Role: RIT Editor

Tammy C

Tammy completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England where her research focused on the potential direct and indirect effects of human activities on the endangered African painted dog. Her passion for wildlife conservation, writing, and art are leading her to find new ways of integrating science and art to promote human-wildlife coexistence and sustainability. She wrote Painted Dog Pursuit during her PhD program to raise awareness and funds for painted dog research and conservation and looks forward to working on similar projects in the future. She is excited to join Current Conservation’s editorial team to support conservation and science communication

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Archana Anand

Archana Anand is an engineer and a biologist. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Hong Kong and
researches human impacts on water quality, marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Her other interests are dancing and painting.

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Krishnapriya Tamma

I am currently an Assistant Professor at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. My work focuses largely on tropical forest resilience, semi-arid vegetation dynamics, avian frugivore community assembly, and issues around climate & biodiversity crisis. I like cycling, staring at trees, and gardening!

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Payal Bal

Payal attributes her beginnings as a (quantitative) ecologist to her father’s extensive collection of National Geographic magazines, her mother’s academic drive, and a letter she received at the age of 7 from the New Jersey Wildlife trust in response to her letter to Gerald Durrell asking him what she could do to save animals.

Fuelled by dreams of being a field ecologist in exotic places, she now finds herself working with models and big data. She currently builds global models to predict the impacts of economic and land-use change on biodiversity, and is involved in a national scale project for Australia to assess the impacts of the recent 2019 bushfires on invertebrate species. Payal has also worked on indicators and monitoring methods for biodiversity, spatial data analyses, and human-elephant conflict.

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Madhuri Ramesh

Madhuri Ramesh has a PhD in Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) and Manipal University. At present, she teaches in the School of Development, Azim Premji University. Her research focuses on the politics of biodiversity conservation and she is interested in working with projects that involve inclusive forms of resource management. She also suspects scientific writing would improve if researchers read more comics and is busy testing this hypothesis.

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Hari Sridhar

Hari Sridhar is a researcher at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria and an honorary fellow of the Archives at NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences), Bangalore.

Hari is involved in two longform interview-based projects examining the contemporary history of conservation in India, especially in relation to the intersection of ecological knowledge and conservation practice. Over the last seven years, Hari has also lead another interview-project with authors of classic papers in ecology, evolution and behaviour, which he posts on the blog https://reflectionsonpaperspast.wordpress.com/ Hari’s other major research interest lies in understanding the causes and consequences of heterospecific sociality.

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