Dr Sanchari Biswas

Dedicated conservation biologist and environmental scientist with nine years of experience in ecosystem research, focusing on the impact of contaminants such as heavy metals, microplastics, and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). Committed to safeguarding ecosystems through ecotoxicology research, biodiversity conservation, and policy-driven environmental solutions, with a focus on promoting sustainable practices and mitigating human impacts on

nature. Expertise in scientific methodology, literature analysis, and quantitative research. Skilled in academic writing, interdisciplinary collaboration, and fieldwork execution, with a strong track record in teaching, supervision, and leadership. Committed to advancing interdisciplinary projects through collaboration and evidence-based methodologies

University Grants Commission- Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship Holder (UGC-RGNF-SC-WES-65863)

• SSI (Scuba Schools International)- Snorkel Diver, 2021 Reg ID- 766495Z6340570317517-IN
• Level 1 11th Kyu KAPAP Combative (Martial Arts)

• In Pipeline for Publication:
• Microplastic Pollution in a Tourism-Driven Beach of Coastal West Bengal: Implications for Public Health and Environmental Risk, Environmental Health and Engineering Management Journal, Scopus & WOS (Approved)
• Birds Under Threat: First Report of Titanium and Heavy Metals in Wild Birds from Visakhapatnam, India, Environmental Claims Journal, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (ACCEPTED)
• Nanomaterials in the aquatic environment: sources distribution and impac t - The Handbook of Environmental, Chemistry. Aquatic Ecotoxicology of Legacy Pollutants and Emerging Contaminants: Concepts, Occurrence, and Challenges, Springer Nature (ACCEPTED)

Peer-Reviewed Publications (SCOPUS/WOS)

• Biswas, S., & Ganguly, A. (2025). Microplastics in the Marine Ecosystems: Identification and Impacts. Environmental Claims Journal, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/10406026.2024.2448567
• Biswas, S., Datta, T., & Paul, S. (2024). Understanding Climate Crisis, Diversity, and Challenges Through Grassroot Approaches for Empowering Communities Towards Climate Solutions: A Perspective From the Sundarbans. In Community Resilience and Climate Change Challenges: Pursuit of SDGs, pp. (449-474). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-65229.ch024
• Biswas, S. (2024). Sensors in the Oceans, Pollutant Identifications, and Controversies: Radio- IsotopicTracing of Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems and Controversies. In Sensors for Environmental Monitoring, Identification, and Assessment (pp. 151-166). IGI Global. doi : https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693- 1930-7.ch010
• Biswas, S. (2023). Birds as intrinsic bio-indicators for probing heavy metal contamination signatures in polluted Environmental matrices. In Heavy Metals-Recent Advances . IntechOpen. doi 10.5772/intechopen.110449
• Biswas, S., & Chinthala, R. (2023). Biomonitoring of heavy metal signatures in urbanized contaminated ecosystems of Southern India: A case study using raptor, Athene brama. Environmental Health Engineering And Management Journal , 10 (1), 51-58. Doi 10.34172/EHEM.2023.06
• Biswas, S., Bagchi, D., & Ghosh, D. (2022). The effects of (micro and nano) plastics on the human body: nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, placental barrier, skin, and excretory system. In Assessing the Effects of Emerging Plastics on the Environment and Public Health (pp. 148-171). IGI Global. doi10.4018/978-1-7998-9723-1.CH008
• Biswas, S., Bhagyasree, V., & Rathod, V. N. (2021). A Checklist of birds and diversity of Avian Fauna of Mudasarlova reservoir of Visakhapatnam, India. J. Adv. Zool , 42 (2), 165-175. doihttps://doi.org/10.17762/jaz.v42i02.51
• Biswas, S., Ramakrishna, C., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2020). Assessment of Heavy Metal Concentration in Tissues of Three Owl Species from Visakhapatnam, India. Nature Environment & Pollution Technology, 19(4).Doi: 10.46488/NEPT.2020.v19i04.017
• Biswas, S., Ramakrishna, C., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2020). Heavy Metal Residues In Liver Tissues Of Selected Birds From Aquatic And Terrestrial Environments Of Visakhapatnam, India. Int. J. Sci. Technol. Res., 9 (1), 299-305. Doi http://hdl.handle.net/10603/334961

Book Chapters

• Biswas, S. (2024). Sensors in the Oceans, Pollutant Identifications, and Controversies: Radio-IsotopicTracing of Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems and Controveries. In Sensors for Environmental Monitoring, Identification, and Assessment (pp. 151-166). IGI Global. doi 10.4018/979-8-3693- 1930-7.ch010
• Biswas, S., Bagchi, D., & Ghosh, D. (2022). The effects of (micro and nano) plastics on the human body: nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, placental barrier, skin, and excretory system. In Assessing the Effects of Emerging Plastics on the Environment and Public Health (pp. 148-171). IGI Global. 10.4018/978-1-7998-9723-1.CH008
• Biswas, S. (2023). Birds as intrinsic bio-indicators for probing heavy metal contamination signaturesin polluted Environmental matrices. In Heavy Metals-Recent Advances . IntechOpen.doi: 10.5772/intechopen.110449

Reports & Special Issues:

• Mukherjee S, Biswas S & Neema A (2023), State Action Plan for conservation of avian diversity, their ecosystems, habitats & landscapes in Gujarat (Report No.PR-260). Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History (SACON)(South India Centre of Wildlife Institute of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, pp 187
• Mukherjee S, Biswas S & Chowkekar M (2023), State Action Plan for conservation of avian diversity, their ecosystems, habitats & landscapes in Maharashtra (Report No.PR-259). Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History (SACON)(South India Centre of Wildlife Institute of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, pp 211
• Mukherjee A, Singh GS & Biswas S (2023), State Action Plan for conservation of avian diversity,their ecosystems, habitats & landscapes in Rajasthan (Report No.PR-256). Salim Centre for Ornithology&
• Natural History (SACON)(South India Centre of Wildlife Institute of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, pp 171

Other Issues:

• Biswas, S., Ramakrishna, C., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2019). Concentration of arsenic, lead, nickel in house crows (Corvus splendens) of Visakhapatnam city. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of India, 18(1), 59-64.
• Biswas, S., Ramakrishna, C. H., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2017). Heavy metal concentrations in selected edible fishes from fishing harbour of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Research Technology, 6(10), 570-578.
• Sanchari, B., Ramakrishna, C. H., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2016). Extent of heavy metal accumulation in house crows of coastal zone. Life Sciences International Research Journal, 3(2), 158-161.
• Biswas, S., Maruthi, Y. A., & Ramakrishna, C. (2014). APreliminary Study on Owls of Visakhapatnam and elemental characterization of Owl's feathers. lnternational Journal Of Scientific Research,(3), 8.

• Biswas S, Vemperala M, Current status of Human-Wildlife Interactions in AP, National Conferenceon Forest Resilience, Biodiversity and Climate Change (FRBC-2012)
• Biswas S, Ramakrishna Ch, Maruthy A (2016), Extent of Heavy Metal Accumulation in House Crows of Visakhapatnam, ICMAES 2016, International Conference on Microbiology, Agriculture & Env.Sc, Hydereabad
• Biswas S, Ramakrishna Ch, Maruthy A (2016), A review on effects of heavy metals on water bodies and living forms International Conference on Recent Advances in Aquaculture, Department of Fisheries,Andhra University
• Biswas S, Ramakrishna Ch, Maruthy A (2017) Concentration of Arsenic, Lead, Nickel in House Crow(Corvus splendens) Of Visakhapatnam City Kerela Environmental Congress
• Biswas S, Ramakrishna Ch, Maruthy A (2018), Ecological risk assessment of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of Visakhapatnam coast: a case study national Seminar on Environment,(NS-EUBRM), National Seminar on State of Environment & Protection, Management & Governance (NS-SEEPMG)
• Biswas, S., Ramakrishna, C., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2018). Assessment of Heavy Metal Concentrationin Tissues of Three Owl Species From Visakhapatnam, India. National Seminar on State of Environment & Protection, Management & Governance (NS-SEEPMG)
• Biswas, S., Ramakrishna, C., & Maruthi, Y. A. (2019) Metal profiles in selected edible fishes from fishing harbour of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India National Workshop on Conservation, Statusof Indian Wildlife

Training/workshops completed

• Training Program on Climate Resilient Plants for Future (CRPF) 2025
• Faculty Development Programme (FDP)- 2023 and 2024, AMITY University, Kolkata.
• Training Program for Application of GIS and Remote Sensing (QGIS) for designing and implementing Green Infrastructure from Centre for Science & Environment, New Delhi (2021).
• Online Training Course on "Using Kaleidoscope Pro Cluster Analysis for Birds and Land Animals" and Properties of Sound: How Bat Detectors work" from Wildlife Acoustics, USA. (26th-27th May 2021)
• Training Programme on Instrumentation and Analytical Technique (13.03.2017 – 17.03.2017) from Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON)
• Workshop on Effective Technical Writing in Academic, Research & Business Settings. (December 11-16, 2017),GITAM Deemed to be University
• Workshop on Application of Statistics using SPSS and SAS (20th - 21st December, 2019), GITAM (Deemed to be University)

Organised

• Mentor in Science Expo conducted by the Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Science, GITAM

(Deemed to be University) during 2015, 2017 and 2019.

• Organiser & member, Ozone Day, Water Day and World Forest Day, GITAM University 2015 – 2019

• 2019-2020 Associate Consultant for Enviro Kamkar LLP Green Audit (2019-2020) for ANITS College
• 2020-2021 Active Volunteer for WWF Dragonfly Festival
• Volunteer, Great Backyard Bird Count
• Volunteer, EGWS (Eastern Ghats Wildlife Society),
• 2019-2021 Active Volunteering member for WCTRE (Wildlife Conservation through Research & Education
• 2021-2022 Active Contributor for 'Adopt a Tree' Campaign and Ecosystem Restoration by WWF

• Hiking
• Astronomy
• Birding
• Videography and editing
• Open Water Swimming