The Department organized various lectures and competitions for the students throughout the year. Prof. Bhan from the Meteorology Department, IMD, Lodhi Road gave a very informative lecture on “General cCirculation and its impact on Indian monsoon” on 11th November 2008. Dr. V.A.V Raman, Reader from Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University gave a lecture on “Applied Geomorphology” on 6^th February 2009. Dr. P.K. Champati Ray, Head, Geosciences Division, SAARC Disaster Management Centre, New Delhi delivered a lecture on “Climate change and its impact on mass movements” on the 18th of February, 2009 in the Department under the AGS lecture series. Mr. Rohit Jain from the company, MatrixG had an interactive session with the students on careers in Geography focussing on GIS and Remote Sensing on 17th March 2009. The department also organized a poster competition on ‘Climate change” in the college on 29th September 2009. These will be later exhibited in India International Centre for public viewing.

With the new academic session that began in July 2009, the Department got busy in the organization of the first International Youth Forum on “Sustainable lifestyles: consumption and climate change.” The student coordinator for the conference was Ms. Zoya Sodhi. The conference was sponsored by the UGC, the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Crafts Council of U.P. and the British Council. Our knowledge partners for the conference were GEF- UNDP and Centre for Environment Education. The conference took place from 3rd August to 7th August in the college auditorium. It was well attended by students from various colleges of Delhi, some international (U.K., Nigeria, Greece, Nepal and Germany) and national universities. The sessions focused on Carbon Footprints and Carbon Handprints Action towards sustainability, sustainable consumption, increased use of plastic, consumer choices and water pollution.