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IIT professor to join International Ocean Discovery Program
Professor Khanna is part of a 31-member team of leading research scientists from across the world who will investigate the links between global sea-level change and global climate change
Professor Pankaj Khanna / Image IIT- Gandhinagar
Prof Pankaj Khanna, assistant professor of earth sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gandhinagar), has been selected as the only research scientist and sedimentologist from India to participate in the offshore phase of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)’s Hawaiian Drowned Reefs Expedition (“IODP Expedition 389”).
Khanna is part of a 31-member team of leading research scientists from across the world who will investigate the links between global sea-level change and global climate change by drilling and studying a series of fossil coral reefs surrounding the island of Hawaii to learn more about our planet, a release by the institute mentioned.
IODP is an international marine research collaboration of 21 countries, including India. It was established to explore Earth’s history, structure, and dynamics by collecting and studying the seafloor sediments and rocks, and monitoring sub-seafloor environments. The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), a part of IODP, is responsible for implementing mission-specific platforms, like the current “Expedition 389” for drilling drowned reefs offshore Hawaii, the release added.
The scientific team, led by co-chief scientists Professor Jody Webster from the University of Sydney, Australia, and Professor Christina Ravelo from the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, will be onboard MMA Valour, a vessel equipped with the state-of-the-art submersible drilling system – Benthic Portable Remotely Operated Drill (PROD5).
They will come in up to eleven locations to a maximum thickness of 110 metres below the seafloor, in a series of fossil coral reefs surrounding the island of Hawaii. Covering important periods in the Earth’s climate history, the information contained in these natural fossil reef archives will help scientists reconstruct sea-level change at a much higher resolution.
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