UMESH SRINIVASAN
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs
405A Robertson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08540 USA
DoB: 22 November 1982
Phone: (M) +91 99019 38486
(M) + 1 646 -258-3080
(O) +1 609-258-2448
umesh.srinivasan@gmail.com
CURRENT
POSITION
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs
Princeton University, NJ, USA
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (2014)
UNIVERSITY: Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
INSTITUTION: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
HONOURS: Honorable mention, Best Thesis Award
Master’s in Wildlife Biology & Conservation (2008)
UNIVERSITY: Manipal University, Manipal
INSTITUTION: Wildlife Conservation Society – India Program &
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
CUMULATIVE GPA: 3.78/4
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (2006)
UNIVERSITY: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore
INSTITUTION: Mysore Medical College, Mysore, India
AGGREGATE: 71.0%
EXPERIENCE
Mist netting and bird ringing towards for long-term population monitoring
in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh (2010 onwards).
Master’s dissertation on bird community ecology and species associations
in Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh.
Worked in a medical capacity for Conservation Outreach Program, Nature
Conservation Foundation, Mysore (2005) – helped implement a
community health initiative as part of a biodiversity conservation program
involving the Lisu tribe in and around Namdapha Tiger Reserve, eastern
Arunachal Pradesh.
JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Srinivasan, U., J. Hines & S. Quader (2015) Demographic superiority with
increased logging in tropical understorey insectivorous birds. Journal of
Applied Ecology, doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12475.
Varma, V., J. Ratnam, V. Viswanathan, et al. (2015) Perceptions of priority
issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India.
Biological Conservation, 187, 201-211.
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Velho, N., U. Srinivasan, P. Singh & W.F. Laurance (2015) Large mammal
use of protected and community-managed lands in a biodiversity hotspot.
Animal Conservation, doi: 10.1111/acv.12234.
Srinivasan, U. (2014) Oil palm expansion: ecological threat to north-east
India. Economic and Political Weekly, XLIX, Sep. 06, 2014.
Velho, N., M. Agarwala, U. Srinivasan & W.F. Laurance (2014) Collateral
damage: impacts of ethno-civil strife on biodiversity and natural resource
use near Indian nature reserves. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23, 25152527.
Srinivasan, U., K. Tamma & U. Ramakrishnan (2014). Species ecology
and past climate drive nested species richness patterns along an east-west
axis in the Himalaya. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 23, 52-60.
Srinivasan, U. (2013). A slippery slope: logging alters mass-abundance
relationships in ecological communities. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50,
920-928.
Sridhar, H., U. Srinivasan, et al. (2012). Positive relationships between
association strength and phenotypic similarity characterize the assembly of
mixed-species flocks wordwide. The American Naturalist, 180, 777-790.
Srinivasan, U. & S. Quader (2012). To eat and not be eaten: modelling
resources and safety in multi-species animal groups. PloS One, e42071.
Srinivasan, U., R.H. Raza & S. Quader (2012). Patterns of species
participation across multiple mixed-species flock types in a tropical forest
in northeastern India. Journal of Natural History, 46, 2749-2762.
Velho, N., J. Ratnam, U. Srinivasan & M. Sankaran (2012). Shifts in
community structure of tropical trees and avian frugivores in forests
recovering from past logging. Biological Conservation, 153, 32-40.
Krishnadas, M., N. Velho & U. Srinivasan (2012) The worrisome business
of the National Investment Board. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII,
13-17.
Velho, N., M. Krishnadas, S. Sridhara & U. Srinivasan (2012) Turning the
page in wildlife science: conservation biology and bureaucracy. Economic
and Political Weekly, XLVII, 27-29.
Velho, N., U. Srinivasan, Prashanth N.S. & W.F. Laurance (2011). Human
disease hinders anti-poaching efforts in Indian nature reserves. Biological
Conservation, 144, 2382-2385.
Krishnadas, M., U. Srinivasan, N. Velho & S. Sridhara (2011) Turning the
page in forest governance: science and bureaucracy. Economic and
Political Weekly, XLVI, 10-13.
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Srinivasan, U., R. H. Raza & S. Quader (2010). The nuclear question:
rethinking species importance in multi-species animal groups. Journal of
Animal Ecology, 79, 948-954.
Srinivasan, U., S. Dalvi, R. Naniwadekar, M.O. Anand & A. Datta (2010)
The birds of Namdapha National Park and surrounding areas: recent
significant records and a checklist of the species. Forktail, 26, 92-116.
Srinivasan, U., S. Dalvi & K. Yobin (2009) First records of ‘white-headed’
Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus from India. Indian Birds, 5, 28-30.
Srinivasan, U. and Prashanth N.S. (2006). Preferential routes of bird
dispersal to the Western Ghats in India: An explanation for the avifaunal
peculiarities of the Biligirirangan Hills. Indian Birds. 2, 114-119.
Srinivasan, U. and Prashanth N.S. (2005) Additions to the avifauna of the
Biligirirangan Hills, Karnataka. Indian Birds, 1, 103-104.
POPULAR
WRITING
Srinivasan, U. (2014) Tree shrews: BRT, and a little beyond.
www.JLRexplore.com, Sep. 01.
Srinivasan, U. & N. Velho (2014) Land of the Liocichla. Saevus, Jan. 15.
Srinivasan, U (2012) India Inc.’s new bogey. Down to Earth, Nov. 30.
Velho, N. & U. Srinivasan (2011) Dont just cash in on tigers. Nature
based tourism: from rhetoric to reality. Down to Earth, Dec. 15.
Srinivasan, U (2011) Soliga welfare or tiger conservation? (In Kannada).
Vijaya Karnataka.
Velho, N. & U. Srinivasan (2010) Survey proposes study of Naroa’s
habitats. The Herald.
Srinivasan, U. & N. Velho(2009) Science the scapegoat: the curious case
of the extinction of tigers in Panna. Sanctuary Asia Magazine, 1109: 7677.
COURSES AND
WORKSHOPS
Community Ecology, Master's Program in Wildlife Biology and
Conservation, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Bangalore (June-July 2015)
Data visualisation and graphics in R. Young Ecologists Talk and Interact
2013, Nagaland University (December 2013)
Basic R for ecologists. Young Ecologists Talk and Interact 2013, Nagaland
University (December 2013)
Data visualisation and graphics in R. Students’ Conference on
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Conservation Science 2013, Bangalore (September 2013)
Bird census and sampling techniques. Volunteer Training Programme,
Karnataka Ecotourism Development Board (August, September 2013)
R for ecologists: getting started. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and
the Environment, Bangalore (August 2013)
Advanced R and advanced statistics. Students’ Conference on
Conservation Science 2012, Bangalore (August 2012)
R for ecologists. Young Ecologists Talk and Interact 2011, Guwahati
(December 2011)
Basic R for ecologists. Post-graduate Programme in Wildlife Biology and
Conservation, National Centre for Biological Sciences (September 2010)
INVITED
TALKS
The Principal Components Analysis. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology
and the Environment, Bangalore (March 2014)
Logging impacts on understorey birds. Centre for Ecological
Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (February 2014)
Logging impacts on understorey birds. Ashoka Trust for Research in
Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore (February 2014)
Ethno-civil strife, armed insurgency and biodiversity conservation in
northeast India. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
(May 2013)
Coalition politics in the animal kingdom. Young Ecologists Talk and
Interact 2012, Dehradun (December 2012)
Demographic responses of understorey birds to logging. Centre for
Tropical Ecology & Sustainability Science, James Cook University
(Cairns campus), Australia (October 2012)
Counting birds. Mount Carmel College, Bangalore (July 2011)
Birds of northeast India. Rotary Club, Bangalore (July 2011)
Bird census and monitoring techniques. Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India, Guwahati (February 2009)
Bird studies in northeast India. Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India, Guwahati (February 2009)
GRANTS
International Foundation for Science grant (2012) for research on the
demographic impacts of logging on understorey bird populations.
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Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation for a project on communitybased bird conservation (2009). Project title: An avifaunal survey of
Namdapha National Park: exploring the potential for limited bird tourism
with local communities.
HONOURS
Honorable Mention, The TAA-Zita Lobo Best Thesis Award in Biological
Scienes. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (2014)
Best talk award for 'Demographic impacts of logging on understorey bird
species' at the Students' Conference on Conservation Science, Bangalore,
India (2012)
Madhav Gadgil award for best oral presentation on ‘Species associations in
mixed-species bird flocks’ at the conference of the Association for Tropical
Biology and Conservation (Asia-Pacific Chapter), Chiang Mai, Thailand
(2009)
Ranked 1st overall in all semesters of Post-Graduate Program in Wildlife
Biology and Conservation, with a cumulative GPA of 3.78/4 (2008)
Best Outgoing Student (Academic): MBBS Batch of 2000, Mysore
Medical College, Mysore with an aggregate of 71.0 % (2006)
REVIEWER
FOR
Animal Conservation, Behavioural Ecology, Biological Conservation,
Conservation Biology, Current Science, Indian Birds, The Condor
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