Curriculum Vitae
Last updated on 8 October 2009
Dr. Ramesh D. Gulati (1935) had his university education (1953-1958: B.Sc. honours in Zoology, M.Sc., Fish and Fishery Biology) and research (1964: Ph.D. in general limnology) at the Deptartment of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. His Ph.D. research related to a reconnaissance of lakes and reservoirs in the north India plains and mountain lakes in the Kumaon Himalayas. This was a mainly comparative study of lowland and upland lakes relating to thermal stratification, plankton ecology, algal blooms and lake eutrophication. He taught zoology to graduate students from 1959 to 1968. He joined the Centre of Limnology at Nieuwersluis (then Limnological Institute) on 1 May, 1968, first as a research trainee for in water chemistry for one year. His stay was supported by a fellowship from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1May 1968- 30 April 1969). He joined the research staff of the Institute on 1 May 1969 with a permanent tenure, and was for the first three years engaged in studies on primary production (14-C technique), energy flow and general limnology of Lakes Wijde Blik and Lake Vechten, both stratifying lakes. He became a senior scientist in 1974 and headed the "Working-Group 'Primary and Secondary Production", one of the three working groups at Nieuwersluis and remained in this position until 1987. His main fields of research interest in this period related to zooplankton community grazing, assimilation and excretion rates in Lake Vechten (1972-'78) and role of zooplankton in eutrophication in a restoration study in lakes of Loosdrecht area ( 1982-1988), invloving also stoichiomtric changes in seston and zooplankton in response to eutrophication control measures.
Ramesh Gulati was actively engaged in the editorial work of a special book entitled: "Studies on lakes Vechten and Tjeukemeer" (Gulati, R.D. & S. Parma, 1982: Hydrobiologia 91) to mark the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Limnological Institute in 1982. During an internal reorganisation of research in 1988 the "working group PP & SP" was merged with newly formed Working-Group "Food-Chain" in December 1988. From this period onwards he concentrated mainly on biomanipulation studies on several shallow lakes in North Holland in colloboration different national reserach institues and universities. He actively participated in the editorial work in the preparation phase of a special Volume (Gulati , Lammens, Meijer and Van Donk, 1990: Hydrobiologia 200/201, 1990) dealing with Proceedings of the First International Conference on "Biomanipulation, tool for water management" held at Amsterdam in 1989. He was also actively involved in the "Restoration and recovery of shallow, eutrophic lake ecosystems in the Netherlands" (L. Van Liere & R.D. Gulati, 1992. Hydrobiologia Vol. 233). In December 1996 he took an early retirement due to serious health problems, but is continuing to work as a senior guest scientist at the Centre of Limnology. He formally retired at the age of 65-- an international symposium was arranged under the auspices of the SIL Working Group on Plankton Ecology Group on 16 March 2001 in Amstwerdam. The proceedings of this Symposium appeared in 2003 as a special issue of Hydrobiologia (Van Donk E. , M. Boersma & P. Spaak, eds. Hydrobiologia 491: 377 pages).
His main research interests and publications (see publication list) relate to: plankton dynamics and ecology; zooplankton feeding, assimilation and phosphorus excretion; energy flow in lake ecosystems; lake eutrophication and ecosystem stress; and lake restoration/recovery techniques, especially food-web biomanipulation, and causes of failure of Restoration measures. As a senior guest scientist at the Centre of Limnology and Editor-in-Chief of an international scientific journal "Aquatic Ecology" ( December 1996- 1 July 2009) Springer-- formerly published by Kluwer Academic Publishers-- Dordrecht, The Netherlands), which is the scientific journal of the Netherlands-Flemish Society for Ecology (NecoV). The Aquatic Section of NecoV is the professional organisation for people in the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium) who are working in the fields of research, policy making and management of aquatic ecosystems, both freshwater, brackish and marine. As a editor-in-chief until 1 July 2009 i.e. for more than 13 years, Gulati handled about 1500 MSS for the journal, with a doubling of the annual manuscript inflow since the journal got its recognition with an Impact Factor four years ago.
During the period 1999-2002, he has been involved in a European Union Project INTAS involving 3 West European countries (Spain, The Netherlands & Switzerland) and Russia (Institute of Biophysical Research, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia) and jointly edited ( Degermendzhy, A. & R.D. Gulati) a Special Volume of Aquatic Ecology (Volume 32, 2002).
Ramesh Gulati was also senior editor of the proceedings of Symposium on Shallow Lakes in a Changing World held in the Netherlands in 2005 (Gulati, Lammens, De Pauw & Van Donk, Eds., 2007, Hydrobiologia 584: 466 pages).
Starting in September 2005 he is one of the three scientist of the Department of Food-web cooperating (a three-year Project funded by NWO), with Institute of Biophysical Researach, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The Project was rounded off in 2008 and a Special Issue of Aquatic Ecology is now under preparation to present all the work that was carried out during the tenure of the NWO Project. This Issue will be published in early 2010.
Ramesh Gulati has been editor since July 2006 (Volume 49) of the SILnews, a news letter for the International Society for Theoretical and Applied Limnology.
Ramesh Gulati was awarded in 2009 the Honorary Winberg Medal, an international triennial award in limnology instituted in 2006 by the Russian Society for Hydrobiology (in co-operation with the Russian Academy of Science), at the triennial meeting of the society in Vladivostak on 28 September 2009.
Expertise
General Limnology
General aspects of lake limnology
Lake eutrophication
Man-made effects: nutrient enrichment and increase in productivity of lakes.
Lake Restoration
Restoration of lakes using biomanipulation and nutrient reduction measures.
Topdown effects
Topdown effects in food web , especially relation to herbivorous zooplankton
Selected Publications
Gulati, R.D. & E. Van Donk 2002
Lakes in the Netherlands, their origin, eutrophicationand restoration: state of the art review.
Hydrobiologia 478: 73-106
Gulati, R, Van Donk, E 2005
Restoration of freshwater lakes. in: Van Andel, J, Aronson, J, editors. Restoration Ecology: The New Frontier. 3 .Blackwell Publishing
Pages 158-173 319 pages
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