Welcome to BSIP

Professor Birbal Sahni, FRS, established the Institute in the year 1946 to explore and develop palaeobotany as a science in itself, visualizing its potential in solving issues of origin and evolution of plant life, other geological issues including exploration of fossil fuels. Originally plant fossil and related studies based, the mandate of the BSIP was recently expanded to combine it with other areas of palaeosciences, and creating modern facilities to achieve this end. The newly widened mandate aims to look at

  • Understanding origin and evolution of life through time
  • Understanding climate change in recent and deep geological times
  • Understanding past civilization and human history
  • Application of palaeosciences to exploration programmes of oil and coal industry

BSIP is striving to attain excellence in R&D through a dedicated scientific team together with integrated innovative ideas in basic and applied research. In its broadest sense, the BSIP seeks to interpret plant life evolution and geological processes involved, and environmental evolution through time.

Notices/Updates

Swachhta Abhiyan 2022

Poster competition Result of "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav" and Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Revised Analysis charges for CLSM, Raman Spectroscopy, Isotopes and AMS C-14 dating

BSIP Platinum Jubilee Year 2021 Documentary

Events organized in direction to Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav

Founder
Prof. Birbal Sahni, FRS
Founder BSIP
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Director
Dr. (Mrs.) Vandana Prasad
Director (wef June 11, 2019)
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Research Highlights

Upadhyay R, Gautam S, Ram Awatar. 2022. Discovery of an Entrapped Early Permian (ca. 299 Ma) Peri-Gondwanic Sliver in the Cretaceous Shyok Suture of Northern Ladakh, India: Diverse Implications.The Geological Society of America 32, 4-7 doi.org/10.1130/GSATG48 1A.1     View PDF

Bansal M, Morley RJ, Nagaraju SK, Dutta S, Mishra AK, Selveraj J, Kumar S, Niyolia D, Harish SM, Abdelrahim OB, Hasan SE, Ramesh BR, Dayanandan S, Morley SP, Ashton PS, Prasad V. 2022. Southeast Asian Dipterocarp origin and diversification driven by Africa-India floristic interchange. Science 375, 455-460 doi.org/10.1126/science.abk2177     View PDF

Ansari, A.H., Singh, V.K., Sharma, M. and Kumar, K., 2021. High authigenic Co enrichment in the non‐euxinic buff‐grey and black shale of the Chandarpur Group, Chhattisgarh Supergroup: Implication for the late Mesoproterozoic shallow marine redox condition. Terra Nova doi.org/10.1111/ter.12564     View PDF

Thomte L, Shah SK, Mehrotra N, Bhagabati AK, Saikia A. 2022. Influence of climate on multiple tree-ring parameters of Pinus kesiya from Manipur, Northeast India. Dendrochronologia 71: 125906 doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125906     View PDF

Demina AV, Belokopytova LV, Zhirnova DF, Mehrotra N, Shah SK, Babushkina EA, Vaganov EA. 2022. Degree of connectivity in reconstructed precipitation dynamics and extremes for semiarid regions across South Siberia. Dendrochronologia 71. 125903. doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125903     View PDF

Singh AK, Chakraborty PP. 2021. Geochemistry and hydrocarbon source rock potential of shales from the Palaeo- Mesoproterozoic Vindhyan Supergroup, central India. Energy Geoscience doi.org/10.1016/j.engeos.2021.10.007.     View PDF

Shah SK, Mehrotra M, Gaire NP, Thomte L, Sharma B, Pandey U, Katel O. 2022. Potential utility of Himalayan tree-ring δ18O to reveal spatial patterns of past drought variability – It’s assessments and implications. In Kumaran KPN, Padmalal D (Eds): Holocene Climate Change and Environment, Elsevier. 265-292 doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90085-0.00003-6     View PDF

Quamar F. 2022. Holocene vegetation and climate change from central India: An updated and a detailed pollen-based review. In Kumaran KPN, Padmalal D (Eds): Holocene Climate Change and Environment, Elsevier. 129-162. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90085-0.00013-9     View PDF

Phartiyal B, Nag D, Joshi P. 2022. Holocene climatic record of Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya. In Kumaran KPN, Padmalal D (Eds): Holocene Climate Change and Environment, Elsevier. 61-88 doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90085-0.00023-1     View PDF

Singh V, Misra KG, Yadava AK, Yadav RR. 2022. Application of tree rings in understanding long-term variability in river discharge of high Himalayas, India. In Kumaran KPN, Padmalal D (Eds): Holocene Climate Change and Environment, Elsevier. 247-263 doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90085-0.00018-8     View PDF

Trivedi A. 2022. Holocene vegetation, climate, and culture in Northeast India: A pollen data–based review. In Kumaran KPN, Padmalal D (Eds): Holocene Climate Change and Environment, Elsevier. 611-627 doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90085-0.00019-X     View PDF

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