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Rahul Pandey is a M. Tech
Trainee in the Marine Science Division at Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing and a Senior Research Fellow for Wild Life Institute of India (WII).
He post graduated in 2000 with a M. Sc. in Zoology from the University
of Kanpur, India. During the past six years, he has been very active
within CMFRI, IIRS and WII developing marine corridor research and
design activities. His research career has included both field and
theoretical approaches to aquaculture, fisheries extension, conservation
and management of marine biodiversity.
Rahul’s recent work has
focused on the application of remote sensing and GIS to determine the
interrelationships between the environmental parameters of ecosystems
and the ecology of organisms in the generation of biodiversity, to
measure objectively the resultant diversity and to produce operational
concepts of conservation. He is also interested to develop algorithms
for image calibration, geomorphology mapping and biological mapping.
Rahul's past positions
include: Senior research fellow for “Augmentation of Marine Fish
Production in Lakshadweep” program with Central Marine Fisheries
Research Institute, India. He has been involved in Installation of Fish
Aggregating Device (FADs) Buoy, Studies on the possibility of Pearl
oyster culture in the lagoon and Training and transfer of the technology
to the local people for creating employment opportunities and income
generation. In 2006 he completed Project on “Suitable Site Selection for
Marine Pearl Culture in Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep using Remote Sensing
& GIS Techniques” during M. Tech II- Semester Course Work of Remote
Sensing and GIS in Natural Resource Management. In his study Remote
Sensing, GIS and other related technology were used to build a spatial
database to understand the various important parameters and their role
for marine pearl oyster site assessment and industry liaison.
 At
the present Rahul is undergoing M. Tech. (III & IV semester) research
dissertation “Studies on Climate Variability and its impact on Spatio –
Temporal Distribution of Oceanic Tuna Stocks and Fisheries using Remote
Sensing and GIS”. His M. Tech. research addresses the environmental
preference and migration and long distance movement pattern of these
ecological and commercially valuable species. He is also working with
Wild Life Institute of India to determine the offshore distribution,
migration and movement of Olive Ridley sea turtle along the East coast
of India. He has being using innovative tagging methods and satellite
telemetry to identify areas where environmental factors influence
migration, movement and spatio – temporal distribution of Olive Ridley
to create focal areas or “hotspots” for conservation attention.
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