Organising workshops and seminars. Dissemination of research results at conferences, in scientific journals, magazines, newspapers, television, radio and internet. Offering Nansen Fellowships at Universities and institutes in India to conduct doctoral programmes sthrough Memorandum of Understandings for collaborative research. Guiding doctoral and master students for short term internships and research guidance. Teaching specialized courses at the university level.

International winter school on Indian Ocean: Challenges in Meteorology and Oceanography

An international winter school was organized at Cherai, Cochin in association with NERSC, Bergen and Nansen Scientific Society with the theme, Indian Ocean: Challenges in Meteorology and Oceanography from February 6-12, 2010. There were 45 student participants from different parts of the country. Dr. N. Chandramohana Kumar, Registrar, CUSAT has inaugurated this five day event and Capt. D. Vijayakumar, Officer in charge, School of Naval Oceanography and Meteorology, Indian Navy delivered the keynote address. Eminent Scientists like Dr. S.C.Shenoi (INCOIS) Dr. P. N. Vinayachandran (INCOIS), Dr. M. Rajeevan (NARL,ISRO), Prof.Ola M.Johannessen, Prof.Johnny A. Johannessen, Lasse H. Pettersson (NERSC) Prof. Trever Platt, Dr. Shuba Satyendranath (Plymouth Marine Lab, UK) were the key invited speakers to name a few among other delegates.

Workshop conducted: Joint Indo-Russian workshop on Regional Climate Change

Indian Coordinator- Ajith J.K., Russian Co.- Leonid P. Bobylev.

An Indo-Russian workshop on Regional Climate Change was organized in Cochin from October 8-9, 2009 under the DST-RFBR programme. The workshop envisaged to catalyze new initiatives in India and Russia for collaboration to augment regional climate change research, assessment, data synthesis and information sharing, training and coordination between the scientific communities of the two countries in the context of global warming and associated climatic extremities. The delegation from Russia included scientists from Nansen centre, Norway. 6 scientists from Russia participated in the workshop, 44 papers presented in both oral and poster sessions. 6 full papers submitted. 3 project proposals have been submitted by NERCI on the basis of the joint research areas identified at the Indo-Russian workshop in October 2009.

The Indo-Norwegian initiative on climate change science research-Key challenges and Opportunities

One day workshop was organized on 3rd February 2009 at New Delhi by The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) in association with NERSC, Bergen and Bjerkness Centre for Climate research, supported by Norwegian embassy, India. Scientists from NERCI and NERSC delivered talks on the relevant topic.

Indo-Norwegian workshop on Operational ocean modeling and studies of the Indian Ocean

Two day workshop was organized by INCOIS, NERSC & NERCI from March 11- 13th 2009 at INCOIS, Hyderabad. Scientific lectures were given by scientists from NERSC, NERCI and INCOIS. This was followed by a group discussion among the scientists of the three institutions to take steps for strengthening the co-operation and joint research activities.

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