Galib Lab - Aquatic Ecology

Welcoming our new lab members – 2025!

We’re thrilled to welcome Rifat, Mysha, Mobassher, Tofayel, Mona and Asif to the team as our newest master’s students. Excited to see the fresh energy and ideas they’ll bring to the lab! Visit People to learn more about them.

Recent updates

2 October 2025

Paper by Singha et al. on shellfish diversity, utilisation and conservation threats in the Chalan Beel is now out in Journal of Fisheries! Read more at https://doi.org/10.17017/j.fish.1056

29 August 2025

Out now in People and Nature! We studied socio-ecological complexity in managing long-standing invasive water hyacinth in wetland agriculture and fisheries. Read more at https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70129

8 July 2025

Awarded World Bank funded HEAT project!

7 July 2025

Out now in Communications Earth & Environment! Read our latest paper on widespread and strong impacts of river fragmentation by anthropogenic barriers on fishes in the Mekong River Basin here.

6 March 2025

Paper accepted in Aquatic Conservations: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. we analysed illegal hunting data for globally vulnerable Indian flapshell turtle Lissemys punctata in the largest wetland of Bangladesh.

26-28 February 2025

Dr Galib attended the SEA the Future 2025 Conference in Pattaya, Thailand. The conference was jointly organised by Kasetsart University (Sriracha campus, Thailand), Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (Malaysia) and SRM Institute of Science and Technology (Tamil Nadu, India).

Meet Siri-a Lissemys punctata turtle rescued from illegal wildlife trade in Bangladesh by us. Once abundant, these vulnerable turtles are now rare due to overexploitation. After a safe rescue, Siri was released back into the wild ...

Sampling visit to the Chalan Beel, the largest wetland of the country in August 2025.

Sampling visit to the Chalan Beel, the largest wetland of the country in 2024.

TV report on the Ganges

Media (television) report based on the paper on the river Ganges, published from our lab.

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