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Federal Minister Shibli Faraz visits various laboratories of the NIO Karachi

The Federal Minister for Science & Technology Senator Syed Shibli Faraz visited the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Karachi on Friday and inaugurated the Integrated Physical Oceanographic Laboratory (IPOL).

"Over its broad distribution, the newly-formed Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt can be supported by nitrogen and phosphorus inputs from a variety of sources including discharges from the Congo, Amazon and Mississippi rivers, upwelling off the coast of Africa, vertical mixing, equatorial upwelling, atmospheric deposition from Saharan dust, and biomass burning of vegetation in central and South Africa,” Brian Lapointe, senior author on the paper and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, said ...

Amin is first national to complete KAUST’s internationally accredited scientific diving course February 28, 2021 KAUST Ph.D. student Saeed Amin (pictured) is the first Saudi to complete and pass the University’s American Academy of Underwater Sciences-accredited Scientific Research Diver Certification course. Photo by David John Pallett. Saudi diver and KAUST student Saeed Amin (right) is pictured during his diving certification course with Da...