Tree Walk with SeasonWatch

14.11.2024, 8 AM - 10 AM
RRBCEA, Empress Garden 

Trees are all around us. Let us go on a 'safari' to meet some trees and learn how they arrived in our neighborhood.
This walk will be led by Sayee Girdhari.
Sayee is a Project Coordinator with SeasonWatch, a citizen science project tracking seasonal changes in trees to understand the impact of climate change in India.
Tree enthusiasts can monitor the stages of leaves, flowers and fruits once every week on trees anywhere in India.
The observations can be uploaded on the SeasonWatch website or android application.
This data helps us visualise patterns of tree seasonality and their deviation due to climate change.
Tree walks are a way to connect with trees around us and find the motivation to engage with them.

About the Facilitator:
Sayee Girdhari has done a Master's in Botany from Savitribai Phule Pune University. After graduating, she worked on a project with the Karnataka State Biodiversity Board that took her all over the state to explore and document plant species. She later worked as a Biodiversity Analyst at Terracon Ecotech Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, conducting floral surveys and writing reports for various stakeholders in the corporates and municipal corporations. Here, she learnt skills to engage with different audiences with plants and biodiversity. 
She is currently working with the SeasonWatch Project at the Nature Conservation Foundation, where she conducts outreach for the project. She conducts webinars, workshops, training sessions and tree walks to connect people with trees and encourage them to monitor trees around them to track the impact of climate change across India. 
Sayee speaks passionately about plants and aims to make everyone see how amazing they are!