Vision

• To understand the earth system processes through experimental watershed and critical zone observatory towards achieving sustainability in food-water-energy nexus in diverse regions.

Mission

• Achieve sustainable “Measurement – Monitoring – Management” in the region
• Understanding the complex interactions between water, energy and carbon cycles.
• Development of efficient irrigation water management system to improve crop productivity.
• Assessment of hazard and vulnerability map for different crops.
• Designing socio-economic interventions such as crop switching to improve nutrition production and farmers’ profit

Key Research Areas

• Climate change
• Land use management
• Water, energy, and carbon balance
• Critical zone hydrology and ecology
• Agriculture

Key Research Facilities

• Setting up Automatic Weather Station –monitors precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, humidity, air temperature, dew point temperature, solar radiation, leaf wetness soil moisture and soil temperature
• Setting up soil moisture network in collaboration with TIH IIT Bombay