Course Status : | Completed |
Course Type : | Core |
Duration : | 16 weeks |
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Level : | None |
Start Date : | 01 Dec 2020 |
End Date : | 31 Mar 2021 |
Enrollment Ends : | 31 Dec 2020 |
Exam Date : | 10 Apr 2021 IST |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
William F. Ruddiman Earth's Climate: Past and Future. 2014. Third Edition. ISBN-10: 1-4292-5525-0; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-5525-7; Format: Paper Text, 464 pages https://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/product/earthsclimate-thirdedition-ruddiman#tab
Rahul Chopra is the coordinator and co-lead of a global climate change education project of the International Science Council that aims to integrate climate change education in the curriculum across the world. He is also the course coordinator and convener of the National Resource Center on Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. He is a member of the Expert Group on COVID-19 in Pune as part of the Pune Knowledge Cluster; Ambassador and Advisor to The Earth Project; visiting Professor at Ashoka University and a member of the Climate Collective Pune. He was the former chair of the Centre for Earth and Environment at FLAME University, Pune and was an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies there.
His interests are multidisciplinary and include curriculum development in Earth and Environmental Studies; the use of satellite derived remotely sensed and in-situ data to evaluate our changing environment; historical GIS and the spatial humanities; field based geological and environmental studies, and the use of high resolution chemical analyses instruments and data to study various earth and environmental processes. He received his Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, USA.
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