NANDINI VELHO --Curriculum Vitae-- GENERAL INFORMATION Email:
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[email protected] Nationality: Indian EDUCATION 2011-2016: Doctoral Researcher, James Cook University, Australia Dissertation title: “Conservation challenges of wet tropical nature reserves in northeast India”. 2006-2008: M.Sc., Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society – India Program & National Centre for Biological Sciences, Manipal University, India. Dissertation title: “The effect of terrestrial rodents on seed fate of of hornbill-dispersed plants in Pakke Tiger Reserve”. 2003-2006: B.Sc., Life Sciences, St. Xavier's college, Mumbai University, India. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE September 2016 – present: Earth Institute Fellow, Columbia University. May 2011-2016: Doctoral studies, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. October 2010-April 2011: Policy Fellow at the Office of the Minister of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi, India. June 2009-August 2010: Junior Research Fellow, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. March-June 2009: Assistant Project Investigator on a field-based research project surveying the Chambal River, Rajasthan, India. August-October 2008: Academic Co-ordinator, Master’s Program in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society – India Program and National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. JOURNAL ARTICLES Velho, N., Rachakonda, S., & Laurance, W.F. (2016) Terrestrial species in protected areas and community-managed lands. Land (in press). Velho, N., & Noronha, A., (2016) The realised and recognised experiences of Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary. Economic and Political Weekly (in press). Harrison, R.D., Sreekar, R., Brodie, J.F., Brook, S., Luskin, M., O'Kelly, H., Rao, M., Scheffers, B. & Velho, N. (2016), Impacts of hunting on tropical forests in Southeast Asia.