is a batrachologist, working as a faculty at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India and Adjunct Scientist at the Gubbi Labs, India. His current research interests are in the field of amphibian ecology, behaviour and landscape ecology.
Frog Find ver1.1
Frog Find is the first ever, free android application
for field identification of frogs and toads of the Western
Ghats. Features include high quality images, hot spots for
identification, ecological status and distribution maps, search
facility, the option to get observation inputs from the users
and a new feature on advertisement call records of frogs and
toads. This fetched Frog Find the India Geospatial Excellence
award in Biodiversity Conservation for the year 2013.
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Video - Breeding Behaviour
Visit Gallery page for a video on breeding behaviour
Frog Watch
Frog Watch
aims at mapping amphibians (frogs and toads, caecilians and
salamanders) based on data that include observations,
photographs, call records, identifications, locations,
behaviours and so on collected by citizens and citizen
science program.
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I go with the following teaching philosophy -
Teaching is the best way to learn and learning process never ends.
I frequent schools, colleges and universities with an ambition to
ignite young minds with curious questions in ecology, keeping
amphibians as focal organism.