Phd student Pooja Choksi, along with Krishna Anujan, Sarika Khanwilkar, Vijay Ramesh, and Pooja Gupta won the Meridian Collaborative Grant from National Geographic for the project “Soundscapes and stories: a locally replicable model for conservation using a biocultural approach” to be conducted in central India and the Western Ghats
PhD student Pooja Choksi spoke to the host of the podcast, The Subverse, Susan Mathews about what ecological restoration means to different people and how to measure it using novel tools like acoustics in central India.
Ruth DeFries was awarded the 2021 Marsh Award for Climate Change Research by the British Ecological Society.
The Hindustan Times featured Pooja, Vijay, and Sarika’s bioacoustics Project Dhvani
Former PhD student Amrita Neelakantan and Ruth DeFries publish on the Network for Conserving Central India
Post doc positions are available in the DeFries lab to work on nature-based solutions in India.
Former postdoc Mondal published paper on multi-cropping and food security for smallholders in central India
DeFries and colleagues published a paper showing synergies between improved living standards and reduced forest degradation in central India.
PhD student Pooja Choksi publishes paper on sensitivity of migration to climate variability in central India
Former PhD student Benjamin Clark publishes on the impact of increasing tree cover on water supply in central India
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