Namaste I'm Sanjeeb.

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Academic qualifications:

PhD: Agricultural Transformation through Innovation (AgTraIn), EU's Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (Ongoing, part-time, working remotely)

PG-Diploma: Remote Sensing and GIS (UN CSSTEAP Scholarship), Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, India

MSc Sustainable Tropical Forestry (SUTROFOR): Double degrees offered jointly by Bangor University, UK and Copenhagen University, Denmark (EU's Erasmus Mundus Scholarship)

BSc Forestry: Institute of Forstry (IoF), Pokhara, Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal

Provisional Certificate Level (PCL) Forestry: IoF, Hetauda

Interests:

Design and implementation of integrated research projects

Development of research tools, database management, data analysis and visualization

Ecosystem Services

Agroforestry

Landscape Ecology

Sustainable Forest Management

Participatory Natural Resources Management

Social-ecological Systems

Skills:

Project management & Facilitation

80%

GIS & Spatial analysis

85%

Data science using R

90%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Institute of Forestry (IOF), Tibhuvan University (TU)

Mar 2021 – Present Hetauda

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Supervision
  • Publication

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL)

Oct 2017 – Mar 2021 Kathmandu

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Supervision
  • Publication

 
 
 
 
 

Forestry and Environment Expert

Independantly and intermitently

Sep 2005 – Present Nepal

Projects include:

  • Team leader Expanded Long-Term Strategy (LTS) for Emissions from Forestry Sector of Nepal for Oxford Policy Management Limited (OPML), Nepal.
  • Contributed to Feasibility of Wood-based Infrastructure in Earthquake-prone Urban Himalaya: Assessing the Current Situation, Opportunities, and Challenges, and Developing a Long-term Strategy commissioned by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
  • Study team leader Products, Demand, Supply, Export and Import of Forest Produce by Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies (MoICS), Government of Nepal.
  • Facilitation of several post/under-graduate students and professionals in forestry related courses, database and GIS applications
  • Contribution to forestry and biological aspects of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and Initial Environmental Examination(IEE) for different infrastructure development projects

 
 
 
 
 

Various

Various

Feb 1998 – Jan 2016 Nepal, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Netherlands, Kenya, and Thailand

University, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) Research/Development, Government Public Services.

Accomplish­ments

Recent Advances in Space Applications for Forest Monitoring and Assessment

Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP) (Affiliated to the United Nations) Apr 2021
Online

Online Special Seminar on Forest Resources and Mathematical Modeling with R

Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan, on behalf of Asian Agri-Forest Resource Management Research Consortium (AgFReM) Mar 2021
Online

Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) (Project: FAO/TCP/NEP/3702)

Forest Research and Training Center (FRTC), Government of Nepal Nov 2020
Kathmandu.

Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination

Coursera Oct 2020
See certificate

Introduction to Relational Database and SQL

Coursera Oct 2020
See certificate

Coursera Administrator Training

Coursera Aug 2020
See certificate

Build Data Analysis tools using R and DPLYR

Coursera Jul 2020
See certificate

COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Coursera May 2020
See certificate

Techniques in Forest Entomology and Intensive Pest Management (Project: FAO/TCP/NEP/3702)

Forest Research and Training Center (FRTC), Government of Nepal Dec 2019
Kathmandu.

Hands-on workshop with Google Earth Engine (GEE): training in accessing and analyzing annual, nation-wide tree cover data

Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA Dec 2018
Kathmandu.

Training of Trainers on Silviculture and Forest Management.

Silviculture Division of Department of Forests, Government of Nepal. May 2018 – Jun 2018
Various places in Nepal.

An Introduction to TESSA: the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment.

Birdlife International and World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK. Sep 2014
San Jose, Costa Rica.

Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVest)

Natural Capital (NatCap) Project at Stanford University and WWF, US. Sep 2014
San Jose, Costa Rica.

Model Thinking

Coursera Sep 2013
See certificate

Linking community monitoring to national MRV for REDD+

Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) of World Bank and Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (UNAM) Mexico Sep 2011

Use of Geo-informatics for Mapping and Modeling Forest Carbon Stocks in Nepal

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands. May 2011

Hydrological and Carbon Stock Appraisal Tools in the context of Payment for Environmental Services (PES)

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), South East Asia. Oct 2009

Spatially explicit assessment of tradeoffs and synergies amongst key ecosystem services in Sasumua watershed

World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya. Apr 2009 – Sep 2009

Sustainable Tropical Forestry (SUTROFOR) Joint Summer Module

Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE), Costa Rica Jul 2008 – Aug 2008

Youth Encounter for Sustainability (YES)

ETHsustainability - Center for Sustainability at ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jul 2008

Interdisciplinary Land Use and Natural Resource Management Program, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Understanding Self-Sufficiency: Socio-economic and Natural Resources Sustainability of a Land Reform Program Mar 2008

Projects

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All MSc PhD

Conference

Organising Secretary of International Agroforestry Conference 2018.
Apr 27, 2016

PhD

Exploring Multi-functional Alternative Landscape Designs for Intensive Coffee …
Dec 27, 2015

MSc

Spatially Explicit Assessment of Trade-offs and Synergies amongst Key …
Sep 27, 2009

SLUSE

Understanding Sufficiency Economy.
Apr 27, 2008

Talks

Leveraging Information Technology to Develop Forest Information Management System for Nepal.

Leveraging Information Technology to Develop Forest Information Management System for Nepal.
Jun 12, 2022

Local and Landscape Drivers of Crop Injury

Local and landscape drivers of crop injury in highland coffee agroforestry systems.
Jul 2, 2019

Interaction between Household and Field in Agroforestry Ecosystem Services

Interaction between household and field characteristics in generation of ecosystem services from coffee agroecosystem of Llano Bonito, Costa Rica
Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Clémentine Allinne, Jacques Avelino, Christian Gary, Walter A.H. Rossing, Pablo Tittonell, Bruno Rapidel
Sep 8, 2014

Site Factors, Shade Trees and Coffee Plant Characteristics in Agroforestry

Llano Bonito is a productive coffee-growing watershed within Tarrazú region of Costa Rica
Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Christian Gary, Walter A.H. Rossing, Pablo Tittonell, Bruno Rapidel
Feb 10, 2014

The Llano Bonito Experiment, San Pablo de León Cortés, Tarrazú, Costa Rica.

Investigating agricultural practices, environmental services and design of agroforestry systems in Central mountains of Costa Rica
Bruno Rapidel, Nicole Sibelet, Clémentine Allinne, Isabel Gutiérrez, Louise Meylan, Mario Villatoro, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Jorge Ortiz, A. Bonilla, J. Castro, J.J. Araya, D. Warren Raffa, Roland Laffourcade, Soazic Dhorne, A. Garcia
Sep 30, 2013

The role of forest products with increasing urbanisation.

The present study explores the differential roles of forest resources in communities.
Helle Overgard Larsen, Lise Herslund, Bir Bahadur Khanal Chhetri, Lila Puri, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Narayan Prasad Gautam
Jun 10, 2010

Collection of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal

National forest and Community forest are the most frequently visited places for collection of wild fungi.
Morten Christensen, Helle O. Larsen, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Shiva Devkota
Aug 21, 2006

Publications

A comparison of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 spectral indices for estimating aboveground forest carbon in a community forest

This study aimed to estimate and map the Above Ground Forest Carbon stock in the Salbote Karele Community Forest in Ilam district. The …
Anish KC, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Pravesh Pandey
Dec 5, 2022

Existing Agroforestry Practices and Their Contribution to the Socio-economic Condition of the People of West Nawalparasi, Nepal- A case study

The modern agroforestry systems have the potential to improve livelihood through the production of food, fodder, and firewood as well as mitigation of the impact of climate change.
Sindhu Pokharel, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Rabindra Adhikari, Suveksha Jha, Aaradhana Pokhrel, Madhavi Parajuli
Mar 25, 2022

Exploring agroforestry systems and practices in the Terai and hill regions of Nepal

This paper explores the status of agroforestry systems and practices in the Terai and hill regions of Nepal.
S. Ulak, B. Lama, D. K. Pradhan, Sanjeeb Bhattarai
Dec 28, 2021

Breeding seasonality of Chital (Axis axis) in the Hetauda Valley of Nepal

Breeding seasonality of Chital (Axis axis) in the Hetauda Valley of Nepal.
Arjun Bhusal, Bijaya Neupane, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Aashish Kapali, Suraj Bhatta, Santosh Bajagain
Dec 26, 2020

Crown Openness and Regeneration Status in Pine Forest

This research illustrates the effect of crown openness and regeneration status of pine forest.
Subodh Bhattarai, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Madan Raj Bhandari
Jun 8, 2020

Combining Farm Typology and Yield Gap Analysis to Identify Yield Limiting Factors

Yield variability in space and time is a wellknown phenomenon in the highland coffee production systems of Costa Rica.
Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Stéphanie Alvarez, Christian Gary, Walter Rossing, Pablo Tittonell, Bruno Rapidel
Jul 1, 2017

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation through Community Based Sustainable Management of Forests in Nepal

Mountain Forests in a Changing World - Realizing values, addressing challenges.
Bhishma P. Subedi, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Sudarshan Khanal
Dec 1, 2011

District Level Evaluation of REDD Potential Based on Crown Cover and Carbon Density in Nepal

District Level Evaluation of REDD Potential Based on Crown Cover and Carbon Density in Nepal (in Nepali).
Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Eak Rana, Rijan Tamrakar
Jul 1, 2011

Guidelines for Measuring Carbon Stocks in Community-Managed Forests

The guidelines describe methods, procedures, and steps for measuring organic carbon stored by forest land use systems.
Bhishma P. Subedi, Shiva S. Pandey, Ajay Pandey, Eak B. Rana, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Tibendra R. Banskota, Shambhu Charmakar, Rijan Tamrakar
Jul 1, 2011

Supporting Multifunctionality through Realistic, Conditional and Voluntary Actions

How trees and people can coadapt to climate change reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes.
Beria Leimona, Meine van Noordwijk, Laxman Joshi, Delia Catacutan, Thomas Yatich, Johannes Dietz, Hosea Mwangi, John Mwangi Gathenya, Catherine Muthuri, Fergus Sinclair, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Leah Onyango Suyanto, Antoine Kalinganire, Qureish Noordin, Jules Bayala, Aster Gebrekirstos, Karen Tscherning, Caroline Duque-Piñon
Jul 1, 2011

Collection and Use of Wild Edible Fungi in Nepal

This study investigates the collection of wild edible Nepalese fungi species, and what are the specific characteristics of the collectors and the collection.
Morten Christensen, Sanjeeb Bhattarai, Shiva Devkota, Helle O Larsen
Apr 29, 2008

Use of Wild Edible Mushrooms in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Use of Wild Edible Mushrooms in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal.
Morten Christensen, Shiva Devkota, Sanjeeb Bhattarai
Mar 1, 2008

Adressing the needs for forestry research and education in Nepal

IOF ComForM project end of phase I project status and design of phase II
Helle Overgaard Larsen, Abhoy K. Das, Sanjeeb Bhattarai
Jul 1, 2007

A statistical evaluation of community forest inventory data- examples from six Schima-Castanopsis forests

A statistical evaluation of community forest inventory data- examples from six Schima-Castanopsis forests.
Henrik Meilby, Morten Christensen, Sanjeeb Bhattarai
Apr 1, 2005

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