Ph.D. (Environmental and Plant Biology). 2004. Ohio University.
Master of Science (Wildlife Ecology) . 1993. Wildlife Institute of India
Bachelor of Science ( Zoology). 1991. Mahatma Gandhi University
Much of my research is centered on ethnobotany, population biology and conservation biology of economically important plant species both in the wild and in agroecosystems, especially those that are managed by indigenous communities. Fieldwork related to my research spans both temperate North America and tropical ecosystems. I have worked on several medicinal species including cheola, myrobalans, goldenseal, black cohosh and calamus root. Other areas that interest me include sacred groves, field margins (agroforests) and participatory forestry. Depending on the research question, the scintillating techniques used in my lab include sweaty field surveys, messy plant cultivation and exasperating laboratory methods for analyzing data, soils and population genetic diversity.
