{"id":2258,"date":"2021-05-20T17:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:48:59","slug":"webinar-on-climate-change-and-its-impact-on-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/webinar-on-climate-change-and-its-impact-on-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on Climate Change and its impact on Sri Lanka &#8211; 20th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Department of Geography organized a webinar on <strong>Climate Change and Its Impact<\/strong> on 20<sup>th<\/sup> May 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Sarath Premalal, &#8211; former Director General, Meteorological Department, Sri Lanka,\u00a0 Dr. Senaka Basnayake &#8211; Director, Climate Resilience Unit, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Bangkok, Dr. B. V. R. Punyawardhane &#8211; former Director, Meteorology Division, Natural Resource Management Centre, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, \u00a0Dr. (Ms) Savithri Ranasinghe &#8211; Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and\u00a0 Dr. Gamini Jayathissa &#8211; Director, Landslide Research and Risk Management Division, National Building Research Organisation., Sri Lanka were participated as main resource persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Sarath Premalal who was the first speaker of the webinar talked about the \u2019Climate Change and its Extremes\u2019 and Dr. Senaka Basnayake delivered his lecture on \u2018Regional Perspective on Floods and Drought\u2019. The third speaker, Dr. B. V. R. Punyawardhane focused his talk on \u2018Climate Change and its impact on Sri Lankan Agriculture while Dr. (Ms) Savithri Ranasinghe, conducted her lecture in \u2018Relationship between ENSO phenomenon and Seasonal Rainfall\u2019. \u00a0The last speaker of the webinar, Dr. Gamini Jayathissa pointed out about the \u2018Climate Change and Landslide Disaster in Sri Lanka\u2019. The time of each lecture was limited to 20-30 minutes followed by a Q and A session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were more than 60 participants including professionals, students and other interested parties for this webinar. 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Mr. Sarath Premalal, &#8211; former Director General, Meteorological Department, Sri Lanka,\u00a0 Dr. Senaka Basnayake &#8211; Director, Climate Resilience Unit, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Bangkok, Dr. B. V. R. Punyawardhane &#8211; former Director, Meteorology Division, Natural Resource Management Centre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/geo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}