• Marine ecology
• Coastal community
• Blue Economy facets of India’ holistic maritime development

Sarita is a Marine and Coastal Policy researcher working on bottom-up grassroot level marine wildlife conservation, community engagement and conservation dialogues, and policies governing biodiversity and coastal ecosystem management, coastal land use conservation and impact on fishing and coastal communities living onshore or within marine and coastal wildlife habitats, with regard to sea-level rise and climate change impacts.

Sarita was formerly the Managing Trustee- Principal Programme Co-ordinator at Morjim Sea Turtle Trust and interned with the WWF Goa Marine Office.

Projects-

1. COASTAL ROAD INTERTIDAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: (MUMBAI | DELHI)
2. FISHER FRIEND MOBILE APPLICATION (FFMA): (COASTAL MAHARASHTRA)
3. SHARK FIN TRADE-POLICY RESEARCH (MUMBAI)
4. PLASTER OF PARIS (POP) RESEARCH (MUMBAI)
5. MORJIM SEA-TURTLE FESTIVAL 2019-2020 (GOA

• Masters Graduate in Public Policy from St. Xavier’s College (autonomous) Mumbai. Class of 2019
  A. Subject of Masters thesis ‘A critique of the coastal regulation zone notiΟcation (CRZ) with respect to coastal land usein Mumbai and Greater Mumbai’ 
• Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations and Foreign Policy. Class of 2018
  B. Subject of dissertation : Policy analysis of UNCLOS (United Nations Law of the Sea) and MARPOL (Marine
  Pollution)