We have been involved in collaborative projects in the Mahaweli River basin in Sri Lanka since January 2000. This document describes our projects, research, contributions to training and education, partners and collaborators.
We have demonstrated the use of the hydro-climatic expertise with projects for water resources management, human-elephant conflict, tea and rice agriculture, malaria and dengue risk assessment and disaster risk management. We plan to continue our work in these sectors and undertake further work in renewable energy. Climate Work: We have undertaken climatic diagnostics, climate prediction hydro-climatic analysis, modelling and prediction. We continue to build a state of the art hydro-meteorological monitoring and prediction system.
We have undertaken IT infrastructure development, website development, interactive map servers, and software development for scientific computation. We are pursuing high-performance pc-based computing and internet server development.
We have published in newspapers, scientific journals, magazines, Internet, posters, newsletters and as books. We continue to upgrade our capabilities. Engineering: Our climate work has been oriented towards engineering applications in multi-disciplinary fields. We have established capability in all branches of engineering practice.
We have provided lectures and supported thesis research in water resources management, meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, geographic information systems and disaster management at the Post-Graduate Institute of Sciences, University of Moratuwa, University of Peradeniya and University of Colombo .
We collaborate with government agencies, universities and research
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institutes in Sri Lanka. Internationally, we have partnered with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, University of North Carolina and the National Aeronautical and Space Agency (NASA), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and Indian Institute of Science and Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan. Funding: Our work has been funded through grants from International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, System for Analysis, Research and Training (START), Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the Office of Global Programs at US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). We hope to sustain our work through new partnerships and projects.
Our vision is to sustain FECT as a center of excellence in climate, environmental and information technologies where state of the art research is pursued and advanced technological capability is maintained and where all of this used to execute socially valued projects.