Dr. Jay P. Sah, Research Faculty at the Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, USA , delivered a keynote speech at Conference ETAR, September 26-27, 2016, Banjarmasin, Indonesia

Dr. Jay P. Sah, from Faculty of research at the Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, USA. Having 32 years’ experience in teaching and research, Dr. Sah has professional expertise in studying vegetation-environment relationships and effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on pattern and processes in various types of plant communities, including upland forests and floodplains, wet prairies, marshes and other seasonal wetlands. His main research areas include the use of multivariate statistical techniques to interpret relationships among vegetation and environmental variables in large data sets, spatial integration of the analytical results via extensive GIS databases, and system dynamics modeling. He is involved in inter-disciplinary research on socio-economic issues, conservation, and natural resource management in Nepal. His is also serving different journals related to his field as an editor/associate editor.