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Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal launched the first Indian Arctic Expedition here today, by handing over the National Flag to team leader National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa Director Rasik Ravindra.
New Delhi, Aug 3 : Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal launched the first Indian Arctic Expedition here today, by handing over the National Flag to team leader National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa Director Rasik Ravindra.
The five-member team comprises of Dr. S. M. Singh, a scientist from the NCAOR; Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Deputy Director Dr. S. Shivaji; Dr. C. G. Deshpande, a senior scientist from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and Dr. Dhruv Sen Singh, a lecturer from University of Lucknow.
India's first Arctic expedition marks a beginning of long term scientific research by Indian scientists in yet another arena of global scientific collaborative research in the difficult polar regions, since the first Indian scientific expedition landed in Antarctica in 1981.
To begin with, the team will initiate three projects in collaboration with the Norwegian Polar Research Institute. They are - Arctic microbes as work horses of biotechnology, measurement of atmospheric aerosols and ions in the Arctic region and Earth Science studies at Svalbard.
During the first phase, scientists will initiate work on the above said projects at Ny-Alesund for two to four weeks in August to September.
The second phase will take off in February 2008, in which four projects will be initiated, including snowpack production of carbon monoxide and its diurnal variability, sea ice microbial communities project, carbon-cycling in the near-shore environments of Kongsfjorden and understanding the link between the Arctic and tropical Indian Ocean.
Currently, Norway, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea and China have their research stations in Ny-Alesund for Arctic research.
ANI
