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SES is organising a public talk by Ramesh P. Singh

SES is organising a public talk by Ramesh P. Singh

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School of Environmental Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Cordially invites you to a talk on

 

Earth Observing Systems to Understand Land Ocean Atmosphere coupling Associated with Natural Hazards

 

Speaker: Ramesh P. Singh, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA

Date:      18th January 2018 (Thursday)

Time:      3:30pm         

Venue:   Amrita Devi Bishnoi Seminar Hall, SES.

 

Abstract: All kinds of natural hazards occur on land, ocean and atmosphere affecting people living on the Earth. The land where people live is surrounded by ocean; the atmosphere is linkage between land and ocean. The maximum people get affected and losses of properties occur surrounding the location where the natural hazards trigger. Natural hazards have no liking or disliking, it can occur at any time of the day and night. The natural hazards are associated with strong coupling between land-ocean-atmosphere, sometime if the natural hazards occur on the land, ocean and atmosphere get affected. An  overview  of  the  integrated  approach, combining  ground and  satellite  observations will  be discussed in  monitoring  land, ocean, atmosphere  and meteorological  parameters  on  the surface as well as at different pressure levels. An overview of the combined approach ground and satellite data will be presented to get early information about the natural hazards associated with land, ocean and atmosphere.  Use  of  ground  and  satellite observations  are  extensively  used  to monitor earth’s systems to get reliable  early  warning  signals  related  to  earthquakes,  droughts, landslides, dust  storms,  hurricanes/cyclone/typhoons,  forest  fires  and  ocean  pollution. The observing systems have helped scientists and governments to issue early warning of all kinds of natural hazards to evacuate the likely impacted areas from the natural hazards which have greatly reduce the loss of lives throughout the globe.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.