Publications

In journals:

1. Santhanam Harini, Dhyani Shalini, Benedict Xavier (2022) Perspectives on reducing anthropogenic interferences and mainstreaming nature-based solutions for sustainable restoration of Pulicat lagoon, India: from research to policy and implementation. Marine and Freshwater Research - https://doi.org/10.1071/MF21242

2. Santhanam, H., Dhyani, S., & Kundu, S. K. (2022). Ecosystem-based approaches to develop a monitoring framework for restoring the transitional lagoon ecosystem of Pulicat, India. Ecological Engineering, 179, 106608.

3. Shalini Dhyani, B. Dhanya, Harini Santhanam, Indu K Murthy (2021) ‘Restoring landscapes for post-pandemic rural livelihood recovery and achieving global targets in India’, Restoration Ecology, pp 1-8, Early View Record : e13617; Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13617

4. Sudip Kumar Kundu, Harini Santhanam (2021) ‘All pain and no gain: Factors impacting local and regional sustainability due to COVID-19 pandemic with respect to the Indian marine fisheries’, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100086.

5. Sudip Kumar Kundu & Harini Santhanam (2021) ‘A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha’, Local Environment, 26:9, 1043-1050, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1964457

6. Santhanam, H., Karthikeyan, A. and Raja, M. (2020) ‘Saturation indices of aqueous mineral phases as proxies of seasonal dynamics of a transitional water ecosystem using a geochemical modeling approach’ Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, Online First; https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-020-00910-x

7. Harini Santhanam and Amalraj, S. ‘Spatial-temporal analysis of salinity changes in a transitional water ecosystem during 1996-2008 – the case of Pulicat lagoon (Southeast India)’ Water Science, 33:1, 93-104, https://doi.org/10.1080/11104929.2019.1661944

8. Harini Santhanam, Anjum Farooqui, Anandasabari Karthikeyan (2018) ‘Bloom of the diatom, Biddulphia sp. and ecology of Pulicat lagoon, Southeast India in the aftermath of the 2015 North east monsoonal rainfall’, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 190: 636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-018-7020-9

9. H. Santhanam and T. Natarajan (2018) 'Short-term desalination of Pulicat lagoon(Southeast India) due to the 2015 extreme flood event: insights from Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone (LOICZ) models', Ecological Processes, Vol 7, No. 10, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-018-0119

10. P. Mageshkumar, Harini Santhanam, Stalin John M.R., S. Amal Raj 'Modelling of Chlorophyll-A Concentrations in Pulicat Lagoon , Southeast Coast of India Using Artificial Neural Network' Int. J. Sci. Res, Vol 2., No.6, pp 186-193, 2013.

11. S. Sathish Kumar, P. Mageshkumar, Harini Santhanam, M.R. Stalin John, S. Amalraj ‘A New Logic-based model to predict nitrates in groundwater using Artifical Neural Network (ANN)’ Poll. Res., Vol 32, No. 03, pp. 635-641, 2013.

12. H. Santhanam, S. Amal Raj, and K. Thanasekaran (2011) Comparison of the performance of two indices of trophic status for depicting the status of Pulicat lagoon ecosystem., J. Env. Sci. & Engg., NEERI, Nagpur, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 513–522.

13. H. Santhanam and S. Amal Raj, (2010) A new Fuzzy-LOGIC based Model for Chlorophyll-a in Pulicat Lagoon, India,” Int. J. Environ. Res, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 837–848. https://ijer.ut.ac.ir/article_270_aad0c1707afa3584c4b8769f068ec61e.pdf

14. H. Santhanam and S. Amal Raj, (2010) Carlson’s Index, a poor cursor of trophic status assessment of Pulicat Lagoon, southeast coast of India, Int. J. Env. Stud., Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207230902884000

15. H. Santhanam, S. Amal Raj, and K. Thanasekaran (2010) Selection of Suitable Ecosystem Indicators as Tools to Assess the Ecosystem Health of Coastal Lagoons and Their Implications in Management, Asian J. Wat. Env. Poll., Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 59–64. https://content.iospress.com/articles/asian-journal-of-water-environment-and-pollution/ajw7-2-09

16. H. Santhanam, S. Amal Raj, and S. Thanasekaran (2009) Predictive Capability of Three Empirical Models in Estimating the Chlorophyll: A Comparative Case Study of Ecosystem, Int. J. Ecol. & Dev., Vol. 14, No. F09, pp. 95–107. http://ceser.in/ceserp/index.php/ijed/article/view/396

Conference / Symposia Proceedings:

1. Sudip Kumar Kundu and Harini Santhanam (2021) Anthropogeomorphology of marine fisheries in India: understanding the critical roles of Marine Fishery Advisories towards achieving SDG 14, EGU General Assembly 2021, EGU21-2250; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2250

2. Sudip Kumar Kundu and Harini Santhanam (2021) Quantification of transitions matrix of marine fish landings of India as precursor of a potential value chain using a Blue Economy approach, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Convention of Indian Geophysical Union, IGU-VIRTUAL, “Sustainable Geosciences and Blue Economy”, February 2-4, 2021, CSIR-NIO, Goa.

3. Sudip Kumar Kundu and Harini Santhanam (2020) An overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on marine sector in India and their implications for achieving sustainable development of marine resources. Abstract in Procs. International Virtual Conference on Earth’s Changing Climate: Past, Present & Future 15-17 October 2020, Pg.93.

4. Sudip Kumar Kundu, Harini Santhanam, R Srikanth (2020) Use of Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development of Small Scale Fisheries in India: Challenges and Way Forward, AGU Fall Meeting 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505256.1

5. Sudip Kumar Kundu, Harini Santhanam, R Srikanth (2020) A Technical Assessment of the Use of Current Geospatial Technologies to Derive Marine Fishery Advisories in India and the Way Forward, Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2020 Full paper available at : https://a-a-r-s.org/proceeding/ACRS2020/ifomqo.pdf

6. VP Lavanyaa, J Singh, H Santhanam (2020) Urban air quality in India during the COVID lockdown: Learnings from Bengaluru and New Delhi. AGU Fall Meeting 2020, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/ Paper/731289

7. A Ahmed, H Santhanam, R Srikanth (2020) A Multidisciplinary framework for sustainable water resources management - A case study of the Almatti-Pennar ILR Scheme XIV World Aqua Congress 2020 (WAC 2020) 1, 13-26

8. Harini Santhanam and R. Srikanth (2019) ‘Pit lakes as sustainable post-closure interventions for open-cast coal mines in the Indian context’, Proceedings of World Aqua Congress 2019, 30th - 31st October 2019, Vol 1, pp 74-85.

9. Leena Ramdas, Ravi Rangarajan, Harini Santhanam, Prosenjit Ghosh (2011) ‘Estimating the water recharge during monsoon in Bangalore lakes using stable isotope measuring technique’ Workshop on Monsoon Variability, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

10. Harini Santhanam (2011) ‘Studies on the use of stable isotopic analysis for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions of Lake Pulicat’, First In-house symposium, Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc Bangalore, 13th January, 2011. Was the organiser for the event and chaired a session on ‘Atmospheric and climatological studies’

11. Harini Santhanam, Magesh Kumar, P. and Amal Raj, S. (2008) ‘Application of Fuzzy Indices to determine the trophic status of Pulicat Lagoon, Southeast Coast of India’, Lake-2008, Conservation and Management of River and Lake Ecosystems, IISc Bangalore, December, 2008

12. Harini Santhanam, Amal Raj, S. and Thanasekaran, K. (2007) ‘An Interactive Spatial Model of Pulicat Lagoon Using Geographic Information System’ In Proceedings of 12th World Lake Conference, TAAL-2007, pp 691-696.

Book chapters. peer-reviewed magazine articles and reports :

1. Santhanam, Harini; Kaur, Sarbjeet and Kundu, Sudip Kumar (2021, September) “Maximum Sustainable yields, Marine trophic status and Nature-based Solutions – balancing the ying-yang of marine sustainability”. Harnessing Nature 3(1), Pages (39-40). Retrieved from https://harnessingnatureblog.wordpress.com/harnessing-nature-magazine/

2. Dhyani S, Majumdar R, Santhanam H (2021) “Scaling-up Nature-Based Solutions for Mainstreaming Resilience in Indian Cities” In: Mukherjee M., Shaw R. (eds) Ecosystem-Based Disaster and Climate Resilience. Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4815-1_12

3. Santhanam H., Majumdar R. (2020) “Permeable Pavements as Sustainable Nature-Based Solutions for the Management of Urban Lake Ecosystems” In: Dhyani S., Gupta A., Karki M. (eds) Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Ecosystems and Societies. Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4712-6_19

4. Chanchal Chauhan, Sameer Mishra, Sujit Swain, Harini Santhanam, R Srikanth (2020) “Coal Mining and Environment: A Case Study of Dorli Opencast Coal Mines” (NIAS/NSE/EEP/U/RR/06/2020), National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore report.

5. Harini Santhanam “Calcite fluxes in Pulicat lagoon (South-east India) as a geochemical proxy of environmental changes”, 2018, Final report of DST Woman Scientists Project (2015-18), submitted to Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, pp 167.

6. Harini Santhanam and Amal Raj, S. “Nutrient Budgets for Pulicat Lagoon using the LOICZ Approach” for the ENVIS Special Publication, Lagoons of India, State-of-the-art Report, ENVIS Series 2/2015, Centre for Advanced Studies in Marine Biology, Parangipettai, Tamilnadu, sponsored by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, 2016, pp 7-22.