OceanExpert ID : 11850
Dr. Gopikrishna MANTHA
Associate Research Scientist
Environmental and Life Sciences Research
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR)
P.O. Box 24885
13109 Safat
Kuwait
Nationality
India
Email(s)
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Telephone
+965 55960598
ORCID :
0000-0002-7200-5105
ResearcherID :
H-6752-2012
PhD
Research
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Pollution
Marine Cyclopoid copepods (Ph.D. thesis); Good working Knowledge on freshwater, estuarine & marine copepods, rotifers and cladocerans; Culture of live feeds (phytoplankton and zooplankton) for use in aqua-hatcheries (prawns, shrimps, ornamental fishes and bivalve molluscs culture)
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Gulf of Aqaba
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Bay of Bengal
1. Taxonomy, biology and ecology of marine cyclopoid copepods. 2. Reproductive biology and culture of rotifers and cladocerans (freshwater), copepods (both freshwater and marine), prawns, shrimps and bivalve molluscs. 3. Computers: Windows, Microsoft Office and database management. 4. Culture of copepods for use as live food in aquaculture. 5. Larval rearing of prawn, shrimp and bivalve using cultured live-feeds.
English
Presently studying meiofauna of the western Arabian Gulf.