CV
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Basics
| Name | RMWJ Bandara (Wajra Jeewantha Bandara) |
| Label | Scientist/PhD Candidate |
| jeewantha(dot)bandara(at)rutgers(dot)edu | |
| Url | https://wajra.github.io |
| Summary | PhD Candidate at Rutgers University interested in global biogeography and fisheries under climate change |
Work
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2024.08 - 2026.05 Teaching Assistant
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Taught several undergraduate courses in the fall and spring semesters
- Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology, Principles of Natural Resource Management
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2021.08 - 2024.07 Graduate Assistant
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Performed GA duties relevant to my thesis
- Dynamic Range Models, Harvest Control Rules for Fisheries Management, Marine Species Range Shifts
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2017.04 - 2019.06 Research Associate
Blue Swimming Crab Fishery Improvement Project, Sri Lanka
Performed research on various aspects of sustainability of a crab fishery
- Blue Swimming Crab Fishery in North and Northwest in Sri Lanka certified as sustainable
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2017.02 - 2017.12 Teaching Assistant
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Taught several undergraduate courses
- Introduction of Zoology
Volunteer
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2023.06 - 2024.10 Rutgers University
GREENS Representative
EcoGSA
Connected different graduate student organizations between campuses, helped organized fundraising activities
- Annual Rutgers day book sales & GREENS events
Education
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2019.08 - 2026.05 NJ, USA
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2013.01 - 2017.01 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Awards
- 2019.08.01
Fulbright Scholarship
Fulbright Sri Lanka
Awarded full funding to conduct graduate studies and research in the United States
Publications
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2024.04.01 Mechanisms, detections, and impacts of species redistributions under climate change
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
A systematic review of our understanding of species range shifts
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2023.12.08 The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish
Global Change Biology
Does the physiological interaction between oxygen and temperature define the distribution of a fast moving commercially important fish?
Skills
| Ecology/Fisheries/Zoology | |
| Field research/Sampling techniques | |
| Data collection/curation | |
| Natural resource management |
| Statistical Modeling & Data Science | |
| Frequentist statistical analysis | |
| Bayesian statistical analysis | |
| Data analysis and visualization | |
| Data management/harmonizing/pipelines |
| Programming & Computing | |
| R, Python, SQL, Latex | |
| High Performance Computing (HPC) |
Languages
| English | |
| Native speaker |
| Sinhala | |
| Native speaker |
| French | |
| Rudimentary |
References
| Professor John Wiedenmann | |
| john(dot)wiedenmann(at)rutgers(dot)edu |
| Professor Malin Pinsky | |
| mpinsky(at)ucsc(dot)edu |