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| Day 1: Monday, October 21st 2024 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome & Introductions | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Technical Plenary 1: Madeline Green | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:20 - 12:20 | Student Talks: Session 1 | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Spatial analysis of the 2022 floods in Assam on biodiversity and agricultural land using remote sensing and machine learning | Somya Jain | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Energized Fences and Rice Beer Shape Human-Elephant Conflict in Northern Bengal: A more-than-human Political Ecology Approach | Akashdeep Roy | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | J N TATA Dining Hall | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Examining the Role of Intraspecific Trait Variation in Shaping Tree Species’ Distribution in a Dry Tropical Ecosystem of India | Radhika Rajendra | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Drudging in the dark: Shedding light on the ecological niche breadth of the grey slender loris species (Loris lydekkerianus) | Ashisha K | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Are human-altered landscapes reshaping carnivore niche spaces in the cold desert of Spiti Valley? | Priyanka Justa | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Session on POSH | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Inking Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop | Sikha Hariharan | J N TATA Seminar Hall A |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Bioacoustics in Conservation | Viral Joshi, Isha Bopadikar, Divya Panicker, Taksh Sangwan | J N TATA Seminar Hall B |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Participatory research methods: Why and How? | Revati Pandya, Bhuvana Balaji, Nayana Udayashankar | CES Conference Room |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Building Alternative Livelihood Models with Communities | Savini Sonavaria | CES Reading Room |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Analysing Count Data - Fitting and Interpreting Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) | Kavita Isvaran | CES Lotka Voltera |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Basics of Tree Identification and Phenology | Sayee Girdhari | J N TATA Seminar Hall C |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Make your own ‘Protected Area Update’ | Pankaj Sekhsaria, Reshma Jathar | J N TATA Main Auditorium |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Making effective presentations | Yateendra Joshi | KI Vasu Hall |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Pitch and Write: Nature articles in mass media in English and other Indian languages | Rupsy Khurana, Mayank Aggarwal | MGMT Classroom 2 |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Significance of Folklores in Conservation Studies | Dipti Arora, Astha Chaudhary | CES Classroom |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Foundations of Vulnerability Assessment: Concepts, Methods, and Applications in Conservation | Vidhatri Thakkar, Sahil Mathew, Tashina Madappa C., Vidya S. | CES Seminar Hall |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters - Session 1 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | 15 Years of SCCS Bengaluru - Special Event | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | IISc Campus | |
| Day 2: Tuesday, October 22nd 2024 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Long Workshops - 10 to 12 workshops - 6hrs each approx. | Resource Person | Venue |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | How R You Doing? Using the R platform for Managing and Analyzing Ecological Datasets | Raman Kumar | CES Lotka Voltera |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Plant ID | Navendu Page, Sayee Girdhari | J N TATA Seminar Hall A |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Fellowship and grant writing in Ecological Sciences | Sabuj Bhattacharyya, Monica Kaushik | KI Vasu Hall - MTE |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Contextualising Environmental Justice in India | Yams Srikanth | J N Tata Seminar Hall C |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Games and Conservation | Priti Bangal, Peeyush Sekhsaria, Prasad Sandbhor, Karthik Natarajan | CES Classroom |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Qualitative Research in Conservation: Power, Positionality and Practice | Budhaditya Das, Venkat Ramanujam | J N TATA Seminar Hall B |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Know your field through pixels | Biswa Bhusana Mahapatra | CES Reading Room |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Maxent and beyond: Exploring the utility and pitfalls of Species Distribution Models | Divyashree Rana, Imran Samad | CES Seminar Hall |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Foundations of Conservation and Nature Education: frameworks, design, practice and ethics | Priyanka Prakash, Vena Kapoor, Misha Bansal | CES Conference Room |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Creative Publishing for Conservation | Neha Sinha | J N TATA Main Auditorium |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Tea Break | ||
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Long Workshops | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Long Workshops | ||
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | ||
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 1 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Careers in Conservation - Panel Discussion | JN Tata Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | IISc Campus | |
| Day 3: Wednesday, October 23rd 2024 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Technical Plenary 2: Pranay Lal | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 2 | ||
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Integrated adaptation strategies for human–leopard cat coexistence in Taiwan | Linh Bao Nguyen | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Threads of Time: Intergenerational Transmission of Traditional Ecological Knowledge About Tubers in Uttara Kannada’s Kunbi Community | Aditi Rao | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Rocks Trees Temperature and Lizards- How temperature affects performance of two sympatric agamid lizards? | Amanda Ben | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | J N TATA Dining Hall | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | What are the Values a River Holds? The Socio-ecological Economic and Cultural Tragedy of the Luni River Rajasthan. | Hassan Shahnowaz Islam | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Pugmarks among footprints: Persistence of mammalian carnivores in the human-dominated landscape of Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary Maharashtra. | Veerendra Naidu | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Group Photo | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 2 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Unpacking an Economics Toolkit for Environmental Policy | Aniket Bhatkhande | J N TATA Seminar Hall B |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Asking new questions in a changing enviro legal landscape | Stella James, Vineeta Venugopal | CES - Reading room |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Study Design in Ecology and Conservation | Kavita Isvaran | CES Conference Room |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | The study of Animal behaviour and its applications for conservation | Nishant Srinivassaiah, Samira Agnihotri | J N TATA Seminar Hall A |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Rhythm of the Wild: Using Dance and Movement as a Tool in Nature Storytelling and Building Conservation Awareness | Priya Ranganathan | J N TATA Main Auditorium |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | DNA Metabarcoding Masterclass: Uncovering the Diets of Wild Species | Abhinav Tyagi, Mousumi Ghosh | CES Lotka Voltera |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Socio-economic Data Collection for Conservation: A session on best practices | Pooja Dewoolkar | MGMT Classroom 2 |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Geospatial Data Processing and Developing Predictive Distribution Models in Freshwater Environments | Vineet K Dubey, Meghavi Purohit | CES Classroom |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | ‘Okay, but what’s the story?’ - A guide to reading and synthesizing research papers | Anish Paul, Pritha Dey, Aksha Chowdhary, Malavika Kamath | KI Vasu Hall - MTE |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Folklore and Folktales in Wildlife Conservation | Vikram Sridhar | Outdoor |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Enter the Dragon: Workshop on Freshwater Macro-invertebrate Ecology with emphasis on Odonates (Dragonflies & Damselflies) | Pankaj Koparde, Prosenjit Dawn, Soma Mishra | CES Seminar Hall |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Writing for Researchers | Karthik Ramaswamy | J N TATA Seminar Hall C |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters: Session 2 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Open Plenary: 2 Stephen Alter - "The Naturalist's Gaze" | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | IISc Campus | |
| Day 4: Thursday, October 24th 2024 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Technical Plenary 3: Jennifer Powers | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 3 | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Distribution and Ecology of the Montane Macaques and Human–Macaque Relationships in the Eastern Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh Northeastern India | Titir Debnath | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Assessing Habitat Utilization, Activity Pattern, and Population Density of the Globally Threatened Sri Lankan Sloth Bear in Kumana National Park. | Pasindu Rodrigu | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Quantifying Anthropogenic Threats to the Freshwater Fishes of Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Implication for Conservation | Robia Kshetrimayum | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | J N TATA Dining Hall | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Exploring Indian Gaur’s Spatial Responses to Changing Habitat Using Random Forest Models | Subhadra Barik | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Effect of Land-use change on the Habitat and Density of Grizzled Giant Squirrel around SMTR Tamil Nadu | Shilpa Bevoor | J N TATA Auditorium |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Birds of A Feather: Themed Networking Session | J N TATA Premises | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| 1 | Preparing documents in R; application of R Markdown to create notebook, pdf and HTML documents | Chandan Kumar Pandey | CES Conference Room |
| 2 | Language and Ecology - Communicating Nature Through Local Languages | P. Jeganathan | J N TATA Main Auditorium |
| 3 | Art meets Science: A collaborative workshop | Shivangi Pant | J N TATA Seminar Hall B |
| 4 | Across the Shark-verse | Evan Nazareth | CES Class Room |
| 5 | Choosing the off-beat: Careers in Ecology, Environmental Science, and Sustainability Studies | Pankaj Koparde, Shrikant Gund | J N TATA Seminar Hall A |
| 6 | Does human behaviour really change? Insights from social psychology in understanding challenges to wildlife conservation in India | Prachi Paranjpye | CES Seminar Hall |
| 7 | Community Mapping for Conservation: Techniques, Applications, and Advocacy | Abel Job Abraham | CES Reading Room |
| 8 | Using open data & collaborations for environmental accountability - learning with India Sand Watch | Rhea Lopez | CES Lotka Voltera |
| 9 | Acoustic Monitoring in Conservation | Gururaja KV | J N TATA Seminar Hall C |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Open Plenary session - India’s ecological futures, challenges and opportunities: water from the woods and water for wetlands | Jagdish Krishnaswamy | JN Tata Auditorium |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Closing Ceremony | JN Tata Auditorium | |