Lareef Zubair (Earth Institute at Columbia University)

Lareef Zubair
Associate Research Scientist
The Earth Institute at Columbia University

phone: 845-680-4424
email: lz144@columbia.edu
url:   http://iri.columbia.edu/~mahaweli
url:   http://www.climate.lk

Description or work:

Background

Lareef Zubair received his education at the University of Peradeniya, Sri 
Lanka and Yale University, U.S.A. He served as a Senior Lecturer at the 
University of Peradeniya, http://www.pdn.ac.lk, Institute of 
Fundamental Studies in Sri Lanka involved in environmental issues and a 
Research Fellow in Computational Mathematics at the Institute of Fundamental 
Studies, http://www.ifs.ac.lk/, Sri 
Lanka.

Research Interests

Tropical climate in the Indian Ocean particularly Sri Lanka, climate 
impacts and adaptation, environmental and technology policy,  application 
of climate information in the tropics, Climate and environmental change. 
Technology and modernization.