On completing fifty years (1968–2018) and as a part of its Golden Jubilee Celebrations, the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) will be organising a three day national conference of earth system science with special reference to Himalaya from Wednesday. Addressing the media, WIHG director Meera Tiwari said that Governor Krishan Kant Paul will inaugurate the conference with the ‘Water Man of India’, Rajendra Singh as the guest of honour.
She said that participants from across India will present their research findings under special thematic sessions for two days. The third day will be dedicated to field visits to geologically important sites located between Mohand and Mussoorie. The thematic areas for the conference include crustal evolution and tectonic framework, climate change and geological processes, geological resource potentials, science of natural hazards, sedimentary basins, stratigraphy and past life of Himalaya and geophysical studies in the Himalaya and Indian subcontinent. Over 150 researchers and geoscientists from different academic and research organisations/institutes will be attending the meeting and deliberating on vital themes concerning the Himalayan ecosystem. Participants from various institutions like Banaras Hindu University, Kumaon University, Central University of Karnataka, Institute of Seismological Research (Gandhinagar), Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, University of Burdwan, Geological Survey of India, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (lucknow), HNB Garhwal University, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, CSIR Central Building Research Institute (Roorkee), Aligarh Muslim University, Sikkim Central University,University of Kashmir, Manipur University, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing and others will be attending the conference.