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Research Divisions

The Centre has established the following Research Divisions under which the various ongoing research studies are being carried out:

  1. Climate Change Studies
  2. Green Chemistry and Technology
  3. Pollution Studies and Management
  4. Earthworm Studies
  5. Human Ecology and Conservation
  6. Biodiversity and Natural History
  7. Sustainable Development

Research Collaborations

(1)     Clean Energy: An alternate route to fuel cell through chitosan based nano-membranes (with Duke University, U.S.A under Obama – Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative: An Indo – US Institution partnership Programme) 

(2)  Livelihood adaptations and sustainable development of indigenous communities in the Kerala Western Ghats (with Plymouth State University, U.S.A under Obama – Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative: An Indo – US Institution partnership Programme)

(3) Nanofiber structures for efficient enzyme immobilization in membrane applications. [with Technical University of Denmark (DTU)]

(4) Water purification using membrane technology (with Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

(5) Evolving innovative water purification methods incorporating traditional knowledge (with IIT Jodhpur)

(6) Earthworm taxonomy, diversity and ecology (with Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh)

Linkages

International
Name and Institution Areas of linkages
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Pohang, Korea
  • Photoenergy conversion (H2 production, solar cells)
  • Photocatalytic water and air purification
  • Environmental photochemistry
  • Advanced oxidation processes for pollutant degradation
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Climate change and agriculture
  • Land use and agriculture
  • Crop responses and climate change
Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa
Finland
  • Climate policy tools in forest sector related to carbon sequestration, and energy and material substitution
  • Climatic effects and effects on forest
Lund University centre for sustainable studies
LUND, Sweden
  • Land use development,
  • Landscape planning,
  • Regional and urban metabolism (material flow analysis)
  • Industrial ecology,
Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Israel
  • Electrochemical methods in relation to treatment of water and waste-water
  • Hydrogen transport to metals using electrochemical tools
  • Electrodialysis,
  • Heterogeneous ion exchange membranes
  • Desalination.
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  • Membrane Science & Technology,
  • Gas and vapor permeability of polymeric films and membranes,
  • Hybrid membrane systems,
  • Basic research and applications of membranes in chemistry,
ENSIC, Nancy, France
  • Gas separation using membranes
  • Nano particle immobilised membranes
Duke University, USA
  • Membrane distillation,
  • Water treatment,
  • Desalination,
  • Fuel cell development.
University Technology Mara, Malaysia
  • Membranes in water treatment
  • Rubber effluent treatment
Center for International Forestry Research
(Intergovernmental CGIAR Center)
Bogor 16115, Indonesia
  • Remote sensing
  • Land use and climate change
  • Forest carbon accounting
Institute of Zoology and Anthropology

University of Gottingen, Germany.
  • Avian ecology
  • Bird ringing
  • Bird survey
 

 

National
Name and Institution Areas of linkages
Shoolini university
Solan, Himachal Pradesh
  • Earthworm taxonomy
  • Earthworm diversity and ecology
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, Karnataka
  • Conservation of Terrestrial and Aquatic ecosystems
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecology
  • Hydrology
IIT Delhi
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Solid Waste Management
IIT Bombay
  • Advanced oxidation processes (catalytic wet oxidation and Fenton)
Karunya University, Coimbatore
  • Water treatment technology
  • Water resources and management
BARC, India
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Membrane chemistry
  • Water treatment
IIT Delhi, India

 
  • Membrane Synthesis and Membrane Separation
  • Ion Exchange Membrane and Electrochemical Systems
CSMCRI, Gujarat
  • Desalination
  • Membrane filtration (RO, NF, FO, UFO)
  • Water purification – Heavy metal removal
CUSAT, Cochin
  • Disaster management
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Ecoscience Research Foundation, Chennai
  • Vermitechnology
  • Waste management
  • Sustainable agriculture
Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod
  • DNA barcoding of earthworm species of Kerala
  • Molecular taxonomy
University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram
  • Climate change studies
  • Natural resource management
Kannur University, Kerala
  • Resource management
CMS College Kottayam
  • Waste management
  • Earthworm studies
Kerala Forest Research Institute, Thrissur
  • Biodiversity
  • Remote sensing and GIS
National Centre for Earth Science Studies,  Thiruvananthapuram
  • EIA, Environment management
Kerala Forest department
  • Forest resource management
Institute of Climate change , Kottayam
  • Climate change studies
Rubber Research Institute of India, Kottayam
  • Soil and climate change

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