All members from Team Sundarbans
Amitrajit Chakraborty is an interdisciplinary researcher and activist working on small-scale fisheries, natural resource governance and climate change adaptation. Currently, Amitrajit serves as the National Coordinator, Fisheries, at the Society for Direct Initiative for Social and Health Action (DISHA) and leads the secretariat of the National Federation of Small-Scale Fishworkers (NFSF), India. He is an […]
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Pradip Pradhan holds a master’s degree in geography and has a strong research interest in climate studies, particularly through the application of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS). His work focuses on understanding climate variability and environmental change by integrating geospatial technologies for spatial analysis.Contact Information: pradippradhan60903@gmail.com
Dr. Samiya Selim, Director and Professor, Center for Sustainable Development, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. She has studied and worked in the UK for the past 15 years in the field of environmental conservation, climate change, and sustainable development. Her specialization is in the areas of ecosystem-based management, sustainable livelihoods, socio-ecological systems, climate change adaptation
Jenia’s research interest spans across environmental history, political ecology, and transdisciplinary waters. She is investigating several large-scale global partnership grants, looking at coastal livelihoods in delta ecologies of the global North and South. She is the author of Blue Infrastructures (Springer Nature, 2020), which demonstrates the intertwined relationship between city, nature, and technology in the
Kathinka is a sociologist and feminist political ecologist. Her work focuses on knowledge production surrounding questions of human mobilities, gender, aid, and climate change; the politics that shape how these issues are understood and how they intersect; as well as the social effects of the knowledge produced. Her recent work has explored how ‘gender’ is
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Anne Dangerfield is an earth and environmental scientist focusing on tools and technologies that help assess and mitigate environmental impacts from human activity. Her projects have spanned terrestrial human-wildlife conflict, endangered-species monitoring, animal tracking, and marine industry impacts. She loves data management, data analysis, and a well-organized spreadsheet. Current Affiliation: Arribada Initiative C.I.C Contact Information:
Informed by feminist decolonial studies, Dorina’s work examines global inequality regimes, with a focus on the intersections of contemporary legal regimes, gender, and i/mobility. She draws on perspectives from interdisciplinary fields such as sociology of law, legal geography, border criminologies, climate change criminology, and political ecology. Current Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research,
Alasdair Davies is the technical director of the Arribada Initiative C.I.C. He has 14 years of experience developing, designing, and deploying conservation technologies globally, working together with Defra—Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs—and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to primarily develop solutions addressing challenges within the humanitarian and wildlife conservation sector(s). Current Affiliation:
Alifa teaches at the Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, where she founded and leads the Bengal Elasmo Lab Collaboration, combining education and marine research. She completed her doctoral studies at the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, University of Oxford. Alifa’s research advocates for a locally driven, bottom-up approach, translating academic knowledge into practical conservation actions—an often-overlooked
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Shreyashi is an environmental historian specializing in transdisciplinary methods, working on the historical context of climate studies. Shreyashi’s research emphasizes the importance of historical perspectives in understanding contemporary climate challenges, embedded with complex and layered socio-cultural assemblages. Besides her expertise in historical research, she also works with the ‘ethnographical’ approach to capture and interpret evolving
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