Research Interests

  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Herpetology, Wetland Ecology
  • Water and Sanitation
  • Pollution Management
  • Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Biosecurity and Biosafety

Ongoing projects

  • Study of Herpetofaunal diversity along a  landscape gradient  in the Horton Plains, Sri Lanka. (Ph.D project)
  • Evaluation of sea level rise and its impacts on the North Western Coast of Sri Lanka (M.Phil Project)
  • Development of an in-situ portable optical chlorophyll detector  for pollution monitoring (M.Phil Project)
  • Investigation of Water Foot Print of paddy cultivation in the Intermediate Zone of Sri Lanka. (Ph.D project)
  • Characterization of urban wetlands with a sepcial focus on stressors, indicators and anthropogenic threats