SHOLA SKY ISLANDS

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    • Sholicola
  • Research Areas
    • Landscape Ecology >
      • Landscape mapping
      • Sky Island Birds
      • Avian Malaria
      • LTEO
    • Bioacoustics >
      • Sholakili Song Diversity
      • Jerdon's Courser
      • Passive Acoustics of Shola birds
      • Automated bird song detection
      • Detecting rare species with acoustic arrays
      • Forest Owlet
    • Bird Biogeography >
      • Peninsular birds
      • Forest Owlet
    • Citizen Science and Outreach >
      • Tirupati Bird Atlas
      • Capacity building
      • Young Naturalists of Andhra Pradesh
      • Sky Island Photostory
      • Sky Island Beatbox
    • Completed Projects
  • People
  • Publications
  • Opportunities
  • Open Source Data
  • Media Coverage
  • Gallery
  • Acoustics Workshop
  • YoungBirdersCamp

current Members

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Aditya Panigrahy

Master's Student
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Archita Sharma

Ph.D. Student
​Biogeography
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​Arpitha bhat

Project Student
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ARUNIMA JAIN

Project Student
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Ashwin Warudkar

Ph.D. Student
Landscape Ecology
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Chiti arvind

Ph.D. Student
​Bioacoustics
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Gayathri r

Ph. D. Student
​Landscape Ecology

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Hareesha AS

Citizen Science Coordinator
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Isha Bopardikar

Ph.D. Student
​Bioacoustics
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Mark Menezes

Project Student
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naman goyal

Ph.D. Student
​Biogeography
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Rayis TR

Master's Student
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Rohith srinivasan

Project Student
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Sandhya Jagallipuram

Project Assistant
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Sethulakshmi nair

Masters student
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VV Robin (vijayan)

Associate Professor, IISER-Tirupati
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Varsha Raj

Senior Project Associate
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vishwa jagati

Ph.D. Student
​Biogeography

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Viral joshi

Project Student
Bioacoustics


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visiting/Collaborative researchers

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amurthur Ramamurthy (ram) 

Visiting researcher 
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vijay ramesh

Joint Postdoctoral Fellow,
​IISER Tirupati - Cornell University
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vishnudas c​ k

Team member

Current interns

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Dhyey Shah

Intern, YBC Camper 2023
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Akashram

Intern - Bioacoustics, 2025
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HELLY VYAS

Intern - 2025



field interns for occupancy project ​(Mentor - Jobin Varughese)

Rubin Lobo
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Preet Sharma 
Arjit Jere
Avinesh C. Nair
Roshna Kurungat
Jude D.
Anas Ibinu
Prithivraj B.
Tahir M.
Arjun M.
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Md. Mubeen Mustafa
​Roshan Robert
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Vivek Kumar Patel
Ahmed Omar Haroon
Prerana Chandak
Shubham Suthar
Rahul Mark N.
Ritika Goswami
Jay Prajapati
Kunal Gokhale
Krishnapriya M.

Maithily Sawant
Jayarakesh Kannan
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Shashwathi M

Sonal Pawar
Abhishaek
Joseph Roy
Ahamed Saeed
Mikhael Nazareth
J. Arathi
Keny Newport
Sonia K.B.
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Jency George
Karthikeyan M
Alphonsa George
​Tom Mathew


Aparna Rao
Sonal Pawar
Vishal P. Pai
Rahul Padmanabhan
Lakshmi Chithran
Ajin K. P.
Rubin Lobo
Shashwati M.
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Manav S.
Meghana Rose Joseph
Nupoor V. Kale
​Sampurna Bag

Field Assistants

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Eswaran

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Kovai Thambi

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Jagadish

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Seetharaman

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KAMaRAJ

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Subash

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Karnan


Previous  members

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meera m R

Project Student
​2018-2020; 2022-2023

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raja sekhar bandi

Project Coordinator
Citizen Science (2019-2023)
Currently at WWF-India
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Meghana rose joseph

Project Student

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Lakshmi priya a nair

Project Student
​(Sep 2023 - Feb 2024)

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jobin varughese

PhD Student : 2018-2023
(PMRF Fellow)
Landscape Ecology
​Currently Post-Doctoral Fellow (NCBS)



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amrutha R

Project Student
Bioacoustics

(2018-2020)
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Chaitanya krishna

Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher
Landscape Ecology
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DHANESH P

Project Student
Nandini Rajamani's lab, IISER Tiruapti, Hume's Center for Ecology (2018-2020)


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Harikrishnan CP

IISER Master's Student
Landscape Ecology
(2018-2020)
Currently PhD student - University of South Florida

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HRudya sundaresan

IISER BS-MS Student
Landscape Ecology
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(2022-2023)
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MEGHana natesh

Post-Doctoral Fellow
(2020-2022)
Currently at University of Chicago

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Pooja gupta

Collaborative Graduate Student, University of Georgia
Currently at Illinois Department of Public Health

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ritobroto chanda

Master's student
Landscape Ecology
(2019-2020)
Currently PhD student - University of Texas Arlington


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SUSMIT BANSODE

IISER BS-MS Student
Bioacoustics
(
2021-2022)
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vArun kher

Project Student
​Biogeography
(2019-2020)
Currently Faculty: Scientist C - Wildlife Institute of India

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Swapna lawrence

Master's  Student, SACON
Landscape Ecology
(2019-2020)


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vinay k l

Project Student
Biogeography
​(2019 - 2023)
Currently PhD student - Louisiana State University

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Suyash sawant

Project Student
​Bioacoustics
​(2018 - 2023)
Currently PhD student - University of Florida

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YAsh deshpande

Project Student
Biogeography

(2020)
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 arasumani M

​Post-Doctoral Fellow
Landscape Ecology
(2016-2019 Project student
2019-2021 Post-doc)
Currently Post-Doc at University of Greifswald

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Mubeen M

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Akshay Herur

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Aparna Rao

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Faizee Ali Khan


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Arya Meher


  • Abhimanyu Lele (2017 - 2018), Currently graduate student University of Chicago. 
  • Mihir Sule (2016 - 2017); Currently graduate student Indian Institute of Science.
  • Pankaj Koparde (2016 - 2018); Currently Assistant Professor at MIT-World Peace University.
  • Samriddha Ghosh (2017 - 2019); Currently at WCS-India Programme.
  • Shyam Madhusudhana (2017 - 2018); Currently Postdoc Cornell University.

Previous interns

  • Andrea Luis (2018)
  • Arjit Jere (Winter 2019)
  • Chiranjeevi (Summer 2017)
  • Kedar (Summer 2019)​
  • Manudeep (Summer 2019)​
  • Roshna K (2020)​
  • Suma M (2018)
  • Anina L (2023)
  • ​Dhanush E (2023)
  • Anjali (Summer 2019)
  • Avinesh C Nair (2020)​
  • Jude D (2020)​
  • Krishna Prasad (Summer 2018)
  • Nikhil Phaniraj (Summer 2017)
  • Sahil Pawar (Summer 2019)​
  • Susmit Bansode (Summer 2018, 2019)
  • ​Swetha P (2023) 
  • Surya T (2023)​​
















  • Anway Sarkar (2019-2020)
  • Bibidishanand  (2019)​​
  • Kavi Sharma ( Summer 2019)
  • Lakshmi MV (2020)
  • Preet Sharma (Summer 2019)
  • Shreya Ray (Summer 2017)
  • Yash Deshpande (2020)


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  • Home
  • About
    • Shola Sky Islands
    • Sholicola
  • Research Areas
    • Landscape Ecology >
      • Landscape mapping
      • Sky Island Birds
      • Avian Malaria
      • LTEO
    • Bioacoustics >
      • Sholakili Song Diversity
      • Jerdon's Courser
      • Passive Acoustics of Shola birds
      • Automated bird song detection
      • Detecting rare species with acoustic arrays
      • Forest Owlet
    • Bird Biogeography >
      • Peninsular birds
      • Forest Owlet
    • Citizen Science and Outreach >
      • Tirupati Bird Atlas
      • Capacity building
      • Young Naturalists of Andhra Pradesh
      • Sky Island Photostory
      • Sky Island Beatbox
    • Completed Projects
  • People
  • Publications
  • Opportunities
  • Open Source Data
  • Media Coverage
  • Gallery
  • Acoustics Workshop
  • YoungBirdersCamp