Faculty serving as academic advisers
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Assoc. Prof. George A. Gale, PhD
Nickname: "Ajaan George" Home countries: Thailand, USA. Ajaan George is an avian ecologist by training, but has been working with a very wide range of organisms for most of his 18 years at KMUTT. He enjoys working with students enormously – and has been an advisor or co-advisor for more than 30 students who have successfully completed MSc. or Ph.D. degrees. He is particularly interested in learning more about factors which affect avian nest predators and nest predation rates in general. He would also like to collaborate more with researchers to develop habitat models for critically endangered species such as Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis). During his free time he likes to read about wacky US politics and current events, and read a good book of fiction now and then. Prof. Gale is currently accepting graduate students. |
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Assoc. Prof. Tommaso Savini, PhD
Nickname: "Ajaan Tommaso" Home countries: Thailand, Belgium, Italy Starting from the concept that effective conservation can only be achieved when based on strong scientific foundations, focusing on the understanding of the species and/or the habitats/ecosystems one is attempting to preserve, Tommaso has spent the past 15 years studying the interaction between target species and their environment. Researching mainly on Primates and Galliformes (and to a lesser extent tigers, passerines, dolphins, and small carnivores) he investigates species status and distribution, socio-ecology, micro- and macro-habitat selection and the effects of human disturbance. Together with his graduate students (25 between current and graduated), he enjoys field research in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Bangladesh and recently began a long-term cooperation with colleagues in Belgium, UK, Norway and in Brazil, comparing differences in primate seed dispersal and social structure between Southeast Asia and the Neotropics. While not working he enjoys spending time with his kids, cooking and reading. Prof. Savini is currently accepting graduate students. |
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Assist. Prof. Dusit Ngoprasert, PhD
Nickname: "Soy" Home country: Thailand Dusit was born in the "Land of Durian". He became involved in large mammal monitoring in 2001 as a field assistant in Khao Yai National Park. Now a PhD and indispensable member of the lab, his interests include a range of questions related to conservation ecology. Most of his research has focused on conservation of bears and several small carnivore species, including otters and Asia's various cat species. Carnivores live at the top of the food chain and are thus under serious pressure, but little is known about them. Dusit is a member of the IUCN Bear Specialist Group and works extensively with a number of technical collaborators. He conducts field research and teaches a method course. In addition, Dusit assists students/collaborators to deploy appropriate methodologies and undertake data analysis for population estimation, distribution models, and habitat connectivity, using advanced computational techniques that are still relatively new to the region. A key focus is thus to capacitate regional researchers and graduate students in the quantitative skillsets required to perform data analysis for effective conservation action. Dusit is currently accepting graduate students. |
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Worata Klinsawat, PhD, Lecturer
Nickname: "Pai" Home country: Thailand Pai believes that good scientific research starts with asking good questions, then analysing and interpreting data from well-designed studies and refined methodology. Advances in genomics and spatial statistics open up an exciting era of possibility that facilitates the emerging field of conservation genetics. Pai’s PhD work focused on the phylogeography and landscape genetics of large mammals with tiger (Panthera tigris) and Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) as case studies. She is an advocate for using integrated ecological and genetic monitoring to better understand wildlife population dynamics at both evolutionary and recent timescales. Pai wants to assist her students to become determined and passionate learners. She enjoys balancing the lab and field work as well as meeting people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. In her free time, Pai loves capturing the moments through the lens, watching documentaries, biking and baking. |
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Naruemon Tantipisanuh, PhD, Researcher
Nickname: "June" Home country: Thailand June is interested in landscape-level vertebrate conservation using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Her PhD work supports systematic conservation planning in Thailand and the Indo-Burma Hotspot using MARXAN software. She has performed species distribution modeling using bayesian networks. She is currently working on a threatened species hotspot map of Thailand, and has been collaborating with several colleagues to conduct surveys of small carnivores in coastal wetlands and mangroves in southern Thailand, including otters and the endangered Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus). June is the main lecturer for the "Introduction to GIS" course held for graduate students during term one each year. She has plans to do further research on application of Bayesian methods for conservation management, application of MARXAN with Zone (for landuse mapping), image classification using object-based method, and landuse change analysis. She'd like to expand her fields to urban conservation, ecosystem services, and conduct outreach activities for school students. During her free time, June likes to play sports/music and find something to eat :-)... June is currently accepting graduate students. |
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Niti Sukumal, PhD, Researcher
Nickname: "P' Id" Home country: Thailand |
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Wanlop Chutipong, PhD, Researcher
Nickname: "Dterm" Home country: Thailand For the past several years, Wanlop has explored the basic ecology of small mammalian carnivores in protected areas by looking at how resource and species interactions (e.g. predation risk) affect spatial and temporal habitat use. He is now turning his focus beyond the thin line separating protected and non protected areas, exploring the occupancy status and threats of threatened small carnivores in coastal and wetland habitats of southern Thailand - a landscape undergoing rapid anthropogenic transformation. Focus species include vulnerable Small-clawed Otter (Aonyx cinereus) and Smooth-coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) and the endangered Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus). Come visit the Facebook group "Small Carnivore Conservation Thailand." |
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Postdoctorates and researchers
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Andrew Pierce, Researcher
Nickname: "Khun Andy" Home countries: Thailand, UK Andrew assists MSc and PhD students with their fieldwork and manuscript preparation. He coordinates a study of nest predation at Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. As a licensed bird ringer he is involved in several projects at sites around the country as well as travelling regionally to assist training local ringers. He is a leading member of a team studying raptors migrating through Thailand that is about to enter an exciting phase with the use of Satellite tags. Andrew travelled extensively before settling in Thailand in 2001. He likes to photograph birds and other wildlife, read classics and travel writing. |
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Daphawan Khamcha, Postdoctoral Researcher
Nickname: "Jib" Home country: Thailand Jib started in the CEG lab in 2005 as research assistant working on a project focusing on the diversity and population dynamics of forest birds in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Her PhD work focused on the effects of forest edge on avian communities, nest survival, and the nest predator community - speaking of which, nest predators such as snakes and macaques really love dining on bird eggs and chicks!! After sitting in front of the computer for a couple years, finally she found an interesting research topic that would take here back to the wild again! Jib is currently working on a research project focuses on assessing the population and suitable habitat of the endangered Giant Nuthatch (Sitta magna). During her free time she enjoys watching movies, reading, cooking, playing sport, exploring and photographing small & cute creatures like caterpillars and bugs. And she loves cats! |
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Tananun Chotprasertkoon, MSc, Office manager
Nickname: "Lew" Home country: Thailand Lew decided to join the conservation ecology lab after earning her BSc in microbiology. She decided that it would be more fun to work with organisms larger bacteria, virus and fungi. She did her fieldwork on White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus) nest site selection in a fragmented habitat. Currently she is the full time office manager assisting lecturer, researchers and students with mountain of paperwork. |
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Tiwa Ong-In, MSc, Researcher
Nickname: "Dtoon" Home country: Thailand Tiwa's master's research involved use of radiotelemetry to study home ranges of Scaly-breasted Partridge (Arborophila chloropus) in Khao Yai National Park. Since then, he has been working on a project that could assist the IUCN Galliforme Specialist Group through monitoring the conservation status of the five species of partridges inhabiting forests of southern Peninsular Thailand. He has been in the field often of late conducting point counts and line transects in protected areas across the south. These partridges are under extreme pressure due to lowland forest loss, hunting, and capture for wildlife trade. Tiwa is a keen birder, photographer, and observer of nature, frequently contributing his observations to vertebrate expert groups. His photos of local birds are currently exhibited on posters across the university campus. |
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Students and field assistants
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Anucha Kamjing, MSc, Research Assistant
Nickname: "Por" Home country: Thailand Por is interested in otter species distribution using occupancy techniques. He is currently studying habitat utilisation and occupancy among vulnerable Smooth-coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) populations in the Inner Gulf of Thailand through sign transect and comparison with land use categories using Geographic Information System (GIS). Results thus far indicate the need to focus conservation efforts on persistence of otters in highly disturbed habitat as well as reducing conflict with fishing communities. He is currently assisting in the assessment of otter and other small carnivores in Southern Thailand using camera traps and transects. During his free time, Por enjoys sport (especially biking and basketball) as well as listening to his favourite music. It makes him happy when people come to him to talk about otters. [^_^] |
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Chenzing Yu, PhD Student
Nickname: "Xing" Home country: China Xing is studying the migration and winter ecology of Spotted Greenshank (Tringa guttifer), an endangered shorebird of the East Asian—Australasian Flyway. Much of her work includes satellite tracking, habitat investigation, behaviour observation, and macrobenthic sampling. Although her current work mainly focuses on wildlife, Xing is also interested in Buddhism and meditation. In her free time, she enjoys in volunteering and participating in meditation training at the monastery. |
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Chhin Sophea, PhD Student
Nickname: "Sophea" Home country: Cambodia Sophea is studying the ecology and conservation status of Chestnut-headed Partridge (Arborophila cambodiana) and its ecological association with Green-legged Partridge (Arborophila chloropus) in the Cardamom and Elephant Mountains of southwestern Cambodia. |
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Ghan Saridnirun, PhD Student
Nickname: "Ghan" Home country: Thailand Ghan completed his master’s degree from Chulalongkorn University looking at the seasonal distribution and habitats of Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus) in Wiang Lor Wildlife Sanctuary, northern Thailand. Before he joining the CEG he worked as the curator of the Chulalongkorn University Natural History Museum where he focused on birds and mammals. Moreover, he worked part time wildlife guide and staff for Wild Encounter Thailand. He has also been a part time lecturer focusing on bird and mammal diversity and taxonomy. Currently he is a PhD candidate in the CEG working in Green Peafowl population ecology and dynamic in the Phayao stronghold, northern Thailand. During his free time, he works to improve his skill as wildlife photographer. |
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Holly Marshall, PhD Student
Home country: Scotland Holly is studying the effects of free-ranging domestic dog on wildlife conservation across Northern Thailand. Her project focuses on dog-wildlife conflict including the potential predation of green peafowl and interactions between dogs and wild canids. She will also explore the roles dogs fulfil in rural communities surrounding wildlife reserves to support more effective management practices in these areas. Before joining the Conservation Ecology Program Holly worked with a number of organisations across the world, projects included studying frugivorous butterflies in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve Mexico, Northern Gannets in the Channel Islands and King Cobras in Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. In her spare time Holly enjoys a glass (or two!) of wine. |
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Inêz Silva, PhD Student
Home country: Portugal Inês Silva completed her Master's degree from the University of Lisbon, where she focused on the vertical stratification and the effect of forest fragmentation on bats in the Amazon Rainforest. She decided to pursue her PhD at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, with a project focused on the road impacts on vertebrate communities in Northeastern Thailand, and on understanding indirect road effects on bat assemblages. Thanks to funding from the National Geographic Young Explorers Grant, she has been able to help address knowledge gaps of Southeast Asian bats. While her focus is bats, she has worked with other taxonomic groups and prefers to take a broad approach to conservation. Inês is also interested in modeling movement patterns and home range analyses. |
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Israt Jahan, PhD Student
Nickname: "Jebin" Home country: Bangladesh Israt is studying the ecology and conservation of grassland birds of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, with a focus on investigating the seasonal movements of the Striated (Megalurus palustris) and globally vulnerable Bristled (Chaetornis striata) grassbirds in two sites in north-west Bangladesh. Her work includes tracking seasonal migration and non-breeding habitat preference on a macro-scale, observing breeding behaviour, and exploring micro-level habitat selection within breeding territories. Israt’s passion for birding started in 2008 when she became involved with the Bangladesh Bird Club. Since then, she has been an avid birder who has gained familiarity with Bangladesh’s avifauna, including vocalisations, and has joined several national bird surveys. Israt worked five years in bird conservation for the Forest Department, closely collaborating with several NGO partners. She is a qualified bird bander and is now leading her own ringing team in Bangladesh and is interested in avian morphometry and evolutionary genetics. She rarely passes up an opportunity to go birding! |
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Jiratchaya Tananantayot, MSc student
Nickname: "Kloy" Home country: Thailand Kloy earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology. After she tried out several things, she found herself would rather stay in the field than immersed herself in the laboratory. So, she decided to start her Master’s degree at CEG immediately after graduated. Kloy is interested in canis species. The major inspiration of her work comes from the adorable dogs of her family. Recently, she studies abundance of dhole and prey availability in Thap Lan and Pang Sida National Park, spending most of the time in forest. This would be an opportunity for her to rehabilitate matcha addiction. |
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Kitipat Phosri, MSc Student
Nickname: "Tae" Home country: Thailand Tae started working as a research assistant in 2015, collecting field data on the Eurasian Wild Pig (Sus scrofa) at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station and vulnerable Malayan Sun Bear (Helarctos malaynus) and Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) at Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary. Much of his work has included setting up camera traps and hair-snares. At present, he is slogging through mangrove swamps in support of a study on the distribution of small carnivores in southern Thailand. This past year or so, while getting his feet "wet" [Editor's note: perhaps "muddy" is the more appropriate word], he has gained increased interest in exploring the home range and distribution of small carnivores, a data deficient group of species, and is considering pursuit of a MSc on related topic. In his spare time, Tae enjoys playing football and other sports. |
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Maliwan Namkhan, MSc Student
Nickname: "Mali" Home country: Thailand Mali is interested in lowland forest change at a regional scale and evaluation of protected areas effectiveness. Before joining the Conservation Ecology Program, she worked as an academic officer for Seub Nakhasathien Foundation, a conservation Thai NGO. Thus, she is interested in wildlife management and forest conservation. She has performed lowland forest maps and determined lowland forest loss in mainland Southeast Asia using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She has also conducted evaluation of lowland forest protection both inside and outside protected areas using expert opinion. During her free time, Mali likes to watch movies and series. |
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Matthew Crane, PhD Student
Nickname: "Matt" Home country: USA Matt is studying the ecological impacts of wind farm development on bat and bird communities across Southeast Asia. His research focus is to indetify key natural history species traits that predict higher vulnerability to wind turbine collision, map the potential high risk areas for wind development, and to test solutions to mitigate bat fatalities and wind farms. His project will seek to work closely with government agencies and wind power producers to support more ecologically friendly wind power development.He has a wide range of research interests and has worked on projects including venomous snake movement ecology, reptile and amphibian communities in degraded habitats, and road mortality across all vertebrate taxa. In his free time he enjoys watching movies, playing board games, and enjoying sports (particularly basketball and badminton). |
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Ngwe Lwin, PhD Student
Nickname: “Ngwe” Home country: Myanmar Ngwe began his conservation career in 2008 as Field Project Coordinator for the Hoolock Gibbon Conservation Status Review Project in Myanmar for Fauna and Flora International, Myanmar Programme. He and his team conducted hoolock gibbons population surveys in their distribution range in Myanmar for more than 2 years. He is now studying the habitat preference of hoolock gibbons and Shortridge’s langur in Myanmar. Ngwe is interested in protected area management and community-based conservation. He likes bird watching and bird photography. |
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Ni Putu Diana Mahayani, PhD Student
Nickname: "Diana" Home country: Indonesia Diana is interested in understanding plant community ecology, including how anthropogenic disturbance affects biodiversity maintenance. Her work focuses on forest succession after timber harvesting, particularly how different logging practices impact plant community assembly, which shapes local communities and leads to variation in the diversity and composition of species pools from phylogenetic (evolutionary process) and functional trait (ecological interaction) perspectives. |
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Pimpisa Jansamut, PhD Student
Nickname: "Kaew" Home country: Thailand Kaew is studying genetic variation and connectivity of otter populations (Small-clawed Otter and Smooth-coated Otter) in Thailand. These populations are negatively affected by human activities including land clearing, deforestation, damming of rivers and infrastructure establishment, all of which fragment habitats and disrupt dispersal patterns. Her research focus on applying molecular techniques and noninvasive sampling to identify sex and assess landscape genetic patterns of otter populations in southern Thailand. She will evaluate and select microsatellite loci appropriate to identify individual otters, assess genetic diversity and connectivity of otter populations along southern Thailand. Lastly, she will identify diet composition of both species using DNA metabarcoding approach. In her free time, Kaew enjoys listening music, watching music videos and movies. |
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Poramad Doungkomna, Research Assistant
Nickname: “Por” Home country: Thailand A passionate birder, upon completing his BSc in environmental science Por began working as a field assistant in avian research projects. He is currently part of a fledgling survival project at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station. In his spare time, Por enjoys riding his motorcycle around Thailand to visit the national parks, watching crime and investigation series, and amazing his friends by dexterously snatching butterflies ** from mid-air ** using nothing but the tip of his nose! |
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Pyae Phyo Aung, MSc student
Nickname: “Phyolay” Home country: Myanmar Pyae Phyo Aung joined BANCA/BirdLife International Myanmar in 2008 working on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation Programme in Myanmar. Together with his team over the past 10 years besides conducting survey and population monitoring of Spoon-billed Sandpiper, he worked on projects stopping shore bird hunting through closely collaboration with community in coastal region of Myanmar. Currently he is working on his MSc research on the distribution and compositional pattern of benthos organisms from different inter-tidal mudflat used by small shore bird as wintering site, includes the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper, in the Gulf of Mottama. For his MSc project he is investigating. He is interested community-based conservation especially in wetland areas. |
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Rongrong Angkaew, Researsch Assistant
Nickname: "Fai" Home country: Thailand Rongrong (Fai) had for long time an interest in wildlife ecology and its conservation, especially birds. Thus, after graduating from Khon Kaen university, she worked as a research assistant at Sakaerat Environment Research Station, Thailand, under a project that monitored the nest survival and predator community in forest fragments and edges. For several years, she has also volunteered to support research on passage migrants in southern Thailand and act as a field manager for the raptor migration counting there during October 2018. Fai enjoys conducting fieldwork and has gained a wealth of practical experience. She has just finished her master's degree from our program, her thesis work focused on edge effects, habitat selection and post-fledgling survivorship of White-rumped Shama (Kittacincla malabarica), with the use of light-weight radio transmitters. Currently, she is part of the long-term nesting survival project at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station and she is a research assistant in the assessment of the global population status of the endangered Giant Nuthatch (Sitta magna). During her free time, she likes to explore new places for bird watching. |
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Sarah Sherburne, MSc student
Home country: USA Sarah is studying the habitat selection of Javan mongoose at Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve as part of her master’s program here at KMUTT. Through believed to be common, the Javan mongoose’s population and behavior is relatively unknown within Thailand. Sarah graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor’s in Biology, and moved to Thailand to pursue her passion for small carnivores. She has a special interest in spatial ecology and radio telemetry based research, which has led to her wandering through swamps, mountains and woods alike searching for signal with an antenna in one hand. She has been lucky enough to work with a diverse range of different species, including bats, king cobras and gopher tortoises. In her spare time she enjoys biking, reading science fiction novels and playing tabletop RPGS. |
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Thura Soe Min Htike, MSc Student
Nickname: "Thura" Home country: Myanmar Thura is now studying the distribution of the Giant Nuthatch (Sitta magna) in Shan State, Myanmar. He is excited to study this species because there has been very limited published scientific research on this endangered habitat specialist (see his conservation presentation). Before joining the Conservation Ecology Program, Thura worked as a Range Officer for the Myanmar Forest Department. He is interested in wildlife management and forest conservation, but in his free time he also enjoys watching movies and reading novels. |
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Trifan Budi, MSc Student
Nickname: “Budi” Home country: Indonesia Budi graduated from Biology Department of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University. He is interested on Isolated population of Irrawaddy Dolphin Southeast Asia. His work focuses on Molecular Ecology and Population genetic of freshwater and coastal population of Irrawaddy Dolphin in Thailand and Indonesia to improve its conservation program. He also interested on applying genetic monitoring using environmental DNA to detection and monitoring of cetacean in marine and riverine environments. During his free time he like to watching movies and listening to the music. |
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Worrapan Phumanee, PhD Student
Nickname: "Tor" Home country: Thailand Worrapan works with long-term monitoring of large carnivores in Mae Wong and Khlong Lan National Parks, located in the Western Forest Complex of Thailand. The team is exploring diet, habitat utilisation, and demography of large carnivores as well as interaction with prey species. His hobbies are bat surveying, reading cartoons, and birdwatching. |
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"Fledglings"
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Abu Naser Mohsin Hossain
MSc, graduated in 2011 Thesis title: Investigating factors associated with the spatial distribution of tiger abundance across the Bangladesh Sundarbans. PhD, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Compliance and enforcement mechanism for preventing wildlife crime in Bangladesh. |
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Achara Simcharoen "Tom"
PhD, graduated in 2013 Thesis title: Home range of female tiger (Panthera tigris) in relation to prey abundance in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Uthai Thani province. |
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Anucha Kamjing "Por"
MSc, graduated in 2015 Thesis title: Local and landscape effects on otter (Mustelidae) occupancy in the inner gulf of Thailand. |
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Apirat Iamsiri "Uth"
PhD, graduated in 2008 Thesis title: Distribution and abundance of Hume’s pheasant in Thailand. |
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Chanratana Pin "Vuong"
MSc, graduated in 2017 Thesis title: Modeling dry season waterhole use by Wildlifevin Mondulkiri Protected Forest, Eastern Plain Landscape, Cambodia |
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Chanthasone Phommachanh “Olay”
MSc, graduated in 2017 Thesis title: Survey of large and medium-sized mammals in likely Saola habitat by camera trapping in Xaichamphone, Lao PDR. |
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Dai Ran “Nina”
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Seed predation by rodents on seeds dispersed by two groups of gibbons (Hylobates lar) with effects of forest type in HuaiKhaKhaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Thailand. |
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Daphawan Khamcha "Jib"
MSc, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: Movement pattern, seed dispersal and tree-fall gap use by a forest interior frugivore: Puff-throated bulbul (Alophoxius pallidus). PhD, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: The effects of forest fragmentation on bird community, nest survival and nest predator community. |
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Dusit Ngoprasert "Soy"
MSc, graduated in 2004 Thesis title: Effect of roads, selected environmental variables and human disturbance on Asiatic leopard (Panthera pardus) in Kaeng Krachan National Park. PhD, graduated in 2012 Thesis title: Habitat selection and density estimation of sympatric Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) and Malayan sun bears (Ursus malayanus) in evergreen forest. |
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Greg Irving "Tristón"
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Avian species diversity on land bridge islands of Chiew Larn Reservoir; Thailand |
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Jitwadee Khoonwongsa "Oh"
MSc, graduated in 2012 Thesis title: Post fledging survival and juvenile dispersal in Abbott’s babbler (Malacocincla abbotti) in Khao Yai National Park. |
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Juan Manuel José Domínguez "Juanma"
Postdoctoral Researcher 2016-2019 |
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Kanoktip Somsiri "Tiffy"
Research Assistant |
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Katie Oliver
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Effects of human disturbance and habitat type on distribution and detectability of Nycticebus bengalensis (Bengal slow loris) at Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. |
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Khamkeo Syxaiyakhamthor
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Population density and identifying priority areas for conservation of critically endangered gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) in Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area, Lao PDR. |
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Kihoko Tokue
Researcher |
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Korakoch Pobrasert "Mong"
MSc, graduated in 2005 Thesis title: Nesting habitat selection of Abbot’s Babbler (Malacocincla abbotti) in Mo Singto, Khao Yai National Park. |
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Manoon Pliosungnoen "Gi"
MSc, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: Density estimate and habitat use by Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis). |
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Naruemon Tantipisanuh "June"
PhD, graduated in 2014 Thesis title: Systematic conservation planning in Thailand and Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. |
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Nay Myo Shwe
MSc, graduated in 2015 Thesis title: Temporal changes in habitat use by avifauna in seasonally dry tropical forest. PhD, graduated in 2019 Thesis title: Response and behaviour of multi species in habitats with different level of human disturbance in Myanmar. |
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Nichanan Namwong "Namwan"
MSc, graduated in 2014 Thesis title: Cavity-nest availability and community use in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. |
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Niti Sukumal "Id"
MSc, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: Habitat use and home range analysis of Siamese fireback (Lophura diardi) and Silver pheasant (L. nycthemera) in sub-montane forest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. PhD, graduated in 2016 Thesis title: Ecology and landscape conservation of green peafowl (Pavo muticus). Postdoctoral Researcher 2017-2019 |
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Phetprakhai Wonkson "Phet"
MSc, graduated in 2011 Thesis title: Effects of habitat quality on the number of alloparents and subsequent nesting success in a cooperatively breeding tropical passerine, Puff throated bulbul (Alophoixus pallidus). |
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Pichani Saengtharatip "Luk-Kaew"
MSc, graduated in 2014 Thesis title: The effects of elevation and other environmental factors on patterns of anuran species richness and abundance in Huai Chang Tai stream at the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. |
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Pornpimon Tangtorwongsakul “Ping”
MSc, graduated in 2016 Thesis title: Influencing of crop type along land-use intensity gradient on bee communities in suburban area. |
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Puntipa Pattanakaew "Pin"
MSc, graduated in 2002 Thesis title: Effect of local and landscape environment on seed dispersal by birds in regenerating forest. |
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Rungnapa Phoonjampa "Rung"
PhD, graduated in 2010 Thesis title: Density estimation, habitat use, and ranging patterns of Pileated Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) in lowland evergreen forest, Thailand. |
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Sakawrat Vaeokhaw "Gif"
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on the Genetic Diversity of Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) in Khao Yai National Park and Thap Lan National Park. |
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Saranphat Suwanrat "Pick"
Postdoctoral Researcher 2015-2017 |
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Siriya Sripanomyom "Teng"
MSc, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: Effects on landscape characteristics on migratory shorebirds communities in the Inner Gulf of Thailand. |
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Somchai Nimnuan "Win"
MSc, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: Effect of food supply on foraging patterns and weights of wintering shorebirds on a managed wetland in the Inner Gulf of Thailand. |
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Somying Thunhikorn “Neng”
PhD, graduated in 2016 Thesis title: Ecology and landscape conservation of gray peacock-pheasant. |
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Souvanny Ounmany
MSc, graduated in 2012 Thesis title: Evaluating whether conservation campaign interventions change community attitudes towards biodiversity conservation in the Nam Kading National Protected Area, Lao PDR. |
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Suchada Phiphatsuwannachai “Jibbie”
MSc, graduated in 2015 Thesis title: Seed dispersal by gibbons in Hui Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sancruary. |
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Sukanya Chaisuriyanane "Kanya"
MSc, graduated 2005 Thesis title: A comparative study of diet of great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) and rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) during the breeding season on Budo Sungai Padi National Park, southern Thailand. |
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Tananun Chotprasertkoon "Lew"
MSc, graduated in 2015 Thesis title: Influence of surrounding vegetation on White-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) nest tree selection and nesting success in a dry evergreen forest of north-eastern Thailand. |
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Thanee Dawrueng “Nong”
MSc, graduated in 2015 Thesis title: The long term variation of abundance and micro-habitat selection of Great Argus (Argusianus argus) in the rainforest of Southern Thailand. |
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Tiwa Ong-in "Dtoon"
MSc, graduated in 2011 Thesis title: Study of home range, nest- and roost-site selection by Scaly-breasted partridge (Arborophyla chloropus) in Khao Yai National Park. |
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Vattikorn Sophonrat "Bank"
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Current distribution and breeding ecology of Java Sparrow in Bangkok, Thailand. |
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Vy Nguyen Tran
PhD, graduated in 2017 Thesis title: Ecology of galliformes species geographically limited to South Vietnam. |
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Wangworn Sankamethawee "Khieo"
PhD, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: Survival and nest dispersal in cooperative breeding puff-throated bulbul (Alophoixus pallidus). |
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Wanlop Chutipong "Dterm"
MSc, graduated in 2009 Thesis title: The effects of forest structure and food availability on the small carnivore community in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, western Thailand. PhD, graduated in 2016 Thesis title: Estimation of and factors affecting the probability of resource use, distribution and density of small carnivores in western Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary. |
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Waraporn Kaewprom "Priao"
MSc, graduated in 2004 Thesis title: Responses to burning and edge effects of small mammals at Klong E Tao substation, Khao Yai National Park. |
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Wyatt Petersen
MSc, graduated in 2018 Thesis title: Effects of human-disturbance, food abundance, and habitat on small carnivores within Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. |
External affiliated students
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Current
Eva Gazagne, PhD student University of Liège Country: Belgium Giovanni diPanfilo, MSc student Turin University Country: Italy |
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Aurélie Albert-Daviaud, PhD University of Liège (Belgium) Feeding and ranging behavior of northern pigtailed macaques (Macaca leonina): impact on their seed dispersal effectiveness and ecological contribution in a tropical rainforest at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Chandara Tak, MSc Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) Estimating green peafowl Pavo muticus status in Mondulkiri Protected Forest, Cambodia. Christopher A. Salema, MSc Prince of Songkla University (Thailand) Habitat Use and Diet of the Common Green Magpies Cissa chinensis at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station. Clarisse Porcheron, MSc student University of Liège (Belgium) Predation of bird nests by northern pigtailed macaque (Macaca leonina) in a degraded forest fragment of Thailand: the role of spatial distribution of artificial nests Fany Brodcorne, MSc University of Liège (Belgium) Eco-behavioural profile of a long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) population in a human managed area of Bangkok (Thailand). Franziska Harich, PhD University of Hohenheim (Germany) Conflicts of human land-use and conservation areas: The case of Asian elephants in rubber-dominated landscapes of Southeast Asia. Gilles P. Bottin, MSc University of Liège (Belgium) Primate communities in northern Thailand Juan Manuel José Domínguez, PhD University of Granada (Spain) University of Liège (Belgium) Impact of edge effect on the ecology, behavior and composition of pigtail macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Kanoktip Somsiri, MSc Khon Khaen University (Thailand) Nest predation, nest-site selection and home range dynamics of Scaly-crowned Babbler Malacopteron cinereum in a seasonal evergreen forest, Thailand. Lydia Light, PhD University of Texas Sant Antonio (USA) Life at the extreme: the behavioral ecology of white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) living in a dry forest in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Thailand. Moira Wilputte, MSc Free University of Brussels (Belgium) Factors affecting the distribution of Macaca leonina in the fragmented forest of Sakaerat, Thailand Olivier Kaisin, MSc University of Liège (Belgium) Predatory impact of the northern pigtailed macaques (Macaca leonina) on passerine bird reproduction in the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve in Thailand Rehan Ul Haq, PhD Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) Factors Affecting the Abundance, Species Richness, and Behavior of Waterbirds in Bung Boraphet Wetland, Central Thailand Rajendra Dhungana, MSc Prince of Songkla University (Thailand) Human-Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) Conflict in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Saranpat Suwanrat, PhD Soranaree University of Technology (Thailand) Habitat selection and abundance estimates of Siamese fireback Lophura diardi at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station. Shany Dror, MSc University of Hohenheim (Germany) Assessing the potential of honey bees (Apis mellifera & Apis cerana) as a means for deterring Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Supatcharee Tanasarnpaiboon, MSc Mahidol University (Thailand) Relationship among habitat quality, home range size and group size in the puff-throated bulbul (Alophoixus pallidus) at Mo Singto, Khao Yai National Park. Trevor T. Caughlin, PhD University of Florida (USA) The role of seed dispersal in the life history of tropical trees. |
