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Aditi Sharma is pursuing her PhD degree, conducting research that combines remote sensing techniques with oceanic observations and laboratory experiments to validate hypotheses drawn from her findings. Her research focuses on identifying potential fishing zones (PFZs) in the northern Indian Ocean using remote sensing data to detect temperature fronts and eddies indicative of high phytoplankton biomass. She collects in-situ biogeochemical data in these PFZs to examine the influence of physical mixing on the ecosystem and conducts mesocosm experiments to study nutrient input from subsurface. Aditi utilizes a variety of remote sensing sensors, including sea surface temperature, altimetry, and scatterometry, alongside in-situ sensors such as fluorescence, dissolved oxygen, and pH, to identify PFZs. Her objective is to understand how oceanic extreme zones modify water column structure, affecting mixing, nutrient transport, primary production, and oxygen minimum zones. She is skilled in handling instruments like CTD profilers, fluorometers, radiometers, spectrophotometers, nutrient analyzers, and fast repetition rate fluorometers (FRRF) to comprehensively investigate marine ecosystem dynamics.