Principal Investigator
Professor Upmanu Lall is currently a faculty member of the Earth and Environmental Engineering department and the director of Columbia Water Center. His research interests include hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; water technologies for developing countries. As the director of the Columbia Water Center, Lall’s work emphasizes the importance of viewing water issues across several traditional academic disciplines in order to understand dimensions of these global problems.