CV of Sonali Saha, Ph.D.
Permanent Address: Department of Biology, 1301 Memorial Drive, #215, Coral Gables, FL 33124.
Telephone: 305 788 2873 Fax: 305 284 3039 e-mail : sonali@bio.miami.edu
Current Affiliation
Education and Research Positions
Postdoctoral Fellow-Archbold Expeditions (current)
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Instructor, Biology, Pinecrest Preparatory School, (2004)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2002-2004)
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PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2002)
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Junior Research Fellow, Wildlife Institute of India, India (1993-1995)
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Research Assistant, French Institute, India (1992-1993)
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Master of Science, Pondicherry University (1989-1992)
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Bachelor of Science, Indore University, India (1986-1989)
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
Inter American Institute of Climate Change Research, January-December 2004, Co-PI, Small Grant Proposal to conduct workshop series titled “Effects of bamboo on the diversity, productivity, and stability of Amazonian and Atlantic forests”
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Putnam Fellowship, October 2002-September 2004, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
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Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation’s travel grant, 2003
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Ideawild’s, Research Grant, 2002
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The University of Illinois’s Provost Research Award, 2001
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Conservation Training Consortium’s Research Grant, 2001
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University of Illinois at Chicago’s J. Watumull Award for meritorious international student, 1999-2000
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Kalpavriksha, Research Grant, 1999
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Wildlife Institute of India’s Junior Research Fellowship, 1994-1995
Teaching and Mentoring
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996-2001. Lectured, led laboratory sessions and fieldtrips for Introductory Biology (class of 30 students) Ecology (class of 50 students ) and Plant Physiology (class of 20 students)
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Lia Montti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, PhD committee
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S. Bharath, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, PhD committee
Editorial Service
Publications
Saha. S. 2001. Comparison of tree community structure between dry deciduous forests and Tectona grandis (teak, Verbanaceae) plantations in central India. Forest Ecology and Management. 143: 159-167.
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Saha, S. & Howe, H. F. 2001. Bamboo fire cycle hypothesis, a comment. The American Naturalist 158 (6): 659-663.
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Saha, S. 2002. Anthropogenic fire regime in a central Indian deciduous forest. Current Science 82:1144-1147.
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Saha, S. 2003. Patterns in woody species diversity, richness and partitioning of diversity in forest communities of tropical deciduous forest biome. Ecography 26: 80-86.
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Saha, S., and Howe, H. F. 2003. Species composition and fire in a dry deciduous forest. Ecology 84:3118–3123.
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Saha, S., and Hiremath, A. 2003. Anthropogenic fires in India: A tale of two forests Aridlands Newsletter. http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln54/saha.html
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Martínez-Garza, C., Saha, S., Torres, V., Brown, J. S., and Howe, H. F. 2004. Planting densities and bird and rodent absence affect size distributions of four dicots in synthetic tallgrass communities. Oecologia 139:433-439.
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Saha, S., BassiriRad, H. and Joseph, G. Water relations of tree sprouts and seedlings in a tropical deciduous forest of South India, in press, Trees-structure and function.
Manuscripts in Preparation or Review
Saha, S., and Howe, H. F. Fire and functional traits of tree seedlings: impacts on stature and abundance. Conservation and Society, in review.
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Saha, S., O’Brien, E., H. F. Howe. Are tropical deciduous forests fie-adapted? In revision for Journal of Biogeography
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Saha, S., Holbrook, N. M., Zwieniecki, M. A. Functional anatomy of bamboo nodes. In preparation for submission in American Journal of Botany.
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Saha, S., Holbrook, N. M., Goldstien, G., and Cardinot, G., and Montti, L. Ecophysiology of native weedy bamboos in Atlantic subtropical forests of Argentina, in preparation for submission in Oecologia
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