Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Conservation scientist, Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA.
Research: #EcoRestore, #biodiversity, #conservation #urbanEcology, invasive species
PhD in Fisheries & Wildlife 🐢🐍🐸🐦 🐟🌃🧪🏞️📊🖥️🛰️🏳️🌈🌍🦤
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheCOLLECTION | To coincide with our first anniversary, Nature Reviews Biodiversity has launched a collection of our content relating to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Targets: go.nature.com/4pV2cI1 (1/7)
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheThe review I wrote while at Colossal is part of this collection: Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration rdcu.be/e0NyH
- 🐸✨ check out our paper: In this synthesis, we show how amphibians underpin ecosystem functioning (#NutrientCycling, #FoodWebs, #PestControl), act as some of our most sensitive early-warning systems for environmental change (#Bioindicators)...🐸🌍🦤ec🌱
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina Surasinghe📖 Published! CISO, a deep learning-based method for species distribution modelling Conditioned on Incomplete Species Observations 🖥️ 🦌 🌍 🔎 Find out more:
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheDavid Dudgeon & Jia Huan Liew (2026) Welcome to the Homogenocene? Trajectories of change in global #freshwater #fish biodiversity during the Anthropocene: evidence from tropical East Asia 🔓 via Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #BioInvasions 🧪🌏🐟
- 🌍✈️ wrapped a pilot trip to São Vicente, Cape Verde 🇨🇻 to prepare for our NSF-funded IRES project on marine & coastal #biodiversity 🌊🐠🦂🦐🍤🦀 Great meetings with our collaborators at Uni-CV Cabo Verde 🎓 and Biosfera Cabo Verde 🌱 — excited for the fieldwork and collaborations ahead! 🚀🧪
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheWidespread #MountainEcosystem loss (2000-2020) is driven by human expansion ( #agriculture approx. 89% and #NaturalDisasters approx 11%) Over half (approx 56%) occurred in #ProtectedAreas or #biodiversity hotspots, demanding urgent #conservation action 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- 🍂 Fall fieldwork update: surveying upland amphibians & reptiles near restored wetlands to understand how habitat restoration influences terrestrial habitat use and seasonal movements. 🐸🐍 🌱🦤🌍🐢
- I had the opportunity to attend the NEON convergence Summit 2025 at #CUboulder 🌍📊 This summit brought together scientists working on #macrosystemsEcology, #biodiversity, #continentalScaleBiology using #NEON. #EnvironmentalDataScience #OpenScience 🌐🌱🧪
- We are studying the spread of common reed (Phragmites australis) in a restored wetland 🌿. We aim to understand how wetland hydrology 💧 and habitat structure 🪵🌾 influence the degree of invasion. #InvasiveSpecies #WetlandRestoration #Phragmites #GenerationRestoration #Wetlands #InvasionEcology
- We are studying the spread of common reed (Phragmites australis) in a restored wetland 🌿. We aim to understand how wetland hydrology 💧 and habitat structure 🪵🌾 influence the degree of invasion. #InvasiveSpecies #WetlandRestoration #Phragmites #GenerationRestoration #Wetlands #InvasionEcology
- a new research project on ecological #TippingPoints 🌱🌍🧪🌐🦤 & regime shifts 🔄 at @cu-esiil.bsky.social Innovation Summit 🏔️. Looking forward to working with amazing colleagues 🤝 on data-driven approaches 📊 to ecosystem change. #OpenScience #EnvironmentalDataScience #Biodiversity
- Excited to present at #SER2025, the 11th World Conference on #EcologicalRestoration 🌎! Join me this Thursday, Oct 2 📅 at 5:00 PM in the Quartz Room for Session O.28: Restoration, Biodiversity & Climate. I will share our remote-sensing–based approach to track #wetland restoration success 🌿🛰️...
- Back in the field this fall 🍂 with undergrads 👩🔬👨🔬, monitoring woodland #herps 🐸🦎 around restored wetlands 🌿. We are testing whether wetland restoration helps not upland biota. 🌱🧪🌍 #WetlandRestoration #RestorationEcology #Biodiversity #Amphibians #Reptiles #UndergraduateResearch #GenerationRestoration
- Year 3 underway on comparing #urban vs #rural #turtle pops with @eren2010.bsky.social at Continental scale #UndergraduateResearch 🌍🦤🧪🌐🌱🐢
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- 🌿🐦 New Research Highlight: “Successful Home Garden Model for Biodiversity Conservation in Sri Lanka” 📚 Our recent work published in Loris shows that home gardens are key players in conserving biodiversity AND delivering climate, social, and economic benefits.
- 🧪🌊🐚 We are hiring: Biology MS in #MarineEcosystems in #CapeVerde 🌍🪸 Spring 2026 start, at Bridgewater State Uni in #coastalEcology, #biodiversity 💸 Funding includes: GA + tuition waiver 📅 App: Oct 15, 2025 www.bridgew.edu/center/case/... 📫HERITOR@bridgew.edu, tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu
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- Had a successful session on #urbanAgriculture & #urbanBiodiversity 🏙️🌱🌿🦤 @ #ESA2025 We presented a framework to survey urban #biodiversity in university campus #greenSpaces Designed as #undergradResearch & multisite #ecological research 💰 Support #NSF #RCN 🌍🌐🧪
- 🌱 Join us at #ESA2025 Urban Agriculture as an Accessible Framework for Ecological Research 📅 Wed Aug 13 8–9:30 AM Hilton Key 11–12 Urban ag: a powerful, underused lens for ecological research & education 🌿🐝🌾
- check out our project website: www-stg.bridgew.edu/center/case/... #MarineEcology #Conservation #GraduateResearch #CapeVerde #biodiversity, #coastalEcology 🧪🌍🌐
- 🌱 Join us at #ESA2025! Urban Agriculture as an Accessible Framework for Ecological Research 📅 Wed Aug 13 8–9:30 AM Hilton Key 11–12 Urban ag: a powerful, underused lens for ecological research & education 🌿🐝🌾
- 🌿🦋 We led a successful pre- #ESA2025 workshop at #MICA, Baltimore on #biodiversity in campus food & pollinator gardens! 🎓 Developed undergraduate-focused, inquiry-based research protocols for ecology & allied teaching labs. #undergraduteResearch #NSF funded #RCN 🧪🌍
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheReally excited to see our paper on the effects of prolonged #drought and non-native 🐟 on emerging insects out in L&O @aslo.org! 🧪🌎 See 🧵 below ⬇️⬇️
- Interested in climate change, invasive predators, and cross-ecosystem linkages? Check out our newest paper in @aslo.org's L&O, from a fun experiment we ran three summers ago in California's Sierra Nevada, beautifully led by postdoc @chaevangelista.bsky.social!
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- Just out! our new paper calling for multicity research networks to tackle urgent #OneHealth challenges in our rapidly urbanizing world. As cities 🏙️ grow, so do risks: Pollution; #Zoonotic 🦠spillover; Habitat loss
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheIn our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheHow should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟 doi.org/10.1111/csp2... @mariabeger.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheA global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory
- Reposted by Dr. Thilina SurasingheLots of invaluable advice here for both early stage researchers and well established folk. Well thought out impactful figures are key to getting your points across, and it's all too common to see poor practice 🧪🧬🖥️🌍 #datavis #bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- 🐸🐍 My #undergrad team at Bridgewater State is out in the field surveying #amphibians & #reptiles across restored #wetlands & streams in SE Mass! Tracking how these 🐢🦎 communities bounce back after restoration. #RestorationGeneration #UndergradResearch 🌱🦤🌍
- 📢 Summer science in action! Our #undergrad team is documenting #streamHydrology & channel structure to understand how restored streams change over time—and what that means for aquatic habitat We are building data to support better restoration #StreamEcology #UndergradResearch #GenerationRestoration
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- 🐢 Out doing some pilot work for a #freshwaterTurtles nesting study & stumbled upon several nesting female common snapping turtles in action! 🥚🪺 Also spotted signs of nest predation—likely raccoons. ⚔️🦝 #FieldWork #Herpetology #Wildlife 🌍🦤🌱🧪
- Just published: Leveraging #phenology to map seasonally dynamic #wetland 🌿 plant communities! We used 🛰️ #Sentinel NDVI time series + ground observations to refine ecosystem classification.
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- 🚨 Breaking Research: Saving Sri Lanka’s Rarest #Lizards🦎 Our study reveals critical gaps in protecting Sri Lanka’s endemic agamid lizards. Using Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) lead by PhD candidate @ireshawijerathne.bsky.social
