Associate Professor
Carver Complex South Bonner Wing Room 218 C
Phone: (256) 372-4689
Email: ranjani.kulaward@aamu.edu
Website: Kulawardhana-CV
Ranjani Kulawardhana Biography
Associate Professor
Carver Complex South Bonner Wing Room 218 C
Phone: (256) 372-4689
Email: ranjani.kulaward@aamu.edu
Website: Kulawardhana-CV
Research
Research Areas
- GIS & Remote Sensing
- Coastal & wetland ecology
- Vegetation productivity & carbon dynamics
- Climate change
- Land-use/ land-cover change & disturbance impacts
- Environmental health
Research Applications
- Geospatial mapping and monitoring of vegetation productivity, carbon sequestration, & ecosystem products & services,
- Climate- and human-induced disturbance impacts on ecosystem health, productivity, carbon sequestration ability, and land-use/ land-cover change (LULCC)
- Environmental health with special focus on effects of environmental pollution
- Geospatial modeling of health disparity outcomes
Education
PhD 2013
Ecosystem Science and Management - Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
MSc 2007
Integrated Water Resources Management - Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University
of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
BSc. 2002
Agriculture (sp. Agric. Biology) 鈥� Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka
Publications
*denotes students mentored/ advised by Kulawardhana R W
Peer review publications
- Kulawardhana, R. W., Popescu, S. C. & Feagin, R. A. (2017). Airborne lidar remote sensing applications in non-forested short stature environments: a review. Annals of Forest Research, DOI:10.15287/afr.2016.719.
- Kulawardhana, R. W., Feagin, R. A., Popescu, S. C., Boutton, T. W., Yeager, K. & Bianchi, T. S. (2015). The role of elevation and relative sea level history in determining carbon distribution in Spartina alterniflora dominated salt marshes. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science,