Ashish Kumar Arya, PhD, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), India
Dr Ashish Kumar Arya is currently working as an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at the Department of Environmental Science, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India. His research expertise is in avian biology, bioacoustics, wetland ecology, wildlife and biodiversity conservation, with a strong focus on water bird diversity and conservation. He also works with the breeding biology of birds, and has published research papers in those areas.
Almo Farina, PhD, Honorary Professor of Ecology, University of Urbino, Italy
Dr Almo Farina’s recent principal interests are in understanding how complexity operates across a range of ecological scales affecting the organization of communities, ecosystems and landscapes. In particular, he is interested in studying the organization of landscapes and how organisms perceive the surrounding complexity, with a specific focus on the study of the mechanisms involved in the communication between the internal world of organisms and their interpreted Umwelt. Recently he has incorporated the principles of biosemiotics into the ecological domain developing the eco-field hypothesis, and in addition has elaborated a new theory on resources (General Theory of Resources). Resources have been defined and some axioms have been presented and discussed as basis for a new ecological perspective to investigate the complexity of the life. In addition, Dr Farina has investigated the soundscape of birds as an energetic, informative dimension utilized by these species to maintain contact with vital resources. He is currently working on the development of new metrics (the Sonic Complexity Index, SCI) to evaluate the complexity of sounds inside populations, communities and landscapes, as well as developing theories and principles of ecoacoustics and of code biology.
Daniela Silvia Pace, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, CNR-IAS Capo Granitola, Italy
Dr Daniela Silvia Pace’s research and monitoring activity is focused on marine mammals’ ecology, behavior, acoustics, and conservation, as well as on noise in the marine environment, and the impact of noise on marine mammals. She is the PI of the long-term project “Capitoline sea sounds: structural analysis of the bottlenose dolphin calls and the underwater noise in the marine soundscape of the highly anthropized waters of the Roman coasts” supported by Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Dr Pace is a member of the Mediterranean Pelagos Sanctuary for Marine Mammals working groups on "Impacts" and "Assessments". She is also the Coordinator of the Scientific Unit on Underwater Noise within the Italian Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) for the development of monitoring standard procedures.
