Tropical Resources Institute

Asia Fellows

Luisa Cortesi – PhD
Living in Floods: Knowledge(s) and Technologies of Disastrous Water In North Bihar, India
2012 TRI Fellow in India
Julia Fogerite – MESc
Avian Biodiversity Conservation in Cacao Agroforests in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
2012 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Jessica Gordon – MEM
Institutional Adaptation to Climate Change in Shaanxi Province, China
2012 TRI Fellow in China
Anobha Gurung – PhD
Understanding Exposure to Traffic Related Air Pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal
2012 TRI Fellow in Nepal
Bunyod Holmatov – MEM
Academic interests in managing water resources and waste-water treatment technologies; summer internship with Energy and Environment Unit of UNDP's Uzbekistan office
2012 Sabin Fellow
Daniel Hoshizaki – MEM
Resilience in Tohoku Communities Impacted by the March 11th, 2011 Tsunami
2012 TRI Fellow in Japan
Jasmine Hyman – PhD
Greening the Bottom Billion: Access, Distribution, and Perceptions of Carbon Finance from the Peasant to the Banker
2012 TRI Fellow in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Thomas James – PhD
Climatic Drivers of Ecosystem Change in Mongolia (Central Asia)
2012 TRI Fellow in Mongolia
Vijeta Jangra – MEM
Academic interests in energy system analysis, renewable energy, private investments in clean energy technologies, and environment economics; internship with World Bank on low carbon technologies
2012 Sabin Fellow
Ambika Khadka – MEM
Studying the impact of different land use changes in the hydrological cycle of a watershed, Jiangxi Province, China
2012 Sabin Fellow
Ambika Khadka – MEM
Studying the impact of different land use changes in the hydrological cycle of a watershed, Jiangxi Province, China
2012 TRI Fellow in Nepal and China
Aparna Mani – MEM
Cultivating Food Security: Ni-Vanuatu Women's Relationship with Food, Bio-diversity, Natural Resources and Food Policy
2012 Sabin Fellow
Jennifer Miller – PhD
Mapping the Kill: Predicting Tiger and Leopard Livestock Depredation in Central India
2012 TRI Fellow in India
Alark Saxena – PhD
Evaluating the resilience of local livelihood strategy of forest village communities climate variability in Central India
2012 TRI Fellow in India
Sumana Serchan – MF
Summer research focused on the distribution of Ritha, a non-timber forest product, in community and private forests of western Nepal
2012 Sabin Fellow
Sumana Serchan – MF
Distribution of Ritha (Sapindus mukorossi), a Non-Timber Forest Product in community and private forestlands in Baitadi district, western Nepal
2012 TRI Fellow in Nepal
Christopher Shughrue – MESc
Urban Clusters in India: Regional Growth as a System of Cities
2012 TRI Fellow in India
Wen Wang – MESc
Academic interests in environmental economics, valuation of health impacts of pollution, economic modeling of environmental problems; summer internship with WRI shale gas initiative.
2012 Sabin Fellow
Angela Whitney – MESc
Evaluating perceived climate change vulnerability within resource-dependent coastal communities in the Philippines
2012 TRI Fellow in Philippines
Stephen Brooks – MESc
Changing Coastlines: A Historic Approach to Mangrove Management in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
2011 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Luisa Cortesi – PhD
Living with Floods: Disaster, Water and Sociality in North Bihar, India
2011 TRI Fellow in India
Tania Ellersick – MFS
Dipterocarpaceae flowering abundance and seedling recruitment following a mass flowering event in the Sepilok Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
2011 TRI Fellow in Malaysia
Amy Higgins – MESc
Artificial Glaciers: Evaluating A Water-Harvesting Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation in Ladakh, India
2011 TRI Fellow in India
Lakshmi Krishnan – MEM
Relocation Narratives
2011 TRI Fellow in India
Jing Ma – MEM
Role of Small Hydropower (SHP) in China's Energy Future
2011 TRI Fellow in China
Jennifer Miller – PhD
Mapping Predation Risk as a Tool for Reducing Tiger and Leopard Livestock Depredation in India
2011 TRI Fellow in India
Erica Pohnan – MEM
Adapting Forest Restoration Approaches to Local Contexts: Case-studies from Southeast Asia
2011 TRI Fellow in Thailand, Phillipines
Tina Schneider – MF
Growth performance and species-site relationships in native species reforestation in the Philippines
2011 TRI Fellow in Phillipines
Kanchan Shrestha – MESc
Disaster Management Policy in Nepal: A Case Study of Koshi Flood 2008
2011 TRI Fellow in Nepal
Agha Ali Akram – PhD
Determining the Impacts of Climate Change on Pakistan’s Agriculture
2010 TRI Fellow in Pakistan
Catherine Anne Claus – PhD
Oceanic desires: Belonging, identity, and conservation in Okinawa
2010 TRI Fellow in Okinawa, Japan
Bandana Malik – MESc
Reviving Trinjan: Folk heritage, women’s spaces, and agricultural biodiversity in Post-Green Revolution Punjab, India
2010 TRI Fellow in India
Weixin Ng – MEM
Evaluating the impact of population growth and inter-city transportation on land use and development in Java, Indonesia
2010 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Pragyajan Rai – MEM
Ecoregions: A paradigm shift in conservation
2010 TRI Fellow in Nepal, India
Alark Saxena – PhD
Evaluating the effectiveness of Community Based Natural Resource Management in increasing the resilience of local livelihood strategies to climate change
2010 TRI Fellow in India
Kartikeya Singh – MESc
Leapfrogging rural India towards sustainable energy independence
2010 TRI Fellow in India
Benjamin Blom – MEM
Adaptive Management in Conservation: An Analysis of Effectiveness and Equitability for ICDPs and REDD
2009 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Kristofer Covey – MFS
Understanding Mid-Elevation Evergreen Oak Forests of the Central Himalaya, Bhutan
2009 TRI Fellow in Bhutan
Frederica Ghesquiere – MESc
Environmental Cosmologies: Religious and Agricultural Interventionism and its Effects on the Sustainability Practices of the Philippine Igorots
2009 TRI Fellow in Philippines
Katie Hawkes – MEM
On the Ground with REDD: Incorporating Local Community Involvement into a Pilot REDD Project in Indonesia
2009 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Kasey Jacobs – MESc
Institutions and Coastal Governance Across Scales for Climate Adaptation of Developing Island Nation Communities and Ecosystems in a High CO2 World
2009 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Roopa Krithivasan – MESc
Tribal Rights and Tiger Conservation in the Nilgiri Hills of South India
2009 TRI Fellow in India
Heather McCarthy – MEM
The Impacts of Jatropha Curcas on Direct Land Use Change: Case Studies in Brazil and India
2009 TRI Fellow in India, Brazil
Stephanie Niall – MEM
The Secret Life of Vulnerability Assessments: The Framing of Vulnerability in Australia, and Its Consequences for Remote Aboriginal Communities in its Tropical North
2009 TRI Fellow in Australia
Fauziah Rochman – MESc
The Use of Personal Computer Recycle-Flow Analysis to Understand E-Waste Metal Recovery in Indonesia
2009 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Yaniv Stopnitzky – PhD
Contamination in the Commons: The Impact of a Large-Scale Sanitation Project on Environmental Health and Human Development in Indonesia
2009 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Christine Trac – MESc
Rural Energy Development as a Tool for Forest Conservation
2009 TRI Fellow in China
Meghna Agarwala – MESc
Wolves in Agricultural Landscapes in Western India
2008 TRI Fellow in India
Dwi Astiani – PhD
Assessing Carbon Dynamics in Bornean Peat Swamp Forests: Effects of Degradation, Fire and Conservation
2008 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Ariana Bain –

2008 TRI Fellow in India
Jennifer Baka – PhD
Miracle Crop or Miraculous Flop? Evaluating the Sustainable Production Potential of Jatropha Biofuel
2008 TRI Fellow in India, Brazil
Mark Evidente – MEM
Present Opportunities and Future Crises: Managing Tourism Development at the Chocolate Hills, Bohol, the Philippines
2008 TRI Fellow in Philippines
Andjar Hardiono –

2008 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Claudia Octaviano –

2008 Compton Fellow in Mexico, India
Rachael Teel – MESc
Fijian Culture on Display: Traditional Ecological Knowledge at the Arts Village Cultural Center
2008 TRI Fellow in Fiji
Kim Carlson –
Identifying and Mapping Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided to Village Communities in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
2007 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Michael Coren –
Soil CO2 Emission Fluxes in Organic Peat Soils of West Kalimantan
2007 TRI Fellow in Indonesia
Qi Feng Lin –
Investigating the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Towns in Malaysia
2007 TRI Fellow in Malaysia
Chisato Tomimura – MFS
Edge Effects on Native Vegetation Establishment in Caribbean Pine (Pinus caribaea) Plantations in Sri Lanka
2007 TRI Fellow in Sri Lanka
Catherine Benson – MESc
The Creation of Protected Areas in Madang, Papua New Guinea: Do Local Communities Participate in and Influence the Decision-Making Structure?
2006 TRI Fellow in Papua New Guinea
Rachelle Gould – MESc
Living from the Forest: NTFP Inventory and Curriculum Development in the Bhutanese Himalaya
2006 TRI Fellow in Nepal
Ruoting Jiang – MESc
Effects of Indoor Particular Matter Pollution from Biomass Fuels Burning and Tobacco Smoke in Sheyang Rural Households, Northeastern China
2006 TRI Fellow in China
Kate Neville – MESc
Evaluating the Choice Between Public Sector Reform and Public-Private Partnerships in the Water Sector
2006 TRI Fellow in Phillipines
Krishna B Roka – MEM
Armed Conflcit, Environment and Conservation in Nepal
2006 TRI Fellow in Nepal
Bidisha Banerjee – MESc
Green Jobs for a Low-Carbon India: Framing the "Leapfrogging" Discourse in Pune
2009 TRI Fellow in India

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