Dr. SHAIK VAZEED PASHA did his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences (RS&GIS) from National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) (ISRO) & Andhra University (2017). Previously worked as a researcher in premier research Centre’s, NRSC-ISRO, Hyderabad, and IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Pasha carries>10 years of research expertise in the fields of remote sensing and GIS for Forestry, Biodiversity-Conservation, Biomass, C-stocks, Ecological modelling, vegetation fires, Shifting cultivation, Plant invasion, Wetland dynamics and Natural Resource Monitoring. Dr. Vazeed contributed to >12 national-level projects and authored about 30 research publications with 585 Citations.
Achievements: Member of Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI), 02 Best presenter, 03 letters of appreciation, Reviewer for 05 international journals.
Nisar Kannangara is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Inequality and Human Development Programme, NIAS. His research areas include political anthropology, ethnography of housing, and the autonomous adaptation of climate change. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Pondicherry University in 2019. Before joining NIAS, he was a Project Associate with the Kerala Cultural Museum, Directorate of Culture, Trivandrum, Kerala.