Publications and Conferences

• Abdur Rahman, Rayees Ahmad Shah, Ajayeta Rathi, Siddhartha Sarkar, M. G. Yadava, Sanjeev Kumar. Exploring climate and forest fire variability in the western Himalaya over the last 33,000 years through sedimentary black carbon.

• Abdur Rahman, Bivin G. George, Jyotiranjan S. Ray, Sanjeev Kumar. Change in ocean redox conditions and biology during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: inferences from stable isotopes of carbonate formations of the Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan 

• Abdur Rahman, Rayees Ahmad Shah, M. G. Yadava, Sanjeev Kumar. Changes in stable isotopes biogeochemistry of a high altitude Himalayan lake and its association with late Holocene climate (Quaternary Science Advances)

2024

• Rahman, A., Chang, W.C., Kashima, K., Fukumoto, Y., Huang, J.J.S., Löwemark, L., Wang, L.C. and Chang, Y.P., 2024. Late Holocene paleoclimate reconstruction of northern Taiwan using a multiproxy approach in the Dream Lake sediment core. Quaternary International.

• Siddhartha Sarkar, Abdur Rahman, Mohammad Atif Khan, Km Ajayeta Rathi, P. Ragavan, Arvind Singh, and Sanjeev Kumar. Isotopic evidence of ageing of particulate black carbon in the ocean (Accepted: Geophysical Research Letter).

• Rahman, A., Shah, R.A., Rathi, A., Yadava, M.G. and Kumar, S., 2024. Transport pathways of black carbon to a high mountain Himalayan lake during late Holocene: Inferences from nitrogen isotopes of black carbon. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 633, p.111865.

2023

• Shah, R.A., Rahman, A., Yadava, M.G. and Kumar, S., 2023. Mid–late Holocene paleoclimate and biogeochemical evolution of Wular Lake, Kashmir Valley, India. Journal of Quaternary Science. 

• Ragavan, P., Rahman, A., Sarkar, S., Verma, S., Jeeva, C., Mohan, P.M. and Kumar, S., 2023. Variability in soil organic carbon stock and isotopic signature in tropical island mangrove forests of India. Regional Environmental Change, 23(4), p.135.

• Sarkar, S., Khan, M.A., Sharma, N., Rahman, A., Bhushan, R., Sudheer, A.K. and Kumar, S., 2023. Lake desiccation drives carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry of a sub-tropical hypersaline lake. Hydrobiologia, pp.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05193-8

• Verma, S*., Rahman, A*., Shah, R.A., Agrawal, R.K., Yadava, M.G. and Kumar, S., 2023. Late Holocene fire and precipitation history of the Kashmir Himalaya: Inferences from black carbon in lake sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.111401., (* Equal contribution)

2022

• Behera, D., Bhattacharya, S., Rahman, A., Kumar, S. and Anoop, A., 2022. Molecular tracers for characterization and distribution of organic matter in a freshwater lake system from the Lesser Himalaya. Biogeochemistry, pp.1-20. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00984-y) 

• Ahmad Shah, R., Khan, I., Rahman, A., Kumar, S., Achyuthan, H., Shukla, A.D., Kumar, P. and Dash, C., 2022. Holocene climate events and associated land use changes in the eastern coast of India: Inferences from the Chilika Lagoon. The Holocene, p.09596836221106964. (https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221106964 )  

• Khan, M.A., Rahman, A., Sahoo, D., Saxena, H., Singh, A. and Kumar, S., 2022. Nitrous oxide in the central Bay of Bengal during the summer monsoon. Regional Studies in Marine Science, p.102314. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2022.102314)

2021

• Rahman, A., Khan, M.A., Singh, A. and Kumar, S. (2021). Hydrological characteristics of the Bay of Bengal water column using δ18O during the Indian summer monsoon. Continental Shelf Research, p.104491. 

• Rahman, A., Rathi, A., Nambiar, R., Mishra, P.K., Anoop, A., Bhushan, R. and Kumar, S., 2021. Signatures of natural to anthropogenic transition in lake sediments from the Central Himalaya using stable isotopes. Applied Geochemistry, 134, p.105095. (doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.105095 )

2020

• Rahman, A., Sarkar, S., & Kumar, S. (2020). Paleoenvironment of the Central Himalaya during late MIS 3 using stable isotopic compositions of lacustrine organic matter occluded in diatoms and sediments. Quaternary International, 558, 1-9.  (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.024)

• Sahoo, D., Saxena, H., Tripathi, N., Khan, M. A., Rahman, A., Kumar, S., ... & Singh, A. (2020). Non-Redfieldian C: N: P ratio in the inorganic and organic pools of the Bay of Bengal during the summer monsoon. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 653, 41-55.  (https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13498)

• Shah, R. A., Achyuthan, H., Lone, A., Kumar, P., Ali, A., & Rahman, A. (2020). Palaeoenvironment shifts during last~ 500 years and eutrophic evolution of the Wular Lake, Kashmir Valley, India. Limnology, 1-10. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-020-00639-7)

• Abdur Rahman, Sanjeev Kumar Diatom oxygen isotopes: A potential tool for paleoclimate reconstruction in workshop on “Quantitative Reconstruction and Numerical Methods for Analysis of Past Climate Variability Using Diatoms” in NCAOR Goa (24.11.2017).

• Rahman, A., Sarkar, S. and Kumar, S., 2020, December. Paleo-biogeochemistry of the Central Himalayan region during late MIS 3 using stable isotopic composition of organic matter occluded in diatoms and lake sediments. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2020, pp. PP029-0010).

• Abdur Rahman, Rayees Ahmad Shah, M.G. Yadava, Sanjeev Kumar. Reconstruction of the environment and biogeochemistry of high altitude Himalayan Lake, existed during 33- 7 ka, using stable isotopes systematics (Pre-recorded oral presentation in 36th Congress of the International Society of Limnology) 

• Abdur Rahman, Bivin G, George, Jyoti S. Ray, Sanjeev Kumar. Ocean redox conditions and changes in biology during the early Cambrian interval: inferences from stable isotopes of carbonate formations of the Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan (FGRC 2023, Poster presentation)

• History of the forest fire in the western Himalaya and its linkage to climate and human (Date 21.002.2023)