Sulochana Gadgil
Sulochana Gadgil (born June 7, 1944 in Pune , India ) is an Indian mathematician , meteorologist and oceanographer. She is currently an Honorary Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore , India. She has contributed significantly to the understanding of monsoon dynamics, tropical convection, the coupling of the tropical atmosphere to the oceans and agricultural strategies for a variable climate.
life and work
Gadgil comes from a famous family, her great-grandfather was a minister in the Indian state of Tonk , her grandfather and her father were respected doctors. Her mother was a Marathi writer. She completed high school education in English at a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh . She then studied mathematics at the University of Pune , where she received a Bachelor of Science in 1963 and a Master of Science in 1965. She became engaged to her fellow student Madhav Gadgil and they both went to Harvard on a scholarship. In 1970 she received her PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University . From 1970 to 1971 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1971 she returned to India with her husband and worked at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune. From 1973 to 2006 she carried out research at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore and in 1983 was instrumental in setting up the Center for Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences. Her research area is the study of the monsoons and she deals, among other things, with strategies to cope with the variability of precipitation and to model ecological and evolutionary phenomena. In collaboration with farmers, she developed cultivation strategies that are tailored to the variability of rainfall in different regions in India. She led efforts to formulate the Indian Climate Research Program (ICRP) with its component Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment (BOBMEX), the Arabian Seas Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX) and the Continental Tropical Convergence Zone (CTCZ) program. She was a member of the council or advisory board of almost all meteorological institutions in the country, as well as a member of the scientific committees of the IGBP world climate research program and a member of the ICSU committee to review these programs. She has published 65 research papers and edited two books.
Honors
- Vikram Sarabhai Award,
- Norman Borlaug Award
- Astronautical Society Award
- 1995: Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and Indian Meteorological Society
- 2008: Life Time Achievement Award, Ministry of Earth Sciences
literature
- Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8160-6158-7
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gadgil, Sulochana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematician, meteorologist and oceanographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pune , India |