International Research Activities

On the international front, I am leading an initiative to establish a long-term biogeochemical monitoring network in India to address regional and global issues related to environmental change (Science - access full text from the Indoflux website link below). In 2006 I organized an Indo-US bilateral workshop that brought together scientist from 17 US institutions and their counterparts in Indian institutions to develop the objectives and blueprint for the INDOFLUX summarized in Sundareshwar et al. 2007 Science. This network, dubbed INDOFLUX will be a unique network that will link terrestrial, coastal and oceanic environments in an integrated monitoring program. The network will gather data (collected automatically and manually), relay them to a central data warehousing center from where the information will be shared with domestic and global partners in near real-time. The Government of India has earmarked approximately US $50 Million for the next five years to implement INDOFLUX. I am currently helping develop the science and implementation plan for this multi-agency network by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scientists and administrators from India, the USA and Europe.  These efforts will significantly enhance institutional and bilateral collaborations for the study of global change.

 Above: Dr. Sundareshwar addressing the Indo-US bilateral delegation during the INDOFLUX Workshop

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