Mukund Palat Rao
Mukund Palat Rao
Assistant Research Professor
Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Climate School
Tree Ring Laboratory
61 Route 9W
Palisades
NY
10964
Email
Fields of interest
Carbon cycle, climate science, plant ecophysiology, dendrochronology, earth system models, remote sensing, and paleoclimate
Description of scientific projects
I am currently working on projects related to the forest carbon cycle (particularly in the role of tree growth and photosynthesis), the vulnerability of forests to increasing extreme climate (e.g. heat waves), and the use of dendrochronology to understand past environmental change.