Global climate change and unexplained variations in the Indian monsoon have been pressing issues in the last few decades. Moreover, the Indian monsoon has been found to be significantly impacted by global climate dynamics. The inexplicable variabilities in the Indian and global climate can be understood based on extensive climate datasets from the past. However, the limited extent of the instrumental data impedes the extensive investigation of the conspicuous changes in the climate system. The restricted datasets invigorated my interest in past climate and past monsoon reconstruction using natural archives such as sediments and corals. To date, I have extensively worked on the marine, coastal and continental sediment and have also explored coral skeleton for inferring the ocean dynamics and its association with the recent climate system. My research interest lies in the reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoceanography for the last few millennia extending up to the late Quaternary Period. Additionally, I am also keen to address the linkage of the climate variables such as ocean-atmospheric processes, the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and natural forcings like orbital, solar, volcanic, etc with the earth’s climate system.

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