# Sunil Kumar Singh (geochemist)

Sunil Kumar Singh (born 1971) is a leading Indian geochemist, a Professor at the Physical Research Laboratory on lien and serving as Director of the National Institute of Oceanography, India since 2017. He is known for his studies on low temperature elemental and isotope geochemistry and his researches are reported to have assisted in widening the understanding of the evolution of the Himalayas. His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 99 of them respectively.
Singh, born on 16 March 1971, has done his education BSc, MSc, PhD in geology at Banaras Hindu University. He is a former Scientific Steering Committee member and the incumbent member of the Data Management Committee of GEOTRACES, an international forum for research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and isotopes. As a collaborator, he is associated with the Ganga Corridor program, an initiative of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the Department of Science and Technology, India. He was the co-coordinator of Weathering and Erosion session of the 2016 Goldschmidt conference held in Yokohama. He is a recipient of the National Geoscience Award and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2016.

## Awards

* 2012: National Geoscience Award
* 2016: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
* 2017: Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist

## Selected bibliography

* Satinder Pal Singh, Sunil Kumar Singh, Vineet Goswami, Ravi Bhushan, Vinai. K. Rai (2012). "Spatial distribution of dissolved neodymium and εNd in the Bay of Bengal: Role of particulate matter and mixing of water masses". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 94: 38–56. Bibcode:2012GeCoA..94...38S. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.07.017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Sunil Kumar Singh, Harsh Bhu (2013). "Re-Os isotopes and major and trace element geochemistry of carbonaceous shales, Aravalli Supergroup, India: Impact of post-depositional processes". Chemical Geology. 354: 93–106. Bibcode:2013ChGeo.354...93T. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.014.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Venigalla purnachandra Rao, R. Shynu, Sunil Kumar Singh, S.W.A. Naqvi, Pratima M. Kessarkar (2014). "Mineralogy and Sr-Nd isotopes of SPM and sediment from the Mandovi and Zuari estuaries: Influence of weathering and anthropogenic contribution". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 156 (1): 103–115. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2014.07.004.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Satinder Pal Singh, Sunil Kumar Singh, Ravi Bhushan, Vinai. K. Rai (2015). "Dissolved silicon and its isotopes in the water column of the Bay of Bengal: Internal cycling versus lateral transport". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 151: 172–191. Bibcode:2015GeCoA.151..172S. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.12.019.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* A.K. Sudheer, MY Aslam, M Upadhyay, Ramabadran Rengarajan, Ravi Bhushan, JS Rathore, Sunil Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Kumar (2016). "a". Atmospheric Research. 178. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.03.026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)