OceanExpert ID : 62321
Dr. ABHIJIT MITRA
Professor
Marine Science
Calcutta University, Department of Marine Science
35, Ballygunge Circular Road
Kolkata 700 019
West Bengal
India
Nationality
India
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Telephone
+918584929005
ORCID :
0000-0002-1323-803X
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Teaching/Education
Climatology, Meteorology
Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Associate Professor and former Head, Dept. of Marine Science, University of Calcutta (INDIA) has been active in the sphere of Oceanography since 1985. He obtained his Ph.D as NET qualified scholar in 1994 after securing Gold Medal in M.Sc from University of Calcutta. Since then, he joined Calcutta Port Trust and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), in various capacities to carry out research programmes on environmental science, biodiversity conservation, climate change and carbon sequestration. Presently Dr. Mitra is serving Techno India University, West Bengal as the Director of Research (Hony). He has to his credit about 680+ scientific publications in various National and International journals, and 50+ books of postgraduate standards. Dr. Mitra is presently the member of several committees like PACON International, IUCN, SIOS etc. and has successfully completed about 21 projects on biodiversity loss in fishery sector, coastal pollution, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration. Dr. Mitra also visited as faculty member and invited speakers in several foreign Universities of Singapore, Kenya, Oman and USA. In 2008, Dr. Mitra was invited as visiting fellow at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA to deliver a series of lecture on Climate Change. Dr. Mitra also successfully guided 52 Ph.D students. Presently his domain of expertise includes environmental science, mangrove ecology, sustainable aquaculture, alternative livelihood, natural resource management, blue economy, climate change and carbon sequestration.
Bay of Bengal
· 35+ years research experience in the field of Marine Biology, Ecology, Marine/Estuarine pollution, Mangrove Forest biodiversity, Marine microbiology, Climate Change, Blue Economy and Aquaculture and published 680+ scientific papers, 60+ books, and supervised 50+ PhD students.
· Profound field experience in working in and around Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (India) and the adjoining Mangrove area as advisor to the Forest Department, Govt. of West Bengal and WWF-India during 2000.
· Experience in working in the hilly terrains of North Bengal (India) as a Senior Programme Officer of WWF-India (Eastern region).
· Experience in conducting work on monitoring and characterization of industrial wastes, oil and grease level and mangrove biodiversity in the port-cum-industrial belt of Haldia, W.B., India.
· Experience in working in the coastal zones of West Bengal, Odisha and Mumbai as parts of the Environmental Projects and consultancy jobs.
· Profound experience in working in the Arabian Sea as EIA consultant for initiating Fish landing station on behalf of Fisheries Department, Govt. of West Bengal.
· Regularly conducting field visits to estuaries and coastal areas adjacent to Bay of Bengal with Postgraduate students of Marine Science/Oceanography and Ph.D. scholars.
· Initiated edible oyster culture programme in Indian Sundarbans (Western Sector) in 2006 jointly with Fisheries Department, Govt. of West Bengal.
· Extensively covered the territorial waters of Indian Sundarbans to monitor shark diversity jointly with Forest Department, Govt. of West Bengal.
· Successfully completed 19 projects and 17 consultancies on mangrove biodiversity, alternative livelihood, carbon sequestration with funding from State and Central Governments.
· Served as consultant to TATA STEEL project at Kalinganagar, Odisha in the area of plantation, floral biodiversity, and carbon sequestration by endemic floral species during 2014-15, and at TATA MINES through TECORFIN CONSULTANTS during 2018-19.
· Developed Carbon ID card of dominant trees in Konnagar Municipality, West Bengal (India) with an attempt to evaluate the carbon storage potential of urban trees and mitigate the local level carbon dioxide rise.
· Successfully completed Carbon Mapping Projects at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kingston Educational Institute, and several academic institutes during 2020 – 2021.
· Monitored the CO2 level in and around the megacity of Kolkata along with the biodiversity status during the COVID – 19 Lockdown period published a book (Publishing House: Springer) entitled “…Impact of COVID – 19 Lockdown on Environmental Health…”.
· Initiated the programme on BLUE ECONOMY at Techno India University, West Bengal during 2021 and published 4 reference books (1 from Springer Publishing House) on the subject.
· Successfully completed Carbon Sequestration Projects by plantations of South Bengal Forest under West Bengal Forest Department, Govt. of West Bengal (India) during 2022.
· Successfully completed consultancy on Carbon Sequestration by Plant (Floral) Species in and around the Haldia Energy Limited, a subsidiary of CESC (India) during 2023.
· Successfully completed consultancy on MONITORING OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION BY MAJOR PRODUCER COMMUNITIES WITHIN BUDGE BUDGE GENERATING STATION during 2023.
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