1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables,
FL 33124 USA
E-mail: asaha at bio.miami.edu
Achieve a deeper understanding of ecohydrological processes in watershed ecosystems; contribute towards sustainable watershed management and conservation of riparian and aquatic ecosystems in the subtropics and tropics.
Sept 2004 - present |
Doctorate in Biology ( in progress, expected December 2008) Areas of concentration: Ecohydrology, plant ecophysiology, nutrient cycling, wetlands. |
August, 1997 |
Master of Science, Environmental Science. Areas of concentration: Watershed ecosystem
processes, hazardous waste management, wetland biogeochemistry |
November, 1992 |
INDIAN Bachelor of Technology, Metallurgical Engineering |
September 2003 to January
2004 |
Department of Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology, Program coordinator and webmaster for the interdisciplinary NSF-IGERT program in Biomechanics. |
Novermber 2003 to present |
Department of Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology, Programmer and data analysis for a landuse
and watershed study in |
October, 1997 to May, 2003 |
Morningstar, Programmer AnalystDeveloped
programs (FoxPro, C#) to access very large databases (FoxPro, SQL Server) and
perform calculations and statistical analysis to supply financial data to various
clients including the media, mutual fund companies and research institutions
in a variety of formats. Database
administration and maintenance of production processes that send data files
to clients on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. |
May, 1996 to September, 1996 |
Department of Biology, Field AssistantConducted
study examining Reproductive Success of Neotropical Migrant Songbirds under
different Forest Management Practices in |
June, 1993 to July, 1995 |
ADS is an NGO who have been
working since 1978 towards ecologically sustainable development and
empowerment of the tribal communities in the foothills of the western ghats mountains in western Project Staff, Watershed Restoration Program. Surveyed Jambruk (District Raigad, Implemented soil and water conservation measures along with local communities in the Shilar river watershed. Research FellowConducted two
year study of succession of aquatic communities in the seasonal Shilar river; developed foundation of a biotic index for
rapid assessment of water quality in the Western Ghats foothills of Conducted lab and field trials to evaluate two different composting techniques, one vermiculture based. Assisted in indigenous fruit tree variety collection from different organizations and farmers; created a computer database for the Horticulture Gene Park as part of the Reforestation/Sustainable Income Generation projects Illustrated technical publications on rice morphology, biological pest control and ethnobotany of bamboo and prepared conference exhibits for several projects of the Academy |
Information Technology
Skills
Database programming and design: 6 years working experience with DOS and Visual FoxPro, SQL Server, MS Access and VB front end development
Object oriented programming and application development – using FoxPro and C# .NET to create class libraries accessed by many users in Morningstar.
Structured
Programming: have written programs in Fortran 77 for
engineering applications at I.I.T Bombay; have also written programs in Visual
FoxPro for ecologists at the
Geographic Information Systems: have created several Coverages and a Digital Elevation Model using ARC/INFO as part of a GIS for Tefft Nature Preserve, Indiana managed by The Nature Conservancy, Indiana.
Web development: have worked with HTML and Macromedia Dreamweaver to create webpages. Have also created XML files for clients and written DTDs for validation of the XML documents using Altova XMLSpy.
March, 2000 to March, 2002 |
Guest LecturerLed
discussions with an undergraduate class (Environmental Worldviews) about
environmental problems in |
January, 1997 to May,1997 |
Associate InstructorAssisted teaching a graduate level course (Applied Mathematics in Environmental Science) that used calculus for modeling ecological systems and environmental processes. |
February 2004 – July 2004 |
Parque Nacional de las Cataratas, Puerto Iguazu,
Misiones, Argentina Assisting in study of effect of nutrient additions on species composition in the subtropical Atlantic forest (mata atlantica). |
August 2003 to January 2004 |
New England Aquarium,
Assisting aquarists in the Cold Marine, Temperate and Tropical Freshwater galleries; to get exposure to the systems that maintain water quality and flow conditions for diverse habitats within the above broad aquatic ecoregions |
June 2003 to July 2003 |
Scanning and readying data for online virtual herbarium of
100,000 specimens of plants from |
April 1998 to November 2000 |
Morton Arboretum, Lisle,
|
January, 1993 to May, 1993 |
Sustainable Development Programme,
Collected baseline water quality data and correlated that
with land-use patterns in watersheds in Palni Hills, Tamil Nadu, |
August, 1991 to November,
1992 |
Indian Organized reforestation program in catchment
area of |
1) to contribute towards an understanding of watershed processes in the subtropics and tropics, where a systematic and coordinated
research effort is just beginning (considering the vast heterogeneity and variability of systems there).
2) be involved in the development of region-specific sustainable watershed management plans and in the implementation of such programs, given the fast pace of degradation in all parts of the tropics.