Dr. Jyoti Singh is a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) at Columbia University, specializing in crop-climate modeling. She earned her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in November 2021, where she studied the impacts of climate change on crops and fruits in the Himalayas and Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. In 2015, she received a Master's in Remote Sensing and GIS, focusing on Agriculture and Soils. During her master's program, she developed expertise in processing and analyzing satellite data for climate and agricultural applications, which continues to inform her research today.
Her research aims to improve crop models to better simulate the effects of environmental stresses on agriculture. At Columbia, she is enhancing the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) by integrating the impact of waterlogging on various crops. This enhancement seeks to refine crop growth simulations under extreme weather conditions. Previously, as a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University (2021–2024), she focused on improving the Community Land Model (CLM) to enhance the representation of winter wheat and the effects of ozone damage on crops.
In addition to crop modeling advancements, Dr. Jyoti Singh studies climate intervention strategies, a deliberate effort to cool the Earth by reflecting some sunlight away. While these strategies may assist in mitigating global warming, they also pose potential consequences for agriculture by altering solar radiation, water availability, and crop productivity. Her research investigates how these factors impact crop and fruit production, ensuring agricultural resilience is considered in climate intervention discussions.