Best Paper Award for JMBAI

Best Paper Award for JMBAI

The Marine Biological Association of India (MBAI) has instituted the Best Paper Award in honour of its former President, Dr S. Z. Qasim. This prestigious award recognizes the most outstanding scientific papers published in the biannual issues of the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. A dedicated selection committee carefully evaluates and selects the recipient.

2023

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award- for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India:

• P. Punya, V Kripa, Shelton Padua, K. S. Mohamed R. Ranith, G. Gopika and P. O. Nameer. 2023. Impact of tropical cyclone Ockhi on the marine fishery resource assemblages along the Kerala and Tamil Nadu coast India, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, 65 (1): 1-16.

• V. Vineetha, V. Kripa, G. Vineetha, Shelton Padua and D. Prema. 2023. Seasonal variability in the water quality, sediment characteristics and macrobenthic community structure in the vicinity of finfish cage culture sites in a tropical estuary along the south-west coast of India, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, 65 (2): 10-21.

2022

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award- for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India:

• K. Soumya, K. J. Prashob Peter, E. Akhil Prakash, Jesmi Yousuf and A. A. Mohamed Hatha. 2022. In vitro cytotoxicity and antimicrobial activity of methanolic extracts of Holothuria (Semperothuria) cinerascens (Brandt, 1835) and Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816) from the southwest coast of India, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, 64(1): 45-49.

• G. S. Arathy, D. Prema, Shelton Padua, V. Kripa, R. Jeyabaskaran, Eldho Varghese, R. Lavanya, P. Vysakhan, M. P. Syamala and Seban John. 2022. Sediment blue carbon stock of Avicennia officinalis in Vembanad Lake ecosystem, Kerala, India, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, 64 (2): 1-12.

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2021

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award- for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India:

• Shylaja, G., V. Kripa and Ranith Raj. 2021. Assessment of non-degradable litter and its impact on the benthic community of selected mangrove ecosystems of Kerala, India, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, 63(1): 128-139.
• Bhumi K. Sachaniya, Haren B. Gosai, Haresh Z. Panseriya and Bharti P. Dave. 2021. Isolation and screening of multiple polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) degrading bacteria from historically contaminated coastal sites of Gujarat, India, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, 63 (2): 80-87.

 

2020

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award- for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India

• M. S. Varsha, K. K. Joshi and S. Jasmine for the paper titled "Six new species of Hyattella (Porifera:Dictyoceratida: Spongiidae) from the Southern Coast of India"
• Vani B. Mahesh, reeta Jayasankar and Anuja Madhavan for the paper titled "Bioremediation of industrial effluent at source using aquatic macrophytes"

 

2019

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award- for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India

• V. Kripa, K. S. Mohamed, Shelton Padua, R. Jeyabaskaran and D. Prema for the paper titled "Similarities between Indian oil sardine  Sardinella longiceps  Valenciennes, 1847 and global sardine fisheries and its management"
• A. P. Dineshbabu, Sujitha Thomas, K. M. Rajesh, Subhankar Dev Burman, S. Shailaja, Pubali Saha and P. U. Zacharia for the paper titled"Spatial planning for integrated aquaculture development in coastal waters of Karnataka"

 

2018

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award - for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India

• M. S. Varsha, M. Sethulakshmi, Hitoshi Ida, John E. Randall and K. K. Joshi  for the paper titled ‘A taxonomic revision of the fishes of the Genus Bleekeria (Perciformes, Ammodytidae)’
• V. Ravali, K. Sujatha and V. A. Iswarya Deepti for the paper titled ‘Length-weight relationship, growth and reproductive biology of Narke impennis (Annandale, 1909) (Pisces: Narkidae) off Visakhapatnam coast, Western Bay of Bengal, India’

 

2017

Dr. S. Z. Qasim Memorial Best paper Award - for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India

• Sonia Kumari, P. U. Zacharia, K. R. Sreenath, V. Kripa and Grinson George for the paper titled  “GIS based mapping of zoanthids along Saurashtra coast, Gujarat, India”
• S. V. Sandhya, K. Preetha and K. K. Vijayan for the paper titled “Phylogenetic diversity of culturable bacteria in Chaetoceros gracilis mass culture system of a marine finfish hatchery”

 

2016

Dr. S Z Qasim Memorial Best paper Award - for the papers published in Journal of Marine Biological Association of India

• K. Madhu*, Rema Madhu, M. P. Mohandas and M. T. Vijayan  for the paper tilted “Isolation, identification and culture of the marine rotifer Colurella adriatica Ehrenberg, 1831 (Family: Lepadellidae) from Andaman & Nicobar Islands: A promising live feed for larval rearing of high value shellfishes and finfishes”
• G. Sree Renjima, V. N. Sanjeevan*, B. R. Smitha, C. B. Lalithambika Devi and M. Sudhakar for the paper titled “Early developmental stages of the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier) along the Kerala-Mangalore coast of southeastern Arabian Sea”