Pronouns: he/him
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Tree Ring Laboratory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, CREAF, Barcelona, Spain
Tree Ring Laboratory, LDEO 61 Route 9W, P.O. 1000 Palisades, NY 10964 USA
BIOGRAPHY:
I am an Ecoclimatologist and Carbon Cycle Scientist. I received my PhD from Columbia University in 2020 following which I was a NOAA Climate & Global Change fellow at University of California Davis. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Barcelona, Spain. My research aims to illuminate the future of ecosystems and the forest carbon cycle in a changing climate by drawing on my expertise in climate science, plant ecophysiology, dendrochronology, earth system models, and remote sensing. My research spans a broad array of spatial and temporal scales from cells to satellites and seconds to centuries. I am currently working on projects related to the role of tree growth in the forest carbon cycle, the vulnerability of forests to increasing heat waves, and the use of dendrochronology to understand past environmental change and timber transport.
A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar.
CONTACT
mukund@ldeo.columbia.edu
EXPERTISE
EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University 2013 M.A., Climate & Society, Columbia University 2012 B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, Amrita University