Mysore :

Prof. C. Srikantappa, UGC-Emeritus Scientist at DoS in Earth Science, University of Mysore, will be attending the International conference on “IMA-1024 – Delving Deeper – Minerals as Mines of information” to be held from Sept. 1 to 6 at Johannesburg, South Africa.

This conference will be held once in four years in different parts of the world and nearly 1800 Geologist from across the world will be attending this meeting.

Prof. Srikantappa will be presenting two of his research papers — One on the presence of CO2-rich and alkaline fluids in Precambrian high-grade metamorphic rocks from Satnur-Halagur area in Karnataka and another paper is on the role of alkaline fluids (NaC1 and KCL) which are responsible for U-mineralisation in Gogi, northern Karnataka which is going to be one of the biggest U-mining area in India as per AMD-DAE.

Prof. Srikantappa is the Secretary of Mineralogical Society of India with its headquarters at DoS in Earth Science, University of Mysore. He is also working as the Council Member of International Mineralogical Association (IMA) representing Asia. He is representing India at IMA General Body meeting at Johannesburg.

Prof. Srikantappa is one of the well-known Geoscientist in the country, working on the origin and evolution of oldest rocks belong to Precambrian period in south India. He is the only teacher from University of Mysore who had been awarded the prestigious Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship from Germany and UNESCO Fellowship at UK. He has guided 15 Ph.D students and has published nearly 120 research papers. He has presented several research papers at International conferences held at France, Germany, UK, USA, Italy, Spain, Australia and Sri Lanka.

Prof. C. Srikantappa was instrumental in establishing a permanent K-SET center for lectureship and UGC-NET center at University of Mysore in the 2010.

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