Satish Ramnath Shetye

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|10|25}}

| birth_place = Goa, India

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Geophysics | Oceanography }}

| workplaces = {{ublist | National Institute of Oceanography | University of Goa }}

| alma_mater = {{ublist | IIT Mumbai | University of Washington }}

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| known_for = Studies on the monsoon-driven currents along the Indian coast

| awards = {{ublist | 1984 IAS Young Associate Award | 1992 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | 2006 IIT Mumbai Distinguished Alumnus Award | 2012 MoES National award for Ocean Science and Technology }}

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Satish Ramnath Shetye (born 1950) is an Indian geophysicist, oceanographer and a former vice chancellor of the University of Goa.{{Cite web |url=http://dmscollege.ac.in/prominent-visitors/dr-satish-shetye-vice-chancellor-goa-university/ |title=Dr. Satish Shetye, Vice-Chancellor, Goa University |date=2016 |publisher=Dnyanprassarak Mandal’s College And Research Center |access-date=23 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224030515/http://dmscollege.ac.in/prominent-visitors/dr-satish-shetye-vice-chancellor-goa-university/ |archive-date=24 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}

He is a former director of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO){{Cite web |url=http://www.nio.org/index/option/com_newsdisplay/task/view/tid/4/sid/23/nid/29 |title=Dr. Shetye is NIO's New Director |date=2004 |publisher=CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography}} and is known for his researches on the monsoon-driven currents along the Indian coast.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=52 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} He is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian National Science Academy,{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N98-1241 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}} Indian Academy of Sciences,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Shetye,_Dr_Satish_Ramnath |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} National Academy of Sciences, India{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}} as well as the Indian Geophysical Union.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nio.org/?option=com_researcherdisplay&task=show&rid=847&title=Director&tid=1&sid=.. |title=Shetye, S.R. - Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=National Institute of Oceanography}} The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1992.{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

Biography

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Satish Ramnath Shetye, born on 25 October 1950 in the Indian state of Goa,{{Cite web |url=http://www.goanvoice.ca/2004/issue7/goanewsclips.htm |title=Goa News Clips |date=3 April 2004 |publisher=Goan Voice}} did his master's degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1973 and moved to the US to secure a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Washington in 1982.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitb.ac.in/alumni/en/awards/2006/distinguished-alumnus/dr-satish-ramnath-shetye |title=Distinguished Alumnus 2006 |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bombay}} He continued in the US to complete his post-doctoral work at the same university during 1975–82 and returned to India to join the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in 1982 as a research associate. He served the institute in various capacities; as Scientist-Grade C (1984–89), Scientist-Grade E-I (1989–92), Scientist-Grade E-II (1992–97) and Scientist-Grade F (1997–2004) before becoming the director in 2004. In 2012, he was appointed as the vice chancellor of the University of Goa with his tenure running till 2015, but was given an extension of one year.{{Cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/goa-university-row-govt-faces-flak-for-extending-v-cs-term-through-ordinance/ |title=Goa University row: Govt faces flak for extending V-C's term through ordinance |date=28 October 2015 |publisher=Indian Express}} He retired from service in 2016, succeeded by Varun Sahni.{{Cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/JNUs-Varun-Sahni-named-GUs-new-VC/articleshow/53291444.cms |title=JNU's Varun Sahni named GU's new VC |date=20 July 2016 |publisher=Times of India}}

Legacy

Sheteye's researches cover the physical oceanography of the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean and e is known to have undertaken several ocean expeditions in the Indian coastal waters for his studies. His work on the monsoon-driven currents along the Indian coast enhanced the understanding of the phenomena and assisted him in proposing mechanisms impacting their existence.{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=23 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }} He elucidated annual variations in the sea surface temperature in the Arabian Sea by developing a mixed-layer model, reportedly for the first time. His other studies included the coastal circulation of the entire North Indian Ocean, especially around India, the thermal fields in the North Indian Ocean and their relationship with the Indian summer monsoon, variability of sea levels along Indian coasts, dynamics of Indian estuaries and a first-time study of the hydrology of rivers feeding those estuaries. His studies have been detailed in several peer-reviewed articles;{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Shetye=3ASatish_Ramnath=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 95 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sr_Shetye |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }}

Sheteye has been associated with the Earth Commission, a body constituted by the Ministry of Earth Sciences for policy formulations, and their implementation, where he sat during 2007–09. Earlier, he had been a member of the council of Indian Academy of Sciences (1998–2003), the council of the Indian National Science Academy (2005–07) and the Governing Body of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (2004–07). He is also a former member of the council of the Indian Institute of Science (2006) and a former editor of the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth & Planetary Sciences) and the Journal of Earth System Science. He is an incumbent member of the Peer Team of National Assessment and Accreditation Council, a national body of the University Grants Commission of India overseeing the accreditation and assessment of institutions of higher education in India.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cusat.ac.in/view_press_release.php?id=1191 |title=Visit of NAAC Peer Team to CUSAT |date=2016 |publisher=Cochin University of Science and Technology}}{{Cite web |url=http://english.mathrubhumi.com/education/news/news-updates/cusat-gets-%E2%80%98a%E2%80%99-grade-in-naac-assessment-english-news-1.1360542 |title=Cusat gets 'A' grade in NAAC assessment |date=17 September 2016 |publisher=Mathrubhumi}} He has delivered several featured lectures and plenary addresses which include the IX Kumari L. A. Meera Memorial Lecture of 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://drs.nio.org/drs/bitstream/handle/2264/1716/Ninth_Kum_L_A_Meera_Mem_Lec_2000_6.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y |title=The Indian Summer Monsoon and the Waters around India |last=S. R. Shetye |date=2 December 2000 |publisher=National Institute of Oceanography}}

Awards and honors

The Indian Academy of Sciences chose Sheteye as a Young Associate in 1984;{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/associate/Shetye,_Dr._Satish_R. |title=Associate Profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} the academy would honor him again with an elected fellowship in 1992. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, the same year.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |title=Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archivedate=2016-03-03 }} The Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Geophysical Union elected him as their fellows in 1998 and the National Academy of Sciences, India followed suit in 2000, the same year as he received the New Millennium Science Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 2006 and the Ministry of Earth Sciences awarded him the National award for Ocean Science and Technology in 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=85565 |title=Earth Sciences Foundation Day Celebrated Today |date=27 July 2012 |publisher=Ministry of Earth Sciences}}{{Cite web |url=http://moes.gov.in/writereaddata/files/archive/awrd.pdf |title=Annual Awards 2012 |date=2012 |publisher=Ministry of Earth Sciences}}

Selected bibliography

{{Cite journal |author1=Durand, F. |author2=Shetye, S. R. |author3=Vialard, J. |author4=Shankar, D. |author5=Shenoi, S. S. C. |author6=Ethe, C. |author7=Madec, G. |title=Impact of temperature inversions on SST evolution in the South-Eastern Arabian sea during the pre-summer monsoon season |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |date=2004 |volume=31 |issue=1 |doi=10.1029/2003GL018906|bibcode=2004GeoRL..31.1305D |url=https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00203/31424/29815.pdf |doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |author1=Aparna, M. |author2=Shetye, S. R. |author3=Shankar, D. |author4=Shenoi, S. S. C. |author5=Mehra, P. |author6=Desai, R. G. P. |title=Estimating the seaward extent of sea breeze from QuikSCAT scatterometry |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |date=2005 |volume=32 |issue=13 |doi=10.1029/2005GL023107|bibcode=2005GeoRL..3213601A |doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |author1=Suresh, I. |author2=Neetu, S. |author3=Shankar, D. |author4=Shenoi, S. S. C. |author5=Shetye, S. R. |author6=Sundar, D. |author7=Shankar, R. |author8=Nagarajan, B. |title=The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: description of the event and estimation of length of the tsunami source region based on data from Indian tide gauge |journal=Proceedings of the Eleventh Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics |date=2006 |pages=1–6}}
{{Cite journal |author1=Shetye, S. R. |author2=Suresh, I. |author3=Shankar, D. |author4=Sundar, D. |author5=Jayakumar, S. |author6=Mehra, P. |author7=Prabhudesai, R. G. |author8=Pednekar, P. S. |title=Observational evidence for remote forcing of the West India coastal current |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |date=2008 |volume=113 |issue=C11 |doi=10.1029/2008JC004874|bibcode=2008JGRC..11311001S |doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |author1=Vialard, J. |author2=Shenoi, S. S. C. |author3=McCreary, J. P. |author4=Shankar, D. |author5=Durand, F. |author6=Fernando, V. |author7=Shetye, S. R. |title=Intraseasonal response of the Northern Indian Ocean coastal waveguide to the Madden-Julian Oscillation |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |date=2009 |volume=36 |issue=14 |doi=10.1029/2009GL038450|bibcode=2009GeoRL..3614606V |s2cid=53573075 |url=https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00185/29631/27993.pdf }}

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{{Cite web |url=http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/ChemicalEngineering/IIChEGRC |title=Lamp Lighting by Guest of Honor |date=2016 |publisher=BITS, Pilani|work=Dr. Satish Ramnath Shetye, Vice Chancellor, Goa University, Goa Lighting lamp during Inauguration}}