Sri Priyabrata Dasgupta
- Designation: Guest Lecturer
- Department: Environmental Science
- Qualification: M.Sc.
- Contact No: (033) 2363 0939,98365-81773,81001-99160
- Email: dasguptavvv@rediffmail.com / dasgupta1 9may@yahoo.co.in
- Area of Specialization: Ambient air quality of the City: Kolkata
Research Interest:
- “ Study on Habitat of Black Crowned Night Heron Birds ”
Teaching Experience:
1. Last 05 years-From July 2009 to continuing: Guest Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science in Vidyasagar Evening College, under Calcutta University, Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata-700006 for Under Graduate Compulsory General Paper.
2. Last 05 years-From August 2009 to continuing: Guest Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science in Bhairab Ganguly College, under West Bengal State University, Belgharia, Kolkata-700056 for Under Graduate Compulsory General Paper.
3. Last 06 years-From August 2008 to continuing: Guest Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science in Women’s College, Calcutta, under Calcutta University, P-29, Kshirode Vidyavinode Avenue, Kolkata-700003 for Under Graduate Compulsory General Paper.
4. For 04 months-From February 2006 to March 2006 & November 2006 to December2006: Part Time Faculty of Environmental Management in a Private Management School- Nightingale Institute of Management Studies (NIMS), Office: BD-97, Salt Lake, Sector-I, Kolkata- 700064 for Post Graduate Compulsory General Paper.
Awards:
Not yet awarded
Professional Membership:
1. Life member of Ethological Society of India 2. Life member of The Zoological Society, Kolkata-700 019> <Important Publication:
1. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2010. Environmental selection criteria of nest-building trees by the night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. Environment and Ecology 28 (1): 189-193.
2. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2010. Anthropogenic nesting problem in black-crowned night-herons, Nycticorax nycticorax in Kolkata, India. Environment and Ecology 28 (1 B): 602- 605.
3. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2010. Ability of black crowned night herons Nycticorax nycticorax to sense the trees to be victimized by storm. Environment and Ecology 28 (4): 2341-2346.
4. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2011. Nesting frequency in black-crowned night-herons Nycticorax nycticorax in Kolkata, India. Environment and Ecology 29 (3): 1015-1017.
5. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2012. Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, destroying commercial fishes in Kolkata, India. Environment and Ecology 30 (1): 163-166
6. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2012. Characteristics of nest-building materials of the black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, occurring in Kolkata, India. Environment and Ecology 30 (2): 310-312.
7. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2012. Asian palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Pallas), an effective predator of nestling black-crowned night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus) in Kolkata, India. Environment and Ecology 30 (3 B):1017 - 1018.
8. Dasgupta P. and S.K.Raut. 2013. Night time parental activities of the black-crowned night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax. Environment and Ecology 31(3A):1599 – 1603.
Research Projects:
Presently engaged in a research work for PhD on Black Crowned Night Heron Birds under the supervisorship of Dr. Srimanta Kumar Raut (D.Sc., Ph.D., P.R.S., F.Z.S.), Ecology & Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Ballygange Science College, Kolkata-700 019, West Bengal, India.
Special Achievements:
Television Coverage:
T.V. talk on the dwindling of birds at Kolkata-the causes and the consequences. It was aired in R-Plus News channel (Contact person: Editor-in-Chief, R-Plus News, 27 Mirza Gulib Street, City Centre Building, 3rd Floor, Kolkata-700016, Fax : +913340162777, Web: webmobilive.com/rplus.http ) on 11th October, 2011 at 21:00 hrs.
Radio Talk:
Radio talk on Black-Crowned Night-Heron birds of Kolkata. It was broadcasted in All India Radio, Kolkata, Vigyan Barta, Akash Bani Bhawan, Eden Garden, Kolkata-700001 on 28th August, 2012 at 07:05hrs, 297.6MHz.
