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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2004 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Ashok K. Singhvi is affiliated with the Physical Research Laboratory in India and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work covers a variety of key topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Singhvi's recent scholarly output includes papers published between 2020 and 2022 in respected scientific venues. Some notable papers include:

  • "Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz" (2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers)
  • "Evidence of episodically accelerated denudation on the Namche Barwa massif (Eastern Himalayan syntaxis) by megafloods" (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "Surface paleothermometry using low-temperature thermoluminescence of feldspar" (2020, Climate of the past)
  • "Aeolian dune accommodation space for Holocene Wadi Channel Avulsion Strata, Wahiba Dune Field, Oman" (2020, Sedimentary Geology)
  • "Luminescence dating and Quaternary Geology: The Indian Narrative" (2022, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India)

The publishing record also shows frequent collaborations with several co-authors, including:

  • Naveen Chauhan
  • Rahul Kumar Kaushal
  • Vikrant Jain
  • Haresh M. Rajapara
  • Biraj Borgohain

Most of Singhvi's research has appeared in venues such as Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Earth System Science, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Nature Reviews Methods Primers.

They received recognition as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Thermoluminescence dating of sand dunes in Rajasthan, India

    A. K. Singhvi;Y. P. Sharma;Y. P. Sharma;D. P. Agrawal

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene dune activity and wind regimes in the western Sahara Desert of Mauritania

    Nicholas Lancaster;Gary Kocurek;Ashok Singhvi;V. Pandey

  • Investigations into the potential effects of pedoturbation on luminescence dating

    Mark D Bateman;Charles D Frederick;Manoj K Jaiswal;Ashok K Singhvi

  • Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz

    Andrew Murray;Lee J. Arnold;Jan-Pieter Buylaert;Guillaume Guérin;Guillaume Guérin

  • Continental record of the southwest monsoon during the last 130 ka: evidence from the southern margin of the Thar Desert, India

    N. Juyal;L.S. Chamyal;S. Bhandari;R. Bhushan

  • Event stratigraphy, paleoenvironment and chronology of SE Arabian deserts

    K.W Glennie;A.K Singhvi

  • Towards quantifying beta microdosimetric effects in single-grain quartz dose distribution

    Y.S. Mayya;P. Morthekai;Madhav K. Murari;A.K. Singhvi

  • White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico: Age, dune dynamics and recent accumulations

    Gary Kocurek;Mary Carr;Ryan Ewing;Karen G. Havholm

  • Luminescence dating of loess–palaeosol sequences and coversands: methodological aspects and palaeoclimatic implications

    A.K. Singhvi;A.K. Singhvi;A. Bluszcz;M.D. Bateman;M.Someshwar Rao

  • Do stable isotope data from calcrete record late Pleistocene monsoonal climate variation in the Thar Desert of India

    Julian E. Andrews;Ashok K. Singhvi;Ansu J. Kailath;Ralph Kuhn

  • Luminescence chronometry and Late Quaternary geomorphic history of the Ganga Plain, India

    P Srivastava;I.B Singh;M Sharma;A.K Singhvi

  • Reconstruction of Last Glacial to early Holocene monsoon variability from relict lake sediments of the Higher Central Himalaya, Uttrakhand, India

    N. Juyal;R.K. Pant;N. Basavaiah;R. Bhushan

  • Evolution of the Lower Gangetic Plain landforms and soils in West Bengal, India

    Lalan P. Singh;B. Parkash;A.K. Singhvi

  • Sedimentary records and luminescence chronology of Late Holocene palaeofloods in the Luni River, Thar Desert, northwest India

    Vishwas S Kale;Ashok K Singhvi;Praveen K Mishra;Debabrata Banerjee

  • The aeolian sedimentation record of the Thar desert

    A. K. Singhvi;Amal Kar

  • Limits to depletion of blue-green light stimulated luminescence in feldspars : implications for quartz dating

    Mayank Jain;Ashok.K Singhvi

  • Impact of luminescence dating on geomorphological and palaeoclimate research in drylands

    Ashok K. Singhvi;Naomi Porat

  • Quaternary alluvial fan sedimentation in the Dehradun Valley Piggyback Basin, NW Himalaya: tectonic and palaeoclimatic implications

    A. Kumar Singh;B. Parkash;R. Mohindra;J. V. Thomas

  • Calcareous dunes of the United Arab Emirates and Noah's Flood: the postglacial reflooding of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf

    J.T Teller;K.W Glennie;N Lancaster;A.K Singhvi

  • Late Quaternary fluvial aggradation and incision in the monsoon-dominated Alaknanda valley, Central Himalaya, Uttrakhand, India†

    Navin juyal;Yaspal Sundriyal;Naresh rana;Shipra chaudhary

Frequent Co-Authors

Navin Juyal
Navin Juyal Physical Research Laboratory
Pradeep Srivastava
Pradeep Srivastava Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Nicholas Lancaster
Nicholas Lancaster Desert Research Institute
Mayank Jain
Mayank Jain Technical University of Denmark
Gary Kocurek
Gary Kocurek The University of Texas at Austin
Steven L. Goodbred
Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University
Sampat K. Tandon
Sampat K. Tandon Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Robert J. Wasson
Robert J. Wasson Australian National University
Sheng-Hua Li
Sheng-Hua Li University of Hong Kong
James K. Feathers
James K. Feathers University of Washington

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