Parli Venkateswaran Bhaskar

Dr. P.V. Bhaskar, Scientist-E, is presently working at the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), under Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India, at Goa, India. He completed his PhD in Microbiology from National Institute of Oceanoraphy, Goa. He has 27 years of experience in Marine Microbiology and Marine microbial food-web. He had focussed on Microbial EPS, Siderophores, Microbial diversity, microbial enzyme activity, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions, and role of microbes in carbon flow through the food-web, flux and production of DMS in diverse marine environments. He also has worked on distribution on carbohydrates in Indian Ocean. He has worked extensively in coastal waters (west coast of India), shelf waters (Gulf of Cadiz, Tokyo bay) and open ocean (Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal). Presently, he is working in polar waters including the Indian sector of southern ocean and Arctic waters and leading the marine microbiology component in the Indian Southern Ocean program. He has managed one project as PI and multiple projects as Co-PI. He has more than 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 3 book chapters.