{"id":35058,"date":"2018-10-31T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35058"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:26:26","slug":"a-boat-lab-to-study-brahmaputra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-boat-lab-to-study-brahmaputra\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Boat Lab\u2019 to study Brahmaputra:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/a-boat-lab-to-study-brahmaputra\/article19724088.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A \u2018Boat Lab\u2019 to study Brahmaputra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Biotechnology will commission a two-tiered barge that will roughly be the size of two large conference rooms and host scientists and a full-fledged lab that will allow those on board to collect samples from various stretches of the river, perform tests on water quality and biodiversity of the wider ecosystem.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The Brahmaputra Biodiversity Biology Boat (B4)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed vessel, now only known as the Brahmaputra Biodiversity Biology Boat (B4), will be linked to smaller boats and research labs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first experiments will likely begin this December and will have the boat a re-purposed one trawl Pasighat, Dibrigarh, Neemati, Tejpur and Guwahati in Assam and managed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cB4\u201d will also have a teaching laboratory for school and college children.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There would also be \u2018mobile labs\u2019 that would run along the tributaries of the Brahmaputra to feed in data to the B4.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A boat of this nature would be one of its kind in the world though there were a few precedents in China and mobile laboratories that studied the Amazon river.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018Boat Lab\u2019 to study Brahmaputra: Context The Department of Biotechnology will commission a two-tiered barge that will roughly be the size of two large conference rooms and host scientists and a full-fledged lab that will allow those on board to collect samples from various stretches of the river, perform tests on water quality and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-boat-lab-to-study-brahmaputra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A \u2018Boat Lab\u2019 to study Brahmaputra:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704818210},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}