DESCRIPTION :

BSc. in Agriculture (2002); MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) in Environmental Sciences from IARI, New Delhi; on 2nd July 2007 joined as Junior Scientist  Environment & Sustainability Department, CSIR-IMMT . Academically gained knowledge and experience regarding Environmental science and R & D experience in pollution monitoring (soil and water), waste management (agro and industrial wastes) etc. Worked both as project leader and member in various government (MoEF, MoES, DST etc.) and industrial (DPCL, POSCO-INDIA, Odisha etc.) projects. Also involved with various academic program of CSIR-IMMT like PGDME, PGRPE and AcSIR PhD (Biological Sciences). At present, focus of research work is to innovate waste utilisation–reduce and recycle for sustainable environment.

• Junior Scientist: 2nd July, 2007 - 1st July, 2010.
• Scientist: 2nd July, 2010 - 1st July, 2014.
• Senior Scientist: 2nd July, 2014 - 1st July, 2018.
• Principal Scientist: 2nd July, 2018 - Continuing

• Biochar.
• Waste management.
• Pollution monitoring (heavy metals etc.).
• EIA and Climate Change.
• Teaching subjects related to Environmental Science like Plant-Environment Interaction, Environmental Sciences etc.

• 1998-2002-National Talent Scholarship in Agriculture by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.
• 2002 - 2004: Awarded “Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)” by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi (Rank 3rd in national level entrance examination in Physical Science).
• 2004-2006: Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi in Environmental Science.
• 2005: Pradeep Memorial Award for the Best Student in M.Sc. (Environmental Sciences) at Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.
• 2005: IARI Merit Medal for outstanding academic performance in M.Sc (Environmental Science) at IARI, New Delhi-110012.
• 2007: Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi in Environmental Science.
• 2014: Young Scientist award by Society for scientific development in agriculture and technology during ECOBASM-2014 conference at IIRR (formerly DRR), Hyderabad.

1. Biswajit Paul, Manish Kumar and Sasmita Chand (2016). Short-term leaching study of heavy metals from LD slag of important steel industries in Eastern India. Journal of Mater Cycles Waste Management. DOI 10.1007/s10163-016-0486-z.
2. Biswajit Paul, Manish Kumar and Sasmita Chand (2016). A comparative study of physicochemical and mineralogical properties of LD slag from some selected steel plants in India. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 9 (1), pp-75 – 85.
3. S. C. Sahu, Manish Kumar and N. H. Ravindranath (2016). Carbon stocks in natural and planted mangrove forests of Mahanadi Mangrove Wetland, East Coast of India. Current Science, 10 (12), pp-2253 – 2260.
4. Adnan Asad Karim, Manish Kumar, S K Singh, C R Panda, B K Mishra (2017). Potassium enriched biochar production by thermal plasma processing of banana peduncle for soil application. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, vol 123, pp- 165 – 172.
5. S. Chand, S. K. Chand, B. Paul, M. Kumar (2018). Long-term leaching assessment of constituent elements from Linz–Donawitz slag of major steel industries in India.International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-018-2025-z.
6. Adnan Asad Karim, Manish Kumar, Sanghamitra Mohapatra, Saroj Kumar Singh, Chitta Ranjan Panda (2019).Co-plasma processing of banana peduncle with phosphogypsum waste for production of lesser toxic potassium–sulfur rich biochar. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, vol 21 (1), pp-107-115.
7. Adnan Asad Karim, Manish Kumar, Sanghamitra Mohapatra, Saroj Kumar Singh (2019). Nutrient rich biomass and effluent sludge wastes co-utilization for production of biochar fertilizer through different thermal treatments. Journal of Cleaner Production. Volume 228, 10 August 2019, Pages 570-579.
8. Saroja Kumar Barik, SatyanarayanBramha, Tapan Kumar Bastia, Dibakar Behera, Manish Kumar, Pratap Kumar Mohanty, Prasanta Ratha (2019). Characteristics of geochemical fractions of phosphorus and its bioavailability in sediments of a largest brackish water lake, South Asia. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2019.02.002
9. A.K Mishra and Manish Kumar (2020). Andaman mangrove sediments: source of nutrients and sink of heavy metals. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, vol. 49 (01), pp. 156-166
10. Subhashree Pattnayak, M. Kumar, N. K. Dhal, Sudam C. Sahu (2020). Estimation of carbon pools in secondary tropical deciduous forests of Odisha, India. J. For. Res., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-020-01119-5
     
11. Pattnayak, S., Kumar, M., Dhal, N.K. and Sahu, S.C., 2020. Estimation of carbon pools in secondary tropical deciduous forests of Odisha, India. Journal of Forestry Research, pp.1-11
    
    
12.  Mohapatra, S., Kumar, M., Karim, A.A. and Dhal, N.K., 2020. Biochars evaluation for chromium pollution abatement in chromite mine wastewater and overburden of Sukinda, Odisha, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 13(13), pp.1-14.
13. Kumar, M., Mohapatra, S., Karim, A.A. and Dhal, N.K., 2021. Heavy metal fractions in rhizosphere sediment vis-à-vis accumulation in Phoenix paludosa (Roxb.) mangrove plants at Dhamra Estuary of India: assessing phytoremediation potential. Chemistry and Ecology, 37(1), pp.1-14.
    
    
14. Ray, A., Kumar, M., Dhal, N.K. and Hariprasad, D., 2021. Prospective chemisorption of fluoride utilizing coastal molluscan (Crassostrea Sp.) shell from phosphatic fertilizer pond wastewater, Paradeep, Odisha. Indian Journal of Chemical Technology (IJCT), 27(6), pp.496-502.
15. Karim, A.A., Kumar, M., Singh, E., Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Ray, A. and Dhal, N.K., 2020. Enrichment of primary macronutrients in biochar for sustainable agriculture: A review. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, pp.1-42.
16. Basu, A., Behera, M., Maharana, R., Kumar, M., Dhal, N.K., Tamhankar, A.J., Mishra, A., Lundborg, C.S. and Tripathy, S.K., 2021. To unsnarl the mechanism of disinfection of Escherichia coli via visible light assisted heterogeneous photo-Fenton reaction in presence of biochar supported maghemite nanoparticles. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(1), p.104620.
    
    

• Adnan Asad Karim, Manish Kumar, SK Singh, CR Panda, BK Mishra. A Method for production of potash enriched biochar from waste biomass. Granted: 5^th September, 2020 (Patent No. 346128)
• Adnan Asad Karim, Manish Kumar, SK Singh, P Chattopadhyay, CR Panda, BK Mishra. Biomass mediated conversion of acidic Phosphogypsum to alkaline potassium sulphur rich material, Indian Patent Published in "The Patent Office Journal No. 01/2019 Dated 04/01/2019, page no. 46.