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Workshop reviews polar research projects

PANAJI: A two-day national workshop on “Review of research projects for planning of Indian scientific expedition to Arctic and Antarctic”, held recently at the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), sought to identify the thrust areas and various scientific programmes of polar science and technology.

South Goa-based NCAOR is a research institution coming under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

As many as 18 research proposal for Arctic and 41 for Antarctic were reviewed during the workshop. The proposals contained projects that would be carried out during the second expedition to Arctic and 28th expedition to Antarctica.

India has been successfully carrying out scientific research in Antarctica since 1981-82 from the research base Maitri. A new station is likely to come up at Larsemann Hills shortly.

Sources in the NCAOR said the focus of the review was on synergising the research efforts and formulating inter-disciplinary, long-term studies in collaboration with different institutes to ensure optimum use of resources and to make impact in polar science.

The scientific projects covered diverse subjects in atmospheric and biological sciences, geology, geophysics, glaciology, oceanography and paleoclimate.

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