The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) with its central station at Dona Paula, Goa, and provincial focuses at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam, is one of the 37 constituent labs of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.

CSIR-NIO was set up on 1 January 1966 after the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) in the 1960s. The foundation has since developed into a multi-disciplinary oceanographic investigate organization of global notoriety. The essential concentrate of research has been on watching and understanding extraordinary oceanographic attributes of the Indian Ocean. The outcomes have been accounted for in more than 5000 research articles up until now.

The organization has an endorsed quality of 200 researchers and 100 specialized care staff. The real research ranges incorporate the four conventional branches of oceanography - organic, synthetic, geographical/geophysical, and physical – and additionally sea designing, marine instrumentation and marine paleohistory.

The establishment has various best in class research facilities at its base camp in Goa and also the local focuses. It additionally works two research vessels RV Sindhu Sankalp (56 m) and RV Sindhu Sadhana (80 m) that are prepared for multidisciplinary oceanographic perceptions. The organization has a library with 15,000 books and 20,000 back volumes of research diaries, making it the best gathering of printed writing on sea sciences in the nation.

With the biggest accumulation of sea researchers in the nation, and outfitted with appropriate sea look into framework, CSIR-NIO fills in as a propelled focus of training in sea sciences. It has a School of Oceanography under the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). Furthermore, it is a perceived place for doctoral research by an expansive number of colleges. There are at display more than 100 Junior/Senior Research Fellows (qualified through CSIR/UGC qualification paradigm) seeking after their doctoral examinations in the foundation. Also, around 300 undergrad and postgraduate understudies seek after their undertaking research at this foundation consistently.

List of the NIO's Research Projects during 12th Five Year Plan (2012 - 2017)

• Ocean Science Towards Forecasting Indian Marine Living Resource Potential. (Project No. OLP1201)
Anil, A.C.
• Geological processes in the Indian Ocean – Understanding the input fluxes, sinks and Paleoceanography (Project No. PSC0106)
• Geoscientific investigations for deciphering the Earth’s internal processes and exploration of energy resources (Project No. PSC0107)
• Indian Aquatic Ecosystems: Impact of Deoxygenation, Eutrophication and Acidification (Project No. PSC0108)
• Analyses and Harnessing of Marine Biodiversity for Bioremediation of Aquaculture and Other Industrial Effluents (Project No. PSC0206)
• Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Stresses on the Coastal Environment of India (Project No. OLP1206)
• Geological and geophysical studies of coastal zone of India (Project No. OLP1207)
• Development of Autonomous Platform/s for Ocean Applications (Project No. OP1208)
Afzulpurkar, S.
• Marine ecological assessment and studies for sustainable developments in the coastal and shelf areas in west coast of India. (Project No. OLP1209)
Chaubey, A.K.
• Ecobiogeography and biotechnology of estuaries and coastal waters of India. (Project No. OLP1210)
• Coastal processes and tectonics of Eastern Continental Margin of India (Project No. OLP1211)

Contact:

CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography,
Dona Paula,
Goa 403 004,
India

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