Amartya Saha, Ecohydrologist and Instrumentation Specialist at Archbold Biological Station

About

25 years of international experience working with Government agencies, research institutes, NGOs and local communities in ecohydrology inputs for water resources management, education and hydrological/ecological monitoring. Scientific and tech publications available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amartya_Saha

and https://sites.google.com/site/tropicalecohydrology/

Information

• Email: riparianbuffer@gmail.com
• Website: https://sites.google.com/site/tropicalecohydrology/
• Location: Lake Placid, United States
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amartya-saha-739b213/

Industry experience

Education: PhD

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 20 years or above

Work experience

• Research intern

  Get exposed to designing and implementing conservation and sustainable development initiatives with villages.

  Academy of Development Science, Maharashtra, India

  1993-05  - 1995-05

• Programmer Analyst

  Database programming and management for clients in media, financial and research institutions using Morningstart financial data to calculate various risk and return metrics.

  Morningstar, Chicago, Illinois

  1997-09-01  - 2003-05-31

• Graduate Research Assistant

  Stable isotope and Nutrient analysis for water and plants from samples worldwide. Teaching a field course in ecohydrology at Instituto Geografica e estadistica, Brasilia, Brazil.

  Department of Biology, University of Miami

  2004-07  - 2009-05-01

• Ecosystem Monitoring Coordinator

  Coordinate a monitoring program for Northeastern Shark Slough in the Everglades National Park to observe before-and-after effects of increased sheetflow (Tamiami Trail bridging) on the ecosystem. Vegetation, periphyton, invertebrates, secondary consumers, water and soil quality and hydroperiod.

  Department of Biological Sciences, FIU

  2011-09-30  - 2012-09-30

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Long Term Ecological Research (FCE-LTER)

  Developed water balance for the Everglades National Park, maintained hydrological instrumentation, conducted study of fish movements and habitat selection with seasonal hydrology.

  Southeastern Environment Research Center, FIU

  2009-05-01  - 2012-05-01

• Associate Scientist

  Worked with ministries of water and natural resources in Tanzania and Rwanda on ecosystem research ( environmental flows, sediment source determination, climate change vulnerability), development of water resources monitoring networks, capacity building in ecohydrology and open source GIS.

  Florida International University

  2012-11-01  - 2016-07

• Ecohydrologist and Instrumentation Specialist

  Manage environmental monitoring instrumentation, programming and data analysis. Research on water and nutrient dynamics in subtropical grasslands, wetlands and woodlands. Participant in the Hydrology and Water Quality groups of the USDA Long-Term Agroecological Research Network.

  Archbold Biological Station

  2016  - Present

Taxonomy

• Water
• Aquatic Ecology
• Ecohydrology
• Ecosystem Management
• Wetlands
• Water Monitoring
• Hydrology
• Water Quality Monitoring