Welcome back, Firoz!

Dr. Firoz Badesab, now Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography [CSIR-NIO], Goa, India, has returned as “Raman Research Fellow” to his former Marine Geophysics workgroup at our Faculty. Many will still remember, that Firoz earned his doctoral degree for his studies on magnetite enrichment at New Zealands’s coasts with INTERCOAST in 2012 and thereafter was postdoctoral researcher at MARUM until 2014. The high-ranking “Raman Research Fellowship” by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, allows him to carry out research in the emerging/high priority areas worldwide; his proposed research at Bremen focusses on “Application of Biomagnetism for the Exploration of Marine Gas Hydrate System”.
Since his return to Goa, Dr. Firoz Badesab has made significant contributions to environmental and rock magnetic methods for the exploration of gas hydrates in marine sediments, coastal and shelf placer minerals exploration, for delineating the mechanism of mud-bank formation in coastal environments and magnetic tracking of estuarine-shelf sediment dynamics. He has established a sediment based rock magnetic proxy to identify paleo-seepage (methane and hydrogen sulfide) events in the Bay of Bengal. A recent study published from his research group at CSIR-NIO in Nature Communications Earth & Environment reported the discovery of giant magnetofossils within late Quaternary sediments from the Bay of Bengal, the youngest ever observed (Kadam et al., 2024; https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01259-0). We look forward to future collaborations with his research group at CSIR-NIO.
Further information:
Dr. Firoz Kadar Badesab
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
der Universität Bremen
GEO Gebäude / Raumnr. 4120
Klagenfurter Straße 2-4
28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218 - 65311
e-Mail: firoz2u2002@gmail.com
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