Academic and Professional Honors and Awards

· Pondicherry University Gold Medal, (2000).

· Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (O.N.G.C), Chennai, India, Gold Medal, (2000).

· Best Student Certificate, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), India, (2000).

· Graduate Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, (2000)

· Graduate Fellowship, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, (2002)

· Goddard Coastal Research (GCR) Fellowship, GSFC, NASA, (2003)

· Ted Elliott Memorial Student Fellowship, School of Natural Resources, (2004).

· ONR/NSF funding for attending a training course “Ocean Optics: Radiative Transfer and Inversions of Ocean Color Remote Sensing” at Darling Marine Center, Maine, (2004).

· David and Anne Larric Student Fund, School of Natural Resources, UNL, (2005).

· Invited Talk: Represented School of Natural Resources in Nebraska Symposium on Interdisciplinary Graduate Science Research, (2005).

· University of Nebraska, Lincoln- Outstanding Research Assistant of the year (2006) of UNL