Dr. M. Jayanthi

Dr.M.Jayanthi is a Principal Scientist at ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture. She is leading research programmes on geospatial planning of aquaculture and studies on aquaculture impact assessment. Her work focuses on geospatial technology for sustainable management of coastal resources, particularly site selection, impact assessment, and climate change adaptations. She earned a Master of Engineering in Agriculture from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University 1993, and a Doctorate in Civil engineering at Anna University in 2001 titled “Environmental Impact of Aquaculture on the Pichavaram Mangroves using Remote sensing and GIS”. She has joined Indian Agricultural Research Service in 1993, a first women Agricultural Engineering scientist in ICAR. She has generated financial resources to the tune of over Rs. 200.31 lakhs as Principal Investigator through external grants.

• Geospatial planning for aquaculture adhering to environmental laws and site-specific resource characteristics
• Optimization of energy use for the conservation and reduction of shrimp production cost
• Assessment of the impact of aquaculture on ecologically important coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, lakes, etc. using RS and GIS
• Utilization of nonconventional energy resources for aquaculture, in particular for aeration.
• Identifying Suitable Brackishwater Sites for Increasing Aquaculture Area in the Coastal State of India Using Multi-Criteria Decision Support System
• Quantification of shoreline changes and sea level rise impacts due to climate change on coastal resources
  Climate-resilient improved farm designs for aquaculture

• Recipient of young scientist award in 2002 from Asian Fisheries Forum for the research work ‘Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System in assessing the impact of aquaculture in Vellar Coleroon estuary system’ presented at the AFSIB young scientist award contest  during Sixth Indian Fisheries forum
• Recipient of Best research paper award in 1999 for the paper entitled “Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System for Sustainable Aquaculture” in the national seminar on ‘ Development and Transfer of Fisheries Technology’ organized by Fisheries College and Research Institute, Toothukudi.
• Recipient of DH.S.Sen award in 2005 for the paper entitled “Environmental Impact of Brackishwater Aquaculture in Pichavaram, Tamil Nadu” by M.Jayanthi et al. 2005, presented in the 8^th national seminar of the “Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research” held at CTCRI. Thiruvendrum.
• She has been a Member, Technical committee on GIS constituted by DAHDF, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India  to monitor  Central Sector Scheme on “Strengthening of database and information networking for the fisheries sector”
• She has undergone training on quantifying the climate change impacts at Kansas state university, USA
• She has been a reviewer of research project proposals for ICAR and research articles in Journals like Ocean and coastal management, Estuarine coast and shelf science, Indian journal of remote sensing

• Jayanthi M,.Thirumurthy, S.Muralidhar M, Ravichandran. P.2018. Impact of shrimp aquaculture development on important ecosystems in India, Global environmental change, 52 10-21. .https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.05.005.
• Jayanthi M.,.Thirumurthy S,.Nagaraj G, Muralidhar M., Ravichandran P.. 2018. Spatial and temporal changes in mangrove cover across the protected and unprotected forests of India, Estuarine, coast, and shelf Science 213: 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.08.016.
• Jayanthi, M., Thirumurthy, S., Samynathan, M. Duraisamy .M, Muralidhar, J.Ashok Kumar and K.K.Vijayan. 2018. Shoreline change and potential sea level rise impacts in a hazardous climate location in the southeast coast of India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment  190: 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-6426-0
• Jayanthi M,.Ravisankar T, Nagaraj G., Thirumurthy S., Muralidhar M.and Saraswathy R. 2019. Is aquaculture abandonment a threat to sustainable coastal resource use? – A case study of Andhra Pradesh, India, with options for reuse.Land use policy, 86, 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.04.034.
• Jayanthi M. Duraisamy  S.Thirumurthy  M. Samynathan  M. Muralidhar, 2021, Dynamics of land‐use changes and its future trends using spatial analysis and CA‐Markov model – A case study with a special emphasis on aquaculture development in India,  Land degradation and development, https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3917

• Jayanthi M., Thirumurthy S., Samynathan M., Kumararaja P., Muralidhar M., Vijayan K.K., 2021, Multi-criteria based geospatial assessment to utilize brackishwater resources to enhance fish production, Aquaculture, 736528, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736528.
• Jayanthi  , Thirumurthy  S., Samynathan  M., Manimaran K.,  Duraisamy  M, Muralidhar M., 2020, Assessment of land and water ecosystems capability to support aquaculture expansion in climate-vulnerable regions using analytical hierarchy process based geospatial analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 270 (2020) 110952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110952
• Jayanthi M, Balasubramaniam AAK, Suryaprakash S, Veera Pandian , Ravisankar T, and Vijayan K.K., 2021 Assessment of standard aeration efficiency of different aerators and its relation to the overall economics in shrimp culture. Aquacultural Engineering, 102142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2020.102142.