Popular Science Lecture - 79

Scientific Drilling: Opening Windows to the Planet’s Depths


Venue: Anna Centenary Library
Kotturpuram
Chennai

September 25, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Organised by Anna Centenary Library, Chennai & TNSF

About Program







This is part of its efforts to popularize science to the general public and students who are pursuing science as their career. TNSF attempt to focus on students on higher science as everyone knows that learning of science at college within the curriculum is not enough to acquire holistic knowledge of science at the appropriate time. Hence, to fill the gap between what students are acquiring through the curriculum and what it is required, TNSF is planning its activities on higher science to students who are pursuing higher education.



About the Lecture
Scientific drilling is the enterprise of strategically digging boreholes to analyse deeper parts of the Earth’s crust. It offers unique opportunities and access to study geohazards and expands our understanding of the Planet’s history, rock types, energy resources, life forms, climate change patterns, and more. With its unique capability to provide exact and fundamental knowledge of the composition of the Earth’s crust, structure and processes, scientific drilling can inform a range of societal problems related to geohazards and georesources. It is therefore an indispensable tool in Earth System Science.

அறிவியல் சார்ந்த துளைத் தோண்டுதல் என்பது பூமியின் உள்சருகுகளை ஆய்வு செய்வதற்காக திட்டமிட்டு ஆழமான கிணறுகளை தோண்டுவதை குறிக்கிறது. இது புவியியல் ஆபத்துகள், புவியின் வரலாறு, கற்களின் வகைகள், ஆற்றல் வளங்கள், உயிரினங்கள், காலநிலை மாற்றத்தின் முறைகள் ஆகியவற்றைப் பற்றிய அறிவை விரிவுப்படுத்துவதற்கான தனிப்பட்ட வாய்ப்புகளை வழங்குகிறது. பூமியின் உள்சருகுகளின் அமைப்பு, அமைப்பு மற்றும் செயல்முறைகள் பற்றிய துல்லியமான தகவலை வழங்குவதன் மூலம், இது புவியியல் ஆபத்துகள் மற்றும் இயற்கை வளங்களுடன் தொடர்புடைய சமூக பிரச்சினைகளுக்கு தீர்வு காண உதவுகிறது. எனவே, அறிவியல் துளைத் தோண்டுதல் பூமி முறை அறிவியலில் ஒரு முக்கிய கருவியாகும்.

SCHEDULE

Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - September 25, 2024

Attendance Registration starts at 4:30 pm

5:00 pm

Introduction

5:10 pm

Dr. Sukanta Roy
Geophysicist & Head, The Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory (BGRL), Karad
The Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India.

Scientific Drilling: Opening Windows to the Planet’s Depths

6:10 pm

Q & A

Speakers

Dr. Sukanta Roy

Dr. Sukanta Roy

Dr. Sukanta Roy , is a trained geophysicist and heads the Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory (BGRL), Karad under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. His primary interests include research in earthquake science through scientific drilling investigations in active fault zones, borehole geophysics, earthquake geology, seismology, geothermics and rock mechanics. His recent achievements includes the design, planning and execution of a 3 km deep scientific borehole and downhole investigations, which provide new insights into the geomechanical and geothermal regime controlling the recurrent reservoir-triggered earthquakes in the Koyna region of western India.

Venue

5th Floor, Anna Centenary Library,
Kotturpuram
Chennai

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