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"IISc research unit on earth sciences"
The Times of India, Divya Sreeedharan, July 27, 2005
Bangalore:
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is bringing a wide
spectrum of study pf sp; od earth, its atmosphere, the oceans, their
inter-relationships, and even the relationship the earth bears to the universe under one research programme-earth system science(ESS).
For this, the IISc is integrating its Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and civil engineering departments, IISc director P. Balaram told The Times of India. This will create and inter-disciplinary programme, involving seismologists, geologists and other specialists.
"An integrated approach will bring advances in allied disciplines to earth science," he said. The IISc already has groups looking at the various subjects that come under the term earth systems science.
The department of science and technology has an ESS division that runs coordinated programmes on deep continental studies, Himalayan glaciology, Indian climate research and related areas.
IISc project is in keeping with the global trend, which has pushed ESS into the fore. Traditionally, earth science has been associated
primarily with geology. "That thinking has now changed," Balaram said. Ecologists are part of ESS, so are geophysicists and geochemists.
On admitting students, he said while research and teaching go hand in hand, it is now too early to think of admissions. "First, let us get the faculty together."
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