{"id":14,"date":"2020-12-02T01:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-07-13T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T13:19:01","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Research Experience<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text]<ul class=\"ul-withdetails \"><li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/02\/Biofouling.png);\"><div class=\"imageoverlay\"><i class=\"fa fa-search\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"meta\"><h3>Doctoral research project<\/h3><p>Project studied about the community strucutre, dynamics and invasive potential of biofouling assemblage in Colombo port and adjacent coastal waters. Project was funded by the National Research Council of Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t<p>This could be a full decription about the project<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> <\/li><li class=\"no-details\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/02\/PC291037.jpg);\"><div class=\"imageoverlay\"><i class=\"fa fa-search\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"meta\"><h3>Building Capacity to Manage Marine Debris in Sri Lanka<\/h3><p>The project focussed mainly on abundance and distribtion of both macro and micro plastic around the coast of Sri Lanka. A collaboration between Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea Foundation, Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) and University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Project lasted for a period of two years from 2015 to 2017.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<ul class=\"ul-withdetails \"><li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/02\/10628844_356266721188483_6871787707735189530_o-1024x768.jpg);\"><div class=\"imageoverlay\"><i class=\"fa fa-search\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"meta\"><h3>Port Biological Baseline Survey - Colombo, Galle, Hambantota and Trincomalee<\/h3><p>An Island wide survey conducted in four major ports of the country. The primary target of the project was to collect information on marine life in and around the ports and track potential invasive species<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t<p>This could be a full decription about the project<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> <\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Postgraduate Research Supervision<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text]<ul class=\"ul-withdetails \"><li class=\"no-details\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/07\/IRFF-2.jpg);\"><div class=\"imageoverlay\"><i class=\"fa fa-search\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"meta\"><h3>MPhil (2023-2024)<\/h3><p>This project aims to develop a rice-fish integration model with the goal of achieving sustainable food production, increasing the income of small-scale rural farmers, and promoting environmental sustainability in rural farming communities in Sri Lanka.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Research Experience [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Postgraduate Research Supervision [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/zoology\/kalpani-marasinghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}