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he participated in Indian Expedition to Antarctica in 1987-88 for the first time and subsequently led Ninth Antarctic Expedition in 1989-91, visiting the icy continent again in 1996-97, 2003-04, 2007 and 2009 in various capacities for specific assignments, contributing to different facets of Antarctic science, logistics and policy of this mission. He led the first Indian Expedition to South Pole and the first Indian Arctic Expedition. He was Chairman of the DST constituted Program Monitoring Committee on "Dynamics of Himalayan Glaciers" from 2007 to 2012 and was appointed Chair, Panikkar Professor in October 2012 by Ministry of Earth Sciences. He has served as an elected member of the UN Commission on Limits of Continental Shelf for 2014-2017 Term. He has received National Award for Polar Sciences and Cryosphere 2013, National Mineral Award 1990, Antarctic Award 2002, H. N. Siddiqui Gold Medal from IGU in 2011, Prof. Prem Bahadur Verma Memorial Lecture award from IGC, Prof. R. C. Mishra Memorial Gold Medal 2017 and Dr. W. D. West Oratory Award 2018.




Sulagna Chattopadhyay, is known for internationally reputed journo-magazine on environment and development titled "Geography and You", (G'nY) that she founded an in 2001. An M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she has published 105 issues of the magazine so far. She is also a founding President of an NGO, Learning in Geography, Humanities, Technology and Science (LIGHTS) and has been organising national and international conferences/seminars, notable among these are: Round table conclave on seas and oceans around India, National Conference on Science & Geopolitics on Arctic and Antarctic (SaGAA) in 2011, SaGAA in 2012, SaGHAA in 2015 and SaGHAA in 2017. The LIGHTS has organised a multi-city GIS training programme for school teachers in seven locations under her leadership. She was nominated as the Member of the Working Group for Disaster Management in Planning Commission in 2011. She also won an Environmental Documentary Short Film Contest, STL- 2: 2015 for her short film titled "O Bhai Saab". Sulagna has edited 12 books, prominent among them are "the Scientific and Geopolitical Interests in Arctic and Antarctic" co-edited with Dr. R. Ramesh and Dr. M. Sudhakar in 2103 and the "Science and Geopolitics of White World co-authored with Dr. P. S. Goel and Dr. Rasik Ravindra" published by Springer in 2017.