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Ramachandran Ramesh is affiliated with the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change in India. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with over 100 publications in this domain. Key subfields of their work include Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main research topics cover diverse aspects of coastal and marine ecosystems, such as:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

Frequent co-authors in their publications include R.S. Robin and V. Deepak Samuel, each collaborating on 18 papers, along with G. Hariharan, V. Sachithanandam, and Dipnarayan Ganguly, each contributing to 11 papers.

Ramachandran Ramesh regularly publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (5 publications)
  • Regional Studies in Marine Science (5 publications)
  • Environmental Pollution (4 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin (3 publications)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands" (2020), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Spatiotemporal variations in anthropogenic marine litter pollution along the northeast beaches of India" (2021), published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Accumulation and ecotoxicological risk of weathered polyethylene (wPE) microplastics on green mussel (Perna viridis)" (2020), published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • "Anthropogenic marine litter: An approach to environmental quality for India's southeastern Arabian Sea coast" (2023), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Antibacterial and antioxidant potential of GC-MS analysis of crude ethyl acetate extract from the tropical mangrove plant Avicennia officinalis L." (2021), published in South African Journal of Botany

Best Publications

  • Microplastics along the beaches of southeast coast of India.

    R. Karthik;R.S. Robin;R. Purvaja;D. Ganguly

  • Distribution of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in soil and beach sand samples of Kalpakkam (India) using hyper pure germanium (HPGe) gamma ray spectrometry.

    V Kannan;M.P Rajan;M.A.R Iyengar;R Ramesh

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from municipal solid waste management in Indian mega-cities: A case study of Chennai landfill sites

    Arvind K. Jha;C. Sharma;Nahar Singh;R. Ramesh

  • Holistic assessment of microplastics in various coastal environmental matrices, southwest coast of India.

    R.S. Robin;R. Karthik;R. Purvaja;D. Ganguly

  • Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands

    Alice Newton;John Icely;Sónia Cristina;G E Perillo

  • Land–Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone: Past, present & future ☆

    R. Ramesh;Z. Chen;V. Cummins;J. Day

  • Distribution of PCBs, HCHs and DDTs, and their ecotoxicological implications in Bay of Bengal, India.

    R. Babu Rajendran;T. Imagawa;H. Tao;R. Ramesh

  • Tipping from the Holocene to the Anthropocene: How threatened are major world deltas?

    Fabrice G. Renaud;James P.M. Syvitski;James P.M. Syvitski;Zita Sebesvari;Saskia E. Werners

  • Natural and anthropogenic methane emission from coastal wetlands of South India.

    R. Purvaja;R. Ramesh

  • Environmental geochemistry of the Pichavaram mangrove ecosystem (tropical), southeast coast of India

    A. L. Ramanathan;V. Subramanian;R. Ramesh;S. Chidambaram

  • Megacities and large urban agglomerations in the coastal zone: interactions between atmosphere, land, and marine ecosystems.

    Roland von Glasow;Tim D. Jickells;Alexander Baklanov;Gregory R. Carmichael

  • Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in the polluted Adyar River and estuary, SE India

    A. Nirmal Rajkumar;J. Barnes;R. Ramesh;R. Purvaja

  • Sedimentation and trace metal distribution in selected locations of Sundarbans mangroves and Hooghly estuary, Northeast coast of India

    Kakolee Banerjee;B. Senthilkumar;R. Purvaja;R. Ramesh

  • Plant-mediated methane emission from an Indian mangrove

    Ramachandran Purvaja;Ramachandran Ramesh;Peter Frenzel

  • A revised nitrogen budget for the Arabian Sea

    H. W. Bange;T. Rixen;A. M. Johansen;R. L. Siefert

  • Seasonal Study of Methane and Nitrous Oxide in the Coastal Waters of the Southern Baltic Sea

    Hermann W. Bange;S. Dahlke;R. Ramesh;R. Ramesh;L. Meyer-Reil

  • Tidal dynamics and rainfall control N2O and CH4 emissions from a pristine mangrove creek

    J. Barnes;R. Ramesh;R. Purvaja;A. Nirmal Rajkumar

  • Distribution of rare earth elements and heavy metals in the surficial sediments of the Himalayan river system

    R. Ramesh;Al. Ramanathan;S. Ramesh;R. Purvaja

  • Migration and contamination of major and trace elements in groundwater of Madras city, India

    R. Ramesh;K. Shiv Kumar;S. Eswaramoorthi;G. R. Purvaja

  • Heavy metal assessment using geochemical and statistical tools in the surface sediments of Vembanad Lake, Southwest Coast of India

    A. Paneer Selvam;S. Laxmi Priya;Kakolee Banerjee;G. Hariharan

Frequent Co-Authors

V. Subramanian
V. Subramanian Jawaharlal Nehru University
Robert C. Upstill-Goddard
Robert C. Upstill-Goddard Newcastle University
Al. Ramanathan
Al. Ramanathan Jawaharlal Nehru University
Prabhat K. Gupta
Prabhat K. Gupta National Physical Laboratory
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Manfred Frechen
Manfred Frechen Leibniz Association
Hermann W. Bange
Hermann W. Bange GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
S. Chidambaram
S. Chidambaram Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Claudia Kuenzer
Claudia Kuenzer German Aerospace Center
Alexander Baklanov
Alexander Baklanov University of Copenhagen

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