Publications by authors named "Uma Sankar Panda"
A repercussion of COVID-19 lockdown on water quality along the east coast of India.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
January 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures significantly impacted various sectors, including coastal environments. While restrictions led to temporary improvements in air quality, their effects on coastal waters remained understudy. This research conducted four cruises along the east coast of India during pre- and post-COVID-19 lockdown to assess the water quality changes.
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- - The study examines how a very severe tropical cyclone affects sea turtle nesting habitats and suggests management strategies to protect these areas amid changes in the coastal landscape and sediment conditions.
- - Findings indicate that while the immediate impacts on nesting sites are short-term, long-term effects like plastic pollution and altered sediment characteristics could hinder nesting success and exacerbate flooding.
- - Recommendations include ensuring specific cross-sectional areas for estuaries to maintain stability, as well as involving local communities in post-cyclone clean-up efforts to support the conservation of sea turtle habitats.
A massive fish mortality of the major species, viz., Mugil cephalus, Chanos chanos, and Oreochromis mossambicus, occurred on November 27, 2017 in the Adyar estuary. This catastrophe followed a spell of heavy rainfall and flash floods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoastal water quality assessment is important to maintain a healthy environment for various uses including fisheries and recreation. Microbial populations are used as biological indicators of contamination to monitor water quality and are considered by the government to be one of the critical features for issuing safety guidelines. Different bacterial groups (pathogenic, vibrio and faecal) from five major recreational beaches of Chennai, India, were monitored for the assessment of coastal water quality.
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