LIST OF RESEARCH FELLOWS

Name

University

Nationality

Study area

Period

Yadira Corbet

 

University of
British Columbia

Canadian

Sustainable Development

June 2017 - August 2017

Mr Nishad Jayasundara

 

Hopkins Marine Station of
Stanford University

Sri Lankan

To identify biodiversity hotspots that can be threatened by climate change effects and recognize the plasticity of organisms to such changes and how that would effect the coastal ecosystem in Sri Lanka.

June 2011

Prof Shobha Sriharan

 

Virginia State University

Indian

Integrate remote sensing for changes around Colombo between 2000-2010 for noting any differences due to urbanization. This may give clue to climate change due to human activities. Currently studying the changes in land cover, urbanization, and construction of commercial buildings for past 10 years in Nandikonda (outside of Hyderabad city).

April  2011

Carmen de Michele

 

German

Sustainable Community Development by the means of Eco-Tourism

July-August 2010

Golam Mathbor

Monmouth University

USA

Building social capital for sustainable disaster relief and management

25 May – 24 June’06

Harald Winkler

University of Cape Town

South African

Consolidation of PhD thesis:  Sustainable Energy Development Paths for the South African Power Sector: An Analysis of the Economic Viability of Future Scenarios

 

26 June-5 Aug'05

Robin White

The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Tufts University

Canadian

MA thesis

14 May-29 Aug'04

Ms Akiko Yamane

Monash University

Australia

Japanese

Ph.D. in environmental studies

Nov'03-Feb'04

Mr Niggol Seo

Yale's Environment School

New Haven, USA

 

 

To look at different regions with different climates and relate the climate situation in each region to  the land value in the region, hence figure out how the climate situation is affecting the profitability of the regions.  

Aug 16 - Sept 16th 2002

Mr Yaw Afrane-Okese

University of Cape Town, Energy & Development Research Centre,

South Africa

 

Ghana

Ph.D thesis proposal: Developing Sustainable strategies for energy use in urban households in Southern Africa: case study of Botswana

 

July 10 – September 26, 2001

Ms Risa Morimoto

University of Cambridge,

St Edmund's College, UK

Japanese

PhD in Environmental Management

 

PhD research :SED: assessing the econmic, social and environmental implications of hydropower projects in Sri Lanka

 

July-Sept 2000