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Aditi Pant is an Indian oceanographer. She was the first Indian woman to visit the farthest land in the world, Antarctica, alongside geologist Sudipta Sengupta in 1983 as part of the Indian Antarctic Program. At this time, women were not permitted to receive a reputable education. Dr. Aditi Pant overcame these barriers and has become a role model to all aspiring women scientists. She has shown that women can not only reach up to space, but also to the farthest corner of the Earth (i.e. the Antarctica region). She has held prominent positions at institutions including the National Institute of Oceanography, National Chemical Laboratory, University of Pune, and Maharashtra Academy of Sciences.

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Early Life and Education
Aditi Pant was born in Nagpur, India. She began taking an interest in science at a young age. Her curiosity grew from her exposure to the natural world by her parents, in the form of dinnertime conversation and outdoor activities. At the time Pant was growing up, it was uncommon for women to obtain advanced degrees. This, along with the poor status of her family, led Pant to believe that a higher education was impossible.

Pant completed her B.Sc at University of Pune (also known as the University of Poona). She was inspired to take up oceanography as a profession when she was gifted the book The Open Sea by Alister Hardy from a family friend during her time there. She was happily surprised to be awarded a US government scholarship to take up a Master’s in Marine Sciences at the University of Hawaii.[3] Her academic interest lay in photosynthesis in plankton communities. She wrote her thesis on the effect of tropical light intensities on photosynthesis by natural plankton communities and the nature and amount of reduced carbon flow from phytoplankton to bacteria. Studying this target organism in the open sea proved to be very problematic and strenuous, and with help from her mentor Dr. M S Doty, Pant decided to focus on a single bacterium model before moving to a larger community.

Pant then went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Physiology in Marine Algae at Westfield College London University. Her thesis dealt with the subject matter of the physiology of marine algae. She went on to earn a SERC award and a stipend for her investigations.

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Antarctic Expedition and Later Work
Aditi Pant joined the newly established NIO (National Institute of Oceanography) in 1973 and remained here for three years. The focus area of Pant's research was the west coast of India.

Between December 1983 and March 1984, Pant embarked on an expedition to one of the most untouched regions on earth, Antarctica. This was the third in a series of expeditions spearheaded by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. India's signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1981 began the Indian Antarctic Program (under the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research). Along with structural geologist Sudipta Sengupta, Aditi Pant was the first Indian woman to step foot on Antarctica. Pant's expedition was aimed at gathering information related to food chain physics, chemistry, and biology in the Antarctic Ocean. Under the severe and harsh climate conditions Dr. Aditi Pant studied the mainland for four months and turned out with brilliant disclosures. During the course of the mission, the team built Dakshin Gangotri, the first Indian scientific research base station of Antarctica (located 2,500 kms from the South Pole). Pant also participated in the fifth expedition to the Antarctic in 1984, carrying out research in oceanography and geology.

In 1990, after 17 years of working with the NIO, Pant moved to Pune to work at the National Chemical Laboratory. Here, she studied the enzymology of salt-tolerant and salt-loving microbes involved in the food chain.

She was also Professor Emeritus for the University of Pune Botany Department 2003 to 2007.

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Later Career
Her MS proposal was on the impact of tropical light forces on photosynthesis by natural plankton communities and the nature and measure of decreased carbon stream from phytoplankton to microbes. It demonstrated hard to figure paces of move straightforwardly in the ocean and she and her guide, Dr M S Doty, veered round to the decision that she required a solitary alga-single bacterium model before a whole network could be contemplated. Professor G E Fogg FRS of Westfield College London University (UK) agreed with her research and she got a SERC award and a stipend for these investigations

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Patents and awards
Pant is the owner of five patents and has over 67 publications in international journals. She was honored with the Antarctica Award by the Government of India for her contributions to the Indian Antarctic program. She shared the honor with colleagues Sudipta Sengupta, Jaya Naithani, and Kanwal Vilku. She was a recipient of the SERC award and the stipend for her investigations in her field of research.

She is a member of the Maharashtra Society for the Cultivation of Science, General Body of Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science, Biofuel Committee, Department of Biotechnology, CGO Complex, New Dehli. She is also a fellow member of Maharashtra Academy of Science.

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