680004

sujithpanikar06@gmail.com
Phone
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00917558072916 (India)

Personal Information
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Bhaskaran . K. K
Indian
16th may 1986
Single
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Sanskrit
Reading, Writing, Music, and Sports

Education
Erasmus Mundus
SMART Fellow

2012-2014, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, UK

Internship at IGB

March 2013-May2013 (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology

and Inland Fisheries,), Berlin, Germany.

Project Assistant

2008- 2012, Project Assistant III, Chemical Oceanography

Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa

Masters

2006-2008, Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan

University, Tiruchchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. 74%

Undergraduate
Studies

2003-2006 Department of Zoology, St. Thomas College, Calicut

University, Trichur, Kerala, India

HSC

2001-2003, S.R.K.G.V.M. Higher Secondary School, Thrissur,

Kerala, India

SSLC

June 2001, S.R.K.G.V.M. Higher Secondary School, Thrissur,

Kerala, India.

Publications
Production of dimethylsulphide during the seasonal anoxia off Goa.
Damodar M. Shenoy, K.B. Sujith, Mangesh U. Gauns, Shrikant Patil, Amit Sarkar,
Hema Naik, P.V. Narvekar and S.W.A. Naqvi (Communicated to DMS(P) symposium
special issue in Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemistry: 110; 2012; 47-55).

Project Profile
Dissertation submitted to Bharathidasan University for the partial fulfillment for the
requirements of the award of degree master of science in Marine Sciences.
Project Title: An experimental study on reduced sulphur species at sedimentwater interface of mangrove sediments of Goa
Supervisor: Dr. M. Dileep Kumar, Scientist G, Chemical Oceanography Division,
NIO, Goa.

Internship Programs Attended

Summer Training Internship Program at National Institute of Oceanography (NIO),
Title of work: Variations of dimethyl sulphide and related compounds in the
Mondovi estuary, Goa
Supervisor: Dr. M. Dileep Kumar, Scientist G, Chemical Oceanography Division,
NIO, Goa

Presentations
1. Oral Presentations
On the variation of DMS, DMSP and DMSO during LOHAFEX
expedition. Sujith. K.B., Gauns M., Assmy P., Fuchs B., Mazzocchi G.,
Thiele, S., Shenoy D.M. and Naqvi, S.W.A in the international Conference,
The 5th International Symposium on biological and environmental
chemistry of DMS (P) and related compounds(2012).
Production of dimethyl sulphide during the seasonal anoxia off Goa.
Shenoy, D.M., Sujith, K.B., Gauns M., Patil, S., Desai, V., Sarkar, A., Naik,
H., Narvekar, P.V. and Naqvi, S.W.A. in the international Conference, The

5th International Symposium on biological and environmental chemistry

of DMS (P) and related compounds(2012).
Variations of DMS, DMSP and DMSO during LOHAFEX Iron Fertilization
Experiment.Sujith K. B. , in the SOLAS Summer School-2011 organized
by SOLAS IPO, in Corsica, France.
Production of dimethyl sulphide along the central west coast of
India.Shenoy, D.M, Sujith, K.B, Gauns, M, Patil, S, Desai, V, Sarkar, A.,
Naik, H.. Narvekar, P.V., Naqvi, S.W.A. In CSIR-NSFC Worshop in
China, 22 to 24 Nov 2010
Presented a paper titled Variation of Dimethylsulphide and related
compounds during LOHAFEX cruise in the Lohafex conference held on
January 2010, in NIO, Goa to discuss the results of Lohafex cruise.
2. Poster Presentations.
Temporal variation of halocarbons in relation to phytoplankton dynamics
during the artificial iron fertilization experiment LOHAFEX in the South
Atlantic. Roy, R., Naqvi, S.W.A., Smetacek, V., Naik, H., Narvenkar,G.,
Sujith, KB, Sarkar, A . Poster presented in Joint workshop of OCCOS &
CHOICE-C on climate change and ocean carbon, Xiamen, China.
On the variation of DMS, DMSP and DMSO during LOHAFEX Iron
Fertilization Experiment in SOLAS SUMMER SCHOOL-2011 organized
by SOLAS IPO, in Corsica, France.

Cruises Attended

20 days multidisciplinary oceanographic cruise in the Bay of Bengal onboard

ORV Sagar Kanya (SK 242) during 25th November to 14th December 2007.

11 days cruise program onboard Sagar Manjusha and carried out nutrient
measurements.

Southern ocean Iron fertilization experiment- LohaFEX-2009 (67 days),

onboard RV Polarstern, and did DMS-P-O measurements using Shimadzu 2010
Gas Chromatograph.

11 days cruise onboard CRV Sagar Sukthi, and did time series measurements of
DMS, DMSPd, DMSOd, DMSPp and DMSOp using a HP Gas Chromatograph.

3 cruises (about 80 days) onboard Sindhu Sankalp (SSK- 006, SSK 016 and
SSK 025), and did measurements of DMS, DMSP, and DMSO, using a HP Gas
Chromatograph.

11 days cruise onboard Sindhu Sankalp (SSK-009), and did analysis of dissolved
oxygen, to calibrate the fast DO sensor.

Research cruise onboard Tethys II in Mediterranean Sea, as a part of SOLAS

Summer School-2011.

Field Trips

Attended more than 20 monthly field trips on fishing trawlers and collected
samples for all the chemical and biological parameters.

Attended field trips to various Dams all over India to study the anoxia, and
annamox.

Attended many field trips in UK to collect and analyze samples from the Rivers
(River Avon, River Chess and River Bure).

Attended 30 days field trip and conducted heat pulse experiments in River Spree,
Germany.

Courses and Seminars Attended

National Seminar on Trends in Modern Biology at Bharathidasan University,

Trichchirappalli.

Two days National level seminar on Emerging trends in life Sciences,

Conducted at Bishop Heber College, Trichy.

Two days National level seminar on Recent advances in the discovery and use
of Bioactive molecules organized by the school of Biosciences, St. Xaviers
College, Mapusa, Goa, in association with National Institute of Oceanography,
Dona Paula, Goa.

Training Ocean Course-2007 conducted at National Institute of Oceanography.

The lecture series delivered by Dr. Victor Smetacek The Big Picture of the
Global Carbon Cycle as part of emerging Earth System Science, at National
Institute of Oceanography (January 10th -18th 2008).

Four days International level seminar on 5th International Symposium on

Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMS(P) and Related
Compounds 19 - 22 October, 2010, National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR),
Goa, INDIA .

SOLAS SUMMER SCHOOL 2011, organized by SOLAS SPO, during August

29th to September 10th 2011, in Corsica, France.

Data analysis course in department of Geography, Queen Mary London, during

December- January 2012-13.

Biogeochemistry of Rivers course in department of Geography. Queen Mary,

university of London during April-May 2013.

COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) course in Health and

Safety department, Queen Mary, University of London and achieved certificate.

Training and gained hands-on experience on Heat Pulse Technique to collect

subsurface flow patterns data from hyporheic zone, at IGB, Berlin, Germany
during March2013-May-2013.

Countries Visited

South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg)

Chile
France.(Corsica, Paris)
Germany
United Kingdom.

IELTS Score

Overall 6.5
Listening-7.5, reading 6, speaking 6.5, writing 5.5.

Research Interests
Organic matter quality, quantity and lability studies.
Carbon cycling and sequestration.
Nitrogen cycling in the European rivers.
Techniques known
Specific Ultraviolet Absorption (SUVA).
Loss on Ignition (for organic matter).
DOC sample collection with Rhizon samplers and analysis

Gas Chromatography.
HPLC.
Auto Analyser-skalar.
Auto Analyzer-Seal.
Nutrient Measurements (Nitrate, Phosphate, Silicate, Ammonia, Total Nitrogen
using Strickland and Parsons Titration and Grasshoffs methods).
Expandable Bathymetric Thermograph (XBT).
Autosal.
Heat Pulse Technique.
Coulometer (CO2 measurements).
Basic microbial techniques.
Flowcytometer.
Spectrophotometer.
Chlorophyll a (Flourometric Techniques).
Phytoplankton species wise counting.
Bacterial counting (DAPI).
Computer Skills:
Windows OS, Linux, Adobe Photoshop, Light Room-5.
Statistics softwares-Minitab, Prism and SPSS.
Arc-GIS.

References
Dr. Kate Heppll
Reader in Physical Geography
Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
UK
E1 4NS
c.m.heppell@qmul.ac.uk
Dr. Geraldene Wharton
Reader in Physical Geography
Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
UK
E1 4NS
g.wharton@qmul.ac.uk
Dr. M. Dileep Kumar
Chief Scientist
Chemical Oceanographic Division
National Institute of Oceanography
Dona Paula, Goa-403 004
Email: dleep@nio.org
Prof. Dr. A. Rajendran
Professor Emeritus
Coordinator and Founder Head
Department of Marine Sciences
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchchirappalli-620 024
Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail: rajen245@gmail.com