Awards And Honors

1. Visiting Scientist, Institute of Geology, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, May-July - 1998
2. Awarded, Diamond Jubilee Medal-2006 & Citation‟ by the BSIP for publishing papers of high quality in Refereed Journals. - 2005
3. Meritorious Abstract award for the paper entitled “Phytoliths as indicators of monsoonal variability during Mid-Late Holocene in Mainland Gujarat, Western India”, PAGES 2nd Open Science Meeting, Beijing, China in August - 2005
4. Scientific Research, Bangalore, September 23-24 - 2006
5. Awarded Smithsonian Fellowship to undertake “comparative study of low latitude Palaeogene flora of India and South American subcontinents” at Smithsonian tropical Research institute, Panama, (May- June - 2007
6. Best Poster Award on“Phytoplankton variability in Harshad Estuary, Saurashtra Coast and its implications in palaeomonsoonal fluctuations at „XXI Indian Colloquium on Micropalaeontology and Stratigraphy‟,BSIP, Lucknow November - 2007
7. Invited to be a member of the Indian delegation team of young scientist to participate in the 2nd Indo-American frontiers of Science symposium organized by Indo-U.S Science and Technology Forum in partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to present outstanding contribution Irvine, C - 2007
8. Nodal person in conducting a International Earth Science Olympiad entrance exam for college students in Lucknow (January - 2010
9. Research paper awarded Prof S. K Singh Memorial Gold Medal for Best paper published in the journal of Paleontological Society - 2012
10. Nominated as guide for Summer Research Fellowship Programme (Inspire/Kvyp) 2012, jointly sponsored by the three national science Academies of the country - 2012
11. Member in the Indian delegation team to attend Indo-German workshop on ‘Environmental challenges in Asia at GeoForschungs Zentrum Potsdam, 14-17 January, 2013, sponsored by DST and DFG - 2013
12. Expert member in the DST Earth Science Fast Track programme for Young Scientist - 2015

Memberships of professional societies

1. Life member, Paleobotanical Society of India
2. Life Member, Palaeontological Society of India
3. Member of NECLIME (Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia)

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Publications

Selected Publications

1. Prasad V, Farooqui A, Sharma A, Phartiyal B, Chakraborty S, Bhandari S, Raj R, Singh A. 2014. Evidence of enhanced winter precipitation and the prevalence of a cool and dry climate during the mid to late Holocene in mainland Gujarat, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 397: 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.025
   

2. Prasad V, Singh IB, Bajpai S, Garg R, Thakur B, Singh A, Saravanan N, Kapur VV. 2013. Palynofacies and sedimentology-based high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the lignite-bearing muddy coastal deposits (early Eocene) in the Vastan Lignite Mine, Gulf of Cambay, India. Facies 59 (4): 737-761. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-012-0355-8
   

3. Gertsch B, Keller G, Adatte T, Garg R, Prasad V, Berner Z, Fleitmann D. 2011, Environmental effects of Deccan volcanism across the Cretaceous–Tertiary transition in Meghalaya, India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 310 (3-4): 272-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.015
   

4. Clementz M, Bajpai S, Ravikant V, Thewissen JGM, Saravanan N, Singh IB, Prasad V. 2011. Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia. Geology 39 (1): 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1130/G31585.1
   

5. Mertens KN, Verhoeven K, Verleye T, Louwye S, Amorim A, Ribeiro S, Deaf AS, Harding IC, Schepper S. De, Gonzalez C, Kodrans-Nsiah M, Vernal A. De, Henry M, Radi T, Dybkjaer K, Poulsen NE, Feist-Burkhardt S, Chitolie J, Heilmann-Clausen C, Londeix L, Turon JL, Marret F, Matthiessen J, McCarthy FMG, Prasad V, Pospelova V, Hughes JEK, Riding JB, Rochon A, Sangiorgi F, Welters N, Sinclair N, Thun C, Soliman A, Nieuwenhove N Van, Vink A, Young M. 2011. Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 157: 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.05.004
   

6. Prasad V, Phartiyal B, Sharma A. 2007. Evidence of enhanced winter precipitation and the prevalence of a cool and dry climate during the mid to late Holocene in mainland Gujarat, India. The Holocene 17 (7): 889-896. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683607082403
   

7. Prasad V, Strömberg CAE, Alimohammadian Habib, Sahni A. 2005. Dinosaur coprolites and the early evolution of Grasses and Grazers. Science 310: 1177-1180. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1118806
   

8. Garg R, Ateequzzaman K, Prasad V, Tripathi SKM, Singh IB, Jauhri AK, Bajpai S. 2008. Age-diagnostic dinoflagellate cysts from the lignite-bearing sediments of the Vastan lignite mine, Surat district, Gujarat, western India. Journal of Paleontological Society of India 53 (1): 99-105.
   

9. Prasad V, Farooqui A, Tripathi SKM, Garg R, Thakur B. 2009. Evidence of Late Palaeocene-Early Eocene equatorial rain forest refugia in southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Biosciences 34 (5): 777-797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-009-0062-y
   

10. Prasad V, Strömberg CAE, Leaché AD, Samant B, Patnaik R, Tang L, Mohabey DM, Ge S, Sahni A. 2011. Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae. Nature Communications 2: 480. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1482
    

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