PRSU to lead study on impact of carbon in atmosphere
| Date :02-Apr-2019 |
By Partha Sarathi Behera Raipur,
Apr 1 In a significant achievement, Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU), Raipur, will be leading a major research project aimed at finding the role of black carbon and brown carbon on the atmospheric changes and the consequent effect on cloud formation and monsoon, and its impact on glaciers of Leh-Ladakh, Gangotri-Gaumukh and Karakoram mountain ranges. A team of senior professors, research scholars and young scientists led by Dr Shamsh Pervez (Fulbright Fellow Professor) from School of Studies in Chemistry, PRSU, will embark on the mission in the second week of August this year. Professor Pervez said that he has earned this project for PRSU by participating in a rigorous competition held in Assam. “Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a division of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, had conducted the competition and I managed to earn the Research Grant on the basis of my presentation during the competition,” Professor Pervez told this newspaper.
The project is aimed at evaluation of biomass burning emissions, address the atmospheric brown carbon and regional climate change in environmentally distinct Indian regions including glacier regions (Leh-Ladakh, Gangotri-Gaumukh and Karakoram areas). “We are in the process of signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee as the NIH has permanent sites and monitoring systems which will help us collecting samples. It is extremely difficult to carry out study and collect samplings on the glacier without proper monitoring systems,” said Professor Pervez. Professor Pervez said that construction of dams and deforestation cannot alone be blamed for the cloudburst in Kedarnath and Kashmir regions rather huge amount of organic carbon causes cloudbursts and it is the major reasons.
The team of researchers include Dr Renoj Thayyen from NIH Roorkee, Dr Papiya Mandal and Dr Noor Afsa from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), New Delhi, Dr Muzaffar Hussain from Kashmir University, Dr Manas Kant Dev from PRSU and young scientists senior research scholar from PRSU Madhuri Verma and junior research scholar Sushant Ranjan Verma. The project will provide a platform to research scholars across the nation for further study and it will address the atmospheric carbon status in Indian sub-continent region too. Moreover, young research scholars will get open door of premier institutions like NIH, NEERI, IITM to have hands on experience on extremely advanced sophisticated instrumentation and by involving in this project the young researchers of PRSU are expected to get attention from world’s best research scientists from USA, China and European nations, said Professor Pervez while throwing lights on how PRSU is going to benefitted from the project.
Additionally, as far as PRSU is concerned its involvement in this project is expected in assisting upgrading A+ Grade which will be beneficial for more than 25 lakh pass-outs of this university. “Young research scholars will get open door of premier institutions like NIH, NEERI, IITM to have hands on experience on extremely advanced sophisticated instrumentation and by involving in this project the young researchers of PRSU are expected to get attention from world’s best research scientists from USA, China and European nations. Additionally, as far as PRSU is concerned its involvement in this project is expected in assisting upgrading A+ Grade which will be beneficial for more than 25 lakh pass-outs of this university.”