A major research effort concentrates on identifying the global effects of Deccan volcanism, particularly the rate and tempo of the mass extinction, ocean acidification (dissolution effects), high stress effects, such as reduced diversity, dwarfing of species and blooms of disaster opportunistic species. These biological studies are coupled with climate change (stable isotopes), paleomagnetic and magnetic susceptibility studies, and geochemical identification of volcanic minerals tied to Deccan volcanism. This research is part of the PhD project of Jahnavi Punekar (Punekar et al., 2014a, 2014b; Font et al., 2014).