| 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. |
| 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.
|
| Dr. Karthick Balasubramanian |
Karthick has defended his Ph.D. thesis on ecology of stream diatom communities in Western Ghats at 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. |
