Vivek Hasyagar is currently pursuing a PhD in ecology and taxonomy of earthworms at the Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University. He has surveyed earthworms in the Western Ghats and the west coast of Karnataka, and has also worked on vermicomposting by earthworms collected from various places in the Western Ghats of Karnataka. He has collected 34 species of earthworms in the study area and reported an earthworm species Amynthas alexandri and the giant earthworm Drawida sp. grandis gp. (three feet long) and the mating behavior of the arboreal earthworm Perionyx minimus, recorded for the first time in Karnataka.
Apart from his research on earthworms, he also worked on different taxa, including reptiles, birds, butterflies and mammals. He worked as a coordinator for the People Biodiversity Register in Karkala taluk, Udupi district, and a field assistant for research associates of the Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI) during their butterfly survey, their work on the behavioural ecology of the lion-tailed macaque in Agumbe Ghats, and their tiger and elephant survey (sign survey and camera trap) in different landscapes of Kudremukha National Park. He has also volunteered in a field awareness programme regarding snake-bite mitigation in and around Agumbe.
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