IIT Gandhinagar Professor to Participate in International Expedition Studying Climate Change; Check Details Here

New Delhi: Pankaj Khanna, a professor from Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Gandhinagar has been selected as the only research scientist and sedimentologist from the country to participate in the offshore phase of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)’s Hawaiian Drowned Reefs Expedition (expedition 389).

Mr Pankaj Khanna, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the IITGN will participate in the event being held from August 29 to November 1.

The scientific team is led by Jody Webster from the University of Sydney, Australia, and Christina Ravelo from the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The team will be onboard MMA Valour, a vessel equipped with the state-of-the-art submersible drilling system - benthic portable remotely operated drill (PROD5).

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The digging will be done in 11 locations to a maximum thickness of 110 metres below the seafloor, in a series of fossil coral reefs surrounding the island of Hawaii. Covering important time periods in the Earth’s climate history, the information contained in these natural fossil reef archives will help scientists reconstruct sea-level change at a much higher resolution.

Khanna said, “The research cruise will provide critical datasets to dive deep into past sea levels and climate for the last five lakh years for which there are very limited records. The rocks collected through scientific drilling will give critical information on mechanisms that control abrupt climate change. I will be analysing the core samples that will be collected on the research expedition.”

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