Scientist’s Name: Chandra Mohan Nautiyal

Position: Scientist-E; Scientist-in- Charge/ PL, Radiocarbon lab. (recommended to Sci-F wef Jan., 2014)

Also Vig.Officer (Since Nov. 2009); Convener, Pub. Rel. and Media; Member- Secy. & Official Language Implementation Comm.

Education: BSc (Phys. Hons), Meerut; MSc (Phys.) at University of Roorkee (now IIT-Roorkee), followed by PhD & Post-
doctoral research at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

Specialisation,Experience & Present Interest: Multidisciplinary work. Cosmogenic radiocarbon (C14) and noble gas (like Ne,
Ar) isotopic measurements by LSC and mass spectrometry respectively for chronology and SF compositional characterstics.
Aided by geochemical analyses, in collaboration with archaeologists and palynologists,, the C14 dating has been utilised for
understanding the past climatic changes especially in the Himalayan region and foothills, and deciphering the archaeoelogical
events like population- migration in response to calamities, shift in agricultural practices and cultural evolution. Field work in the
NE Himalayan region, Vindhyans, Deccan Traps/ inter- trappean, Western UP, Uttarakhand, and coral islands off Jam Nagar
coast. At present interested in applying dating, Geochem. & palynological approach to Palaeoclimatic & archaeological problem.

Foreign Visits: France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, UK, USA

Published in: ApJ, Curr. Sci., EPSL, GRL, JCom; Meteoritics; The Palaeobotanist, The J Palaeont. Soc., Proc. LPSC (Suppl.
GCA/JGR), Nat. Hazards, Proc. Ind. Aca. Sci.; Quat. Intl., Vib. Spectro. etc. Also chapters/ papers in journals/ books on science
and S&T communication, conference proceedings and Sage Encyclopedia on S&T Communication. About 50 popular science
writings and chapters. Edited several conference souvenirs/ abstract books and also science activity guides for students. Joint
work with researchers from 16 institutions in 6 countries (A list of select publications at the end).

Fellowships, Committee- memberships & other academic activities:

• Examined PhD theses for 4 universities. Set paper for university undergraduates. Guided one student for PhD and 4
PG students for projects (including under scheme of INSA, IASc and NASc.) A resource person/ guest faculty for
INSPIRE, NCSC, INTEL’s ISDF, NCSTC (DST), NIOS, UGC Aca. Staff College (LU), UPCST, UP Academy for Adm.
Management., UP Disaster Manag. Asso., Vig.Prasar etc. Been in several BSIP, RSC-L screening/selection comm.

Been part of several committees of S&T Councils of UP, Uttarakhand, NCSTC- Network on different occasions. Had been
Convener, NCSTC-NW. Delivered about 400 lectures on science and science communication in various institutions, universities,
colleges and schools etc., about 200 science communication training lectures/ radio/ TV talks etc. in workshops by NCSTC
(DST), Distt. Science Clubs and various universities etc.. Looked after Science Day programmes for BSIP for about a decade.

Part of organising committees/ Secretariat for Int. Conf. Material Science- 2006; Indo- China Conference- 2008; Climate
Change & Geo- Hydrology (2011); Conference by Soc. Earth Scientists-2011, Convener of NCSC National Workshop- 1994 &
NCSC-2003; A co-coordinator, Science for Schools (Science Congress- 2002) & Ind. Soc. Sci. Cong.- 2013; Member of the
Science Expo committees- 2009- 2014, an organizer of INSA Young Scientists Meet during Anniversary Meet- 2013.

Recognition:
INSA Medal Young Sci. (1988), US $ 1600 Int’l Student Travel Grant from Meteoritical Soc.- USA (1984), First Prize from ISMAS
(1988); BSIP Medal (jointly) for Highest Extra- budgetary Resource Earning (2008), Vigyan Vachaspati by Vigyan Parishad
(1997), Honour from Vidya Bharti (2011), Vigyan Parishad Shatabdi Samman- 2012, and from Science Clubs of Allahabad (UP
Vigyan Sancharak), Barabanki (Vigyan Jyoti), Meerut (Vigyan Ratna), Bhartiya Bhasha Pratishthapan Parishad Samman- 2013,
Poster (co- authored) awarded during the conf. by Palaeobotanical Soc. And BSIP- 2013.

Received 2 merit scholarships, one national scholarship and PRL doctoral & post- doctoral fellowships. INSA- DFG Fellowship
to visit Max Planck Instt. Heidelberg and Mainz (1989-90). Lectures/ seminars at Univ. Calif. SD, Univ New Mexico (USA), Max
Planck Instt. Heidelberg; Univ. Bern (Switz.). With full support from Forschungzentrum, Julich & ASCC, attended ESOF- 2006
(Germany) and ASCC- 2009 (S. Africa).
 A List of Some Published Scientific Work of CM Nautiyal
(Out of 95 papers, reviews and abstracts)

1. Rao M.N., Venkatesan T.R., Goswami J.N., Nautiyal C.M. and Padia J.T. (1979). Noble Gas- based solar flare exposure
history of lunar rocks and soils. Proc. LPSC 10th , 1547.
2. Venkatesan T.R, Nautiyal C.M., Padia J.T and Rao M.N. (1980). Solar Flare Cosmic ray proton fluxes in the recent past.
Proc. LPSC 11th, 1271.

3. Bhandari N., Lal D., Nautiyal C.M., Padia J.T., Potdar M.B., Rao M.N. and Venkatesan T.R. (1980). Determination of pre-
atmospheric sizes of meteorites using neon isotopes and particle tracks. Meteoritics 15, 265.
4. Nautiyal C.M., Padia J.T., Rao M.N. and Venkatesan T.R. (1981). Solar Flare neon : Clues from implanted noble gases in
lunar soils and rocks. Proc. LPSC 12th , 627.
5. Venkatesan T.R., Nautiyal C.M. and Rao M.N. (1981) Neon composition in solar flares. Geophys. Res. Letters 8 (11),
1143.
6. Englert P., Herpers U., Herr W., Nautiyal C.M., Padia J.T. , Rao M.N. and Venkatesan T.R. (1983). Isna ,an unusual, C-3
(O) carbonaceous chondrite. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 65, 1.
7. Nautiyal C.M., Padia J.T., Rao M.N. and Venkatesan T.R. (1986). Solar Flare Neon composition and solar cosmic ray
exposure ages based on lunar mineral separates. The Astrophys. Journal 301, 465.

8. Rao M.N. and Nautiyal C.M. (1988). Mass spectrometric determination of solar neon in Leighton meteorite. Fourth National
Symposium of Indian Soc. For Mass spectrometry. EPS-8.

9. Stephen T, Jessberger E.K., Lochman D. and Nautiyal C.M. (1990). 40Ar- 39Ar Altersbiimmung des Pataz batholith (Peru),
Jahresbereicht MPI- Kernphysik, 11.1.

10. Nautiyal C.M. (1993). Isotope ratio mass spectrometry. (Invited talk). Annexure to the Lecture notes for the National
Workshop on Mass spectrometry conducted at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow by Ind. Soc. for Mass
spectrometry.

11. Nautiyal C.M. (1995). Of Life, its Diversity, Ozone and Isotopes. Proc. Seminar on ‘Ozone Layer Depletion and
Conservation of Species’ at Regional Science Centre, Lucknow, Page T-6 (1-10).

12. Nautiyal CM and MS Chauhan (2003). Climate Change: A Palaeoclimatic Angle. Assessment of Climate Change in India
and Mitigation Policy, WWF-India., (Eds. Prof SK Dash and Prakash Rao), P. 89-91.

13. Nautiyal CM (2004). Variations of temperature and other climatic parameters during the late Quaternary Period.
Everyman’s Science 39, 2, P. 151- 159.

14. Nautiyal CM (2006). Science Communication: Quo Vadis? Indian Media Studies Journal 1, 1, Page - 121- 124.
15. Nautiyal Chandra Mohan (2008). A Look at S&T Awareness- Enhancements in India. Journal of Science Communication
(Italy), Vol. 7, No.2, A 01, Page 1- 10, 21st June- 2008 (http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/02/Jcom0702%282008%29A01/),.
16. Nautiyal CM and B Sekar (2008). Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow During
2004- 2008. Glimpses of Geoscience Research in India. The Indian Report to IUGS. Eds. AK Singhvi, Abhijjt Bhattacharya
and Satyabrata Guha. Publisher: Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. Page- 307- 310.
17. Nautiyal CM and Chauhan MS (2009). Late Holocene Vegetation and Climate Change in Loktak Lake Region, Manipur
based on Pollen and Chemical Evidence. The Palaeobotanist Vol. 58 (1-3), Page 21- 28.
18. Thakur VC, Pandey AK, Nautiyal CM, Sundriyal, YP, Khanduri BM, Shinde DP, Suresh N and Singhvi AK (2010). Geo-
archaeology in Western Uttar Pradesh Plain. Current Science 98, 8 (April 25, 2010), P. 1112- 1119.
19. Sekar B, Bhattacharyya A, Bera SK and Nautiyal CM (2010). Analyses of Sedimentation rates and organic matter contents
in lacustrine sediment profiles from diversified geographical regions and their climatic implications. Ind. Jour. Earth Sciences
and Engineering 3, 6. P. 775- 783.
20. Kumar Subodh, Chaturvedi,Deepika, Jain Ashika, Tandon Poonam and Nautiyal CM (2011). Phonon Dispersion and Heat
Capacity in Polyoxacyclobutane: Modification I. Vibrational Spectroscopy 100, 3. P. 116- 122.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vibspec.2011.01.001.
21. Binita Phartiyal, Anupam Sharma and C. M. Nautiyal (2011). Interpretation of the apparent Ages in the Ladakh and Lahaul-
Spiti Quaternary Lacustrine Sediments. In: Dhruv Sen Singh and N. L. Chabra (Eds.), Geological Processes and Climate
Change, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., 105-116pp.
22. Anil K. Pokharia, Jeewan Singh Kharakwal, R.S. Rawat, Toshiki Osada, C. M. Nautiyal, and Alka Srivastava (2011).
Archaeobotany and Archaeology at Kanmer, a Harappan site in Kachchhh, Gujarat: Evidence for adaptation in response to
climatic variability. Current Science 100, 12, P. 933- 946.
23. Bera SK, Basamutary S, Nautiyal CM, Dixit S, Mao AA and Gogoi R (2011). Late Holocene Climate and Vegetation
Change in Dzuko Valley, North East India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 56(2). P. 143- 148.
24. Nautiyal CM (2012). Radiocarbon Dating in Determining the Antiquity of Cultural Remains in India. Historicity of Vedic and
Ramayan Era. Eds. Saroj Bala and Kulbhushan Mishra. Pub. by I- SERVE, Delhi. P. 125- 142.
25. Rajendran CP, Rajendran Kusala, Shah- hosseini Majid, Naderi Abdolmajid, Nautiyal CM , Andrews Ronia (2012). Re-
evaluating the hazard potential of the Makran subduction zone, Northern Arabian Sea. Natural Hazards (10.1007/s11069-
012-0355-6, 10.1007/s11069-012-0355-6).
26. Swati Dixit; Sadhan K Basumutary,.; Veeru K Singh,.; Chandra M Nautiyal,.; Biswajeet Thakur, (2013). Palaeovegetation
and climate oscillation of Western Odisha; A pollen data- based synthesis for the Mid- Late Eocene. Accepted in
Quaternary International. (http://dx.doi.org/10.106/j.quaint.2013.12.005)
27. Trivedi A, Chauhan MS, Sharma Anupam, Nautiyal CM, Tiwari DP (2013). Record of vegetation and climate during Late
Pleistocene-Holocene in Central Ganga Plain: A multi-proxy study from Jalesar Lake, Unnao District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Quaternary International 306, P. 97- 106. (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.010).

Some Chapters/ General Articles Related to Science Communication

1. Nautiyal CM (2003). Radio ke Madhyam se Vigyan Sanchar. Study Material for Correspondence Course on Science
Communication by Indian Society for Science Communication (Under NCSTC-DST Scheme), Module-D, P. 5-12.

2. Nautiyal CM (2003). Tivir babe Lekha (Writing for TV). Trnanslated version in Bijnan Lekhokor Hatputhi (A Handbook for
Science Writers, in Assamese). Ed. Dr. DC Goswami. Publisher: Assam Science Society. P. 114-121.
3. Nautiyal CM (2010). Science and Science Communication in India. The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Communication. Ed. Susanna Priest. Sage, Newbury Park, CA, (USA). Vol. I, P. 381-388.
4. Nautiyal Chandra Mohan (2011). Hindi mein Vigyan Lekhan ki Chunautiyan; Kyon se Kyon Nahin Tak. In Anuj Sinha,
Subodh Mahanti, Nimish Kapoor (eds). The Souvenir/ proceedings of the seminar at IIM, Noida organised by Vigyan
Prasar, Noida . P. 122- 128.
5. Nautiyal Chandra Mohan (2012). Vigyan Lokpriyakaran aur Vaigyanik Soch. Vigyan Centenary Volume. 2012- 2013 (Ed.
SG Mishra). P. 194- 198.
6. Nautiyal CM (2012). Sound and Communication (Chapter- 18). A Lesson for the Science and Technology Book by
National Institute of Open Schools, Noida. P. 419- 445.
7. Nautiyal CM (2012). Writing Science for Radio. Biman Basu and Pramila Majumdar (Eds). Pub. : CSIR NE Centre for S&T.
8. Nautiyal Chandra Mohan (2013). Radiocarbon vidhi se aau nirdharan: Siddhant evam anuprayog. Gyan- Vigyan:
Shaikshik Nibandh (Lectures on e-material in Hindi). Ed. KK Misra. Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR). P.
148- 159.

BOOKS / PROCEEDINGS/ SOUVENIRS/ ABSTRACT BOOKS ETC.

(Authored/ Co-authored or edited/ Co-edited)

1. Padhye, A., Sharma,B.K., Nautiyal, C.M., Ramalingam, C.R., Thawakar, G.F., Singh, D.P., Srinivasan , K.,Lenin Babu,
K., Phull M., Solanki, M., Ghosh, P.S (1994). Clean up India ) for Children’s Science Congress-94 (156 pages). Published
by NCSTC-Network, New Delhi. IN HINDI AND ENGLISH BOTH.

2. Nautiyal CM (1996). Pankhudia (A compilation of poems in Hindi). Brought out by BSIP, Lucknow (18 pages)

3. Basu BB, Nautiyal CM, … ( 1998 ). Co-authored Activity Guide (focal theme : Nature : Let’s Conserve, Share and Care )
for National Children’s Science Congress (86 pages ). Published by NCSTC-Network, New Delhi. IN HINDI (90 pages)
AND ENGLISH (86 pages).

4. …………..Nautiyal CM, (2002). Co-authored Activity Guide (Focal Theme: Food Systems: Towards Nutrition for All).
Published by NCSTC-Network, New Delhi.

5. Vaishampayan JV and Nautiyal CM (2002). Science for School Children (Indian Science Congress-2002). Report and
Abstracts of Projects, 72 pages.

6. Hariprasad S and Nautiyal CM (2003). Souvenir- NCSC-2003. Published by NCSTC-Network New Delhi.

7. Abstract book of MRSI Conference (2006). Chief Editor: Poonam Tandon, Editors: CM Nautiyal and Alka Misra

8. Nautiyal CM (2006). Beyond the Rainbow: The Colours of Science. Public Lectures on Science by Prof. CNR Rao,
(Edited). Pp. 40.

9. Nautiyal, CM; Sharma A, Kar Ratan & Bisth S (2011). Souvenir-cum- Abstract Book Climate Change & Geo- Hydrology
Symposium.

10. Babu, Rupendra; Nautiyal, CM; Arvind, Madhukar; Govind, Nilay (2012). Souvenir-cum- Abstract Book, Training on
‘Palynology in Fossil Fuel Exploration’.