Jagdish Shukla
Jagdish Shukla (born 1944) is an Indian meteorologist and Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University in the United States.
| Jagdish Shukla | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Meteorology |
| Notable awards | Padma Shri Award(2012), Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of the NASA |
Early years
Shukla was born in 1944 in the village of Mirdha in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, India. He passed from the S.R.S. High School, Sheopur, in the first class with distinction in Mathematics and Sanskrit. He studied science, firstly outside school, then at S.C. College, Ballia. At Banaras Hindu University, he passed BSc (honors) at the age of 18 with Physics, Mathematics, and Geology (first class) followed after a brief interval from studies by an MSc in Geophysics in 1964 and PhD in Geophysics in 1971 as an external student of BHU. He subsequently gained an ScD in Meteorology from MIT in 1976.
Professional activities
Shukla is a Distinguished University Professor[1] at George Mason University, USA, and chair of the Climate Dynamics department.
He also works concurrently as the president of Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), a tax free non-profit. Here he employs his wife Anastasia Shukla as the Business Manager, and his daughter Sonia Shukla as his assistant. [2]
His contributions to the understanding of the predictability of weather and climate include the Asian monsoon dynamics, deforestation and desertification. He is the author or co-author of over 150 scientific papers.
He helped found weather and climate research centers in India and was the founding scientific leader at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) in New Delhi. He has also established research institutions in Brazil, Italy, and the USA.
He has been associated with the World Climate Research Programme since its inception and was involved in their Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program (TOGA), the first coupled atmosphere-ocean initiative. Since 2001, he has been a member of its Joint Scientific Committee and chair of its Modelling Panel.
He founded and directed the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies,[3] which aims to improve understanding of climate variability and predictability on intraseasonal to decadal time scales within a changing climate.
He was a founder member of the weather and climate research group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy and led the group's activities until 1997.
He has established Gandhi College in his village for education of rural students especially women.[4]
Positions
He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, a Fellow of the Indian Meteorological Society and an Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He is currently a member of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program of the World Meteorological Organization and a Commissioner in the Virginia Governor's Commission on Climate Change.
Awards
- Shukla Received 2012 Padma Shri Award from the Government of India.[5]
- 52nd International Meteorological Organization Prize by the World Meteorological Organization in 2008.[6]
- Walker Gold Medal of the Indian Meteorological Society
- Carl Gustav Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society[7]
- Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of the NASA
RICO 20 Controversy
On 1 September 2015, Shukla was lead author of a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and OSTP Director John Holdren.[8] This letter was cited the following October by Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX) in an announcement of plans to investigate Shukla's IGES.[9]
References
- ↑ "Global Warming: The Known, The Unknown, and The Unknowable". Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. 2006-10-06. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ↑ http://www.iges.org/aboutiges.html
- ↑ "A Pacific monster is threatening to gobble Indian monsoon". The Indian Express. 1997-06-27. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ↑ Blackwell, Fritz (2004). India: A Global Studies Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 66. ISBN 1-57607-348-3. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
- ↑ "Indian wins UN’s top met prize". The Tribune. 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ↑ "TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL BRAIN STORMING MEETING ON WEATHER MODELLING OPENS ON TUESDAY". Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2005-01-28. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ↑ Letter to President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren
- ↑ Warren Cornwall (5 October 2015). "Climate scientist requesting federal investigation feels heat from House Republicans". Science Magazine. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
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