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ACTIVITIES
a) Ongoing Research Programmes
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Sl. No. |
Title of the project and duration |
Funding Agency |
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1 |
National Vegetation Carbon Pool –
Kerala Region |
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
Dehradun, ISRO, Department of Space, Govt. of India, New Delhi |
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2 |
Studies on the earthworm species
diversity at different forest ecosystems of Nilgiri Biosphere
Reserve (NBR) |
Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF), GOI, New Delhi |
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3 |
Chemical transformation and
Bioaccumulation of mercury in Vembanad wetland and Cochin near shore
areas |
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES),
GOI, New Delhi |
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4 |
Municipal Solid waste management with
high-soild digestion technology and vermicomposting |
University Grants Commission (UGC)
New Delhi |
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5 |
A Comparative Assessment, Mapping and
Modelling of Soil erosion in the Upland Sub-watersheds of Meenachil
River |
Western Ghats Cell, Planning &
Economic Affairs Dept., Govt. of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram |
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6 |
Assessment of Explosive weed growth,
their taxonomy, ecology and impact of the Kuttanad wetland
ecosystem, Kerala State |
Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF), GOI, New Delhi |
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7 |
Assessment and mapping of riparian
vegetation and its influence on the stream forms of Pamba River
basin, Kerala |
University Grants Commission GOI,
New Delhi |
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8 |
Environmental status of the Periyar
river drainage system of the Western Ghat region of Kerala |
Western Ghats Cell, Planning &
Economic Affairs, Dept., Govt. of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram |
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9 |
Development of
microbial consortium to enhance the survival of the larvae of
Macrobrachium rosenbergii in hatchery and growth in grow-out
ponds |
University
Grants Commission (UGC) New Delhi |
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10 |
Survival of
Escherichia coli and salmonella spp in a tropical estuary
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DST, New Delhi |
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10 |
Oxidative DNA damage induced by
reactive oxygen substances (two year) |
Indo-German:
DST-DAAD Project |
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10 |
Pulse radiolysis of biomolecules |
Indo-French ARCUS Project |
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11 |
Charge transport in DNA |
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
(BRNS), Bombay |
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12 |
Radiation and
photochemical studies of chitosan modified polycyclicaromatic
hydrocarbons (Environmental Pollutants) |
BRNS |
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13 |
Heavy ion induced modification of
DNA and its components (Three years) |
DAE-IUC |
b) Extension activities :
The
School has launched a major extension programme known as ‘Rain water for
Humanity’ in collaboration with Brown University (USA) and local
panchayath, self help groups (www.raiwaterforhumanity.org
). Through this extension programme, the School envisages to adopt small
villages with an objective of providing basic amenities like drinking
water and sanitation. As a part of this programme the School has installed
a community rainwater harvesting structure with a capacity of 1.1 lakh
liters at Achinakom Panchayath in Kuttanadu region during December 2009.
It is functioning well.
A training programme on water quality assessment was given
to 40 HSS teachers from four districts of Kerala in collaboration with
Suchitwa mission, Local Self Governance Department, Government of Kerala.
The school extended help to the District Disaster
Management Authority in their disaster management activities.
c) Consultancy services
The School is
offering consultancy services in various environment management sectors
like analyzing and monitoring of air, water, soil and noise, environmental
impact assessment studies and EMP report preparation, urban forestry and
green belt development, solid waste management, remote sensing services
like satellite and aerial photo-interpretation, digital image processing,
GPS surveying and digitization, geo-statistical analysis, surface modeling
and analysis, sophisticated geo-processing and raster GIS modeling,
customization and software development, among others. |