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Films​​

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  • An Unknown Summer (2023), this film is a testimony of abuses that have been allowed to go unpunished due to the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. 1958, still in force in large parts of NE India.

[CoProducer| Research Lead]

World Premier, Slow Film Festival, UK, 2023.

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  • The Naked Twelve/Phee Thongdraba Ima Taranithoi (2022), this docu-film explores the feminist perspective in the nude protest staged by 12 mothers in Manipur, India on 15th July 2004 against the rape and murder of Th. Manorama Devi.

[Executive Producer| Direction Assistance| Research Lead| Writer]

Produced as a part of 2022 AGenT Documentary Video Award by Korean Institute of Gender Equality Promotion and Education, South Korea.

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  • A Bridge Over The River (2019), this science communication docu-film chronicles how traditional folk theater was used to communicate climate change in Amrikhowa, Barpeta of Assam, India.   

[Writer| Director| Producer]

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[Writer| Producer]

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Publications related to Science Communications​

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(Under preparations)

  • Folk-art meeting science! A better way to communicate climate change? 

(https://blogs.agu.org/sciencecommunication/2019/03/18/communicating-climate-change-through-traditional-folk-theater/)

  • Gender perspectives on water, drought and Climate change.

  • Drought and Climate change: How students think about water resources.

  • Turning Misinformation about Climate Change into an Educational Opportunity.

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Publications related to Atmospheric Sciences

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2017

  1. Potential predictability of wet/dry spells transitions during extreme monsoon years: optimism for dynamical extended range prediction (2017), doi:10.1007/s11069-017-2895-2

2016​

  1. Extremes in June rainfall during Indian summer monsoons of 2013 and 2014: Observational Analysis and Extended range prediction (2016), doi: 10.1002/qj.2730

2015​

  1. A bias-correction and downscaling technique for operational extended range forecasts based on Self Organizing Map, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3214-4

  2. Better spread-error relationship in a multimodel ensemble prediction system (2015)

  3. Real-time performance of a multi-model ensemble based extended range forecast system in predicting the 2014 monsoon season based on NCEP-CFSv2 (2015), pdf

2014​

  1. Development and evaluation of an objective criterion for predicting Indian summer monsoon onset in a coupled model framework (2014), doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00842.1

  2. Improved Spread-Error Relationship and Probabilistic Prediction from CFS based Grand Ensemble Prediction System (2014), doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0200.1

  3. An Assessment of Real Time Extended Range Forecast of 2013 Indian 1 Summer Monsoon (2014), doi: 10.1002/joc.4178

  4. North Indian Heavy Rainfall Event during June 2013: Diagnostics and Extended Range Prediction (2014), doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2291-5

  5. High-resolution operational monsoon forecasts: an objective assessment (2014), doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2210-9

  6. A new method to compute the Principal Component Time Series of Self Organizing Maps: An application to Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations (2014),  doi:10.1002/joc.3885, 2925–2939

  7. Does bias correction in the forecasted SST improves the extended range prediction skill of active-break spells of Indian summer monsoon rainfall? (2014), doi:10.1002/asl2.477

  8. Prediction and Monitoring of Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations over Indian Monsoon Region in an Ensemble Prediction System using CFSv2 (2014), doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-2045-9

2013​

  1. A Self-Organizing Map Based Ensemble Forecasting System for Extended Range Prediction of Active/Break Cycles of Indian Summer Monsoon (2013), doi:10.1002/jgrd.50688

  2. Simulation and extended range prediction of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in NCEP CFS/GFS version 2 framework (2013), pdf

  3. Development of Extended Range Prediction System Using CFSv2 and Its verification (2013), pdf

  4. Extended Range Prediction of Uttarakhand Heavy Rainfall Event by an Ensemble Prediction System based on CFSv2 (2013), pdf​

Workshop organized

  • Empowering agents of change (2022), 8-13 September, an workshop on sexual violence with male youths, at Murshidabad, India. [Lead facilitator]

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Recent Training, Workshop/Conference & Talks​

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  • “EGU 2023”, 24-28 April 2023 at Vienna, Austria (e-participated).

  • “PCST 2023”, 12-14 April 2023 at Rotterdam, Netherlands. Oral: “Role of Traditional Beliefs on Maternal Mortality in Assam, India”.

  • "Communicating Science through Performative Art", 8 December 2021, invited talk in the e-Seminar Series organized by Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies (IDPCS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India 

  • “Communicating Science", 01 December 2021, invited talk in the e-Seminar Series organized by Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies (IDPCS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India 

  • “Connecting Science Communication with Cognition”; An online Course on Science Communication conducted by National Institute of Advanced Studies, 16 August, 2021 to 22 Nov, 2021, Bangalore, India

  •  2021 Asian Gender Trainers’ Network Program (AGenT) Basic. 

  • "A Bridge over the River", 25 September 2019, Documentary & panel discussion at New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • "A Bridge over the River", 23 Jul 2019, Documentary & panel discussion at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

  • “EGU 2019”, 7-12 April 2018 at Vienna, Austria. Oral: “Bridging the gap: Experts to non-experts”.

  • “2018 AGU FALL meeting”, 10-14 December 2018 at Washington D.C., USA. Poster: “Communicating Climate Change through Traditional Folk Theater”.

  • Training program on "Science Communication", 09-13 July 2018 at CSIR-NISCAIR, Vigyan Suchna Bhawan, New Delhi, India.

  • “EGU 2018”, 8-13 April 2018 at Vienna, Austria. Oral: “Turning Misinformation into Educational Opportunities”.

  • “AMS 2018”, 7-11 January 2018 at Austin, USA. Oral: “Turning Misinformation into Climate Change Education”.

  • “2017 AGU FALL meeting”, 11-15 December 2017 at New Orleans, USA. Oral: “Turning Misinformation into Climate Change Education”.

  • “Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia: The Science of Science Communication III: Inspiring Novel Collaborations and Building Capacity”, 16-17 November 2017 at Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

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Past Training, Workshop/Conference & Talks

  • “2014 AGU FALL meeting”, 15–19 December, 2013 at San Francisco, USA. Poster: “An Assessment of Real Time Extended Range Forecast of 2013 Indian Summer Monsoon”.

  • “6th International Forecast Verification Workshop”, 17-19 March, 2014, New Delhi Poster presentation: Prediction and Monitoring of Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations using a CFSv2 based Ensemble Prediction System and Its Verification.

  • “2013 AGU FALL meeting”, 9–13 December, 2013 at San Francisco, USA. eposter: Prediction and Monitoring of Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations over Indian Monsoon Region in an Ensemble Prediction System using CFSv2.

  • “ANNUAL MONSOON-2012 WORKSHOP” on 19th and 20th February, 2013 at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. Poster presentation: Probabilistic Prediction of Intraseaonal Oscillations of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in Extended-range Scale Using a Self-Organizing Map Based Ensemble Forecasting Technique.

Creative Science Communications​​

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  • ♣MorphScapes (2019), a process-based artwork presented in a two-channel video form and in a continuous loop. The project was to communicate flood issue of Assam, India situation and to enkindle people’s wisdom to fight this hazard. [science collaborator]

  • ♣♠Introspection (2019), aimed to explore the human-environment relationship and it was a fusion art-work of two folk artforms–Ojapali from Assam, India and Paitkar scroll painting from Jharkhand, India. [science collaborator]

♣ Was included in the online gallery of the World Bank Group’s Art Program “The Art of Resilience.”

♠ Also produced as an audio-video resource to SCERT, Assam, India under the project "Holistic Education for Productivity and Harmony", 2020.

Awards, Achievements & Grants

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  • 2022 AGenT Small Grant Program (SGP) by Korean Institute of Gender Equality Promotion and Education, South Korea

  • 2022 AGenT Documentary Video Award by Korean Institute of Gender Equality Promotion and Education, South Korea

  • Nov 2014 Grant: International Travel Support: Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, Govt. of India

  • Eligibility for Lectureship (National Eligibility Test), June 2011, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India.

  • Best Poster Presentation Award in the IITM Golden Jubilee International Conference (OCHAMP), 21-25 February, 2011, by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

  • Participated in the ‘Visiting Students’ Research Program (VSRP)’ in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2005; Report: Energy Threshold and Trigger Rates for HAGAR

  • Participated in the ‘CSIR Programme on Youth for Leadership in Science’ organized in Regional Research Lab, Jorhat, Assam,1999

  • State rank 5th in MSc under Gauhati University, 2006

  • State rank 5th in BSc under Gauhati University (Best Science graduate of Darrang College), 2004

  • State rank 13th in High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC), 1999

  • District rank 4th in Middle School Scholarship Exam, 1995

  • District rank 1st in Lower Primary Scholarship Exam, 1991

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