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.
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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