page_title: Ravindra Kumar Sinha (biologist)
section_title: Research experience
hierarchical_section_title: Ravindra Kumar Sinha (biologist) / Research experience
caption_attribution_description: Gangetic Dolphin Platanista gangetica
context_page_description: Ravindra Kumar Sinha is a Padma Shri awarded Indian biologist and environmentalist. Currently, he is Vice-Chancellor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University and formerly of Nalanda Open University. Previously he was the Head of the Department of Zoology at Patna University, and is a pioneer researcher and wildlife conservationist, famous for his efforts for the conservation of Gangetic Dolphins, he is popularly known as the "Dolphin Man of India".
  His scientific research and relentless conservation campaign for the last 4 decades have been crucial to the efforts of saving the Ganga River dolphin from extinction. In response to the awareness of the urgency of protecting the Ganga River dolphin raised by Sinha, the Government of India designated this Dolphin as the National Aquatic Animal of India in 2009.
context_section_description: Principal Investigator, Impact of River Front Development Project on the Ganges dolphin in the River Ganges at Patna, funded by the Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation, Patna, started July 2014 for three years.
  Lead Scientist, in a "Concurrent Monitoring of Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS) in India, China, South Korea, Vietnam and Japan", for two years starting September 2012. It is an International Collaborative Project.
  Chairman, Dolphin Conservation Committee. A Research Project funded by State Government of Bihar for Survey of Gangetic dolphin and their habitats in River Ganga and Gandak, 2012.
  Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research Project with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan to study Pharmaceutical wastes and drug resistant pathogens in sewage and rivers of Ganga system 2012-16.
  Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research Project with the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, ICAR to study Fish Diversity in the lower middle stretch of the Ganges River 2007-09
  Principal Investigator, International collaborative research project on 'Monitoring of movement of Persistent Organic Pollutants through atmosphere with Dr. Tom Harner of 'Environment Canada' during 2005-2007.
  Principal Investigator, NRCD, Min. Env. & Forests, Govt. of India sponsored project for Water Quality Monitoring of River Ganga in Bihar under Ganga Action Plan-II. October, 2003 -ongoing.
  Principal Investigator, Sandia National Laboratory, Department of State and Energy, Govt. of USA sponsored South Asian Trans boundary Water Quality Monitoring Project under SAWAN (South Asian Water Analysis Network), Nov., 2002-Oct., 2005.
  Principal Investigator, NRCD, Ministry of Env. & Forests, Govt. of India sponsored project on "Monitoring of Heavy Metal load in the Ganga at Varanasi" January, 2001- September, 2002.
  Principal Investigator, WWF India sponsored Project on status of Ganges dolphins in the River Sone and Kosi in Bihar. 2001-02.
  Principal Investigator, Department of Wildlife, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India sponsored project "Habitat Preference, Population Dynamics, Behaviour, Reproduction, and Ecology of the Ganges River dolphin" April, 2000 – March, the Ganges River dolphin 2000-2007
  Principal Investigator, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, UK, sponsored Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary Project 1998 – 2000.
  Principal Investigator, WWF India sponsored Project on status of Ganges dolphins in rivers of Araria Dist. Bihar. 1998-99
  Principal Investigator, Ganges Biodiversity Research Project under Biodiversity Support Programme. of U.S.A.I.D.- a Consortium of WWF, The Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute, Washington, U.S.A, 1996-1998.
  Principal Investigator, Ganga Fishery Project, Funded by ODA (UK), through Marine Resources Assessment Group Ltd, Imperial College, University of London, 1993-95.
  Co-Principal Investigator, Water Quality Monitoring Project, sponsored by the Ganga Project Directorate, Govt of India, 1993, ongoing.
  Principal Investigator, Ganges Dolphin Project funded by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, England, 1993-96.
  Principal Investigator, Evaluation and Monitoring Project of Ganga Action Plan and Hazardous Substance Management in Industries; sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India, 1992-93.
  Principal Investigator, Dolphin Conservation Project, sponsored by the Ganga Project Directorate, Govt. of India 1991-96.
  Principal Investigator, Interdisciplinary Ganga Basin Research Project, sponsored by the Ganga Project Directorate, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1985-88.
caption: Gangetic dolphin, 1894 book illustration
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