On 26th August 2021, UMT invited Dr. Hong Chern Wern, Executive Manager of Water Watch Penang, to share his experience about river system conservation with the student who enrolled MMS3003 Environment – Issue and Global Perspective via WebEX. The title of his presentation was River and Water Awareness Education Programme, focusing on how education can help increase awareness to conserve the Malaysia river system. Dr. Hong also shares several methods used by researchers to determine water quality. One of the interesting discussions between the audience and Dr. Hong is the role of an aquatic insect as the water quality indicator. At the end of the talk, Dr. Hong showed Malaysian river pollution status, categorised into different states based on the Water Quality Index by the Department of Environment, Malaysia. After the talks, a round table discussion between the audience and Dr. Hong focuses on how we as educators and students can help increase awareness to help conserve our freshwater resources. For more information about Water Watch Penang, please visit https://www.waterwatchpenang.org/.
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A series of online webinars that cover various topic on Geoscience has been conducted by the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. The webinar series aimed to provide insightful and latest findings within geoscience field to students and public. The webinar series kick off in March 2021 with the talk by Dr. Abdul Halim (UTP) on the Introduction on Seismic Data Processing. The talk has been attended by undergraduates and postgraduate students from UMT. The attendees were exposed on the technical processes in seismic data analysis. The second and third session of the webinar series took place in April 2021. A talk on micropaleontology theme have been presented by Dr. Wan Nurzalia and Dr. Fatin Izzati from UMT. This time around attendees of the webinars were exposed to the application of micropaleontology study in predicting the future and understanding the past changes of planet Earth. The attendees were undergraduate, postgraduate, industrial partner (Mineral and Geoscience Department of Malaysia) and faculty members from UTP and UMT. Finally, a talk by Gs. Dr. Muhammad Hafeez on the Electromagnetic Method for Investigating Antarctica Ice-sheet Stability ended the webinar series in July 2021. The talk was very successful with attendance from students and faculty members from UTP and UMT.
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The talk was attended by 53 undergraduate students. It covered topics on various type of pollutants such as sewage, plastics, E-waste, etc., in our environment. The talk focused on marine debris and plastic pollution and how we as an individual could do to reduce the marine debris. The students also exposed to the decomposition timeline of various type of marine debris in the environment. After the talk, students were given a group assignment in jamboard to present I’am not plastic project.
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Meeting “The adoption of online teaching course syllabus”
Date: 2 November 2020
Coordinator: P5 HCMUNRE Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment
Partners: HCMUNRE MARE’s staff and Science council members of Marine resources Training on the use of the online teaching technologies: ZOOM, BigBLueButton, MS Teams and integration of the lessons based on these technologies into Syllabi of the new and revised courses.
Seminar on “Building The network among Vietnamese Partnerships in implementation of ERASMUS + Funded Projects”
Date: 16 October 2020
Coordinator: Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment
Place: Hall A, Ho Chi Minh City University Of Natural Resources and Environment.
Partners: HCMUNRE, VMU, CTU, VNIO and other 18 Universities in Vietnam: University of Social Sciences and Humanities – VNU HCMC; University of Natural Sciences – VNU HCMC; University of Technology – VNU HCMC; University of Economics and Law – VNU-HCM; Ho Chi Minh City Open University; An Giang University – VNU HCMC; Thai Nguyen University of Technology; University of Economics, Hue University; Van Lang University; Ho Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy; Thuy Loi university; VNU University of Science – VNU; Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry; Institute of Environmental sciences and Technology – Hanoi University of Technology; Hanoi University of Mining and Geology; Hanoi Architectural University; University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City; Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport .
The purpose of the seminar: – To strengthen the connection between partnerships throughout the country. – To exchange and share experience, results and effectiveness of the project bring to partnerships and the society as well as through the international communication . – Building partnership networks for sharing experience and results.
The content of the seminar: – To exchange and share experience and results of the projects – The process of Implementation, ability to connect partner countries – The effectiveness of the project – Proposing future linkage and cooperation directions
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