Experience

• View Point Engineering & Design

  GIS Analyst

  Created a geodata base of three urban (East and West Boylston and Sterling) projects for watershed and septic tanks management.
  Prepared thematic maps and project reports.

• Alabama A&M University

  Research Assistant Professor

  Developed and implemented 12 competitive grants (over 7.5 million) in collaboration with other faculty: Facilitating Access to Programs and Resources for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers (USDA/OAO), Investigating Economic and Environmental Potential of Goats-agroforestry System for Optimal Land Management in Alabama (AALGA); Enhancing Agribusiness Curriculum and Increasing Student Experiential Learning (USDA/NIFA); Understanding Small Landowners’ Perspectives in Adoption of Goat-Agroforestry Land Management System (S-SARE); InSTEP (Intensive Southeastern Training Expansion Program) for African-American Landowners; Academic Enhancement Program for Preparing Human Capital for 21st Century Careers (USDA/NIFA); Establishing Center of Forest Ecosystems Assessment. NSF/CREST, subproject: Coupled Dynamics of human and land use land cover changes (NSF); Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development: An Education Program for Disadvantaged Communities (USDA/NIFA); Irrigation Water Demand Forecasting: A Multiproduct Approach for Major Alabama Crops (USDA/Evans Allen Fund); Understanding the Relationship between Forests and People using Community Capital Perspective (US Forest Service); Conducted research on Agricultural Productivity, Economics of Farm Size, Water Scarcity, Income Convergence, Changing Agricultural Markets, and Spatial Heterogeneity and Land Fragmentation, Urban and Rural Sprawl, ecological function and process, agroforestry system, coupled dynamics of human and natural resources funded by USDA and NSF; taught Computer Application in Agriculture and Forest Resource Economics Courses

• Alabama A&M University

  PostDoctoral Research Associate

  Analyzed U.S. population, economic, agricultural census, GIS, and remote sensing data and prepared manuscripts; coordinated Land Management Training workshops for limited resource landowners; Assisted Agroforestry Demonstration research project for establishing 16 demonstration sites in Alabama; assisted PIs (NSF-CREST-Human Dimensions subproject) for writing progress reports, analyzing geospatial data, and preparing manuscripts; assisted in teaching SPS 480/580 Natural Resource Policy and SPS 483 Forest Resource Economics Courses; mentored graduate and undergraduate students.

• Alabama A&M University

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Buddhi worked at Alabama A&M University as a Graduate Research Assistant

• Kentucky State University

  Associate Professor, Division of Environmeral Studies & Sustainable Systems

  Buddhi worked at Kentucky State University as a Associate Professor, Division of Environmeral Studies & Sustainable Systems

• Kentucky State University

  Assistant Professor, Geospatial Program Coordinator

  Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in GIS, Remote sensing climate change, Spatial Statistics; conduct scientific research and publish scholarly papers; advise and mentor graduate and undergraduate students and their thesis/capstone projects; develop competitive grants; collaborate with high schools for students recruitments, collaborate with other 1862 and 1890s land-grant institutions for grants, teaching and research quality, and capacity enhancement, provide professional service to university and community, coordinate minor in geoscience application program, manage GIS and remote sensing lab and instruments, conduct Geospatial training to faculty and staff, conduct training to farmers/producers on use of online data and GIS maps for farm management and marketing.
  Currently Gyawali executes and manages the following funded grants: (PI) Enhancing Research & Extension Capability by Studying Land Cover Change and Microclimate Variation in Kentucky. USDA/NIFA CBG-Integrated (599,997, 2014-2017); (Co-PI) Promoting Minority Students Participation in STEM-Undergraduate Degree Programs,NSF- HBCU-UP Implementation Grant ($500,000, 2014-2017); (PI) Targeted Infusion Project: Developing Minor in Geoscience Application at Kentucky State University. NSF- HBCU-UP program ($399,999, 2014-2017); (Co-PI) Farm Diversification for strengthening of Small Farms in Kentucky, USDA/AFR, $499,997, 2014-2017); (PI) Promoting Participation of Small Socially Disadvantaged Producers in USDA programs in Kentucky USDA-RDCS, 103,450, 2014-2015); (PI) Strengthening Environmental Science Program for Preparing Minority Young Scientists, USDA/NIFA, ($149,999, 2013-2016); (PI) Developing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Land Management Models for Small Farmlands USDA/Evans Allen Fund, ($499,987,2012-2016); (Co-PI) Geospatial Characterization of Kentucky Forests for Agroforestry and Bioenergy Production (USDA/McIntire-Stennis, $189,094, 2012-2014).

• Kentucky State University

  Advisory Board member, Kentucky Geographic Information Advisory Council, International Program Development Committee, KY State University; Academic Policies Committee, Kentucky State University, peer-reviewer of scientific articles, USDA proposals review panel, moderator, judge, panel member in multiple professional conferences, competitive papers and presentations.

• Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Nepal

  Program Officer

  Assisted in developing, implementing and evaluating policy and action research and community development projects in eight districts of Nepal; Coordinated “Self-reliant Development of the Poor by the Poor (SRDPP)” project launched in eight districts funded by CECI, CEDPA, Helvetas, SNV, UNICEF, USAID, World Bank, and World Education; Supervised 30 field staff assigned for the SRDPP project in Lamjung district; Coordinated a dozen periodic field workshops/training on participatory development, baseline survey, non-formal education and sustainable agriculture for farmers and staff from 1992 to 1996; Independently authored 15 periodic progress reports and submitted to multiple funding agencies.