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{{other people||Sunil Kumar Singh (disambiguation){{!}}Sunil Kumar Singh}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|03|16}}
| birth_place = India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Geochemistry]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Physical Research Laboratory]], [[National Institute of Oceanography, India]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on low temperature elemental and isotope geochemistry
| awards = {{ublist|2012 National Geoscience Award | 2016 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2023 J.C. Bose Fellowship}}
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'''Sunil Kumar Singh''' (born 1971) is an [[India]]n geochemist, a [[professor]] at the [[Physical Research Laboratory]] [[Sabbatical|''on lien'']]<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www.prl.res.in/~sunil/ |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Physical Research Laboratory}}</ref> and serving as [[Director (business)|Director]] of the [[National Institute of Oceanography, India]] since 2017.<ref name="Director NIO">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nio.org/index//option/com_researcherdisplay/task/show/tid/2/sid/69/rid/1346 |title=Director NIO |date=2017-11-29 |website=National Institute of Oceanography, India |access-date=2017-11-29}}</ref> He is known for his studies on low temperature elemental and isotope geochemistry and his researches are reported to have assisted in widening the understanding of the evolution of the [[Himalayas]] and biogeochjemical cycling in the Indian Ocean.<ref name="National Geoscience Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mines.nic.in/writereaddata/Content/A_NationalGeoscience_Awardees1995-2012.pdf |title=National Geoscience Award |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry of Mines (India) |page=55 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130132938/http://www.mines.nic.in/writereaddata/Content/A_NationalGeoscience_Awardees1995-2012.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-30 }}</ref> His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sunil_Singh40 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[Google Scholar]], an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 99 of them respectively.<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qmWHM6kAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref>

Singh, born on 16 March 1971,<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=524 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> has done his education BSc, MSc(Tech), at [[Banaras Hindu University]] and PhD in [[geology]] at Physical Research Laboratory and MS University, Vadodara. He is a former Scientific Steering Committee member<ref name="Corresponding Member (Past SSC Member)">{{Cite web |url=http://www.geotraces.org/about-us/ssc-members/past-ssc-members/22-sunil-kumar-singh |title=Corresponding Member (Past SSC Member) |date=2016 |publisher=GEOTRACES}}</ref> and the incumbent member of the Data Management Committee of GEOTRACES, an international forum for research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and isotopes.<ref name="GEOTRACES International Data Management Committee">{{Cite web |url=http://www.geotraces.org/science/data-management |title=GEOTRACES International Data Management Committee |date=2016 |publisher=GEOTRACES}}</ref> As a collaborator, he is associated with the ''Ganga Corridor'' program, an initiative of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] and the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology, India.]]<ref name="Other Collaborators">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/nfca/contact.htm |title=Other Collaborators |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Kanpur}}</ref> He was the co-coordinator of ''Weathering and Erosion'' session of the 2016 Goldschmidt conference held in Yokohama.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://goldschmidt.info/2016/program/programViewThemes?theme=11 |title=Program by Theme |date=2016 |publisher=Goldschmidt}}</ref> He is a recipient of the National Geoscience Award and an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Singh,_Prof._Sunil_Kumar |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> the [http://www.nasi.org.in National Academy of Sciences, India], and the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/ref3.php |title=INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected |date=2019-03-10 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2016.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

==Awards==
Source:<ref>{{Cite web |last=CSIR-NIO |title=Prof. Sunil Kumar Singh ( CSIR-NIO ) |url=https://www.nio.res.in/profile/1346/prof-sunil-kumar-singh |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231110214523/https://www.nio.res.in/profile/1346/prof-sunil-kumar-singh |archive-date=2023-11-10 |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 2012: National Geoscience Award
* 2014: Eminent Mass spectrometry Award ISMAS
* 2016: [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]
* 2016: Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
* 2017: [[Asian Scientist 100]], ''[[Asian Scientist]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author=  |date= |website= |publisher= [[Asian Scientist]] |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}</ref>
* 2018: Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
* 2019: Doctor of Engineering, NIT Goa
* 2019: Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India
* 2021: Ocean Science Awards, The Ministry of Earth Sciences
* 2022: Life time Achievement Award, Indian Society of Applied Geochemists (ISAG)
* 2022: Recognised as one among "75 Under 50 Scientists Shaping Today's India" from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
* 2023: JC Bose Fellowship, SERB
* 2025: Awarded IGU–Prof. K.R. Ramanathan Memorial Lecture in recognition of outstanding contributions to Earth Sciences<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-11 |title=Prof. K. R. Ramanathan Memorial Lecture – Indian Geophysical Union |url=https://iguonline.in/prof-k-r-ramanathan-memorial-lecture/ |access-date=2026-01-11 |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* Mishra T.K., and Singh S.K., Water Column Cycling of Cadmium in the North-Eastern and Subtropical Gyre Region of the Indian Ocean, ''Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans'', 130, e2025JC022817, 2025; <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022817</nowiki><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mishra |first=Tapas Kumar |last2=Singh |first2=Sunil Kumar |date=2025 |title=Water Column Cycling of Cadmium in the North-Eastern and Subtropical Gyre Region of the Indian Ocean |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2025JC022817 |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans |language=en |volume=130 |issue=8 |article-number=e2025JC022817 |doi=10.1029/2025JC022817 |issn=2169-9291}}</ref>
* Malla N. and Singh S.K., Atmospheric deposition, shelf sediment supply, riverine input, and redox conditions control dissolved manganese in the Indian Ocean. ''Global Biogeochemical Cycles'', 39, e2025GB008660, 2025 <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008660</nowiki><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Malla |first=Nirmalya |last2=Singh |first2=Sunil Kumar |date=2025 |title=Atmospheric Deposition, Shelf Sediment Supply, Riverine Input, and Redox Conditions Control Dissolved Manganese in the Indian Ocean |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2025GB008660 |journal=Global Biogeochemical Cycles |language=en |volume=39 |issue=10 |article-number=e2025GB008660 |doi=10.1029/2025GB008660 |issn=1944-9224|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* Yadav C., Singh S.K. and Chinni V., Persistent elevated levels of dissolved lead in the Indian Ocean post-leaded gasoline ban: The impact of anthropogenic activities, sediment desorption, and dust storms, ''Marine Pollution Bulletin'' 215, 2025: 117874; [[doi:|https://doi.o]]<nowiki/>rg,10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.117874<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yadav |first=Chhaya |last2=Singh |first2=Sunil Kumar |last3=Chinni |first3=Venkatesh |date=June 2025 |title=Persistent elevated levels of dissolved lead in the Indian Ocean post-leaded gasoline ban: The impact of anthropogenic activities, sediment desorption, and dust storms |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025326X25003492 |journal=Marine Pollution Bulletin |language=en |volume=215 |article-number=117874 |doi=10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.117874|url-access=subscription }}</ref>.
* {{Cite journal |last=Satinder Pal Singh, Sunil Kumar Singh, Vineet Goswami, Ravi Bhushan, Vinai. K. Rai |title=Spatial distribution of dissolved neodymium and εNd in the Bay of Bengal: Role of particulate matter and mixing of water masses |journal=Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |date=2012 |volume=94 |pages=38–56 |doi=10.1016/j.gca.2012.07.017|bibcode=2012GeCoA..94...38S }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Sunil Kumar Singh, Harsh Bhu |title=Re-Os isotopes and major and trace element geochemistry of carbonaceous shales, Aravalli Supergroup, India: Impact of post-depositional processes |journal=Chemical Geology |date=2013 |volume=354 |pages=93–106 |doi=10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.014|bibcode=2013ChGeo.354...93T }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Venigalla purnachandra Rao, R. Shynu, Sunil Kumar Singh, S.W.A. Naqvi, Pratima M. Kessarkar |title=Mineralogy and Sr-Nd isotopes of SPM and sediment from the Mandovi and Zuari estuaries: Influence of weathering and anthropogenic contribution |journal=Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science |date=2014 |volume=156 |issue=1 |pages=103–115 |doi=10.1016/j.ecss.2014.07.004}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Satinder Pal Singh, Sunil Kumar Singh, Ravi Bhushan, Vinai. K. Rai |title=Dissolved silicon and its isotopes in the water column of the Bay of Bengal: Internal cycling versus lateral transport |journal=Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |date=2015 |volume=151 |pages=172–191 |doi=10.1016/j.gca.2014.12.019|bibcode=2015GeCoA.151..172S }}
* {{Cite journal |last=A.K. Sudheer, MY Aslam, M Upadhyay, Ramabadran Rengarajan, Ravi Bhushan, JS Rathore, Sunil Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Kumar |title=a |journal=Atmospheric Research |date=2016 |volume=178 |doi=10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.03.026}}

== See also ==
* [[Isotope geochemistry]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://goldschmidt.info/userView?userId=fhavyKKceyLLerfLLva |title=Details for: Sunil Singh |date=2016 |publisher=Goldschmidt |work=Conference archive}}

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