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MEDAL FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE

The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists bestows upon DR. SATISH K. SRIVASTAVA

The AASP Medal for Scientific Excellence for his Comprehensive Contributions in Taxonomy, Paleoecology, Stratigraphic Palynology, and Continental Paleogeography

SATISH K. SRIVASTAVA

	PRESENTATION BY SHARMA L. GAPONOFF

 
The town of Sitapur is located in the province of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is traversed by the Sarayan River and sits on a vast, gently sloping plain. Sitapur also is laced with numerous streams and ravines, and contains many ephemeral ponds and natural reservoirs. It was here in 1935 that Satish K. Srivastava was born to Hazari L. and Sheopyari Srivastava. As a young child, Satish displayed the gift of a photographic memory and an insatiable curiosity about the natural world which led him to a life-long fascination with the sciences. He pursued an interest in botany, chemistry and zoology, earning a multidisciplinary Bachelor of Science degree in these subjects in 1954 from the Agra University, India. At the age of 22 he began his professional scientific career as a Junior Technical Assistant in the palynology lab of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC). While in this position, Satish successfully applied his knowledge of palynological slide preparation, microtomy and camera lucida techniques he had learned while working as an undergraduate at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India, under two distinguished Indian paleobotanists, Drs. H.S. Rao and G.S. Puri.

In 1957 Satish published his first technical article and by the time he finished his Master of Science degree in 1965 in Geology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, he had published 16 palynology papers ranging in subjects from morphology and taxonomy to chronostratigraphy and paleoclimates. These early publications spanned the geologic column from the Precambrian through the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary, and also included studies of selected modern angiosperm and gymnosperm pollen. . . . [Full Text of this Article]