KU & University of Georgia ink MoU on climate change impacting Indian monsoon

 Saturday, 25 MAY 2024 | PNS | NAINITAL

In latest news from Uttarakhand, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Kumaun University and University of Georgia, one of the oldest public universities in the United States, to study the behaviour of the Indian summer monsoon. While the professor of Geology of Kumaun University, Rajiv Upadhyay and the professor of Geography of Georgia University David F Porinju inked the agreement.  Notably, under the research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation USA, both the universities will jointly study the behaviour of Indian summer monsoon. The faculty members and research students from the Geography department of the University of Georgia will come to India In September and in collaboration with Kumaon University will study the changing behaviour of the Indian summer monsoon due to climate change.

Lauding the initiative, the vice- chancellor of Kumaun University Diwan Singh Rawat said that the ongoing changes in monsoon patterns have a great impact on farmers which ultimately leads to agricultural productivity and added that the Indian summer monsoon is also changing due to climate change.