| Dr. H. S. Sudhira |
H. S. Sudhira has a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interest centers on how towns and cities evolve. Alongside, he is interested to understand the complexities linked with land-use changes, planning, governance, transportation and energy. Earlier, he had a stint with the Directorate of Urban Land Transport, Govt. of Karnataka as Land-use and Transportation Specialist. He is a bird-watcher and volunteers for India Literacy Project (ILP). |
| Murali H. R. |
Murali H. R. (Indian Cycle Service) has a great passion for cycles. And believes in simple systems. He worked at GE HealthCare for 5 years on building real time medical apps. He then worked as a Independent Consultant for building J2EE Apps. |
| Dr. K. V. Gururaja |
K. V. Gururaja holds PhD on fragmentation effect on amphibian communities in Western Ghats. Traveled extensively in the Western Ghats and Western Himalayas. He carried out postdoctoral research on conservation priority areas in four major West flowing rivers of the Western Ghats based on amphibian distribution. His interests varies from amphibian ecology, behaviour biology, acoustics, conservation and management and training young minds. |
| Dr. Ajay Narendra |
Ajay Narendra has a strong interest in the world of ants - the little creatures that run the world. His stint with ants began as a keen naturalist in Western Ghats, India. This interest led him towards a Bachelors in Environmental Sciences with Entomology Honours at Bangalore University, during when he began his training in ant taxonomy. He then did a Masters in Environmental Remote Sensing & Cartography at Madurai Kamaraj University. He was part of a Cumulative Impact Assessment team at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, where he investigated ant distribution patterns in Western Ghats. He started his PhD in 2003 at Macquarie University, where he studied the navigation strategies of Central Australian and North African desert ants. After completion of his doctorate, he moved to The Australian National University in December 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the ARC Centre for Excellence in Vision Science. He is currently an ARC funded Postdoctoral Fellow [APD], a position he has held since January 2009. He is also part of the Ecological Neuroscience Research Group at the ANU and a member of Gubbi Labs in India.
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| Pradeep Banavara |
Pradeep B V is a neogeographer and a developer-under-construction with interest in ICT. In his stint with the Govt. IT dept he has dabbled with communication networks for telemedicine, distance education, e-governance and pioneered remote counselling. He is the co-architect of the BTIS which attempts to predict the vehicular traffic pattern based on the mobile traffic patterns by mining telco switching data. He is also the co-founder of the Headstart network and the startup Saturday movement. When he is not mapping around with his GPS he can be found evangelizing and advocating cycling as a solution to the urban traffic mess.
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| Dr. Karthick Balasubramanian |
Karthick holds PhD on ecology of stream diatom communities in Western Ghats from University of Mysore. His thesis on diatoms is the first of its kind in India and for his thesis he has studied most rivers of the Central and Southern Western Ghats. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at CU Museum of Natural History in University of Colorado, at Boulder. His interests are taxonomy and ecology of endemic diatoms of Peninsular India, using diatoms as bioindicators, water quality assessments and environmental education programs. He also contributes extensively for Tamil Wikipedia. |
| Dhanapal G. |
Dhanapal has a Masters in Environment Management from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. Worked on Tiger Ecology Projects in Madhya Pradesh and Western Ghats. Landscape and Large Mammal Ecology are his fields of interest. Trekking and Bird Watching are his favorite hobbies. |
| Sameer Ali |
Sameer Ali has a Masters in Life Sciences from Kuvempu University. He is an excellent field biologist with immense interests on insects, birds, fishes, amphibians and plants of the Western Ghats.
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