Research Areas:
Involves both field observations and modeling analysis, for process studies, hypothesis – driven experimentation, and societal applications.  Research focus is on studying and representing land surface processes and effects of vegetation – atmosphere interactions on environmental processes at different scales. Current research projects are in following areas: Terrestrial Ecosystem and Atmosphere, Agricultural Air Quality, Carbon and Hydrological Cycle,  Biospheric Processes in Weather and Regional Climate Models, Land Atmosphere Interactions, Agriculture Meteorology, Applied Climatology, Hydrometeorology, PBL and Mesoscale Processes, Climate Informatics, Remote and Land based Observational Systems.

Journal Papers

Conference Proceedings

Book Chapters

Teaching: 
Weather and Climate - Spring 2006
Land Surface Modeling - Fall 2006
Biosphere-Atmosphere Simulation

Extension: 
State Climatologist for Indiana and Director State Climate Office of Indiana
The State Climate Office is the source of all climate information and official climate data for the State.
The State Climate Office is engaged in research, outreach and educational activities related to monitoring, predicting, and developing applications of climate information that would benefit the citizens and organizations in the state. The state climatologist is also a link with the national climate programs and studies and provides expertise on various aspects of climate and environmental studies.

Professional Experience:

02/05 – onwards	Indiana State Climatologist, State Climate Office of Indiana, Purdue University
02/05 – onwards	Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Purdue University
02/05 -	Adjunct Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
05/04 -	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University
01/01 – 02/05	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
01/02  - 06/ 02	Acting State Climatologist and Director of State Climate Office of North Carolina, North Carolina State University
01/01 – 03/03	Associate State Climatologist for North Carolina (NC ECO Net), State Climate Office of North Carolina, North Carolina State University
02/98 – 12/00	Assistant State Climatologist (AgNet), State Climate Office of North Carolina, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Meteorologist, and Department of Horticulture Science, North Carolina State University

Awards and Honors:
Invited Member, American Geophysical Union Committee on Biogeochemistry (Meetings subcommittee)- Chair for Student Awards (2001,2002, 2004)

Invited Member American Meteorological Society Committee on Applied Climatology 2002 – 2006

Invited Member American Meteorological Society Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 1999 – 2002

Invited Member, Federal Geophysical Data Committee, Spatial Climate  Group (2000 – 2005)

1999 Global Climate Change Fellow through American Meteorological Society

UCAR / NSF Summer Research Fellow for NCAR Advanced Study Program on Terrestrial Ecosystem and Atmosphere, 1996
First Rajeev Gandhi National Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences- Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Banglore, India, 1994

National Center for Technological Development Cash Award for Environmental Innovations, Bombay, India, 1994

National Engineering Design Award Gold Medal by Indian Society for Technical Education, 1989

Education:
B.Engg. (Civil Engg) - Pune University, India, 1994

M.S. (Atmospheric Sciences) – North Carolina State University, 1996
Thesis: Dynamic Interactions in Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer Processes.

Ph.D. (Atmospheric Sciences) – North Carolina State University, 2000
Dissertation: Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions coupled with CO2 and Soil Moisture Changes

Date joined staff:  February 2005