Ajay Singh

Research interest

Sedimentology and Geochemistry

Professional Experience

• Fall 2009-present Research Assistant, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University
• 2007 Fall - 2009 Summer Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University
• 2007 & 2008 (Summer) Research Assistant, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University
• 2005 - 2007 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology, Indiana State University
• 2004 - 2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, University of Delhi
• 2003 - 2005 Research Assistant, Department of Geology, University of Delhi

Field Experience

• Structural and lithological mapping around Mahendragarh, Jhunjhunu and Alwar districts. Also studied folding patterns and associated micro/meso fabrics, various stages of deformation and metamorphism of Delhi Supergroup, 2001
• Visited base metal mines, Rampura Agucha and Rajpura – Dariba, and studied mineralization, host rock association, ore genesis, ore exploitation methods and the controlling system of ore beneficiation plant, 2001
• Worked on a developing base metal mine “Sindeshwar Khurd” and studied various techniques of underground mine development, and did pedogeochemical sampling, 2001
• Visited and studied mineralization, host rock association, and ore genesis of base metal mine at Zawar, and rock phosphate mine at Jhamar – Kotra, Rajasthan, India, 2000
• Mapped and analyzed the Vindhyan Supergroup rocks along GBF (Great Boundary Fault) near Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan, NW India, 2000
• Geological mapping and petrography of Gondwana sediments near Jabalpur and Maihar in Madhya Pradesh. Also, studied the field relationships of inter-trapean Lameta beds and Deccan flood basalts, 1999
• Summer intern: Central Ground Water Board, New Delhi, India Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, July 2003 – August 2003.

Journal Publication

• Singh, A.K., Marcantonio, F and Lyle, M, 2011. “Sediment focusing in the Panama Basin, Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean”. Earth and Planetary Science letters, Vol. 309 Issue 1-2, p33-44. 
• Srivastava, P., Singh, A.K., Parkash, B., Singh, A.K., Rajak, M.K., 2007.  Paleoclimatic implications of micromorphic features of Quaternary Paleosols of NW Himalayas and polygenetic soils of the Gangetic Plains- a comparative study. Catena, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p169-184.

Other Publication

• Latimer, J., Beilfuss, M., Gibson, J., Brouillette, E., Ogundare, O., Tiwari, A., Singh, A., Akuraju, A., 2007. Geochemistry of the Wabash River and Adjacent Depositional Environments: Research Methods and Community Education Outreach, submitted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Alliance for Excellence through Engagement and Experience, Volume 1.

Abstracts

• Singh, A.K*., Marcantonio, F., Lyle, M, 2011. Dissolved ²³⁰Th-²³²Th Dynamics in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean in Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference
• Marcantonio, F., Ibrahim, R., Singh, A.K., Lyle M, 2011. ²³⁰Th inventories in new sediment cores from the eastern equatorial Pacific: constraints on the ²³⁰Th constant-flux proxy in Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference
• Latimer, J.C., Mahan, B.M., Singh, A.K, 2010. Dust-Fe Concentrations and Fluxes to the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Miocene to Late Quaternary Records from Marlin Rise. 10th International Conference on Paleoceanography, San Diego, USA.
• Mahan, B.M., Latimer, J.C., Singh, A.K, Moore, E., 2010. 20 MA Record of eolian iron and phosphorus fluxes to the south pacific, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, South-Central and North-Central Sections, Branson, Missouri, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 2.
• Singh, A.K., Marcantonio, F., Lyle, M., 2009.Downslope transport as a mechanism to explain higher 230Th inventories in the Panama Basin? American Geophysical Union Fall meeting.
• Singh, A.K., Marcantonio, F., Lyle, M., 2008. 230Th in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Panama Basin, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting.
• Singh, A.K., Latimer, J.C., 2007. Marlin Rise: A 20 Ma record of dust inputs to the South Pacific Ocean, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, South-Central and North-Central Sections, Lawrence, Kansas, Abstracts with Programs.
• Latimer, J.C., Singh, A.K., Stancin, A.M., Gleason, J.D., 2006. Terrigenous provenance in the Cape Basin, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Abstracts with Programs.