Namaste I'm Sanjeeb.

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Academic qualifications:

MSc Sustainable Tropical Forestry (SUTROFOR): Double degrees offered jointly by Bangor University, UK and Copenhagen University, Denmark (EU's Erasmus Mundus Scholarship)

PG-Diploma: Remote Sensing and GIS (UN CSSTEAP Scholarship), Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, India

BSc Forestry: Institute of Forstry (IoF), Pokhara, Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal

Provisional Certificate Level (PCL) Forestry: IoF, Hetauda

Interests:

Design and implementation of integrated research projects

Development of research tools, database management, data analysis and visualization

Ecosystem Services

Agroforestry

Landscape Ecology

Sustainable Forest Management

Participatory Natural Resources Management

Social-ecological Systems

Skills:

Project management & Facilitation

80%

GIS & Spatial analysis

85%

Data science using R

90%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Institute of Forestry (IOF), Tibhuvan University (TU)

Mar 2021 – Present Hetauda

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Supervision
  • Publication

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL)

Oct 2017 – Mar 2021 Kathmandu

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Supervision
  • Publication

 
 
 
 
 

Forestry and Environment Expert

Independantly and intermitently

Sep 2005 – Present Nepal

Projects include:

  • Team leader Expanded Long-Term Strategy (LTS) for Emissions from Forestry Sector of Nepal for Oxford Policy Management Limited (OPML), Nepal.
  • Contributed to Feasibility of Wood-based Infrastructure in Earthquake-prone Urban Himalaya: Assessing the Current Situation, Opportunities, and Challenges, and Developing a Long-term Strategy commissioned by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
  • Study team leader Products, Demand, Supply, Export and Import of Forest Produce by Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies (MoICS), Government of Nepal.
  • Facilitation of several post/under-graduate students and professionals in forestry related courses, database and GIS applications
  • Contribution to forestry and biological aspects of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and Initial Environmental Examination(IEE) for different infrastructure development projects

 
 
 
 
 

Various

Various

Feb 1998 – Jan 2016 Nepal, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Netherlands, Kenya, and Thailand

University, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) Research/Development, Government Public Services.

Accomplish­ments

Recent Advances in Space Applications for Forest Monitoring and Assessment

Online

Online Special Seminar on Forest Resources and Mathematical Modeling with R

Online

Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) (Project: FAO/TCP/NEP/3702)

Kathmandu.

Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination

See certificate

Introduction to Relational Database and SQL

See certificate

Coursera Administrator Training

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Build Data Analysis tools using R and DPLYR

See certificate

COVID-19 Contact Tracing

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Techniques in Forest Entomology and Intensive Pest Management (Project: FAO/TCP/NEP/3702)

Kathmandu.

Hands-on workshop with Google Earth Engine (GEE): training in accessing and analyzing annual, nation-wide tree cover data

Kathmandu.

Training of Trainers on Silviculture and Forest Management.

Various places in Nepal.

An Introduction to TESSA: the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment.

San Jose, Costa Rica.

Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVest)

San Jose, Costa Rica.

Model Thinking

See certificate

Hydrological and Carbon Stock Appraisal Tools in the context of Payment for Environmental Services (PES)

Spatially explicit assessment of tradeoffs and synergies amongst key ecosystem services in Sasumua watershed

Sustainable Tropical Forestry (SUTROFOR) Joint Summer Module

Youth Encounter for Sustainability (YES)

Interdisciplinary Land Use and Natural Resource Management Program, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Projects

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Conference

Organising Secretary of International Agroforestry Conference 2018.

Coffee

Exploring Multi-functional Alternative Landscape Designs for Intensive Coffee …

MSc

Spatially Explicit Assessment of Trade-offs and Synergies amongst Key …

SLUSE

Understanding Sufficiency Economy.

Talks

Leveraging Information Technology to Develop Forest Information Management System for Nepal.

Leveraging Information Technology to Develop Forest Information Management System for Nepal.

Local and Landscape Drivers of Crop Injury

Local and landscape drivers of crop injury in highland coffee agroforestry systems.

Interaction between Household and Field in Agroforestry Ecosystem Services

Interaction between household and field characteristics in generation of ecosystem services from coffee agroecosystem of Llano Bonito, Costa Rica

Site Factors, Shade Trees and Coffee Plant Characteristics in Agroforestry

Llano Bonito is a productive coffee-growing watershed within Tarrazú region of Costa Rica

The Llano Bonito Experiment, San Pablo de León Cortés, Tarrazú, Costa Rica.

Investigating agricultural practices, environmental services and design of agroforestry systems in Central mountains of Costa Rica

The role of forest products with increasing urbanisation.

The present study explores the differential roles of forest resources in communities.

Collection of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal

National forest and Community forest are the most frequently visited places for collection of wild fungi.

Publications

A comparison of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 spectral indices for estimating aboveground forest carbon in a community forest

This study aimed to estimate and map the Above Ground Forest Carbon stock in the Salbote Karele Community Forest in Ilam district. The …

Existing Agroforestry Practices and Their Contribution to the Socio-economic Condition of the People of West Nawalparasi, Nepal- A case study

The modern agroforestry systems have the potential to improve livelihood through the production of food, fodder, and firewood as well as mitigation of the impact of climate change.

Exploring agroforestry systems and practices in the Terai and hill regions of Nepal

This paper explores the status of agroforestry systems and practices in the Terai and hill regions of Nepal.

Breeding seasonality of Chital (Axis axis) in the Hetauda Valley of Nepal

Breeding seasonality of Chital (Axis axis) in the Hetauda Valley of Nepal.

Crown Openness and Regeneration Status in Pine Forest

This research illustrates the effect of crown openness and regeneration status of pine forest.

Combining Farm Typology and Yield Gap Analysis to Identify Yield Limiting Factors

Yield variability in space and time is a wellknown phenomenon in the highland coffee production systems of Costa Rica.

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation through Community Based Sustainable Management of Forests in Nepal

Mountain Forests in a Changing World - Realizing values, addressing challenges.

District Level Evaluation of REDD Potential Based on Crown Cover and Carbon Density in Nepal

District Level Evaluation of REDD Potential Based on Crown Cover and Carbon Density in Nepal (in Nepali).

Guidelines for Measuring Carbon Stocks in Community-Managed Forests

The guidelines describe methods, procedures, and steps for measuring organic carbon stored by forest land use systems.

Supporting Multifunctionality through Realistic, Conditional and Voluntary Actions

How trees and people can coadapt to climate change reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes.

Collection and Use of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal

This study investigates the collection of wild edible Nepalese fungi species, and what are the specific characteristics of the collectors and the collection.

Use of Wild Edible Mushrooms in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Use of Wild Edible Mushrooms in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal.

Adressing the needs for forestry research and education in Nepal

IOF ComForM project end of phase I project status and design of phase II

A statistical evaluation of community forest inventory data- examples from six Schima-Castanopsis forests

A statistical evaluation of community forest inventory data- examples from six Schima-Castanopsis forests.

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