Innovating Scicomm for India
References: Rohini’s website Rohini’s work and laboratory at University of Pennsylvania Doing an Ant PhD – More details about Rohini’s
Who are you and what do you do? My name is V. Deepak, and I am a herpetologist. I
Dr. Laungani is the first ever Associate Professor to be featured in our series! Listed as we chat about Plant
Praying Mantis (Photograph by Patrick Kavanagh) Who are you and what do you do? I am Vivek Nityananda, Postdoctoral
Vijay Ramesh talks to us about why its important to learn from the past so that we can effectively predict our future – not just for global warming, but also for bird migrations!
Hummingbirds are some of the tiniest birds with one of the highest metabolism rates ever found in the animal kingdom. Listen to Anusha Shankar explain how they manage to sleep at night and not die of starvation!
Chintan Sheth can fly to any spot on the planet, whenever he wants. In fact, he can even fly to
Devayani Khare is a Geomorphologist who talks to us about Citizen Science and all the different ways in which normal everyday people can get involved in doing science.
In this edition of our mini-podcast series, we talk to Vaishali Rawat who is a writer and conservation advocate at Wildlife Conservation Society in India. She is also Sanctuary Asia Magazine’s Young Naturalist of the year for 2017. She talks to us about the importance of ecology, wildlife conservation and geography in our everyday lives.
Who are you and what do you do? I’m Pratik, and I work with GPS movement tracks of African elephants
