Op-ed on Amazon deforestation
Ruth DeFries supports Brazilian colleagues monitoring Amazon deforestation
Health impacts from fires in SE Asia
A new tool to reduce health impacts from fires in Southeast Asia from Ruth DeFries, Miriam Marlier, and interdisciplinary team
climate sensitivity of millets
Post-doc Kyle Davis and Ruth DeFries publish on climate sensitivity of cereal production in India. Follow press coverage here.
Amrita and Sarika slow fashion and tigers
Amrita and Sarika take on slow fashion and tigers in Brooklyn
Benjamin Clark
Graduating PhD student Benjamin Clark receives the first Donald J. Melnick award in E3B for his dissertation “Crops, Canopies, and Waiting for Rain: Water for Small-plot Agriculture in the Tropics.”
Nat Geo award
PhD students Pooja Choksi, Sarika Khanwilkar, and Vijay Ramesh receive a research and exploration grant from National Geographic for their project “Project Dhvani: Eavesdropping on Biodiversity for Ecological and Social Benefits (Dhvani is the Sanskrit word for sound)”.
Anand Osuri
Post-doc Anand Osuri is awarded five years support from the Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, a competitive award from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, for early career scientists returning to India. Anand will be working with the Nature Conservation Foundation on his project “Biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and the carbon balance of human-modified tropical forests in a changing climate.”
Sarika Fulbright
PhD student Sarika Khanwilkar wins a Fulbright award for her research in India
Sarika Khanwilkar paper
PhD student Sarika Khanwilkar co-authors paper on leopard abundance
Paper on agricultural fire emissions
Paper on emissions from agricultural fires in northwestern India published in Environmental Research Letters.
