Awards and Honors

1. Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE)–2006 (Life Sciences) - 2006
2. Dr. B.S. Venkatachala Gold Medal (2010) from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences for best research work done among the young scientist of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences. - 2010
3. Diamond Jublee Medal (2014) from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences for publishing paper in high quality refereed journals. - 2014
4. Prof. R.C. Mishra Gold Medal (2015) from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun for best piece of research work in Geosciences. - 2015
5. Sharda Chandra Memorial Gold Medal (2016) from the Palaeontological Society of India, Lucknow for outstanding contribution in the field of palaeontology. - 2016
6. Diamond Jublee Medal (2018) from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences for publishing paper in high quality refereed journals. - 2018
7. President’s International Fellowship (2018) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. - 2018

Memberships of Professional Societies

1. Member of International Organization of Palaeobotany.
2. Member of Palaeobotanical Society, Lucknow.
3. NECLIME (Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia).

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Publications

Selected Publications

1. Srivastava G., Bhatia H., Verma P., Singh Y.P., Utescher T., Mehrotra R.C., 2023. High rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests during Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 628, 111762.
2. Bhatia H., Srivastava G., Adhikari P., Su Tao, Utescher T., Paudayal K.N., Mehrotra R.C., 2022. Asian monsoon and vegetation shift: evidence from the Siwalik succession of India. Geological Magazine 159, 1397–1414.
3. Bhatia H., Khan M.A., Srivastava G., Hazra T., Spicer R.A., Hazra M., Mehrotra R.C., Spicer T.E.V., Bera S., Roy K., 2021. Late Cretaceous- Paleogene monsoon climate vis-à-vis movement of the Indian plate, and the birth of the south Asian monsoon. Gondwana Research 93, 89–100.
4. Bhatia H., Srivastava G., Spicer R.A., Farnsworth A., Spicer T.E.V., Mehrotra R.C., Paudayal K.N., Valdes P., 2021. Leaf physiognomy records the Miocene intensification of the south Asia monsoon. Global and Planetary Change 196, 103365.
5. Su Tao, Farnworth A., Spicer R.A., Huang J., Wu F.-X., Liu J., Li S.-F., Xing Y.- W., Huang Y.-J., Deng W.-Y.-D., Tang H., Xu C.-L., Zhao F., Srivastava G., Valdes P.J., Deng T., Zhou Z.-K., 2019. No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene. Science Advances 5, eaav2189.
6. Srivastava Gaurav, Mehrotra R.C., Dilcher, D.L.,. 2018. Paleocene Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) leaves from India with implications for an East Gondwana origin of Convolvulaceae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 115, 6028–6033.
7. Srivastava Gaurav, Paudayal Khum N., Utescher T., Mehrotra R.C., 2018. Miocene vegetation shift and climate change: evidence from the Siwalik of Nepal. Global and Planetary Change 161, 108–120.
8. Srivastava Gaurav, Trivedi A., Mehrotra R.C., Paudayal K.N., Limaye Ruta B., Kumaran K.P.N., Yadav S.K., 2016. Monsoon variability over peninsular India during Late Pleistocene: signatures of vegetation shift recorded in terrestrial archive from the corridors of Western Ghats. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443, 57–65.
9. Srivastava Rashmi, Srivastava Gaurav, Dilcher David L., 2014. Coryphoid palm leaf fossils from the Maastrichtian–Danian of Central India with remarks on phytogeography of the Coryphoideae (Arecaceae). PLoS ONE 9(11), e111738.
10. Srivastava Gaurav, Spicer R.A., spicer T.E.V., Yang J., Kumar M., Mehrotra R.C., Mehrotra N.C., 2012. Megaflora and palaeoclimate of a late Oligocene tropical delta, Makum Coalfield, Assam: evidence for the early development of the South Asian monsoon. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 342-343, 130–142.

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