SERB Funded Research Projects

1. Evaluating the role of Thar Desert in contributing “natural mineral dust” to downwind atmospheric dust in northern India and the Himalayan Foothill

Principal Investigator Dr. Satinder Pal Singh
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Sudesh Yadav (JNU)
Duration: 2020-2023
Sanctioned grant: 68,30,240 (₹)

CSIR Funded Research Projects

1. Biogeochemical cycling of barium isotopes in the Bay of Bengal: Implication to water mass tracing

Principal Investigator: Dr. Satinder Pal Singh
Duration: 2019-2022
Sanctioned grant: 19,00,000 (₹)

MoES Funded Research Projects

1. Exploration of Pb isotope fractionation in fine lithic materials: Fate of Pb from source to sink

Principal Investigator Dr. Satinder Pal Singh
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Pritam Nasipuri
Duration: 2019-2021
Sanctioned grant: 27,65,000 (₹)

2. MELTS and P-T pseudosection modeling approach to understand the petrogenesis and pre-Himalayan metamorphism of Wangtu Gneissic Complex and associated enclaves, Sutlej Valley

Principal Investigator Dr. Pritam Nasipuri
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Satinder Pal Singh
Duration: 2017-2019
Sanctioned grant: 16,50,000 (₹)

Institutional Projects

1. Biogeochemical cycling of non-conservative elements in Indian estuaries

Principal Investigator: Dr. Satinder Pal Singh
Duration: 2016-2018
Sanctioned grant: 35,00,000 (₹)


The group is seeking more financial supports from various funding agencies to exploit fully the field of isotope biogeochemistry to unravel various earth surface processes.