MoES Secretary to speak at `Prof. Koteswaram Memorial Lecture’ on February 17

The Indian Meteorological Society (IMS), Visakhapatnam Chapter, successful collaboration with Andhra University, is acceptable to big the Padmabhushan Prof. P. Koteswaram Memorial Lecture successful Visakhapatnam connected Tuesday (February 17).

The lecture volition beryllium delivered by M. Ravichandran, the Secretary to the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and volition screen captious advancements successful upwind forecasting, clime resilience, and India’s increasing “Blue Economy” vision.

The lawsuit is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine 3 p.m. astatine the YVS Auditorium wrong the AU College of Engineering.

M. Ravichandran is simply a distinguished physicist and oceanographer, and known for his extended enactment successful atmospheric physics and water dynamics. As the Secretary to the MoES, helium leads India’s flagship initiatives, including the Deep Ocean Mission and Mission Mausam.

The lecture bid commemorates Prof. P. Koteswaram, a erstwhile Director-General of Observatories and a pioneer successful tropical meteorology. He was instrumental successful processing modern theories connected the root of the Indian monsoon and was awarded the Padma Bhushan successful 1975.

AU Vice-Chancellor Prof. G.P. Rajasekhar volition grace the juncture arsenic the Guest of Honour.