Awards

Honors and Awards


  • Fellow, Geological Society of America
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Scholar Awardee 2005, American Federation of Mineralogical Society
  • ‘Volcan Basu’, San Quintin Volcanic Field in Baja California, named in 1995 in recognition of research done on this volcanic field in the 1970’s-1980’s

Collaborators and other affiliations


Collaborators and Co-editors

  • R.Chakrabarti
  • C.J.Ebinger
  • C.N.Garzione
  • R.B.Georg
  • P-Y.Gillot
  • R.T.Gregory
  • A. N. Halliday
  • R. Hannigan

  • S.B.Jacobsen
  • A.Pullen
  • J.Quade
  • P. R. Renne
  • N. V. Sobolev
  • J. Wakabayashi
  • H.Zou

Graduate and post-doctoral advisors

  • Ph.D. Advisor: Ian D. MacGregor
  • Post Doctoral Mentors: V. Rama Murthy and M. Tatsumoto

Thesis advisor (Primary) – MS

  • E. Rubury, 1980
  • M. Domenick, 1982
  • M. Kramer, 1982
  • S. Silverman, 1984
  • J. Talpey, 1984
  • J. Ongley, 1986
  • J. Snow, 1986
  • G. Sharp, 1987
  • W. Lanik, 1989
  • S. Ghose, 1992
  • G. Dunn, 1993
  • F. Teichmann, 1993
  • K. Weaver, 2000
  • A. Smith, 2000
  • A. Ghatak, 2006
  • N.Ghosh, 2011

Thesis advisor (Primary) – PhD

  • N. Srimal, 1986 (Miami International University)
  • B. Faggart, 1990 (EPA, Washington DC)
  • M. Sharma, 1992 (Dartmouth)
  • F. Teichmann, 1995 (Vienna, Austria)
  • R.E. Hannigan, 1997 (UMass, Boston)
  • A. Saha-Yannopoulos, 2004 (S and P, New York)
  • R. Chakrabarti, 2006 (IISc Bangalore, India)
  • A. Ghatak, 2010 (IISER Bhopal, India)
  • P. Chakrabarty, 2019 (UT Arlington)
  • N.Ghosh, 2015 (Boston University)

Thesis advisor (Secondary) – PhD

  • R. Cole, 1993
  • Z. Ismat, 2003
  • C. B. Dowling, 2003
  • Total Graduate Students: 28 (M.S and PhD)