Int’l conference on Earth and Environmental Science kicks off

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DHAKA, Jan 25, 2020 (BSS) – A five-day International Conference on Earth
and Environment Sciences and Technology (ICEEST) began at a city hotel today.

Faculty of Earth and Environmental Science of Dhaka University organised
the conference marking the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

President Md Abdul Hamid is expected to address the conference tomorrow
(January 26) at the Intercontinental Hotel, said ASM Maksud Kamal, Dean of
the faculty also president of Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA).

Education mister Dr Dipu Moni, chairman of University Grants Commission
(UGC) Professor Dr Kazi Shahidullah and Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University
Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman will be present on the second day of the conference.

A total of 39 sessions will be conducted throughout the conference in
different venues of the university campus where around 430 researchers and
academicians, including 80 from abroad will present their research papers.

Maksud Kamal said after the conference, suggestions titled ‘Dhaka
Ghosona'(Dhaka Announcement), based on the recommendations of the researches
will be provided to the policy makers of the country and the concerned
ministry with an aim to build a bridge among the academicians and the policy
makers.

The aim of the conference is to bring all leading academic scientists,
researchers, and policymakers to share their skills and expertise to increase
collaboration both in the scientific and development strategies using state-
of-the-art technologies.

The conference is being proceeded based on the following sub themes – Blue
economy: global and Bay of Bengal perspective, Search of geo resources:
exploration, development, and management, disaster resilience and
sustainability, environment perspective on population dynamic of population
and regional development from environmental perspective, meteorology, weather
forecasting and its application and delta processes and development.

The conference will help to improve the Geo-Resources development and
overcome natural calamities with lots of tactic on the direction and flow of
technology in the subsequent decades.