Themes

Four and a half billion years of the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere evolution has incubated the earth the way we see it today. The active Himalayas, sedimentary basins, river systems, mineral and fuel resources, and biotic spectrum of this earth are the result of interaction between surface and deeper earth processes in time and space. Natural hazards like earthquakes, Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and Landslide lake outbursts floods (LLOFs), landslides, extreme hydrological events, and climate change involve a socio-economic impact that is to be understood with well-informed geoscientific knowledge. Mineral wealth, Rare Earth Elements (REE), and fuel that form crucial economic drivers keep requiring a newer research impetus. The world community keeps innovating ways to understand these processes of mineral and fuel genesis, methods of exploration and production, and hazard mitigation for humankind to sustain a better future.

This leads to a volume of new technologies and new knowledge that requires a platform to be discussed and disseminated. The Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee started to build this platform in its golden jubilee year (ESICET-2013) and this conference is the second edition in that sequence that will allow the Indian earth science community to share the new geoscientific excitements across the sub-disciplines and career levels.