Dr Thamban Meloth is the Director of the National Centre of Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa. His field of specialisation includes cryosphere and palaeoclimatology. His current research focuses on Antarctic ice core studies, polar snow biogeochemistry and Himalayan glaciology. He was instrumental in establishing India’s first and state-of-the-art Ice Core Laboratory at NCPOR in 2005, and also pioneered the Antarctic snow and ice core studies at NCPOR. He was also a member of the first Indian Scientific Expedition to the South Pole in 2010. He has conducted several expeditions to Antarctica, Arctic, Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean. In recognition of his scientific contributions, he has been awarded National Geoscience Award by Ministry of Mines, NIPR; Visiting Scientist Award by the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan; Prof Naganna Gold Medal by the Mineralogical Society of India; START Young Scientist Award by International Geosphere Biosphere Programme; and Young Scientist Award, by the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and has more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals to his credit.
