Team Herald
PANJIM: The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will be training the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) scientists and technicians on handling specialized instruments which are required to gauge the climatic change in the area of their operation.
“The advanced hand-on training course for MPCB officials has been organised between August 1 and 12, wherein they will be trained to handle instruments like auto analyzer, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, mercury analyzer and gas chromatography,” NIO has said in its press statement.
The training titled “Advance Analytical Instrumentation Techniques and Their Application in Environmental Field” is for the scientists and technicians of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Mumbai.
“Climate change is a reality now, and the South Asia, with its 12,000 km long stretch of coastline, has been identified to receive maximum burnt from such changes,” it stated.
NIO said that change in climate will impact a large number of population residing in the coastal zone of South Asia, in terms of sea level rise, less frequent yet intense storms, anomalous precipitation, and warmer ocean temperatures. “In addition, rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are causing the oceans to absorb more of the gas and become more acidic,” it added.
“This rising acidity will have significant impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems. The coastal pollution and its impacts have resulted in a number of environmental issues including the enrichment of waters with organic matter leading to eutrophication, pollution by chemicals such as oil, and plastics emanating from land-based activities,” the NIO said.
The press statement said over 80 per cent of all marine pollution originates from land-based sources which are primarily industrial, agricultural and urban.
