Earth, Atmosphere & Environment Sciences

This course is for executives, engineers and researchers from manufacturing, service and government organizations including R&D laboratories; and student students at all levels (BTech/MSc/MTech/PhD).

In view of the increasing awareness of formidable impacts of pollution on mankind and environment, appropriate protection measures need to be adopted to mitigate the pollutants in order to achieve clean environment.

SuChem-2018 is being organised to deliberate and understand the advances and opportunities of sustainable solutions in the context of chemistry, through collaboration between a multidisciplinary community of chemists, biologists, engineers and industries. The conference sets a perfect stage to get acquainted with global experts in the core areas of Catalysis and Material Chemistry, Organic Synthesis including Medicinal Chemistry, Environment, Energy, Health care and Agro-chemistry.

International Geological Congress (IGC) is the prestigious global platform for advancement of Earth Science. Geological Survey of India is the Nodal agency for organizing the 36th edition of conference with active support of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and the support of science academies of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Organizing this event envisages support and cooperation from all geoscientific organizations, institutes and geoscientists of India and Indian sub-continent.

The course contents of this training include the following: Distribution of Glaciers and snow cover, Climate, Morphology of glaciers, Transformation of snow to ice, Paleo glaciation, Distribution of temperature in glaciers, Flow and sliding of glaciers, Glacier Mass Balance, Ice and Snow ablation, Fundamentals of remote sensing, Optical properties of snow and ice, and Response of glaciers to climate change.

This course provides an overview of the key concepts and principles in environmental management, areas of global and national environmental concern, and strategies and tools for effective environmental management. Attempt to understand the genesis of environmental problems; the concerns that lead to various international and national initiatives to tackle them have been made in this course. Various tools, which can be used to address environmental problems and the role that the professionals can play in managing environment in their respective areas would be discussed.