Hey, Man! You've done great work at EIC

Dr Ravi Chellam, Director & Senior Fellow of ATREE appreciates Dr Irfan's acheivements

Highlights of some of the successful projects undertaken by the Eco-Informatics Centre under Dr Irfan’s guidance

• Creation of the world's first plant biodiversity database of the Western Ghats that profiles over 1300 genera of plants in the Western ghats region.
• Collaborations on 18 different biodiversity projects with institutes like the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), the Global Invasive Species Database, Global Invasive Species Programme, Forest Department of Maharashtra, BNHS, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Bannerghatta National Park, National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, The French Institute, Pondicherry, Madras Crocodile Bank, Periyar Tiger Reserve and the Centre for Conservation, Governance and Policy.

Development of efficient modeling tools with more than 30 multi-utility software applications in eco-informatics, customized to match the needs of researchers working in the Indian subcontinent.

Creation of state of the art species distribution modeling tool using the Open Modeler Interface on the Indian Datasets.

Organization of training programs on applications of GIS & RS in Landscape Ecology in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS) at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Bangalore.

Organization of an International Certificate Course in GIS/RS Applications for Landscape Ecology and a workshop on modeling land-use / land-cover change and species distribution.