Folks, I write to pass on a very sad news. Prof. Navjot Sodhi, a prominent conservation biologist based at National University of Singapore, passed away on 12 June:
http://conservationbytes.com/2011/06/13/sodhi-is-gone-not-forgotten/ http://nusbiodiversity.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-loss-of-our-esteemed-colleague-and-friend-professor-navjot-sodhi/ Navjot was a great inspiration to me. He was a prominent advocate of nature conservation, especially for SE Asia, and had done tremendous work on butterfly biology and extinction risks. He had written many influential papers on the subject. He spent a year at Harvard as a Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology a couple of years ago, where we interacted regularly. He was interested in Indian butterflies and, had the Indian bureaucracy been kind to him, he would have contributed a lot to butterfly conservation and nature preservation in India. This is a great loss for the nature conservation community. Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Post-doctoral Research Fellow FAS Center for Systems Biology Harvard University 52 Oxford St., Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Ph: (617) 496-0078, Cell: (512) 577-1370, Fax: (617) 495-2196 Email: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh -- Enjoy
