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National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research

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Abbreviation
  
NCAOR

Region served
  
India

Main organ
  
Governing Council

Headquarters
  
Vasco da Gama, Goa

Director
  
Dr. M. Ravichandran

Formation
  
25 May 1998; 18 years ago (1998-05-25)

The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) is an Indian research and development institution, situated in Vasco, Goa. It is an autonomous Institution of the Department of Ocean Development (DOD), Government of India which is responsible for administering the Indian Antarctic Program and maintains the Indian government's Antarctic research station, Maitri. NCAOR was established on 25 May 1998, with Dr. P C Pandey as its founding director. NCAOR is known for its participation in global experiments, hosting of international conferences and in the leadership of international committees concerned with Antarctic science. At present, NCAOR is an agency working under Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India since 2006, by the notification of the President of India.

NCAOR complex is a home to a special low-temperature laboratory and is setting up a National Antarctic Data Centre and a Polar Museum.

The NCAOR operates in different fields or tasks:

  • storing ice core samples, from Antarctica and the Himalayan Mountains.
  • operating the Himadri Arctic research station in Spitsbergen, Norway.
  • managing the oceanic research vessel ORV Sagar Kanya, the flagship of India's fleet of oceanographic study vessels. This ship has contributed significantly to India's study of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean.
  • it supported the KBCAOS, University of Allahabad from initial stage of establishment up to the final stage of the center as full-fledged faculty center, in form of a project as per collaborative work with the University.

    • This centre was previously referred to as Antarctic Study Centre. It came in existence with joining of Dr. Prem Chand Pandey as director on 12 May 1997.

    References

    National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research Wikipedia
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