A think tank for science policy and advocacy of the two poles
SaGAA II 2012 / The International Conference on Science and Geopolitics of Arctic and Antarctic (I-SaGAA 2012) in New Delhi was in continuation to SaGAA National 2011. The International Conference held between March 9 and 11, successfully bounded the session on Geopolitics: UNCLOS and the Global Commons Geopolitics of the Global Realms; Biotechnology; Microbial resources in Polar Marine Biodiversity (Prokaryotes, vertebrates and invertebrates) Information Exchange and Intellectual Property Rights, Resources of the Southern Ocean; Ice Core for Paleo Climate Southern Ocean and Solar Impact: Sea ice melting, ice core studies, Southern Ocean experiments, Paleo climate studies; Polar Atmospheric Research: Ozone depletion Meteorological Studies. Some of the senior scientists present were Dr. P.S. Goel, Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Dr. S.W.A. Naqvi, Prof. John Turner, Dr. Timo Koivurova, Dr. Victor Smetacek, Dr. John P. Bowman, Prof. Nalan Koc, Prof. John M. Reynolds, Dr. George John, Dr. S. Shivaji, Dr. B. Meenakumari, Dr. S. Rajan, Dr. Ramesh, Dr. Rasik Ravindra, apart from representatives from the countries such as United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Australia, Norway and Chile. The participation of about 100 scientists was observed in the Conference. Marvellously remarkable was that the number of participants remained the same from the first day to the same from the first day to the last day marking the riveting nature of the proceedings.
The scientific and legal experts from all over the world presented their path-breaking research work.
Created a network group of stakeholders that interacted on a single platform to enable greater unification of global research.
Chief Guest: Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Hon’ble Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences.
