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Honors

• Numerous press releases, articles in news papers, interviews to Newspapers (New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Economist, Forbes, Science, San Jose Mercury, Tri-Valley Herald, Sacramento Bee, Tracy Press, The Hindu, Times of India, DNA Bangalore, etc), TV (CBS) and Radio (BBC, NPR, Berkeley Radio, France, etc.) on research work related to high resolution global climate simulations, land cover change, deforestation, climate change and geoengineering (can be viewed by google search "Bala Govindasamy")
• Lead Author for the carbon cycle chapter in IPCC WG1 AR5 report
• Scopus Young Scientist Award, 2008.
• McGill-CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) Fellowship, 1990-1994.
• TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Scholarship, one among 25 selected on a national (India) basis for to do a special program in M.Sc Physics, 1986-1988.
• Government of India Merit Scholarship for achievement in State level 10th grade exams, 1981-1986.
• Merit Scholarship for achievement in 8th grade, 1979-1981.