Selected Awards & Honors

  • Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018

  • Achievement in Crop Genetics and Technologies (ACGT) Award, Dow AgroSciences, 2015

  • Excellence in Geography Award, GTU, Mississippi State University, 2012

  • NASA scholarship to attend Ocean Optics Summer Training­2011­‘Calibration and Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing at Darling Marine Center, jointly sponsored by NASA and University of Maine, 2011

  • Outstanding student honors paper award, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 2011

  • Outstanding student honors paper award, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 2010

  • Best oral presentation award in physical sciences, Graduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, 2009

  • New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS) Graduate Scholarship, NOGS, 2008

  • Crescent City Doctoral Scholarship, University of New Orleans, LA, 2008-2009

  • Graduate Level Dean's­-III Scholarship, University of New Orleans, LA, 2007- 2008

  • MHRD Graduate Scholarship from Govt. of India, at IIT Madras, India, 2002-20­05

  • Post Graduate. Merit Scholarship from State Government, 2000-­2002

  • National Scholarship for securing highest mark in the University, 2000­-2002

  • University 1st Rank in B.Sc. (Honors) examination, Berhampur University, Odisha, India, 2000