BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2737f61e2d7019fb6848c22f00b04b6f CATEGORIES:Conference / Symposium CREATED:20211120T121115 SUMMARY: A Symposium on “Future of the Environment and Our Role” LOCATION:FLAME University - Ramanujam 1 DESCRIPTION:The symposium will host experts from various areas of Environmental Studies as climate modelling, policy, law and governance, phenomenon of monsoons, GIS ,conservation and environmental education to name a few.\nOpening and W elcome Address\n09:00\nTalks by -\n Mr. Jayant Kulkarni, Director, Wildlife Research and Conservation Foundation, Pune\n09:15\nDr. Ramesh Vellore, Sci entist E, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune\n10:00\nGroup Phot ograph and Tea Break\n10:45\nMr. Mayuresh Prabhune, Science Journalist, Kha gol Vishwa and CCS, Pune\n11:00\nDr. Raja Sengupta, Associate Professor, Mc Gill School of Environment ,Montreal\n11:45\nMs. Marianne Manuel, Dakshin F oundation, Bangalore\n12:30\nLunch Break\n13:15Panel Discussion on Career G uidance\n14:30– 16.30Vote of Thanks\n16:30Refreshments\n 16:35 \nMr. Jayant Kulkarni, Director\nJayant Kulkarni has a B.Tech and an M.Tech degree in C hemical Engineering from IIT (Mumbai). Although an engineer by qualificatio n, his passion has always been for wilderness and nature. To pursue his int erest, he joined the Indian Forest Service (IFS) from Maharashtra cadre. He was trained in wildlife management at Wildlife Institute of India (WII), D ehradun and was awarded silver medal for his performance. Jayant served as an IFS officer in Maharashtra and was posted in Melghat Tiger Reserve. Afte r a few years of service, he resigned from IFS and returned to working acti vely in nature conservation, a field close to his heart. Jayant’s main inte rest is in nature conservation that can be linked to people’s participation . Currently, Jayant is the Executive Director of Conservation Programs. Jay ant is an excellent bird watcher and photographer. He loves to trek, be in the wild, and is a foodie at heart.\nDr. Ramesh Vellore, Scientist E\nDr. R amesh K Vellore works as a Scientist E at Indian Institute of Tropical Mete orology, Pune. His expertise in the area of Atmospheric dynamics, global &a mp; regional modeling.\nHe is MSc (Madras) in Physics); M.Tech in Atmospher ic Sciences from IIT(Kharagpur); MS in Applied Math from University of Kais erslautern, Germany; MS and PhD in Atmospheric Physics from University of N evada, Reno, USA. He has been felicitated by the Deutscher Academischer Aus tausch Dienst Award in 1999. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union. His research publication is mainly in the field of Climate Change, Global and regional climate modeling, Dust storms and Aerosol Transport Modeling, Dynamical downscaling, Predictabilit y and ensemble forecasting and Air-sea interaction. His Research Highlights on Impact of ENSO on variability of AIRS retrieved CO2 over India.\nMr. Ma yuresh Prabhune, Science Journalist\nMr. Mayuresh Prabhune is an amateur as tronomer since 1998. He is working for an organization – “Khagol Vishwa” in Pune. Professionally, he is a Science Journalist and through his work, he popularizes Astronomy and Science using Media. He is Secretary at Centre fo r Citizen Science, Pune and has worked on projects like “SATARK”, a landsli de warning system. He is also involved in a project called as “Project Megh doot”. It is a is a seven year ambitious project with a thought to study th e phenomenon of Monsoon across India. The purpose of the study is to docume nt the relation between Indian Summer Monsoon and the Indian society and th at between the Monsoon and the nature. This project will collect traditiona l knowledge about the Monsoon from various languages, castes, tribes and cu ltures all over the India and will ultimately create the ever First Monsoon Encyclopedia. The documentation will be of immense utility to various agen cies, farmers, fisherman, administrators, researchers and policy-makers.\nD r. Raja Sengupta, Associate Professor\nDr. Raja Sengupta is Associate Profe ssor in the Department of Geography & McGill School of Environment. He is also an Associate Member in the School of Computer Science at McGill Uni versity, Montreal, Canada. He did his M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from IIT Bomb ay and then MS (Geology) and PhD (Geography) from Southern Illinois Univers ity- Carbondale. He has received many international research grants, e.g. N ational Geographic and ICIMPACTS to name a few. His current research intere sts are in Agent-Based Modeling of complex biological and social systems. H e also works on using GIS to understand anthropogenic disturbances on ecosy stems and related policy issues.\nMs. Marianne Manuel, Dakshin Foundation\n Marianne Manuel has done her M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from TERI Unive rsity, New Delhi. She is an Assistant Director at Dakshin Foundation, Banga lore. She actively works towards the long-term vision and strategy for the institution, fundraising, administration as well as facilitates coordinatio n between the programmes. Her research and interventions focus on issues ar ound coastal governance and fish worker networks. Working closely with othe r environmental organisations and fish worker unions to carry out training and workshops on coastal laws and governance mechanisms. Some of her projec ts are: Advocacy support to National Campaign for Protection of Coasts (NCP C), Communicating legal information to fishing communities and Environmenta l Law Omnibus-an open access online repository on environmental laws in Ind ia.\n \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The symposium will host experts from various areas of Environmental Stud ies as climate modelling, policy, law and governance, phenomenon of monsoon s, GIS ,conservation and environmental education to name a few.

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Opening and Welcom e Address

09:00

Talks by -

 

Mr. Jayant Kulk arni, Director, Wildlife Research and Conservation Foundation, Pune

09 :15

Dr. Ramesh Vel lore, Scientist E, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune

Group Photograph and Tea Break

10:45

Mr. Mayuresh Prabhune, Science Journalist, Khagol Vishwa and CCS, P une

11:00

Dr. Raja Sengupta, Associate Professor, McGill School of Environment ,Montreal

11:45

Ms. Ma rianne Manuel, Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore

12:30

13:15

Panel Discussion on Career Guidance

14:30– 16.30

Vote of Thanks

16:30

Refreshments

 16:35

 

Mr. Jayant Kulkarni, Director

Jayant Kulkarni has a B.Tech and an M.Tech degree in Chemical Engineer ing from IIT (Mumbai). Although an engineer by qualification, his passion h as always been for wilderness and nature. To pursue his interest, he joined the Indian Forest Service (IFS) from Maharashtra cadre. He was trained in wildlife management at Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun and was awarded silver medal for his performance. Jayant served as an IFS officer i n Maharashtra and was posted in Melghat Tiger Reserve. After a few years of service, he resigned from IFS and returned to working actively in nature c onservation, a field close to his heart. Jayant’s main interest is in natur e conservation that can be linked to people’s participation. Currently, Jay ant is the Executive Director of Conservation Programs. Jayant is an excell ent bird watcher and photographer. He loves to trek, be in the wild, and is a foodie at heart.

Dr. Ramesh Vellore, Scientist E

Dr. Ramesh K Vellore works as a Scientist E at Indian Inst itute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. His expertise in the area of Atmospher ic dynamics, global & regional modeling.

He is MSc (Madras) in Ph ysics); M.Tech in Atmospheric Sciences from IIT(Kharagpur); MS in Applied M ath from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; MS and PhD in Atmospheric P hysics from University of Nevada, Reno, USA. He has been felicitated by the Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst Award in 1999. He is a member of t he American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union. His rese arch publication is mainly in the field of Climate Change, Global and regio nal climate modeling, Dust storms and Aerosol Transport Modeling, Dynamical downscaling, Predictability and ensemble forecasting and Air-sea interacti on. His Research Highlights on Impact of ENSO on variability of AIRS retrie ved CO2 over India.

Mr. Mayuresh Prabhune, Science Journalist

Mr. Mayuresh Prabhune is an amateur a stronomer since 1998. He is working for an organization – “Khagol Vishwa” i n Pune. Professionally, he is a Science Journalist and through his work, he popularizes Astronomy and Science using Media. He is Secretary at Centre f or Citizen Science, Pune and has worked on projects like “SATARK”, a landsl ide warning system. He is also involved in a project called as “Project Meg hdoot”. It is a is a seven year ambitious project with a thought to study t he phenomenon of Monsoon across India. The purpose of the study is to docum ent the relation between Indian Summer Monsoon and the Indian society and t hat between the Monsoon and the nature. This project will collect tradition al knowledge about the Monsoon from various languages, castes, tribes and c ultures all over the India and will ultimately create the ever First Monsoo n Encyclopedia. The documentation will be of immense utility to various age ncies, farmers, fisherman, administrators, researchers and policy-makers.

Dr. Raja Sengupta, Associate Professor

Dr. Raja Sengupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & McGill School of Environment. He is also an Associate Memb er in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada . He did his M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from IIT Bombay and then MS (Geology) and PhD (Geography) from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale. He has r eceived many international research grants, e.g. National Geographic and IC IMPACTS to name a few. His current research interests are in Agent-Based Mo deling of complex biological and social systems. He also works on using GIS to understand anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystems and related policy issues.

Ms. Marianne Manuel, Dakshin Foundation

Marianne Manuel has done her M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from TERI University, New Delhi. She is an Assistant Director at D akshin Foundation, Bangalore. She actively works towards the long-term visi on and strategy for the institution, fundraising, administration as well as facilitates coordination between the programmes. Her research and interven tions focus on issues around coastal governance and fish worker networks. W orking closely with other environmental organisations and fish worker union s to carry out training and workshops on coastal laws and governance mechan isms. Some of her projects are: Advocacy support to National Campaign for P rotection of Coasts (NCPC), Communicating legal information to fishing comm unities and Environmental Law Omnibus-an open access online repository on e nvironmental laws in India.

 

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