Publisher	ASTRAL INTERNATIONAL (P) LTD.
Publication Year	2020
ISBN-13	9788170353249
ISBN-10	9788170353249
Binding	Hardcover
Edition	First Reprinted Edition
Number of Pages	102 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	22.4 X 14.5 X 1
Weight (grms)	268

Abhijit Mitra

Dr. Abhijit Mitra, a Faculty Member of the Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta has been active in the sphere of Marine Biology since 1985. He secured the first position in the first class in M.Sc. examination according to the order of merit and obtained his Ph.D degree as NET qualified scholar from the University of Calcutta. He served as a Senior Research Fellow of Calcutta Port Trust to monitor the impact of pollution on mangrove biodiversity. He also served as a Scientist in the Ministry of Environment and Forests project, Government of India to evaluate the fish juvenile loss due to wild harvest of prawn seeds for meeting the demand of shrimp culture farms in coastal West Bengal. In 1997, he joined the World Wide Fund for Nature India (Eastern Region). As a Senior programme Officer. He took the charge of co-ordinator in the World Bank Funded project on the Leopard depredation problem in the North Bengal during the tenure of his service at WWF Indian (Eastern Region). He provided consultancy services to several environmental impact assessment projects like Bakreshwar Thermal Power Project, Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) project, Feasibility study for setting up shrimp culture farms in the North east coast of the Bay of Bengal, fish landing station in coastal West Bengal etc. In 2002, he was selected as a pisciculture specialist for formulating a project on livelihood improvement in Sundarbans under Asian Development Bank (ADB). Dr. Abhijit Mitra is a member of many scientific committees in India and abroad and was invited to chair a session on Mangrove Macro benthic conference at Mombasa, Kenya (during 7th to 11th September, 2000). He has to his credit about 125 papers in various National and International Journals. He is also the author of 10 books in the sphere of Environmental Science.

Kakoli Banerjee

Ms. Kakoli Banerjee is well known in the sphere of Environmental Science and is presently associated as a Scientist in a Coastal Zone Management papers in various National and International journals. She has also contributed some important chapters in some reputed books like Ecology and Ethnology of Aquatic Biota, Ecology of polluted waters, etc. she received the “Best Basic Research Award” for her outstanding findings in the sphere of phytoplankton taxonomy. She is associated with ecological assessment component for setting up fish landing stations in coastal West Bengal. She is a member of various professional bodies, societies and committees like Society of Indian Ocean Studies (SIOS), Creative Research Group (CRG), Indian Research Institute (SDMBRI) and Central Calcutta Science and Culture Organisation for the youth (CCSCOY).

Avijit Gangopadhyay

Dr. Avijit Gangopadhyay is presently serving as the Associate Professor of Department of Physics and School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts, USA. He is the Honorary Research Associate of Harvard University, Cambridge M. A. He completed his Ph.D. (Ocean Engineering) in 1990 from University of Rhode Island, Kingston and has a wide range of research experience in several internationally reputed laborites like Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, Ocean Engineering Division of Engineers India Limited. He is the member of the investigators in several International journals.