Dr. Chhandashree Bhuyan

Dr. Chhandashree Bhuyan is an Associate Professor and HoD of Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati Assam in the Department of Zoology. She has been an awardee of the State Merit Scholarship and National Scholarship under the National Scholarship Scheme from the Govt. of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development. She is a First Rank Holder in Zoology Major from the prestigious Cotton College which was then under the Gauhati University. She has been the recipient of the Gauhati University’s Gold medal for securing the First Class First position in the Masters in Zoology in 1992. Apart from her academic excellence she has authored several course books in addition to edited books and write ups in renowned journals and newspapers. She is a Life member of the Zoological Society of Assam (ZSA). During the COVID-19 pandemic period of crisis she helped the ZSA by conducting a series of academic Webinars for students organised by the ZSA and also contributed immensely through her unique creation of a large number of voice-recorded PPT Lectures of Zoology for UG and PG students which are available in the ZSA YouTube Channels.

Dr Narayan Sharma

Dr Narayan Sharma is an educationist, conservation biologist and ecologist with two decades of experience working in education and wildlife research in northeast India. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Biology and Wildlife Sciences at Cotton University, Guwahati and an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka. He obtained his doctoral degree from the National Institute of Advanced Studies and Manipal University. A post-doc from the Nature Conservation Foundation, Dr Sharma's research interests lie broadly in ecology, conservation biology, primatology, ecological pedagogy, urban ecology, human ecology and human-wildlife interaction. Dr Sharma incorporates modern developments in the field while teaching young minds to nourish a new brigade of ecologists and wildlife biologists from the northeastern region of India. Dr Sharma advocates for Citizen Science and takes the initiative to take ecological and environmental sciences to the general public and popularise it. Heis a nominated IUCN Primate Specialist Group, South Asia member. He is a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary Service from Cotton College State University (now Cotton University).

Prof. Prasanta Kumar Saikia, Commonwealth Fellow

Prof. P.K. Saikia, Ph.D. (Gau), Post Doc. (University of Leeds, UK&USA); Commonwealth Fellow; member IUCN SSC, Stork Ibises & Spoonbill Specialist Group, WI; State coordinator, Asian Waterbird Count, South Asia; Member Wildlife Board of Assam; Member Elephant Task Force; Former Head of Zoology & Dean of Faculty of Science, GU has obtained his Ph.D. degree on the topic- Eco-Biology of Leptoptilosdubius & L. javanicus in Brahmaputra Valley, Assam in 1996. He did International Training Programme on “Wildlife Conservation & management” under the Smithsonian institute, USA & WII, Dehradun. He has been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth fellowship in 2002 for Post. Doc. at University of Leeds, UK. He also did Post Doc. on Marine birds and mammals in Farallon Island of Pacific Ocean, California, in 1997 & and ICF in Wisconsin, USA.

Teaching & Research Contribution

32 years of PG Teaching Experience in GU since 1992 to date & has produced 32 Ph.D. and 3 M.Phil. and above 150 Master’s thesis guided, (both Zoology, & Wildlife Sciences) in wildlife & biodiversity. He has published over 175 Research articles in National & International Journals of repute (including the Journals of Scientific Reports, Molecular Ecology & Evolutionary Biology). He has written over 40 popular scientific articles in various magazines and Newspapers and also attended/presented more than 200 seminars, symposiums, and workshops and delivered speeches as an Invitee in India and abroad. He has also published 7 books & also the member of 14 national learned societies of which 6 are life members.

Conservation Work

Prof. Saikia has started rigorous conservation work on globally-threatened GAS since 1989 in collaboration with IUCN & Assam Forest Department through posters, leaflets, group meetings & tree plantations in various nesting sites. He has initiated Deeporbeel conservation works in 1989 and continued to date.

Innovative work

Two Innovative courses in the Department of Zoology, GU:

1. Diploma in Wildlife Management in the year 2009
2. M. Sc. in Wildlife Science since 2012, August.

Field of expertise

Biodiversity & Conservation, Animal Ecology, Wildlife Biology, Ornithology, and environmental studies, Guiding Research work on Wildlife species from Mega Herbivores through Invertebrates, As an Ecologist in terrestrial ecosystem. Statistical Software Handling.

Dr. S.K.Borthakur

Prof. S.K.Borthakur is Retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, Gauhati University. Prior to Gauhati University he worked in Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow and Cotton College ( now Cotton University), Guwahati and has more than 40 years of research and teaching experience. His areas of specialization are Plant Taxonomy, Floristics, ethnobotany, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge. He has published 16 books, more than 45 book chapters and more than 450 research papers published in reputed national and international journals. He has also discovered 22 new species of plants and 35 new distributional record of plants from northeast India. Under his guidance 52 students got their Doctoral Degree from Gauhati University. He also served several national and international bodies in different capacities including Chairman of State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority, Assam.