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Director
  • Dr N.P.Kurian Ph. D.
  • Director
  • Email : npkurian@gmail.com
  • Phone(Off) : +91-(0)471 2511501
  • Phone(Res) : +91-(0)471 2593800
 
Projects
 

Ongoing as PI:

  1. Study on depletion of heavy mineral content in the beach washings of IREL, Chavara, sponsored by Indian Rare Earths Ltd.
 

Completed as PI:

  1. Study of Coastal processes  & Hazards along Kerala Coast with particular reference to disaster preparedness, funded by CESS; project completed in 2009
  2. Shoreline Management Plan for west coast, sponsored by ICMAM Project Directorate, DOD ; Completed in 2007
  3. High Resolution bathymetry for the Kerala coast; sponsored by INCOIS, Ministry of Earth Sciences; Completed in 2008
  4. Heavy Mineral Budgeting and Management at Chavara, sponsored by IREL; completed in 2002.
  5. Developing a Coastal Management Plan, Ashtamudi Estuary, Kollam, sponsored by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand (as Project Manager); completed in 2001.
  6. Placer Mineral Transport and Concentration along SW coast of India, sponsored by DST; completed in 1997.
  7. Land use Mapping of Coastal Regulation Zone of Kerala using Remote Sensing, sponsored by SAC/MoEF ; completed in 1995.
  8. Coastal landuse mapping for brackishwater aquaculture using remote sensing, sponsored by Space Applications Centre/ Min. of Agriculture, Govt. of India; completed in 1994.
 

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