Group Leader

Dr. Satinder Pal Singh earned his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Geosciences Division of the same institute from October 2012 to June 2014. During his stay at PRL, he mostly worked in the field of Marine Isotope Biogeochemistry and contributed significantly to the international GEOTRACES program; GEOTRACES (India) was funded under the aegis of the Biogeochemistry program of MoES, India. Later he moved to Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Mainz, Germany for his second post-doctoral work (July 2014 to December 2015) on the Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry of Atmospheric Dusts in the Biogeochemistry and Climate Geochemistry departments. He joined IISER Bhopal as an assistant professor in December 2015, and subsequently established the Marine and Terrestrial Isotope Biogeochemistry Group in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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Dr. Satinder Pal Singh


Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.

+91-755 269 1377

Awards/Scholarships


  • GATE 2006
  • CSIR-UGC-NET 2007
  • Scholarship for the duration July 2007- June 2014 from PRL, Ahmedabad
  • Scholarship for the duration July 2014- June 2016 from the Max Planck Society, Germany

Services

Courses


  • An introduction to Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Geochemistry
  • Isotope Geochemistry
  • Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Oceanography

Departmental activities


  • Active participation in Outreach, Ishan Vikas program, etc.
  • DUGC member (2023 onwards)
  • DUGC convener (2022-2023)
  • DPGC member (2021-2022)
  • DUGC member (2016-2021)
  • Facility-in-charge (MC-ICPMS, Q-ICPMS, and teaching labs) from time to time
  • Mentoring BSMS/PhD students and Postdocs

Reviewer of journals


  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Biogeosciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geochemistry
  • Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Research Inclination

His current research interests focus on the measurements of elemental abundances and isotope ratios in the following materials

  • seawater to learn about the marine biogeochemistry and the present day oceanic water circulation pattern
  • coastal/estuarine waters and sediments to
    1. learn about the estuarine biogeochemistry of various TEls, which helps to confine their effective riverine fluxes to oceans
    2. trace groundwater flow pattern and quantify the groundwater loss to oceans
  • terrestrial waters/sediments to
    1. map the inland seawater intrusion
    2. learn about the transport mechanism of varius TEIs, and their ultimate burial fate in sediments
  • detrital phase for provenance determination of continental materials to learn about past atmospheric/oceanic circulation
  • sedimentary archives to gain better insights into biogeochemical response of human perturbations, past climatic/environmental conditions, weathering regimes and intensities as well as various marine and/or lacustrine biogeochemical processes
  • bulk rock materials/separate minerals to provide geochronological dates for the exploration of the crustal dynamics