Current Research
Jayant Biswas and his contemporaries continue to research the biospeleology of Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh and Western Ghats and hope to establish India amongst other notable countries on the cave map of the world.
Research is also taking place on Indian cave stalagmites, to estimate the past monsoon climate. Dr Ashish Sinha of California State University is taking major steps to understand the past pattern Indian monsoons via cave research, in addition, Prof. Rengaswamy Ramesh, Dr. M. G. Yadava of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Prof. Bahadur Kotlia of The Durham, Kumaun University Nainital and Dr. Jayant Biswas, National Cave Research and Protection Organization, India, also initiated some research in this direction.
Besides Dr. Biswas, Dr. Daniel Harries of Edinburgh (cave biodiversity) and Dr. Adora Thabah of Bristol University, UK (chiroptology), Prof. Y. Ranga Reddy of Nagarjuna University (small crustacean: taxonomy) and Prof. G. Marimuthu of Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (chiroptology), Prof. R. K. Pradhan and Prof. A. K. Pati of Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University of Raipur (chronobiology), Ramanathan and Sushmita Baskar of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology of Hisar (geomicrobiology) are some of the known researchers who have tried to shed some light on the biospeleology of Indian caves.
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