On the day of the 3MT thesis competition finale (April 10, 2025), Prof. Tandon was awarded with the ‘2025 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Research Mentor‘ prize for his commitment to working with graduate students in research, knowledge creation and scholarship.

Colleagues and students gathered on the university’s main campus to honor his contributions to academia.

Congratulations Dr. Tandon!

Parth Sastry and Debarshi Sarkar recently participated in the 3 MT thesis competition held in Grand Reading Room at UMass Dartmouth. Organized by Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition which challenges graduate research students (PhD and Masters by Research) to present a compelling oration on their thesis topic and its significance in just three minutes.  The competition develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students’ capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

Parth talked about his work on simulations of eddies in the eastern tropical Pacific and how they impact oxygen transport. Debarshi talked his research on biases in reanalysis products, their importance and how they affect the summer monsoon over the Indian subcontinent. It was an educational and a challenging experience for them to condense their research into an easily digestible, short, three-minute segment.

A new paper led by Dr. Ashish Soni from IITM Pune with Dr. Tandon as a co-author highlights groundbreaking research on black carbon aerosols. This study, conducted in the Arabian Sea after the passage of cyclone Biparjoy collaboratively by Indian and USA scientific teams in the EKAMSAT science fieldwork conducted onboard R/V Roger Revelle in 2023, reveals that deep waters are a significant source of these black carbon aerosols. 

Congratulations Dr. Tandon!

More about the paper: Here