Autor: Md. Rashed Chowdhury

Md. Rashed Chowdhury – currently an adjunct professor affiliated with the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSBE) at Arizona State University (USA) — is the former Principal Research Scientist of the Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center (PEAC) at the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) of the University of Hawaii. For the last 25 years, his activities focused on addressing water challenges surrounding emergency management and implementation activities related to climate variability and change, sea level rise, land-use planning and environmental resource management for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-sensitive countries/islands in the Asia-Pacific region, including Bangladesh, the Maldives, Japan, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa. He has been responsible for the translation on the probable impacts of various seasonal climate products through local and international activities, and in the process he is actively involved in the development of adaptation plans regarding climate hazards management.