green, serene campus free from urban noise and National Conference National Conference pollution. There are about 700 faculty, 1000 non- on on teaching employees and 16000 students in the campus. Challenges in Earth System Science for Challenges in Earth System Science for Global Sustainability (CESS-GS) Global Sustainability (CESS-GS) Patron & & Prof. S. K. Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Kharagpur 1st Alumni Meet 1st Alumni Meet Organising Committee Chairman: Prof. Anil K. Gupta, Head, CORAL 15 – 17 January 2020 15 – 17 January 2020 Convener: Prof. Arun Chakraborty Co-convenor: Prof. ANV Satyanarayana Registration Form National Advisory Committee: Dr. M. Rajeevan (Secretary MoES) Name: …............................................................... Mr. K. Sivan (Chairman ISRO) Organisation: ….................................................... Dr. S. S. C. Shenoi (Director, INCOIS) ............................................................................... Dr. M. Ravichandran (Director, NCPOR) Interest Area(s): .................................................... Dr. Virendra M. Tiwari (Director, NGRI) Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh (Director, NIO) Submitting Paper: ................................................. Prof. Ravi Shankar Nanjundiah (Director, IITM) Announcement (Oral/Poster/Participation only) Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra (DGM IMD) Contact address: ................................................... Dr. S. Christopher (Director, DRDO) Dr. Raj Kumar (Dy Director SAC) ............................................................................... Organized by Shri Santanu Chowdhury (Director NRSC) E-mail id: .............................................................. Dr. C. V. K. Prasada Rao (KUFOS) Telephone (O): ..................................................... Prof. A. D. Rao (IIT DELHI) Mobile: ................................................................. Local Organising Committee: Registration Fee details: ....................................... Prof. M. K. Dash, Prof. M D Behera, Prof. C Shaji, Prof. K Jayanarayanan, Prof. Partha Chakraborty, Prof. About IIT Kharagpur A K Rai, Prof. P Deb, Prof. P. C. Pandey, Prof. Abhijit It is the first technical institution in India that Mukherjee, Prof. D. J. Sen, Prof. B. Sahoo, Prof. H. established in the year 1952 by the first Prime Warrior, Prof. P. K. Bhaskaran. Minister of India, Honourable Pandit Jawaharlal Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Nehru at the Hijli Detention Camp in Midnapore Address for Correspondence district of West Bengal. Presently offering Sciences (CORAL) Prof. Arun Chakraborty / Prof. ANV Satyanarayana, B.Tech., M.Sc., M.Tech., M.B.A., L.L.B. and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Ph.D. degrees in different branches of Science and CORAL, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721302. engineering. The Institute is a self-contained Mobile: 09733539295/09933040079 township laid out over 2100 acres lush E-mail: [email protected] Introduction understanding and development of the Earth System Registration Fee (INR) Tremendous progress has been made by the Science. researchers in understanding the functioning of Themes the Earth System and, in particular, the impact Regular registration: Rs. 5000/- of human actions. Although this knowledge can Atmospheric Process: Urban Boundary Layers, Students: Rs. 2000/- inform management of specific features of our Model Physics, Monsoon Processes, Air Pollution Exhibition Stalls /booth: Rs. 20,000/- world in transition but societies need knowledge modelling and Impact on weather and climate, that will allow them to simultaneously reduce Western disturbances, Atmospheric Rivers Participants are required to prepare a DD of the global environmental risks while also meeting Oceanic Processes: Air-Sea interaction, Mixed registration fee in favour of “CEP-STC, IIT economic development goals. This need for Layer Processes, Barrier Layer, Coastal and Kharagpur”, payable at Kharagpur, from a food security, water, improved health and estuarine process, Waves, Tides, Eddy movement, nationalized bank. Participants are requested to human security, and enhanced energy security carbon budget, Bio-geo-chemical cycling, Remote submit a 2-page abstract, 12 point double space for eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and Sensing of Oceans. Shifting of Fishing zone, Sea that will be reviewed by a committee of ensuring ecosystem integrity. Answering these Level Change and Impact. Ocean Acoustics for experts, and paper for oral and poster questions will require reorientation toward new Naval Applications. presentations will be selected accordingly. research that better allows science and society to address the needs of decision-makers and Modelling of the Earth System Components: ACCOMMODATION/TRAVEL citizens at global, regional, national, and local Recent advances of Atmospheric modelling, scales. Ocean Modelling, River and Tide impact, All participants are expected to meet their Terrestrial dynamics and modelling, Cryosphere TA/DA from own sources. Subsidized food and Scientists have twofold challenges: (i) develop changes and modelling, Biodiversity. Application accommodation can be provided to the strategies to respond to ongoing global change of Remote Sensing. while meeting development goals, and (ii) participants at their own cost in the guest deepen knowledge of the functioning of the Cyclone and Thunderstorms: Track and houses of IIT. Earth System. Promoting sustainable Intensity of cyclone. Thunderstorms, its impact development requires research on a wide range and recent changes. of social, economic, cultural, institutional and Extreme Events: Flash flood events, heat waves, IMPORTANT DATES environmental issues. Sustainable development Storm Surges, Tsunami, Land Slides, and forest is no longer possible without addressing fires. interactions with global change dynamics and Abstract submission: till 29 November 2019 deep understanding the components of the earth Climate Change and Sustainable Development: systems (Atmosphere, Oceans, Biosphere, Climate Change and Impact on water, food, Abstract acceptance: 01 - 15 December 2019 Cryosphere and Lithosphere). Therefore, the energy and health. Sustainable development goal. Registration Open: 10 - 30 December 2019 main purpose of this conference towards the important dimension of the larger sustainability agenda is to focus on the latest.