Dr. Ratan Kar

Scientist ‘E’
Department of Palaeobotany
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
India

Scientist Plant Sciences
Biography

Dr. Ratan Kar is presently working as Scientist ‘E’ at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences loacted at Lucknow, India. • He has been awarded a number of sponsored projects, such as- DST sponsored Young Scientist Fast-Track Project on the Deccen intertrappeans – Palynological, Biopetrological and Dispersed Organic Matter (DOM) study of Deccan Intertrappean sediments with reference to Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) transition. He authored almost 42 Research papers (26 in Impact Factor Journals).

Research Intrest

Has worked on a wide range of problems of varying ages and areas which involve the use of palynofossils for their resolution, such as Gondwana sediments (Permiam-Triassic), Deccan Intertrappean beds (Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene) and Quaternary fluvio-glacial & lacustrine deposits of the Higher Himalayas and the Polar Region.