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POSH Session
| Day 1: Monday, October 9, 2023 | ||
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| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome address and Opening Ceremony | |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Technical Plenary Bram Büscher In case it was not clear already: we need a conservation revolution! A call and proposal for a convivial alternative |
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| 10:20 - 12:00 | Student Talks | Presenter |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Deadwood extraction changes carbon and nutrient stocks in a fragmented tropical rainforest | Rohit Nandakumar |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Golden jackals riding the tide in Mumbai mangroves | Shweta Patil |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Demographic and ecological niche dynamics of the Vietnam warty newt, Paramesotriton deloustali: Implications for conservation | Dung Van Tran |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Assessing the effects of stormwater outfalls on gastropods in and around Mumbai, Maharashtra. | Ameya Bhojane |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Chirps of the classroom: Students' awareness and relatedness with local biodiversity in urban and rural schools Maharashtra | Kiran Kanhurkar |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Who's Who in Conservation | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person(s) |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Basics of Tree Identification and Phenology | Sayee Girdhari |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Participatory research methods: Why and How? | Revati Pandya Bhuvana Balaji Nayana Udayashankar |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Building Alternative Livelihood Models with communities | Savini Sonavaria |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Science Communication through Art and Design | Shivangi Pant Devathi Parashuram Greta Sam Karunya Bhaskar |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | An Introduction to DNA Metabarcoding and its Applications for Studying Biodiversity | Mousumi Ghosh |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Know the journey of your submissions: Back-end processing of a peer reviewed journal | Sanjay Molur |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Discovering Bryophytes | Shrikant Machindra Gund Abhirami Ravichandran |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Conservation Filmmaking for Beginners | Sara Sripad |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | The role and scope of a good literature review | Simran Prasad Shreya Ray |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Tradition of folklores and it's importance in conservation studies | Dipti Aroraa Astha Chaudhary |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Bioacoustics in Conservation | Viral Joshi Divya Panicker Abhijith Taksh Sangwan |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Break | |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | Session on POSH | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Popular Open Plenary Pradip Krishen Learning About Restoration |
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| 18:30 - 19:00 | Film Screening | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Evening Walk | |
| Day 2: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 | ||
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| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Morning Walk | |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Long Workshops | |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Long Workshops | Resource Person(s) |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | How R You Doing? Using the R platform for Managing and Analyzing Ecological Datasets | Raman Kumar |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Plant ID | Navendu Page |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Drone-based Visual Animal Tracking for Conservation Science | Akanksha Rathore Jitesh Jhawar |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Games and Conservation | Misha Bansal Priti Bangal Peeyush Sekhsaria |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | A gentle introduction to spatial data analysis in R | Manvi Sharma Bharti Dharapuram |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Contextualising Environmental Justice in India | Yamini Srikanth |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Qualitative Research in Conservation: Power, Positionality and Practice | Budhaditya Das Venkat Ramanujam |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Fellowship and grant writing in Ecological Sciences | Sabuj Bhattacharyya Monica Kaushik |
| 09:00 - 16:30 | Writing for Researchers | Karthik Ram |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters - Session I | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Panel Discussion - Careers in Conservation | Sangeetha Kadur Tarsh Thekaekara Sahil Nijhawan Karthikeyani Bhanu Sridharan |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Evening Walk | |
| Day 3: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | ||
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| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Morning Walk | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Technical Plenary Andrea Phillot Hatcheries, holding, and headstarting: Do these practices contribute to sea turtle conservation? |
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| 10:00 - 11:40 | Student Talks | Presenter |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Light As The Driver Of Plant-Herbiovry Interactions In A Human-Modified Forest | Devi Tejaswini |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | A Systematic Review On The Significance Of Local-Scale Variables For The Bird Community Within Urban Green Spaces | Krishna Sharma |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Understanding Drivers Of Human Elephant Conflict In Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu | Sanchaya Sharma |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Beyond Dichotomies: Unravelling The Nuances Of Local Perceptions Towards The Striped Hyena In West Bengal, India | Vasudha Mishra |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | How To Live With A Pathogen In The Wild- Lessons From Chytridiomycosis In Indian Anurans | Gayathri Sreedharan |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Group Photo | |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Who's Who in Conservation | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person(s) |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | From Data Collection, management to Storytelling: An Interactive Workshop on ODK and R-Studio | Saneesh C S |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Exploring the intertidal zone: a ‘how-to’ workshop | Gaurav Patil Raniya Ansari |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Combating Cyber Illegal Wildlife Crime through Citizen Science Initiative | Monesh Singh Tomar |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Recognizing and cultivating reflexivity in conservation research and practice | Sayan Banerjee |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Introduction to climate law and justice | Vineetha Venugopal Stella James |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Using behavioural science and design thinking for conservation action | Arjun Kamdar |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Inking Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop | Subhadra Sridharan Sikha Hariharan |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Unpacking an Economics Toolkit for Environmental Policy | Aniket Bhatkhande |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Into the Sharkverse: An Introduction to Identification, Research and Conservation of Sharks & Rays in India. | Alissa Barnes Evan Nazareth |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Analysing Count Data - Fitting and Interpreting Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) | Kavita Isvaran |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Know-hows of popular qualitative data analysis software | Medha Nayak |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters - Session II | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Open Plenary Janice Pariat A Case for the Long Perspective: For Life, Writing, and Healing the World |
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| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Evening Walk | |
| Day 4: Thursday, October 12, 2023 | ||
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| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Morning Walk | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Technical Plenary David Saltz High Risk, High Cost, Yet Revered: The Why, What, And How Of Reintroductions |
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| 10:00 - 11:40 | Student Talks | Presenter |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Assessing Physiological Parameters Of Eristalis Tenax (Diptera: Syrphidae) Across An Elevational Gradient | Gauri Gharpure |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Intergenerational Transmission Of Cultural Values: A Study On Sacred Groves In Siddapur, India | Rajiv Nagasandra Venkatesh |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Diversity, Distribution And Health Of The Street Trees In South Guwahati Of Assam | Bandita Kalita |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | On The Road To Losing Connectivity: Impact Of Habitat Alterations On Two Large Herbivores In Central India | Abhinav Tyagi |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Mountains Host A Significantly Higher Proportion Of Data-Deficient Bat Species Than Lowlands | Rohit Chakravarty |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Student Posters - Session III | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person(s) |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Basics of QGIS | Gowri U N Dipanwitha Dutta |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Preparing documents in R; application of R Markdown to create notebook, pdf and HTML documents | Chandan Kumar Pandey |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Conservation story-telling with photography | Kalyan Verma |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Ecology, Policy & Legal aspects of Linear Infrastructure Development | Milind Pariwakam |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | 28+ years of the Protected Area Update - What can we do with the database? What can you? | Pankaj Sekhsaria |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Bridging Animal Cognition with Conservation Biology | V V Binoy |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | An ant's world: Systems organization in ants and what we can learn from them | Pranav Balasubramanian Tejaswini Nagesh |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Using Theatre and Drama in Conservation Awareness | Vikram Sridhar |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | The Study of Animal Behaviour and its Applications for Conservation | Nishant Srinivasaiah Devica Ranade Samira Agnihotri |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Birds of A Feather: Themed Networking Session | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Open Plenary Rita Banerjee A Forest of People - Insights from the Green Hub Journey |
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| 19:00 - 19:20 | Closing Ceremony | |