2011 News
IP boy visits Antarctica for research
Published: May 16th, 2011
Charu Singh, Tribune News Service
A second year student from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha (IP) University has crossed the Antarctica frontier, participating in intensive polar research alongside 53 other international students.
Aman Malik, a second year student from the School of Chemical Technology, is the only Indian student who became a part of the research team that visited Antarctica in February this year.
"Aman was part of a 53-member student researcher team from 10 countries across the globe to do research on polar region, especially about Antarctica, from February 14 to 28. The team did the research on the area on different topics like, wildlife, glacier, water, geology, ocean, etc. He was selected by a Canadian research organization 'Students on Ice' to do special research on the Antarctica region. The organization every year selects 86 members to do intensive research on South Pole and North Pole. Apart from students, researchers, historians and scientists are inducted in the team to do the same," said Nalini Ranjan, the spokesperson for IP University.
Aman said, "It was really a great experience. We had to do research at an average temperature of -10° C. On February 14, I was one of the 53 students selected from around the world and only one from India to participate in the 'Students on Ice' educational expedition to Antarctica. The mandate of this organization is to take young students to the Polar Regions and through the process of learning, discovery and exploration create new polar ambassadors. The students in the future will influence the polar regions through science, policy and education".
"We were accompanied by a group of 33-staff members which included polar historians, environmental scientists, educators, researchers, engineers and politicians from some of the leading universities and organisations in the world," said Aman.
He said, "I was for the duration of this trip involved in a field course and research programme in glaciology provided by the University of Ottawa and the University of Alberta, Canada."
Original source taken from: Tribune News Service
- Canadian Circumpolar Institute – University of Alberta
- Carleton University - Canada's Capital University
- LTU — University of Technology
- McGill University
- University of Alberta — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- UCLA — University of California Los Angeles
- University of Ottawa, Canada's university
- University of St Andrews — Scotland's first university, founded 1413
- ArcticNet - a Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada
- APECS - Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
- Canadian Museum of Nature - Musée canadien de la nature
- Canadian Polar Commission — Commission canadienne des affaires polaires
- International Polar Year 2012
- United Nations International Year of Youth (IYY) August 2010-2011
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
