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Manipuri scientist at Antarctica expedition | |||
By: Atom Samarendro * | |||
Imphal, January 16, 2007: In yet another pride for the people of Manipur one young scientist from Manipur has left India on January 10 for 26th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica to explore one of the east Antarctic coastal areas known as Larsemann Hills.
According to Dr. Gajananda who talked to this correspondent just before their departure said the expedition team will carry out different scientific activities at Maitri, India’s permanent station in Antarctica and explore one of the east Antarctic coastal areas known as Larsemann Hills.
The members assembled at Goa from 31st December, 2006 for the final briefings before proceeding to Antarctica. The members attended fire fighting and prevention training and different briefing lectures on medical, physiological aspects and scientific mandates organized by National Centre for Antarctic Research NCAOR.
Today, in recognition of his achievement in the field of science and technology, he was recognized by the Marquis Who’s Who 2007 in the field of Engineering and Science and Who’s Who in Asia. He was nominated from the Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, Delhi and sponsored by the (NCAOR), Vasco-da-Gama, Goa. In the present expedition his main scientific research are to carry out Environmental Impact Assessment baseline data collection and long-term ecosystem study of east Antarctica. At the same time study of soil and biological entities for 14 Carbon dating will also be carried out with his collaborators. The winter component of the team consists of 10 members in the present batch. They will stay back at Maitri and the summer component in which Dr. Gajananda belong to will come back to India by March/April 2007. Related Article on Gajananda Atom Samarendro contributest to e-pao.net regularly. This release was webcasted on January 18th, 2007 |
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