National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad,A.P, India

PHANEROZOIC HISTORY OF ANTARCTICA AND INDIA: AN INSIGHT FROM CONJUGATE RIFT BASINS

Anju Tiwary, Dhananjai Pandey, S Rajan

National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India

TECTONOTHERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE SCHIRMACHER HILLS, QUEEN MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA THROUGH MULTIPLE EPISODES OF DEFORMATION, METAMORPHISM AND MIGMATIZATION

S. Sengupta, S. Bose, S. Dasgupta

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

IS THE STRAIN ACCUMULATION ON THE RISE BETWEEN INDIA AND ANTARCTICA IN THE SOUTHERN INDIAN PENINSULA? GPS-GEODESY ANSWERS

N. Ravi Kumar N, Malaimani EC

National Geophysical Research Institute, HYDERABAD, A.P, India

MULTI-ARCHIVE, MULTI-PROXY PALAEOCLIMATIC STUDIES IN THE CENTRAL DRONNING MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA: INDIAN INITIATIVES

R Ravindra

National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, India

VOLCANIC HISTORY AND CLIMATE CHANGE DURING THE PAST FEW CENTURIES AS RECORDED IN AN ICE CORE FROM THE CENTRAL DRONNING MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA

M Thamban¹, A Chaturvedi², A Rajakumar¹, S Naik1, W D'Souza¹, A Singh², S Mukherji², S Rajan¹, R Ravindra¹

¹National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Vasco-da-Gama, India, ²Geological Survey of India (Antarctica Division), Faridabad, India

STUDY OF CLIMATOLOGY OF SCHIRMACHER OASIS, QUEEN MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA WITH REFERENCE TO INDIAN ANTARCTIC STATION MAITRI

Lal R. P.

India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India

SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF AIR-SEA HEAT FLUXES DERIVED FROM SATELLITE AND NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECAST IN THE INDIAN SECTOR OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

Alvarinho J. Luis

National Center for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Headland Sada, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, India

GREENHOUSE GASES MEASUREMENT OVER INDIAN RESEARCH STATION MAITRI, ANTARCTICA

National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

STUDY OF OZONE HOLE OVER MAITRI, ANTARCTICA

National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

A PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE BASED INVESTIGATION OF THE SEASONAL AND LONG-TERM DYNAMICS OF THE SEA ICE EDGE AROUND ANTARCTICA

S. M. Bhandari¹, N. K. Vyas¹, M. Dash², N. Sharma², N. Khare²

¹Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad- 380 015, India, ²National Centre for Antarctic &Ocean Research, Goa-403 804, India

SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN CIRCULATION - MEANDERING OF OCEANIC FRONTS ACROSS ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT

N Anilkumar, Pednekar Shailesh, Maruthadu Sudhakar

National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India

COCCOLITHOPHORES DURING THE AUSTRAL SUMMER OF 2004 ALONG THE 45O E TRANSECT IN THE INDIAN SECTOR OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

¹National Center for Antarctic & Ocean Research, Headland Sada, Goa, India, ²National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India

LIMNOLOGICAL SIMILARITY BETWEEN TWO ISOLATED CONTINENTS PLACED AT DIFFERENT LATITUDES

¹Barkatullah University, Bhopal,M.P/Bhopal, India, ²S.V.College, Bhopal,M.P/Bhopal, India

Present paper relates to the limnological status of water bodies placed at latitudes ranging from 32^o 17’ – 37^o 51’ N (Kashmir Himalayas) and 77^o 45’ 51.5" – 70^o 43’ – 70^o 48’ S (Antarctica).

SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN MELATONIN AND SLEEP PATTERNS IN ANTARCTICA

D Majumdar, M Bhattacharyya, M. S. Pal, Deepti Majumdar, P. K. Banerjee

Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Delhi-110 054, India

SOLAR WIND-MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING EFFECTS ON THE MEASUREMENTS OF SURFACE ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS MADE AT MAITRI, ANTARCTICA

S. Gurubaran¹, B.M Pathan², C.P. Anil Kumar¹, K.U. Nair¹, C. Selvaraj¹, A. Dhar²

¹Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, EGRL, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India, ²Indian Institute of

Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai, Maharshtra, India

MEASUREMENTS OF ATMOSPHERIC IONS AND ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY AT MAITRI, ANTARCTICA

A. K. Kamra, Devendraa Siingh, Vimlesh Pant

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO PROTEROZOIC PAN-AFRICAN ANORTHOSITE MASSIFS

Geological Survey of India, Faridabad, HARYANA, India

SECULAR MOVEMENT OF POLAR ICE FRONT IN SCHIRMACHER OASIS, CENTRAL DRONNING MAUD LAND, EAST ANTARCTICA

M.P. Gaur, A Dharwadkar, D Jayapaul, A Chaturvedi

Geological Survey of India, Faridabad, HARYANA, India

DYNAMICS OF SCHIRMACHER GLACIER, NEAR INDIAN BASE STATION MAITRI, DRONNING MAUD LAND REGION, ANTARCTICA

P.S. Sunil, C.D. Reddy, M. Ponraj, B.M. Pathan, A. Dhar

Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai, India

ACCUMULATION-ABLATION PATTERN OVER ICE SHELF, PRINCESS ASTRID COAST, CENTRAL DRONNING MAUD LAND, E. ANTARCTICA

M.P. Gaur, M.J. Beg, P.K. Shrivastava, D Jayapaul, A Dharwadkar

Geological Survey of India, Faridabad, HARYANA, India

SUBMICRON AEROSOL PARTICLES AT MAITRI, ANTARCTICA

Vimlesh Pant, Devendraa Siingh, A. K. Kamra

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorolgy, Pune, India

VARIABILITY IN DISTRIBUTION OF PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA AND DIATOMS IN THE SEDIMENTS FROM THE INDIAN SECTOR OF SOUTHERN OCEAN AND ITS RELATION TO THE MODERN AND PAST ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

National Center for Antarctic and Ocean reasearch, Vasco Ds Gama, Goa, India

ALGAL AND CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES DIVERSITY OF FRESH WATER STREAMS OF EAST ANTARCTICA.

R.K. Gupta1, H.N Dutta2

1Pt. L.M.S. Govt. Post Graduate College, Rishikesh, Uttaranchal, India, 2National Physical

Laboratory, Govt. P.G. College, India

AN OVER VIEW ON ANTARCTIC LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCHES AT SCHIRMARCHER OASIS BY INDIA

Ashis Kumar Hazra

Zoological survey of India, Kolkata,West Bengal, India

NITRIFYING BACTERIA IN SCHIRMACHER OASIS, ANTARCTICA

Pt. L.M.S. Government Post Graduate College, Rishikesh, Uttaranchal, India

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FRESH WATER LAKES IN SCHIRMACHER OASIS, EAST ANTARCTICA

D Jayapaul, A Dharwadkar, O Swaroop, M.P. Gaur

Geological Survey of India, Faridabad, HARYANA, India

STATE OF ENVIRONMENT AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AROUND INDIAN PERMANENT STATION MAITRI IN SCHIRMACHER OASIS, ANTARCTICA

National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

OVERVIEW OF WORK DONE IN ANTARCTICA BY SURVEY OF INDIA

Survey of India, Dehra Dun, India

LONG-TERM PROGRAMMES FOR REFINING GPS AND SEISMIC STUDIES BY ESTABLISHING GPS AND SEISMIC ARRAYS AT MAITRI, INDIAN ANTARCTIC STATION

Akilan A, Malaimani EC, Ravi Kumar N

National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, AP, India