Asish Basu

Asish R. Basu
Occupation(s)Geologist, academic, and researcher
AwardsScholar Awardee 2005, American Federation of Mineralogical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Geological Society of America
Academic background
EducationB.Sc., Geology, Physics, Mathematics
M.Sc., Geology
M.S., Geophysical Sciences
Ph.D., Geology
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
University of Chicago
University of California-Davis
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Arlington
University of Rochester (1978-2013)

Asish R. Basu is a geologist, academic, and researcher. He is Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas at Arlington.[1] He is most known for his research in Earth Science -related subjects, such as isotope geochemistry, flood basalt volcanism, and mineralogy-petrology.[2]

Basu has authored over 110 scientific papers in various magazines and journals, including Nature (journal), and the International weekly journal of Science.[3] He is on the editorial board of International Geology Review,[4] and has served as an executive committee member of the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section of American Geophysical Union for six years. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America,[5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and was appointed as a part of the five - member US Delegation to attend the First Symposium on the Quinghai-Tibet Plateau in Beijing, May 1980.[6]

  1. ^ "Professor Emeritus Asish Basu – The University of Texas at Arlington – Earth & Environmental Science". blog.uta.edu.
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  3. ^ "Asish Basu". scholar.google.com.
  4. ^ "International Geology Review". Taylor & Francis.
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  6. ^ "Proceedings of Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau: Beijing, China, May 25 - June 1, 1980 : (abstracts)". Acad. Sinica. 10 February 1981 – via Google Books.