| Designation | Principal Scientist |
| Discipline | Soil and water conservation engineering |
| Division | Crustecean Culture Division |
| Specialization | Aquaculture Engineering |
| Phone | +91- 044 – 24618817 Ext: 416 |
| P.Rekha@icar.gov.in, nila_71@yahoo.com, rekhafranklin26@gmail.com | |
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- Best 5 Publications during the Career
- Best 3 Publications during last 3 years
After taking Bachelors in Agricultural engineering in 1993 and Masters in Soil and water conservation engineering during 1995, registered for a Ph.D. in the topic Impact assessment of effluent irrigation using GIS and RS at Center for water resources, Anna university. Subsequently qualified in ARS and joined CIBA during 1997 and working on various issues of brackishwater aquaculture pertaining to the environment and aquaculture engineering. In the meantime completed my Ph.D. in Civil engineering in 2004 and was bestowed with the Jawaharlal Nehru award for Best thesis. Presently working in Crustacean Culture Division with focus on Seaweed mapping and culture, Coastal watershed-based geospatial modeling for environmental management and Nonconventional energy utilization, Artificial intelligence-based farm and hatchery automation. Solar-powered timer-controlled Automatic feeder has been designed and developed for L. vannamei farm.. She is the receipt of Norman Borlaug award and has undergone training on nonpoint source pollution at IOWA,USA. She has competitively won four external funded projects as PI from MoWR , DST, NFDB, and NABARD.
| No | Title | Funded By |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coastal watershed based surface and subsurface salinity mapping and modelling of Thiruvallur and Kanchipuram districts, Tamil Nadu for sustainable brackishwater aquaculture | NABARD |
| 2 | Breeding biology and larviculture of candidate crustacean species of brackishwater aquaculture | ICAR |
| 3 | Novel approaches for technology refinement and upscaling of diversified systems and species of shrimp for sustainable development | ICAR |
- Environmental impact, salinity intrusion in coastal watershed using GIS and modelling.
- Shrimp farm mechanization with renewable energy , design of automatic feeder and RAS.
- Wastewater management ,Seaweed bioremediation for brackishwater aquaculture.
- Team member - Nanaji Deshmukh ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research in Agricultural andAllied Sciences2015-16 ICAR 2017 with a cash award of Rs 5 lakhs
- Best presentation award for the paper entitled, Design and development of Solar powered Automatic feeder National Scientific Tamil conference 2015
- Travel fellowship to give invited lecture atInternational Conference SWAT-SEA at Bangkok IOWA State University, USA 2009
- Norman Borlaug International training and fellowship USDA , USA 2008
- Jawaharlal Nehru Award (National Award) in Natural Resource Management for the thesis entitled “ Impact of assessment of paper mill effluent irrigation using GIS and Remote sensing ICAR 2005
- Jawaharlal Nehru memorial fund for the Ph.D programme 1996-97
- CSIR-SRF 1996
- TNAU merit scholarship 1993-1995
- Tamilnadu merit scholarship during 1988
- Rekha,P.N., R. Gangadharan, P. Ravichandran, P. Mahalakshmi, A. Panigrahi, S.M. Pillai 2015. Assessment of impact of shrimp farming on coastal groundwater using Geographical Information System based, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Aquaculture448 (2015) 491–506 ( NAAS rating -8.1 )
- Rekha,P.N.,P.Ravichandran,R. Gangadharan, J.H. Bhatt A. Panigrahi, S.M.Pillai and M. Jayanthi. (2013) Assessment of hydrogeochemical characteristics of groundwater in shrimp farming area in coastal Tamilnadu, Aquaculture International, DOI 10.1007/s10499-012-9618-1 ( NAAS rating -7.6 )
- Rekha,P.N. R. S. Kanwar, A. K. Nayak C. K. Hoang and C. H. Pederson,(2011).Nitrate leaching to shallow groundwater systems from agricultural fields with different management practices. J. Environ. Monit.,2011, 13, 2550 ( NAAS rating 7.8)
- Rekha,P.N and N.K. Ambujam,(2010) Farmers perception of treated paper mill effluent irrigation. Land degradation and development 21 (3) 228-238 ( NAAS rating
- Rekha, P.N., N.K. Ambujam, K.K. Krishnani, V. Parimala, D.D. Vimala (2004) Groundwater quality in Paper mill effluent irrigated area with specific reference to organochlorine residues Bull. Environ. Contam. and Toxicol. USA 72(2): 312-316. ( NAAS rating 7.4)
- Sarkar, Soumyabrata, Peter, Nila Rekha, Kondusamy, Ambasankar, KK, Vijayan. (2021). Bioremediation efficiency of indigenous seaweeds of Chennai coast in brackish water system. Aquaculture International. 29. 1-19. 10.1007/s10499-020-00621-1.
- Rekha,P.N R, Gangadharan, Dharshini, Shirley, Clark, Wilmart, Ramanathan, G., Vimala, Deboral, Panigrahi, Akshaya, Chavali, Gopal. (2017). Digital database on shrimp farming in coastal watershed of Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Fisheries. 64. 10.21077/ijf.2017.64.special-issue.76191-06.
- Rekha,P.N Kondusamy, Ambasankar, Stanline, S., Sethuraman, K., Syamadayal, J., Panigrahi, Akshaya, Guruvasagam, Kumara. (2017). Design and development of an automatic feeder for Penaeus vannamei culture. Indian Journal of Fisheries. 64. 10.21077/ijf.2017.64.special-issue.76209-12.