The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Earth Institute (EI) has been a home that captures my interests in
environment, technology and development in the tropics. A profile of
the work in Sri Lanka as described in the
EI website is here
and my personal profile is here.
Some fruitful
interactions with various components of the EI are described below
Director, Earth Institute
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs visited Sri Lanka.
feature
Center for International Earth Science
Information Network (CIESIN)
Center for Hazards and Risk Research
(CHRR)
Disaster hotspots
project was succesfully undertaken under the ambit of the Earth
Institute
Centre for Environmental Research and
Conservation (CERC)
Human
elephant conflict project
Center for Globalization and
Sustainable Development (CGSD)
Project scoping in collaboration with Dr. Nirupam
Bajpai
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Tree ring laboratory - Interaction with Dr.
Brendan Buckley at the Tree Ring Laboratory has led to field work in
Sri Lanka
Cooperative
Institute for Climate
Applications Research )CICAR)
CICAR supported a student to work on the
Malaria Early Warning System project
Tsunami Relief with Students through
Earth Institute
Student
portal