Hung Nguyen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
My work explores the intimate feedback loop between the water cycle and humanity. I use paleoclimate proxies (mainly tree rings) as well as climate and hydrological models to study the water cycle---its behavior over space and time across scales, how it changed in the distant past, and how it has changed recently. Working with historians and archaeologists, I examine how societies were affected by, and adapted to, such changes. This knowledge of the past is key to helping societies cope with climate change in the future. The key focus of my work is on Southeast Asia.
