NBRI - Ecotoxicology & Bioremediation

Ecotoxicology & Bioremediation

Dr. S. N. Singh Scientist G	Phone no. 91-522-2205831-35 Ext. 823	sn.singh@nbri.res.in
Dr. R. D. Tripathi Scientist F	Phone no. 91-522-2205831-35 Ext. 825	rd.tripathi@nbri.res.in
Dr. Sarita Sinha Scientist E II	Phone no. 91-522-2205831-35 Ext. 827	s.sinha@nbri.res.in
Dr. U. N. Rai Scientist E II	Phone no. 91-522-2205831-35 Ext. 829	rai_un@nbri.res.in
Dr. Shekhar Mallick Scientist B	Phone no. 91-522-2205831-35 Ext. 827	shekharm@nbri.res.in

Group Works on

Plant - mediated emissions of greenhouse gases.
Monitoring and assessment of water and air and soil quality.
Plant's role in scavenging urban and industrial pollution.
Toxicity and tolerance responses of plants to heavy metal pollution.
Eco-restoration of degraded wastelands.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Eco-auditing.
Green-belt development.

Objectives

Assessment of Global Warming Potential (GWP) by trace gases.
Development of abatement strategies to contain urban and industrial pollution.
Bioremediation of contaminated sites and industrial wastes, Molecular Bioremediation
Eco-restoration of degraded ecosystems.
Eco-planning and management of industries.
Removal of organic pollutants through sorption.

Salient Achievements

National

Study of seasonal dynamics of methane efflux from wetlands and computation of annual methane budget. This may be used in the preparation of yearly methane budget for wetlands in India.
Investigation on agricultural emission of GHGs, particularly methane and nitrous oxide to compute their annual budgets.
Mitigating options to attenuate methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultral fields.
Identification of 60 pollution tolerant plant species (trees / shrubs) with high scavenging potential to be grown along road side as avenue trees and in green-belts around industries for mitigation of air pollution.
Identification of metal hyper accumulator aquatic plants to be used in the phytoremediation strategies to remove heavy metals from contaminated wetlands. Phytochelatin synthesis in metal accumulator plants. Phytochelatin synthesis gene characterized from aquatic plant.
Development of protocols to vegetate the degraded lands and the industrial wastes like fly ash.
Development of expertise on EIA and eco-auditing studies for better industrial planning and management.

International

Probing the mechanism of methane and nitrous oxide transport through aquatic and terrestrial plants from rhizosphere to troposphere.
Tracing the mechanism of metal uptake, tolerance and detoxification by aquatic and terrestrial plants.
Local methane and nitrous oxide budgets may be used for the preparation of national and international yearly methane and nitrous oxide budget.

Feed Back Required

National Level

Suggestions / views / comments are needed from time to time from the experts in India to improve our know how on phytoremediation, global warming, eco-restoration and eco-planning and management. Software's developed by other agencies may be required for the prediction models for pollutant dispersion, which may help in designing the green-belts around industrial establishments.

International Level

Exposure to latest developments in the respective fields through journals / seminar / symposia and working abroad for a certain period.

Publications

Scientists	Research Papers	Edited Book(s)	Book(s)
Dr. S. N. Singh	70	3	-
Dr. R. D. Tripathi	95	2	1
Dr. U. N. Rai	80	-	1
Dr. S. Sinha	75	-	-

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