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Training and Collaborative Research
The IRI has contributed to enhance personnel skills in climate research and its applications through on-the-job training, graduate training and through collaborative research.
IRI Mahaweli Project Staff atop the Victoria Dam, the principal hydroelectric and irrigation installation in Sri Lanka along with a reservoir operator at the extreme right. Eight staff members have been
recruited for the IRI Mahaweli projects. Of these two have
left as of February 2003. Three were graduate civil engineers and
one agricultural engineer. We also have a GIS operator, documentation
specialist, web-programmer and a data entry operator. The
infrastructure provided to them through the IRI work includes the computational
infrastructure, supply of necessary journal articles and books.
Two of our staff are undertaking research towards a Masters in Water
Resources Management and Oceanography and another towards a B.S in Information
Technology. Training post-graduate students
in Sri Lanka seems to be the surest means of introducing climate
concepts into the wider scientific and engineering community. We
have contributed by means off lecturing assignments at some of the major
Universities in Sri Lanka. These were:
Collaborative Research Collaborative research is being undertaken with Prof. T.D.M.A Samuel of the University of Peradeniya in Tea and Solar Radiation and with personnel in the Mahaweli Authority. We are also undertaking collaborating with many local partners as described in each of the project sites. Contact for more information:
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