Geetha Ramaswami

Geetha Ramaswami is a plant ecologist with a special interest in invasive plants, plant phenology, and citizen science. For her PhD and post-doctoral research, she studied invasion by the woody plant – Lantana camara – in diverse forest, rural and peri-urban habitats across India. She currently heads the all-India citizen science project SeasonWatch aimed at understanding tree-seasonality through large-scale scientific documentation by non-professionals. She is interested in taking science out of jargon-filled journal silos, to people – where it can really make a difference.