U.S.-India Planning Visit: Floras of Antarctica and India, Implications for Gondwana Assembly and Paleoclimatology

该奖项支持美国-印度计划访问：南极洲和印度的植物区系，冈瓦纳大会和古气候学的影响。 德克萨斯理工大学的Sankar Chatterjee教授和Birbal Sahni古植物学研究所的Rajni Tewari博士将进行互访，以完成对舌羊齿属和Dicroidium植物群的形态学和孢粉学的比较研究。 合作者还将研究它们在古生物地理学和气候演变中的效用，这些效用从未被详细整合或合成。 来自印度的二叠纪-三叠纪冈瓦纳植物群的优秀收藏品目前被安置在BSIP，来自南极洲的类似当代植物群被收藏在德克萨斯理工大学博物馆。 该奖项支持两位研究人员之间的独特科学合作，他们将研究和比较印度和南极洲的二叠纪-三叠纪植物群，并探索其在古生物地理学和古气候学中的重要性。 合作将整合调查人员的专业知识和机构资源，以及加强USPI？该建议将在这次规划访问之后提交给地球观测组织/地球物理研究所沉积地质学古生物学方案。

This award supports the U.S.-India Planning Visit: Floras of Antarctica and India, Implications for Gondwana Assembly and Paleoclimatology. Professor Sankar Chatterjee, Texas Tech University and Dr. Rajni Tewari, Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany (BSIP)will undertake exchange visits in order to finalize a comparative study on the morphology and palynology of Glossopteris and Dicroidium floras. The collaborators will also study their utility in paleobiogeography and climate evolution, which has never been integrated or synthesized in any detail. Excellent collections of Permo-Triassic Gondwana floras from India are currently housed at the BSIP, and similar contemporary floras from Antarctica are at the Museum of Texas Tech University. This award supports a unique scientific collaboration between the two investigators who will study and compare the Permo-Triassic floras of India and Antarctica and explore their significance in paleobiogeography and paleoclimatology. The collaboration will integrate the expertise of the investigators and institutional resources, as well as strengthen the USPI?s proposal, which will be submitted to the GEO/EAR Sedimentary Geology & Paleobiology Program following this planning visit.