International Exposure

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Assignment to the International Ocean Institute to undergo the training programme on United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, its Implementation and Agenda 21, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1997.  The training focused on complex issues of ocean management, Law of the Sea, Implementation of UNCED (Chapter 17, Agenda 21), Oceanography, Management of Living & Non-living resources, Integral Coastal Zone Management, Ports, Harbours, Shipping and Navigation and EIA to have a holistic approach in the integration of Ocean Management leading to a National Development Strategy.
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Assignment to Andaman & Nicobar Islands on request of Directorate of Fisheries, A&N administration for suggesting the Technological Inputs to the existing Craft and Gear and also to introduce new Fishing Methods suitable to Island conditions. 
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Assignment to Bedford Institute of  Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada on receiving the POGO-IOC-SCOR fellowship -2002 to pursue studies in Time Series Analysis and Remote Sensing
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Assignment to attend the First Chlorophyll Workshop and Meeting (the extended Antares network) was sponsored by GEO and GOOS, and organised by POGO at the  Plymouth Marine Laboratory, U.K during 18-22 September 2006.  The workshop   focused on the ecosystem and social benefits and also to send a common message to GEO from the ocean community.A net work of scientists with common interests and goals was proposed working to produce internally a consistent result on world scale. 
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Assignment to Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Kuwait for presenting paper at the International conference on Science and Technology for Aquaculture, Fisheries and Oceanography organized by Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research, at Kuwait, 10-13, February, 2007
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Assignment to Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Kuwait to deliver invited talk on Marine Biodeterioration and Marine Biofouling from 4-8, February 2008
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Assignment to Phuket, Thailand to attend "Global conference on Aquaculture 2010" and General Council Meeting of Network of Aquaculture Centres of Asia Pacific, Phuket, Thailand, 21 to 26 September   2010
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Assignment to  London, UK  to attend the Planning Meeting For NF-POGO Alumni held at Royal Society, London, 19 to 23 October  2010
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Assignment to Bangkok, Thailand to attend the Search Committee meeting of Director General for Network of Aquaculture Centers of Asia-Pacific, at Bangkok, Thailand, 15 to 16 February, 2011
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Assignment to Kulalampur, Malaysia to attend workshop on 'Empowering Vulnerable Stakeholder Groups in Aquaculture, 5-10 February, 2012
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Assignment to Cambodia to attend the General Council Meeting of Network of Aquaculture Centres of Asia Pacific, at Cambodia, 27-29 March   2012
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Assignment otBangladesh to participate as Guest of Honour in the Regional Workshop on 'Hilsa fish and its potential for aquaculture' involving participants from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Malaysia organised by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC). 
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Assignment to Vietnam to attend the Governing Council Meeting of Network of Aquaculture Centres of Asia Pacific, at Can Tho, Vietnam, 25-28 February 2013
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Assignment to St. Petersburg,  Russian Federation to attend the 7th session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries(COFI) on Aquaculture at St. Petersburg,  Russian Federation 7-11 October 2013
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Assignment to General Council Meeting of Network of Aquaculture Centres of Asia Pacific (NACA) at Vientiane, Lao PDR, as GC Member, March 24-28, 2014
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Assignment to Trawl Impact workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand during September 11-13, 2014 organised by FAO and University of Washington, Seattle. 
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Assignment to General Council Meeting of Network of Aquaculture Centres of Asia Pacific (NACA) at Bali, Indonesia, as GC Member, May 4-8, 2015
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Assignment to Norway to attend 8th Trondheim conference and review meetings under CEBPOL (Centre for Biodiversity Law and Policy and Law), Trondheim, Norway, 30th May - 4th June 2016
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Assignment to participate in the 13th Conference of Parties (CoP13) to the Convention of Biological diversity (CBD) and 2nd Meeting of the Parties to the CBD serving as Meeting of the Parties (CoP-MoP 2) to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), Cancun, Mexico 5-9 December 2016
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Assignment to participate in the inception workshop o fthe UNDP-GEF Global ABS Project held at UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub facilities Istanbul, Turkey, 27-28 April, 2017
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Assignment to attend the UN conference on Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 : Conserve and Sustainably use the Oceans, Seas and Marine resources for sustainable Development at UN Headquarters, New York, 6-9 June 2017
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Assignment to the Third ABS dialogue on 'Key Challenges and Practical Ways Forward for the full Implementation of the Nagoya protocol and its contribution to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda', held from 24-25 May, 2018 at Mexico City, Mexico.
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Regional Workshop on the Implementation of Aichi Target 11 in the ASEAN and Meeting on Target Setting for the ASEAN Strategic Plan on Environment 2016-2025, 30 July - 2 August 2018, Manila, Philippines
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Assignment to the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties (CoP-14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CoP-MoP 9) and third Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CoP-MoP 3) to Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) from 22-24 November, 2018 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt