Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Fellow



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Education

  • Ph.D in soil and hydrologic science, Department of Environment of the Graduate School, Duke University , May 1999.
  • Masters in Statistics, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, May 1999.
  • Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 1989 .
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Research Interests

Soil and hydrologic science within the framework of ecosystem studies.

Quantifying variability and change in hydrologic processes across space and time; focusing on impacts of land-use disturbance on hydrologic processes and soil properties; analysis and modeling of hydrological processes such as precipitation, rainfall erosivity, infiltration, stream flow at various temporal and spatial scales, watershed and river basin modeling, sediment transport; time-series and geostatistical approaches; stochastic/statistical modeling of hydrologic systems; and time-series analyses and forecasting for hydrologic systems.

Ecological Sciences, GIS / RS and Applied Statistics.

Focus on impacts of land-use disturbance on hydrology, biogeochemistry and ecology of ecosystems. I would like to work on long-term plots and short term field experiments that will provide a basis for management interventions.

I am also interested in the use of GIS / remote sensing tools to study landscape ecology, vegetation mapping, sustainable land-use and protected area management. In applied statistics, I am particularly interested in the application of modern statistical techniques including spatial, time-series and Bayesian approaches in ecological, environmental and hydrological context.

I would like to collaborate with scientists, engineers and land-use managers in analyzing long-term impacts of climate and land-use change on ecology, hydrology and climatology. In addition I would like to contribute to better management of natural resources based on scientific data and understanding of ecological processes.

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Experience

Work Experience

  • Fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, from August 2001.
  • Faculty member and Senior Lecturer in Department of Habitat Ecology, Scientist-SD (10000-325-15200) in Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India (www.wii.gov.in), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Environment and Forests from January, 2000 to August, 2001
  • GIS/Remote Sensing Applications, Statistics, hydrology and soil science.
  • Visiting Fellow in Remote Sensing and Watershed Hydrology at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE: www.atree.org) Jan 2000 to August 2001.
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate in Remote sensing and watershed hydrology, at ATREE, Bangalore. (Sep 1999-Jan 2000).
  • Research Assistant in soil and hydrologic, science, School of the Environment, Duke University, supervised by faculty member, Dan Richter (1992-93).
    • · Worked as a water resources and environmental engineer for a national-level NGO, Development Alternatives, head quarters: New Delhi, India (1989-92).

Training courses

  • Two-month summer course in Tropical Managed Ecosystems, Costa Rica given by the Organization for Tropical studies (OTS), 1993.
  • Two week Course in Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Applications in Vegetation Monitoring under the National Natural Resources Management Systems, Department of Space, Government of India (September, 1990).

Student Supervision

  • MSc: Two Masters students at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun have been supervised by me.
    • The impact of land use change on litter beetle and ant communities in a coffee dominated landscape in Chickmagalur district, Karnataka. Student: Smitha Badrinarayanan. Degree awarded by Saurashtra University. 2002.
    • Fruit removal patterns in Emblica officinalis in Rajaji National Park, Uttranchal. Student: Soumya Prasad. Degree awarded by Saurashtra University. 2002.
  • Ph.D: Co-supervisor of two Ph.D students, one SRF to be registered with Forest Research Institute through Wildlife Institute of India and another registered with Manipal Academy of Higher Education through the National institute of Advanced Studies.
    • Ecology and conservation of large mammalian herbivores in the tropical deciduous forests of southern India. Student: M.D. Madhusudan. National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, Degree Awarded by Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).
    • Developing a Spatial Conservation Protocol for Central Highlands through a Biogeographical Analysis of Birds: A GIS approach. Student: Rajah Jaipal. Candidate is registered with Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.
    • Ph.D. committee member of Mr. Vishal Mehta, Ph.D. candidate in hydrology at Department of Crop and Soil Science, Cornell University, U.S.A.
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Affiliations / Positions / Memberships

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Grants / Awards / Honors

Grants

  • 2002-2003 - $ 18100 from UN Foundation (Professionalizing management of World Heritage Sites)
  • 2002-2003 - $ 11,450 from Resources for the Future (Estimating biomass using remote sensing data)
  • 2002-2003 - $ 73,000 out of a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation through UNESCO (Hydrology)
  • 2002-2003 - $ 6600 from Wildlife Conservation Society, NY through Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore
    $ 41,000 from Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
  • 2002-2005 - Gap analysis for Western Ghats

Scholarships, Awards and Grants

  • Pew Scholarship and Assistantship, School of the Environment, Duke University, 1992-93.
  • Travel Grant and Scholarship for summer course in Tropical managed Ecosystems, Costa Rica from Organization for Tropical Studies, summer 1993.
  • Award from Center for International Studies, Duke University for summer research in Costa Rica.
  • Tinker Field Research Grant Travel for summer research in Costa Rica, 1994.
  • Travel grant for summer research from Duke-UNC program in Latin American Studies, 1995.
  • School Scholarship, School of the Environment, Duke University, 1992-1993.
  • HRA Scholarship, Office of Student Development, Duke University, 1993-94.
  • Graduate Scholarship and Assistantship, School of the Environment, Duke University, 1994-98.
  • International Travel Award from Association for Tropical Biology, 2002.
  • Edda Sehgal Award for Conference Travel 2004.
  • International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Award for Travel, 2004.
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Select Publications

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Complete Publications

Conferences and Publications

  • Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Sediment Yield in a Humid Tropical Basin, session: Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Erosion and Sedimentation: Monitoring, Modeling and Management II; presented at the 1997 spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore. EOS, Transactions of American Geophysical Union, Vol. 78, No. 17, 1997 Supplement.
  • Impact of Forest Conversion on Soil Biogeochemistry in a Humid Tropical Environment, presented at the at Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, October 1997, Anaheim, California, 1997 Agronomy Abstracts, Oct. 1997.
  • Impact of Forest Conversion on Highly Weathered Soils in a Humid Tropical Environment, presented at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 1998, Baltimore, Maryland. Bulletin of the Ecological society of America, Vol. 79, No. 3, August 1998.
  • Dynamics of Fluvial Processes in a Humid Tropical Basin: A Statistical-Bayesian Approach, Session, Geomorphic Responses to Environmental Change, poster presentation at 1998 Spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boston. EOS, Transactions of American Geophysical Union, Vol. 79, No. 17, 1998 Supplement.
  • Impact of Forest Conversion on Aggregate Stability of Highly Weathered Soils in a Humid Tropical Environment, presented at the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, October 1998, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998, Agronomy Abstracts, Oct. 1998.
  • Consequences of forest conversion to coffee plantations on litter beetle and ant communities. Smitha Badrinarayanana, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Sharachchandra Lele and K. Chandrashekhara, page 162-163, Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical ecosystems, Association for Tropical Biology, Bangalore, India, 15-18 July, 2001. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
  • Fruit removal patterns and dispersal of Emblica officinalis (Euphorbiaceae) at Rajaji National Park, India, page 513-516, Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical ecosystems, Association for Tropical Biology, Bangalore, India, 15-18 July, 2001. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
  • Use of Remotely Sensed Imagery for Assessment, Conservation and Management of Biodiversity. , page 7. Bawa, Kamal S., Krishnaswamy Jagdish, Ganeshaiah, K.N Barve, N., Kiran M.C and Shaanker R. Uma. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Forests: Past, Present and Future, Association for Tropical Biology, Panama City, Republic of Panama, Panama, 29 July-3 July, 2002.
  • Tree-Model Based Eco-climatic Vegetation Classification in Diverse Tropical Deciduous Ecosystems Using Multi-Seasonal NDVI. Krishnaswamy Jagdish, Kiran M.C and Ganeshaiah, K.N. page 144, Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Forests: Past, Present and Future, Association for Tropical Biology, Panama City, Republic of Panama, Panama, 29 July-3 July, 2002.
  • Assessing the effectiveness of PAs in conserving forest biomass: A case study from South India. Centennial Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, March 19, 2004 Philadelphia.
  • Effects of Forest Degradation on Watershed Processes in the Dry Deciduous Forests of South India. Krishnaswamy Jagdish, Vishal Mehta and Pradeep Joshi. Forests and Water in Warm Humid Asia, Proceedings of a Workshop of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Forest Hydrology Working Group, 10-12 July 2004, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
  • Impact of iron ore mining in Kudremukh on the Bhadra River ecosystem, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Milind Bunyan, Vishal Mehta, Narendra Patil and S. Naveenkumar. Forests and Water in Warm Humid Asia, Proceedings of a Workshop of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Forest Hydrology Working Group, 10-12 July 2004, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
  • Dispersal of seeds that ruminants regurgitate: Phyllanthus emblica Linn. (Euphorbiaceae) at Rajaji National Park, India. Page 101. Prasad, S., Krishnaswamy, J. and Chellam, R. (2005). in Proceedings of the IV International Symposium / Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal. Brisbane, Australia.

Peer Reviewed Papers (published/accepted)

  • Krishnaswamy, J. L. Michael, Richter, D.D and Korfmacher, K. (2000). 'Dynamic Modeling of Long-term Sedimentation in the Yadkin River basin', Advances in Water Resources. 23(8).
  • Krisaswamy, J. Ricter, D.D., Halpin, P. and Hofmockel, M. (2001). 'Spatial Patterns of Suspended Sediment Yields in a Humid Tropical Watershed in Costa Rica', Hydrological Processes. 15: 2237-2257.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Halpin, P.N. and Richter, D. (2001). 'Dynamics of sediment discharge in relation to land-use and hydro-climatology in a tropical, humid watershed', J. of Hydrology. 253, 91-109.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Richter, D.D (2002). 'Properties of advanced-weathering stage soils in Tropical Forests and Pastures', J.Soil Science Society of America. 66:244-253.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Kiran, M.C. and Ganeshaiah, K.N. (2003). 'Tree model based eco-climatic vegetation classification and fuzzy mapping in diverse tropical deciduous ecosystems using multi-season NDVI', International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25 (6): 1185-1205.
  • Prasad, S., Chellam, R., Krishnaswamy, J. and Goyal, S.P. (2004). 'Frugivory of Phyllanthus Emblica in Rajaji National Park, North West India', Current Science 87(9): 1188:1190.
  • Krishnaswamy, J.,Bunyan, M., Mehta, V.K., Jain, N. and Karanth, K.U. (2006). Impact of iron ore mining on suspended sediment response in a tropical catchment in Kudremukh, Western Ghats, India. Forest Ecology and Management. 224:187-198. ForestEcol_Man_paperpubli.pdf
  • Prasad, S. Krishnaswamy, J. Chellam, R., Goyal, S.P. (2006). Ruminant mediated dispersal of Phyllanthus Emblica in Rajaji National Park, India. Biotropica (In Press).
  • Das, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Bawa, K.S., Kiran, M.C., Srinivas, V., Samba Kumar, N., Karanth, K.U. 2006. Prioritization of Conservation areas in the Western Ghats, India. Biological Conservation (Accepted). prioritisation.pdf

Books

  • Hydrology and watershed services in the Western Ghats, India. 2006. (Ed.) Krishnaswamy, J., Lele, S., Jayakumar, R. Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
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Contact

jagdish@atree.org

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