CLIVAR SSG member, Dr Roxy Mathew Koll of IITM Pune has been awarded the most prestigious award in India: the Rashtriya Vigyan Pusarkar: Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2024 in Earth Science, for his outstanding contribution in the study of Indian Ocean warming and its implication on Indian Monsoon and marine productivity.  His work provides insight to build better networks and models for predicting monsoon extremes.