Siddhant Vaish,^1,2,* Ajay Kumar Arya,^2,** Sadhan K. Basumatary<sup>1,***,****

1</sup>Quaternary Palynology Division, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
²Department of Geology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

^*Siddhant Vaish is currently working as a Junior Research Fellow at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, and the University of Lucknow. He is working on Quaternary palaeoecology based on multiproxy analysis. He graduated from the University of Lucknow in 2015 and completed his post-graduate studies in 2017 at H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India.
^**Ajay K. Arya was awarded a BSc from the University of Lucknow in 2001, an MTech in applied geology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, in 2004, and a PhD in geology from the University of Lucknow in 2013. He is currently a Professor in geology at the University of Lucknow and is working on palaeoclimatology, environmental geology, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). He has 16 years of teaching and 18 years of research experience, and has published 34 papers in national and international journals.
^***CONTACT Sadhan K. Basumatary ✉ sbasumatary2005@yahoo.co.in Quaternary Palynology Division, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, 53 University Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226007, India
^****Sadhan K. Basumatary was awarded a BSc from the University of Gauhati in 1995, an MSc in botany from the University of Gauhati in 1998 and a PhD on Quaternary palynology from the University of Lucknow in 2011. He is currently a Scientist ‘E’ at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow, working on Quaternary palynology using multiproxy data. Currently he is focusing on palaeoherbivory analysis based on coprophilous fungal spores in soil samples. He has 20 years’ research experience, and has published 90 papers in national and international journals.