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The 51St Annual Convention of Indian Geophysical Union (IGU): a Report THE 51st ANNUAL CONVENTION OF INDIAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION (IGU): A REPORT The 51st Annual convention of Indian Geophysical services to fishermen, farmers, navigators etc. He Union (IGU) was organized jointly by the Kurukshetra has underlined the urgent need of unified approach University and the IGU during November 19- in education, building human resources, establishing 21, 2014 at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, the state-of-the-art-infrastructure like SHRIMP etc., Haryana state. The annual convention was conducted developing international collaborations, monsoon to provide a platform to discuss the societal problems prediction, the requirement of adequate funds and and to guide the Indian Geo-scientific community to finally converting the science to the service of the focus on the most relevant problems and respond Society. effectively to the risks and challenges of presently witnessed global change that is directly affecting the Prof. Manik Talwani of Rice University, USA, society. All the basic needs of the society - air, water, the Chief Guest of the function inaugurated the food, energy, shelter – are directly related to the convention. He appreciated the spectacular progress optimal use of natural resources and knowledge and the great advances of Geophysics that has taken of Earth system dynamics. The Earth and its place in India in terms of instrumentation, seismic inhabitants face different types of challenges today: investigations and so on. He advised the young development of new sources of energy; exploration researchers to achieve excellence through hard work of new sources of minerals and metals; change and come out with innovations which would help in climate; detail knowledge of surface and sub- India in her development. surface water resources; preventive measures to face natural hazards such as the earthquakes, tsunamis, There were about 150 participants in total from landslides, cyclones, floods, droughts, avalanches different parts of the country. Apart from the and volcanic activity etc. The understanding of award lectures, about 60 oral papers and about 70 different branches of Earth Sciences can help us student posters presentations were presented during in taking up apt measures to resolve many of these the three days convention. Different topics on issues. However, “Earth Sciences and Society" is the atmospheric sciences, solid earth sciences including focal theme of the convention in order to strengthen seismology, marine geosciences and climate change the society. The disciplines of Atmospheric, Space were covered. and Planetary Sciences; Marine Geosciences and Solid Earth Sciences were covered during the three It is heartening to note that the three day annual days convention. After having welcomed the delegates convention provided ample opportunity to the the Local Organising Convener, Dr. Kalachand participants, especially the students and young Sain, Honorary Secretary of IGU, presented the researchers, to better understand the importance secretary’s report. Lt. Gen. (Dr) D.D.S. Sandhu, of scientific endeavours meant to help the society Vice Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, the guest and the environment. After the inaugural function of honour, welcomed the gathering to the university the IGU-2014 awardees delivered their lectures. In and highlighted the importance of Earth Sciences and the first technical session on Atmospheric, Space its influence on the exploration of natural resources, & Planetary Sciences. Results on aerosol gaseous climate change, pollution control etc., interactions, chemical characteristics of dust aerosols due to Anthropogenic emission in Delhi, the vertical Prof. Shailesh Nayak, President of IGU & Secretary, component (Z) of the Earth's main magnetic field, MoES, highlighted the significance of various Plasma density irregularities in the ionosphere, branches of the Earth System Sciences and the seasonal and annual variations in the atmospheric need of integrating the Atmosphere, Geosphere and during the monsoon in India, magnitude of floods and Biosphere. He also informed the gathering about atmospheric storms and depressions due to Zenith various aspects of Koyna Deep Drilling, Institute total delay variations were presented. In the second of Borehole Geophysics at Karad, evolution of session on Young Researcher Program, different Himalayas, Climate change, Earthquake monitoring, approaches such as the seismic and seismological 110 data analysis, regional earthquake studies in and Exploration, Aquifer mapping, Enhanced oil recovery around Indian subcontinent, ocean acidification and Crustal studies etc. Dr. Dimri developed a in southeastern and effects of atmospheric CO2 new method for modeling of complex objects lying concentration in eastern Arabian Sea were discussed. beneath the Earth surface by using fractal geometry. In the third session, on Marine Geosciences topics like This work has been granted a US patent. Dr. Dimri the tectonic evolution of oceanic ridges, continental has made exceptional contributions in the field margins and the mineral wealth of the oceans were of geophysical signal processing by establishing a covered. In the last session on Solid Earth Geosciences, parallelism between deconvolution and inversion recent studies deep earth, exploration of sedimentary and published a book on 'Deconvolution and Inverse basins, geo-tectonics of several provinces, theoretical Theory' for Elsevier, in 1992. and basic fields of geosciene research were discussed. Before each technical session, IGU arranged for KRISHNAN MEDAL-2014 invited talks and memorial lectures in the relevant fields reputed scientists like Prof Manik Talwani, Dr. Gas hydrates is considered to be an N. Indra Gupta, Prof. B.N. Goswami, Dr. S. Rajan, alternative energy resource as well Prof. Nibir Mandal and Dr. Y.J. Bhaskar Rao. Young as a potential natural hazard. Dr. researchers and students showed lot of enthusiasm Pawan Dewangan, Senior Scientist in presenting their scientific results through posters. at the of CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa contributed A special feature of the convention is the Young towards understanding the gas Researcher Programme organized for the benefit of hydrate system in Krishna-Godavari (KG) offshore young researchers, project assistants and the post basin. The analysis of high resolution seismic data graduate students from different universities and shows active migration of methane through the fault institutes of India. Best poster presentation awards system. Methane seeps lead to dissolution of primary were given to research scholars and students, while magnetic minerals and formation of authigenic the best oral presentation awards were handed magnetic minerals such as greigite. over to young researchers. This is to encourage the young brains in Earth sciences to stimulate their ANNI TALWANI MEMORIAL thinking and to motivate them to come into the PRIZE- 2014 realm of Earth sciences. The delegates thoroughly enjoyed the scientific proceedings and the excellent Dr. Kalachand Sain, Senior hospitality provided by the local organizers. In this Principal Scientist at the CSIR- regard, Prof. Dinesh Kumar and his team deserve the National Geophysical Research compliments. Institute, visited Cambridge University,UK and Rice University, The following IGU awards were presented by Prof. USA as a post-doctoral fellow. At present, he is the Shailesh Nayak, President, IGU, during the inaugural Head of Gas-Hydrate Group at CSIR-NGRI. Dr. function and the citations of different recipients are Sain has developed innovative approaches for the given below: delineation and assessment of gas-hydrates, and identified potential zones in the Mahanadi, KG IGU- HARI NARAIN and Andaman offshore, where gas-hydrates were LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT later recovered by drilling. He has overcome the AWARD-2014 challenge of quantifying gas-hydrates in fractures, and assessed, for the first time, 32% average gas- Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri, INSA hydrates in 120m fracture shale in KG basin. He has Senior Scientist at the CSIR- established the 'Centre for Gas Hydrates Research' National Geophysical Research at CSIR-NGRI to pursue cutting-edge research, and Institute, Hyderabad has made acquired high-quality seismic data in the Bay of original contributions in the field of Geophysics Bengal by designing a specific experiment that has by reformulating geophysical problems for realistic revealed new prospective zones of gas-hydrates in KG scaling geology. He is the pioneer of well-known and Mahanadi basins. Scaling Spectral Method. His remarkable work includes extension of fractal theory to address Dr. Sain has published ~150 research articles. He has problems related to the Earth Science like Seismology, received number of awards and fellowships, few are: 111 Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, identified for scale selection of monsoon intra- AP Scientist Award, National Mineral Award, seasonal oscillations. Using a zonally symmetric Raman Fellowship of CSIR, Krishnan Medal of IGU, general circulation model, for the first time, Professor CSIR Young Scientist Award, Best Paper Award by Goswami identified a radiative-convective-dynamical International Association of Gondwana Research, feedback mechanism for generating the northward Best Poster Presentation Award by International propagating 30-50 day mode. He was the first to Conference on Oil & Gas by PETROTECH. He show that a convectively coupled gravest Rossby is a Bureau Member of International Lithosphere wave
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