History of the department

Marine Science department was established in the year 1983 as per the UGC guidelines and UNESCO format followed by other prominent World Universities. Our department has acquired sophisticated equipments like GC, AAS, DOC Analyzers, Vivracorer with ion chromatography, Cascade Impactor, Phase contrasting microscope, Marine algal culture incubators etc. Several students got placement in several places in India such as National Institute of Oceanography, Goa; Vizag; CMSRI – Bhabnagar; NIOT- Madras; Anna University etc and abroad such as USA, Czechoslovakia, Japan, German; Australia etc.,

Thrust areas in teaching and research of the academic department :

Coastal Zone Management, coastal accretion-erosion processes and shoreline changes with reference to sea level rise.
Dynamics of marine and fluvial processes and coastal geomorphology and sedimentology.
Biodiversity of mangrove ecosystem, physiological ecology of phytoplankton and zooplankton, primary productivity.
Coastal pollution, Bioaccumulation and Biomagnifications of pollutants in marine/estuarine food chain.
Aquaculture and fisheries management;
Marine microbiology.
Effects of changes of external forces on boundary condition on eutrophication;
Characterization of humic substances by synchronous Fluorescence Spectroscopy and their interaction with heavy metals.
Exchange of green house gases between atmosphere and Sunderban Biosphere; Nitrogen fixing by cyanobacteria and othe microorganisms.
Biogeochemical cycle of elements in the estuarine environments
Biogeochemistry of trace gases and nutrients in the estuarine environments.
Decadal changes in Mesozooplankton
Spatial distribution of phytoplankton, microzooplankton
Phytoremediation in mangrove plants
Heavy metal and trace metal in estuarine sediment
Dissolved trace metals in estuarine water
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in sediment and air
Eutrophication and algal bloom