Professional summary
Ajinkya is an environmental ecologist/biogeochemist with a background in climate change effects, forest ecology, pollution effects and analytical chemistry. He has worked in a range of geographical regions and ecosystem types in the US, India and now the UK. His role at UKCEH focuses on monitoring and understanding the effects of nitrogen deposition in various chemical and physical forms on vegetation and soils. The geographical extent of his work extends from the UK to South Asia as part of the South Asian Nitrogen Hub.
His overarching research interests include air quality monitoring, pollutant deposition measurement, biosphere-atmosphere gas exchange and biogeochemical modelling. He is currently the project manager of nitrogen deposition monitoring project in UK's complex terrain as a part of the NCEA program. He also has experience in GIS, LIDAR applications, vegetation surveys, eddy covariance and micrometeorology. His PhD thesis was focused on understanding the cumulative effects of hydroclimatic changes and nitrogen deposition on wetland ecosystems in Texas.
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R Programming
Loggernet
EddyPro
DNDC modelling
QGIS
Igor Pro
MS Office
Sutton, M. A., Wolseley P, van Dijk N., Deshpande A.G., Dragosits U., Twigg M., Tang S., Braban, C., Levy P., Bealey W., Weerakoon, G., Jiang, J., Stevenson, D., Weerakoon B., Nissanka, S. and Jones M.R. (2022) 15 years on: Rationale and reflection on the 2006 Edinburgh Ammonia Workshop in the light of emerging evidence. Chapter 3.1.1. in Review of internationally proposed critical levels for ammonia (eds. Franzaring J., Kösler J. and Geupel M.), pp 45-55. TEXTE xx/2022, Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany.
Deshpande, A.G.; Jones, M.R.; Mullinger, N.J.; Harvey, D.; Simmons, I.; Nicoll, R.; van Dijk, N.; Grenier, M.; Toteva, G.; Duarte, F.; Stephens, A.; Iwanicka, A. (2024). Meteorological data and ammonia concentration and deposition rates from an ammonia enhancement experiment site, Glencorse, UK, 2021-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre.
Deshpande, A.G.; Jones, M.R.; Mullinger, N.J.; Harvey, D.; Nicoll, R.; van Dijk, N.; Grenier, M.; Toteva, G.; Weerakoon, B.; Nissanka, S.P.; Prabhashwara, T. (2024). Meteorological data and ammonia concentration and deposition rates from an ammonia enhancement experiment site, Queensberry, Sri Lanka, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre.
Deshpande, A.G., Boutton, T.W., Hyodo, A., Lafon, C.W. and Moore, G.W., 2020. Bottomland hardwood forest growth and stress response to hydroclimatic variation: evidence from dendrochronology and tree ring Δ13C values. Biogeosciences 17 (22), 5639–5653.
Moore, G.W., Adkison, C.E., Aparecido, L.M.T., Basant, S., Cooper, C.E., Cross, A.J., Deshpande, A.G., Catalan, M. and Wright, C., 2020.Thermal dissipation sensors enter a new age: Navigating frontiers in transpiration and hydrologic function. Acta Hortic. 1300, 37-46.