Milan Shrestha: Curriculum Vitae

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Milan Shrestha, Ph.D.
Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS)
Arizona State University, PO Box 875402,
Tempe, AZ 85287-5402
Tel 480.965.0987 (work) | Fax 480-965-8087

info-at-[milanshrestha-dot-com]
http://milanshrestha.com

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Ecological/environmental anthropology, ethnoecology, the human dimensions of land change, mountain agriculture, climate change, vulnerability/adaptation, and the rural-urban interface

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia (UGA), Athens. 2007
Dissertation: Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land Change in Lamjung District, Nepal
Committee: Robert E. Rhoades (Chair); Ted L. Gragson; Virginia D. Nazarea; C. P. Lo (Geography)

Graduate Certificate Course Geographic Information Sciences (GISc). Department of Geography, UGA. Concentration: remote sensing. 2004

M.A., International Development and Social Change, Clark University, Worcester, MA. 1997
Thesis: Land-use, Poor People, and Livelihoods in the Middle Hills of Nepal
Committee: Barbara Thomas-Slayter (Chair); David Kummer; Richard Ford

B.Sc. (Ag.), Tribhuvan University, Institute of Agricultural and Animal Sciences, Nepal. 1992
Field of Study: Agriculture

Additional training
The NSF Summer Institute Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Applications to Study Land-use/cover Change, at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, Bloomington. 2001

World Bank Institute Course Investing in the Excluded: Design and Appraisal of Grassroots Management Training and Outreach (GMT), a training course conducted by World Bank Institute (formerly Economic Development Institute ) of the World Bank, Washington, DC. 1998

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, National Research Council (NRC), 2008

Dissertation Completion Award. The Graduate School, UGA (USD 15,600)

Robert McNamara Fellowships Program (the World Bank) to study The Relationships of Social Exclusion and Social Capital in Poverty Alleviation Strategies (USD 7,5000)

National Championship, the 22nd Ratna Shield Inter-College Quiz Contest, GAA, Nepal, 1990

Tribhuvan University Merit Scholarship, 1988-92

RESEARCH GRANTS

Earth System Sciences Fellowship (Grant no. NNG04GQ16H) of National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) (USD 72,000)

Dissertation Improvement Grant. Cultural Anthropology (BCS 0350127) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) (USD 12,000)
The NSF Ethnographic Research Training grant to conduct An Ethnographic Assessment of Smallholders’ Land-use Strategies, Lamjung, Nepal (USD 2,478)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 2000-2006
Courses: Introduction to Anthropology, Cultural Ecology, Multicultural Health

Teaching Assistant, Program for International Development and Department of Sociology, Clark University, Worcester, MA. 1995-1996. Courses: Development Problems, Social Research processes

ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
Dissertation fieldwork. Lamjung District, Nepal. September 2004 through April 2005. Household and community data about smallholder land-use strategies, household processes, ethnoecology, livelihood portfolios, agro-diversity, social institutions, cultural change, and training samples.

Pre-dissertation fieldwork. Lamjung District, Nepal. June-July 2002. Funded through the NSF Ethnographic Research Training provided to the Department of Anthropology, UGA.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Central Arizona - Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) Project, Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Arizona State University, Tempe, 2009-present

Science & Technology Policy Fellow. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC), National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
• Provided editorial assistance, research support, and feedback on a NRC study the Decision-support System in Climate Change Related Programs
• Prepared background research materials and an inventory of existing national level datasets for a proposed study Linking Human and Climate Data
• Researched and helped in creating a roster of potential committee members for the study Americas Climate Choices

Research Assistant/Lab Manager, Lab of Agricultural and Natural Resource Anthropology, UGA. 2000-present
• Assisted Professor Robert Rhoades in overall coordination of several multimillion dollars research projects: SANREM/Andes, World Geography of the Peanut, Himalaya Ecoregion, etc.
• Led the team in GIS and remote sensing data analysis, analyzed anthropological data, designed and maintained websites, developed multimedia CDs, and facilitated publications.

Senior Research Associate, Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Nepal. 1997-2000
• Prepared the proceedings of a national seminar Mountain Development Policies in Nepal, organized by IIDS in cooperation with ICIMOD on November, 1998
• Prepared the endowment/corpus fund proposal for the organization, which was supported by the Ford Foundation ($825,000) in 1999-2000.

Program Officer, IIDS, Nepal. 1992-1994
Responsible for eight action research programs—funded by the Helvetas, SNV, USAID, CAA/FFH, and World Bank, aimed at promoting community-based, self-reliant development initiatives.
• Identified, appraised and monitored community-based development projects
• Designed action plans, forecasted expenditures, and prepared substantive progress reports

CONSULTANCIES
International Centre for Integrated Development (ICIMOD), Nepal. 2000
• Assisted in editing of the proceedings of the conference Growth, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Resource Management in Mountain Areas in South Asia

Centre for Self-help Development (CSD), Nepal. 1998
• Assessed the effectiveness and impact of micro-credit programs in women’s empowerment and livelihood security in Siraha, Saptari, and Udaypur districts.

World Bank, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1993
• Facilitated a series of training sessions for the partner NGOs on Participatory Approaches (PRA and SARAR) to implement the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program (RWSS)

PUBLICATIONS
Book review: The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya (J. M. Baker 2005). Himalaya (formerly The Himalayan Research Bulletin) 26(1-2): 68-69. 2009

The Human Dimensions of Land Change in Lamjung District, Nepal. In the Proceedings of the 2nd Himalayan Policy Research Conference. October 11, 2007, Madison, Wisconsin. Albuquerque, NM: The Nepal Study Center, University of New Mexico.

Research report: The Human Dimensions of Land-use and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal. Himalaya, 25(1-2): 42-43. 2007

Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya. In Global Change in Mountain Regions, edited by Martin F. Price, pp. 232-233. Duncow, UK: Sapiens Publishing. 2006.

Dissertation and thesis
PhD dissertation: Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land Change in Lamjung District, Nepal. Dept. of Anthropology. Submitted to Graduate School, University of Georgia, Athens. 2007
Masters thesis: Land-use, Poor People, and Livelihoods in the Middle Hills of Nepal. Program for International Development and Social Change. Submitted to Graduate School, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. 1997

In Preparation
Shrestha, Milan. Ethnoecology of Smallholders’ Land-use Strategies and Crop Choices in Nepal (submission planned for Culture and Agriculture)

Shrestha, Milan and Robert Rhoades. Land-cover Change beyond the Primary Transition: Changes in Agricultural Landscape in the Nepal Himalaya (submission planned for Global Environmental Change)

Shrestha, Milan. Land History and Agricultural Change in Lamjung (submission planned for Studies in Nepali History and Society)

Shrestha, Milan, Abigail York, Sainan Zhang, and Chris Boone. Socioecological Gradients and Land Fragmentation: A Cross-site Comparative Analysis (submission for Urban Ecosystems)

S. Zhang, A York, M Shrestha, and C. Boone. Land Fragmentation in the Metropolitan Phoenix Area between 1992 and 2001 (submission planned for Landscape Ecology)

A York, M. Shrestha, S. Zhang and C. Boone. Rapid Urbanization and Sprawl in the Metropolitan Phoenix Area. (prepared for submission to Professional Geographer)

Technical Reports and Monographs
The Land-use Change, Livelihood and Social Exclusion Nexus in Nepal submitted to the Robert McNamara Fellowship Program of the World Bank, Washington D.C. 2000

Self-help Banking Program and Women’s Empowerment submitted to the Centre for Self-help Development (CSD), Kathmandu, Nepal. 1998

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations
A Comparative Analysis of Land Fragmentation and Socioecological Gradienst. Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kasas. October 9, 2009.

Studying Land Change in Mountains: Lamjung District of Nepal as a Case Example. The CAP LTER, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe. October 3, 2008.

Professional Paper and Poster Presentations
Paper: Agricultural Change and Livelihood Security in Lamjung, Nepal, the 108th Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, PA. December, 2009.

Poster (M. Shrestha, S. Zhang, A. York, and C. Boone): Socioecological Gradients and Land Fragmentation: A Cross-site Comparative Analysis. Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO. September 13-16, 2009

Paper: Assessing Vulnerability to Glaciers Retreat and Food Shortage in the Nepal Himalaya, the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, NM. March 2009

Paper: Food Security and Vulnerability in Lamjung, Nepal: A Focus on the Likely Impact of Climate Change on Mountain Agriculture, the 107th Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Franscisco, CA. November 2008

Paper: Globalization, Mountain Agriculture and Livelihoods in Lamjung, Nepal, the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Memphis, TN. March 2008

Paper: Smallholder Land-use Change and Agro-diversity in Lamjung, Nepal. The 106th Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington, DC. December 2007

Paper: Community Forestry and the Changing Context of Smallholding in Lamjung, Nepal. The 36th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. October 2007

Paper: The Human Dimensions of Land Change in Lamjung, Nepal. The 2nd Himalyan Policy Research Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. October 2007

Paper: Accuracy Assessment of Land-cover Mapping in Lamjung District, Nepal. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Conference, Tampa, FL. May 2007

Paper: The Institutional Context of Agrarian Change in Lamjung District, Nepal. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Tampa, FL. April 2007

Paper: Integrated Land History: Analyzing the Cultural Context of Agricultural Change in Lamjung of Nepal. The 105th Annual Conference of AAA, San Jose, CA. November 2006

Poster: Land-use and Land-cover Change in Agricultural Areas: The Example of Lamjung, Nepal. The Academy of the Environment Symposium, UGA, Athens, GA. October 2006

Paper: Integrated Land History and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal. The 35th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. October 2006

Paper: Integrating Satellite Data with Household and Community Data to Detect Land-use and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal. The ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference in Reno, NV. May 2006

Poster: Smallholders Land-use Strategies and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Integrating Household and Community Data with Remote Sensing Applications. The NASA Land-cover and Land-use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting, April 11-13 2006, MD. April 2006

Paper: Ethnoecology of Land-use and Land-cover: An Application in Community-based Natural Resources Management. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Vancouver, Canada. March 2006

Paper: Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya. The Open Science Conference: Global Change in the Mountain Regions, Perth, Scotland. October 2005

Paper: Land-use and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Revisiting the Verticality Concept. Thematic workshop “Process Studies along Altitudinal Gradients to Serve Conservation and Sustainable Development, ” Samedan, Switzerland. July 2005

Paper: Smallholders’ Land-use Choices and Mountain Farming Systems. The Annual Meeting of SfAA, Portland, OR. March 2003

Paper: Land-use/cover Change and Livelihood Diversification: Characterizing Mountain Agriculture Systems of Nepal. The Annual Meeting of the SfAA, Atlanta, GA. March 2002

Poster: The Land Use Change, Livelihood and Social Exclusion Nexus in the Nepal Himalayas. The International Mountain Research Symposium sponsored by Grenoble Pôle Européen Universitaire et Scientifique, Grenoble, France. June 2000

In-campus Lectures and Colloquia
Speaker: Using Remote Sensing in Anthropological Research. The Urban Remote Sensing Reading Group seminar. School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, February 19, 2009.

2008Guest Lecturer: Mountain Agriculture and Land Change in the Nepal Himalaya. Agricultural Anthropology (ANTH4060/6060) class. Department of Anthropology, UGA. Sep 8, 2008.

Guest Lecturer: Ethnoecology of Land-use Categories: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data. Designing Qualitative Research (QUAL/ERSH 8410 ) class. College of Education, UGA.

Colloquium Speaker: Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing Applications in Anthropological Research. Pro-seminar (ANTH9005). Dept of Anthropology, UGA.

Guest Lecturer: Smallholders, Memories and Land-use Change in Lamjung, Nepal. Landscapes and Memories (ANTH 4015/6015) class. Department of Anthropology, UGA.

Guest Lecturer: Livelihoods and Social Exclusion in Nepal. Anthropology of Development (ANTH 4560/6560) class. Department of Anthropology, Athens, UGA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICES
Services
Board Member – Culture & Agriculture (C&A) Section, American Anthropological Association. Also designed and maintained the official website http://cultureandagriculture.org/    (2007 - 2009)

Executive Council Member, the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS). Also designed and maintained the official website http://anhs-himalaya.org/ (2008 – present)

Working group co-organizer (with A. York, S. Zhang and C. Boone): A Cross-site Comparative Analysis of Land Fragmentation, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Estates Park, CO. September 2009

Panel organizer: The Himalayan Dilemma: Old Problems, New Approaches. The Annual Meeting of the SfAA, Atlanta, GA. (with Robert E. Rhoades). March 2002

Member, Graduate Students Council, Clark University, MA 1995 - 1996

Membership
2003 - present    American Anthropological Association (AAA), member
2000 - present    Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), member
2003 - present    American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), member
2004 - present    Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), member
2004 - present    International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), member
2004 - present    Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development

PROFICIENCIES
Languages: Native speaker of Nepali and Newari. English (advanced level of speaking and writing). Good knowledge of Hindi, Bhojpuri, and Maithali
Geospatial: GIS software (ERDAS Imagine, ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcIMS, Idrisi, Definiens, Surfer, ILWIS, Envi, Didger); Aerial photo interpretation and photogrammetry (DMS, StereoAnalyst, Aerosys); Qualitative and social data analysis (SPSS, N-vivo, Atlas.ti and Anthropac)
Technical: Database and SQL (Access, MS SQL, My SQL and FoxPro); Web coding and servers (HTML/XHTML, XML, CSS, ColdFusion, DotNetNuke, IIS administration, DreamWeaver, Apache); Multimedia production (Flash, ToolBook, Director, Premiere); Image enhancement (Photoshop, Firework); Illustrations, typesetting and layouts (Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Pagemaker); Word processing (Word, WordPerfect); Presentation (Acrobat, PowerPoint); Spreadsheet (Excel)

web design portfolio
Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies http://anhs-himalaya.org/
The Culture and Agriculture (C&A) Section of AAA http://www.cultureandagriculture.org/
ASPRS UGA Chapter website: http://www.uga.edu/asprs
Southern Seed Legacy Project website: http://www.uga.edu/ebl/ssl
The Georgia Log Cabin website: http://www.logcabin.uga.edu
Prof. Robert Rhoades website: http://www.lanra.uga.edu/rhoades

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	[ print version ] Milan Shrestha, Ph.D. Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) Arizona State University, PO Box 875402, Tempe, AZ 85287-5402 Tel 480.965.0987 (work) \| Fax 480-965-8087 info-at-[milanshrestha-dot-com] http://milanshrestha.com RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Ecological/environmental anthropology, ethnoecology, the human dimensions of land change, mountain agriculture, climate change, vulnerability/adaptation, and the rural-urban interface EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia (UGA), Athens. 2007 Dissertation: Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land Change in Lamjung District, Nepal Committee: Robert E. Rhoades (Chair); Ted L. Gragson; Virginia D. Nazarea; C. P. Lo (Geography) Graduate Certificate Course Geographic Information Sciences (GISc). Department of Geography, UGA. Concentration: remote sensing. 2004 M.A., International Development and Social Change, Clark University, Worcester, MA. 1997 Thesis: Land-use, Poor People, and Livelihoods in the Middle Hills of Nepal Committee: Barbara Thomas-Slayter (Chair); David Kummer; Richard Ford B.Sc. (Ag.), Tribhuvan University, Institute of Agricultural and Animal Sciences, Nepal. 1992 Field of Study: Agriculture Additional training The NSF Summer Institute Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Applications to Study Land-use/cover Change, at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, Bloomington. 2001 World Bank Institute Course Investing in the Excluded: Design and Appraisal of Grassroots Management Training and Outreach (GMT), a training course conducted by World Bank Institute (formerly Economic Development Institute ) of the World Bank, Washington, DC. 1998 AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, National Research Council (NRC), 2008 Dissertation Completion Award. The Graduate School, UGA (USD 15,600) Robert McNamara Fellowships Program (the World Bank) to study The Relationships of Social Exclusion and Social Capital in Poverty Alleviation Strategies (USD 7,5000) National Championship, the 22nd Ratna Shield Inter-College Quiz Contest, GAA, Nepal, 1990 Tribhuvan University Merit Scholarship, 1988-92 RESEARCH GRANTS Earth System Sciences Fellowship (Grant no. NNG04GQ16H) of National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) (USD 72,000) Dissertation Improvement Grant. Cultural Anthropology (BCS 0350127) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) (USD 12,000) The NSF Ethnographic Research Training grant to conduct An Ethnographic Assessment of Smallholders’ Land-use Strategies, Lamjung, Nepal (USD 2,478) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 2000-2006 Courses: Introduction to Anthropology, Cultural Ecology, Multicultural Health Teaching Assistant, Program for International Development and Department of Sociology, Clark University, Worcester, MA. 1995-1996. Courses: Development Problems, Social Research processes ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK Dissertation fieldwork. Lamjung District, Nepal. September 2004 through April 2005. Household and community data about smallholder land-use strategies, household processes, ethnoecology, livelihood portfolios, agro-diversity, social institutions, cultural change, and training samples. Pre-dissertation fieldwork. Lamjung District, Nepal. June-July 2002. Funded through the NSF Ethnographic Research Training provided to the Department of Anthropology, UGA. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Central Arizona - Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) Project, Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Arizona State University, Tempe, 2009-present Science & Technology Policy Fellow. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC), National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC • Provided editorial assistance, research support, and feedback on a NRC study the Decision-support System in Climate Change Related Programs • Prepared background research materials and an inventory of existing national level datasets for a proposed study Linking Human and Climate Data • Researched and helped in creating a roster of potential committee members for the study Americas Climate Choices Research Assistant/Lab Manager, Lab of Agricultural and Natural Resource Anthropology, UGA. 2000-present • Assisted Professor Robert Rhoades in overall coordination of several multimillion dollars research projects: SANREM/Andes, World Geography of the Peanut, Himalaya Ecoregion, etc. • Led the team in GIS and remote sensing data analysis, analyzed anthropological data, designed and maintained websites, developed multimedia CDs, and facilitated publications. Senior Research Associate, Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Nepal. 1997-2000 • Prepared the proceedings of a national seminar Mountain Development Policies in Nepal, organized by IIDS in cooperation with ICIMOD on November, 1998 • Prepared the endowment/corpus fund proposal for the organization, which was supported by the Ford Foundation ($825,000) in 1999-2000. Program Officer, IIDS, Nepal. 1992-1994 Responsible for eight action research programs—funded by the Helvetas, SNV, USAID, CAA/FFH, and World Bank, aimed at promoting community-based, self-reliant development initiatives. • Identified, appraised and monitored community-based development projects • Designed action plans, forecasted expenditures, and prepared substantive progress reports CONSULTANCIES International Centre for Integrated Development (ICIMOD), Nepal. 2000 • Assisted in editing of the proceedings of the conference Growth, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Resource Management in Mountain Areas in South Asia Centre for Self-help Development (CSD), Nepal. 1998 • Assessed the effectiveness and impact of micro-credit programs in women’s empowerment and livelihood security in Siraha, Saptari, and Udaypur districts. World Bank, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1993 • Facilitated a series of training sessions for the partner NGOs on Participatory Approaches (PRA and SARAR) to implement the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program (RWSS) PUBLICATIONS Book review: The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya (J. M. Baker 2005). Himalaya (formerly The Himalayan Research Bulletin) 26(1-2): 68-69. 2009 The Human Dimensions of Land Change in Lamjung District, Nepal. In the Proceedings of the 2nd Himalayan Policy Research Conference. October 11, 2007, Madison, Wisconsin. Albuquerque, NM: The Nepal Study Center, University of New Mexico. Research report: The Human Dimensions of Land-use and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal. Himalaya, 25(1-2): 42-43. 2007 Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya. In Global Change in Mountain Regions, edited by Martin F. Price, pp. 232-233. Duncow, UK: Sapiens Publishing. 2006. Dissertation and thesis PhD dissertation: Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land Change in Lamjung District, Nepal. Dept. of Anthropology. Submitted to Graduate School, University of Georgia, Athens. 2007 Masters thesis: Land-use, Poor People, and Livelihoods in the Middle Hills of Nepal. Program for International Development and Social Change. Submitted to Graduate School, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. 1997 In Preparation Shrestha, Milan. Ethnoecology of Smallholders’ Land-use Strategies and Crop Choices in Nepal (submission planned for Culture and Agriculture) Shrestha, Milan and Robert Rhoades. Land-cover Change beyond the Primary Transition: Changes in Agricultural Landscape in the Nepal Himalaya (submission planned for Global Environmental Change) Shrestha, Milan. Land History and Agricultural Change in Lamjung (submission planned for Studies in Nepali History and Society) Shrestha, Milan, Abigail York, Sainan Zhang, and Chris Boone. Socioecological Gradients and Land Fragmentation: A Cross-site Comparative Analysis (submission for Urban Ecosystems) S. Zhang, A York, M Shrestha, and C. Boone. Land Fragmentation in the Metropolitan Phoenix Area between 1992 and 2001 (submission planned for Landscape Ecology) A York, M. Shrestha, S. Zhang and C. Boone. Rapid Urbanization and Sprawl in the Metropolitan Phoenix Area. (prepared for submission to Professional Geographer) Technical Reports and Monographs The Land-use Change, Livelihood and Social Exclusion Nexus in Nepal submitted to the Robert McNamara Fellowship Program of the World Bank, Washington D.C. 2000 Self-help Banking Program and Women’s Empowerment submitted to the Centre for Self-help Development (CSD), Kathmandu, Nepal. 1998 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Invited Presentations A Comparative Analysis of Land Fragmentation and Socioecological Gradienst. Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kasas. October 9, 2009. Studying Land Change in Mountains: Lamjung District of Nepal as a Case Example. The CAP LTER, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe. October 3, 2008. Professional Paper and Poster Presentations Paper: Agricultural Change and Livelihood Security in Lamjung, Nepal, the 108th Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, PA. December, 2009. Poster (M. Shrestha, S. Zhang, A. York, and C. Boone): Socioecological Gradients and Land Fragmentation: A Cross-site Comparative Analysis. Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO. September 13-16, 2009 Paper: Assessing Vulnerability to Glaciers Retreat and Food Shortage in the Nepal Himalaya, the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, NM. March 2009 Paper: Food Security and Vulnerability in Lamjung, Nepal: A Focus on the Likely Impact of Climate Change on Mountain Agriculture, the 107th Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Franscisco, CA. November 2008 Paper: Globalization, Mountain Agriculture and Livelihoods in Lamjung, Nepal, the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Memphis, TN. March 2008 Paper: Smallholder Land-use Change and Agro-diversity in Lamjung, Nepal. The 106th Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington, DC. December 2007 Paper: Community Forestry and the Changing Context of Smallholding in Lamjung, Nepal. The 36th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. October 2007 Paper: The Human Dimensions of Land Change in Lamjung, Nepal. The 2nd Himalyan Policy Research Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. October 2007 Paper: Accuracy Assessment of Land-cover Mapping in Lamjung District, Nepal. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Conference, Tampa, FL. May 2007 Paper: The Institutional Context of Agrarian Change in Lamjung District, Nepal. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Tampa, FL. April 2007 Paper: Integrated Land History: Analyzing the Cultural Context of Agricultural Change in Lamjung of Nepal. The 105th Annual Conference of AAA, San Jose, CA. November 2006 Poster: Land-use and Land-cover Change in Agricultural Areas: The Example of Lamjung, Nepal. The Academy of the Environment Symposium, UGA, Athens, GA. October 2006 Paper: Integrated Land History and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal. The 35th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. October 2006 Paper: Integrating Satellite Data with Household and Community Data to Detect Land-use and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal. The ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference in Reno, NV. May 2006 Poster: Smallholders Land-use Strategies and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Integrating Household and Community Data with Remote Sensing Applications. The NASA Land-cover and Land-use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting, April 11-13 2006, MD. April 2006 Paper: Ethnoecology of Land-use and Land-cover: An Application in Community-based Natural Resources Management. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Vancouver, Canada. March 2006 Paper: Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya. The Open Science Conference: Global Change in the Mountain Regions, Perth, Scotland. October 2005 Paper: Land-use and Land-cover Change in the Nepal Himalaya: Revisiting the Verticality Concept. Thematic workshop “Process Studies along Altitudinal Gradients to Serve Conservation and Sustainable Development, ” Samedan, Switzerland. July 2005 Paper: Smallholders’ Land-use Choices and Mountain Farming Systems. The Annual Meeting of SfAA, Portland, OR. March 2003 Paper: Land-use/cover Change and Livelihood Diversification: Characterizing Mountain Agriculture Systems of Nepal. The Annual Meeting of the SfAA, Atlanta, GA. March 2002 Poster: The Land Use Change, Livelihood and Social Exclusion Nexus in the Nepal Himalayas. The International Mountain Research Symposium sponsored by Grenoble Pôle Européen Universitaire et Scientifique, Grenoble, France. June 2000 In-campus Lectures and Colloquia Speaker: Using Remote Sensing in Anthropological Research. The Urban Remote Sensing Reading Group seminar. School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, February 19, 2009. 2008Guest Lecturer: Mountain Agriculture and Land Change in the Nepal Himalaya. Agricultural Anthropology (ANTH4060/6060) class. Department of Anthropology, UGA. Sep 8, 2008. Guest Lecturer: Ethnoecology of Land-use Categories: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data. Designing Qualitative Research (QUAL/ERSH 8410 ) class. College of Education, UGA. Colloquium Speaker: Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing Applications in Anthropological Research. Pro-seminar (ANTH9005). Dept of Anthropology, UGA. Guest Lecturer: Smallholders, Memories and Land-use Change in Lamjung, Nepal. Landscapes and Memories (ANTH 4015/6015) class. Department of Anthropology, UGA. Guest Lecturer: Livelihoods and Social Exclusion in Nepal. Anthropology of Development (ANTH 4560/6560) class. Department of Anthropology, Athens, UGA PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICES Services Board Member – Culture & Agriculture (C&A) Section, American Anthropological Association. Also designed and maintained the official website http://cultureandagriculture.org/ (2007 - 2009) Executive Council Member, the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS). Also designed and maintained the official website http://anhs-himalaya.org/ (2008 – present) Working group co-organizer (with A. York, S. Zhang and C. Boone): A Cross-site Comparative Analysis of Land Fragmentation, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Estates Park, CO. September 2009 Panel organizer: The Himalayan Dilemma: Old Problems, New Approaches. The Annual Meeting of the SfAA, Atlanta, GA. (with Robert E. Rhoades). March 2002 Member, Graduate Students Council, Clark University, MA 1995 - 1996 Membership 2003 - present American Anthropological Association (AAA), member 2000 - present Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), member 2003 - present American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), member 2004 - present Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), member 2004 - present International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), member 2004 - present Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development PROFICIENCIES Languages: Native speaker of Nepali and Newari. English (advanced level of speaking and writing). Good knowledge of Hindi, Bhojpuri, and Maithali Geospatial: GIS software (ERDAS Imagine, ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcIMS, Idrisi, Definiens, Surfer, ILWIS, Envi, Didger); Aerial photo interpretation and photogrammetry (DMS, StereoAnalyst, Aerosys); Qualitative and social data analysis (SPSS, N-vivo, Atlas.ti and Anthropac) Technical: Database and SQL (Access, MS SQL, My SQL and FoxPro); Web coding and servers (HTML/XHTML, XML, CSS, ColdFusion, DotNetNuke, IIS administration, DreamWeaver, Apache); Multimedia production (Flash, ToolBook, Director, Premiere); Image enhancement (Photoshop, Firework); Illustrations, typesetting and layouts (Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Pagemaker); Word processing (Word, WordPerfect); Presentation (Acrobat, PowerPoint); Spreadsheet (Excel) web design portfolio Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies http://anhs-himalaya.org/ The Culture and Agriculture (C&A) Section of AAA http://www.cultureandagriculture.org/ ASPRS UGA Chapter website: http://www.uga.edu/asprs Southern Seed Legacy Project website: http://www.uga.edu/ebl/ssl The Georgia Log Cabin website: http://www.logcabin.uga.edu Prof. Robert Rhoades website: http://www.lanra.uga.edu/rhoades . . .

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