Dev Niyogi

Dev Niyogi is an Assistant Professor of Applied Climatology in Departments of Agronomy and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and the Indiana State Climatologist. He obtained his B.E. Civil Engineering from University of Poona, India with a focus on environmental engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. in 1996 and 2000, respectively from North Carolina State University focusing on the land surface processes. His research focus is on assessing and representing the effect of vegetation on the regional scale environmental processes and is an important component of the environmental forecasting and regional climate change assessment studies. Dr. Niyogi's research involves both field observations and modeling analysis, for process studies, hypothesis - driven experimentation, and societal applications of the weather forecasts, and climate outlook.  The research improves the understanding of the effect of environmental changes on the plant and landsurface response and the representation of the land surface - atmosphere interactions in models for understanding the nonlinear feedback plant and landsurface changes on environmental processes.