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B. Nagender Nath is affiliated with the National Institute of Oceanography in India and contributes extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Science. Their research covers various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.

They have authored several recent papers, including:

  • Weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon linked to interhemispheric ice-sheet growth since 12 Ma (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Evidence for increasing anthropogenic Pb concentrations in Indian shelf sediments during the last century (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • A ~ 30 kyr sub-centennial to millennial Indian summer monsoon variability record from the southern Andaman Sea, northeastern Indian Ocean (2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • Late Quaternary record of Indian summer monsoon-induced stratification and productivity collapse in the Andaman Sea (2021, Journal of Quaternary Science)
  • Paleoceanographic significance of Globigerinoides ruber (white) morphotypes from the Andaman Sea (2021, Marine Micropaleontology)

Their frequent co-authors include A.V. Sijinkumar, Pavan Miriyala, P. Linsy, Tyson Sebastian, and M.B.L. Mascarenhas-Pereira.

Publication venues where they have contributed notably include Marine Geology, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Quaternary International, Nature Communications, and Journal of Quaternary Science.

Best Publications

  • Trace and rare earth elemental variation in Arabian Sea sediments through a transect across the oxygen minimum zone

    B. Nagender Nath;M. Bau;B. Ramalingeswara Rao;Ch.M. Rao

  • Influence of Provenance, Weathering, and Sedimentary Processes on the Elemental Ratios of the Fine-Grained Fraction of the Bedload Sediments from the Vembanad Lake and the Adjoining Continental Shelf, Southwest Coast of India

    B. Nagender Nath;H. Kunzendorf;W.L. Plüger

  • Organic matter-A key factor in controlling mercury distribution in estuarine sediment

    Parthasarathi Chakraborty;Arindam Sarkar;Krushna Vudamala;Richita Naik

  • The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds.

    Christian Betzler;Gregor P. Eberli;Dick Kroon;James D. Wright

  • Buried in time: culturable fungi in a deep-sea sediment core from the Chagos Trench, Indian Ocean

    Chandralata Raghukumar;Seshagiri Raghukumar;G. Sheelu;S.M. Gupta

  • Changes in metal contamination levels in estuarine sediments around India – An assessment

    Parthasarathi Chakraborty;Darwin Ramteke;Sucharita Chakraborty;B. Nagender Nath

  • Geochemical evidence of terrigenous influence in deep-sea sediments up to 8°S in the Central Indian Basin

    B.Nagender Nath;V.Purnachandra Rao;Klaus P Becker

  • Rare earth element geochemistry of ferromanganese deposits from the Indian Ocean

    B. Nagender Nath;V. Balaram;M. Sudhakar;W.L. Plüger

  • South Asian summer monsoon variability during the last ∼54 kyrs inferred from surface water salinity and river runoff proxies

    Daniel Gebregiorgis;Edmund C. Hathorne;A. V. Sijinkumar;B. Nagender Nath

  • Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

    C. Betzler;G. P. Eberli;T. Lüdmann;J. Reolid

  • Sediment redistribution during simulated benthic disturbance and its implications on deep seabed mining

    Rahul Sharma;B Nagender Nath;G Parthiban;S Jai Sankar

  • Rare Earth element patterns of the Central Indian Basin sediments related to their lithology

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  • Geochemical constraints on the hydrothermal origin of ferromanganese encrustations from the Rodriguez Triple Junction, Indian Ocean

    B. Nagender Nath;W. L. Plüger;I. Roelandts

  • δ 18 O and salinity variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to Recent in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea

    A.V. Sijinkumar;A.V. Sijinkumar;Steven Clemens;B. Nagender Nath;Warren Prell

  • Bacterial standing stock, meiofauna and sediment nutrient characteristics: indicators of benthic disturbance in the Central Indian Basin

    Chandralata Raghukumar;P.A.Loka Bharathi;Z.A Ansari;Shanta Nair

  • Geochemical and Isotopic Signatures of Surficial Sediments from the Western Continental Shelf of India: Inferring Provenance, Weathering, and the Nature of Organic Matter

    Siby Kurian;B. Nagender Nath;N. Chandramohana Kumar;K.K.C. Nair

  • New sequential separation procedure for Sr, Nd and Pb isotope ratio measurement in geological material using MC-ICP-MS and TIMS

    Akio Makishima;B. Nagender Nath;B. Nagender Nath;Eizo Nakamura

  • Early diagenetic processes affecting nutrients in the pore waters of Central Indian Ocean cores

    B.Nagender Nath;A.V. Mudholkar

  • Increased chemical weathering during the deglacial to mid-Holocene summer monsoon intensification

    Pavan Miriyala;N. P. Sukumaran;B. Nagender Nath;P. B. Ramamurty

  • Possible detrital, diagenetic and hydrothermal sources for Holocene sediments of the Andaman backarc basin

    Siby Kurian;B. Nagender Nath;V. Ramaswamy;D. Naman

  • Nature, distribution & origin of clay minerals in grain size fractions of sediments from manganese nodule field, Central Indian Ocean Basin

    V. Purnachandra Rao;B. Nagender Nath

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John J. G. Reijmer
John J. G. Reijmer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian Betzler
Christian Betzler Universität Hamburg
Akio Makishima
Akio Makishima Okayama University
Dick Kroon
Dick Kroon University of Edinburgh
Peter K. Swart
Peter K. Swart University of Miami
Gregor P. Eberli
Gregor P. Eberli University of Miami
Eizo Nakamura
Eizo Nakamura Okayama University
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University
Luca Lanci
Luca Lanci University of Urbino

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