Dr. Shaikhom Inaotombi

About

Dr Shaikhom Inaotombi is currently working as a Technical Advisor (Fisheries and aquaculture) of the Indo-German GIZ-NERAQ project with responsible for strategic planning, coordination & implementation for sustainable & climate-resilient management of aquatic resources. He has more than 10 years of research & management experience in Aquatic Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Natural Resource Management, Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change. His PhD research was focused on the aquatic biodiversity of mountain environments and their interaction with the physicochemical parameters of water and sediment. He has also a post-doctorate fellowship in aquatic eco-toxicology. He has worked for the Ministry of Environment, Govt. of India with the responsibility for technical appraisal of project proposals for the declaration of Ecologically Sensitive Zone around the Protected Areas of India. He is keenly interested in revealing how aquatic organisms and ecosystems respond to chemicals and climatic stresses.

Employment

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit Technical Advisor
  2021 - Present
• Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Consultant
  2017 - 2021
• Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research SERB-DST National Post Doctoral Fellow
  2016 - 2017
• Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research Senior Research Fellow
  2015 - 2016
• National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources Senior Research Fellow
  2013 - 2015
• Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research Senior Research Fellow
  2012 - 2013

Education

• Kumaun University PhD
  2011 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• A new species of Arctodiaptomus Kiefer, 1932 (Copepoda: Diaptomidae) from the Kumaun Himalaya of India
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Debajit Sarma
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2024 DOI: 10.11609/jott.8032.16.12.26251-26263
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• Distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates along sediment gradients in a mountain lake of Kumaun Himalayas, India
  Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 2021
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• DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES ALONG SEDIMENT GRADIENTS IN A MOUNTAIN LAKE OF KUMAUN HIMALAYAS, INDIA
  ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 2021
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• Factors influencing distribution patterns of cyanobacteria in an upland lake of the Kumaun Himalayas, India
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Debajit Sarma
  Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 2020 DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2020.1760190
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• Vegetation affects photoprotective pigments and copepod distribution in the Himalayan lakes: Implication for climate change adaptation
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Debajit Sarma
  Science of The Total Environment 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137053
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• Community structure of zooplankton across environmental variables in a high-altitude lake of central Himalayas, India
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Prem K. Gupta
  Chemistry and Ecology 2019 DOI: 10.1080/02757540.2019.1676419
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• Pathways of socio-ecological resilience to climate change for fisheries through indigenous knowledge
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, P. C. Mahanta
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2018.1482197
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• Fate of Metals in Relation to Water and Sediment Properties in a Subtropical Lake in Central Himalaya, India
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Prem K. Gupta
  ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2017 DOI: 10.1007/S00244-017-0386-9
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• Influence of Abiotic Factors on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Rotifers in a Subtropical Lake of Western Himalaya
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Priya Gupta, P. C. Mahanta
  WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION 2016 DOI: 10.1007/S11270-015-2729-3
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• Water Quality of a Central Himalayan Lake, Lake Sattal, Uttarakhand
  Shaikhom Inaotombi, Priya Gupta
  Journal of Ecophysiology and Occupational Health 2014 DOI: 10.15512/joeoh/2014/v14i1-2/50748
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