AVIS-IBIS

Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Team

Arpit Deomurari

Arpit Deomurari

Deputy Manager - Bioinformatics and GIS & Principal Architect - IBIS

He is a technocrat, finds out smarter ways to get away from the “technology world” for his pursuits in wildlife. He has a keen interest in Ornithological Research especially Historical Ornithology of Indian Subcontinent, Population Dynamics, Breeding Biology and Distribution & Niche Modeling. Being a technocrate, he concentrates on using IT for Conservation,"ICT4C" Information and Communication Technologies for Conservation. He is an ornithologist at heart and an aspiring professional wildlife photographer with many national and international publications. He has been awarded Carl Zeiss Widllife Conservation Award for his work on IBIS Portals.

Minal Jani

Minal Jani

Senior Project Officer - IBIS

She is a plant taxonomist and working in the field of biodiversity informatics since more than six years. She is a skilled Flora writer. With her wide knowledge, planning and a small team, she could able to manage the compilation of the Baseline database on Indian Flora within a one year of time.

Komal Matieda

Komal Matieda

Project Officer - IBIS

She is a “Nature lover”, interested in traveling, wildlife, birding and photography. She enjoys roaming around looking for birds. By education she is a botanist, working in the area of biodiversity since 2012. She gave her best in various responsibilities from content development to taxonomy. Mainly she focused upon AVIS phase-II of Indian subcontinent along with other portals.

Jay Patel

Jay Patel

Project Officer - Biodiversity Informatics, GIS and IBIS

He is web developer studied Bioinformatics. He is an excellent programmer with combination knowledge of life science and technology. He actively contributes as a developer and maintainer of the IBIS portals. He implemented many of the features on the portals. Apart from these he is very much interested in Perl.

Hardik Dubal

Hardik Dubal

Deputy Manager

Hardik is a computer engineer. He has a total experience of more than 6 years and has worked majorly in interactivity domain working on UI & Front-end design, Game development, Programming and Graphics design

Ashish Parmar

Ashish Parmar

Data Entry Operator

He is a quick learner and working in the area of GIS and Desktop Publishing Softwares (DTP), and has a aesthetic command on designing and creating page layouts, His main role in IBIS is to develop database from the Natural History litrature, from which he developed a deep interest in wildlife photography. He has a good hand on ArcGIS.

 

Other team members

Name Work Duration Designation
Payal Parmar August 2012 to July 2014 Project Officer
Amit Gondaliya May 2013 to March 2014 Research Associates
Sachi Rana April 2012 to March 2013 Project Officer

 

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith