Dr. Aseem Chauhan

Honourable Chancellor, AUH delibrating during International Symposium

The Symposium was addressed by Prof Kirk Smith from UC Berkeley who shared the Nobel Prize for Peace with IPCC, Prof. Arthur Frank from Drexel University, Dr. Alena Bartonova from Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director-General Meteorology, Government of India, Prof. Mukesh Khare of IIT Delhi, Prof. Krishnamurthi Kannan Chief Scientist & Head, NEERI, Nagpur, Dr. Gufran Beig, Project Director, SAFAR, IITM Pune, Dr. Sumit Sharma from TERI, Prof. Poonam Kakkar, Chief Scientist, ITR, Lucknow, Prof. Ramesh Chandra, Former Vice-Chancellor, BU & Director, ACBR, DU, Dr. S.K. Tyagi and Prof. Sanjeev Agarwal, Former Additional Directors, CPCB, New Delhi, Dr. Sachchidananda Singh, Principal Scientist, CSIR-National Physical Laboratories (NPL), Delhi, Dr. S.K. Goyal, Sr. Principal Scientist & Head, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Delhi Zonal Centre, Dr. Abhijeet Chatterjee from Bose Institute, Kolkata, Dr. Rajiv Kumar Mishra from Delhi Technological University DTU, Prof. PCS Devara Director ACOAST, Maj. Gen. PK Sharma, Director ALS, Prof. AK Yadav Director, ASAS, Prof. Arvind Chhabra, Director, ASCI, Prof. SN Sridhara, Director, ASET, Prof. Atul Thakur, Director, ACNT, Dr. Kushagra Rajendra, Head, ASEES, Prof PB Sharma, Vice Chancellor Amity University Haryana and Prof. Qamar Rahman, Dean, Research at Amity University Lucknow campus. The International Symposium was presided by Honble Chancellor of AUH Dr Aseem Chauhan.

Experts in the brainstorming session in the International Symposium

Charing the symposium Chancellor Dr. Aseem Chauhan emphasized on the need to come out with solutions for pressing issues, such as stubble burning and identify alternatives to provide a cost-effective solution. An urgent need for development of a robust business model was felt to address stubble burning problem. Dr. Chauhan also impressed upon using new technology initiatives such as making monitoring networks smart and with AI analyzing large scale data from various monitoring stations to derive scientific decisions for decisive interventions.

Dr. Chauhan was also of the opinion that on a short-term basis, immediate attention should be focused on the Hot spots of Air Pollution as have been brought out by IIT Delhi studies. These spots shall yield significant reduction in Air Pollution in the city of Delhi. The AUH facility of MAPAN and NASA AERONET together can provide highly valuable information on the trajectories of pollutants including aerosol, he said. Dr. Chauhan affirmed that “Amity University is committed to bringing together the best experts from around the world and India. To be a part of the solutions to the devastating air pollution problem, we have identified key sources and pollution solutions.”