Young Environmental Scientist Awards 2012 at IIT-M on Feb 11

Chennai: IIT Madras, CLRI and Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA) are jointly organizing “Young Environmental Scientist Awards 2012”.

The program to be held on 11th February 2012 at IIT-M, in the IC&SR Auditorium from 09.00 a.m.

Mr. S Mani, Chairman, IWMA, President (R&D & EHS), M/s. Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. will  inaugurate the function, Prof. R. Nagarajan, Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Madras will be the Chief Guest and Prof. T.S. Natarajan, Physics Department, IIT Madras will demonstrate interesting Physics experiments at the function learning by doing being his style of imparting Science Knowledge.

Mr Ajit  Narayanan, winner of MIT Innovator of Year under 35  Award and recipient of Govt of India grant for development of "Avaz"- that provides a ‘voice to a non-verbal child with Cerebral Palsy will  deliver a special address to the young children and School Teachers.

Teams made up of school children - 9th to 12th Std will make final presentation and exhibit their research projects in area of Environment (such as Recycling, Waste Management, Rain Water Harvesting, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Energy/Water Conservation) at the program.

Dept of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras to host one day seminar

Chennai: Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras is organizing a one-day workshop titled “Onshore Petroleum Spills Case studies in India and the Way Forward” on the 7th of Feb, 2012.

Conducted as a part of the collaborative research project on Fate of petroleum hydrocarbons along with Land and Water Group of CSIRO Australia, experts, researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders from petroleum industry will deliberate on the various issues pertaining to the environmental issues associated with petroleum product spills in refineries, drilling sites, storage sites and retail outlets.

Apart from that, experts from CSIRO Australia and Auburn University U.S.A will also share their experiences in their respective countries.

Minister of Environment, B.V Ramana will inaugurate the one-day workshop. Other dignitaries to be present at the workshop are C.V.Shankar, Principal secretary Environment, Govt of Tamil Nadu and T. Srinavasamurthy, Director of Environment, Govt of Tamil Nadu, Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.