Aquatic Environment Management is a relatively new yet very important subject of Fisheries science. Aquatic Environment Management mainly deals with the scientific study of the aquatic environment. Aquatic environment is facing tremendous anthropogenic stress all around the world. Whether it is freshwater, marine or brackish water environment all are facing unique challenges. Mankind is using the aquatic resources of this earth as sink of their wastes. Whether it is oil pollution or pesticide pollution or sewage pollution all are deteriorating the aquatic environment and ultimately posing great threat to the inhabitants of these environments i.e. aquatic organisms- aquatic plants, plankter, fishes etc. Apart from these, global climate change is also severely affecting the aquatic environment in terms of sea level rise, increase of sea surface temperature, shrinkage of freshwater etc. Aquatic Environment Management is an effort to scientifically analyse these problems and finding suitable solution for betterment of mankind. Adopting scientific approach is the only way to find out the root cause of these problem and to find out suitable remedies for sustainable utilization of the aquatic resources. Apart from that the department also deals with environmental constraints faced by the aquaculture sector.
M.F.Sc. degree programme in the Department of Aquatic Environment Management commenced in the year 2016. Subsequently in the year 2018 the department started its PhD programme. Details of different degree programmes offered by the department are shown below:
Details of different degree programmes offered by the Department of Aquatic Environment Management (AEM)
Department | Programs | Year started | Approved Seats | |
Aquatic Environment Management (AEM) | UG | 1988 | 28 | |
PG | 2016 | 4 | ||
PhD | 2018 | 2 |
The department is having modern laboratories and classroom facilities for its PG students. At present, the department is having 5 well equipped laboratories to cater the needs of the PG students. Separate classroom facility equipped with AV aides is also available at the department for PG teaching.
Mandate of the Department
The mandate of the department is to generate human resource in the field of Aquatic Environmental Science and to carry out the mandatory responsibility of exercising the tasks of teaching, research and extension programme with relevance to the North Eastern Region of India and the country as a whole.
Mission
The mission of the department is to produce high quality manpower required to carry out scientific investigation on different aspects of aquatic ecosystem environments.
Goals
Objectives
| UG Courses | ||||
| # | Course No. | Course Title | Course Credit | Syllabus |
| 1 | AEM 110 * | Swimming | 1(0 + 1) | |
| 2 | AEM 112 * | Meteorology, Climatology and Geography | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 3 | AEM 113 * | Soil and Water Chemicstry | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 4 | AEM 123A * | Limnology | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 5 | AEM 123B * | Marine Biology | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 6 | AEM 212 * | Fishery Oceanography | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 7 | AEM 213 * | Aquatic Ecology, Biodiversity and Disaster Management | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 8 | AEM 312 * | Coastal Zone Management | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 9 | AEM 322 * | Aquatic Pollution | 2(1 + 1) | * courses are compulsory |
| Masters Courses | ||||
| # | Course No. | Course Title | Course Credit | Syllabus |
| 1 | AEM 501 * | Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 2 | AEM 502 * | Chemical Interactions in the Aquatic Environment | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 3 | AEM 503 * | Ecology and Management of Limnetic Environment | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 4 | AEM 504 * | Aquatic Pollution and Wastewater Management | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 5 | AEM 505 | Environmental Toxicology | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 6 | AEM 506 | Environmental Biotechnology | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 7 | AEM 507 | Integrated Coastal Zone Management | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 8 | AEM 508 | Analytical Techniques in Environmental Sciences | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 9 | AEM 509 | Planktonology | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 10 | AEM 510 | Fisheries Oceanography | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 11 | AEM 511 | Aquatic Microbiology | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 12 | AEM 591 * | Master's Seminar | 1(1 + 0) | |
| 13 | AEM 592 * | Master's Seminar (Thesis) | 1(0 + 1) | |
| 14 | AEM 599 * | Master's Research | 0(0 + 0) | * courses are compulsory |
| PhD Courses | ||||
| # | Course No. | Course Title | Course Credit | Syllabus |
| 1 | AEM 601 * | Advances in Aquatic Environmental Studies | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 2 | AEM 602 * | Ecology of Plankton and Benthos | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 3 | AEM 603 * | Benthic Ecology | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 4 | AEM 604 | Estuarine and Coastal Oceanography | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 5 | AEM 605 | Aquatic Plant Resources and Environment | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 6 | AEM 606 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 7 | AEM 607 * | Management and Utilization of Wastewater | 3(2 + 1) | |
| 8 | AEM 608 | Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Fisheries | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 9 | AEM 609 | Dispersal and Fate of Pollutants | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 10 | AEM 610 | Restoration Ecology | 2(1 + 1) | |
| 11 | AEM 691 * | Doctoral Seminar (Major) | 1(1 + 0) | |
| 12 | AEM 692 * | Doctoral Seminar (Minor) | 1(1 + 0) | |
| 13 | AEM 699 * | Doctoral Research | 0(0 + 0) | * courses are compulsory |
(1) Eleven (11) numbers of M.F.Sc. graduated passed out from the department during the period 2016-2020.
(2) Four (4) post graduates of the department are serving in the State Fisheries Department as Fisheries Development Officer.
(3) Two (2) post graduates of the department cleared National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by ASRB, New Delhi during the year 2020.
(4) Three (3) post graduates of the department were awarded with Himalayan Junior Research Fellowship leading to PhD degree.
(5) The department is offering 5 Himalayan Junior Research Fellowships sponsored by National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS), Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India from the year 2018-21 leading to PhD in the department. Five students are currently availing this fellowship. Five Junior Research Fellows carrying out their research works in 5 different rivers of North East Himalayan region namely Diyung, Doyang, Dikhou, Umtrew & Kopili.
(6) Two (2) post graduates of the department are currently serving in World Bank sponsored APART programme.
(7) Two (2) numbers of practical manuals on "Soil Analysis" & "Plankton Analysis" were developed by the faculty members of the department.
(8) One of the faculty of the department Dr. S. K. Bhagabati had been awarded DBT overseas fellowship to US for higher studies in the field of Aquatic Environment Biotechnology in the year 2015.
(9) E-course on "Soil & Water Chemistry" (FS10) developed under Open Call for Course Content Creation & Review of e-learning courses under NAHEP component-2 by one faculty Dr. Rajdeep Dutta.
(10) Faculties of the department also attended a good numbers of seminars, workshops, training etc. in the field of Fisheries Science.
(1) One international research project entitled "Transboundary microplastic contaminations in fish and aquatic food chain" funded by Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Japan is going on in the department.
(2) Four research projects funded by agencies like Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India and are going on in the department.
(3) Thirty three (33) research publications in Journals of International & National repute came out from the faculty members of the department during the last 5 years.
DNA barcodes were generated for 41 fish species from North Eastern Himalayan region under a NMHS sponsored project "Assessment of Environmental Health and Ichthyofaunal Biodiversity of Tirap and Tissa rivers of Arunachal Pradesh and promotion of Fish centric supplementary livelihood options through a participatory approach". These sequences were successfully submitted to NCBI and accession number received.
(4) Toxicity of a synthetic phenolic antioxidant, butyl hydroxytoluene (BHT), in vertebrate model zebra fish (Danio rerio) embryo has been successfully performed and LC50, EC50 and TI are established.
(5) An endangered silurid catfish, Pterocryptis barakensis (Siluridae) was first reported from Brahmaputra drainage, North Eastern Himalayan region of India outside its type locality. Mitogenome sequence of the species generated for the first time.
(6) Hydrobiological profile of River Kolong in Nagaon, Central Brahmaputra valley zone was studied.
(7) Hydrobiological studies of Morakolong beel (floodplain wetland), Morigaon District, Central Brahmaputra valley zone, Assam successfully completed.
(8) Acute Toxicity and behavioural changes in Zebra Fish, Danio rerio (Hamilton, 1822), exposed to a Neonicotinoid pesticide “Thiamethoxam” was studied in the department and LC50& EC50 values were calculated.
(9) Effect of profenofos toxicity on fingerlings of Labeo gonius (Hamilton 1822) was studied and LC50& EC50 values were calculated.
(10) Environment health of River Kopili, Central Brahmaputra valley zone, Assam was investigated.
(11) Limnological profile of 77 no. Dandua beel of Morigaon District, Central Brahmaputra Valley Zone was studied.
(12) Productivity and aquatic diversity study of Damal beel of Morigaon district of Assam successfully completed.
(13) Environmental integrity of Northern Plain Region of the River Umtrew (Digaru) in Meghalaya and Assam with special reference to its pollution status successfully completed.
(14) Carbon sequestration of a floodplain wetland (48 No. Thekera beel, Morigaon district) of central Brahmaputra Valley zone, Assam estimated for the first time.
(15) Productivity and fish diversity study of Dzii river of Kohima, Nagaland determined.
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