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Amit Kumar, PhD
@amitkumar14.bsky.social
Trained marine biologist, Associate Professor, Marine Biology Lab, Centre for Climate Change Studies @Sathyabama Univeristy, Chennai, India.
Interested in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
https://amitkumarak.wordpress.com/
1st Indian Seagrass Conference going to be organized at Sathyabama University, Chennai.
Keep visiting indianseagrass.com for regular updates. Kindly share it for wider dissemination
#Seagrass #Marineecology #Marinebiodiversity #Coastalplants #Marineplants #Bluecarbon #CarbonSequestration #Chennai
July 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
June 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Registration linkl: forms.gle/8dV11z2rLN1k...
ZOOM link will be sent to the registered participants.
For more details on program and speakers, click here: bit.ly/43zVIVL
#Marinebiodiversity #Marinebiology
June 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
On this #WorldSeagrassDay, let me take you to the beautiful seagrass meadows of #PalkBay #TamilNadu:
youtu.be/uGqCgXu6jT0?... #Marinebiodiversity #Marineecology #Seagrass
Seagrass and associated gastorpods
YouTube video by Amit Kumar
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A glimpse of recent field trip at the coastal areas to collect samples for multiple projects.
#Chennai #Tiruvallur
February 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Hello everyone ⭐
Join us for a free webinar on International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025.
📆: February 11, 2025
⌛: 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM(IST)

👉🏻Register now: forms.gle/ehiRP5VQtrwj...

All are welcome to join.
See you soon ✨
February 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
January 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Amit Kumar, PhD
Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Almost 4 hours lecture, divided into 12 parts on #BiologicalOceanography #marinebiology is shared on @YouTube now.
Please see the lectures in Biological oceanography Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
share it with #marineenthusiasts looking to learn about marine wildlife.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=…
January 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#Paperalert our article "Life in the dead shell: Utilization of dead Pinna shells by the blenny fish Petroscirtes variabilis Cantor, 1849 (Blennidae)" got accepted in the journal "The Science of Nature" @springernature.bsky.social
#Marinebiodiversity
#MarineEcology
January 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Dead Olive ridley 🐢 on the Covelong beach, Chennai. # Nestingseason #Turtles #Chennai #Tamilnadu
January 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Different substrate same #Goosebarnacles. Who knows how far have they travelled drifting on different substrates. #marinelife #Akari #Chennai #Sundaymorning
November 24, 2024 at 4:02 AM