Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University

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ESD KU Alumni Received Outstanding Young Scientists Award of European Geosciences Union (EGU) -... The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award of European Geosciences Union (EGU) is awarded to a Bangladeshi young scientist, Dr. Animesh Kumar Gain for his innovative contributions to the integrated assessment of flood risks and water scarcity, considering both physical and socioeconomic di...

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MS admission 2015 - Environmental Science Discipline Admission Announcement Masters of Science in Environmental Science Session 2014-2015 Environmental Science Discipline is inviting application form qualified candidates for admission in Masters program for the session 2014-2015. Detail of the circular will be found in the following link: MS admiss…

PhD Circular 2015
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PhD Circular 2015 - Environmental Science Discipline ADMISSION ANNOUNCEMENT PhD in Environmental Science Session: 2014-2015 The Environmental Science Discipline is inviting application for PhD program for the session 2014-2015. Applications have to be submitted in prescribed form which can be collected and submitted starting from 15 April 2015 until 0…

http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0121-dasgupta-sundarbans-oil-spill-impacts.html

Sundarbans still reeling from effects of December oil spill Last month, an estimated 350,000 liters of fuel oil spilled into the Sundarbans delta on the Bay of Bengal. An oil tanker that had collided with a cargo vessel on December 9th sank into the Shela River, spilling its oil into a protected sanctuary for the rare and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcae…

http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1215-hance-sundarbans-oil-spill.html

Children 'clean' oil spill with kitchen utensils in the Sundarbans On December 9th, a tanker slammed into another vessel along the Shela River in the world's largest mangrove forest: the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. The tanker sank, spilling an estimated 75,000 gallons (350,000 liters) of fuel oil into waterways that are a part of a reserve for threatened Ganges river…

http://www.observerbd.com/2015/01/16/66868.php

Oil seeps into soil, slips into creeks

KU researchers jointly worked with Vanderbilt University, Columbia University and City University of New York on "Flood risk of natural and embanked landscapes on the Ganges–Brahmaputra tidal delta plain".
http://epaper.prothom-alo.com/view/dhaka/2015-01-14/20
The research paper is published in "NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE".

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Prof. Harun's conversation with Banik Barta regardig conservation of the Sundarbans.
http://www.bonikbarta.com/2015-01-15/news/details/25413.html

সুন্দরবন সুরক্ষায় অভিন্ন অঙ্গীকার প্রয়োজন খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের পরিবেশবিজ্ঞান বিভাগের অধ্যাপক। রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান বিভাগ থেকে স্নাতক (সম্মান) ও স্নাতকোত্তর এবং ইকোলজি অ্যান্ড এনভায়রনমেন্ট ব্রাঞ্চে এমফিল ও পিএইচডি সম্পন্ন করেন। পরিবেশবিজ্ঞান গবেষণায় মূল্যবান অবদানের জন্য বাংলাদেশ…

http://www.thedailystar.net/leave-sundarbans-alone-59056

Leave Sundarbans alone THAT the government has reopened the Shela river route for vessel movement is totally unacceptable. It is also frustrating to note that, before doing so, the authorities did not take any safeguarding ...

Prof. Datta's talk on the Sundarbans.
http://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/muktadhara/2015/01/12/174102?fb_action_ids=10205487782291516&fb_action_types=og.comments

সুন্দরবনকে তার মতো থাকতে দিন | মুক্তধারা | কালের কণ্ঠ কালের কণ্ঠ : একজন বিশেষজ্ঞ হিসেবে আপনি তেল দুর্ঘটনা ও পরবর্তী পরিস্থিতি কিভাবে ব্যাখ্যা করবেন? ড. দিলীপ কুমার দত্ত : দুর্ঘটনাটি

Environmental Science Discipline of Khulna University wishes you a happy 2015!

More news regarding KU research on the Sundarbans

http://newagebd.net/80809/mangrove-regeneration-in-danger-ku-study/ .pZf04gdP.sWbW8fud.dpbs

Mangrove regeneration in danger: KU study | New Age Spilled oil contamination seriously affected over 500 square km of the mangrove forest tracts of the Sunderbans endangering its flora and fauna, show a Khulna University environmental science department’s study...