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Conservation Science
Nirmal Bhagabati, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer, Ecosystem Services
Areas of Expertise: Ornithology, population genetics, bioinformatics, spatial analysis, climate policy
Nirmal Bhagabati
© Nirmal Bhagabati
Nirmal joined the Conservation Science Program in 2008 as program lead for InVEST, an ecosystem services mapping and valuation software package developed by the Natural Capital Project. An Indian national, Nirmal developed an interest in conservation growing up in the biodiversity-rich region of northeast India near the Eastern Himalayas. After completing undergraduate work in India in biology and computer science, he came to the US to pursue doctoral research at the State University of New York, for which he studied geographic variation in birds (Mexican Jays) in the southwestern US and northern Mexico. Subsequently, he studied the genetics of an avian hybrid zone at the Smithsonian Institution, and then worked as a bioinformatics analyst at The Institute for Genomic Research, where he developed software, analyzed data and trained biologists in data analysis. Nirmal also completed a degree in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining WWF, he worked with several environmental organizations, including the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Conservation International, the National Wildlife Federation and World Wildlife Fund, on diverse projects including GIS-based analyses of human dimensions of conservation, biofuels, tropical deforestation and climate change policy, and landscape-level conservation planning. Nirmal will now be leading efforts to apply InVEST in priority field sites, as part of the Natural Capital Project’s efforts to promote an ecosystem services-based approach to conservation.
Email: nirmal.bhagabati@wwfus.org
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