Our faculty and staff members have conducted a broad range of research projects. Key research interests include: tropical forests, wildlife ecology and avian ecology; ecological and environmental modeling; payments for ecosystem services; community-based resource management; ecotourism; alternative energy; air quality management, climate change and sustainable development; soil carbon and environmental effects; genetics and environmental toxicology; environmental monitoring; and water pollution and wastewater treatment.
She has been working on the effects of heavy metals in the environment and various organisms focusing on bio-molecular and cytotoxicity levels.
Her background and expertise is Energy science and Renewable energy conservation. She has been working on Ecotourism research and Conservation of biodiversity.
She has studied environmental applications of recycled and natural materials for wastewater treatment.
She has worked on waste utilization (ethanol, organic acids as well methane production) and wastewater treatment focusing on nitrogen removal. Her area of academic work and future research are related to air pollution management and application of bio-indicator for detection of environmental contamination.
Her areas of interest are ecological economics and forest management. She has participated in various natural resource management projects, especially community forest management, wetland livelihoods, restoration of salt-affected soil areas, economic valuation and payment for forest ecosystem services.
He has been working on bird diversity, freshwater turtle (Malayemys spp.) genetic and diversity. His background is wildlife toxicology where he conducted his MSc thesis on organochlorine pesticide in egg of little egret and studied sex determination of snail-eating turtle for his dissertation. He has published his research on pesticide in aquatic invertebrate and heavy metal in little grebe egg at wastewater treatment pond. Furthermore, he has supervised previous graduate students in breeding ecology of purple swamphen, arsenic contamination near gold mine area, risk assessment (Dermal contact) of pesticide in kale farmer and determination of amoxicillin in synthesis water.
Evolution of dispersal and movement, Animal ecology, population and community ecology (focus on butterflies and other insects), Molecular ecology and Biological control
Her background is avian ecology, but have been working with wide range in the field of ecology including plant taxonomy, plant-animal interactions (seed dispersal and pollination). She enjoys working in the field especially with tropical forest birds where she has joined the nest predation project to investigate avian nest success, factors affecting avian nest predation and nest predators. She is also interested in monitoring invasive species.
He is passionate about landscape and systems ecology, focusing on how physical variables shape biological community structure and biodiversity. His research integrates GIS and remote sensing to analyze spatial and temporal ecosystem patterns and better understand ecosystem functions.
