CHENNAI: Two city-based research laboratories will conduct research around the Indian coast on marine debris because the Centre launches its first main challenge to tackle air pollution within the sea, particularly plastic waste.
Scientists from National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) will collaborate on the two-year pilot challenge, funded by means of ministry of earth sciences, to assess the standing of micro plastics polluting the Indian waters. Based on the knowledge, the researchers will get a hold of answers which can pass into framing the national marine litter coverage.
Researchers will broaden an intensive database on the beginning, typology, pathways and traits of marine debris around the 7,500km sea coast. They will determine the source, quantify and classify the litter and draw up a map on waste circulation within the coastal waters. “Unless we determine the other resources and sorts of marine plastics, we cannot draw up a coverage,” stated M V Ramanamurthy, director, NCCR.
The two institutes will start by means of figuring out hotspots along the sea coast. NIOT, which has the experience to broaden generation for ocean research, will provide knowledge buoys and tools for collecting sediment and water samples, and for measuring other water-related parameters. NCCR scientists shall be concerned within the analysis of the information collected.
“With knowledge buoys, we will measure pollutants like dissolved oxygen and many other environmental parameters within the coastal area. We will conduct bathymetry and other research very similar to what we did within the Cooum restoration challenge,” stated M A Atmanand, director, NIOT.
R Venkatesan, head, ocean commentary systems, NIOT, whose group shall be concerned within the deployment of the tools, stated, “We may even acquire water and sediment samples and take measurements as much as 10 nautical miles.” In a record on the development of regional motion plan on marine litter, NCCR has caught a glimpse of the waste on seashores and clogging coastal waters. It features a learn about on Marina Beach, the place the consequences indicated that plastic, paper and wood litter form a majority of the waste followed by means of food and metal. Waste generated from land, together with leisure activities on the seaside, used to be a big source of the litter.
IIT Madras and National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, are some of the few others establishments which shall be part of the challenge. “We are making plans to rope in NGOs, because we want more public interplay. We may even paintings with other countries, as India is part of UN’s clean seas campaign,” Ramanamurthy stated.
Scientists from National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) will collaborate on the two-year pilot challenge, funded by means of ministry of earth sciences, to assess the standing of micro plastics polluting the Indian waters. Based on the knowledge, the researchers will get a hold of answers which can pass into framing the national marine litter coverage.
Researchers will broaden an intensive database on the beginning, typology, pathways and traits of marine debris around the 7,500km sea coast. They will determine the source, quantify and classify the litter and draw up a map on waste circulation within the coastal waters. “Unless we determine the other resources and sorts of marine plastics, we cannot draw up a coverage,” stated M V Ramanamurthy, director, NCCR.
The two institutes will start by means of figuring out hotspots along the sea coast. NIOT, which has the experience to broaden generation for ocean research, will provide knowledge buoys and tools for collecting sediment and water samples, and for measuring other water-related parameters. NCCR scientists shall be concerned within the analysis of the information collected.
“With knowledge buoys, we will measure pollutants like dissolved oxygen and many other environmental parameters within the coastal area. We will conduct bathymetry and other research very similar to what we did within the Cooum restoration challenge,” stated M A Atmanand, director, NIOT.
R Venkatesan, head, ocean commentary systems, NIOT, whose group shall be concerned within the deployment of the tools, stated, “We may even acquire water and sediment samples and take measurements as much as 10 nautical miles.” In a record on the development of regional motion plan on marine litter, NCCR has caught a glimpse of the waste on seashores and clogging coastal waters. It features a learn about on Marina Beach, the place the consequences indicated that plastic, paper and wood litter form a majority of the waste followed by means of food and metal. Waste generated from land, together with leisure activities on the seaside, used to be a big source of the litter.
IIT Madras and National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, are some of the few others establishments which shall be part of the challenge. “We are making plans to rope in NGOs, because we want more public interplay. We may even paintings with other countries, as India is part of UN’s clean seas campaign,” Ramanamurthy stated.
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