Co-curricular Activities

Workshops / Webinars Attended

• 9th World Forest Week event,

• “Cool Forests: Forest-Water-Climate Linkages for Resilient Food Systems”, was held on 24 July 2024, co-organized by FAO, the United States Forest Service, and the National Forestry Institute (INFONA) of Paraguay.  

• "Carbon Removal at Scale: A Call to Action from the IPCC Report" was held on 23 March 2023, organized by World Resources Institute, USA.

• "Introducing the Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide" was held on 01 March 2023, organized by World Resources Institute, USA.

• "Connect Learning with Monitoring and Evaluation: A Strategy for Project M&E in Current COVID-19 Pandemic"  was held on 31 January 2023, organized by AIT Extension.

• "Growth and yield modelling of fast-grown intensively-managed forest plantations in Chile: A long-term collaborative research effort" was held on 27 September 2022. This is hosted by Interconnecting Forest, Science, and People (IUFRO) 4.01.00 as part of the 2022 webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats." 

• "The UN Decade Learning Sessions: Ecosystem Restoration in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework" was held on 22 September 2022, organized by the WWF, IUCN, and FAO. 

• "How Communities can Inventory GHG Emissions and Removables by Forests and Trees" was held on 28 July 2022, organized by the World Resources Institute, USA.

• "Keeping 1.5 C Alive: Responding to the IPCC Report on Mitigating Climate Change"  was held on 12 April 2022, organized by World Resources Institute.

• "Reference Data Management for Research," was held on 25 March 2022, organized by Elsevier.

• "Targeting Journals to Publish Manuscripts" was held on 25 February 2022, organized by Elsevier.

• "How to Write & Get Published" was held on 20 October 2021, organized by Springer Nature.

• "Elsevier Expert Series-Research and Societal Impact: Innovation for the Future" was held on 01 December 2021, at Elsevier-World Bank.

Positions Held / Holding

• Member of the Committee for Interim Institutional Review - University of Vavuniya.

• The Editor-in-Chief of the Faculty Level Newsletter Committee at the University of Vavuniya, with effect from January 1, 2024, for one year.

• Member of the Landscape committee

• Senior Treasure of ENSOC

• Director for the Support Center for Persons with Disabilities (SCPD) at the University of Vavuniya, with effect from November 15, 2023, for one year. 

• Member of the International division, University of Vavuniya.

• A Ph.D. coach from 4th July to 29th, 2022, at the SDG summer school, University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Student Counsellor with effect from May 21st, 2018 to May 21st, 2019.

• Member of the committee for developing self-evaluation reports for the Institutional Review.

• Member of Entrance and Pathway Committee for Carrier Fair, 2017.

Conference Session Chair

• I served as a session chair in the 8th International Conference on Climate Change 2024, held on February 8–9, 2024.

• I served as a technical session chair (virtual) in the 11th International Conference on Agriculture 2024 (AGRICO 2024), held on September 23–24, 2024.

Supervision 

• I served as an external expert (Committee member)  for master's student research at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

Student name: Mr. Sai Nay Won Myint from Myanmar

Degree: M.Sc. in Natural Resources Management

School: School of Environment, Resources, and Development

Graduated Year: July 2024

 Research title: ASSESSING CHANGES IN MANGROVE FOREST COVER AND ITS CARBON STOCK IN RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR

Reviewer for Journals

• Heliyon  (Elsevier)

• Carbon Management (Taylor & Francis)

• The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses

• The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability

• The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice

Guest Lectures

I was invited as a guest speaker to conduct an online lecture about "Google Earth Engine applications and its hands-on practice for mapping and assessing resources" to the postgraduate students of Natural Resources Management at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on October 30 and November 3, 2023.

Research Grant –as a co-researcher

Strengthening Capacity to Control the Introduction and Spread of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in Sri Lanka (funded by GEF / UNDP) in 2016 – The title of the project is “Investigation of Environmentally Friendly Methods to Control Eichchornia crassipes in Vavuniya Districts, Sri Lanka”. 

Academic Projects

• Investigation of factors affecting on dengue outbreaks: A case study in Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka—M.Sc Project

• Vegetable growers perception of pesticide use practices and health effects in Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka– B.Sc Project