Dr. Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar
Name: Dr. Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar
Qualification: M.Sc., P.G.D.B.T., P.hD.
Designation : Scientist - B
Department: Centre for Biodiversity Conservation & Management (CBCM)
institute name : G.B. Pant 'National Institute of Himalayan Environment'(NIHE)
College address : North East Regional Centre
G. B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development
Chandranagar (Near Neni Hyundai Service),
Itanagar - 791 113, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Award for : Research Excellence Award
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title : Assessment of fine-scale resource selection and spatially explicit habitat suitability modelling for a re-introduced tiger (Panthera tigris) population in central India
Journal Name : PeerJ
Volume : 5
month of publication : November
Year : 2017
page no. : PeerJ 5:e3920
ISSN : 1267-8359
About Dr. Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar
Dr.Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar is currently working as a Scientist of North-East Regional Centre at G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), which is an Autonomous
Institute of Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India. He currently possessing a research and teaching experience of around 10 Years in the field of wildlife conservation and ecology.
Dr. Sarkar had contributed (2011 – 2015) to the successful tiger reintroduction programme at Panna tiger reserve, central India as a Junior Research Fellow from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. During his long stay in the wilderness, He learned several field-based techniques that include radio telemetry, distance sampling, camera trap-based capture-recapture sampling, and drone technology for species monitoring and conservation. However, He hascompleted Ph.D. in genetic, behavioral, and spatial aspects of reintroduced tigers with a joint collaboration between Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, and University of Calcutta (2017).
Dr. Sarkar was the National Post-Doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata and later joined Luigi Maiorano’s lab as a visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin” in Università di Roma “La Sapienza”.
His current research is mostly focused on large carnivore ecology, behavior, and genetics in the central Indian and North-East Indian landscape. Academically, his broad level of research interest includes spatial ecology, spatial statistics, landscape ecology, landscape genetics, and conservation biology.
Dr. Sarkar has published around 15 articles in scientific journals and conferences. He has an acclaimed handful of laurels, awards, and grants like the certificate of appreciation for participation in the Tiger Reintroduction programme at Panna Tiger Reserve, Madhya-Pradesh (by Former Environment & Forest Minister: Dr. Jayram Ramesh), New Delhi, India, 2011. He has achieved an Honorary Certificate and Gold Medal given by Madhya-Pradesh Forest Department for participation and contribution in the Tiger Reintroduction programme at Panna
Tiger Reserve, Madhya-Pradesh, India, 2014.
Dr. Sarkar has received UGC – International travel grant offered by Calcutta University to present in the 18th International Conference on Wildlife Ecology, Rehabilitation, and Conservation held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Sarkar has received the Early career international travel grant– offered by Science
Engineering Research Board – DST for presenting a paper in an International Conference ‘Spatial Statistics 2017: One World: One Health’, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Dr. Sarkar has also received the CSIR- International travel grant, Financial Assistance Award offered by NACCB 2018 – Society for Conservation Biology North America and Italian Government Scholarships (2018-2019).