Hi friends, Adding on to this, NUS students have also put together a facebook page 'Remembering Navjot Sodhi' https://www.facebook.com/pages/Remembering-Navjot-Sodhi/230568226954988?sk=wall
A post by his former student Reuben - http://myrimba.org/2011/06/13/remembering-navjot-sodhi/ Regards, Anuj On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected] > wrote: > > > 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
