Dr. Savitha Ganapathy

Lecturer

savitha.ganapathy@uwimona.edu.jm

Current Research

• Fire ecology and management of Blue and John Crow mountains
• Applications of GIS and remote sensing in assessing land use change in the Caribbean
• Spatial and temporal analysis of land use practices in the Cockpit Country.
• Fire dynamics and historical biogeography in the Western Ghats of India.

Selected Publications

• Ganapathy, S and Ramachandra, T. V. (2007) . Vegetation Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing. ENVIS Technical Report, July 2007. Ministry of Environment and Forests. Govt of India.
• Ganapathy, S. (In press). Fire management in tropical deciduous forests of India - potential implications for Jamaica. Submitted to special issue of AMBIO.
• Berardi A., Buckingham-Shum S., Reynolds, M., Mistry J., Bernard C., Ulrich W., Ganapathy S., and Bachler M. (2006). The development of an open content course on natural resource management: A virtual team production between Guyana and the UK. The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT), Special Issue on the Caribbean, August 2006. Vol 2, No.2.
• Ganapathy, S. and Ramachandra, T.V. (2005). Remote Sensing and GIS application in Fire Ecology submitted to Current Science.
• Ganapathy, S. and Ramachandra, T.V. (2001). Vegetation Analyses in Uttara Kannada District using GIS and Remote Sensing techniques in Environment in Puranas, Proceedings of the seminar organised during the Sanskrit year celebration.

Conference Papers

• Ganapathy, S. (2007). Fire management in tropical deciduous forests of India - potential implications for Jamaica. International symposium on Caribbean Fire Ecology and Management, Puerto Rico, April 2007.
• Ganapathy, S. (2006). Remote Sensing and GIS application in Fire Ecology: an Indian case study. Conference of Caribbean Geographers, July 2006.
• Ganapathy, S & McGregor, D. (2006). Land use change in the Caribbean: archival research. Conference of Caribbean Geographers, July 2006.
• Berardi A., Buckingham-Shum S., Reynolds, M., Mistry J., Bernard C., Ulrich W., Ganapathy S., and Bachler M. (2006). The ECOSENSUS Project: Co-Evolving Tools, Practices and Open Content for Participatory Natural Resource Management. Second International Conference on e-Social Science. 28-30 June 2006, Manchester, UK.
• Berardi A., Bernard C., Buckingham-Shum S., Reynolds, M., Mistry J., Ulrich W., Ganapathy S., and Bachler M. (2006). Collaborative spatial decision support and participatory action research. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006 'Global social justice and environmental sustainability', 30 August - 1st September 2006, Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London, UK.
• Ganapathy, S. (2003) Fire studies in a deciduous forest of India. International Conference on Tropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests- Ecology, Environment and Development, Edinburgh, 15-20 September 2003
• Ganapathy, S. (2002) Vegetation Analyses Using GIS and Remote Sensing. Accepted at International Airborne Conference held in Miami, Florida, 22-24 May 2002.
• Ganapathy, S. and Ramachandra T.V. (2000). Drainage Analyses using GIS and Remote Sensing to Locate Potential Hydro Electric Sites in Uttara Kannada. National Symposium on Remote Sensing Application for Natural Resources conducted by Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Bhubaneshwar, 22-24 2000.

Courses

• GG10B: Introduction to physical geography
• GG22B: Atmosphere and Biosphere
• GG20R: Geographical Thought and Research Methods
• GG32F: Biogeography of the Tropical Environments
  

Professional Society Memberships

• Treasurer: Jamaican Geographical Society
• Associate Fellow: Mona Geoinformatics Institute
• Co-ordinator: Geography and Geology Departmental Website
• Member of American Assoication of Geographers (AAG)
• Member of Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)
• Member of Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG)