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INDIAN STUDENTS TO HELP TOP SCIENTISTS STUDY CLIMATE CHANGE

February 3, 2008: Top scientists across the world studying environmental changes would now get some professional help from India's school children as well. In a unique initiative, the school children across the country, along with those around the world, will provide vital data about their area online to top scientists, helping them in their study of climate changes. The students are connected to the scientists and over 100 million children of primary and secondary schools across the world through 'Globe Programme' online, sharing data on weather and vegetation of their particular country.

In India, the Environment Ministry on behalf of Globe Programme has launched the concept in over 1,600 schools in 16 states including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Goa, West Bengal and Tripura so far. School children are asked to study four main earth science investigations namely atmosphere (chemistry, weather and climate) hydrology (water quality measurements), soil (moisture, temperature and general characteristics) and land (mapping and biometry) on the regular basis. "Then they report their observation to Globe website 'www.globe.org' which is monitored by the scientists across the world," Avinash Tiwari, Globe scientists for India told PTI. Southeast Asian expert on soil science Eric Stonebraker from USA, Water expert Peters from Australia, Atmosphere expert from Thailand Krishna Dev are some of the scientists on the panel of the Globe Programme keeping a tab on the data provided by the students. (PTI)

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