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SUMMARY:Soil-plant-water-interactions: Challenges with respect to slope remediation and agriculture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nProf. Ankit GARG\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Civil Engineering\nIndian Institute of Technology (IIT)\nGuwahati\nIndia \nAbstract\nThe presence of vegetation in the upper layer of vadose zone results in complex moisture dynamics (soil-root-water interaction) due to the combined effects of transpiration and soil water evaporation. Unsaturated soil-root composite hydraulic properties\, transpiration and soil water evaporation and effect of plant parameters (i.e.\, leaf area index (LAI)\, root length density (RLD) and root area index (RAI)) on soil property are keys for understanding this complex moisture dynamics. Previous studies have not collectively discussed these plant parameters and unsaturated soil properties to understand moisture dynamics in the vadose zone. The gaps between unsaturated parameters and plants parameters are discussed in the context of agricultural field and bioengineered slopes (a type of slope remediation). In the presentation\, critical review will be presented to discuss hydraulic properties of soil-root composite (water retention curve\, hydraulic conductivity) with respect to soil composition\, soil density and cracked soil. Influences of plant parameters\, such as LAI\, RLD and RAI on boundary conditions will be discussed. The efficacy of soil-root composite water retention curve (SRCWRC) incorporation in the field of agriculture as well as geotechnical engineering (i.e.\, for bioengineered slope stability analysis) will be demonstrated. Also\, recent developments about use of visual techniques for estimating soil parameters would be discussed. \nBiography\n\n \n\nDr Ankit Garg is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)\, Guwahati\, India. He is also a World Bank Monitoring Consultant for infrastructure projects in Assam\, India. His background is Civil and Environmental Engineering (PhD\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). His research focuses on investigation of fundamental unsaturated hydraulic properties of soil with vegetation and plant physical root and leaf characteristics\, such as transpiration reduction function\, root distribution\, root area index and leaf area index. He has identified plant relation with unsaturated soil properties for two species Schefflera heptaphylla and Cynodon dactylon. He has been recently involved in working on identifying visual techniques for estimating soil moisture and vegetation cover (collaboration with faculties from design). His work has been published in around 24 journals including inter-disciplinary journals such as “Journal of plant nutrition and soil science”\, “Catena”\, “Hydrological Processes”\, “Ecological Engineering”. He was invited to deliver seminars at various universities in UK\, Germany\, Japan\, China\, Thailand\, Malaysia\, and Taiwan. He was also invited as visiting scientist at University of Leeds for collaboration in green infrastructure.
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/soil-plant-water-interactions-challenges-with-respect-to-slope-remediation-and-agriculture/
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SUMMARY:Application of digital technology in engineering and education: From Game Design to Surveillance system and Visual analysis
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nProf. Charu Monga\nAssistant Professor\nFounder of ARLab\nDepartment of Design\nIndian Institute of Technology (IIT)\nGuwahati\nIndia \nAbstract\nThe utilization of digital techniques (virtual reality\, game design\, surveillance system\, visual analysis) in different sectors such as education\, engineering and behavioural sciences has been on rise in last decade. These inter-disciplinary interventions enhances accessibility to certain information especially in remote areas and thus efficiency and sustainability of any particular system (Engineering infrastructure\, educational institutes\, IT industry etc.). These interventions will be demonstrated using selective projects such as game design for IT sector\, surveillance system for monitoring of crowd movement as well as visual techniques for analyzing vegetation growth and soil properties. \nGame design for education in both digital and also board form brings many opportunities into learnification. Though\, its application has been intense in training managers or employees in different industry sectors\, however\, the design lacked proper balance of “purpose” and “fun” elements. With that perspective\, a new game was designed\, developed and evaluated considering balance of both “purpose” and “fun” elements for enhancing decision making skills of project manager in IT industry. In order to achieve that\, analogy for hospital based scenario was adopted for the game design. The project was executed jointly by ARLab research group with IT industry. In second project\, a low cost in-house surveillance system is developed and evaluated for monitoring crowd movement at venues (festive occasions\, shopping malls\, metro)\, where crowd management is required. In third project\, application of visual techniques (image analysis) for quantifying spatial heterogeneity among vegetation growth and also estimating soil moisture was explored. Field monitoring of landscape (mixed vegetation cover) was conducted. Spatio-temporal variation in vegetation growth parameters were quantified using image processing and correlated with measured hydraulic conductivity in field. Such quantifications are highly useful for numerical modelers to consider non-uniformity in inputting boundary conditions in their simulations and also opens up alternatives for monitoring of such infrastructures\, which are remote. Discussion will be made to explore opportunities of such interventions in various projects. \nBiography\n\n \n\nCharu Monga is an experienced researcher\, academician and designer. With research interest in cross disciplinary domain and passion towards practice based design. She is an Assistant professor working in the area of designing animations\, films\, games\, communication strategy and social innovations. \nHer current research aims to investigate variety of techniques to promote crafts\, culture\, and tradition to empower educational areas. She uses animation techniques\, films\, videos\, virtual reality\, augmented reality\, illustration\, stories\, technology like 3d printing\, participatory and ethnographic approaches to express her design concepts. \nShe has done her dual Masters in Applied Arts from Delhi University and Film making from Film and Television Institute of India. She has also taught at FTII-Pune\, Delhi University\, NIFT and has nine years of industrial experience as strategist\, visualizer\, game designer\, animator and illustrator in various organizations. She has also executed research projects with World Health Partners\, Group Delphoenix\, Industrial Design Centre\, IIT Bombay\, Sumo Digital\, Foundation 9 Entertainment and Digikriti Entertainment. Her work has been sponsored by Red-Cross Society\, UNIFEM to exhibit in galleries such as Romain Rolland\, Habitat Center and Lalit kala Academy to name a few. She was involved in cross-cultural researches on communication\, design education paradigms and creativity methods\, and has presented it in across the globe. She has delivered 21 invited International seminars and workshops at various universities in countries such as Israel\, Taiwan\, Russia\, Thailand and Singapore as a part of her collaborations internationally. In 2014\, she has created ARLab\, laboratory for fostering multidisciplinary ideas and approaches at Department of Design\, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She is also associated with Centre of Rural Technology at IIT itself. She received Microsoft Faculty Research Grant 2015\, Ministry of Human Resource and Development research grant with industrial partners from Microsoft and TCS. Also awarded Film Heritage Foundation fellowship by Film Division in association with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation & Cineteca di Bologna\, L’Immagine Ritrovata. With this she has also extensively published and presented in International journals also conferences.
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