Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/Trainings

Conferences Conducted (2017 onwards)

ICW-2018, International Conference on Water: From Pollution to Purification , in association with Advanced Centre for Environment Studies and Sustainable Development (ACESSD) during 7-10 December 2018
International Conference on Air pollution and monitoring (ICAM-2019) 8-11 March 2019
National Seminar on Air Quality Monitoring and & Inauguration of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring System with the support of DST-PURSE, September 3, 2019
4^th Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference (Virtual Mode) , in collaboration with Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala and Sponsored by Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, Associates Applied Geology for Society and Environment, Germany (AGSE), Advanced Centre for Environment Studies and Sustainable Development (ACESSD) and Charitable Society for Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Response Training (HAERT), October 9-10, 16-17, 2020
International Seminar on Polar studies was organised in connection with the inauguration of the International Centre for Polar Studies (ICPS) by Mahatma Gandhi University in collaboration with National Centre for Polar and ocean research (NCPOR), Goa on 24 June 2021.
ICW-2023
5^thDisaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference, in association with Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala and Sponsored by Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, Associates Applied Geology for Society and Environment, Germany (AGSE), Advanced Centre for Environment Studies and Sustainable Development (ACESSD) and Charitable Society for Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Response Training (HAERT), January 19-21, 2023

Trainings and Workshops (2017 onwards)

The State Level Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment 2018 in association with Directorate of Environment and Climate Change (DoECC), February 8-10, 2018
State Level Training cum Workshop on Wetland Monitoring 2018 conducted at School of Environmental Sciences in association , 7-10 March ,2018
Training programme on Environment Management- Basics and Approaches , in association with Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), Govt of Kerala, 27-30, November 2018
Training programme, Vembanad ecosystem project centre at Kumarakom in collaboration with Craftpair, Kochi and Kumarakom Gramapanchayath. 05- 07 December. 2017
Online Training PROGRAMME on “RS and GIS applications in water shed management conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 08-04-2019
Online Training PROGRAMME on “Advances in forest remote sensing” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 05-03-2019
Online Training PROGRAMME on “Principles of Polarimatric SAR Remote sensing and its processing” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 18-02-2018
Online Training PROGRAMME on “Satellite Remote Sensing in agro metero applications” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 03-12-0218
Online Training PROGRAMME on “ RS and GIS applications ” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 29-10-2018
Online Training PROGRAMME on On “Global satellite navigation system and geographical information system” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 17-09-2018
Online Training PROGRAMME on “Geospacial inputs for enabling master plan formulation under AMRUT subscheme” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 23-07-2018
Online Training PROGRAMME on “Hyperspectral Rote Sensing and its applications” conducted by IIRS- ISRO Dehradun, 21-01-2018
Environment Monitoring Training, March 4,5 & 6 2021
Hands-on training in Advanced Instrumentation Techniques, October 28 – November 16, 2021
Hands-on Training on Trace Metal Analysis ,supported by DST-PURSE –II January 11- 13 ,2022
The State Level Workshop on EIA Techniques and Processes 2022, in association with the Directorate of Environment and Climate Change (DoECC) , March 09-13, 2022.
State Level Training Program on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Techniques EMAT 2023, in association with Directorate of Environment and Climate Change (DoECC), March 16-20, 2023

International Biodiversity Day 2022

biodiversity day brochure 2022

Water Day 2022


M I Y A W A K I Inauguration of planting By Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Sabu Thomas Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. C.T. Aravindakumar 27.11.2020
4th Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Conference (DRVC 2020) October 9,-10, 17- 18 2020 In collaboration with Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA)
International Conference on water: From Pollution to Purification (ICW 2020) Online Date: December, 12-14, 2020 Jointly Organized by Inter University Instrumentation Centre (IUIC), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development (ACESSD), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India Society of Environmental Chemistry and Allied Sciences (SECAS), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

W E B I N A R on

Draft Regulation on EIA 2020

World Environment Day 2017

The school takes great pride in joining the global community in commemorating World Environment Day on 06-05-2017. As part of unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship, the department meticulously organized a series of activities and events designed to foster heightened awareness and promote sustainable practices and a challenge to plant a tree was also initiated.

Embracing our collective responsibility, our students, faculty, and staff have made a solemn pledge to safeguard the environment by adopting ecologically conscious habits, reducing waste generation, conserving energy resources, and championing biodiversity preservation.

The Erudite Program

The School has been effectively involved in the Scholar-in-Residence programme of the Kerala State Higher Education Council and the Mahatma Gandhi University. Under this programme four Nobel Laureates viz., Prof. Ferid Murad, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA, Prof. Robert Huber, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, Prof. J. Diesennhofer, University of Texas South Western Medical Centre USA ,and Prof.Sir Harold Walter Kroto , Florida State University, U.S.A . Besides, more than 25 scholars visited the school under this programme.

Dr. R. Satheesh memorial Lecture

Every year on April 28, the School of Environmental Sciences remembers Late Dr. R Satheesh, who was the coordinator of the School since its inception in 1995 and later appointed as the Reader in the school from 2000. The sad demise of Dr. R Satheesh on April 28 ,2006 made an unfilling gap in the School. In memory of his outstanding contributions as a teacher, researcher and coordinator, the School conducts memorial lectures in every year. Dr. Ashish Kothari, Mrs. Aruna Roy, Mr. R.R Shukla IFS are a few among the eminent persons who delivered talks as a part of this memorial lectures.

List of conferences / seminars organised and the scientists/academicians participated

Sl.No.	Name of the Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops	Funding source	outstanding participants
1	LAKE-2012, National Conference on Conservation and Management of Wetland Ecosystems conducted at School of Environmental Sciences, MG University, Kottayam during November 6-8, 2012.	DST, KSCSTE, MG University, Kerala state Biodiversity Board	Dr.T.V.Ramachandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Dr. Subash Chandran, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Dr Ligi Philip, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras , Dr.V.N.Rajasekaran Pillai, Executive Vice-President, KSCSTE, Thiruvananthapuram
2	National Seminar on Sustainable Development, conducted at School of Environmental Sciences, MG University, Kottayam 2012	MG University
3	International conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP2012) Oct.5-8, 2012, Kottayam	BRNS, KSCSTE, DRDO, ISRO
	Adriana Zaleska, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Bahneman Detlef, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, GERMANY Chantal Houee Levin, LCP, Orsay Cedex Choi Wonyong, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea Christophe Colbeau-Justin, Université Paris-Sud, France Constapel Marc, University of Wuppertal, Dept. Math. & Nat. Sci. Analyt. Chem., Germany Cooper William J., Urban Water Research Center, University of California, Irvine, USA Esplugas Santiago, University of Barcelona, Marti i Franques, Spain Hyun-Ha Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan Remita Hynd, Universitaire Paris-Sud, France Trojanowicz Marek, Warsaw University, Poland Saha A., UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata, India Gomathi Devi L., Bangalore University, Karnataka Halan Prakash, BITS-Pilani, Goa Naik D.B., BAARC, Mumbai Ramaraj R., Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India Satyajit Shukla, NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram
4	National Conference heavy Metals in the Environment’ during November 28-29, 2013, School of Environmental Sciences, MGU	DoECC, MG University
	Dr. MNV Prasad, Hyderabad University Dr. Nandita Singh, NBGRI, Lucknow Dr. Dinesh Mohan, JNU Dr.V.Subramaniyan, JNU
5	International Conference on Frontiers of Mass Spectrometry- ICMS 2013 (September 6-9, 2013)	BRNS, ISRO, DRDO, DST
	R. Srinivas, National Center for Mass Spectrometry, Hyderabad, India Olivier Laprevote, Paris Descartes University, France S. K. Raza, Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology, India Gopal Vaidyanathan, Waters India Pvt. Ltd., India Venkateswarlu Panchagnula, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR – NCL), Pune Mahesh J. Kulkarni, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Kenataro Yamaguchi, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan S. K. Aggarwal, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India Ramaswamy Babu Rajendran, Bharathidasan Univeristy, India Shashin Sha, Bruker Daltonics India Pvt. Ltd. Suresh Kumar, SVNIT, Surat, India S. K. Gupta, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India Nagarjuna Nagaraj, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany Abdul Jaleel, Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, India Mahesh Hariharan, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram V. Nataraju, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India Sangram Pattanaik, Thermo Fisher Scientific India Pvt. Ltd. Jitendra Kelkar, Shimadzu Analytical India Pvt. Ltd. Ashok Kumar Malik, Panjab University, Patiala, India P. G. Shah, Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India S. Prabhakar, National Center for Mass Spectrometry, Hyderabad, India Vivek Dhyani, Agilent Technologies, India
6	Nineteenth National Symposium on Environment (NSE-19) , December 11-13, 2014 at School of Environmental Sciences, MG University	BRNS, KSCSTE
	Dr. SR Wate, NEERI Dr. PM Ravi, HPD, BARC, Mumbai Dr. SP Kale, BARC Dr. Mukesh Sharma, IIT, Kanpur Dr. GG Pandit, BARC Dr. DN Singh, IIT Mumbai
7	International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP 2014), September 25-28, 2014 Munnar,	DST, BRNS,DRDO, ISRO
	Michael R. Hoffmann, California Institute of Technology, USA L. Gomathi Devi, Bangalore University, India Mehmet A. Oturan, Universite Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallee, France Collin G. Joseph, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia Anju Chadha, IIT, Madras, India Halan Prakash, BITS Pilani, Goa, India Sathyajit Shukla, CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, India D. Fatta-Kassinos, University of Cyprus Sushil Kumar Kansal, Dr. S. S. Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India K. Indira Priyadarsini, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India Minjoong Yoon, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea Renato Falcao Dantas, University of Campinas, Limeira SP, Brazil Christophe Colbeau-Justin, CNRS-Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France D. B. Naik, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India Urska Lavrencic Stangar, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia Randolph P. Thummel, University of Houston, USA Stephan Brosillon, Universite Montpellier 2, France Vincent Goetz, Rambla de la Thermodynamique, Perpignan, France Conchi Ania, Instituto Nacional del Carbon, Spain Vasundhara Singh, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India Isabel Oller Alberola, Plataforma Solar de Almeria-CIEMAT, Spain Amrit Pal Toor, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India N. R. Shiju, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands S. V. Sreenivasan, Center Leather Research Institute, Adyar, India
8	International Conference on Frontiers of Mass spectrometry, December 11-14, 2015. Kottayam	DST
	Marc J-F Suter, Eawag, Switzerland Michael W. Linscheid, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany Athula Attygalle, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Evgeny Nikolaev, Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Achille Cappiello, Università di Urbino, Italia Olivier Laprevote, Paris Descartes University, France R. Srinivas, National Centre for Mass Spectrometry, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India Abdul Jaleel, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Venkateswarlu Panchagnula, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR – NCL), Pune Keshava Prasad, Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore, India Suman S. Thakur, CSIR- Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India Laurent Debrauwer, INRA, TOXALIM, Toulose, France Bhaswati Chatterjee, NIPER, Hyderabad, India M. Joseph, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, Tamilnadu, India Pierangela Palma, University of Urbino, Italy George Mathai, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi, India Igor Popov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Amit Kumar Mandal, St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore, India
9	OSI workshop on “Membrane technology” in collaboration with Duke University, August 2015	UGC	1. Andreas Kaiser, Technical University of Denmark 2. Pushpito Ghosh, CSMCRI, Gujrat 3. Yoram Oren, Bengurion University, Israel