Dr. Shrinidhi Ambinakudige Assistant Professor of Geography and GIS Office: Hilbun Hall Room 212 Phone: (662) 325-2905 Fax: (662) 325-9423 ssa60@msstate.edu

Education

• Ph.D (Geography) 2006, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
  
  
• M.S (Agriculture), 1995, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India.
  
  
• B.S (Agriculture), 1992, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India.

Experience

• Assistant Professor: Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, present.
  
  Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. (2005 - 2006 )
  
  
• GIS Analyst: Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC), Florida State University, 2002 to 2005
  
  
• GIS Analyst: Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), Tallahassee. 2002.
  
  
• Teaching Assistant: Department of Geography, Florida State University, Spring 2002
  
  
• Research Assistant: Department of Geography, Florida State University, Fall 2001
  
  
• Organic Farming Inspector: IMO Control Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India - An Organic Farming Certification Company –2001
  
  
• Research Assistant: Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India 1995 to 2001

Publications

• Ambinakudige Shrinidhi ,and Sathish B.N (communicated) Impacts of Coffee Cultivation on Tree Diversity Change in the Western Ghats of India
  
  Klooster, Dan and _______ , 2005, The Global Significance of Community Forestry in Mexico . Chapter 13 in The Community Forests of Mexico Managing for Sustainable Landscapes Edited by David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. ISBN 0-292-70637-5, University of Texas Press.
  

• _______ and Lele.S., 2001, “ Forest Tenure Regimes in Karnataka Western Ghats : A compendium” . ISEC Working Paper No 90, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore , India. ISBN: 8177910469
  
  
• Parikh Alka, Lele.S, _______ and et.al 1999 “Influence of Forest right regimes on Sustainability and Returns from NTFP Harvest: The case of Garcinia gummi-gutta in the Western Ghats of India.” Proceedings of National workshop on Joint Forest Management, 25-26 Feb 1999, VIKSAT, SPWD, AKF (I), Gujarat, India

Presentations

• Ambinakudige, Shrinidhi 2006, An Extended Environmental Entitlement Framework to study nature-society interactions. Paper presented at the AAG meeting at Chicago , April 7-10, 2006
  
  
• ________ 2005, Linking global market and local livelihoods: Political economy of coffee and peasants in India . Paper presented at the AAG meeting at Denver , April 5-9 2005
  
  
• ________ 2004, Political Ecology of Sacred Groves: Devarkaadus of Western Ghats of India, Paper presented at SEDAAG on 21-22 November 2004, Biloxi , Mississippi .
  
  
• ________ and Klooster, Dan, 2002, Community forest management in India and Mexico : A framework for comparative analysis, Paper presented at AAG, New Orleans 2003

Professional Membership

• Association of American Geographers
  
  
• Seven Hills Regional User Group for GIS, Tallahassee
  
  
• Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Bangalore , India