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Courses

  • Teaching assistant for Invertebrate Paleontology Lab; IIT Bombay (2009)

 

  • Assistant Instructor for GEO 365: Evolution and Catastrophes; Princeton University (2013–2014)

 

  • ECS 202 Earth System II (Partial course); IISER Pune (Spring 2016)

 

  • ECS 313 Paleobiology (Principal Instructor); IISER Pune (Fall 2016)

 

  • GS 704 Sequence Stratigraphy ; IIT Bombay (Spring 2018)

 

  • GS 421 Palaeontology ; IIT Bombay (Autumn Semesters, 2017-present)

 

  • GS 433 Palaeontology Lab ; IIT Bombay (Autumn Semesters, 2017-present)

 

  • GS 530 Micropalaeontology ; IIT Bombay (Spring Semesters, 2018-present)

 

  • GS 662 Petroliferous Basins of India ; IIT Bombay (Spring Semesters, 2018-present)

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  • GS 672 Reservoir Sedimentology ; IIT Bombay (Scheduled for Spring 2021)

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17 DECEMBER 2020: "NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF ALL INVENTION"

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COVID RELATED REMOTE TEACHING/LEARNING HAS BROUGHT IT'S OWN CHALLENGES, PARTICULARLY TO RUN FOSSIL LABS THAT STAND UPON MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, DESCRIPTIONS AND TAXONOMY.

 

MY TA'S AND I HAVE STARTED BUILDING AN ONLINE DATABASE OF 3D SCANS OF THE FOSSILS TO ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO HAVE A TACTILE PERSPECTIVE OF DEALING WITH HAND SPECIMENS. ALL THEY NEED IS A CELLPHONE AND A FREE VERSION OF AN APPLICATION TO VIEW IT.

 

HERE'S A SMALL CLIP OF WHAT'S COOKING 'BEHIND THE SCENES' AND A PREVIEW OF THE PRELIMINARY OUTPUT:

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Hexaplex spp.                                                  GASTROPOD

Perisphinctes spp.                                         CEPHALOPOD

The Team:

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Subham Patra

Shweta Gupta

Brijesh Singh

Jahnavi Punekar

Learning Resources

 Time Averaging in sediments:

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No Time Averaging

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Time Averaging by bioturbation

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Time Averaging by sediment bypass

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Time Averaging by sediment starvation

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Time Averaging by winnowing

Time Averaging by reworking

Schematic Representation of Paedomorphosis

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Marine Habitats, Planktic and Benthic Foraminifera

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Calcification Crisis

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