POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL

INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

NEW DELHI 110 012

PROFORMA FOR THE APPROVAL OF STUDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND
PLAN OF POST GRADUATE WORK FOR M. Tech STUDENT

1. Name of the student : Sachin verma
2. Roll No. : 20479
3. Date of enrolment : 31/07/2013
4. Discipline : water science and technology
5. Major Field : water science and technology
6. Minor field : Agronomy
7. Other fields : -
8. Degree earned elsewhere : -

Institution/University Subject Year % of marks/OGPA
MGCGVV, Chitrakoot(M.P.)
B.Sc.
(Agri. & Ent.)
2013 /10

9. Proposed Research Problem (Thesis Title):

1. Combo System Rain water harvest and Wastewater Treatment
2. Different Texture Soil Crop Production with Wastewater Irrigation
10. Whether Radioactivity is involved in the proposed research work? : No

11. Composition of the Advisory Committee and its approval for PPW:
Name & designation Division Signature
1. Chairman Dr.Khajanchilal, Principal Scientist Water science and
technology

2. Co- Chairman Dr. Ravindra kour Principal Scientist Water science and
technology

3. Member Dr. U.K,Behra Principal Scientist Agronomy
4. Member Dr. Mahesh Meena Principal
Scientist
Soil science


Recommended by Signature of Chairman:

Signature of Professor: Approved
Signature of Head: Signature of Dean
12. Details of courses proposed to be taken:
Sl. No
Course
code
Course Title
Credits
(L+P)
Trimester
Major course:
1 WST 501 Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics And Hydraulics 3+1 I
2 WST 503 Soil Water-Plant Environment System 2+1 I
3 WST 505 Soil & Water Conservation And Sediment Transport 3+0 I
4 WST 500 Water Resource Management 3+0 II
5 WST5 11 Soil And Water Quality And Irrigation Management 2+1 II
6 WST 608
Diagnostic Analysis And Performance Evaluation of
Irrigation Project
1+3 II
7 WST 504 Principle And Practice of Water management 3+1 II
8 WST 601 Crop Water Requirement And Irrigation Planning 2+1 III
9 WST 506 Hydrology And Watershed Management 3+1 III
10 WST 607 3+0 III
11 WST 691 Seminar 1+0 III
12 WST 691 Seminar 1+0 IV


Minor course:
1 AG505 Dry land Farming And Watershed Management 3+1 I
2 AG 501 Principles of Crop Production 3+1 II
3 AG 003 Agronomy of Summer Season Crop 1+1 III
Others:
1 PGS 501 Library and Information services 0+1 IV
2 PGS 502 Technical writing and communication skills 1+1 IV
3 PGS 504 Basic Statistics Methods In Agriculture 2+1 I

4 PGS-506 History of Agriculture 1+0 III

12. No. of credits of course recommended:
Major Field: 36. Minor Field: 10 Other: 7 Remedial: 0 Total: 53

Division of Water Science And Technology
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
New Delhi 110012

Name : Sachin verma

Roll No. : 20479, M.sc.

Discipline: Water Science and Technology

Phd./m.sc: M.sc

Date of Joining P.G. School: 31July-2013

Major Field: Water Science and Technology

Minor Field: Agronomy

Proposed Title of the Thesis: Use of six type water by misocosm system

Introduction: The use of mesocosms to study six type of the wast and fresh water planktonic
environment has been a major trend of the last decade. These have usually been employed to
examine the effect of a controlled change to the environment, such as pH , light temperature
mesozooplankton or, most commonly, nutrients. Other studies take states resembling natural
environments, but possibly with some initial artificial nutrient enrichment, and follow their
evolution within a mesocosm
Despite this extensive literature there has been recognition that mesocosms have a number of
drawbacks in representing conditions in the open ocean. The physical size of mesocosm
enclosures can vary from 1 m in depth to 18 m or roughly 1400 m
3
in volume. Smaller
mesocosms will have distinct problems with scaling up to oceanic conditions while the vertical
mixing environment in larger enclosures can be made to be very similar to the surrounding

waters Most mesocosm experiments are conducted in less than a few tens of cubic meters of
water (as was the case in the experiments used in this paper). In this scale range, mixing regimes
need to balance the creation of natural water column stratification with minimizing artificial
sedimentation but preventing break-up of diatom chains Deposition of material on the container
walls can be a problem. For example, it has been estimated that some 45% of the nutrient
additions to the PRIME mesocosm bags) ended up being lost to wall growth (Skidmore and
Williams, personal communication).
Some mesocosm experiments are carried out in coastal waters while others are land-based. The
former can perhaps better examine natural forcing, such as wind or rainfall events, but their
results are therefore also harder to interpret as a consequence. The containers need to allow
sufficient light into and out of the system for photosynthesis to be similar to that in the natural
environment being studied, but be robust enough to withstand the necessary mixing regimes
imposed. Light availability therefore varies widely, from 90% transparency to photo
synthetically active radiation to 30% there is also always the question of whether the ecosystem
succession found in a mesocosm experiment actually represents what occurs in natural
conditions or is an artefact of the controlled environment of the mesocosm. Duarte et al. strongly
advocated field experiments as the way to new insights in microbial ecology because of these
various mesocosm limitations. Vallino gives a recent review of some of the disadvantages
discussed above.
Nevertheless, using ecosystem models to study the internal dynamics of mesocosm experiments
has been successful in a number of instances. Baretta-Bekker et al. simulated a shallow coastal
mesocosm in Knebel Vig, Denmark (Baretta-Bekker et al., 1994; 1998). The broad trends of
both the evolution of the ecosystem over 10 days, and nutrient variation, were reproduced. The
later model (Baretta-Bekker et al., 1998) was considerably better at replicating the evolution of
the nutrient factors. This model included: (1) picoalgae and mixotrophs explicitly; (2) the ability
of bacteria to take up both dissolved in-organic and organic nutrients; (3) parameterization of
luxury uptake, where cells do not have to obey the Redfield ratio; and (4) decoupling of the
carbon and nitrogen dynamics. Applying the latter model to the different environment of a
Norwegian fjord mesocosm showed broad agreement with observations in enclosures with no
phosphate limitation, although the magnitude of change tended to be under-estimated for nitrate
and microzooplankton levels

Objectives:
1.Soil health
2.Heavy Metal
3.Nutrients
4.Keeping quality

Reference
Watts, M.C., Bigg, G.R. (2001):Modelling and the monitoring of mesocosm experiments: two
case studies. Journal of Plankton Research

Watts, M. C. (1999) Lagrangian Modelling of the Marine Nitrogen and Sulphur Cycles.
Ph.D. thesis, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Vallino, J. J. (2000) Improving marine ecosystem models: Use of data assimilation and
mesocosm experiments. J. Mar. Res., 58, 117164.
Wangberg, S. A., Garde, K., Gustavson, K. and Selmer, J. S. (1999) Effects of UVB
radiation on marine phytoplankton communities. J. Plankton Res., 21, 147166.