MBA – University of Utah

Ph.D. in Geology – Micropaleontology, University College London

M.Sc. in Micropaleontology, University College London

M.Phil. in Geology, University of Delhi

M.Sc. in Geology, University of Delhi

B.Sc. in Geology, University of Delhi

Language Skills

• English

• Hindi

• Oriya(Native)

• Overseas Research Scholarship (Ph.D. program at University

College London)

• Shell Centenary Scholarship (M.S. at University College London)

• Thomas Witherden Batt Scholarship (Ph.D. program at University College

London)

• BEST SCIENCE POSTER (2nd runner up), 2019. 1st Houston Geological Society – European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (HGS-EAGE) Conference on Latin America, Houston, TX, USA.

Title of the poster: Application of a New Resource Assessment Workflow to Offshore Guyana-Suriname Margin: Correction for Mineral Matrix Effect and Reclassification of Organofacies. Co-author, awarded to student team member, EGI Oceans Research Program.

• BEST SCIENCE POSTER, 2016. 15th Houston Geological Society (HGS-PESGB) Africa Conference, Houston, TX, USA.

Title of the poster: Refinements to Chronostratigraphy of the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events in the Southern South Atlantic Ocean – Comparison of 6 DSDP Sites, senior author of the poster and published abstract.

Hafiz, M., Hakhoo, N., Bhat, G., Kanungo, S., Thusu, B., Craig J., Ahmed, W. & Magotra, R., 2022. An assessment of the source potential and reservoir characterization for tight gas exploration in the Subathu Formation shale, Himalayan Foreland Basin, northwestern India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105205

Kanungo, S. & Barrow, A., 2021. Being LGBT in Geoscience Is Like Being Invisible. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/being-lgbt-in-geoscience-is-like-being-invisible/ 

Kanungo, S., Bown, P. & Gale, A., 2021. Cretaceous (Albian-Turonian) calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the onshore Cauvery Basin, southeastern India. Cretaceous Research, 118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104644

Beti, D.R., Garel, S., Setoyama, E., Behar, F., Ring, T. & Kanungo, S., 2021. A new resource assessment workflow to achieve gas risk and phase-specific source potential indices. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105136

Kanungo, S., Bown, P. & Gale, A., 2021. Taxonomic note – new Cretaceous nannofossil taxa from the onshore Cauvery Basin, southeastern India. Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 39 (1), 1-2.

Setoyama, E., Kanungo, S., 2020. Mesozoic Biochronostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the South Atlantic: A Revised Framework based on 20 DSDP and ODP deep-water sites. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102511

Hafeez, M., Hakhoo, N., Bhat, G. M., Kanungo, S., Thusu, B., Craig, J. & Ahmed, W., 2020. Source potential and reservoir characterization of the Cambay Shale, Cambay Basin, India: Implications for tight gas and tight oil resource development. AAPG Bulletin, 104, no. 8, 1707-1749. https://doi:10.1306/03162017174

Kanungo, S., Bown, P. R., Young, J. R., & Gale, A. S., 2018. A brief warming event in the late Albian: evidence from calcareous nannofossils, macrofossils, and isotope geochemistry of the Gault Clay Formation, Folkestone, southeastern England. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37, 231-247. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-231-2018

Jiang, S., Zeng, H., Moscardelli, L., Wach, G., Feijo, F.J., Gardosh, M., Jiang, T., Zhu, H., Henriksen, S., Kanungo, S., 2018. Introduction to Special Section: Recent advances in geology and geophysics of deepwater reservoirs. Interpretation, 6(4):1-3, https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2018-0830-SPSEINTRO.1

Ahmed, W., Bhat, G.M., Mc Lennan, J., Sinha, H.N., Kanungo, S., Pandita, S.K., Singh, Y., Hakhoo, N., Hafiz, M., Thusu, B. & Choudhary, N.H., 2018. Kerogen typing using palynofacies analysis in Permian Barren Measures Formation in Raniganj sub–basin, East India. The Palaeobotanist, 67, 113–122.

Kanungo S., Young J., Skowron, G., 2017. Microfossils: Calcareous Nannoplankton (Nannofossils). In: Sorkhabi R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, Springer, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02330-4_4-2.

Hafeez, M., Kanungo, S., Hakhoo, N., & Pathak, M., (Editors), 2017. Monograph. International Workshop Proceedings – Indian Shale Oil and Gas Exploration, January 2016: Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI), University of Utah, 162p.

Hakhoo, N., Thusu, B., Mani, D., Bhat, G.M., Craig, J., Thurow, J., Hafiz, M., Kanungo, S., Koul, S., & Ahmed, W., 2016. Hydrocarbon source potential of the Proterozoic Sirban Limestone Formation, NW Himalaya, Jammu (India). Journal Geological Society of India, 88, 685-692.

Kanungo, S., Skowron, G., Setoyama, E. and Silwal, S., 2016. Chronostratigraphic Applications of the Composite Standard Database. ASK EGI, https://egi.utah.edu/chronostratigraphy-at-egi/