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Jagadish Shukla
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Title: | Director of COLA, President, IGES | |
Phone: | (301) 595-7000 | |
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(301) 595-9793 | |
Email: | [email protected] | |
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Dr. J. Shukla, Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976, Ph.D., Benaras Hindu University, 1971. President, IGES; Prof. Earth Sciences and Global Change, George Mason University. Dr. Shukla conducts research on predictability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere-biosphere system, predictability of the tropical atmosphere, monsoon dynamics, reanalysis, deforestation and desertification. His research has shown that the influence of boundary conditions at the earth surface provides a physical basis for predictability of climate in the midst of chaos. Dr. Shukla, was a Junior Scientific officer at IITM, Poona, post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University, visiting associate professor at MIT, senior research scientist at NASA Goddard, and a professor of meteorology at the University of Maryland (1983-1993). He is author/coauthor of 150 scientific papers, reports and book chapters; thesis adviser/ coadviser for 14 Ph.D. students; chair/member of national and international scientific committees. He is an associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. |