Dr. Usha Mina (PhD)

Professor, School of Environmental Sciences (SES)
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),
New Delhi 110 067 India

Tel: +91-11-2670 8756(O); 26175844 (R); +91-9810993522(M)

Email: ushamina@mail.jnu.ac.in, ushamina76@gmail.com

URL: https://jnu.ac.in/content/ushamina

 

 

Brief

Dr. Usha Mina was with Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, ICAR-IARI for fourteenyears (2003-2017). Associated with School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University as a faculty since 2017 October till today.

She is trained as an environmentalist with specialization in plant / crop ecology and Air Pollution. She was a key team member in CESCRA, ICAR-IARI and played important role in formulation and teaching of Ecology related courses to M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.

She is associated with research on tropospheric ozone and crops ecology since 1998. Her other interests are Agroecology in climate change scenarios, assessment of crop cultivars response phenotypic, biochemical, physiological and molecular response to ozone stress.

In both the institutions she immensely contributed to research activities through inhouse, externalfunded and consultancy projects. Her research focuses on crop ecological studies including interactions with biotic and abiotic factors and climate change.

She has consistently published in peer-reviewed journals, written monographs/practical manuals and is regularly invited to give talks in conferences of related fields. She has Co-authored books on Ecology and Environment and Lifesciences Fundamentals and Principles for Graduate and Post Graduate students. She is on the Editorial Board of International Journals and regularly reviews research manuscripts. She has experience of successful supervision and evaluation of graduate, post graduate and doctoral research students. At the SES/JNU, she teaches courses related to Basic Ecology, Agroecology, Climate Change and Air Pollution and biodiversity, Rehabilitation ecology at masters’ and PhD levels.

She is member of recognised International and National groups such as Agroecosystem Specialist Group of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, International Society of Environmental Botanist.

 

Qualifications

Ph. D. (Environmental Sciences, Specialization - Agroecology and Air pollution) 2008, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

M. Phil. (Environmental Sciences, Specialization - Agroecology and Air pollution) 2000, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

M.Sc. (Environmental Sciences) 1998, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

B.Sc. (Botany and Chemistry Hons.) 1996, Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

 

Areas of interest/specialization

Agroecology, Plant ecology, Climate change, Air pollution and Environmental Impact Assessment

 

Experience

Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (October 2020 onwards)

Associate Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (October 2017 – October 2020)

Senior Scientist, Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India (April, 2016 to September 2017)

Scientist (Senior scale), Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India (April, 2008 to April 2016)

Scientist, Department of Environment Science, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India (April, 2003 to April 2008)

 

International collaboration/consultancy

• Assessment of Selected Indian Crop Cultivars Response to Ozone And Aerosol Stress (UPE-II, UGC)
• Assessment of vulnerability of crop yields to pest damage in global climate change (APCESS)
• Impact of surface ozone on productivity of rice and maize (DST)
• Impact assessment of Bt cotton on microbial community structure and function (DBT)
• Evaluation of environmental services in conventional and emerging agroecosystem (DST)
• Carbon, nitrogen and water footprints of major crops grown in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (DST)
• Role of air pollutants and meteorology in wintertime fog formation and its impact on vegetation (IITM)
• Impact of primary and secondary air pollutants on crops around NTPC, Auraiya (NTPC)
• Impact of primary and secondary air pollutants on crops around NTPC, Faridabad (NTPC)
• Dynamics of engineered nano-particles in soil and phytotoxicity assessment on food crops (BARC)
• Impact assessment of climate change on major crops and integrated vulnerability assessment of agriculture in India (NATCOM, MoEF)