CfPs: International Symposium on "Advances in Coastal Research with special reference to Indo Pacific- 2019 (AdCoRe IP-2019)" | 17-19 December; Chennai, India

International Symposium on "Advances in Coastal Research with special reference to Indo-Pacific (AdCoRe IP-2019)"

17-19 December 2019 | Chennai, India

Organized by National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)

Background

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14) commits countries to unite over what is a truly global responsibility – the protection of our oceans and the lives below the sea. By 2020, countries commit for achieving the sustainable management of marine ecosystems and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds. This will require an international scientific partnership, regulation for fish harvesting, fishing, and enhance our research knowledge on critical issues concerned to the survival of life below water. The Ministry of Earth Sciences is the focal point in the country to provide input on regional and global science based issues for policy making.

Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and NITI Aayog, Government of India, and with support from the UN in India, is spearheading a programme of national consultations among lawmakers, policymakers, academia, private sector and the civil society on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

The National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Chennai is an attached office of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. NCCR aims to apply scientific tools and techniques in addressing problems like erosion, ecosystem changes and seawater quality monitoring to monitor the levels of marine pollutants in the seas around India. The NCCR implemented programmes on integrated coastal and marine area management (ICMAM) plan, GIS-based information for critical habitats, determination of waste assimilation capacity, development of EIA guidelines, determination of 'no impact zone', determination of best use classification for coastal waters, shoreline management plans, ecosystem modelling for coastal habitats, marine ecotoxicology and storm surge inundation modelling. NCCR attracts more interaction by research communities at the national and international level with its competence and capabilities developed for the last three decades and enhance the countries capabilities in addressing the challenging problems prevailing in the coastal zone.

India's focus on oceans and marine resources management has been forward looking. With close to 129 institutions in the country working on marine and ocean related issues, largely supported by four ministries of Government of India. NCCR has a mandate to address the coastal issues and challenges across the coastal states of India. Countries across the Indo-Pacific region are having common coastal problems and issues to be addressed. Hence, to share the scientific knowledge on advances in coastal research an International Symposium on Advances in Coastal Research with special reference to Indo Pacific- 2019 (AdCoRe IP 2019) is being organized by the NCCR, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India in collaboration with RIS. The symposium is expected to attract the global scientific experts, academician, researchers and policy makers onto the common platform of collaborating in the area of global challenges facing coastal regions worldwide. Outcome of the symposium will be useful to better understand the common coastal issues of concern, enhance regional cooperation, devise unique strategies and fine tune national policies across the Indo Pacific region.

Themes of the Symposium

Keeping the focus on "Coastal Research Advances", we invite papers on topics of interest to Ocean Scientists / Academicians /Engineers and Technologists in the following areas:

• Coastal Erosion and Sediment Transport
• Marine Pollution and Marine Litter
• Forecasting Coastal Hazards and Sea Level Change
• Coastal Vulnerability, Floods and Modeling
• Coastal Ecosystems and Modeling – SDG 14
• Climate Change and its Impacts on the Coasts
• Blue Economy (Resources, Energy) and Coastal Governance
• Ocean Technologies and Small Island Developing States

Call for Extended Abstracts

One page extended abstract of research papers giving details on objective, methodology, salient results and conclusions may please be submitted through conference portal online https://www.niot.res.in/Adcore19/themes.php on or before 31st August 2019. Times New Roman Font of 10pt size with single space may be followed for preparation of abstract. The title of paper, authors' names and their affiliations and the E-mail Id for correspondence may be given along with the abstract. 

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CSSP Talk on "Scientometrics in the Twenty-First Century" | Tomorrow at SSS-I, JNU at 4.00 p.m.

Centre for Studies in Science Policy 
Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Invites you to a Special Lecture on

 

Scientometrics in the Twenty-First Century

 

By

Bidyarthi Dutta

(Vidyasagar University, West Bengal)

 

Venue: Room No. 227, 2nd Floor, CSSP, SSS-1 Building, JNU

 

Date: Wednesday, 27th March 2019 | Time: 4:00 pm

 

Abstract: The classical bibliometric indicators were introduced before the year 2000, whereas the modern bibliometric and scientometric indicators were introduced after 2000 (i.e., 21^st century). The notable point is that all classical indicators are mainly based on simple citation counts and some normal averaging processes. The normalization of impact factor was initiated by BK Sen in CSIR-INSDOC in around 1987. The normalization process showed a new way towards the standardization of the impact factor. Whereas, the post-2k scientometric indicators or modern indicators that were all introduced in the beginning of the 21st Century, are based on other various factors apart from simple citation count. These other factors mainly include a number of publications, the relation between top-cited papers' citations and number of publications, number of shares, or views, downloads, likes, etc. The last factors developed another new metrics, i.e., altmetrics, a new metrics concept introduced in 2010. The classical indicators were mainly source-based or journal-based indicators, i.e., it evaluated the source items or the journals. But the post-2k metrics emphasized on individual articles and authors. Starting from h-index, the other related indicators, like g-index, i-10 index, e-index, a-index, and R-index et al. are author-level indicators. A glimpse of all classical and modern metrics is discussed here with relative pros and cons.

 

About the Speaker: Dr. Bidyarthi Dutta is an Assistant Professor, working in the Department of Library & Information Science, Vidyasagar University in West Bengal. He was awarded PhD from Jadavpur University in 2008. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Scientometric Research (Jscires.org).

 

 

 

All are welcome to attend the Lecture. 

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New Book: "Open Access: The Road to Freedom"

Open Access: The Road to Freedom

Edited by Narayan Chandra Ghosh, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Bhaskar Mukherjee, and Jiban K. Pal.; Prova Prakashani, Kolkata, 2018, ISBN 9789383658206.

About the Book:

This is published as the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Information Science (SIS), held in Kolkata during 7-8 April 2017. It contains 27 essays placed in six Sections.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Open Access - the Context

Section 2: Open Access Evaluation

Section 3: Open Access Repositories

Section 4: Open Access Policies

Section 5: Open Access Publishing

Section 6: Open Learning

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New Book "Constructing a Global Technology Assessment : Insights from Australia, China, Europe, Germany, India and Russia"

Constructing a Global Technology Assessment: Insights from Australia, China, Europe, Germany, India and Russia

Edited by Julia Hahn & Miltos Ladikas, KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, ISBN: 9783731508311.

Abstract: Worldwide simultaneous effects of technologies, international challenges such as climate change as well as shifting relationships between science and society call for approaches that can address these issues on a global level. This book examines the potential of Technology Assessment (TA), as an until now mainly national and Western concept, to take on this global level and provide answers to these pressing questions.

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The Case for a Global Technology Assessment

Technology Assessment in Germany

European Concepts and Practices of Technology Assessment

Technology Assessment in Australia

Technology Assessment in China

Technology Assessment in India | by Poonam Pandey, PN Desai & S. Chaturvedi

Technology Assessment in Russia

Constructing a Global Technology Assessment: Its Constitution and Challenges

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Call for Research Proposals under DST's Water Technology Initiative: Research, Technology and Innovation on Nexus of Water with Energy, Food, Health.

Call for Research Proposals under DST's Water Technology Initiative: Research, Technology and Innovation on Nexus of Water with Energy, Food, Health.

1. Preamble:

Water Technology Initiative is a demand oriented user-centric initiative which includes development research in laboratories as well as application research in field. The scope of initiative covers the entire value chain of R&D right from water oriented applied research, pre competitive technology development, technology based classification & assessment of technology options, pilot-demonstration of technology leads from laboratories and academic institutions to evolve a basket of technology options and mounting of technically, socially, environmentally and eventually affordable convergent solutions suited to socio-economic context.

Based on stakeholders' consultation, it is being inferred that there is a need to promote research for cross sectoral interface in the water domain. This is necessary to enhance access to water supply and services and reduce disparities among different sections and regions which calls for a multi-goal optimisation process accounting for sectoral integration of water-food-energy with health-education-equity. 

2. Objective of Call:

The objective of the call is to mobilize study, research, innovation and technology proposals to explore, understand and address nexus of water issues with the sectors e.g. energy, food, health, infrastructure etc. in the context of existing and emerging water challenges in the country especially with reference to reliable availability of water for drinking, municipal, and agricultural requirements. The scope of this call will not include sensing and treatment of industrial waste water and water use efficiency in industrial sector. The present call would support thematic lab based Research Development and Demonstration (RD&D) on Water quality sensing, analysis, treatment and management for addressing issues related to Water-food, Water-Energy, Water-Health, Water-Energy-Food-Health and other cross sectoral Nexus. The topics could include:

I. Treatment and management of Water quality for Public Health, water related disasters, cleaning the rivers etc.

II. System optimization of water supply &treatment systems for optimal water & energy use.

III. New Sensor technologies and intelligent sensor products for real time measurement of water quality and quantity in energy operations.

IV. Sustainable options for water quality such as in-situ remediation.

V. Study of transport and fate of Emerging Contaminants, PPCP and Pesticides.

VI. Sustainable water harvesting, recharge and porous cities (usability, health impacts, efficiency & safe use etc.)

VII. Sustainable Desalination Technologies.

VIII. Optimizing water quality and quantity for different usage.

The above topics are only illustrative and any other topic addressing call spirit can be considered under this call. The call would include following components: 

• 3.1 Action Research Sustainable Integration of alternate energy sources Stream. Proposal should aim at conducting scientific study of the nexus of water issues with other sectors and the outcome should be evidence based action plan. 
• 3.2 Applied Research Stream: Leading to establishment of Proof-of-Concept. Proposal should explore innovative ideas with a view to showcase the unique advantages of their idea over existing alternatives and to demonstrate that their innovative idea has the ability to address a significant end user need. This has to be substantiated by clear articulation on need supported by quantitative performance statement from the participating user. 
• 3.3 Technology Stream: Leading to Lab Scale Demonstration.
• 3.4 Solution Stream: Leading to Pilot Scale Demonstration for technology in field setting. 

Deadline/ Call Closing Date: 15th May, 2019 

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