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Santhosh kumar Ramachandran
Jersey City
New Jersey 07306
OBJECTIVE
To acquire the position as a geologist and utilize my knowledge in geology to study the several geographic phenomenons’s that occurs on earth's surface and below. Also, to find an opportunity that will allow me to interact with different geology professionals and enhance my practical knowledge.
ACADEMIC DETAILS
Master of Science, Geological Oceanography (2012)
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL.
Course Work- Principles of Geological Oceanography, Ocean Remote Sensing, Principles of Physical Oceanography, Marine and Environmental Chemistry, Marine Pollution, Biological Oceanography.
Thesis – “A Detail Geomorphological Study of Porto-Nova to Nagapattinam Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System”
Master of Science, Geology (2000 - 2002)
University of Madras, Chennai, INDIA.
Thesis - “Geochemistry of the Sediments of Continental Shelf off Ennore, Near Chennai and its Impact on Environment”.
Bachelor of Science, Geology (1997- 2000)
Presidency College, Chennai, INDIA.
EXPERIENCE
• Research Assistant, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India. (2002-2006)
Nature of work: Offshore and Onshore Geotechnical investigations, Geophysical Surveys, Drilling supervision, Logging, Onboard and onshore laboratory tests and Repost making.
The work included research cruises in research vessel O.R.V Sagar Kanya for collection of the samples using piston corer.
Involved Offshore Geotechnical investigation along the pipeline alignment and leg penetration analysis- Kakinada.
Geotechnical investigation for Karikal port- Tamil Nadu.
Manual Geotechnical investigation for dredging and blasting for Sea Bird –Karwar.
Offshore and onshore Geotechnical investigations WFSL (Western Free way Sea Link) – Mumbai.
Biogeochemical studies in methane formation.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Unix, Windows 98/2000/XP/ 7
Technical tools : Matlab, ArcGIS,SQL
Documentation tools : MS Office
Programming Language: c, c++
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• Research Assistantship Award from National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, INDIA.
• Received CSIR award for Lecturership.
• Received Research Award from State government of Tamil Nadu Department of science and technology for Master’s Thesis.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
• N.Thangadurai, S.Srinivasalu, M.P.Jonathan, N.Rajeshwara rao and R.Santhosh Kumar, Pre-tsunami chemistry of sediments along the inner continental shelf off Ennore, Chennai, Southeast coast of India.Indian journal of marine sciences.vol.34(3),September 2005,pp.274-278.
REFERENCES
ZARILLO, Gary A.
Professor
Department of Marine and Environmental Systems, College of Engineering
Florida Institute of Technology
Phone: +1-321-***-****
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TREFRY, John H.
Professor
Department of Marine and Environmental Systems, College of Engineering
Florida Institute of Technology
Phone: +1-321-***-****
Email: *******@***.***
Mani Murali, R.
Scientist
National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Phone: 91-832-*******
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