Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology (ISSN: 2576-8484)
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Biography
Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Associate Professor and former Head, Dept. of Marine Science, University
of Calcutta (INDIA) has been active in the sphere of Oceanography since 1985.
He obtained his Ph.D as NET qualified scholar in 1994 after securing Gold Medal
in M.Sc (Marine Science) from University of Calcutta. Since then he joined
Calcutta Port Trust and WWF (World Wide Fund), in various capacities to carry
out research programmes on environmental science, biodiversity conservation,
climate change and carbon sequestration. Presently Dr. Mitra is serving Techno
India University, West Bengal as the Director of Research. He has to his credit
about 514 scientific publications in various National and International
journals, and 38 books of postgraduate standards. Dr. Mitra is presently
the member of several committees like PACON International, IUCN, SIOS etc. and
has successfully completed about 19 projects on biodiversity loss in
fishery sector, coastal pollution, alternative livelihood, climate change and
carbon sequestration. Dr. Mitra also visited as faculty member and invited
speakers in several foreign Universities of Singapore,
Research Interest
Marine Science,Estuarine Biodiversity, Aquaculture and Fisheries Management
