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Environment Science      (15 scientists)

Dr Niveta Jain

   

Field of Specialisation : Monitoring, mitigation and modelling of greenhouse gases, Nr losses, Life cycle and footprint assessment , crop residue burning, climate change adaptation and mitigation co benefit

Dr Niveta Jain
Principal Scientist

M.Sc. : Meerut University, U.P

Ph.D : Delhi University, Delhi

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PG School, Faculty Disciplines : Environment Science

No. of Students Guided : -    M.Sc :   10

   Ph.D :   2

P. Bhattacharyya , A. Bhatia, N. Jain, D. Chatterjee, S. Mohanty, M. Prabhakar, Pratibha M, N.N. Jambhulkar , S. Ananthakrishnan, S.K. Nayak, A.K. Nayak, H. Pathak, (2025). Modified emission and scaling factors for methane and nitrous oxide in rice system of India: A country specific disaggregate approach , Journal of Environmental Management , 377 , 124595 (NAAS rating: 14)
HM Rose, N Jain, SD Misra, O Kumar, K Prasad, T. J. Purakayastha , A. Bhatia , S. N. Kumar , S. Sethi (2024). Open windrow composting of lignocellulosic crop residues and neem litter: Accounting for reactive nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions , Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 478, , 143964 (NAAS rating: 15.7)
Rachana Dubey JS Mishra1 Anup Das GK Dinesh N Jain BP Bhatt SP Poonia6 A Ajay S Mondal S Kumar AK Choudhary Rakesh Kumar A Upadhyaya Andrew J. McDonald, (2024). Enhancing ecosystem services through direct seeded rice in middle Indo Gangetic Plains: a comparative study of diferent rice establishment practices, , Agronomy for Sustainable Development , 44:57 (NAAS rating: 12.4)

Top 10 Publications having NAAS rating 6 and above with first or corresponding author only

  1. Jain N, Arora P., Tomer R., Mishra S. V., Bhatia A., Pathak H., Chakraborty D., Kumar V., Dubey D.S., Harit R.C., and Singh J.P. (2016) Greenhouse gases emission from soils under major crops in northwest India� Science of the Total Environment 542, 551�561
  2. Jain N, Bhatia A., and Pathak H., (2014) Emission of air pollutants from crop residue burning in India
  3. Jain N., Dubey R., Dubey D. S., Singh J., Khanna M., Pathak H., and Bhatia A., (2014) Mitigation of greenhouse gas emission with system of rice intensification in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, Paddy Water and Environment, DOI 10.1007/s10333-013-0390-2.
  4. Jain N., Pathak, H, Mitra S., Bhatia, A. (2004) Emission of methane from rice fields- a review. J Scientific and Industrial Research, 63:101-115
  5. Bhatia A., Jain N., Pathak H., (2013) Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from Indian rice paddies, agricultural soils and crop residue burning in 2007. Greenhouse Gas Sci Technol, 1�16; DOI: 10.1002/ghg.
  6. Jain N., Johnson T. A., Kumar A., Mishra S.V., Gupta N., (2015) Biosorption of Cd (II) on Jatropha Fruit Coat And Seed Coat , Environ Mont Assess, 187:411.
  7. Jain N., Bhatia, A., Kaushik, R., Pathak, H , Kumar S, Joshi, H. C. (2005) "Impact of post methanation distillery effluent irrigation on groundwater quality", to Environmental Monitoring and Assessment , 110: 243�255.
  8. Johnson T.A., Jain N., Joshi H. C., (2008) Agricultural and Agro-processing wastes as low cost adsorbents for metal removal from wastewater: A review, JSIR 67(9), 647-658.
  9. Jain, N., Joshi, H.C., Dutta, S.C., Pathak, H., Kumar S., (2008) Biosorption of copper from waste-water using jatropha seed coat, JSIR, , 67(2), 154-160.
  10. Pathak H., Jain N., Bhatia A., Patel J., Aggarwal P.K., (2010) Carbon footprints of Indian food items, Agriculture Ecosystem and environment, 139: 66�73.

Patent / Technologies / Methodologies / System etc. (Upto Five) :

  1. Emission factor for nitrous oxide from cropped soils ( Cereals, vegetables, oilseeds and Pulses)
  1. Methodology for greenhouse gases, and short lived climate forcers emission inventory from agriculture sector
  1. Development of emission factor for greenhouse gases emission and Nr from composting of municipal solid waste, and crop biomass
  1. Synthetic and plant based nitrification inhibitors and coated fertilisers for reducing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilized soils
  1. Water saving technologies (SRI, DSR, AWD ) in rice for greenhouse gases mitigation and development of scaling factors

Awards / Recognitions / Fellowship (Upto Five) :

  1. (i) Lead Author, IPCC Methodology Guidelines for inventory of Short Lived Climate Forcers, Seventh Assessment Report, and (ii) Expert Reviewer, International Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III , Sixth Assessment Report
  1. (i) Expert Review Team Member of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany; and (ii) Editorial board Member, Emission Factor Database,International Panel on Climate Change (2018-2024)
  1. Expert Member, MoEFCC, GoI, for greenhouse gas inventory (agriculture sector) for National Communication & biennial updates to UNFCCC under SNC, BUR 1-4, TNC BTR and FNC
  1. (i) Society for Conservation of Nature (SCON) Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution in Environmental Science (2016) from Society for Conservation of Nature, New Delhi. (ii) India-UK NEWS fellowship (2017) for Spatial inventory of ammonia from agriculture funded by NERC, UK
  1. Dr Rajendra Prasad Puruskar for 2014 for Technical books in Hindi �Paryavaran, Jalvayu Parivartan Avam Krishi� (Authors- S. Prasad, A. Bhatia and N. Jain)