As organiser
- Training program in census techniques for monitoring mass nesting populations of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Orissa, India, April 2004.
- National Workshop on sea turtle conservation, Bhubaneshwar, India (April, 2001)
Invited Papers
- "Sea turtles in India: thirty years of conservation by the state and civil society", CSD Seminar on Making Conservation Work, New Delhi, India (March 2005)
- Regional Coordination Workshop on Rehabilitation of Tsunami affected Forest Ecosystems: Strategies and new approaches, Bangkok, Thailand (March 2005)
- "Olive ridley turtles in Orissa, India: a review of status and conversation", 24th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Savannah, USA (January 2005)
- "Review of sea turtle fisheries interactions in the Indian Ocean". FAO Expert Consultation, Rome, Italy (March 2004)
- "Rashoman Revisited: review of olive ridley turtles in Orissa", Conference on the Conservation and Management of marine turtles in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia, Bangkok, Thailand (March 2004)
- "Successes and Challenges in Marine Turtle Conservation in South and Southeast Asia". SSC Members Meeting, IUCN Asia Regional Conservation Forum, Colombo, Sri Lanka (December, 2003).
- "Community conservation of sea turtles in India" JBNHS Centenary Seminar, Mumbai, India (Nov. 2003).
- "Olive ridleys in Orissa: caught in the cross fire" National Seminar Reef Ecosystem Remediation, Tuticorin, India (September, 2003)
- "Sea turtle conservation: coordination and consensus" Conference on the Conservation and Management of marine turtles in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia, Manila, Philippines (June, 2001)
Training Courses
"Recent Advances in Conservation Genetics", Center for Research and Conservation, Smithsonian Institution,
Front Royale, USA (with scholarship from the American Genetics Association and travel grant from British
Airways, CRC and the American Genetic Association). August 14- 27, 2000
Symposia and Conferences
- 25th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Savannah, USA (Jan 2005)Sridhar, A., Tripathy , B. & Shanker, K. (Poster) Turtle Conservation And Livelihoods: Experiences with Conflict Resolution On The Orissa Coast.
- 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, New York, USA (Aug 2004)Shanker, K. et al. (Paper) Phylogeography of olive ridley turtles on the east coast of India: implications for conservation theory.
- Oommen, M.A. & Shanker, K. (Paper) Woody plant diversity at five nested spatial scales in the Indian Western Himalaya (Best student paper nominee)
- 24th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. San Jose, Costa Rica (Feb 2004)Velavan, T.P., Udaykumar, D., Hendre, P.S., Shanker, K., Choudhury, B.C., Singh, L., & Aggarwal, R.K. (Poster) Development and characterization of novel microsatellite markers from the olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
- 23rd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (March 2003)Shanker, K. Choudhury, B.C. (Paper) Satellite telemetry of olive ridley turtles on the east coast of India.
- Tripathy, B., Choudhury, B.C. & Shanker, K. (Poster) population size and distribution of Chelonia mydas and Eretmochelys imbricata in the lagoons of Lakshadweep, India
- Tripathy, B., Choudhury, B.C. & Shanker, K. (Poster) Sea turtle conservation through community participation; an initiative in Andhra Pradesh by the coastal NGOs
- 22nd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Miami, USA (April, 2002) o Shanker, K. et al. (Paper) Satellite telemetry of olive ridley turtles on the east coast of India.
- Tripathy, B., Choudhury, B.C. & Shanker, K. (Paper) Survey of sea turtles in Lakshadweep Islands, India
- Tripathy, B., Choudhury, B.C. & Shanker, K. (Poster) Survey of sea turtles on the Andhra Pradesh coast, India.
- 21st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Philadelphia, USA (February, 2001) Shanker, K. (Paper) A review of species concepts: ideas for a new concept and implications for the green - black turtle debate
- Shanker, K. et al.. (Poster) Orissa - the cradle of the world's ridley populations
- Shanker, K. & Pandav, B. (Poster) How precise is natal homing - speculation on the nesting migrations of olive ridleys on the east coast of India ?
- Shanker, K., Choudhury, B.C. & Mukherjee, S.K. (Poster) A national project on sea turtle conservation in India - a collaboration between the UNDP and the Government of India
- XIV th Annual Research Seminar, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India (September, 2000)
- Shanker, K. (Paper) A review of species concepts: ideas for a new concept and implications for conservation
- 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Orlando, USA (March, 2000) o Shanker, K. et al. (Paper) Conservation genetics of Olive Ridleys on the east coast of India"
- Wright, B., Mohanty, B. & Shanker, K. (Poster) Operation Kachhapa and the Olive Ridleys of Orissa (India): Short and long term management plans
- Ram, K. & Shanker, K. (Poster) A decade of sea turtle conservation of on the Madras (east) coast of India: successes and failures
- XIII th Annual Research Seminar, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India (October, 1999)
- Shanker, K. et al. (Paper) Molecular genetics of olive ridley sea turtles on the east coast of India (Best Presentation Award)
- National Wildlife Symposium, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India (August, 1998)
- Shanker, K. (Paper) Metapopulation dynamics and landscape effects in small mammal populations in a montane ecosystem in southern India
- 18th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Mazatlan, Mexico (March 1998)
- Shanker, K. (Paper) Conservation and Management of Olive Ridleys on the Madras coast
- Northern Indian Ocean Workshop on sea turtle conservation, Bhubaneshwar (January 1996)
- Shanker, K. (Poster) Conservation of the Olive Ridley on the Madras coast
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